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State senator: 8 dead in NC nursing home shooting

Published March 29, 2009

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) âÄî A state senator says a gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home and opened fire, killing eight people and wounding several others. Sen. Harris Blake of Moore County...

All government levels involved in flood effort

Published March 29, 2009

Combating the disaster and rebuilding afterward will require time and resources of the local, state and federal governments.

After week of labor, many area students leave flood area

Published March 29, 2009

While some students from outside the area, including the Twin Cities, came to help, others were advised not to come.

Students in the cities, parents in the flood

Published March 29, 2009

University students face separation from their flooding hometown.

Urban coyote attacks on rise, alarming residents

Published March 29, 2009

DENVER (AP) âÄî A coyote ambling into a Chicago sandwich shop or taking up residence in New York's Central Park understandably creates a stir. But even here on the high plains of Colorado, where...

Flood fight ‘ain’t over ‘til it’s over’

Published March 29, 2009

Residents of both Fargo and Moorhead are vigilantly monitoring the Red River.

GM CEO Wagoner to step down immediately

Published March 29, 2009

DETROIT (AP) âÄî A person with knowledge of General Motors' plans says Rick Wagoner will step down immediately as chairman and chief executive of the struggling Detroit automaker. The person asked...