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Police evicted two dozen Amazon natives on Friday from an old Indian museum that will be demolished to clear areas adjacent to Brazil’s legendary Maracana soccer stadium, the main venue for next year’s World Cup. Mana Rabiee reports.

Violence broke out during a stand-off between police and Brazil’s Amazon tribes in Rio Friday. It happened as police tried to evict Amazon natives living in a former Indian museum. The museum is next to the iconic Maracana stadium, the main venue when Rio hosts the 2014 World Cup. It’s scheduled for demolition to make space for construction projects ahead of the games. But Indigenous people have lived on the abandoned complex for years and have resisted its demolition. Supporters outside clashed with riot police who used teargas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. The tribes are caught in a drawn-out legal battle over the site. Tobi, an Indian chief, was angry the lawyer representing them wasn’t there to help. SOUNDBITE: Indian Chief Tobi saying (Portuguese): “The man who should be here isn’t here today. The man who robbed from us isn’t here. Where is the lawyer thief? He’s not here!” At least five people were arrested. Brazil is under pressure to have facilities for the World Cup ready in time for dress rehearsal games in June.

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The Florida Parole Commission told the I-Team that although its decision to bring him back is discretionary, it doesn’t consider his time in Nevada.

“He was convicted in Florida,” said Jane Tillman of the Florida Parole Commission. “He was released and placed in supervision to follow as part of his sentence. He absconded, he never showed up for his supervision and therefore he’s being brought back to the state of Florida to serve 1,189 days with the Florida Department of Corrections.

That’s another three plus years in a Florida prison.

“He spent almost 21 years in custody for something he didn’t do,” Norwood said. “Why should he have to go across the country to spend another three years in Florida for something else, something that would’ve been resolved a long time ago if it weren’t for the fact of a wrongful conviction.”

Florida has until early April to transport Steese. If it fails to do so, Steese may finally get to go home.

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The new Arkansas law restricts access to abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, the latest move in a new strategy by abortion opponents. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.

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Meanwhile, Illinois governor Pat Quinn just sign a law allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Handan, located in Hebei province, has seen its primary water supply cut off since Saturday afternoon. The move followed an accident in nearby Shanxi Province in which industrial chemicals spilled into the Zhanghe River, Xinhua news agency quoted local officials as saying.

A loose drainage valve at an industrial plant in the city of Lucheng resulted in nine tons of the chemical Aniline spilling into the river. An additional 30 tons of the chemical were contained in a disused reservoir.

Aniline, which is used as a precursor in the manufacture of pigments, herbicides and polyurethane, can be toxic to humans.

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