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Wildfire chases July 4th visitors from Big Sur (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:33:47 +0800

A helicopter drops water on a brush fire in the San Bernardino National Forest near Yucaipa, Calif. on Thursday, July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - Independence Day is normally a booming time for tourism here, with visitors settling into cliffside vacation homes or trekking out to campgrounds nestled among the redwoods. But this year, the only out-of-towners in Big Sur are firefighters working around the clock to save the storied community from flames.


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Auction house seeks to sell Rosa Parks collection (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:41:00 +0800

This undated photo provided by New York City auction house Guernsey's, shows a hat believed to have been worn by Rosa Parks the day in December 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. Guernsey's has been asked by a Wayne County, Mich., probate court judge in Detroit to find a buyer, preferably a museum, university or other institution for thousands of Parks' personal items. Among them are her presidential and congressional medals, a post card from Martin Luther King Jr., and the hat shown. (AP Photo/Guernsey's, ho)AP - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took on! e of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.


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NY researcher: `Yankee Doodle' turns 250 - maybe (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:40:16 +0800

A mural depicting a fife and drum corps greets visitors to Rensselaer, N.Y., Thursday, June 26, 2008 A state archaeologist believes he has narrowed down the date when Dr. Richard Shuckburgh, a British army physician, penned the lyrics to 'Yankee Doodle.' As the story goes, Shuckburgh wrote the lyrics at Fort Crailo, in Rensselaer, after being amused by the sloppy drill and appearance of New England militiamen. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.


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Freed US hostages, families reuniting in Texas (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:07:27 +0800

Freed hostage and military contractors, Marc Gonzalves, center with cap, and Thomas Howes in flight suit to the right arrive at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The U.S. military contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell — were held for five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. They were part of 15 hostages rescued from the FARC rebels in Columbia. (AP PHOTO/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara) MAGS OUT NO SALES SAN ANTONIO OUTAP - Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they've been absent from for more than five years.


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Details emerge in capture of killing spree suspect (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:31:45 +0800

Knox County authorities escort Nicholas Sheley into the Knox County Courthouse, Thursday July 3, 2008 in Galesburg, Ill.. Nicholas Sheley appeared in circuit court Thursday in Galesburg, where he's charged in the beating death of 65-year-old Ronald Randall. Sheley waived his right to a public defender, indicating he'd hire his own attorney. (AP Photo/The Register-Mail, Bill Gaither)AP - As the hunt wound down for the man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in two states, a disheveled Nicholas T. Sheley walked calmly into a Subway restaurant in suburban St. Louis, asked to use the phone and ca! lled his lawyer — all but ensuring his capture.


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Prosecutors: Deception ran deep in Vt. kidnapping (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:29:08 +0800

Michael Stephen Jacques, 42, of Randolph Center appears Monday, June 30, 2008 in Chelsea District Court in Chelsea, Vt. for his arraignment for aggravated sexual assault on a minor.Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body Wednesday July 2, 2008 from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert. (AP Photo/Pool, Times Argus, Stefan Hard)AP - A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they cha! rged him with kidnapping.


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Federal judge orders 2 Marines released from jail (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:12 +0800

AP - A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., has ordered two Marines released from jail despite their refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating the alleged killing of Iraqi detainees in 2004.

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Father without baby sitter accused of caging kids (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:47:20 +0800

A booking photo released July 3, 2008, by the Posen Police Department in Posen, Ill., shows Ricardo Gonzalez, 35, of Midlothian, Ill. Gonzalez was arrested after officials say a woman spotted him pushing a child's hands back into a cage at a gas station in Posen on Monday, June 30, 2008. Police say Gonzalez admitted he locked his girls, ages 2 and 5, in a cage to control them. He faces charges of misdemeanor child endangerment. (AP Photo/Posen Police Department)AP - A suburban Chicago man locked his two young daughters in a wire cage hidden in the back of his pickup truck because he didn't have a baby sitter, officials said Thursday.


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Tropical Storm Bertha forms in the Atlantic (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:20:26 +0800

Tropical Storm Bertha is seen near western Africa in a NOAA satellite photo taken July 3, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)AP - Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.


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Young offenders in SF illegally get no more break (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:17:38 +0800

In this Tuesday, March 25, 2008 file picture, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom addresses the Sacramento Press Club in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom, a Democrat best known for challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage early in his first term, filed papers on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 to form an exploratory committee so he can start raising money and conducting polls for a possible gubernatorial campaign. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor ! Gavin Newsom said Thursday.


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July 4th boaters: Steer clear of NJ dolphin family (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:57:43 +0800

Boaters look on as dolphins swim in the Shrewsbury River Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Sea Bright, N.J. The group of 15 dolphins who have taken up residence in a river near the Jersey Shore will be allowed to stay there through the July Fourth holiday weekend, even though a nearby fireworks display draws heavy boat traffic. Patrols will enforce a perimeter around the dolphins throughout the holiday weekend, state police Sgt. Stephen Jones said. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Authorities protecting a dolphin family in a New Jersey river are stepping up enforcement over the July Fourth holiday.


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Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:59:16 +0800

AP - A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall's presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn't see the humor.

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3 burned by steam in Louisiana refinery accident (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:11:23 +0800

AP - Louisiana authorities say three people are being treated for burns after a steam accident at a ConocoPhillips Co. refinery.

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Texas man freed by DNA after 15 years in prison (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:29:27 +0800

The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in court that his conviction of a crime that sent him to jail for more than 15 years was being overturned in Criminal Court District 2 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Dallas. Waller is the 19th man in Dallas County since 2001 shown by DNA evidence to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The Innocence Project in New York says that's a national high. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison ! after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man.


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Judge in NY scolds hedge fund scammer who ran away (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:45:48 +0800

Fugitive investor Samuel Israel leaves U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass., after turning himself to authorities on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Israel walked into the police station in Southwick, Mass., Wednesday morning and said he was a fugitive wanted by the federal government, officials said. Israel disappeared June 9 just hours before he was to report to prison in Massachusetts to begin serving a 20-year sentence handed down in April for his role in the collapse of the Bayou hedge funds. (AP Photo/The Springfield Republican, Christopher Evans)AP - A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death an! d spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to do himself in than turn himself in.


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Some psych patients wait days in hospital ERs (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:09:02 +0800

In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green lies face down on the floor 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 - When staffers ! at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm.


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Utah going to 4-day workweek to reduce energy costs (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:15:33 +0800

Mayor Glenn Barrow, 55, conducts business in the town's city hall building Tuesday, July 1, 2008, in Hooper City, Utah. Barrow's regular job is with the Utah Department of Human Services. With the governor mandating that state employees must work a four-day week to cut expenses, Barrow's part-time job as mayor may not be possible due to a conflict in work hours. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday."


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DC native finds calling in Fourth of July history (AP)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:12:44 +0800

James R. Heintze, a Librarian Emeritus at American University, and author of the book, The Fourth of July Encyclopedia, poses for a portrait at the university library in Washington Tuesday, July 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Historian James Heintze can tick off colorful accounts of how the nation has celebrated the Fourth of July over the years: In the 19th century, canons fired, church bells sounded and fireworks exploded.


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