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Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:34:33 +0800

This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. (AP Photo, file)AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.


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Twin fires raging along California central coast (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:25:32 +0800

A firefighter uses a drip torch to start a backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, July 4, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, mostly ignited by lightning, that have scorched more then 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar)AP - Weary firefighters got no Independence Day reprieve from a pair of out-of-control wildfires that roared along California's central coast, chewing through opposite ends of an arid forest in the Los P! adres National Forest.


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FBI probe latest setback for beleaguered Detroit (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:15:07 +0800

Detroit City Council Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. leads the council during a meeting in Detroit, Monday, June 30, 2008. A mayoral text-messaging sex scandal, federal investigation into a City Council-approved $47 million sludge recycling deal, and poorly run and deficit-plagued public school system have dashed inroads toward respect and reopened Detroit to outside ridicule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.


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Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:56:33 +0800

File image of former Republican Senator Jesse Helms speaking at the Christian Coalition Annual Meeting. (file/Reuters)AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.


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Hundreds remember 9/11 flight crews with sculpture (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:55:07 +0800

AP - On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants and two pilots, rendered in bronze, now care for a traveling child.

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NJ party town relaxes rules on kegs, rude gestures (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:53:43 +0800

In this Friday, June 21, 2002 file photo, visitors and residents spend the day on the beach in Belmar, N.J.  Revelers in this Jersey shore party town can now legally drink from unregistered beer kegs and give people the finger. Belmar has scrapped laws relating to kegs and flipping the bird, on the grounds that they were difficult to enforce. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)AP - After battling rowdy renters and out-of-control keggers for decades, this Jersey shore party town has finally decided to lighten up a little.


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Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:53:13 +0800

AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.

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U.S. marks Independence Day with fireworks, revelry (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:50:33 +0800

Fireworks explode over the Manhattan skyline during the 32nd annual Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display,  Friday, July 4, 2008 in New York. Some 30,000 shells were  set off — more than 1,000 per minute.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide.


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Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:36:23 +0800

In this Aug. 22, 2001 photo, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., gives the thumbs-up sign as he leaves WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday,  after taping a announcement that he will retire when his current term ends in 2003. Helms has died at age 86, the Jesse Helms research center says. (AP Photo/Grant Halverson, file)AP - "Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.


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Smooth sailing for yacht builders despite economy (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:21:59 +0800

Workers continue preparations on a super yacht at Trinity Boats in New Orleans, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. These days at New Orleans-based Trinity Yachts, the largest domestic builder, the biggest problems are having enough workers and enough time to handle the 24 custom contracts the company has for the luxury vessels.  'Nobody is buying these yachts because they need them,' said William S. Smith III, Trinity's vice president. 'They're buying them because they want them.' (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Fuel prices are soaring and credit markets tightening, but the super-rich are still lining up to pay tens of millions of dolla! rs for mega yachts.


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Champ retains NYC hot-dog eating title in overtime (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:15:50 +0800

Joey Chestnut is declared the winner of the annual hot dog eating contest, Friday July 4, 2008, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Joey Chestnut reclaimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi with 59 hot dogs in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off. (AP Photo/Ed Ou)AP - Joey Chestnut achieved frankfurter immortality Friday, outdueling his celebrated Japanese rival in an epic hot-dog eating contest that pushed both of the gluttonous gladiators to the brink.


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4 people dead in Milwaukee shooting; no arrests (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:46 +0800

Kesha Peeler, third from left, kneels on the ground Friday, July 4, 2008, where her sister and three other friends were shot and killed earlier in the morning. Two others, including Sylvia Ware, standing in the white shirt, were injured. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)AP - At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.


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Statue of Liberty's crown may reopen to public (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:10:26 +0800

This undated file photo shows a close up of the Statue of Liberty. The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth. (AP Photo/File)AP - The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.


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Farmers say salmonella scare has hurt tomato sales (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:13:14 +0800

In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, tomatoes ripen on the vine in Hanover County, Va.  Since a salmonella scare has caused many customers to shun what's normally a summer favorite, tomato farmers across the nation have had to plow under their fields and leave their crop to rot in packinghouses. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Expect fewer slices of red, ripe tomatoes next to the grill this holiday weekend.


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Auction house seeks to sell Rosa Parks collection (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:09:22 +0800

In an undated photo provided by Guernsey's, a New York City auction house, Rosa Parks' keepsake folio and a postcard from Martin Luther King Jr., are shown.  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 postcard from Martin Luther King Jr., and the hat Parks is believed to have been wearing the day in December 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus, cementing her spot in civil rights history. (AP Photo/Guernsey's, ho)AP - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one 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)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:07:34 +0800

Paul Huey, an archaeologist for New York state, poses in front of a painting depicting Dr. Richard Shuckburg composing the lyrics to 'Yankee Doodle' in Rensselaer, N.Y., Monday, June 30, 2008.  Huey believes he has narrowed down a date in June 1758 that Shuckburg, a British army physician, wrote the lyrics.  As the story goes, Shuckburgh penned 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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Guerrilla gardeners dig in to beautify Los Angeles (AP)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:20:05 +0800

Guerrilla Gardener Angela Clubb works on a freeway off-ramp in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Thursday, June 26, 2008. Getting approval to beautify public property can be cumbersome, so guerrilla gardeners in cities worldwide take matters into their own dirt-caked hands. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.


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