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  • FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed in New York. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering after having a heart transplant. That's according to his office. It released a statement Saturday, March 24, 2012 disclosing the surgery, and saying that Cheney has been on the transplant list for more than 20 months. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

    Aide says Cheney had heart transplant

    By Kasie Hunt - Associated Press

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital, his office said. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • ** FILE ** In this Dec. 13, 2011, file photo, Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys, leaves the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. A psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against Sandusky told police at the time that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday, March 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

    Report: Sandusky called ‘likely pedophile’ in ‘98

    By Associated Press

    A psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told police at the time that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • ** FILE ** Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen who was shot and killed in February while unarmed, is pictured in an undated family photo. (Associated Press/Martin family photos)

    Chief threatened in Fla. town where teen was shot

    By Associated Press

    Authorities say a Florida man is charged with threatening the police chief who had been overseeing the investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a neighborhood watch captain. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • In this photo provided by Jerry Waters, Charleston, W.Va., firefighters and city officials look over the scene of a house fire on Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Charleston. Authorities say a fire broke out at the two-story wood frame home, killing six children and two adults. (AP Photo/Jerry Waters)

    6 kids, 2 adults killed in W.Va. house fire

    By John Raby - Associated Press

    A West Virginia mayor says no smoke detector was working when a fire erupted inside a home, killing six children and two adults in what he says is the city’s deadliest fire in six decades. Published March 24, 2012 Comments

  • Trayvon Martin's parents Tracy Martin (left) and Sybrina Fulton (center) are joined by an unidentified woman during the Million Hoodie March in New York City's Union Square on March 21, 2012. A few hundred people marched in memory of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida. The teenager was unarmed and was wearing a hoodie. (Associated Press)

    Arrest demands grow in Fla. teen’s shooting death

    By Kyle Hightower - Associated Press

    The investigation into last month’s shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in an Orlando suburb is out of the hands of the beleaguered police chief and the county prosecutor with the Justice Department looking at possible civil rights violations and a grand jury perhaps considering charges. Published March 23, 2012 Comments

  • Rep. Harold Rogers (Associated Press)

    Education Secretary Duncan defends big increase in school funding

    By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

    Education Secretary Arne Duncan used Thursday’s appearance before a key House subcommittee to not only defend the Obama administration’s request for a $1.7 billion increase in school funding for fiscal 2013, but also to rip the GOP budget proposal laid out by Rep. Paul Ryan earlier this week. Published March 22, 2012 Comments

  • ** FILE ** A Bank of America branch is shown in a Charlotte, N.C., file photo from April 20, 2006. Bank of America said Thursday March 22, 2012, it has begun a pilot program offering some of its mortgage customers who are facing foreclosure a chance to stay in their homes by becoming renters instead of owners. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

    Bank of America to offer rentals as foreclosure alternative

    By Associated Press

    Bank of America says it has begun a pilot program offering some of its mortgage customers who are facing foreclosure a chance to stay in their homes by becoming renters instead of owners. Published March 23, 2012 Comments

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    By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

    Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were only a few miles away from Treyvon Martin on Feb. 26, participating in the NBA All-Star game on the night the unarmed black teenager wearing a hooded sweat shirt was shot to death by a neighborhood crime-watch volunteer.

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