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Los Angeles wants to take bite out of fast food (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:32:13 +0800

Signs for fast foot restaurants are seen on a street in Los Angeles on Monday, July 28, 2008. In South Los Angeles, fast food is also the easiest cuisine to find, and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol. The City Council is poised to vote Tuesday on a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a swath of the city where a proliferation of such eateries goes hand in hand with more fat adults and chunky children than other areas of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to fi! nd — and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.


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Wildfire threatens homes and vacations in Yosemite (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:52:29 +0800

Firefighters watch as flames rise from the bed of the Merced River along Highway 140, near Yosemite National Park in Midpines, California July 28, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)AP - Visitors to Yosemite National Park weighed whether to cut their vacations short Tuesday as a destructive wildfire raging miles from the famed wilderness threatened thousands of homes and left evacuees stranded.


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Shaker child returns to celebrate 90th birthday (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:10:29 +0800

AP - Eleven-year-old Alberta Kirkpatrick didn't believe she would ever be loved when she arrived in New Hampshire almost 80 years ago.

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Police: Man shot churchgoers over liberal views (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:53:37 +0800

A note attached to flowers lay at the base of the church sign that's serving as a memorial at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Monday, July 28, 2008 in Knoxville, Tenn. A gunman opened fire at a church youth performance Sunday, killing two people. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - Children from the Unitarian church where authorities said an out-of-work truck driver shot and killed two people, ended a prayer vigil by singing a song from the musical the gunman interrupted.


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5 more arrested from west Texas polygamist sect (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:18:12 +0800

These photos released by the Texas Department of Public Safety show the five indicted members of a West Texas polygamist sect that turned themselves into authorities, Monday, July 28, 2008 to face child sexual abuse charges. Also pictured is Warren Jeffs, the already-jailed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. From left, top row, Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36, Allen Eugene Keate, 56, Michael George Emack, 57. Botton row, Merrill Leroy Jessop, 33, Lloyd Hammon Barlow, 38 and Jeffs. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Public Safety)AP - Five indicted members of a West Texas polygamist ! sect turned themselves in to authorities Monday to face charges related to allegations of child sexual abuse.


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Call for Chicago students to skip 1st school day (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:03:26 +0800

AP - Community leaders on Monday called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes.

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Body found in debris from N.M. flash flooding (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:49:34 +0800

This photo provided by Ruidoso News shows flood waters turning a dirt road into a raging river at the River Ranch RV Park along Highway 70 between Glencoe and Ruidoso Downs, N.M. on July 27, 2007. About 300 people — both residents and tourists — were evacuated from homes, campgrounds and a recreational vehicle park as flooding hit around the resort town of Ruidoso after the remnants of Hurricane Dolly dumped an estimated 6 inches on the mountainous area. (AP photo/Courtesy of Marty Racine, Ruidoso News)AP - Rescuers used pulleys Monday to help stranded residents and campers cross a rushing river where the body o! f a man reported missing in flash flooding was found near a bridge in a thicket of debris.


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Appeals court upholds prison for border agents (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:49:12 +0800

An ATF agent holds an AK47 rifle that was confiscated by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) as he and other agents demonstrate the firepower of weapons commonly used by criminals along the U.S.-Mexico border at the Ben Avery Shooting Range in Phoenix, Arizona, March 10, 2008. (Rick Scuteri/Reuters)AP - A federal appeals court refused Monday to throw out lengthy prison sentences for two jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting an unarmed illegal immigrant and lying about it.


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Falling rock kills climber on Oregon's Mount Hood (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:38:39 +0800

AP - A 55-year-old physician who had scaled Mount Hood was killed by falling rock that struck him on his way down, authorities said.

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Indictment for man suspected of Ill., Mo. killings (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:28:55 +0800

AP - An indictment unsealed Monday charges a man suspected of killing eight people with one of the slayings, that of a 65-year-old who was beaten in the head with a blunt instrument.

