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last year and vets say soldiers should start searching before leaving the military.
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• 8. HACKERS HAVE IT THEIR WAY
• Someone posted obscene messages on Burger King's Twitter account and changed its profile picture to a McDonald's logo.
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• Jerry Buss, who built a dynasty for decades on talent from Magic Johnson to Kobe Bryant, was 80.
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• Visitors stripped down for an after-hours viewing of the exhibit, "Nude Men from 1800 to Today," in Vienna.
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AP News in Brief
Oscar Pistorius charged with premeditated murder of girlfriend; defense calls it an accident
• PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Olympian Oscar Pistorius fired into the door of a small bathroom where his girlfriend was cowering after a shouting match on Valentine's Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor said Tuesday as he charged the sports icon with premeditated murder.
• Pistorius sobbed softly as his lawyer insisted that Reeva Steenkamp's shooting was an accident.
• "She couldn't go anywhere. You can run nowhere," prosecutor Gerrie Nel said at a bail hearing.
• The shooting death has shocked South Africans and many around the world who idolized Pistorius for overcoming adversity to become a sports champion, competing in the London Olympics last year in track besides being a Paralympian. Steenkamp, 29, was a model and law graduate who made her debut on a South African reality TV program on Saturday, two days after her death..
• Nel said the couple had had a shouting match and Steenkamp fled to the bathroom, down a seven-meter (yard) passage from the bedroom, and locked herself in. He said the 26-year-old Pistorius got up from bed and had to put on his prosthetic (Continued on page 19)
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