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NJ restaurateur moonlights as unofficial diplomat (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:45:22 +0800

AP - The owner of a northern New Jersey barbecue restaurant has a lot to say about what's happening in North Korea. That's because he's hosted North Korean diplomats for year! s and traveled several times to the restricted nation to do his part for world peace.

New meaning for San Francisco gay pride parade (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:30:28 +0800

AP - Move over Dykes on Bikes. Here come the brides and grooms. Given San Francisco's sizable role in initiating the lawsuits that led California's highest court to strike down the state's bans on same-sex marriag! e, the city's 38th annual gay pride festival and parade is likely to draw huge crowds this weekend, tourism officials say.

Calif entrepreneur auctioning off 200 classic cars (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:20:23 +0800

AP - As he prepares to watch his treasured 1940 Howard Hughes Cadillac and hundreds of other meticulously maintained automobiles be driven right out the door, broadcasting pioneer Art Astor is realizing a piece of his heart will be leaving with them.

Burrowing muskrat causes levee to fail in Missouri (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:54:36 +0800

AP - A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday undone by a burrowing muskrat.

Storms kill 2, halt Olympic hopefuls' practice (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:46:43 +0800

AP - Superstar swimmer Michael Phelps and his Club Wolverine teammates were headed for an afternoon practice for the U.S. Olympic trials when the tornado sirens sounded.

NRA sues to overturn S.F. gun ban in city housing (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:33:39 +0800

AP - The National Rifle Association sued the city of San Francisco on Friday to overturn its ban on handguns in public housing, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the nation's capital.

Calif. man gets prison for burning Burning Man (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:07:46 +0800

AP - A San Francisco performance artist was sentenced Friday to as many as four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for the early torching last summer of the signature effigy o! f the counterculture Burning Man festival.

Calif. firefighters dig in to protect Big Sur (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:35:51 +0800

AP - Firefighters bulked up their defenses Friday against a wildfire that threatened parts of this storied tourist town and prepared for more lightning strikes that could ignite new fires across Northern California.

2nd NY millionaire gets prison in slavery case (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:24:45 +0800

AP - A millionaire convicted of helping his wife keep two Indonesian housekeepers as virtual slaves was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison, ending a trial that shed light on the often little-seen exploitation and abuse of domestic workers.

NY policeman charged after woman body-slammed (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:59:19 +0800

AP - A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations.

This summer may see first ice-free North Pole (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:40:22 +0800

AP - There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says.

Va. judge: church secession law is constitutional (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:34:16 +0800

AP - Eleven conservative Episcopal churches won a legal victory Friday when a circuit court judge upheld a Virginia law allowing congregations to vote to secede from their parent denominations.

Court overturns injunction on S.D. abortion law (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:30:34 +0800

AP - A federal appeals court ruled that South Dakota can begin enforcing a law requiring doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life.

N.O. levees squeezed by Congress' demand for cash (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:27:35 +0800

AP - The goal to raise levees and build large-scale flood defenses around this flood-torn city could be delayed indefinitely because of congressional demands that Louisiana chip in $1.8 billion to the effort over three years.

Scruggs gets 5 years in prison in bribery scheme (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:22:11 +0800

AP - Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, who became one of the wealthiest civil lawsuit attorneys in the country by taking on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge.

Drunken driver gets 43 years for killing mom, kids (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:33:34 +0800

AP - A Michigan man was sentenced to 43 years in prison Friday for driving the wrong way on an interstate and slamming his pickup truck into a minivan, killing a Maryland mother and four children who were returning home from a Christmas trip.

US officials try faux speed bumps to slow drivers (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:23:15 +0800

AP - Cathy Campbell did a double-take and tapped the brakes when she spotted what appeared to be a pointy-edged box lying in the road just ahead.

Gripe about your neighbor on RottenNeighbor.com (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:04:44 +0800

AP - Just outside his sealed bedroom window, beyond the chain-link fence that surrounds his next-door neighbor's yard, sit the reasons David Adams says he can't sleep: two bushy-tailed dogs that bark and howl all night.

Border fence would cut through Texas university (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:46:29 +0800

AP - The steel fence that the U.S. government wants to build along the Mexican border would do more than slice through the University of Texas' Brownsville campus and cut off the golf course from the rest of the school.

Miami's mayor goes green, takes on national role (AP)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:02:46 +0800

AP - It's a hot mid-afternoon and Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is standing on the terrace of a downtown hotel that overlooks a row of swaying palm trees, graceful sailboats and the aquamarine waters of Biscayne Bay.

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