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Mexico-bound bus overturns in Texas, killing 2 (AP)

AP - A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, officials said.

Lesson learned: More buy flood insurance after '09 (AP)
AP - When the swollen Red River threatened his uninsured house last spring, all Mark Baumgardner could do was pack up, leave and hope he wouldn't lose everything.
Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp (AP)

AP - New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the first time in three decades.

Volunteers along Red River in flood-fighting mode (AP)

AP - Volunteers in North Dakota were in flood-fighting mode again Tuesday filling sandbags while contractors constructed clay levees along the fast-rising Red River to help protect nearby homes from the murky waters.

Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing (AP)

AP - A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.

Judge: Winfrey must defend ex-headmistress's suit (AP)

AP - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls' school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, a U.S. judge ruled.

Widespread spring flooding forecast (AP)

AP - With truckloads of sandbags rolling into cities like Fargo, N.D. and Moorhead, Minn., the government confirmed residents' fears Tuesday, forecasting major flooding in the Midwest following a wetter than normal winter.

$70M in prescription drugs stolen in Conn. heist (AP)

AP - Thieves scaled a wall at a pharmaceutical warehouse over the weekend, cut a hole in the roof and rappelled inside to steal about $70 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs, authorities said Tuesday.

Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm (AP)

AP - The powerful wind-whipped nor'easter was gone, but the floods lived on Tuesday in many Northeast communities.

Woman who drove into lake, killing kids, sentenced (AP)

AP - A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling the court she had been drinking alcohol that night.

NYC restaurants must now show their report cards (AP)
AP - New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near their entrances indicating how clean they are under a system approved Tuesday.
Magnitude-4.4 earthquake shakes Southern Calif. (AP)

AP - An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.

12 hidden in pickup pursued by Phoenix police (AP)
AP - A dozen illegal immigrants were hidden in the truck bed and extended cab of a pickup that led police on a lengthy pursuit in west Phoenix.
Chappaquiddick prosecutor dies in Mass. at 85 (AP)
AP - Edmund Dinis, the former prosecutor whose political career sputtered after he oversaw the grand jury investigation into the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's involvement in the Chappaquiddick case, has died. He was 85.
Plucky whooping crane gives wildlife experts hope (AP)

AP - After the poisonous snake slithered into the whooping crane family's marshy grounds and sank its fangs into the chick's neck, death seemed certain.

Montana man spends 4 days in car stuck in snowbank (AP)
AP - A 67-year-old Montana man spent four days in his car stuck in a snowbank on a remote mountain road and even wrote a goodbye letter before he was rescued.
Helicopter rescues horse stranded on Ariz. sandbar (AP)
AP - It's not every day you see a horse fly.
EU postpones hedge funds reform amid UK resistance (AP)

AP - European Union countries called off Tuesday talks on new rules to oversee hedge funds, saying they needed more time to get "isolated" Britain on board a compromise deal.

Study: Gene testing helps get warfarin dose right (AP)
AP - Doctors are reporting an exciting win for gene testing and personalized medicine: Checking patients' DNA before starting them on a popular blood thinner helps get the tricky dose right and keep them out of the hospital.
Toyota dismisses Calif. man's runaway Prius report (AP)

AP - Toyota Motor Corp. was quiet last week when James Sikes told reporters how the gas pedal got stuck on his 2008 Prius, leading him on a wild ride on a Southern California freeway.