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Feds to release report on Utah mine disaster (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:38:54 +0800

AP - Even before the release of a federal report into what went wrong at a deadly Utah mine cave-in last summer, critics were already finding fault.

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Schwarzenegger threatens minimum wage for workers (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:37:27 +0800

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, watches Olympic discus thrower Ian Waltz, right, lift weights during a tour of the Olympic Training Center on Friday in July 18, 2008, Chula Vista, Calif. (AP Photo/Eduardo Contreras, Pool)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to pay thousands of state employees the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until lawmakers reach a deal on California's overdue state budget.


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N.M. cavers chart unique `snowy' river of crystals (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:52 +0800

Caver John McLean talks about the many questions scientists have about the Snowy River formation while on an expedition in Fort Stanton Cave, N.M., on July 3, 2008. New Mexico's two U.S. senators have proposed legislation to designate the cave and Snowy River as a national conservation area. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)AP - Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits.


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Levees hold but waters rise in Dolly's rains (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:35 +0800

George Soberanis puts his hand up to block the pelting rain from Hurricane Dolly as he wades through floodwaters outside his house Wednesday, July 23, 2008 in Los Fresnos, Texas. Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100! mph winds.


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Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:16:50 +0800

AP - The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.

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Cost big factor in decision to sack destroyer (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:41:39 +0800

In this Wednesday, June 8, 2005 file photo two destroyers are under construction at Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. Growing costs and vulnerability to anti-ship missiles sank the Navy's once-heralded 'stealth destroyer,' a highly advanced warship designed to slip close to the shore unnoticed and pummel targets with big guns boasting pinpoint accuracy. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Growing costs and vulnerability to anti-ship missiles sank the Navy's once-heralded "stealth destroyer," a highly advanced warship designed to slip close to the shore unnoticed and pummel targets with big guns.


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Western governors offer greenhouse emissions plan (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:49 +0800

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, shakes hands with Orange Cove Mayor Victor Lopez, during a water rally held at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, July 23, 2008. More than 500 farm workers and their families rallied to call for the Legislature to approve a measure to place of a $9.3 billion water bond measure on the November ballot to build reservoirs, encourage conservation and restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system.

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Mass. House initially approves gender-neutral law (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:08:38 +0800

AP - The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given its initial approval to a bill that would require all future legislation be written in language that is gender neutral.

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Calif. woman mauled by bear recovers after surgery (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:29:06 +0800

Kevin Brannan, a wildlife biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game, talks about the condition of a woman mauled by a bear, and the department's efforts to identify and capture the animal, at a news conference in Ontario, Calif., Wednesday, July 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A woman mauled by a bear in a rural area of Southern California was recovering Wednesday as game wardens sought to trap and kill the animal.


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Minimum wage going up, but so does inflation (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:27:34 +0800

Employee David Allen pulls shopping carts back to the store at Costco in Alhambra, Calif., Wednesday July 23, 2008. The federal minimum wage is expected to increase 70 cents per hour Thursday to $6.55 per hour. It's the second in a three-phase hike that will increase the minimum federal pay rate to $7.25 per hour. The increase was approved by Congress last year and was the first hike in minimum wage in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses w! ill pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers.


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Housing bill won't solve market's problems (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:03:08 +0800

In this July 2, 2008 file photo, a bank owned home is seen for sale in Sacramento, Calif.. Rescue legislation sailed through the House Wednesday, July 23, 2008, aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and to prevent troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)AP - Cash-strapped homebuyers and borrowers facing foreclosure will get some relief from a housing bill passed by the House on Wednesday but the bill won't solve the deep-rooted ills of the U.S. housing market.


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Air Force says no survivors of B-52 crash off Guam (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:39:49 +0800

AP - All six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed off Guam were killed, the Air Force said Wednesday as the search effort shifted focus from rescue to recovery of the crew and pieces of the wreckage.

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Church surrenders lot near ground zero for $20M (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:30:22 +0800

In this undated photo provided by the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York, the 36-foot tall church stands near the base of the World Trade Center towers. Leaders of the church, which was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, have surrendered land needed to rebuild the World Trade Center site in a $20 million deal with the government. (AP Photo/St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church)AP - The World Trade Center site's owner has offered $20 million to acquire the 1,200-square-foot lot of a church destroyed on Sept. 11, freeing one more piece of land needed to rebuild every inch of ground zero.


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McKusick, pioneer in medical genetics, dies at 86 (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:38:19 +0800

In this April 23, 2008 file photo, Victor A. McKusick, a genetics professor at Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, shows his 2008 Japan Prize for medical genetics and genomics during an award ceremony in Tokyo, Japan. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86. Officials at Johns Hopkins University, where McKusick was a professor of genetics, said he died Tuesday, July 22, 2008, in Towson, Maryland, after complications from cancer. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project! and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.


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Farm labor contractor fined in worker's death (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:19:40 +0800

In this June 2, 2008 file photo, Josefina Flores, right, carries a photograph of Maria Isabel Vasques Jimenez during a march to protest her death, near Thornton, Calif. On Wednesday, July 23, 2008, the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Atwater-based Merced Farm Labor a record $262,700 for violating eight workplace safety requirements, in some cases intentionally. Authorities believe 17-year-old Jimenez died on May 14, 2008, because her supervisors denied her access to shade and water as she pruned white wine grapes for more than nine hours in nearly triple-digit heat. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP! - The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued to a California farming operation.


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Feds charge shipping company in SF Bay oil spill (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:09:13 +0800

In this Nov. 14, 2007 file photo, a gash along the hull of the Cosco Busan is seem while the cargo freighter anchors in San Francisco Bay. A Hong Kong-based company that operated the container ship that struck a bridge support in the San Francisco Bay last year has been indicted for allegedly doctoring paperwork in an attempt to thwart investigators looking into the incident. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - The Hong Kong-based operator of a container ship that struck a bridge support in the San Francisco Bay last year has been indicted for allegedly doctoring paperwork in an attempt to thwart the investigation.


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Convicted killers in Texas, Miss., put to death (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:39:45 +0800

Daryl Neely, corrections policy advisor for Gov. Haley Barbour, reads the governor's denial of clemency to death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at the Mississippi State Penitentary in Parchman, Miss. Bishop is scheduled to die Wednesday evening for his role in the claw hammer beating death of Marcus James Gentry in 2000. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Texas executed a man Wednesday who was convicted of killing a woman and her child, while Mississippi put to death a man who took part in the fatal beating of another man.


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New policy lowers flags only for Ky. soldiers (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:46:56 +0800

AP - Kentucky has started lowering flags to half-staff only for fallen soldiers from the Bluegrass State, upsetting veterans and lawmakers who say the policy dishonors tens of thousands of service members from other states stationed at installations such as Fort Campbell and Fort Knox.

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Judge to Moussaoui jury: You got it right (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:25:57 +0800

A detained terrorism suspect watches a bird outside his cell at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba July 23, 2008. His section of the detention center, Camp 4, is occupied by those deemed by authorities to be most compliant and the least risk. Osama bin Laden's driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the Sept. 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in an attempt to draw a link between Salim Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen (CUBA)AP - The judge in the trial of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says she told jurors that they m! ade the right decision in sparing his life.


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Authorities seek indicted polygamist sect members (AP)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:22:30 +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 - Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group's spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch.


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