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PILOT DIES AFTER AIR FORCE PLANES COLLIDE: An Air Force fighter pilot died Wednesday after his jet and another likely collided during a training exercise and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The other pilot was rescued and is expected to survive.

The single-seat F-15C Eagles crashed Wednesday off the Florida Panhandle, said Col. Todd Harmer, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing, 58th Fighter Squadron. The pilots had ejected and were later rescued.

SUPREME COURT BROADENS GROUNDS FOR 401(K) SUITS: The Supreme Court handed workers a major victory Wednesday by allowing them to sue over mismanagement of their 401(k) retirement accounts, a ruling that could affect more than 50 million employees with nearly $3 trillion invested in the popular plans.

The unanimous holding reverses a lower court decision that had barred individuals from suing over losses related to mistakes and misconduct and thus had insulated employers from lawsuits even as more U.S. workers rely on the savings accounts to cushion their retirement.

CLINTON NEEDS LANDSLIDE-SIZED WINS TO ERASE OBAMA'S ADVANTAGE: Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton must win 57 percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates to erase Barack Obama's lead, a daunting task requiring landslide-sized victories by a struggling presidential candidate.

Obama's victories in Wisconsin and Hawaii on Tuesday - his ninth and 10th in a row - left him with 1,178 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses in The Associated Press' count. Clinton has 1,024.

Another 1,025 remain to be awarded, most of them in contests in 14 states, Guam and Puerto Rico. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.

Further complicating Clinton's challenge, Obama appears particularly well-positioned to win at least one of the remaining states with ease. Mississippi, with a primary on March 11, fits a pattern of Southern states with large black populations that he has won handily, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

STROKES AMONG MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN TRIPLE: Strokes have tripled in recent years among middle-aged women in the U.S., an alarming trend doctors blame on the obesity epidemic.

Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the previous survey, from 1988 to 1994.

The percentage is small because most strokes occur in older people. But the sudden spike in middle age and the reasons behind it are ominous, doctors said in research presented Wednesday at a medical conference in New Orleans.

WORLD

IRAQ CEASE-FIRE IN DOUBT: With deadly attacks against U.S. targets increasing around Baghdad, anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the possibility Wednesday that he may not renew a six-month cease-fire widely credited for helping slash violence.

The cease-fire is due to expire Saturday, and there were fears, especially among minority Sunni Arabs, that the re-emergence of al- Sadr's Mahdi Army militia could return Iraq to where it was just a year ago - with sectarian death squads prowling the streets of a country on the brink of civil war.

VILLAGERS RETURN HOME AFTER DEADLY INDONESIAN QUAKE: Villagers on a remote Indonesian island were returning from the hills to repair homes damaged by a powerful earthquake that killed three people and injured more than 50 others, officials said today. Authorities were still tallying the wreckage on Simeule, but early reports said many buildings were damaged or destroyed. At least one major bridge also collapsed, said local government official Nirda Ihsan.

Wednesday's quake had a magnitude of 7.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and was centered under Simeule, which lies off the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Compiled by Nikki Overfelt from wire reportsLOS ANGELES - A state appellate court on Wednesday upheld a renewal of a civil judgment against O.J. Simpson in a decade-old wrongful death lawsuit.