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03/18/2010 09:31 AM
Fargo a fortress of sandbags
The city of Fargo, North Dakota, largely completed flood preparations early Thursday as a surging Red River rose nearly 3 feet in 24 hours. The waterway was well beyond its banks along the North Dakota-Minnesota line.

03/18/2010 09:02 AM
Sources: Budget Office estimates health care bill to cost $940 billion
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Democrats' revised health care bill will cost $940 billion over the next 10 years, two House Democratic sources told CNN on Thursday.

03/18/2010 08:32 AM
'Jihad Jane' pleads not guilty
An American woman who authorities say called herself "Jihad Jane" is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, accused of conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the U.S. Justice Department said.

03/18/2010 07:59 AM
Tests will determine if wolves killed woman
Authorities in Alaska are examining two wolves to see if they are the animals that killed a jogger last week, said a wildlife biologist investigating the attack.

03/18/2010 10:55 AM
Alleged Tiger Woods mistress publishes 'sext' messages
A former porn actress who says she had a three-year intimate relationship with Tiger Woods posted text messages online Thursday that she says the golfer sent her last year.

03/18/2010 08:12 AM
Wal-Mart 'appalled' at racist order
New Jersey authorities are investigating an announcement made over a public address system at a southern New Jersey Wal-Mart telling "all blacks" to leave the store.

03/17/2010 06:49 PM
Woman says Irish priest destroyed family
Helen McGonigle says the Rev. Brendan Smyth, a priest from Ireland, abused her, her sister and her mother some 40 years ago. She believes the abuse drove her mother mad and drove her sister to suicide.

03/18/2010 04:33 AM
Cornell on edge after recent wave of student suicides
A wave of suicides at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a "public health crisis," the school's mental health initiatives director said.

03/17/2010 11:10 PM
Betty White credits longevity to 'blind luck'
Comedian Betty White -- currently enjoying a career resurgence at age 88 -- said Wednesday that she credits her longevity in the entertainment industry to "sheer blind luck."

03/18/2010 05:40 AM
U.S. believes al Qaeda still deadly but 'on the run'
An intercepted message indicates some members of al Qaeda are looking to the group's founder for more visible leadership, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN Wednesday after CIA director Leon Panetta talked about the message in a newspaper interview.