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Government looks to expand HARP, but individuals who enter program rarely see lowest rates

Some homeowners are getting stuck with relatively high interest rates even after they participate in the government's program to help them refinance their mortgages. The biggest banks are not lowering rates as much as they could and homeowners have few options to go elsewhere.


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Oregon comes in at middle of pack, with 28 teen births per 1,000 girls

NEW YORK (AP) -- Teen births fell again in the United States in 2010 with the highest rate once more in Mississippi, according to a new government report.


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Winners remain anonymous but say they will continue working in education

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Two public school teachers and a school administrator who call themselves "The Three Amigos" are sharing part of last month's record Mega Millions jackpot, planning for trips to Europe, new homes and their children's college funds, Maryland Lottery officials said Tuesday.


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Female military members come home from war and face gender-specific hardships that make them more susceptible to homelessness

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Misha McLamb helped keep fighter jets flying during a military career that took her halfway around the world to the Persian Gulf. But back home, the Navy aircraft specialist is barely getting by after a series of blows that undid her settled life.


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Program puts better schools within reach for some low-income students, but opponents counter that it erodes public education

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.


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Social network says mobile pic program will continue to run independently

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Facebook says it will spend $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing software company Instagram.


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The portion of the tape that was deleted had the 911 dispatcher asking Zimmerman if the person who raised his suspicion was 'black, white or Hispanic,' to which Zimmerman responded, 'He looks black

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC News has fired a producer for editing a recording of George Zimmerman's call to police the night he shot Trayvon Martin, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.


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Opponents who say vouchers erode public schools by taking away money, violate the separation of church and state by giving public dollars to religious-based private schools

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.


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All the victims are black, but authorities have not described the shootings as racially motivated and declined to discuss that issue Sunday

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police backed by a helicopter arrested two white men early Sunday and said they would face murder charges in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.


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Coordinator says parents' aggression led to scrapping this year's event in Macon

MACON, Ga. (AP) -- An annual Easter egg hunt in central Georgia has been canceled after organizers say parents became violent while trying to collect eggs for themselves and their children in past years.

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