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Mother: Boy slapped on plane is now apprehensive

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -

A Minneapolis woman says her 2-year-old son was traumatized by a man accused of slapping the boy and calling him a racial slur during an Atlanta-bound flight.

The boy's mother, Jessica Bennett, said in a statement Saturday that her son has become "apprehensive to strangers" since the Feb. 8

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Couple says mistaken buckeye leaf got them stopped

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -

A Texas couple says a Tennessee sheriff's deputy pulled them over after mistaking a car decal of the buckeye leaf for a marijuana leaf.

Bonnie and Guido Jonas-Boggioni told The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/Zax86B ) that they are laughing about it now, but back on Feb. 4, they were confused when a Shelby County

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Mississippi ratified 13th Amendment in 1995

The state of Mississippi has corrected a clerical error that left unrecorded ratification of the 13th Amendment for 18 years.

The Legislature formally ratified the amendment, which outlawed slavery, in 1995. However, the ratification document was never presented to the U.S. Archivist, so it was never official.

The

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Burger King Twitter account appears to be hacked

Associated Press -

It appears that Burger King's Twitter account has been hacked.

Starting just after noon Eastern time on Monday, the fast-foot company's Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald's logo, and the account tweeted that it had been sold to rival McDonald's.

In the past hour, some posts from the account have

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Jerry Buss, Los Angeles Lakers' owner, dies at 80

LOS ANGELES (AP) -

By ANDREW DALTON
Associated Press

Los Angeles Lakers' owner Jerry Buss has died at age 80.

Spokesman Bob Steiner says Buss died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He'd been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure.

Buss shepherded the NBA franchise to 10

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