CRASH KILLS 2: An experimental plane struck another single-engine plane taxiing at an airfield Saturday in Titusville, Fla., setting both on fire and killing two people, authorities said. Two people were critically injured.
3 SLAIN: A mother and her two young sons were found dead Saturday in a burning home in rural eastern Texas after a predawn shooting, and three high school students and a juvenile — two boys and two girls — face murder charges, authorities said. The father was in critical condition with a gunshot wound, Rains County Sheriff David Traylor said.
IRAQI REFUGEES: The number of Iraqi refugees admitted to the U.S. rose for the second month in a row, although the Bush administration still will struggle to meet its target of 12,000 by the end of September. The State Department said Saturday that 444 Iraqi refugees entered the country in February.
PLAZA REOPENS: Hundreds flocked Saturday to The Plaza Hotel for the New York landmark’s opening after a three-year, $400 million renovation.
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