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Wildfire threatens 500 homes in Big Sur, Calif. (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:32:08 +0800

Haze from a series of wildfires covers the San Francisco skyline on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Fire crews from Nevada and Oregon have arrived to help California firefighters battle hundreds of blazes that are darkening the sky over the San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley, leading public health officials to issue air-quality warnings.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - A lightning-sparked wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that already burned 16 homes was moving closer Thursday to the scenic community of Big Sur, where it threatened 500 houses.


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Air Force officer acquitted of rape at Texas base (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:13:22 +0800

This Friday, Oct. 1, 2004 photo provided Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Sheppard Air Force Base shows Col. Samuel Lofton III, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Lofton, who was the 82nd Training Group commander, is charged in a court-martial with rape, four counts of indecent assault and two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. (AP Photo/Sheppard Air Force Base)AP - As the verdicts were read, a woman who had accused Col. Samuel Lofton of rape darted from the courtroom.


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Unbowed, politicians vow to execute child rapists (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:46:49 +0800

The U.S. Supreme Court in a file photo. The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday the death penalty cannot be imposed for child rape, its first decision in more than 30 years on whether a crime other than murder can be punished by execution. REUTERS/FileAP - Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional.


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Oil spill ruling leaves Alaska victims stunned (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:42:09 +0800

In this June 23, 1989 file photo. the Exxon Valdez is pictured being towed out of Prince William Sound in Alaska by a tug boat and a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. The court ruled that victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history may collect punitive damages from Exxon Mobil Corp., but not as much as a federal appeals court determined.  (AP Photo/Al Gillo, File)AP - Mike Lytle, a third-generation fisherman from the coastal village of Cordova, said many residents there w! ere walking around stunned, shaking their heads.


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Argument spurs Kentucky worker to kill 5, himself (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:34:16 +0800

Workers with American Enviro-Services clean up an area surrounded by crime scene tape in front of the Atlantis Plastics plant in Henderson, Ky., where an employee shot and killed five people at the plant in Henderson before killing himself early Wednesday, June 25, 2008. (AP Photo / Evansville Courier & Press, Erin McCracken)AP - It was swift and chaotic, witnesses said, as the plastics plant worker with a determined look opened fire, killing five co-workers then himself in rural western Kentucky.


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Briton convicted of murdering wife, baby in Mass. (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:11:54 +0800

Neil Entwistle, right, talks with his defense attorneys Elliot Weinstein, left, and Stephanie Page after the jury was sent to deliberate his fate at his murder trial at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Mass., Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Entwistle, born in England, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Rachel, and infant daughter, Lillian, in their Hopkinton, Mass., home in January 2006. (AP Photo/Matt Stone, Pool)AP - For more than two years, Neil Entwistle told the same story: He came home from running errands and found his wife and baby daughter cuddled in bed, dead from apparent g! unshot wounds.


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3 LA women plead not guilty to boy's torture (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:55:45 +0800

From left to right in orange jumpsuits, Krystal Matthews, Starkeisha Brown, and La Tanya Jones, appear in Los Angeles County court Wednesday, June 25, 2008, in Compton, Calif. The three South Los Angeles women pleaded not guilty to burning, starving and beating a 5-year-old boy who is Brown's son. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - Three women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to child abuse and other charges involving a 5-year-old boy who was burned, starved and beaten.


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Rural deputy pay low despite big duties, dangers (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:49:43 +0800

This undated file photo, supplied by the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy, shows Grundy County, Tenn., sheriff's  deputy Shane Tate when he attended the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy. Tate, 28, was shot and killed early Thursday morning, June 5, 2008, while serving a warrant for a probation violation. Deputies are the law in most unincorporated areas across the country, escorting prisoners, acting as courtroom bailiffs, riding patrol and investigating crime. Yet those in rural counties typically make a fraction of what state troopers and city police officers earn, often with no health insurance or other benefits.  (AP Photo/T!  ennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy, file)AP - Grundy County sheriff's deputy Shane Tate, a father of five, was making $10.50 an hour when he was gunned down in the line of duty.


