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The investment bank's profits dropped 21 percent in the first quarter, compared with the same quarter last year. Its earnings per share took an even bigger hit — down more than 70 percent from last year. That's still better than what Wall Street analysts were expecting. "We are pleased with the results," Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said.

Thousands turned out in Orange Park, Fla., for an Easter egg drop sponsored by Elevate Live Church. The helicopter had to make three trips to unload all 20,000 plastic eggs.

When a Florida unemployment agency launched a "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" to its "Everyday Superheroes" campaign, it ordered 6,000 capes to hand out to the jobless. The gimmick included a cartoon villain: Dr. Evil Unemployment. The Orlando Sentinel reports jobless clients aren't the only ones wondering why the agency spent $14,000 on capes.

A bill to expand the state’s bear hunting season ignited a passionate debate from agriculture producers and animal rights groups on Monday.  Proponents say it’ll help curb the growing bear population, but opponents worry the measure could harm female bears and orphan cubs. 

William Donald Schaefer, the famously feisty mayor of Baltimore and later the governor of Maryland, died Monday at the age of 89. As mayor, he used any method he could to transform a crumbling, post-industrial Baltimore into a tourist destination.