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Dolly becomes hurricane, set to hit Tex-Mex border (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:18:03 +0800

Brownsville city worker Alberto De La Torres loads a sand bag into a resident's car in preparation for Hurricane Dolly, Tuesday, July 22, 2008, in Brownsville, Texas. Dolly spun into a hurricane Tuesday, heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley, where officials feared heavy rains could cause massive flooding and levee breaks. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Rain started to fall along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dolly — upgraded in force from a tropical storm — closed in on towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border.


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Texas grand jury indicts polygamist sect members (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:43:22 +0800

This undated booking file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs  in Arizona. Jeffs was indicted Tuesday July 22, 2008 in Texas on a sex assault count. (AP Photo/Mohave County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, already convicted in Utah of rape as an accomplice and awaiting trial in Arizona on other charges related to underage marriages, is now accused of assaulting a girl in Texas in January 2005.


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Suspect in pregnant teen death had baby obsession (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:47:49 +0800

This is the apartment building of Andrea Curry-Demus, on Elsa Street in Wilkinsburg, Pa. on Monday, July 21, 2008, where a body was discovered on Friday, July 18, 2008. Investigators found the body of a woman with her hands bound on Friday at the apartment of Curry-Demus, who showed up at a hospital with a newborn she falsely claimed was her's but later said she had obtained for $1,000, authorities said.  The Curry-Demus apartment is on the third floor of the building.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - A woman accused of slicing open a pregnant woman's belly and taking her baby was obsessed with getting an infant and even had hallucinations of hearing babies cry after a February 1990 miscarriage, according to court records.


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Prosecutor: Missing Fla. girl may have been killed (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:45:08 +0800

Casey Anthony wipes tears from her eyes at a bond hearing at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, July 22, 2008. The 22-year-old mother reported her daughter missing last week, more than a month after the little girl allegedly disappeared. Anthony faces charges of child endangerment, making false officials statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.(AP Photo/Red Huber, pool)AP - The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive.


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Flight with 7 congressmen makes emergency landing (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:25:11 +0800

AP - A Continental Airlines flight carrying former presidential candidate Ron Paul and six other members of Congress to Washington, D.C., made an emergency landing in New Orleans on Tuesday after a loss in cabin pressure.

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Railroad to pay $102 million after Calif. wildfire (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:24:40 +0800

AP - Union Pacific Railroad Co. has agreed to pay $102 million for a huge California wildfire sparked by its workers in what federal officials described Tuesday as a precedent-setting case.

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Possible remains in burned house may be gunman's (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:17:37 +0800

In this undated photo provided by his family on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 shows Mark Knobbe. Knobbe is believed to be to be the gunman responsible for shooting and killing a firefighter and injuring two police officers before apparently dying in a house fire Monday in Maplewood, Mo. (AP Photo/The family of Mark Knobbe)AP - Authorities on Tuesday recovered what they believe to be charred remains from the rubble of a burned house from which a gunman may have ambushed emergency workers, St. Louis County's medical examiner said.


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NY priest pleads guilty to raping 3 teenage boys (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:07:14 +0800

AP - A Franciscan priest from New York pleaded guilty to raping three teenage boys during overnight trips to Boston in the 1970s and 1980s and was ordered Tuesday to serve time on probation.

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Manhattan Project reactor nears landmark status (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:44:55 +0800

AP - The National Park Service's advisory board on Tuesday recommended designating the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a national historic landmark.

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Detroit mayor accused of texting additional women (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:11:02 +0800

In this Aug. 2, 2005, file photo, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, addresses supporters at an election night rally as his mother, Democratic U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, right, listens in Detroit. The congresswoman has rolled over opponents on her way to six consecutive terms in Washington. Her seventh stint also seems likely after this fall's election, but a text-messaging sex scandal hounding her son could expose any chinks in his mother's political armor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is now charged with exchanging romantic text messages with additi! onal women in the scandal that has him fighting allegations that he lied under oath about an intimate relationship with his former chief of staff.


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Workers dive into lake as bridge slips at casino (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:09:55 +0800

AP - An enclosed walkway being attached to a floating casino on Lake Michigan slipped Tuesday as it was being attached, sending seven construction workers into the water, authorities said.

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Poll: Most in China expect Olympics to help image (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:58:02 +0800

A Chinese national flag flutters in front of the Olympic Rings installed on the outside of the National Indoor Stadium at the Olympic Green in Beijing July 22, 2008. With less than month remaining until the opening ceremony of one of the most scrutinised Olympic Games in history, the time has come for Beijing to deliver on seven years of promises and billions of dollars spent.      REUTERS/David Gray     (CHINA)  (BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 PREVIEW)AP - Overwhelming numbers of Chinese say next month's Olympics will help their country's tattered image abroad, and they predict the Beijing Games will be successful, according to a poll released Tuesday.


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Sharpton's lawyers say feds have dropped tax probe (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:48:50 +0800

In this June 2, 2008 file photo, Rev. Al Sharpton arrives for the Apollo Theater's annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Federal prosecutors have disbanded their criminal probe into the financial dealings of Sharpton and his Harlem civil rights group, the minister and his lawyers said Tuesday, July 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Federal prosecutors have decided not to seek criminal charges against the Rev. Al Sharpton over his chronic tax problems, his lawyers said Tuesday.


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Fla. sheriff's deputy killed during standoff (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:54:08 +0800

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Lt. Kristin Pond stands in front of the Fort Walton Beach, Fla. home Tuesday, July 22, 2008, where a man had barricaded himself after a violent clash with police hours earlier. Police said Deputy Anthony Forgione, 33, was killed by the suspect, Mark Reed Rohlman, as the police team attempted to enter the home. (AP Photo/Mari Darr~Welch)AP - A man who fatally shot a sheriff's deputy Tuesday had been ordered by a court to undergo a mental evaluation and had twice left a hospital before barricading himself in a home and triggering a shootout with police, authorities said.


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Man rescued from narrow gas well shaft in Texas (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:51:14 +0800

AP - A worker fell 40 feet into a narrow storage hole at a natural gas drilling site Tuesday and was trapped for three hours before being rescued, officials said.

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Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:10:17 +0800

Motorist leave the city of Indianapolis at rush hour Monday, July 7, 2008. Traffic deaths in many states this year are on track to post their biggest percentage decline since the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s as motorists reduce their driving amid record-setting gas prices.  (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.


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US officials to return seized artifacts to Ecuador (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:48:50 +0800

AP - U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities have seized four pre-Columbian artifacts originally from Ecuador and returned them to the government of the South American nation.

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Few police agencies address suicides within ranks (AP)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:48:36 +0800

Milwaukee Police Officer Dave Arndt speaks during a suicide awareness seminar on May 9, 2008, in Milwaukee. After six suicides in three years the Milwaukee Police Department now provides suicide awareness training. Since starting the program early this year it has had two more suicides. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)AP - Police Sgt. Chuck Cross pointed his department-issue .40-caliber handgun at his temple, finger on the trigger, as he sat drunk against his hallway wall.


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