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Life goes on in Baghdad, at least for most. 30 people will not see tomorrow thanks to an attack at a restaurant by a suicide bomber. The killed consisted of a mix of Sunnis and Shiites and another 25 were wounded.
Add to that toll the deaths of 3 American soldiers killed by a roadside bomb while they were out clearing explosives. Source
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More than 49 people have died after an airliner from Indonesia's Garuda carrier overshot a runway and burst into flames. However 115 passengers also survived the crash after scrambling through the burning wreckage to safety. Airport officials have said that the crash-landing at Yogyakarta airport in central Java on Wednesday was an accident.
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The United Nations estimates 700,000 Iraqis have fled to Jordan -- more than one-tenth the entire kingdom's population. As many as 1 million more Iraqis are estimated to have sought refuge in Syria, about 120,000 are in Egypt and 40,000 in Lebanon, according to the United Nations. (Watch Iraqis tell their stories
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CINCINNATI, March 7 (UPI) -- The Ohio state legislature is considering a bipartisan bill requiring convicted sex offenders to have fluorescent green license plates on their vehicles.
That is just to funny! I note that the state tried to have this passed back in 2005 only with pink tags for the coloring but a cosmetics company and other groups opposed that idea.
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SPRINGFIELD -- The chief of staff in state government's largest agency has been stripped of her duties because of sex harassment accusations from her former $70,000-a-year "special assistant" and driver.
Carlos Estes claims in a federal sexual harassment lawsuit that Wertz -- wearing what looked like silk pajamas -- demanded he have sex with her or forfeit the job he obtained despite not having a high school diploma or GED.
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