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NY considers help to victims of child prostitution (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:50:40 +0800

Rachel Lloyd, left, founder and executive director of Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS), a nonprofit that helps girls avoid or escape sexual exploitation, speaks to one of the group members, Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in New York. New York, and many other states, have sought to prosecute sexually exploited youth. State laws generally contradict the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which defines sex trafficking as a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud or coercion — or involving a minor. Child advocates want state laws to reflect federal law. 'This is a billion dollar industry that targets some o! f the most vulnerable children in the state,' said Lloyd 'Adults are out there looking for vulnerable kids and criminalization is not the solution ... when in any other case this would be statutory rape.' A new bill N.Y. Gov. Paterson is reviewing would help child prostitutes avoid harsh prosecution. They would be treated as victims and get services to help escape exploitation in the sex trade. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Tiffany was 12 when her mother died. That was the same year she ran away from her sister's house, lived on the streets for six weeks and met the man who two days later became her pimp.


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Western govs hope to sway future energy policy (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:46:11 +0800

AP - Citing a lack of federal leadership, the nation's Western governors want to draft a national energy policy they hope will influence the next presidential administration.

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Ex-con suspected in deaths of 8 captured in Ill. (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:45:03 +0800

A photo released Tuesday, July 1, 2008, by the FBI shows Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, of Sterling, Ill., a man authorities said may be connected to a string of eight killings in Illinois and Missouri. Sheley, 28, an ex-convict who police believe killed eight people in two states and who was the subject of a multistate manhunt was caught Tuesday evening July 1, 2008 in southwestern Illinois, authorities said. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings has ended with the man quietly arrested outside a bar known as a police hangout.


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Calif's hands-free cell law for drivers in effect (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:26:57 +0800

A man talks on his cell phone while driving in Los Angeles, Monday June 30, 2008 prior to a hands-free cellphone law that takes effect July 1. California's crackdown is part of a nationwide movement to get drivers' attention focused on the road rather than their conversations and their gadgets. Lawmakers in 33 states have introduced 127 bills related to driver distraction this year alone, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)AP - Millions of California motorists have had to put down their cell phones or risk a ticket as a new law takes effect requiring hands! -free devices for those behind the wheel.


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Jail guards investigated in Md. inmate's death (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:12:56 +0800

This June 28, 2008 image provided by the Prince George's County Department of Corrections shows Ronnie White. Maryland authorities say the death of White, 19, found slumped in his prison cell, was a homicide, a day after his arrest for running over and killing a Prince George's County police officer. The Maryland Medical Examiner ruled Monday, June 30, 2008 that White died from asphyxiation and strangulation. (AP Photo/Prince George's County Department of Corrections)AP - A man arrested in the hit-and-run death of a police officer was found strangled in his cell, and investigators focused Tuesday on guards at the suburb! an Maryland jail, which has a history of security lapses.


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Ill. Democrats face off in rare impeachment fight (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:03:08 +0800

In this Jan. 12, 2008 file photo, Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, acknowledges applause before being sworn in again as House Speaker while on the House floor at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Fighting between Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Madigan over the state budget and related issues have led to two long stalemates at the state Capitol and a lawsuit over special sessions. Madigan, in fact, refuses to meet with the two-term governor for any reason. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, file)AP - Three of the state's governors have served time. Scores of legislators and aldermen have gotten into legal trouble ov! er the years. But Illinois politicians haven't seriously considered impeaching one of their own — until now.


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Smoky air leaves Californians straining to breathe (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:04:47 +0800

Haze from smoke obscures a home, sitting on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, near the Burns Creek bridge as a part of the Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur, Calif. on Tuesday July 1, 2008. Airborne ash from the hundreds of lightning-sparked fires have caused a spike in air pollution in the area. (AP Photo/Phil Klein)AP - California's raging wildfires have created a smoky haze so stifling that some doctors in the state's landlocked farm country say their waiting rooms have been crowding with patients struggling to breathe amid the soot-laden air.


