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Lesbian teen in prom flap sues, returns to school
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_re_us/us_lesbian_prom_date"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.769eb972f46c47d6b65af8f6b81b594a.lesbian_prom_date_msrs601.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=ic1iIQWL2oXz4HEQ.pqoPw--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="This 2009 photo released by Constance McMillen's family via The ACLU of Mississippi, taken in Fulton, Miss., shows Constance McMillen, 18, a student at the Itawamba County Agricultural High School. The American Civil Liberties Union had demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend, who is also a student at the school to the April 2, 2010, prom. The school board met, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, and issued a statement announcing it wouldn't host the prom at the Itawamba County Agricultural High School. (AP Photo/The McMillen Family via The ACLU of Mississippi) NO SALES." border="0" /></a>AP - Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. On Thursday, a day after the Itawamba County school board did just that, the 18-year-old lesbian high school senior reluctantly returned to campus to some unfriendly looks, she said.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Norway doomsday seed vault hits 1/2 million mark
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_doomsday_vault"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100311/capt.photo_1268324406074-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=VOY6OBud2kwoAoYb3KIULQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="The interior of Vault 2 inside the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, 2008. Barely two years after it opened, a unique Arctic "doomsday" stockpile of all the world's crop seeds has reached the half-million species mark.(AFP/File/Daniel Sannum-Lauten)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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First Lady marks International Women’s Day with Hillary ‘President’ joke
(The Newsroom)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100311/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1241"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100310/capt.169e243f39e4445389ccae87944ea7c8.women_of_courage_dcgh124.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=bVLeI_I3zbt.PDBe3yAU2w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama share a laugh as Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, not pictured, speaks during the 2010 International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" /></a>The Newsroom - In a fitting show of solidarity for International Women's Day, First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made light of the brutal 2008 battle Clinton conducted to defeat Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. As Michelle Obama launched a State Department commemoration of International Women's Day, she briefly stumbled over Clinton's job title. "Let me thank my dear friend, Senator - Secretary Clinton. I almost said, 'President Clinton,' " said the first lady to laughter and applause. "But let me thank you for that kind introduction, and most of all thank you for your friendship, thank you for your support, and thank you for your indispensable advice in getting me through this first year and helping me figure out how to get my family settled in our new life in D.C."</p><br clear="all"/>
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Reid's wife seriously injured in 4-vehicle wreck
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_go_co/us_reid_family_accident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.eebc561d5f0b4509b5fe6dc635df2b67-eebc561d5f0b4509b5fe6dc635df2b67-0.jpg?x=121&y=130&q=85&sig=SaykKj8hkLN741AMBylNbg--" align="left" height="130" width="121" alt="FILE - In this June 24, 2007, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, and his wife Landra Reid attend an event at Ford's Theater in Washington. A spokesman says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday, March 11, 2010, from serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)" border="0" /></a>AP - Officials say the wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in serious condition after a truck slammed into the back of the vehicle she and her daughter were riding on Interstate 95.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Court upholds 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_re_us/us_god_and_government"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.dda825974b934be981f045917ea4b027-dda825974b934be981f045917ea4b027-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=ZT4n3q5t478rZgKTZDBM7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="File - In this June 14, 2004 file photo, Michael Newdow looks down at the fax copy of the Supreme Court's ruling preserving the phrase 'one nation under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance outside his Sacramento, Calif., home. A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Newdow that the phrase violates the separation between church and state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,Ffile)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Obama gives away $1.4M Nobel prize
