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Erratic winds prompt new evacuations in California (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:19:11 +0800

In this image provided by NASA the Basin fire in central California is featured in this image photographed by astronaut Greg Chamitoff, Expedition 17 flight engineer, on the International Space Station Friday July 4, 2008. At least 23 homes and 25 other structures have been destroyed to the south in the Big Sur area, where flames have marched over more than 125 square miles of forest land since June 21. Many of the 1,500 evacuated residents of Big Sur headed home Tuesday morning July 8, 2008 through smoke and ash, anxious to gauge the damage. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been told t! o flee after erratic winds blew embers across wildfire containment lines, the latest setback for already strained fire crews.


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US agriculture secretary confident meat is safe (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:09:00 +0800

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, right, follows the work of USDA inspectors at the Cargill meat packing plant in Schuyler, Neb., Tuesday, July 8, 2008.The U.S. Agriculture Secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves.


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Hurricane Bertha could strengthen in coming days (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:47:21 +0800

This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Bertha taken by the Aqua satellite at 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday July 7, 2008. Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm. As of 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday, the center of the storm was about 580 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and about 840 miles southeast of Bermuda. Maximum sustained winds decreased to 80 mph with some higher gusting. The storm is expected to continue weakening over the next couple of days. Bertha is expected to continue heading toward Bermuda. It's unknown if or when the hurricane will make landfall. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Forecas! ters say Hurricane Bertha could become slightly stronger in the next couple of days as it heads toward Bermuda.


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La. judge overturns ex-Black Panther's conviction (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:10:22 +0800

AP - A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.

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No charges planned in death of ignored LA patient (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:05:05 +0800

AP - No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday.

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Family, admirers lay former Sen. Helms to rest (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:07:53 +0800

Mourners gather to watch as family members depart for a private burial following funeral services for former Sen. Jesse Helms at Hayes-Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Helms, who represented North Carolina in the Senate from 1973 to 2003, died Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.


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Holocaust scholar testifies about hotel attack (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:54:55 +0800

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, Peace, 1986, addresses the audience at the final session at the meeting of 29 Nobel prize winners gathered in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, where the Nobel Laureates discussed issues such as the global food crisis, economic development and education Thursday June 19, 2008. ( AP Photo/Mohammad abu Ghosh)AP - Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel told jurors Tuesday that he was shocked to learn the man accused of accosting him was linked to a movement that denies millions of Jews were killed during World War II.


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Drugs suspected in treats given to Texas police (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:40:16 +0800

AP - A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.

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Police ID remains as software programmer's wife (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:37:37 +0800

A hole is seen on the side of a steep hill off a deer trail between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in Oakland, Calif. Authorities worked Tuesday to identify a body removed reportedly from this location after Hans Reiser, a prominent software programmer who is set to be sentenced for his missing wife's murder, led police to the site, attorneys said. Authorities wouldn't speculate on the identity of the body or disclose details of the search. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the e! stranged wife he is convicted of killing.


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Fringe autism treatment could get federal study (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:32:22 +0800

Eight-year-old Charlie Blakey, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, says a prayer before eating dinner with his family at their home on Oak Park, Ill., on April 23, 2008. Charlie's mother Christina, has been using an alternative treatment, chelation, along with a variety of other therapies to treat her son. A proposed federal study of chelation in autistic children has been put on hold because of safety concerns. Chelation helps the body excrete heavy metals and is approved to treat lead poisoning in children. Charlie eats a special diet, swallows chelation pills and has had 40 sessions in a hyperbaric chamber. All have been help! ful, according to his mom. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.


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Mount Shasta glaciers growing, despite warming (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:24:21 +0800

A truck moves past Mt. Shasta, background, on Highway 97 near Weed, Calif., Thursday, June 19, 2008. The Hotlum glacier, seen on the northeast face of Mt. Shasta, left, is the largest glacier by area in California, and it is getting bigger. The Hotlum glacier is one of seven ice fields that stretch down the volcanic flanks and fills nearly two square miles of valleys and ragged edges of the 14,000 foot high Mt. Shasta.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.


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Legal claim filed over death at NYC psych ward (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:18:13 +0800

This combination of 6 still photos taken from a video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union shows the progression of events in the early morning hours of Thursday, June 19, 2008 in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Esmin 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. She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot, and gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her. (AP Photo/New! York Civil Liberties Union)AP - The daughter of a woman who died unnoticed on the floor of a hospital psychiatric unit called Tuesday for criminal prosecution of the workers who did nothing to help her.


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Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:04:43 +0800

Prostate cancer cells are seen in a handout photo from the National Cancer Institute. REUTERS/NCI/HandoutAP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.


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Receding floodwaters give up trove of debris (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:42:00 +0800

This photo provided by Illinois-based Living Lands and Water shows LL&W crew members Geoff Manis and Mike Coyne-Logan, from left, with volunteers Linda and Dan Powell, from Davenport, Iowa, foreground, working to clean up the debris found along the banks of the Cedar River downriver from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 28, 2008. From riot gear to refrigerators, receding waters from the Midwest flooding are giving up trove of strange debris. (AP Photo/Living Lands and Water, Tammy Becker)AP - Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retre! at across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.


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Texas border city actually embraces fence idea (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:37:32 +0800

Map locates Del Rio, Texas; 1c x 2 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 73 mmAP - This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas.


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Massive Haiti-bound cargo ship smolders in Miami (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:53:17 +0800

AP - A massive cargo ship that caught fire over the weekend is smoldering in Miami.

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Ohio town split over teacher accused of preaching (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:09:11 +0800

In this undated file photo released by Mount Vernon, Ohio, City Schools as a part of independent investigation report, a Mount Vernon student with a branded cross on his arm is shown. A public school teacher taught creationism in his science class and used a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms, according to a report by independent investigators. Mount Vernon Middle School teacher John Freshwater was insubordinate in failing to remove a Bible and other religious materials from his classroom and continued to preach his Christian beliefs despite complaints by other teachers and administrators, the report also said. (AP Photo/M! ount Vernon City Schools)AP - Demonstrations on the town square show how divided people are over the school board's decision to fire a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students' arms.


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Former Ga. deputy coroner pleads guilty to theft (AP)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:01:36 +0800

AP - A former assistant coroner in Augusta, Ga. has pleaded guilty to stealing gift cards from a woman who committed suicide.

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