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Ship pilot to retire as probe into crash continues (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:22:02 +0800

In this April, 4, 2008 file photo, Capt. John Cota is shown outside the Federal Building in San Francisco. Cota who was piloting the Cosco Busan when it struck a bridge support spilling 53,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay has decided to retire rather than testify in an upcoming legal proceeding. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)AP - A container ship pilot will retire rather than testify at a hearing on his conduct when a vessel he was piloting struck a bridge support tower last year, creating the worst oil spill in San Francisco Bay in nearly two decades.


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Stepfather of missing Vt. girl to face fed charge (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:52:14 +0800

Vermont State Police Col. James Baker and FBI Special Agent John Pikus attend a news conference in Bethel, Vt., Tuesday, July 1, 2008 about the missing 12-year-old Brooke Bennett. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - The former stepfather of a missing Vermont girl was arrested and authorities said Tuesday he would be charged with obstructing justice for destroying evidence.


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Video shows woman dying on Brooklyn hospital floor (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:41:53 +0800

In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green, top right, sits in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body, but made no visible attempt to see if she needed help. Within an hour she was dead. (AP Photo/New York Civil Liberties Union)AP - City hospital officials agreed in! court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.


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Sept. 11 memorial head wants to open by 9/11/11 (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:27:24 +0800

This 2005 file artist's rendering provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shows the planned transit hub designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for the World Trade Center site in New York. The World Trade Center's owner on Monday, June 30, 2008, proposed scrapping the schedule and budget for the prolonged rebuilding of the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying nearly every project is delayed and over budget and that previous estimates 'are not realistic.' The transit hub, once budgeted at $2.2 billion, presents some of the greatest rebuilding obstacles and now estimates for it have soared a! s high as $3.4 billion. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, File)AP - The head of the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial told supporters Tuesday it's "essential" to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, disputing a report that the project couldn't be finished on time.


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Fla. holds 1st execution since botched method (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:15:35 +0800

Family members of 11 year-old-boy Junny Rios-Martinez comfort each other following the execution of Mark Dean Schwab who kidnapped, raped and murder the 11-yr-old Cocoa, Fla. boy. The execution was carried out in Starke, Fla. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP - Florida on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection procedure prompted the state to revamp the way it conducts capital punishment.


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June car sales plummet for nearly all automakers (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:49:49 +0800

Finished 2008 Ford Focus vehicles roll down the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company's Wayne Stamping and Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, October 15, 2007. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)AP - Nearly all the major automakers reported steep sales declines for June, but for General Motors at least there was consolation: Toyota, its leading international competition, had it worse.


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Recovery begins slowly for flooded river towns (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:43:28 +0800

Visitors explore the riverfront as the Mississippi River flows out of its banks Monday, June 30, 2008, in St. Louis. The Mississippi River was reaching its high-water mark at St. Louis on Monday, and crests were still expected over the next couple of days down river. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Some towns along the Mississippi River are beginning the slow task of recovery, even as water remains high.


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Letter writer boasts of killing pregnant soldier (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:18:45 +0800

This undated photo, supplied by the U.S. Army, shows Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, 23, whose body was found Saturday morning, June 21, 2008, in a Fayetteville, N.C., motel room. Authorities are investigating the death of Touma who was seven months pregnant after her body was found at the motel. The Fayetteville Police Department called the death suspicious. (AP Photo/US Army-Fort Bragg)AP - A pregnant soldier lay dead in the bathtub. Reportedly scrawled on the motel-room mirror in lipstick was a crosshair design — the same symbol contained in a letter that arrived at the local newspaper four days later.


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Ex-death row inmate in Tennessee to be released (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:13:15 +0800

AP - A former Tennessee death row inmate is scheduled to be freed from prison on bail for the first time in nearly 23 years.

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Police: NY man dies after assault at softball game (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:33:59 +0800

AP - A softball player accused of fatally punching a rival team member after a recreational league game spent more than four years in prison for battering a man with a golf club, according to state records.

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Lawsuit filed over Atlanta airport barring guns (AP)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:29:13 +0800

Roanoke Firearms store owner John Markell holds a Glock 19 handgun, in 2007 in Roanoke, Virginia. The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that individual Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms, ending a ban on owning handguns in the capital in its first ruling on gun rights in 70 years.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AP - The nation's busiest airport dueled with gun rights advocates Tuesday over whether a new Georgia state law allows visitors to carry firearms at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.


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