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Several teenagers injured in Utah bus crash (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:26:51 +0800

Several students recover at a church in Panguitch, Utah after their tour bus turned over and caught fire along Highway 12 near Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Thursday, July 17, 2008. None of the students on the bus had life-threatening injuries. (AP Photo/Garrett Davis, The Spectrum & Daily News)AP - A tour bus went off a state highway near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, landing upside down in a creek bed and catching fire Thursday.


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National park in Alaska tests hybrid bus (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:24:54 +0800

In this Sunday May 21, 2006 file photo, a tour bus leaves the Wilderness Access Center inside the Alaska's Denali National Park. For years, visitors who wished to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride diesel buses that spew carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter into the air. But park officials are testing a new hybrid bus that promises to run cleaner and cheaper. (AP Photo/ Al  Grillo)AP - For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and tranquility with their n! oisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines.


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Food safety worries change buying habits (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:05:58 +0800

In this June 10, 2008 file photo, showing Canadian Hot House Tomatoes at a produce seller at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. The FDA declares it's OK to eat tomatoes again, Thursday, July 17, 2008, lifting its salmonella warning as outbreak slows. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - Troubled by the tainted tomato scare, nearly half of Americans are concerned they may get sick from eating contaminated food and are avoiding items they normally would buy, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll has found.


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Giant rig carves new tunnel beneath NYC's streets (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:57:28 +0800

A couple of sandhogs work in the East bound tunnel of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's East Side Access project Thursday, July 17, 2008 in New York. A 200-ton tunnel boring machine recently mined its way through bedrock 140 feet below the surface of Manhattan, leaving a mile-long tunnel that will connect the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A huge, granite-eating machine that spent the past eight months chewing a mile-long tunnel beneath a busy Manhattan office district is getting a rest, of sorts, after completing its journey to Grand Central Terminal.


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Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:23:57 +0800

Two versions; cut-and-paste graphic shows the top five and bottom five states? obesity prevalence with the option to incorporate own state; map shows state rankings; three sizes; 1c x 3 3/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 85.7 mm; 1c x 3 3/4 inches; 46.5 mm x 95.3 mm; 2c x 3 1/2 inches; 96.3 mm x 88.9 mmAP - The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey.


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2 Mont. campgrounds closed after bear bites camper (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:23:02 +0800

AP - A bear attacked a person sleeping inside a tent early Thursday, leading authorities to close two campgrounds near Yellowstone National Park.

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Bush surveys record-breaking California wildfires (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:58:34 +0800

President Bush takes part in a briefing on the California wildfires Thursday, July 17, 2008 in Redding, Calif.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush offered federal help and encouragement Thursday to some of the 25,000 firefighters working under a blazing sun to contain wildfires that make up the single largest fire event ever recorded in California.


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Latest LA wiretapping trial lacks the wiretaps (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:22:34 +0800

AP - A real-life Hollywood drama featuring sex, lies and tons of money, is missing one essential: a tape.

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Calif. exec charged with illegal military sales (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:19:32 +0800

AP - A former sales executive for an aircraft parts company is on the run after being charged with illegally sending military items to the United Arab Emirates and Thailand, prosecutors said Thursday.

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Parachutist lands on band at Fort Riley ceremony (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:17:07 +0800

Members of the 1st Infantry Division Band stand at rest while medics work on a tuba player who was hit by a sky diver during ceremonies at Fort Riley, Kan., Thursday, July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - A parachutist went off course Thursday at the start of a military review and dropped feet-first into the 1st Infantry Division's band, injuring three players.


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After despair, New Orleans homeless camp cleared (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:10:05 +0800

AP - Inhabitants of a New Orleans tent city that attracted donations, drugs and despair for nearly a year were cleared Thursday by a nonprofit group, which says it now must find lasting solutions to a doubling of homelessness since Katrina.

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Man convicted in 2006 Vermont school shootings (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:24:53 +0800

Christopher Williams listens to closing arguments on the ninth day day of his murder trial in Vermont District Court in Burlington, Vt., on Thursday July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/ Alison Redlich,pool)AP - A man was convicted of murder Thursday for a shooting rampage that killed a teacher in an elementary school and his ex-girlfriend's mother.


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Rangel invites ethics probe of his fundraising (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:19:17 +0800

AP - Rep. Charles Rangel asked the House Ethics Committee on Thursday to investigate his fundraising for a college research center named after him, saying a probe would prove he did nothing wrong.

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Exes still shared home before shooting at Mo. mall (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:35 +0800

St. Louis County police detective Mike Williams, right, talks to Steve Johnson outside outside the scene of a shooting leaving two dead in Jamestown Mall Wednesday, July 16, 2008, in Florissant, Mo. Johnson described himself as a first cousin to both victims, a man who according to police shot and killed a woman inside the mall before killing himself.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - The ex-spouses who died in a murder-suicide in a suburban St. Louis mall still lived together two years after their divorce, but their violent relationship led to at least four police visits and both sought court orders of protection, records show! .


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Methodists endorse Bush library at Texas school (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:19 +0800

Dr. Tex Sample, opponents of Bush think tank at SMU talks at a news conference about making last-ditch and highly unlikely attempt to stop the project during a Methodist conference in Dallas, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. After a spirited debate at the conference a Methodist group on Thursday endorsed building George W. Bush's presidential library center at Southern Methodist University. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)AP - A Methodist leadership group on Thursday endorsed building George W. Bush's presidential library center at Southern Methodist University, essentially ending nearly two years of opposition.


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Md. ACLU releases docs detailing police monitoring (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:35:39 +0800

AP - Undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated meetings of peace and anti-death penalty groups for more than a year, according to documents released Thursday by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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W.Va. man pleads guilty in torture of woman (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:00:46 +0800

This Sept. 9, 2007 file photo released by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Bobby Brewster in Logan, W.Va., after he and five others were arrested for holding a Charleston woman captive in a Big Creek home for at least a week. Brewster has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young woman who authorities say was held captive in West Virginia. He was sentenced on Tuesday July 15, 2008 to at least 13 and as many as 40 years in prison, The Charleston Gazette reported. (AP Photo/West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority)AP - Another d! efendant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young woman held captive in West Virginia last summer.


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New York governor, NAACP condemn magazine cover (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:53:02 +0800

New York Gov. David Paterson speaks at the annual NAACP national convention, Thursday, July 17, 2008, in Cincinnati. The NAACP will hold their 100th national convention next year in New York City. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - New York Gov. David Paterson and the NAACP on Thursday condemned the New Yorker magazine's satirical cover depicting Democrat Barack Obama and his wife as flag-burning radicals.


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Texas approves major new wind power project (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:05:16 +0800

In this Jan. 9, 2007 file photo, wind turbines are seen at the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Project in rural Taylor County north of  Wingate, Texas. Texas is moving forward on the nation's largest wind-power project, a plan to build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines to bring wind energy from gusty West Texas to urban areas, it was announced Thursday, July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero, file)AP - Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power.


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Gas trades backfire for California desert utility (AP)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:35:41 +0800

Mario Escalera, interim manager for the energy department at the Imperial Irrigation District, opens the door to a facility in a strip mall which was once used for energy trading in El Centro, Calif. Thursday, June 5, 2008.  In 2005 and 2006, Bill Rapp, a former energy trader with the utility, bought $155 million worth of natural gas after Hurricane Katrina struck. It was a bet that gas prices would continue climbing--a bet that proved spectacularly wrong.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - From his office in a strip mall in the Southern California desert, energy trader Bill Rapp bet heavily that Hurricane Katrina wou! ld cause natural gas prices to go up and up and up.


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