Friday, March 21, 2008
News Morning headlines
Posted by Russell McLendon on Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:11 PM
DEATH-PENALTY BILL: Voted down in state Senate.
OBAMA: Passport "imprudently" peeped; State Dept. investigating. Also, will be endorsed by Bill Richardson today.
BRACKETEERING: Obama woos N.C. sports radio station by picking UNC to win the NCAA tournament. He also said he picks Stanford over Pitt in the South, but earlier told the NYT he picked UNC, Kansas, UCLA and Pitt in the Final Four. Scandal!
BUSH DECLARES DISASTER: About our tornadoes, not his presidency.
NO MICH-AGAIN PRIMARY: Revote plan falls apart; Obama suggests splitting delegates, Clinton wants a mail-in revote.
QUEEN OF KONG: Zoo Atlanta gorilla headed to Orlando to get knocked up. (The scientific name for a western lowland gorilla, I'm amused to find out, is gorilla gorilla gorilla.)
DEANGELO HALL: Finally gets sent to Oakland; Falcons get second-round draft pick and fifth-rounder for 2009.
FOULED OUT: Former SEC ref sentenced to 12 years in prison for running a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
DON'T MESS WITH TAXES: Faux-IRS scam reported in Gainesville (and AccessNorthGa.com gets to the heart of the story again with another hard-hitting news graphic).
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES SURVIVE TORNADO: Says one scout leader: "Thank God none of our cookies were destroyed."
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