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Flirtatious Customer Spotted Trying To Steal Electronics

12:18pm March 31, 2014

A customer left his name and number with the bartender, trying to steal her heart. After allegedly trying to take restaurant property, the bartender helped police set up a sting at local donut shop.

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National

Landslide Debris Makes Search And Recovery Excruciating Slow

12:12pm March 31, 2014

by Martin Kaste

It's day six of the search and recovery operation at the site of the landslide in Oso, Washington. Ninety people are reported missing and that's left many families in limbo, waiting for news.

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World Vision Reverses Policy That Allowed Hiring Of Gays

12:12pm March 31, 2014

by Sam Sanders

The Christian charity had said earlier gay marriage was an issue about which Christians of goodwill could disagree, and hoped the policy would be understood in that way. Conservative donors objected.

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Jessica and Anthony Villarreal in December 2011, more than three years after the explosion that severely burned Anthony in Afghanistan.

Marine Draws Strength From His Marriage To Recover From Burns

12:12pm March 31, 2014

Newlyweds Anthony and Jessica Villarreal share how they rebuilt their lives after a bomb disfigured Anthony in Afghanistan. (The StoryCorps interview initially aired Nov. 9, 2013 on Weekend Saturday.)

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Fastest Growing U.S. City Is A Retirement Community

12:12pm March 31, 2014

Aging baby boomers have made The Villages in central Florida the biggest retirement community in the world. Nobody under 50 can live there.

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Taco Bell Commercial Takes A Jab At McDonald's

12:12pm March 31, 2014

The Mexican fast food chain is broadcasting TV ads featuring Ronald McDonald. Dozens of people who are really named Ronald McDonald promote Taco Bell.

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World News

Vicious Gang, Barrio Azteca, Gets Its Start In El Paso

8:35am March 31, 2014

by Monica Ortiz Uribe

In Texas, an El Paso-based gang has spread across the U.S., and has also sent some members to Mexico for training with the Zetas. They became a transnational gang due to the drug trafficking industry.

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Politics & Government

New GM CEO To Face Congressional Panels Over Delayed Recall

7:55am March 31, 2014

by Tracy Samilton

General Motors CEO Mary Barra faces a tough week of testimony before congressional committees about defective ignition switches linked to 13 deaths.

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2nd Annual Baconfest Held in Juneau, Alaska

7:55am March 31, 2014

It included a hog-calling contest, a bacon eating contest and special dishes like bacon caramel brownies.The star attraction was a bacon bustier, which was worn by a model.

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Mary-Claire King says obscurity gave her the freedom to spend years looking for breast cancer genes.

How Being Ignored Helped A Woman Discover The Breast Cancer Gene

9:17am March 30, 2014

by Nancy Shute

Twenty years ago, many scientists didn't think that genes could cause diseases like cancer. The discovery of the BRCA gene for hereditary breast cancer changed that. Mary-Claire King tells how.

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