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Elvis anniversary: Karaoke heaven for singing fans (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:05:34 +0800

An Elvis Presley impersonator puts on his jewelry as he prepares to perform. MySpace Karaoke on Monday invited wannabe kings of rock-and-roll to upload videos of their best Elvis Presley imitations for a shot to perform at Graceland in his memory.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - Karaoke and Elvis: a match made in Graceland and MySpace.


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After raid, Iowa town deals with Somali immigrants (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:28:34 +0800

Somali immigrants Abdinasir Abib, Aydurus Farah and Abdiaiz Hassan, from left, sit on the front stoop of a downtown shop, Sunday, July 27, 2008, in Postville, Iowa. The largest immigration enforcement raid in U.S. history has thrust a cultural shift on this remote city with scores of Somali immigrants descending to replace Hispanic workers at Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and f! orcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift.


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Best party school? Univ. of Florida, study says (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:02:53 +0800

In this April 2, 2007 picture provided by the University of Florida, a University of Florida student attempts to climb a greased light pole among a crowd of fans in the streets of Gainesville, Fla. moments after the men's UF basketball team won its second consecutive championship win. The University of Florida can raise a glass to another national title - best party school in the country. The Gators, known for wild celebrations following national championships in football and basketball, wrested the party title away from West Virginia University and beat out the University of Mississippi and Penn State University, in the Princeton Rev! iew survey of 120,000 students released Monday, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/University of Florida, Kristen Bartlett Grace)AP - The University of Florida can raise a glass to another national title — best party school in the country. The Gators, known for wild celebrations following national championships in football and basketball, wrested the party title away from West Virginia University and beat out the University of Mississippi and Penn State University, in the Princeton Review survey of 120,000 students released Monday.


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Report says 1 in 4 US bridges needs upgrading (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:32:19 +0800

Members of a construction crew work under an Interstate 95 bridge in Philadelphia, Monday, July 28, 2008. A report released Monday by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials says one out of every four U.S. bridges needs to be modernized or repaired. They estimate that cost to be at least $140 billion. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - At least $140 billion is needed to make major repairs or upgrades to one of every four U.S. bridges, transportation officials from states across the country said in a report released Monday.


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Insurer offers discounts to drivers with monitors (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:15:07 +0800

Cars, taxis and trucks sit in traffic in midtown Manhattan. Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May compared with the same month a year ago, data showed Monday, with officials blaming high petrol prices.(AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)AP - A high-tech monitoring device makes it possible to reduce insurance premiums for drivers who avoid jackrabbit starts and slam-on-the-brakes stops, an insurance company says.


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Sharpton faces disorderly conduct charge at trial (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:10:01 +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 - The Rev. Al Sharpton rejected a plea offer Monday and will go to trial in September on a disorderly conduct charge related to demonstrations over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day.


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Charges possible for La. cop accused of 9 shocks (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:01:28 +0800

AP - A grand jury in central Louisiana will consider criminal charges against a former police officer who is accused of jolting a handcuffed man nine times with a Taser before the suspect died, a prosecutor said Monday.

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Judge allows Idaho child-killer to represent self (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:16:47 +0800

AP - A man who kidnapped two Idaho children and murdered one of them in 2005 is allowed to represent himself at his death penalty hearing, a federal judge decided Monday.

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GPS devices monitor domestic abusers, stalkers (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:08:00 +0800

AP - Mary Babb was in her SUV last year when her estranged husband slammed into her with his pickup truck. The crash overturned Babb's vehicle and left her suspended upside-down by her seat belt.

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1 dead as ex-Hurricane Dolly floods parts of NM (AP)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:29:19 +0800

This photo provided by Ruidoso News shows flood waters destroying yards and fences of homes at River Ranch RV Park, along Highway 70 between Glencoe and Ruidoso Downs, N.M. on July 27, 2007. About 300 people — both residents and tourists — were evacuated from homes, campgrounds and a recreational vehicle park as flooding hit around the resort town of Ruidoso after the remnants of Hurricane Dolly dumped an estimated six inches on the mountainous area. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Marty Racine, Ruidoso News)AP - Flooding caused by torrential rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Dolly kept hundreds of evacuees away from th! eir homes and campgrounds Monday, authorities said.


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