Sunday,  April 21, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 276 • 27 of 33 •  Other Editions

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• Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hospitalized Saturday in serious but stable condition after having been found wounded and bloody the night before hiding in a boat parked behind a home in Watertown, a Boston suburb authorities had shut down to conduct house-by-house searches.
• U.S. officials said a special interrogation team for high-value suspects would question Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights, invoking a rare public-safety exception triggered by the need to protect police and the public from immediate danger. The American Civil Liberties Union said it was concerned about that. It said the exception applies only when there's a continued threat to public safety and is "not an open-ended exception" to the Miranda rule, which guarantees a suspect the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
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Gunfire erupts at Colo. pot event, 2 wounded as crowds scatter

• DENVER (AP) -- Authorities are hunting for suspects after shooting broke out during a massive marijuana celebration in Denver, leaving two people with gunshot wounds.
• The gunfire scattered thousands attending Saturday's 4/20 counterculture holiday, the first since Colorado legalized marijuana.
• A man and a woman each suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds, officials said. Local media reports said a third person was grazed.
• Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said investigators are looking for one or two suspects, asking festival attendees for possible photo or video of the shootings.
• He said police had no motive for the gunfire.
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China rushes relief after powerful quake jolts Sichuan, killing 180 and injuring thousands

• YA'AN, China (AP) -- Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters.

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