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Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.

Fargo calm, confident as Red River completes rise (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that's spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to celebrate what appeared to be a successful defense against the swollen waterway.

2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - Baltimore police say two officers have been shot during a traffic stop and they are in serious but stable condition. The suspected shooter was killed by return fire.

3 deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures reached into the 70s.

New threat puts Calif. police on heightened alert (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers.

Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Black support high for Obama's race-neutral stance (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frustrated with President Barack Obama's insistence that a rising economic tide for all will lift African-American boats.

Struggling town turns out to bury fallen soldier (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - Residents from the small communities just outside the mountains of Glacier National Park buried one of their own Saturday, a young soldier from Hungry Horse killed by Afghan insurgents earlier this month.

3 killed after small planes collide over Fla. (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three people, authorities said.

Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90 (AP)

March 21, 2010

AP - Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from the government's Cold War nuclear programs, died Saturday. He was 90.