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6:40 am
Mon March 26, 2012

Who Do You Like In The Final Four?

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  • Mike Pesca on 'Morning Edition'

Now we know the Final Four teams in the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship:

-- Kansas.

-- Kentucky.

-- Louisville.

-- Ohio State.

So it's time to ask:

The women's Division I tournament, by the way, is down to its Elite Eight.

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The Two-Way
6:00 am
Mon March 26, 2012

Tens Of Thousands Expected Today At Florida Rally For Trayvon Martin

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An undated family photo of Trayvon Martin.

A rally in Sanford, Fla., today "to demand justice in the Trayvon Martin shooting death," is expected to draw "tens of thousands of people," Orlando's WFTV says.

The rally — one month after the black teen's death — is due to begin at 4 p.m. ET and end with those thousands gathered outside the city's civic center as the Sanford City Commission meets to hear from the 17-year-old Martin's parents.

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The Two-Way
5:30 am
Mon March 26, 2012

Is GOP Race At 'Tipping Point' Or Destined To Keep Going?

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Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum during a campaign event Sunday in Fond du Lac, Wis.

NPR's Ken Rudin is a fan of using history as a guide to what might happen next when it comes to politics, and this morning he focuses on the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination and what lessons we might learn from an earlier battle between GOP contenders.

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The Two-Way
4:55 am
Mon March 26, 2012

Tragedy In West Virginia: Child Is Ninth Victim Of House Fire

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On Saturday, investigators sifted through debris in the aftermath of a house fire in Charleston, W.Va., that has now claimed nine lives.

"A house fire believed to be the worst in Charleston's history claimed its ninth victim Sunday," West Virginia's Sunday Gazette-Mail reports.

According to the newspaper, 7-year-old Bryan Timothy Camp was taken off life support Sunday morning. The fire at the home he lived in with his mother, her boyfriend, an aunt and six other children began around 3:25 a.m. ET on Saturday. Only the aunt survived. The Gazette-Mail says the rental home had no working smoke detectors.

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