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8 minutes pass before cops got sent to Powell home (AP)
AP – Emergency call logs show that nearly eight minutes elapsed between when a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell’s children were in danger and when sheriff’s deputies were dispatched. By the time officers were on their way, the home was exploding in a gas-fueled inferno, with Powell and his two young boys inside.
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APNewsBreak: 8 minutes to send cops to Powell home (AP)
AP – Emergency call logs show that nearly eight minutes elapsed between when a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell’s children were in danger and when sheriff’s deputies were dispatched. It took another 14 minutes for a deputy to get to the home, but by then, the home was engulfed in flames with Powell and his two young sons inside.
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APNewsBreak: Sources: New military roles for women (AP)
AP – For the past decade women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Washington state lawmakers pass gay marriage bill (AP)
AP – Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.
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Romney’s Tuesday losses show conservative doubts (AP)
AP – Mitt Romney still can’t seem to win over the bulk of the conservatives who make up the bedrock of the Republican Party.
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For Santorum, new challenges follow his big wins (AP)
AP – One day after Rick Santorum’s startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign organizations from scratch. It was evidence of his challenge in converting sudden momentum into victories in the rush of contests ahead.
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GOP vows to reverse Obama birth control policy (AP)
AP – Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama’s new policy on birth control, lambasting the requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country.”
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