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Sunday, March 25, 2012

South Ossetia presidential elections valid

TSKHINVALI, Georgia, March 25 (UPI) -- More than 50 percent of voters turned up Sunday to cast ballots for the South Ossetia presidential contest, making the election valid, officials said. "The turnout has reached 50.1 percent. The elections are valid," said Irina Gassiyeva, a secretary of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Coroner: Houston used cocaine, drowned

LOS ANGELES, March 22 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said Whitney Houston used cocaine immediately before she drowned in a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel bathtub. The recording star died Feb. 11 at age 48 after battling drug and alcohol addiction for years. Officials waited until... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

40 percent of women never married

WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- A federal report shows 38 percent of American women today have never been married, up from 33 percent in 1995. On the flip side, of the 12,279 women interviewed from 2006 to 2010 by the National Center for Health Statistics, 36 percent of women ages 15 to 44 said they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Shooting suspect says he'll surrender

TOULOUSE, France, March 21 (UPI) -- Police said the suspect in the deaths of seven people in southwestern France agreed to surrender Wednesday as a funeral in Israel was held for four victims. Police surrounded a house in Toulouse, trying to coax the 24-year-old suspect in the Monday shootings in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Major Mexico quake occurs in Oaxaca area

MEXICO CITY, March 20 (UPI) -- A strong earthquake that rocked southern Mexico Tuesday was measured by seismologists in the United States at a magnitude 7.6. The U.S. Geological Survey said in a written statement the quake was centered along the Pacific coast roughly between Acapulco and Oaxaca and... Sign in to see full entry.

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