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Breaking News: Famed TV producer Dick Clark dies of a heart attack at age 82, reports TMZ.  (AP photo via ABC)

Breaking News: Famed TV producer Dick Clark dies of a heart attack at age 82, reports TMZ.  (AP photo via ABC)

accuweather: Live Tracking: Watch the Tornado Outbreak on Radar A dangerous tornado outbreak is set to unfold across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma later today. Follow the storms on radar to stay alert of the situation. View high resolution

accuweather:

Live Tracking: Watch the Tornado Outbreak on Radar

A dangerous tornado outbreak is set to unfold across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma later today. Follow the storms on radar to stay alert of the situation.

(Reblogged from accuweather)
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Ladies and gentleman, we made a decision to get into this race at our kitchen table against the odds and we made a decision over the weekend that this presidential race is over, at least for me and we will suspend our campaign.
Rick Santorum Drops Out: GOP Presidential Candidate Suspends 2012 Campaign (via huffingtonpost)
(Reblogged from huffingtonpost)
GOP candidate Rick Santorum is dropping out of the US presidential race. Watch live video of Santorum’s news conference in Gettysburg, Pa.: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/2012-elections Photo: Jason Cohn / Reuters View high resolution

GOP candidate Rick Santorum is dropping out of the US presidential race.

Watch live video of Santorum’s news conference in Gettysburg, Pa.: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/2012-elections


Photo: Jason Cohn / Reuters

Tornado emergency issued for portions of Texas Follow updates here: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/dallas-fort-worth-texas-tornadoesLive video:  http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Severe-Storms-Building-to-the-West-145934445.html Image: Radar imagery of twin tornado supercells in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, metro area, via The Weather Channel. View high resolution

Tornado emergency issued for portions of Texas

Follow updates here: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/dallas-fort-worth-texas-tornadoes

Live video:  http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Severe-Storms-Building-to-the-West-145934445.html

Image: Radar imagery of twin tornado supercells in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, metro area, via The Weather Channel.

The numbers for tonight’s MegaMillions record jackpot of $640 million are: 46 - 23 - 38 - 4 - 2 mega ball 23. Photo: Mega Millions Lottery tickets are displayed by the Hoosier Lottery’s Mega Millions mascot at a store in Zionsville, Ind., earlier today (Michael Conroy/AP) View high resolution

The numbers for tonight’s MegaMillions record jackpot of $640 million are: 46 - 23 - 38 - 4 - 2 mega ball 23.

Photo: Mega Millions Lottery tickets are displayed by the Hoosier Lottery’s Mega Millions mascot at a store in Zionsville, Ind., earlier today (Michael Conroy/AP)


Davy Jones, lead singer for the Monkees, has died of a heart attack at age 66. [Houston Press]

Davy Jones, lead singer for the Monkees, has died of a heart attack at age 66.

[Houston Press]

3 dead in an avalanche in Stevens Pass, WA

Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a bill that legalizes gay marriage in Washington state, making it the nation’s seventh to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. KIRO 7 View high resolution

Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a bill that legalizes gay marriage in Washington state, making it the nation’s seventh to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed.


KIRO 7

CNN reports that the chair of the Colorado GOP says that Rick Santorum will win the Colorado Republican caucuses. Santorum is also projected to win tonight’s Minnesota GOP caucuses and Missouri primary. Photo: Rick Santorum speaks at The Cable Center in Denver yesterday (Chris Carlson/AP)

CNN reports that the chair of the Colorado GOP says that Rick Santorum will win the Colorado Republican caucuses.


Santorum is also projected to win tonight’s Minnesota GOP caucuses and Missouri primary.

Photo: Rick Santorum speaks at The Cable Center in Denver yesterday (Chris Carlson/AP)

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that California’s Proposition 8  is unconstitutional A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its long-awaited opinion on whether Proposition 8 violates the civil rights of gay men and lesbians. Proposition 8 was a 2008 California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage. In August 2010, a federal judge struck down the ban, which was left in place during the appeals process.Photo: Activists on courthouse steps earlier this morning. (Terry McSweeney/ABC7 San Francisco) View high resolution

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that California’s Proposition 8  is unconstitutional

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its long-awaited opinion on whether Proposition 8 violates the civil rights of gay men and lesbians.

Proposition 8 was a 2008 California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage. In August 2010, a federal judge struck down the ban, which was left in place during the appeals process.

Photo: Activists on courthouse steps earlier this morning. (Terry McSweeney/ABC7 San Francisco)

New York Giants win Super Bowl Final score:    New York Giants - 21       New England Patriots - 17 Photo: New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw (44) runs through a hole in the line during the first half. (Mark Humphrey / AP ) View high resolution

New York Giants win Super Bowl


Final score:

   New York Giants - 21   
   New England Patriots - 17

Photo: New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw (44) runs through a hole in the line during the first half. (Mark Humphrey / AP )

BREAKING: Komen pledges to continue funding Planned Parenthood

From The Dallas Morning News: In a statement from Nancy Brinker and the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors, Komen for the Cure said:

“We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.”