No Starbucks ... for 3 hours: Starbucks across the country are closing from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today to provide equipment training to 135,000 employees. This training is to improve the quality of coffee served at the stores, said company officials. Other companies are planning promotions, and some places are offering free coffee during the Starbucks training time frame. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz believes the three-hour training today will help employees make better coffee.

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Oxnard school shooting: In Oxnard, Calif., 15-year-old Oxnard Junior High School student, Larry King, was killed for admitting he was gay. Bullying and teasing of King lasted for months after he revealed his homosexuality. The teasing ended that fatal day in English class when Brandon McInerney shot King in the back of the head twice. Mclnerney is being charged as an adult for first-degree murder and a hate crime. He could get 50 years in prison if convicted. Rumor around the school was King had a crush on Mclnerney, and that may have been his motive for killing King.

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Clinton campaign starts 5-point attack: Sen. Hillary Clinton sarcastically mocked Obama's message of hope as naïve, after Obama distributed anti-Clinton fliers about the NAFTA trade treaty. Clinton's biting speech on Feb. 25 compared Obama's lack of foreign policy experience with that of George W. Bush.

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— Kia Moore