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9 p.m. (EST): The final press conference of the day with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis and various other officials just concluded. The FBI is now leading investigations of the events. Davis confirmed that three people were killed in today's blasts.

CNN is reporting that one of the victims killed was an 8-year-old boy. The Wall Street Journal had reported that as many as five other unexploded devices were found around Boston, but investigators now doubt that they were actually bombs.

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On Wednesday morning, authorities found the body of a University of Central Florida student inside a dorm room, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A campus spokeswoman said that there were also improvised explosive devices and additional weapons in the room.

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Following Lil Wayne's severe seizure scare on Friday night (March 15), there was a slew of conflicting reports about the 'A Milli' rapper's condition. Thankfully, Weezy apparently was never near death. However, it appears that he is on the road to recovery -- and that the road may have 12 or more steps.

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It’s not easy being unemployed or under-employed, but you are definitely not alone. Even with a highly positive new jobs report just out and the country apparently on an upswing, an unemployment rate of 7.7 percent means a lot of people still need jobs.

But that doesn’t mean the situation is hopeless for anyone. If you’re spent on looking for available jobs in your current locale because it seems like the well has dried, you could be right. Some states have higher unemployment rates than others, and you could be stuck living somewhere that’s not helping you. It might be time to relocate.

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It’s not hard to see how brave Gavin Robert Stevens is.

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Here’s a surprise to no one: people in Hawaii are feeling better than anywhere else in the country.

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The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school.

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Andrew Mason, now-former-CEO of Groupon, resigned today. Well, actually, he was more fired, really. And he told everybody. How do we know? Because he also publicly released his own letter of not-resignation, because it was going to leak anyway. Here's what it said.

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A bunch of students from the Colorado College ultimate Frisbee team managed to pull off a "Harlem Shake" video (yes, another one) while on an airplane. Federal authorities were not pleased.

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You see them on a sidewalk or standing by a busy intersection. People who have fallen on hard times looking for a meal or some money to feed their children or to save their home from foreclosure etc, etc. As you dig around in your purse or pocket for some change you can't help but wonder what the money is really for. Drugs maybe, or some booze you think. If you had doubts about panhandlers before, hang on. If you take people at their word, get ready to lose a bit of your innocence. This panhandler probably has a nicer lifestyle than you and me put together!

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I think sometimes that we can can put people into two categories. Either you have bullied, or you have been bullied. Either way, this video packs an emotional punch in the stomach.

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“Going postal” could soon be very fashionable.

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