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Retweets becoming digital version of autographs

Forget standing in line for hours, hoping for a scribbled, barely legible autograph on a wrinkled piece of paper. Or jockeying for spots behind the dugout, on the off chance a signed ball or batting glove gets tossed your way.

Funeral set for NJ Rep. Donald Payne

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Services are scheduled next week for New Jersey's first black member of Congress.

Michigan ban on affirmative action back in court

CINCINNATI (AP) — Attorneys on Wednesday urged a federal appeals court in Cincinnati to overturn a Michigan law that bans the consideration of race in college admissions and government hiring.

Death toll from twisters rises to 32 in 4 states

HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A string of violent storms demolished small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people, and the death toll rose as daylight broke on Saturday's se

Stories of survival emerge from tornado victims

EAST BERNSTADT, Ky. (AP) — The stories from tornado survivors across the South and Midwest were remarkable: schoolchildren took cover under desks, people hunkered down in a church basement or hid out in a bank vault. One family even piled on top of

Classes resume at Ohio high school after shooting

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school were set to return to class, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect.

AT&T relents on 'unlimited data' plan limits

NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. responded to complaints that it places unreasonable limits on the "unlimited data" plans it offers smartphone subscribers.

Federal judge apologizes for racist Obama email

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's chief federal judge apologized for forwarding an email to his friends that contained a joke involving bestiality and President Barack Obama's mother, but said the incident stemmed from his dislike of the president, not

More violent weather ahead for damaged communities

HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) — Crews cleared splintered plywood and smashed appliances from small-town neighborhoods Thursday, a day after tornadoes killed 13 people in the Midwest and South. But the forecast held a menacing possibility: More twisters may

Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Breitbart used the Internet relentlessly to ignite political scandal and expose what he saw as media bias, even if he sometimes had to edit the facts to do it.
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