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No-fishing zones studied for ecosystem protection (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:30:33 +0800

The research vessel Spree passes near old dock pilings Thursday, June 5, 2008 in Dry Tortugas National Park, Fla. Researchers are studying whether putting large tracts of ocean off-limits to fishing in the Keys can help species rebound and prove a way to help reverse the effects of overfishing worldwide. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - Reeling in a 45-pound grouper used to be just an average day on the water in the Florida Keys.


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Heavy security as grand jury looks into Texas sect (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:47:05 +0800

Ruth, 34, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, covers her face as she tells reporters about being separated from her four children outside of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas April 24, 2008. Over 400 children were removed from the FLDS polygamist compound in West Texas and are being transported to foster homes across the state. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiAP - Women and girls in prairie dresses entered a courthouse surrounded by dozens of law enforcement officers in this tiny ranching hamlet Wednesday as a grand jury opened its investigation into a polygamist sect accused of forcing underage girls into marriage and motherhood.!


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Some lawmakers angered by death penalty ruling (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:38:23 +0800

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during a news conference as Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La.,  Senator David Vitter, left,  R-La, and Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., look on at Capitol Hill Wednesday June 18, 2008.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - The efforts of nearly a dozen states to execute child rapists were derailed Wednesday by a Supreme Court decision that incensed supporters of such punishment. Officials in at least two states said they weren't ready to give up.


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Minn. courthouse attacker long at odds with officials (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:24:29 +0800

AP - Gordon Wheeler Sr. clashed for years with Morrison County officials over the strip club and porn shop he once operated, but he wasn't known as a violent man. So when he took a seat in the back row at a commissioners meeting, nobody paid much attention.

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US panel endorses 2nd vaccine for kids' virus (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:10:18 +0800

AP - A federal advisory panel has endorsed a second vaccine to combat a common and potentially fatal virus that causes diarrhea and vomiting in children.

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Leonid Hurwicz, oldest Nobel winner, dies at 90 (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:52:52 +0800

Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel economics prize winner  poses Oct. 15, 2007, in Minneapolis. Hurwicz, 90, is the oldest Nobel winner ever, according to the academy. The Moscow-born researcher is an emeritus economics professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.    Hurwicz, who shared the prize for developing a theory that helps explain how buyers and sellers can maximize their gains, died Tuesday, June 24, 2008. He was 90.(AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Leonid Hurwicz, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last year for developing a theory that helps explain how buyers and sellers can maximize their gains, has died at age 90, a s! pokesman said Wednesday.


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New 'slides' and sandboils confound flood fighters (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:36:57 +0800

Bob Scott stands in his backyard as he tries to figure out what to do about a broken pump keeping floodwater from the Cuivre River out of his house Wednesday, June 25, 2008, in Old Monroe, Mo. Scott was able to get a loaner pump from the Old Monroe Fire Department helping his situation. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Crews laboring to strengthen fortifications along the swollen Mississippi tackled new dirt slides and seepages on a fragile earthen levee Wednesday as forecasters said more heavy rain could cause a second round of big crests.


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Judge says Navy SEAL's confession is credible (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:24:29 +0800

AP - A confession by a former Navy SEAL trainee convicted of killing a Georgia college student is credible, a judge ruled Wednesday, bolstering an effort to exonerate the trainee's co-defendant.

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18 suicides reported in national parks this year (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:02:36 +0800

AP - Having mailed a farewell letter to his family back in Minnesota, Jerry O. Wolff stepped off a shuttle bus on a sunny Sunday morning and disappeared into Utah's rugged Canyonlands National Park.

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Corn farmers' hopes are dashed by the flood (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:32:42 +0800

Bill Talsma walks across one of his flood damaged corn fields, Saturday, June 21, 2008, near Colfax, Iowa.  Flooding destroyed nearly a quarter of the crop Talsma and his brother were growing on 9,000 acres in central Iowa, and soaking rains damaged the rest. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - This year's corn crop was Bill Talsma's lottery ticket — a potentially record-setting haul worth millions.


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Health insurance lags most in Southwest, CDC says (AP)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:04:39 +0800

AP - The Southwest has the lowest rate of health insurance coverage in the country, with 30 percent of non-elderly adults and 18 percent of children uninsured, according to a new government study.

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