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Tired firefighters battle 330 Calif. wildfires (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:27:43 +0800

A firefighter walks out of a brush fire burning out of control in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif., on Saturday July 5, 2008. A slew of wildfires, most ignited by lightning two weeks ago, have burned more than 800 square miles of land throughout California. The blazes have destroyed at least 67 homes and other buildings and contributed to the death of a firefighter who suffered a heart attack while digging fire lines. (AP Photo/Phil Klein)AP - Firefighters got a gift of a mild, mostly windless night and a forecast for similar conditions Sunday as they attempted to protect thousands of homes from a huge wildfire with their ene! rgy and resources taxed by more than 300 blazes still burning around the state.


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Tropical Storm Bertha approaches warmer waters (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:03:46 +0800

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM EDT shows a few areas of clouds in the Caribbean Sea, but no tropical development is noticed in the area. Clouds on the far right of the image are associated with Tropical Storm Bertha as it roars through the tropical Atlantic Ocean.(AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Tropical Storm Bertha is approaching warmer waters and is likely to strengthen during the next couple of days.


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Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:48:33 +0800

Kent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Couch, 48, is making his third cluster balloon flight and hopes to go more than 200 miles to Idaho before running out of daylight or helium. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.


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Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong' (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:46:33 +0800

In this April 1, 2008 file photo, Joseph Barratt, 55, and others demonstrate outside a HOPE NOW home ownership preservation workshop at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Demonstrators hoped to draw attention subprime mortgage crisis. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. The Independence Day holiday is typically a time to honor all that we are as a nation, but the feeling is there's less to celebrate on this our 232nd birthday. Happy? It would seem not. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat lin! e these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.


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3 freed U.S. hostages give thanks for their rescue (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:08:28 +0800

In this image provided by the US Army, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes (left to right, center), freed July 2, 2008 after more than five years of captivity in Colombia, stand with, front row from left - Col. Wendy Martinson, Garrison Commander of Fort Sam Houston; Brig. Gen. James Gilman, Commander of Brooke Army Medical Center; and Maj. Gen. Keith M. Huber, Commander of U.S. Army South; and members of their staffs. (AP Photo/Norma Guerra - U.S. Army)AP - The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled! to "return home to the country we love."


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Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:52:54 +0800

Black-I Robotics founder Brian Hart, whose son was killed during an ambush in Iraq in 2003, poses in Tyngsborough, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 with a six-wheel cost-effective robot that his company designed to protect troops and perform certain risky missions. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.


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ACLU plans to investigate Rainbow Family treatment (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:58:42 +0800

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union said Saturday that it plans to investigate the actions of federal law enforcers who arrested five Rainbow Family members in western Wyoming during their annual gathering.

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Helms never changed on civil rights opposition (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:45:33 +0800

In a March 22, 1979 file photo, from left: Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), activist Phyllis Schlafly, and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), stand at the podium during an anti-Equal Rights Amendment dinner in Washington. The dinner was held to celebrate the date of what would have been the expiration of the seven-year ratification period for the ERA before its extension by Congress.Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died Friday, July 4, 2008, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File )AP - Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The! former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.


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Accident at Iowa town's fireworks display hurts 37 (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:12:58 +0800

AP - A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.

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Jones Beach evacuated after fireworks wash up (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:42:40 +0800

AP - A popular beach on Long Island was evacuated at the height of a holiday weekend after stray, unexploded fireworks washed ashore the day after a July Fourth show, state parks officials said Saturday.

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After DC gun ban overturned, city seeks new rules (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:22:44 +0800

Allan E. Lucas, Jr., a licensed firearms instructor in Washington, is seen in his office in Washington on Tuesday July 1, 2008. Lucas has been trying for two years to open an indoor shooting range in the city to train security guards and other clients. Because the city currently has no zoning category for such a business, he takes his clients to ranges in the suburbs. 'It's pretty ridiculous to think of so many people qualifying to register for firearms and not having a range to practice on,' he said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Dale Metta, who manages a gun shop just outside the District of Columbia limits ! in Maryland, has had to turn away dozens of city residents wanting to buy handguns in recent days. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down Washington's 32-year-old ban on possessing handguns.


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At root of most wildfires, by far: People (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:50:37 +0800

A home sits unharmed in Crown King, Ariz. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's recent history have been started by people. In Arizona, the latest wildfire to be caused by man has burned more than 15 square miles, destroyed four homes in the community of Crown King, forced the weeklong evacuation of more than 100 people and cost upward of $2 million. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)AP - Playing with matches, being careless with a campfire, even burning a letter from an estranged husband: Some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's recent history ! have been started by people.


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Last of flood-closed Mississippi locks reopen (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:34:04 +0800

In this May 26, 2008 file photo, a tattered American flag sits atop a mound of debris at a destroyed convenience store in Parkersburg, Iowa, a day after a tornado struck the town. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. The Independence Day holiday is typically a time to honor all that we are as a nation, but the feeling is there's less to celebrate on this our 232nd birthday. Happy? It would seem not. (AP Photo/Kevin Sanders, file)AP - The last of the Mississippi River navigational locks that were closed to barges because of flooding are back in business.


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Cincinnati NAACP rises again to host convention (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:27:42 +0800

AP - The NAACP's Cincinnati chapter sagged to a low point a few years ago, its membership the smallest it had been in decades. Some outside the chapter even questioned its relevancy — this in a city recently torn by racially tinged rioting.

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Public tipsters help foil fugitive murder suspect (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:11:27 +0800

A July 2, 2008 file photo shows Nicholas T. Sheley being escorted out of the Granite City Police Department Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Granite City, Ill. Authorities from two states conducted an exhaustive manhunt for Sheley, who is suspected in eight grisly killings and was arrested Tuesday evening outside a bar in Granite City. His arrest came after one of the bar patrons remembered a TV news image of Sheley's mug and realizing Sheley was at the bar notified police. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - The television image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind a! s she ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning her relatives to lock the door behind her.


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Poe Cottage in NYC park to undergo renovation (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:36:58 +0800

This artist's rendering provided by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation shows the planned visitors center for the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage in the Bronx. Renovations are scheduled to begin next year on the cottage and a visitors center is under construction. (AP Photo/Historic House Trust of New York City, Madeleine Isom)AP - It was many and many a year ago in a cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote some of his classic pieces.


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Calif. governor's race: youth or experience? (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:08:43 +0800

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, right, and his fiancee Jennifer Siebel, left, wave to spectators during San Francisco's 38th annual gay pride parade on Sunday, June 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)AP - Charismatic and politically bold, both San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa seem like naturals to help Democrats reclaim the governor's office in 2010.


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Questions raised about capital case 24 years later (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:06:34 +0800

Trial evidence that was used in case against Lester Leroy Bower Jr., is shown in the Grayson County District Clerk's office Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Sherman, Texas. Three months after four bodies were found shot execution-style in an airplane hangar on the B&B Ranch north of Dallas, Bower, a chemical salesman, was charged with capital murder. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Three months after four bodies were found shot execution-style in an airplane hangar on the B&B Ranch north of Dallas in 1984, chemical salesman Lester Leroy Bower Jr. was charged with capital murder.


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