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The most miserable states in America

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  • Sources: Little evidence plane was attacked

    Investigators and intelligence sources say fate of Flight MH370 is shrouded in mystery.

    Reuters

  • Attorney general urges first responders to carry heroin overdose drug

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent and growing public health crisis" and said first responders should carry with them a drug that can reverse the effects of an overdose.

    Associated Press

  • 'Burger King baby' seeks birth mom on Facebook

    In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant. Nearly three decades later, the baby is all grown up and looking for her biological mother, and tens of thousands of people are trying to help.

    Associated Press

  • Colorado reports $2 million marijuana sales tax windfall

    Report on January sales taxes is world's first accounting of the recreational pot business.

    Associated Press

  • Russia: We have our own plan for Ukraine crisis

    Unexpected announcement follows Secretary of State Kerry's refusal to meet in Moscow.

    AFP

  • Town gets one month to clean up its act, or it's off the map

    After a state audit revealed massive corruption, the Florida town of Hampton may be completely wiped off the map, if state lawmakers have their way, CNN reports.

  • CPAC after dark: Right-wingers can rage

    A report from the party scene inside the Conservative Political Action Conference.

  • Judge: No unlawful influence in Army general's sex assault trial

    FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military judge declined Monday to dismiss sexual assault charges against an Army general after reviewing what he said was evidence that political considerations influenced the military's handling of the case.

    Associated Press

  • Boy's calm call to 911 helps save mom and brother

    A 9-year-old boy's quick thinking may have helped to save the lives of his mom and brother after a fire broke out in their New Bedford, Mass. home this past weekend, WCVB.com reports.

  • Snowden: NSA sets fire to the Internet's future

    The ex-contractor-turned-spy-secret-leaker addressed a SXSW audience from Russia.

  • Newtown shooter's dad: 'Adam would have killed me in a heartbeat'

    Peter Lanza breaks his silence 15 months after his son killed 20 elementary children.

  • Amnesty International: Syrian forces committing war crimes in Yarmouk

    Amnesty International accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Monday of perpetrating war crimes as part of a siege in southern Damascus which has killed nearly 200 people, mostly by starvation. Yarmouk, once home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and Syrian nationals, is one of several districts on the edge of the Syrian capital which the army has surrounded to choke off rebel forces seeking Assad's overthrow. "The Syrian government has committed numerous war crimes as part of the siege of Yarmouk," Amnesty said in a report released on Monday.

    Reuters

  • Pentagon official may have interfered in Army sex assault case

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The judge in the case against an Army general believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be tried on sex assault charges is considering new evidence that a top lawyer at the Pentagon may have unlawfully interfered in a decision on whether to accept a plea agreement that was ultimately rejected.

    Associated Press

  • Facebook exec Sandberg explains 'Ban Bossy' campaign for girls

    Lean In and the Girl Scouts are launching a public service campaign to encourage girls and women to lead.

  • Yahoo News with Katie Couric

    Katie Couric introduces herself as Yahoo News' global anchor and reveals her next interview.

  • Pistorius weeps, vomits in court as girlfriend's autopsy detailed

    An emotional Oscar Pistorius became physically sick in court on Monday as he listened to harrowing testimony about the autopsy of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he is accused of murdering. Sitting in the dock, the visibly shaken Paralympian retched and heaved into a blue bucket as a pathologist gave a detailed post-mortem account of the multiple bullet wounds Pistorius admits inflicting. University of Pretoria pathologist Gert Saayman said the double-amputee sprinter shot Steenkamp with "Black Talon" hollow-point bullets, which mushroom open like a jagged flower on contact to cause maximum tissue damage. Pistorius, 27, says he fired four shots at Steenkamp on February 14, 2013 through a locked toilet door, believing her to be an intruder.

    AFP

  • Powerful quake shakes N. California; no injuries

    EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — A very strong earthquake rattled the Northern California coast and was widely felt across the region, but authorities said early Monday that there were no reports of any injuries or damages.

    Associated Press

  • Crimean Tatars fear return of Russian rule

    SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The arrival of Russian troops in Crimea has opened old wounds among the Crimean Tatars, who were deported during World War II. Fearing that once again they will be unwelcome in their homeland, some are organizing community-watch patrols to protect their families and homes in a place they strongly feel should remain part of Ukraine.

    Associated Press

  • Shoe-bomb witness testifies from UK at NY trial

    NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law watched him threaten that there would be no end to the "storm of airplanes" on videotapes made in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks Monday just before a British man testified by video from London that he trained to blow up a plane in late 2001 with a shoe bomb.

    Associated Press

  • More choices, more rides bring transit renaissance

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — With more trains and buses to take, and the appeal of using travel time for pursuits other than dodging traffic, Americans are taking greater advantage of a renaissance in public transit, according to a new report.

    Associated Press