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Friends and neighbors of army staff sergeant Robert Bales in his home of Washington say they are shocked by the accusation that he murdered 16 Afghan villagers last weekend in a sudden shooting spree.Cathy Holland lives in Bales' his wife and two children.

Happy family normal,family just lots of prayers for Bob and his family,it's just heart-breaking.

Bales is waiting for formal charges at Fort Leavenworth,Kansans.

An 83-year-old man is jailed in west Virginia on three counts of murder.Fayette County Sheriff officials say they arrested the suspect outside the home,where two women were found dead,a third person later died at hospital.

NOAA is out with the annual drought forecast.The director of the agency southern regional climate services,David Brown says,there are still very significant and widespread drought conditions in the southern plains region.

Right now,the conditions are most pronounced in west Texas,and eastern New Mexico,but they also extend into parts of Oklahoma,Kansas, Colorado,even parts of the Gulf Coast,coast to Louisiana.

Amid the skyscrapers ,sidewalks,and suburbs,subways of New York,that is researchers have discovered a new frog spice.The amphibian is part of the crowded Leopard frog spices,but it's so new,it doesn't even have a name yet.Scientists say is Yankee Stadium in the Bronx is the center of its current range.

Thousands of revelers,in shades of green,jammed onto New York City streets today to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and watched the city's annual pray,now in its 251st year.But New York is far from the only city celebrating the luck of Irish this is what it sounded like in Savannah,Georgia,earlier today as the city hosted its annual St. Patrick's Day bash.

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