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1) Video: Exclusive: tensions flare near crucial oil chokepoint
An NBC reporter gains access to a region just a few nautical miles from the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategic waterways. NBC’s Ali Arouzi reports. (Nightly News)
2) Unsold goods weigh on future growth
The economy perked up late last year as factories ramped up production. Unfortunately, a lot of what those factories made is still in warehouses and on store shelves.
4) Video: Romney gains ground in Florida
Newt Gingrich unleashes a fiery ad attacking his rival while Romney appealed to Florida’s Hispanic voters. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports. (Nightly News)
5) Video: GOP v. Newt Gingrich
Influential Republicans are mobilizing to stop presidential candidate Newt Gingrich from ascending in the race. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports. (Nightly News)
6) Meet 'Rosie' and 'Ken': 2 chimps, many experiments
Testing on chimps has saved lives in the past, but whether a chimp gets to retire is entirely up to the labs and the government. Jane Goodall has been trying for decades to get this kind of animal testing banned.
7) Heat beat 3-for-all Knicks in Wade's return
LeBron James scored 31 points, Dwyane Wade scored 28 in his return from a sprained right ankle, and the Miami Heat beat the 3-point-obsessed New York Knicks 99-89 on Friday night.
8) Florida GOP: Debate audience not stacked for Romney
The Republican Party of Florida is pushing back at claims by aides to Newt Gingrich that the audience at the debate in Jacksonville was full of Mitt Romney supporters.
9) US women's soccer team qualifies for Olympics
The U.S. women's soccer team booked their way to London on Friday night with a 3-0 victory over Costa Rica in the semifinals of the CONCACAF qualifying tournament.
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11) Outrage as bodies pile up at Cook County morgue
Pastors and community activists call for an independent investigation after reports that bodies have been piling up for weeks.
12) After teen hockey injuries, can rough sport become safer?
Two tragic spine injuries in Minnesota high school hockey games in the last month have sparked debate among parents, officials, and fans over how the rough sport can be made safer.
13) Sunspot unleashes powerful parting shot
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The sunspot responsible for setting off a colorful round of northern lights got off a doozy of a parting shot, just as it was about to pass around the edge of the sun's disk.
14) Demi Moore 911 call: 'She smoked something'
On the heavily redacted recording, one of Moore's friends argues with the dispatcher amid confusion over which agency should be sending paramedics.
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16) France wants faster NATO Afghanistan exit
France and Afghanistan agree NATO should speed up by a year its timetable for handing all combat operations to Afghan forces in 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, raising new questions about the unity of the Western military alliance.
17) Twitter censorship policy leads to boycott
Anger over Twitter's new policy to censor messages on a country-by-country basis is resulting in protests by some Twitter users who say they will refuse to tweet on Saturday.
18) 'Barefoot Bandit' sentenced to 6 1/2 years
A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced the "Barefoot Bandit" to 6 1/2 years in prison for his two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts.
19) Conn. home invasion killer is sentenced to death
The man who killed a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 Cheshire, Conn., home invasion was sentenced to death on Friday and addressed the court before the sentence was handed down.
20) Bus-sized asteroid buzzes Earth ... harmlessly
A small asteroid the size of a city bus zoomed between Earth and the moon's orbit Friday, just days after its discovery, but it never posed a threat to our planet, NASA says.
21) Collision course: Tiger, Rory paired for Saturday
If the stars continue to align properly over the desert, McIlroy might finally give Woods what he’s lacked his entire career — a rival with staying power.
22) Slideshow: 11 players who may steal the spotlight
If there's going to be a David Tyree in Super Bowl XLVI, it'll be a guy like Julian Edelman.
23) Man gets 26-year jail term for 17 years of stalking
In what prosecutors called the longest sentence for stalking in memory, a Seattle-area man received a 26 1/2-year prison term for waging a 17-year campaign of harassment against a former classmate that began after she offered him help with his homework in 1994.
24) Domestic abuse charges dog new SF sheriff
In another blow to San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a judge has refused to lift an order that prevents him from contact with his wife and son.
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26) Authorities to end camping at Occupy DC sites
Federal park authorities in the nation's capital gave notice to Occupy protesters -- a move seen by the activists as a "slow creep" aimed at whittling down their demonstration.
27) Facebook poised to file for IPO next week
Facebook looks set to file papers for its public stock offering by as soon next Wednesday, CNBC reported Friday.
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29) Doubts cast over Yale QB's honor
Patrick Witt, the 22-year-old Yale quarterback who made headlines in November when he chose to lead Yale against arch rival Harvard University over an interview for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship may not have been faced with that tough choice after all.
30) Gingrich funder brings additional baggage
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul bankrolling Newt Gingrich’s super PAC isn’t trying to “buy” a presidency, his top political consultant tells NBC News.
31) Southwest employee killed in airport accident
A Southwest Airlines employee at Washington Dulles International Airport died on Friday after being injured in a collision with a luggage cart and another piece of equipment.
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33) Video: Adorable 7-year-old wows with presidential knowledge
A young boy in Florida with an amazing memory is showing off his knowledge of the US presidents on YouTube. WESH's Amanda Ober reports. (NBC News)
34) Golden Triangle: Who killed 13 sailors?
As China expands its influence on the Mekong River, it is encroaching on a region dominated for decades by a much more profitable trade: narcotics.
35) Tight-fisted mortgage lenders pressure home sales
Home prices have fallen by a third since the 2006, creating tremendous bargains for home buyers. Mortgage rates are at rock-bottom lows, making houses more affordable than they have been in decades.
36) FDA detains some OJ from Brazil for fungicide
U.S. health regulators said on Friday that they had detained three shipments of Brazilian orange juice, and six from Canada, that tested positive for the fungicide carbendazim.
37) 'The Grey' serves up howling good thrills
Liam Neeson's "The Grey" is a man's-man of a genre pic that will satisfy the action audience.
38) Kim Kardashian tweets Cher death hoax
Reality show star spread the hoax to her 12 million followers.
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40) They want to be buried in a pet cemetery
Richard Harris and his wife have four dogs buried at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York's Westchester County, one waiting to be interred, and three more living with them who will eventually be laid to rest there. He and his wife plan to join them.
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42) Obama's Chrysler on eBay — yours for $1 million
President Obama is on cruise control toward his party’s nomination to run for reelection, but Tim O’Brien is hoping to capitalize on Obama’s old cruise-mobile — a 2005 Chrysler 300C
43) Student receives free cocaine with Amazon textbook order
Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. Usually they come in the form of messy scribbles, but in one student's case the unexpected gift-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.
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45) 50-year-old woman chases, corners, lectures robber
A 50-year-old woman gives a robber a religious lecture after chasing him for almost a mile and cornering him in an alley, according to the Chicago Tribune.
46) School bans Locks of Love teen for too-long hair
The 17-year-old, who had been treated for cancer and said he now wants to grow his hair to give to Locks of Love -- a charity that provides wigs for kids who lose their hair due to chemotherapy and other treatments -- has been suspended from his Michigan school.
47) Ship carrying rocket parts, hits Ky. bridge
State officials are inspecting what's left of a southwestern Kentucky bridge that collapsed after a cargo ship carrying aviation parts struck it.