Headlines @ Closin’ Time (4/7/05)
* Texas high-school football coach shot: Cops: Dad of player wounded son’s teacher, fled, now in custody /Associated Press — In Texas, football is bigger than religion. All it takes is a crackpot high school gridiron worshipper, and someone gets hurt.
* Teen girls held in suicide bomb plot: FBI document alleges 16-year-olds in U.S. illegally planned attack /Associated Press — Guess they didn’t get dates for the prom.
* CBS wins Peabody for Abu Ghraib report: Story anchored by Dan Rather, produced by Mary Mapes /Associated Press — It’s a good news/bad news thing. Here’s your Peabody for Abu Ghraib, and here’s your pink slip for the late campaign hit on Dubya.
* Iraq gets 2 new interim leaders: 2 Saddam foes take office as president, prime minister /Associated Press — Another small step for democracy, another giant step for the Iraqi people.
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Charles to acknowledge manifold sins and wickedness at wedding: Prince to marry longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles
/Reuters — Too late to live happily ever after?
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