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_nobel_money"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100310/i/r520890115.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=q2oA78hJiGFEzuPIrZ6rIA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Nobel Peace Prize laureate U.S. President Barack Obama poses with his medal and certificate as Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland stands with him in Oslo Hall December 10, 2009. REUTERS/Bjorn Sigurdson/Scanpix Norway" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said "do extraordinary work."</p><br clear="all"/>
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Al-Qaida seen eyeing less complex attacks on US
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_al_qaida_lone_gunmen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.fa54cf3585f24405b66eedb474642372.al_qaida_lone_gunmen_wx103.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=myFhj8UFwx2uTaolxBMo9w--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="FILE - This December 2009 file photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ever since al-Qaida attacked the United States in 2001, U.S. authorities have worked to detect and prevent the next big terrorist strike.</p><br clear="all"/>
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'Jihad Jane': How does Al Qaeda recruit U.S.-born women?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100310/ts_csm/286499"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100310/capt.54bb0125bec14eba9d7839cf945262e0.american_terror_plot_ny122.jpg?x=122&y=130&q=85&sig=0mTBjuYAPW1bE9ktyRM8Rg--" align="left" height="130" width="122" alt="In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. LaRose is accused in an indictment filed Tuesday, March 9, 2010, of actively recruiting fighters, as well as agreeing to murder the artist, marry a terrorism suspect so he could move to Europe and martyr herself if necessary. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)" border="0" /></a>The Christian Science Monitor - The case of Colleen R. LaRose – also known as “Jihad Jane” and “Fatima Rose” – raises troubling questions about the ability of Al Qaeda to attract US-born women to terrorism.</p><br clear="all"/>
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2-second video causes headache for ABC News
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_en_tv/us_toyota_recall_abc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.7903dd79748a4187b2da99f1f394d989.toyota_recall_abc_ny109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=xsID8xZwO1Y5IbceD2QoeQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota dealership in San Francisco. For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - For the want of a better two-second picture of a tachometer, ABC News has called into question its reporting on acceleration problems with Toyota vehicles.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Dems look to health vote without abortion foes
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100310/i/r1497178361.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3HXuxhr69JPhsxMAC9RACQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks about healthcare reform at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana" border="0" /></a>AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Author assumes guise of 10-year-old to punk famous
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_go_ot/us_little_billy_s_letters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.2903bc0ef534481bb0d5a9e814546947.little_billy_s_letters_wx201.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=lqtIPLlh8RwbemnLF60Wjg--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Author Bill Geerhart poses with letters he received from Charles Manson, left, and Sarah Palin's father, all in his new book, 'Little Billy's Letters,' on his 1950s retro Formica kitchen table, at his home in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 10, 2010. But Geerhart was better known to some of the famous and infamous as Little Billy, punking them by posing as a school boy writing letters to them asking questions out of the mouths of babes. Their correspondence back - humorous, head-scratching, poignant - are compiled in 'Little Billy's Letters,' out this week. At rear is a movie poster from a 1949 RKO Radio Pictures film, 'I Married A Communist,' now a period cult classic, part of Geerhart's large collection of vintage memorabilia. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Over the years, "Little Billy" learned much from the country's top minds.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Strong quakes torment Chile as president sworn in
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.4eaa3cf3a86047bb9b7474c33198ecc9.chile_inaguration_mms101.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=8fvUf1cLL0Zd_ATTdZgSsQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Chile's newly inaugurated President Sebastian Pinera, waves the the crowds after his swearing-in ceremony in Valparaiso, Chile, Thursday, March 11, 2010.(AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)" border="0" /></a>AP - The earth shook and shook Thursday as dignitaries walked in for the swearing-in of Sebastian Pinera as Chile's president. It shook some more as they waited for him.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Ga. man who posted 'Elton John must die' arrested
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| AP - A Georgia man who posted a video of himself on the Internet holding a sign that said "Elton John must die" has been arrested for making terroristic threats.
