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ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes flattened buildings in several states, wrecked two Indiana towns and bred anxiety across a wide swath of the country in the second powerful tornado outbreak this week....

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a bill to implement his plan to redesign health care in the state....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cost estimates for a key portion of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year's budget, and a senior Republican lawmaker on Friday demanded an explanation....

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivian authorities say at least 30 people have been injured in a fight between two communities over land for growing quinoa, the Andean "supergrain" whose popularity with worldwide foodies has caused its price to soar....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba....

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- A wrong-way driver slammed head-on Friday into a car full of sorority sisters who were caravanning to an airport for a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic, killing three of the young women and the other driver....

Organisers of an Arctic expedition in which a Wiltshire boy was killed by a polar bear will face no charges.

Forty delegates are up for grabs when Washington state holds its Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, but much more than that -- a quick shot of momentum going into Super Tuesday is also at stake.

DETROIT (AP) -- A man suspected in connection with the daylight attack and carjacking of an 86-year-old World War II veteran at a busy Detroit gas station was arrested Friday, police said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is there any impulse greater in politics than to promise people the sun and the moon?...

The man Tyler Clementi was intimate with just days before his suicide took the stand Friday, telling jurors that he had noticed a web camera aimed at Clementi's bed.

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Officials said Friday that they're investigating a private adoption agency that helped place children with a man now accused of raping three boys in his care and prostituting one of them....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader told voters it was their patriotic duty to cast ballots in parliamentary elections Friday to send a message of national unity during a "sensitive period" in the showdown with the West over Tehran's nuclear program....

British photographer Paul Conroy, injured in Syria, describes the attacks on the city of Homs as "a systematic slaughter of the civilian population".

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of three officials accused of mismanaging the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware has resigned....

An 80-year-old woman dies following a three car crash in Crossgar, County Down.

A company in Carmarthenshire is fined £25,000 after being found guilty of failing to protect its employees from asbestos.

Fifa's general secretary expresses concern about Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup, and says the organisers need a "kick up the backside".

"The Astaires" tells of how the infectious partnership of siblings Fred and Adele entranced America. Ethan Mordden reviews.

A civilian mortician who was recently demoted for misconduct in handling remains of the U.S. military's war dead has resigned, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Friday.