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Republicans block push to raise minimum wage to $10.10

The congressional push by Senate Democrats to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 over 30 months, “a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s economic plans,” has been derailed by Republicans.

 
Lumber mill employee accused of killing 2 with shotgun

A Canadian lumberer is accused of shooting two people dead and injuring two others at a Western Forest Products sawmill on Vancouver Island.

 
Outrage after students assigned to pick cotton

A mother in Washington is one of a handful upset that their child was told to pick cotton as a class activity. Redmond Middle School students were handed cotton plants last Friday and told to pick it “to see what it was like to be a slave.”

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Police: Man ‘armed’ with potato arrested

Providence police have arrested a man who allegedly wielded a potato disguised as a gun during a robbery attempt last week.

 
Bartender gets $1000 tip to help save dog

Christina Summitt, who works with her sister at a Holiday Inn in Clinton, N.J., was working when a middle-aged couple came in, ordered chicken wings and drinks, stuck around to chat and then left a $1,000 tip.

 
At least 35 dead as South braces for more tornadoes

A chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses in the South, forcing frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover and leaving tens of thousands in the dark Tuesday. More storms are on the way.

 
Teen Facebook fight turns deadly, 14-year-old shot dead

A 14-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with 1st degree murder after shooting another teen dead following a Facebook dispute concerning a boy.

 
Father, 2 kids rescued after 2 days lost in swampy woods

Search crews have found a father and his two children who had been missing for more than two days in the vast woods and swamps of the Congaree National Park in South Carolina.

 
Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center, injuring 6

A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide, police and witnesses said.

 
School stabbing suspect admits to police, ‘I did it’

A teenager charged in the fatal stabbing of a Connecticut high school student told a police officer after the attack: “I did it,” according to a court filing released Tuesday.

 
Powerful tornadoes kill dozens in Southern, Midwest US

Emergency officials were searching for survivors Monday in the debris left by a powerful tornado that killed at least 16 people in Arkansas and carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburban Little Rock.

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