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Tropical depression forms in Pacific Ocean (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:26:06 +0800

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, June 27, 2008 at 1:15 a.m. EDT shows thick clouds in the Plains associated with heavy rain and thunderstorms that continue to move through the region.  Tornado Watches and Severe Thunderstorm Watches are in effect from South Dakota through Kansas. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - A tropical depression has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean, but the National Hurricane Center said there is currently no threat to land.


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Poll: Math, yes; standardized tests, maybe (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:22:22 +0800

In this June 6, 2008 file photo, Roosevelt (Mich.) High School's Cara Smock, left, and Allison Hubble work on geometry. A majority of Americans think schools are placing too much emphasis on the wrong subjects, and more than half think they're doing just a fair job in preparing children for the work force or giving them the practical skills they need to survive as adults, according to an Associated Press poll released Friday. (AP Photo/Amy E. Powers, file)AP - More math, please. A large majority of Americans think schools are placing too much emphasis on the wrong subjects, and more than half think they're doing just a fair job in preparing children for the work force or giving them the practical skills they need to survive as adults, according to an Associated Press poll released Friday.


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LA gas station gets hydrogen fuel pump (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:06:50 +0800

Graeme Sweeney, Shell's Executive Vice President for Future Fuels and CO2, fills a General Motors Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell-electric SUV with hydrogen  Thursday, June 26, 2008, at California's first hydrogen refueling station during a dedication ceremony in Los Angeles. Oil futures shot above $140 Thursday after OPEC's president said crude prices could rise well above $150 a barrel this year and Libya said it may cut oil production.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - City Councilman Bill Rosendahl drove into a corner gas station with a big grin on his face. He stepped out of a sports utility vehicle, pumped fuel into the! tank and declared it "the most joyous moment I've had since being elected to office."


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Gun ban ruling has Chicago thinking it's next (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:54:20 +0800

Donna Cheek, looks out over her neighborhood in the Trinidad area of Washington on Thursday June 26, 2008. Cheek is unhappy that the DC handgun ban was overturned by the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - As news spread of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the handgun ban in Washington, D.C., one thing was clear in Chicago: The city's own ban now faces a challenge as serious as any in its 26-year history.


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Md. mom uses son's Iraq death to help change law (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:12:24 +0800

In this  undated photo provided by the  family,  U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Kendell Frederick, of Randallstown, Md is shown.  Frederick was killed in Iraq Oct. 19, 2005.  President Bush signed into law a bill Thursday June 26, 2008, drafted in honor of Frederick, who was killed in Iraq while traveling to complete an application for U.S. citizenship.(AP Photo/Courtesy of family)AP - U.S. Army Spc. Kendell Frederick lost his life while trying to become a citizen of the country he was fighting for. Now, his mother hopes a bill President Bush signed into law Thursday will make sure no other soldier dies the way her ! son did.


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Officers test laser speed guns to bolster cases (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:10:33 +0800

Officer David Branch, of the Virginia State Police, tracks targets during testing of laser speed detection devices by the Virginia State Police at Ft. Pickett in Blackstone, Va., Tuesday, June 24, 2008.  Officers from throughout the 4th judicial circuit gathered at Fort Pickett Monday through Wednesday to test laser speed measuring devices against other, more widely accepted forms such as radar. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Police officers took aim this week at vehicles zipping down a runway in tests meant to convince judges that laser speed guns — increasingly popular among law enforcement — are as accurate as their radar cousins.


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Free tuition program ends in Mass. with diplomas (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:07:33 +0800

AP - A program that gained national attention in 1991 for offering to pay college tuition for 69 second-graders is closing its doors in Cambridge on Friday.

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Attorney who took on big tobacco faces sentencing (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:56:45 +0800

This April 19, 2006 file photo shows Richard 'Dickie' Scruggs  at his office in Moss Point, Miss. Scruggs, 62, is scheduled to walk into a federal courtroom in Oxford on Friday, June 27, 2008 to face sentencing for his role in a judicial bribery scheme that ended his storied career. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. (AP Photo/Nicole LaCour Young, File)AP - Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, a prominent attorney who took on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday for his role in a high-profile judicial bribery case.


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Principal in pregnancy pact story defends comments (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:18:33 +0800

Carolyn Kirk, mayor of Gloucester, Mass., speaks to members of the media before a meeting, Monday, June 23, 2008 at city hall in Gloucester, Mass. Principal Joseph Sullivan, who first claimed that some of the 17 pregnant girls in his school had made a pact to raise their babies together did not attend the Monday meeting of city leaders on the subject. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - The principal of a Massachusetts high school who said a group of students intentionally got pregnant stood by his comments Thursday, saying his information "was and is accurate."


