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Proposal to euthanize wild horses spurs debate (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:48:08 +0800

AP - Animal rights activists and ranchers are clashing over a federal proposal to euthanize wild horses as a way to deal with their surplus numbers.

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Bertha becomes first hurricane of Atlantic season (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:22:23 +0800

This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, July 7, 2008 at 2:15 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Bertha well to the east of the Leeward Islands. Widespread clouds with showers and thunderstorms are noted across much of Central America and southern Mexico. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical storm Bertha has strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.


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Officials predict longer and stronger fire season (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:10:08 +0800

Firefighter Brian Britton, of Ojai, Calif., throws flares unto a hillside during a backburn operation along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Sunday, July 6, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Sunday. Fires have burned more than 800 square miles of land and destroyed at least 69 homes throughout California in the past two weeks.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - In the past few years, Rich Nieto's work has started earlier and lasted longer.


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Weather helps crews battling California wildfires (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:47:40 +0800

Firefighters monitor a burning redwood tree along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Saturday, July 5, 2008. Cooler temperatures and marine fog allowed firefighters here to gain some ground early Saturday on an obstinate wildfire that wiped out this world-famous coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Firefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures and higher humidity overnight to make progress containing a blaze burning through the mountains in Santa Barbara County before hotter, drier conditions return.


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Noise inescapable in some flagship national parks (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:32:39 +0800

In an Aug. 10, 2001 file photo, a tour helicopter lifts off inside the Grand Canyon in Arizona. There can be hundreds of flights per day, which has sparked controversy due to the air traffic and noise. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File)AP - A few times a year, Bryson Garbett loads up his family and heads to a national park, often one in southern Utah.


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Congresswoman calls for inquiry into Texas county (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:00:35 +0800

In his first media interview, Joe Horn talks Tuesday, July 1,  2008, in Houston, at the home of his attorney,  after the Harris County Grand Jury cleared him in the deaths of two men who were shot and killed by Horn, as they broke into his neighbor's home in November 2007. (AP Photo/Karen Warren / Chronicle )AP - U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has called for a congressional inquiry into the state's most populous county, saying recent events show that its legal system "has been tarnished."


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Bird watchers as far as Britain flock to Alaska (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:36:27 +0800

A pair of murrs sit on the cliff  on St. Paul Island  on Wednesday June 4, 2008. These are just two of the many sea birds bird watchers come to the Bering Sea island to see .  (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - British birder Annie Andreae bristles at being called a "twitcher" — friendly slang in England for someone who will drop everything at the drop of a hat to get a glimpse at a must-see bird.


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Focus on elk as disease persists near Yellowstone (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:25:53 +0800

A herd of elk graze in the meadows of Yellowstone National Park with the background Mt. Holmes, left, and Mt. Dome, Aug. 15, 1997, in Wyoming.  Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)AP - Federal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area.


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Bush: Russia's new president is 'smart guy' (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:18:43 +0800

U.S. President George W. Bush, right, meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a bilateral meeting at the G-8 summit Monday, July 7, 2008 in the lakeside resort of Toyako on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush and new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stood united Monday on issues like Iran and North Korea. But for all their handshakes and smiles, it is clear that thorny issues like missile defense are in a holding pattern until a new U.S. president takes office.


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Black students helped end 'Massive Resistance' (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:57:21 +0800

AP - The "Norfolk 17" were honored Sunday at the church that educated them 50 years ago when six of the city's all-white public schools closed under Virginia's defiant response to court-ordered desegregation.

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NYPD now has own scholar to help review threats (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:23:32 +0800

Marc Sageman, the NYPD's counter terrorism 'guru' and 'resident scholar,' poses for a portrait on the streets of Manhattan, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 in New York.  He was a flight surgeon with the U.S. Navy and a CIA officer in Pakistan. He's also earned a doctorate in sociology, practiced psychiatry and written two books. Now Sageman has become a key player in a debate over whether the greatest terror threat America faces comes from inside or outside its borders. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - He was a flight surgeon with the Navy and a CIA officer in Pakistan. He has also earned a doctorate in sociology and written two books.


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Special court for vets addresses more than crime (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:13:28 +0800

Judge Robert Russell speaks to those in his courtroom prior to beginning the Veterans Court session in Buffalo, N.Y. on June 3, 2008. Russell is the evenhanded quarterback of a courtroom team of veterans advocates and volunteers determined to make this brush with the criminal justice system these veterans' last. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)AP - The first clue that the Tuesday afternoon session in Part 4 of Buffalo City Court is not like other criminal proceedings comes just before it starts.


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Liver donor's family, recipient unite online (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:00:34 +0800

Keisha DeLapp, left, holds a picture of her older sister Amanda, who in 1984, died and her liver donated to Trine Engebretsen, who is seen in the photo that DeLapp's mother, Alisha, is holding at their home in Mayfield, Ky., June 16, 2008.  Now, 25 years after the surgery that forever connected two families, Trine and the DeLapps are slated to meet for the first time in July when the U.S. Transplant Games are held in Pittsburgh.   (AP Photo/Michael Dann)AP - They were precocious toddlers, both blond-haired and blue-eyed, separated by a thousand miles between Miami and a small Kentucky town.


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Theft of car anti-pollution device up across US (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:36:05 +0800

Marty Boyer checks underneath his sports utility vehicle in the parking lot where a catalytic converter was recently stolen off another SUV he owns, Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Cincinnati. A half dozen other employees at the company Boyer works at, have had catalytic converters stolen in the same area. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Marty Boyer's carefully maintained sport utility vehicle growled more like a dragster than a 2001 Honda Passport when he turned the key.


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Prize-winning SC cook dishes up whimsical fare (AP)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:23:04 +0800

AP - A South Carolina woman's whimsical approach to food is helping her crack the insular world of cooking contests with such novel dishes as pecan-encrusted oysters over asiago cheese grits. And she's taking home a lot more than blue ribbons and kitchen gadgets.

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