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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police in Ohio say a woman shot her cousin to death during an argument that started because one woman didn’t think the other was dressed properly for Easter dinner.

There is an article in the Boston Globe that speculate that public education is dying.

MONTCOAL, W.Va. — A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades. Four others were missing Tuesday, their chances of survival dimming as rescuers were held back by poison gases that accumulated near the blast site, about 1.5 miles into the […]

From HuffingtonPost.com: Luck or magic? The Rev. Al Sharpton recently said that New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) must have one or the other on her side as a handful of potential primary and general elections challengers have dropped like flies.

From NBCChicago.com: The Chicago Bulls perennial number two man, Scott Pippen, is reportedly going to be named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Monday in Indianapolis.

Michael Steele appeared on Good Morning America the Monday. When George Stephanopoulos asked him if he believed that he was being treated unfairly over bondage-gate due to his race, Steele replied:

From CNN.com: Erica DeRamus was suspended from her Oxford, Alabama high school for arriving at the senior prom in an outfit that violated the dress code.

WASHINGTON — Republican Party chairman Michael Steele defended his stewardship of party affairs Monday and dismissed criticism as the talk of GOP figures uncomfortable with his “streetwise” managerial style.

OK, here’s the good news:  The Economy has turned the corner.  Our nation created 162,000 new jobs this month, leading to the first period of substantial job growth that we’ve had in a year.  The unemployment rate has remained stable at 8.8 percent….wait….sorry, that’s the unemployment rate if you are white.

From NYTimes.com: As she struggled with junior high algebra at SS. Joachim and Anne School in Queens, Marie-Dominique Toussaint knew where it was all supposed to lead: she would be a doctor

From CNN: Princeton, New Jersey — All around the world this weekend, Christians are celebrating Easter. For them, this holiest of days announces that death does not have the final word and that eternal life awaits those who would just believe.

From the Washington Post: The camera pans across a bucolic river and a sunny cornfield, an American flag flapping in the breeze, as narrator Michael S. Steele waxes about the freedom to dream and achieve. Then, with the Statue of Liberty sweeping into the shot, comes a dire warning that freedom is fragile: Democrats, he […]