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Police say teens beat homeless Ohio man to death (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:10:33 +0800

AP - A group of teenagers beat a homeless man to death as passers-by slowed to watch the attack, some of which was caught on videotape, police said.

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Big Sur under threat as Calif. fire edges closer (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:47:09 +0800

Acting Capt. Dave Craddock, of the Salinas Rural fire dept., surveys a fire-ravaged forest in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, June 26, 2008. Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday to protect the scenic community of Big Sur from a lightning-sparked wildfire that inched closer to historic structures after burning at least 16 homes and threatening another 500 houses. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Flames from a huge wildfire burning through a national forest inched toward the scenic tourist town of Big Sur, where firefighters rushed Thursday to protect historic structures and hundreds of homes.


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N.Y. millionaire gets prison for enslaving workers (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:31:22 +0800

In this May 15, 2007 file photo, Varsha Mahender Sabhnani of Muttontown, N.Y., is led out of Nassau County police headquarters in Mineola, N.Y. Sabhnani, 46, a millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion, received an 11-year prison sentence on Thursday, June 26, 2008. Her husband, Mahender Sabhnani, will be sentenced for his role in the case on Friday, June 27.(AP Photo/Howard Schnapp, File)AP - A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 ! years in prison.


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DNA test clears Texas man after 15 years in prison (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:11:35 +0800

AP - A Texas man who has spent more than 15 years in prison for kidnapping and robbery is expected to become the latest wrongly convicted person proved innocent by DNA testing, a prosecutor said Thursday.

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Woman's 'Wing House' takes flight in Malibu (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:06:51 +0800

A crane maneuvers the wing of an old 747 aircraft into position, for the construction of a home, Thursday, June 26, 2008, in the picturesque rolling hills overlooking Malibu, Calif. It represents the realization of a dream for the owner Francie Rehwald. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - The neighborhood already has a house that scientists say looks like a giant atom smasher, and nearby there is another that is perched on a cylindrical tower and looks like a flying saucer. Yet when Francie Rehwald moves into her new digs sometime next year, she'll have them both beat.


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Ky. plant gunman known as friend, troublemaker (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:31:08 +0800

This undated photo provided Wednesday, June 25, 2008 by the Henderson, Ky. Police Dept. shows Wesley Neal Higdon, 25. Police say the man who opened fire at a western Kentucky plastics plant warned his girlfriend two hours before his rampage that he would kill his boss. Higdon fatally shot five co-workers before turning the gun on himself early Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Henderson, Ky. Police Dept)AP - Some in the hometown of a man who opened fire at a plastics plant described him as a "good kid," while others called him a troublemaker and said Thursday that they weren't surprised when he killed himself and five others.

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Texas teen charged in baby's school bathroom death (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:27:30 +0800

AP - A 14-year-old girl who secretly gave birth in a school bathroom was charged with capital murder Thursday by police, who said she killed the newborn by choking and flushing him in the toilet.

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Man found guilty of murders in Calif. rail crash (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:38:04 +0800

This Wednesday, June 18, 2008 file photo shows Juan Alvarez, also known as Juan Manuel Alvarez, as he was being tried for murder for parking his SUV on train tracks, causing a Metrolink derailment that killed 11 and injured over 180 in 2005, in Los Angeles. Alvarez was convicted of murder for all 11 deaths Thursday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)AP - A man who claimed he was attempting suicide when he triggered a 2005 rail disaster was convicted Thursday of 11 counts of first-degree murder and could face the death penalty.


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Notebook shows 2 sides of Briton who killed family (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:30:23 +0800

Neil Entwistle is led into court to listen to impact statements and be read his sentence at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Mass., Thursday, June 26, 2008. Entwistle, born in England, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Rachel, and infant daughter, Lillian, in their Hopkinton, Mass., home in January 2006. He was sentenced to two life prison terms without the opportunity for parole. (AP Photo/Darren McCollester, Pool)AP - On one side of his notebook, a British man convicted of murdering his wife and baby professed love for his "Orange Rose" and "my Lilly." On the! other side, he drafted letters to editors, looking to sell the story of their deaths to the highest bidder.


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Midwestern downpours keep residents out of homes (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:43:33 +0800

Greg Ford hangs a limited entry sign on a flood damaged business after inspecting it, Thursday, June 26, 2008, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Floodwaters receding into the Mississippi River and its tributaries will suck billions of dollars out of the Midwest's economy, though probably not as much as the 1993 flooding that devastated the region. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Strong Midwestern downpours may force residents to wait even longer to return to homes they evacuated because of fears of flooding, emergency management officials said Thursday.


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O.J.: Anybody else wouldn't be going to court (AP)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:19:51 +0800

AP - O.J. Simpson says an ambitious Nevada prosecutor is pressing a kidnapping and armed robbery case against him that he says even the alleged victims don't want to pursue.

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