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Video: 15-year-old airliner rips open mid-flight

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:47 PM PDT

April 2: Investigators think age and caused the metal to rip on a Southwest Airlines 737. Eighty Southwest planes have been grounded to be checked for similar cracking. NBC's Tom Costello has the story.  (Nightly News)Investigators think age and caused the metal to rip on a Southwest Airlines 737. Eighty Southwest planes have been grounded to be checked for similar cracking. NBC's Tom Costello has the story. (Nightly News)




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Huff, Sanchez power Giants past Dodgers 10-0

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:29 PM PDT

San Francisco Giants' Mark DeRosa is greeted by his teammates after scoring on Miguel Tejada's line drive during the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Matt Cain scattered five hits over six innings, Aubrey Huff and Freddy Sanchez drove in three runs each and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-0 Saturday for their first win of the season.




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Video: Spring roars in like a lion across US

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT

April 2: There's snow on the ground in the Northeast, it's hailing in Washington, D.C., and temperatures are hitting record highs in California. NBC's Kristin Welker has more on the unpredictable weather. (Nightly News)There's snow on the ground in the Northeast, it's hailing in Washington, D.C., and temperatures are hitting record highs in California. NBC's Kristin Welker has more on the unpredictable weather. (Nightly News)




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N.Y. fans rise early for cricket World Cup

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 05:13 PM PDT

Cricket fans came out in the wee hours of the morning Saturday, crowding into bars that normally would be closing but that made an exception for the World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka.

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HBT: Were Yankees cheating on opening day?

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:38 PM PDT

MLB scolds the Yankees for using hand signals from the stands on opening day.MLB scolds the Yankees for using hand signals from the stands on opening day.




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Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:38 PM PDT

4 dead in crash of small jet in New Mexico

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:33 PM PDT

Four Gulfstream employees were killed Saturday in a fiery crash of a test twin-engine luxury business aircraft at an airport, authorities said.

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Booby-trap bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:26 PM PDT

Police Service of Northern Ireland officers secure the area close to where a police officer was killed in a under car bomb at his house in Omagh, Northern Ireland, Saturday, April, 2, 2011.  (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland's police force was killed Saturday when a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car, police and neighbors said.




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U.N.: Drought leaves millions hungry in E. Africa

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:25 PM PDT

A worker tries to lift up a weak cow from among the carcasses in a paddock at the Kenya Meat Commission factory near Athi River, 31 miles east of Nairobi in September 2009.A severe drought, high food prices and conflict have left more than 5 million people hungry across the Horn of Africa, the head of U.N.'s World Food Program says.




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Davis: Kentucky's Knight not your usual one-and-done

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT

Kentucky's Brandon Knight cuts down the net winning the East Regional title in the NCAA tournament.Davis: Brandon Knight, an Ivy Leaguer? Have a conversation with him and it's not hard to imagine. He is articulate and intelligent. He is clearly focused on his life goals and what it will take to accomplish them.




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Arc: Before Final Four begins, a team rundown

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:56 AM PDT



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Man gets 23 years for robbing Ill. lottery winner

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:39 PM PDT

A 35-year-old suburban Chicago man who targeted and shot an Illinois Lottery winner has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.

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LA aims to whitewash graffiti writers going legit

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 08:27 AM PDT

Not so long ago, Cristian Gheorghiu roamed the streets of Los Angeles at all hours, black marker in his pocket, hunting for walls and street signs where he could scrawl his graffiti moniker, "Smear."

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Let 'em fly! Pillow Fight Day celebrated

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:08 AM PDT

Pillow Fight Day celebrated around the worldPillow Fight Day celebrated around the world




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'Coming out' of closet: Army atheists stand up

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:16 PM PDT

Army Sgt. Justin Griffith stands in front of his Army uniform at home in Fayetteville, N.C., on March 31. An atheist before he joined the Army, Griffith decided to become a public advocate for other members of the Army who shared his lack of belief in God.Atheists, agnostics, humanists and other assorted skeptics from the Army's Fort Bragg have formed an organization in a pioneering effort to win recognition and ensure fair treatment for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.




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Oregon cops hope classical music deters loiterers

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT

The TriMet light rail stop at 162nd Avenue is shown Wednesday, March 30, 2011, in Portland, Ore. Since November, at this light rail stop the regional transit department has approved the playing of classical music in an effort to ward off the kind of crimes that happen when people just hang around. A bill making its way through the Oregon Legislature would expand the program to all light rail stops in Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah counties deemed high-crime areas by police or residents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Just feet from a methadone clinic at a grimy crossroads in far east Portland, Ore., transit officials and police are hoping a touch of class will chase off the vagrants, vandals and ne'er-do-wells that loiter near a busy transit stop.




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Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Obama set to launch re-election bid

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:26 PM PDT

President Barack Obama is about to make one of Washington's worst kept secrets official: He wants a second term.

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Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:58 AM PDT

A statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson stands on the Civil War battlefield at Manassas, Va. The first Battle of Manassas occurred in July 1861. Over the next four years, Americans will mark the 150th anniversary of major events in the Civil War, which ran from 1861 to 1865.In search of answers, an Associated Press reporter embarked on a tour through one scarred swath of the fighting grounds — from Manassas, Va., where the war's harsh terms first became clear, to ruins still standing along Union Gen. William T. Sherman's fiery march through Georgia.




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India wins first World Cup cricket title since '83

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 05:16 PM PDT

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (second from left) and teammate Yuvraj Singh celebrate after beating Sri Lanka during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 final match at The Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the 2011 World Cup.India beat Sri Lanka to win the World Cup for the first time in 28 years, with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni guiding the run chase Saturday to deliver the great Sachin Tendulkar his first title in six attempts.




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