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SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012

Weekend Wild Card -- 3.31/4.1.12 32 

The Legislature's finished. Thank goodness. College basketball is finished, with Washington State falling to Pittsburgh in the championship game of the College Basketball Invitational last night. The Mariners and the A's kicked off the Major League Baseball season in Japan this week. Now, if we…

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3 Tickets Win $640 Million Lottery 

Three lottery tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland hit the world record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials said Saturday, leaving scores of players across the country with busted multi-millionaire dreams.Illinois’ winning ticket was bought at a convenience store in the small town…

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Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger peeks through a curtain while teammates participate in interviews in New Orleans, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Ohio State is scheduled to play Kansas in an NCAA tournament Final Four semifinal college basketball game on Saturday. (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)

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Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger peeks through a curtain while teammates participate in interviews in New Orleans Thursday. Ohio State is scheduled to play Kansas in an NCAA tournament Final Four semifinal college basketball game on Saturday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Question: Can anyone in the…

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Costello: Zimmerman Is Media's Victim 33 

Do you smell black churches burning? I do. Back in 1996 the Democrat/media complex created a false narrative about a wave of black church arsons. Then President Bill Clinton eloquently recalled how a strikingly similar epidemic in his home state of Arkansas had touched his…

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Canada To Stop Minting Pennies 

Most Canadians greeted the news that their government would stop minting pennies later this year with tepid approval. This is, after all, the same country that eliminated $1 and $2 paper bills in the 1980s. South of the border, the reaction could charitably be called…

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Moyer, 49, Makes Rockies Rotation 

Jamie Moyer, at 49 years old, has made the Colorado Rockies starting rotation. “It is still Jamie Moyer. It’s the Jamie Moyer that was pitching prior to the arm injury that cost him the entire 2011 season. It’s the same guy,” Rockies manager Jim Tracy…

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What Went Wrong With 2012 Legislature 13 

This year’s legislative session was as much about what failed as it was about what became law. Hardly anybody would have predicted that conservative House Republicans would reject mandatory ultrasound exams for abortion-seekers, after the Senate backed it on a nearly party-line vote. But that’s…

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TV Host Explains Idaho Hunting Citation 

"On March 20," writes Rich Landers, SR Outdoors, "I devoted my weekly Outdoors column to the case of Oregon hunter Bob Beck, a TV hunting show host, who pleaded guilty to shooting two deer in Idaho even though he had only one non-resident tag. The…

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