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Senator John McCain has won the Republican primary in Florida. Hillary Clinton won easily in the Democratic race.The St. Petersburg Times ia a good spot for local reporting on the Florida results.

Margaret Truman Daniel died on Tuesday after a brief illness. Here’s how some major papers sum up her life:”Margaret Truman Daniel, 83, President Harry Truman’s only child, a mystery novelist whose early efforts as a singer famously led her father to threaten an unkind critic with a punch to the nose…” -The Chicago Tribune

After Caroline Kennedy’s recent endorsement of Barack Obama, some blogs commented that Kennedy “dropped her married name” to give the endorsement. This aroused our curiosity.Who2 has itself always listed Kennedy by what we believed to be her legal name, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. (She married businessman Edwin A. Schlossberg in 1986.)

The newspapers of Perth, Australia — hometown of Heath Ledger — continue to offer heavy coverage of the actor’s death.PerthNow, the local NewsCorp website, has a very busy story archive, with recent reports suggesting Ledger may have died of natural causes.

Democrat Barack Obama has won his party’s South Carolina primary with 55 percent of the vote. Obama also won a symbolic victory in Sunday’s New York Times: Caroline Kennedy endorsed him in an op-ed piece titled “A President Like My Father.” She is the daughter of former president John F. Kennedy.

Maria Sharapova has won the 2008 Australian Open. She defeated Ana Ivanovic, 7-5 and 6-3. It’s her third major singles tennis title, after Wimbledon in 2004 and the U.S. Open in 2006.

Mary Lou Retton turns 40 today.She was the first woman to appear on the front of a Wheaties box, says the cereal’s fun facts page. It happened in 1984. Babe Didrikson was the first woman athlete to appear on the package — in 1935.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember the days when amateur athletes were top dogs.The New York Times reports on Joe Burk, who “won honors on Thames and Pacific.” Dude rowed and played football at Penn, was a single-scull champ afterwards, then won the Navy Cross on a PT boat in World War II.

With Jenna Bush engaged to be married, this seems like as good a time as any to clarify a fact about her past: Jenna and her twin sister Barbara were born in Dallas.

Stunning news from New York: actor Heath Ledger, the star of the movies Brokeback Mountain and A Knight’s Tale, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday afternoon.