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• Defection of longtime superdelegate jolts Clinton

  Hillary Rodham Clinton was jolted Thursday by the defection of one of her longtime superdelegate supporters, a former national party chairman who urged fellow Democrats to "reject the old negative politics" and unify behind Barack Obama.
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• Pollution threatens 17 WA commercial shellfish areas

  The Washington Health Department says pollution threatens shellfish harvesting in 17 of the state's commercial shellfish growing areas.
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• Teen abducted at Dade gas station, raped

  An 18-year-old woman was kidnapped from a North Miami-Dade gas station and raped early Thursday, police said. Sexual-battery detectives were hunting for a man with a short black Afro, brown eyes and wearing a blue shirt printed with orange letters, blue jeans and blue shoes.
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• Legislature moves to outlaw faking on caller ID

  Score a point for caller ID: the Florida Legislature approved a proposed law Thursday meant to crack down on tech-savvy pranksters and scammers known as spoofers.
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• McCain backs off gov't waste as cause of bridge collapse

  Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday backed off his assertion that pork-barrel spending led to last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
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• Immigrant march: 'Si se puede'

  Tribune reporters provide periodic updates from the march 4 p.m. The rally ended peacefully.
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• Few Iraqi refugees plan return, U.N. says

  UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (UPI) -- Just 4 percent of Iraqi refugees say they plan to return to their own country after fleeing because of threats or insecurities, a U.N. report indicates.
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• Crane owners and contractors sue to block new Dade ordinance

  A coalition of contractors and crane owners filed a federal lawsuit Thursday aimed at toppling a new Miami-Dade County ordinance that put additional safety, inspection and training requirements on the industry.
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• Doctor charged with lax prescribing

  SAN DIEGO, May 1 (UPI) -- A Southern California doctor was so willing to write prescriptions for OxyContin that drug dealers sent homeless people to him as "patients," investigators say.
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• A NC voter sizes up Obama, Clinton, and finally decides

  As a clinical research consultant working in North Carolina's Research Triangle, Meribeth Howlett knows how to get to the bottom of things.
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