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9:06 am
Thu March 28, 2013

'Arsenal' Found At Newtown Shooter's Home; Read The Police Reports

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Dec. 18, 2012: Crime scene tape stretches across the property outside the home where Adam Lanza lived with his mother, Nancy Lanza. Inside, police found weapons and other evidence.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 11:57 am

Police found hundreds of rounds of ammunition, guns, three photos of "what appears to be a deceased human covered with plastic" and other evidence when they searched the Newtown, Conn., home of killer Adam Lanza, according to records released Thursday.

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The Two-Way
8:39 am
Thu March 28, 2013

U.S. Trumpets Stealth Bomber Training Run Over Korean Peninsula

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A U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber flies near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on Thursday.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 6:00 pm

The U.S. military is making no secret about a training flight by a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers from a base in the American Midwest to the Korean Peninsula — what's being described as an "extended deterrence mission."

The flight of the two radar-evading bombers "demonstrates the United States' ability to conduct long range, precision strikes quickly and at will," the United States Forces Korea said in a press release Thursday.

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Shots - Health News
8:11 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Why More Patients Should Blog About Illness And Death

Originally published on Mon April 1, 2013 1:51 pm

I entered the world of illness blogs for the first time when I learned through Facebook that a friend from middle school passed away last Friday from acute myeloid leukemia. In the three months between his diagnosis and his death, the friend, whom I'll call Tom, blogged beautifully and intimately on CaringBridge, a Web tool designed to help the seriously ill tell their stories and manage communication with friends and family.

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The Two-Way
7:41 am
Thu March 28, 2013

'Historic' Web Attack Didn't Cripple The Internet And Is Over Anyway

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Huge amounts of data were flying, but the attack didn't cause major problems around the world, Internet monitors say.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 9:49 am

There's much angst over the cyberattack that we and others reported about Wednesday — a denial-of-service broadside allegedly aimed at an anti-spam group by a Dutch hosting company, Cyberbunker. It led to reports about, supposedly, major congestion on the Web.

Well, there are two things everyone needs to know this morning:

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The Two-Way
6:54 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Slow But Better Than Thought: 4th Quarter GDP Revised Up Again

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 8:22 am

The U.S. economy grew at a 0.4 percent annual rate in fourth-quarter 2012, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday morning.

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The Two-Way
6:05 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Snap! Miami Heat's Streak Ends At 27

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Miami Heat superstar LeBron James during Wednesday night's loss to the Chicago Bulls, which snapped the Heat's 27-game winning streak.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:40 am

In the end, the Heat couldn't take it.

LeBron James and his Miami teammates saw their win streak end at 27 games when they got gored in Chicago on Wednesday night — losing to the Bulls by a score of 101-97.

So the Los Angeles Lakers' 33-game run, set during the 1971-72 season, still stands as the NBA record.

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Asia
5:32 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Lost Camera In Hawaii Turns Up On Taiwanese Beach

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:18 am

Transcript

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Here's a digital fairytale. In 2007, a young woman lost her camera scuba diving off Hawaii. Last week it was found by a China Airlines employee thousands of miles away on a beach in Taiwan. China Airlines offered the owner a free ticket to come pick up the camera. The memory card still has pictures on it. And who was the good fairy in this story? It was Facebook. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

The Two-Way
5:29 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Judge Rules Pistorius Can Leave South Africa

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South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competing during the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:36 am

Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius can travel outside his native South Africa while he awaits trial for allegedly murdering his girlfriend, a judge in Pretoria ruled Thursday.

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The Two-Way
5:22 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Book News: Taliban Shooting Victim Is Publishing A Memoir: 'I Am Malala'

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Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai is pictured during her recovery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, about a month after she was shot.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 6:25 am

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

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Around the Nation
5:19 am
Thu March 28, 2013

Office Lottery Winners Share With Non-Player

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:18 am

Transcript

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Good morning, I'm David Greene.

At a Florida real estate agency, employees pooled their cash to buy Powerball tickets and they won a million bucks. Everyone had chipped in except Jennifer Maldonado. She had just started working there and said she was watching her pennies. But all 12 winners each still gave Jennifer part of their $83,000 share.

Hang on a second - I got to call my colleagues outside the studio. Hey, guys. Guys, would you share your lottery winnings if I didn't pay in?

This is MORNING EDITION.

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