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Also: New Ukrainian peace talks are supposed to start today; a North Carolina man is charged with killing three members of a Muslim family; and a huge sandstorm sweeps through the Middle East.

Also: Several Marines are injured in a California training accident; Boko Haram militants stage a first attack in Chad; and this is the 70th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, Germany.

Also: A winter storm slams into southern and Mid-Atlantic states with snow and ice; a train carrying oil derails in West Virginia and cars explode; and New Orleans celebrates Fat Tuesday.

Also: Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians are in the dark after this week's ice storm; Oregon gets a second heavy snowstorm; the toxic ash spill continues into a North Carolina river; and Toronto mayor Rob Ford starts a YouTube show with his brother.

Also: Violence leaves a second Venezuelan beauty queen dead; a new leak is found at the Fukushima nuclear plant; and there's a winning ticket for the $425 million Powerball lottery.

Also: A published report says the U.S. is trying to swap prisoners with the Taliban for a hostage U.S. Marine; an Oklahoma pharmacy won't make an execution drug for Missouri's use; the arctic ice is less white because of rapid melting; and an asteroid (safely) flies by the Earth.

Also: Abortion rates fall in the U.S.; Ukraine's president returns from sick leave while protests continue; Libya's chemical weapons stockpile is apparently destroyed; and Punxsutawney Phil forecasts another six weeks of winter.

Also: World markets take a beating after yesterday's losses on Wall Street; the Senate may pass the huge farm bill today; 2013 saw a record number of criminal exonerations; and arts patron Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale, has died.

Also: New nutrition labels; California gets more rain; the government will investigate GM's latest recall; and Philadelphia police tweet against saving parking spaces dug out from the snow.

Also: A Wisconsin train derailment spills fuel and forces evacuations; the first Arab-American U.S. governor, Oregon's Vic Atiyeh, dies; and that huge, floating rubber duck is missing in China.