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Slowly, Americans are regaining their lost wealth
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_net_worth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.546dca8a2e5a49458a54fd4ab6661967.net_worth_nybz178.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=lWoQITH5.WN_50.GcbVUrg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2009 file photo, shoppers jam Michigan Ave., as they rush to find last minute deals in Chicago. American households saw their wealth increase at the end of last year, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios.(AP Photo/Jim Prisching, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Americans are recovering their shrunken wealth — gradually. Household net worth rose last quarter, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was slight. And it was less than in the previous two quarters.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Democrats move closer to healthcare deal
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100311/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100311/capt.photo_1268333483426-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.GV75908A4Ytom1Rmuf.Dw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Protesters display placards supporting US President Barack Obama?s healthcare reform during a demonstration in Washington, DC, on March 9. US Senate Democrats Thursday heralded a bitter endgame of President Barack Obama's health reform drive, announcing they would use a contentious legislative tactic to try to pass the bill.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Congressional Democrats drew closer on Thursday to agreement on a broad healthcare overhaul that could lead to a final vote in the next few weeks, but vowed not to be bound by White House deadlines.</p><br clear="all"/>
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CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_sc/us_shopper_card_sleuths"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100310/capt.1233c4c92a1d4787933707d21fa29472.shopper_card_sleuths_cx301.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=f3jDkC_Xh0YC4lwlZCGfPw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="In this photo taken March 9, 2010, Raymond Cirimele, 55, displays his Costco membership card outside his home in Chicago. Cirimele is one of at least 245 people in 44 states who have been sickened by a recent salmonella outbreak. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries and followed the trail of grocery purchases to a Rhode Island company that makes salami, then zeroed in on the pepper used to season the meat. He said no one asked for his shopper card data, but he would have provided it if someone had. 'I don't have any secrets, so I'm not worried about it,' he said. 'It's kind of like the whole airport security and all that. I'd rather fly on a safe plane.' (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.</p><br clear="all"/>
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GOP loses bid for ethics probe of Dem leaders
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_go_co/us_massa_republicans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100311/capt.471a330075f146feafb4e40d5976e6e4.democrats_ethics_ny111.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=a4kQrjO4ur4VSE.NoNyftA--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 file photo shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. One is a former Democratic freshman who was little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y. district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax bills. But now, Republicans — looking for any opening to regain control of the House — are portraying newly resigned first-termer Eric Massa and veteran Charles Rangel as dual symbols of Democratic ethical misconduct. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - House Democrats on Thursday stopped a Republican bid to force an investigation of Democratic leaders aimed at determining whether they covered up sexual harassment allegations against ex-Rep. Eric Massa.</p><br clear="all"/>
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APNewsBreak: Calif. murder suspect broke parole
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_teen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100310/capt.3adc0af94d9545aeae19fa8cc187bf1c.missing_teen_records_la103.jpg?x=76&y=130&q=85&sig=fuYqZR.rpyvycWDqtKjQSw--" align="left" height="130" width="76" alt="This April 6, 2004 photo released Wednesday, March 10, 2010, by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows murder suspect John Albert Gardner III with a prison identification card. Gardner has pleaded not guilty to murdering Chelsea King in San Diego County and to the attempted rape of another woman. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 ordered California corrections officials to keep sex offenders' parole records indefinitely after he learned the files of a man now charged with killing a 17-year-old girl had been destroyed. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) EDS NOTE: IMAGE PROVIDED BY POLICE SHOWS WHITE AREA IN BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER" border="0" /></a>AP - A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Democrats to use contentious tactic on health care
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamahealthcare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100311/capt.photo_1268343086959-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=rqz.H3RhJwIh40dgA0vDgA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid puts his hand on the shoulder of 11 year old Marcelas Owens during a national health care event with US Senator Patty Murray in Washington, DC on Thursday. Owens and his two younger sisters lost their mother, Tiffany Owens, at the age of 27 due to pulmonary hypertension when she lost her health insurance after losing her job.(AFP/Getty Images/Win Mcnamee)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Senate Democrats Thursday heralded a bitter endgame of President Barack Obama's health reform drive, announcing they would use a contentious legislative tactic to try to pass the bill.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Ex-soap actor admits resisting arrest in NYC fight
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| AP - A former "One Life to Live" star has admitted resisting arrest in a plea deal that resolves charges stemming from a fight at a New York City gas station.
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