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A Mardi Gras parade erupted into chaos on Fat Tuesday when a series of gunshots struck seven people, including a toddler. The child was not seriously injured and two suspects were in custody, police said. The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. A stream of truck floats that follow the parade were passing by when gunfire broke out.

Bluntly declaring that the “day of reckoning has arrived” after years of financial irresponsibility, President Barack Obama told Americans on Tuesday night that “we will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”

CORPUS CHRISTI — A 23-year-old man who told his friends he could hold his breath underwater for a long period of time drowned while trying to prove it Sunday evening.

In a new interview with Jamie Foxxhole’s radio show, Xzibit shares the story of how Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy, etc.) treated him to the gayest night of his life — all while doing everything verbally in his power to relay the message that he, himself, is not gay.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Urging strict future restraint even as current spending soars, President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to dramatically slash the skyrocketing annual budget deficit as he started to dole out the record $787 billion economic stimulus package he signed last week.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy has a pair it doesn’t need anymore. It has been trying to give them away since 2006, and they’re headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn’t speak up soon.

Trekkies rejoice! Paramount Home Video is set to release season one of the original Star Trek series this coming April on Blu-ray. The 7-disc set will include all 29 episodes of the original season which aired over 40 years ago from 1966 to 1967.

Auburn, NY — A U-Haul trailer was used to transport an obese Genoa man to Cayuga County Court this morning so he could be arraigned on charges of selling drugs out of his home.

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

(CNN) — A crocodile has snatched and eaten a five-year-old boy in Australia, state police have confirmed.

A boy treated with foetal stem cells for a rare genetic disease has developed benign tumours, raising questions about the therapy’s safety.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has approved adding about 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, administration, defense and congressional officials said Tuesday.

(CNN) — A woman who was beheaded near Buffalo, New York — allegedly by her husband — may have been on the phone with her sister when she was killed.

That’s because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada.

SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City woman who was in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has had them broken off in a traffic accident.