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Tim Russert is reporting for NBC news this morning that Hillary Clinton was scheduled to make the rounds on the morning talk shows this morning, but she has canceled all appearances. After a loss in North Carolina and a squeaker of a win in Indiana, is it possible she's considering an exit now?
An Oregon couple checking their voice mail found a frightening recording of their soldier son caught in a battle in Afghanistan. Stephen Phillips and other soldiers in his Army MP company were in mid-battle when his phone apparently got squeezed against his Humvee. It went to automatic redial and reached his parents in the small Oregon town of Otis. Most of the sounds were gunfire, but shouts can be heard, including, "More ammo! More ammo!" No one was hurt or killed in the fighting. But the soldier asked his mother, please, "Don't let Grandma hear it."
If chocolate breath can give you away, Amanda may be in trouble. There is a story this morning that the odor of chocolate on a suspect's breath gave away a 15-year-old boy accused of shoplifting candy bars. An officer responding to the shoplifting report caught up with the suspect on a bicycle. First he denied taking candy bars, but the officer could smell an odor of chocolate and called witnesses who identified the boy. He confessed and said he was hungry and did it for the thrill.
