Family murders and drownings fill scattered headlines
A Middletown family tragedy ends with the grandfather discovering a mother and two children fatally wounded by a .25 caliber handgun while the father is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. Other items report a former superintendent elected to a school board in Bennington, intoxication manslaughter charges in Houston over a crash involving a cell phone, and three children drowned near Brewer Lake in Plumerville Arkansas.
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Middletown
Francis Billotti Wood
Frederick County
Charles Jenkins
Christopher Alan Wood
Bennington
George Sleeman
Sleeman
Houston
Chanton Jenkins
Rose Smith
Jenkins
Smith
Plumerville
Ark
Arkansas
Brewer Lake
Conway County
Mike Smith
Morriston
Obama defends foreign policy stance in Trinidad
President Obama argues that engaging with foes strengthens the United States and cites dialogue with Raul Castro as progress toward easing tensions. He calls for Cuba to free political prisoners and expand democratic freedoms while signaling support for easing the embargo. Republicans and Democrats urged continued dialogue with rivals.
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Obama
U.S
Raul Castro
White House
Trinidad and Tobago
Door
Cuba
Castro
Washington
Lindsey Graham
R-S.c
Cartels Move Into Suburbia Near Atlanta
In Lilburn and surrounding Gwinnett County suburbs, Mexican drug cartels use quiet streets and accessible transport corridors to move drugs and cash. DEA officials say Atlanta serves as a major distribution hub, with houses rented for drug storage and money handling while violence and large seizures rise as operations expand northward.
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Lilburn
Atlanta
Gwinnett County
Keith Miles
Drug Enforcement Administration
Mexico
Oscar Reynoso
Rhode Island
Reynoso
Maria Ramos
Project Reckoning
Miami
New York
Detroit
Porter
Florida
Jack Killorin
Felipe Calderon
Miles
Gulf Cartel
Xcellerator
Sinaloa Cartel
DEA
Danny Porter
Chuvalo Truesdell
Rodney Benson
U.s.-Mexico
Texas
Exxon Mobil tops Fortune 500 as No 1 company
Exxon Mobil Corp overtakes Wal Mart Stores Inc to lead Fortune 500 in 2009 with revenue of 442.85 billion and profit of 45.2 billion. Wal Mart falls to second after six of seven years at top amid a weak year for U S corporations. Overall Fortune 500 earnings drop 85 percent to 98.9 billion.
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New York
Exxon Mobil Corp
Wal-Mart Stores Inc
Fortune
Bentonville
Wal- Mart
Exxon
Officials: More cash but no takeovers in banking aid plan
Washington officials say big banks will need more bailout funds but unlikely will be forcibly taken over. Regulators test the 19 largest banks for resilience, with results expected publicly in early May. President Obama notes banks face varied situations and require different levels of taxpayer support.
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Washington
Obama
David Axelrod
Barack Obama
Trinidad
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Port-Of-Spain
United States
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Hugo Chavez
Suburbia
Wal-Mart
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