| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Dozens of birds found dead in AR town | | For the second year in a row, dozens of blackbirds died overnight Saturday in Beebe, Arkansas, apparently after being startled by New Year's Eve fireworks, an official with the state's Game and Fish Commission said Sunday. |
| More states allow same-sex civil unions | | Several same-sex couples came together in the first minutes of New Year's Day in Honolulu to become the first in the state's history to enter into civil unions. |
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