National |
March 3, 2008
Starting even before Barack Obama graduated from law school, his career as a lawyer and politician was nurtured by a Chicago businessman named Tony Rezko. Now Obama avoids discussing Rezko, and his former backer isn’t in a position to speak publicly.
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National |
March 3, 2008
The owner of a fluff-and-fold laundry in a small western Oregon town couldn’t be happier that tons of mud, rocks, snow and fir trees sloughed off a hillside one day in January. No one was hurt when the landslide took out the Union Pacific Railroad’s main track through the Cascades south of Eugene, but it has severed a key rail link between Los Angeles and Seattle.
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National |
March 3, 2008
As mysteries go, this one offers an intriguing trail of clues: A man who suddenly falls ill. A deadly toxin.
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National |
March 3, 2008
WESTERVILLE, Ohio – With less than two days to go before Tuesday’s crucial contests that could determine the fate of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to shore up support with a frenzied tour across Ohio today. After focusing on national security in Texas on Saturday, Clinton shifted her emphasis to the economy during Sunday’s rallies in the Buckeye State.
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National |
March 3, 2008
- As they mapped out a campaign schedule for Bill Clinton, top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton kept his time short in South Carolina. They were probably going to lose the state, they figured, and they wanted their most powerful surrogate to move on to Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states.
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National |
March 3, 2008
Three killed in alleged family feud
Angry that her parents demanded she break up with her boyfriend, a 16-year-old helped kill her mother and two younger brothers during a grisly ambush on the family’s wooded home in Emory, about 60 miles northeast of Dallas, authorities said. The girl, whose name is not being released, joined her boyfriend and two others in shooting and stabbing members of the Caffey family in their bedrooms before setting the house on fire, authorities said.
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