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Texas-La. coast begin to feel tropical storm (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:10:05 +0800

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008 at 1:15 a.m. EDT shows cloud cover in the Plains and Midwest.  Near Chicago these clouds produced a severe weather outbreak Monday that brought damaging winds and hail to the region.  Also visible is Tropical Storm Edouard in the Gulf of Mexico.  The storm is expected to make landfall Tuesday morning. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - The winds were beginning to pick up and the surfs were rising in Galveston early Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard closed in on the Texas Gulf Coast.


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Feds, `tribe' wage legal fight in immigration scam (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:26:44 +0800

In this  Aug. 23, 2007 file photo, a person walks into the Kaweah Indian Nation Inc.'s National Office headquarters building in Wichita, Kan.  The tribe — which was denied federal recognition in 1984 — is at the center of a multistate federal investigation into an alleged scam to sell to undocumented workers tribal memberships under the promise it would protect them from deportation. (AP Photo/Larry W. Smith, file)AP - When federal agents raided the offices of the Kaweah Indian Nation, Malcolm Webber told the arresting officer he had not committed fraud and was confused how he could be arrested on "sovereign soil," court documents show.


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Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:57:10 +0800

This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Jose Medellin who is set for execution at the Texas Prison in Huntsville, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Medellin, now 33, was one of six teenagers arrested and charged with the gang rape and murders of Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14. The two Houston girls, returning from a friend's house, took a shortcut home along some railroad tracks and stumbled on a group of teenagers drinking beer after initiating a new gang member. The scheduled execution of Medellin has attracted international attention after the International Court of Justice, also known a!  s the World Court, said the Mexican-born Medellin and some 50 other Mexicans on death rows around the nation should have new hearings in U.S. courts to determine whether a 1963 treaty was violated with their arrests.  (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)AP - Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago.


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Soil on Mars may contain substance detrimental to life (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:13:39 +0800

This undated image provided by NASA shows the Phoenix spacecraft's inverted scoop preparing to take soil samples on Mars. NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could make it less friendly to potential life than once believed, according to a report Monday Aug. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could make it less friendly to potential life than once believed.


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Ohio inmate says he's too fat for execution (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:12:50 +0800

In this 2003 file photo, Richard Cooey gestures during an interview at the Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, where he is on death row for the murders of two University of Akron students in 1986. Attorneys for the death-row inmate argued in a federal lawsuit he's so fat that Ohio executioners would have trouble finding his veins. (AP Photo/The Columbus Dispatch, Haraz Ghanbari)AP - A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the le! thal injection drugs.


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Chicago tornado warning sounded; Wrigley cleared (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:01:23 +0800

The scoreboard at Wrigley Field displays a severe-weather warning from the National Weather Service as strong wind and rain arrive during the sixth inning of a baseball game between the Houston Astros andthe Chicago Cubs on Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A powerful storm led to tornado warnings in downtown Chicago and the evacuation of fans from the stands at Chicago's Wrigley Field on Monday night.


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5 dead, 3 hurt after plane hits Oregon home in fog (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:53:57 +0800

AP - A small plane crashed into a seaside house in heavy fog early Monday, killing two people aboard and three children inside the vacation home, authorities said.

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Wis. ambush suspect maybe 'freaked out,' mom says (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:34:39 +0800

Boaters pass the area Saturday Aug. 2, 2008 where a gunman shot and killed three teens and wounded a fourth person Thursday at the Menominee River photographed from Kingsford, Mich at the base of the East Kingsford Bridge, which spans the river on the Wisconsin-Michigan border. A woman said a man suspected of opening fire on a group of young adults, killing three, had raped her the night before in the same northern Wisconsin woods where the victims were slain. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)AP - When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation! .


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Man pleads guilty in Las Vegas ricin case (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:34:01 +0800

AP - An unemployed graphic designer who authorities say poisoned himself with ricin in his Las Vegas motel room pleaded guilty Monday to possessing a biological toxin.

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Ohio officer acquitted of killing mom holding baby (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:41:25 +0800

AP - A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.

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Co-defendant in OJ Simpson case pleads guilty (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:33:17 +0800

AP - A fourth co-defendant pleaded guilty Monday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case, agreeing to testify against the Hall of Fame football player and one remaining co-defendant.

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Missouri sees second tiger attack in as many days (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:37:05 +0800

AP - Three tigers attacked a worker at an exotic animal park in southwestern Missouri on Monday — the state's second tiger attack in as many days.

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Gay couples use weddings to wage ballot fight (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:19:43 +0800

Pamela Brown, left, and her wife Shauna Brown are seen with the cake-toppers from their wedding cake, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, in Berkeley, Calif.  Brown, 40, and her Shauna Brown, 42, are one of many same-sex couples whose nuptials are made possible by California Supreme Court's May 15 ruling that legalized gay marriage. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - When Pamela Brown got married, the two bride figurines atop her wedding cake celebrated her newfound right in California to marry another woman. But one of the figurines had a tiny sign over its head with something more to say: "Vote No on 8."


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7 more Philly workers suspended in teen's death (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:05:15 +0800

Human Services commissioner Anne Marie Ambrose, right, looks on as Mayor Michael Nutter makes remarks during a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. Seven more city employees have been suspended in connection with the starvation death of 14-year-old Danieal (dan-YELL) Kelly. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Seven city social service administrators were suspended Monday, exactly two years after the emaciated, maggot-infested body of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was found in the squalid home of her mother, who has been charged with murder.


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Robert Novak retiring after brain tumor diagnosis (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:35:39 +0800

An April 19, 2006 file photo shows Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak in Chicago. The syndicated columnist and former 'Crossfire' host has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work in a statement issued by Novak Monday, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Chicago Sun-Times, Rich Hein)AP - Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced his immediate retirement Monday because of his diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor.


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Kosher slaughterhouse owners surrounded by scandal (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:16:41 +0800

AP - Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa — not exactly a center of Jewish culture.

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Recordings raise questions about inmates' rights (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:06:16 +0800

AP - The last thing defense attorney Jim McMahon expected to hear on a recording of phone calls from the county jail was his own voice discussing trial strategy with a client who had been jailed on a probation violation.

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Rural volunteer fire depts. struggle to recruit (AP)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:56:08 +0800

Instructor Todd Brim, left, and volunteer firefighters from left: Chad Palensky, of Ceresco, Dustin Augustyn, of Osceola, Matt Bower, of Ceresco, Don Fiedler, of Cedar Biuffs, and Jeff Stunkel, of Ansley, advance toward a propane 'christmas tree' to practice pushing flames away from a valve during the 71st Annual Nebraska State Fire School in Grand Island, Neb.  Volunteer fire and rescue departments nationwide are struggling with declining membership, increased costs and changing attitudes toward a vocation with roots dating to the early 1700s. State and federal lawmakers are taking action to help reverse the trend because volunteers are often the first responders to events ranging from floods to fires, and some say the shortage presents a looming crisis. (AP Photo/Scott Kingsley)AP - Simple numbers were working against the fire and rescue department in this town of 400 along Interstate 80. Unbeknownst to six people in a Suburban that had just wrecked on the busy interstate, the math didn't favor them either.


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