Huskies take NCAA crown, 'webcam killer' guilty and more top stories

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1. UConn Wins NCAA Title
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<p>Senior shooting guard Shabazz Napier&#8217;s 22 points helped lift the seventh-seeded Huskies to a 60-54 victory over the eighth-seeded Kentucky Wildcats for UConn&#8217;s fourth national championship since 1999</p>

2. Maryland Backs Wage Hike
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<p>Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley is now expected to sign a bill to raise the state minimum wage to $10.10—and another that decriminalizes small amounts of pot</p>

3. Senate Passes Benefits Bill
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<p>President Obama has praised the bill that extends long-term unemployment benefits for five months, but its future in the House looks bleak</p>

4. Submarine Hunt for Missing Plane on Hold
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<p>Investigators say they&#8217;ll spend several days aiming to narrow the potential search zone for Flight 370's black box before deploying an unmanned submarine as the world observes the one-month mark since the Malaysia Airlines plane went missing</p>

5. Report: Al Sharpton Was FBI Informant on the Mob
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<p>Sharpton has already denied claims on the The Smoking Gun&#8217;s website that he went to mobsters&#8217; hangouts in the 1980s as &#8220;Confidential Informant No. 7&#8243; with a bugged briefcase to provide information to a joint NYPD-FBI task force</p>

6. Pistorius Breaks Down During Shooting Testimony
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<p>Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympian charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was apparently overcome with grief while recounting the night he shot her</p>

7. U.S. and China Lock Horns Over Disputed Islands
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<p>Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sounds off in Beijing on China's decision last year to create an air defense zone over several islands disputed with Japan, arguing the move could endanger regional stability and antagonize relations with neighboring countries</p>

8. Canadian Court Finds 'Webcam Killer' Guilty
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<p>Brian Dickson, 32, was found guilty of first-degree murder by a Toronto court for sexually assaulting and strangling to death a Chinese college student in an April 2011 attack that was partly witnessed by her former boyfriend during an online video call</p>

9. Hollywood Takes Megaupload to Court
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<p>Six major film studios—Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Columbia and Warner Bros—have filed suit against the shuttered filesharing site for mass copyright violations, branding it an &#8220;unlawful hub for mass distibution&#8221;</p>

10. The World's Largest Democracy Heads to the Polls
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<p>A five-week election process involving more than 814 million eligible voters has begun as opinion polls suggesting the incumbent Congress Party of Rahul Gandhi may be ousted by the Hindu-nationalist BJP of controversial businessman Narendra Modi</p>

11. Mudslide Death Toll Hits 33
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<p>Medical examiners in Washington State say they have received three more bodies and authorities are still searching for more in the aftermath of the March 22 mudslide that destroyed a residential neighborhood north of Seattle</p>

12. Ukraine Arrests 70 in &#8216;Anti-Terrorist&#8217; Raid
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<p>The Ukrainian government launches &#8220;anti-terrorist&#8221; operation against citizens who seized government buildings and called for Russian troops to invade, further raising tensions in the restive Eastern European state</p>

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