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• Thousands will participate in an evening candlelight ceremony 20 years after more than 1 million people perished.
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• 9. GEORGE STRAIT WINS ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AT THE ACM AWARDS
• The 61-year-old singer also won the same award at the rival Country Music Association Awards, an industry-voted show.
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• 10. HUSKIES, 'CATS VIE FOR TITLE
• Seventh-seeded Connecticut and eighth-seeded Kentucky meet in one of the unlikeliest NCAA championship games ever.
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AP News in Brief
Malaysian official: Cautiously hopeful about positive developments in hunt for lost jet
• KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia's defense minister says he is "cautiously hopeful" that there will be positive developments in the next few days, "if not hours," in the search for the missing airliner.
• Hishamuddin Hussein made the comments Monday during a press conference in light of news about underwater sounds detected by ships searching the southern Indian Ocean. At least some of the sounds are consistent with pings from aircraft black boxes.
• Authorities have warned that it will take time to confirm whether the sounds are signals from the flight data recorders that belonged to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished a month ago.
• The batteries in the black boxes run out after about 30 days, and the plane vanished March 8, so searchers are in a race against time to locate the devices.
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Legendary Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney dies at age 93
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mickey Rooney's approach to life was simple: "Let's put on a show!" He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage and in his extravagant personal life.
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