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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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The infamous dinosaur's fierceness may have been complemented by feathers

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Start Over Smart built on the idea that interacting with people, not books or sites, is the best way to move on from broken marriage

NEW YORK (AP) -- Liz Slayback can trace her decision to pursue a divorce to a precise, painful moment.


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Arizona senator also mentions Palin as possible VP for Romney

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain says Rick Santorum should recognize "it's time for a graceful exit" from the Republican presidential campaign in the wake of Mitt Romney's sweep of primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia.


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Gas prices, shifting demographics are halting the move toward McMansions

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Living in an outlying Chicago suburb, Jeff Wehrli recalls a heady time not too long ago when city dwellers poured in and developers couldn't build McMansions fast enough. Now boom has turned to bust, as in many of the nation's "exurbs," and Wehrli can't help but wonder when, or if, things will turn around.


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