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Flight attendant says Victoria Osteen eyed cockpit (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:37:23 +0800

Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown responds to her attorney, Reginald McKamie in the 113th District Court, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008,  in Houston, Texas as the lawsuit of Brown accusing Lakewood Church co-pastor Victoria Osteen of assault continues. (AP Photo/ Steve Ueckert , Houston Chronicle )AP - A flight attendant suing Victoria Osteen said the wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen was eyeing the cockpit after throwing her against a bathroom door before a 2005 flight.


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Yellowstone National Park recovers from 1988 fires (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:12:54 +0800

Burned lifeless trees are silhouetted against a sunset June 18, 2008, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of a series of wildfires that burned 36 percent of the park. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - If there is a place where heaven and hell meet, it's here. Twenty years ago this summer, a series of wildfires burned 36 percent of America's first national park, scorching huge swaths of pristine forest and killing scores of wild animals.


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Crime-ridden Arkansas town expands 24-hour curfew (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:03:30 +0800

A Helena West police car is parked in a neighborhood where a curfew was established by the city's mayor Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008 in Helena, Ark.  Police will expand their 24-hour curfew patrols beyond the 10 blocks now watched by officers armed with military rifles and night-vision goggles, stopping and questioning anyone who passes by.   (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Officers armed with military rifles have been stopping and questioning passers-by in a neighborhood plagued by violence that's been under a 24-hour curfew for a week.


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ACT scores down, but more students college-ready (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:13 +0800

HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:01 A.M. ALL TIME ZONES; graphic shows average ACT score by year since 2001;AP - Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2008 as the number of students taking the exam jumped by 9 percent compared to last year.


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Mass. principal behind `pregnancy pact' row quits (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:08:54 +0800

AP - A high school principal who set off a furor after being quoted as saying that teenage girls formed a pact to get pregnant has resigned, weeks after his comments were publicly questioned by the mayor.

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Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:13:24 +0800

In this undated file photograph courtesy of the Newseum, the cabin used by Ted Kaczynski, who was convicted in the 'Unabomber' crimes, is seen on display at the Newseum in Washington. Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole, says the display runs counter to his victims' wish to limit further publicity about the case. (AP Photo/Newseum, James P. Blair)AP - Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree.


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Cooperative burglar gets 7 1/2-year prison term (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:26:34 +0800

Ricardo Caveda is shown at a sentencing hearing on Tuesday Aug. 12, 2008 in Los Angeles. Caveda, a confessed burglar who stole about $16 million in property, including a Degas painting, was sentenced to 7½ years in prison after making a police training video showing how he pulled off his crimes. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - One of the city's most prolific burglars was resentenced Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in prison after making a police training video showing how he stole about $16 million in property, including a Degas painting.


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Georgians in America watch the violence back home (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:47:11 +0800

Leila Mikeladze, 46, left, an immigrant from Georgia, listens as Khatuna Baghaturia,37, also from Georgia, speaks during an interview in New York, Tuesday Aug. 12 , 2008.  Mikeladze, a cook at a restaurant called Tbilisi  in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay owned by Baghaturia, says she is concerned for her family in Georgia following the Russian incursion into her country.    (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Khatuna Baghaturia has spent countless hours in the last week on the phone with relatives in her native country and watching the bloodshed on TV. The sight of Russian troops laying waste to Georgia was all the mo! re horrifying because her three children are there now — on vacation.


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John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, denied parole (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:42:59 +0800

This 1975 file photo shows Mark David Chapman as a member of a YMCA group at Fort Chaffee, Ark. Chapman, who was convicted of shooting former Beatle John Lennon in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980, was denied parole for the fifth time Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. He became eligible for parole at New York's Attica Correctional Facility after serving 20 years of a maximum life sentence. (AP Photo)AP - John Lennon's killer was denied parole for a fifth time Tuesday by a board that said he remains a threat to the public. Mark David Chapman will remain in New York's Attica Correctional Facility for at least two more years for gu! nning down the former Beatle nearly three decades ago on a Manhattan sidewalk.


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More than 360 animals found at filthy Mo. property (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:44:29 +0800

In this photo provided by the Polk  County Sheriff's Department, Virginia Gambriel, 61, is seen in her booking photo Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008, in Bolivar, Mo. Gambriel was charged in connection with conditions on her southwest Missouri property where more than 315 animals were kept, many of them emaciated, injured and suffering from mange and parasites. (AP Photo/Polk  County Sheriff's Department)AP - More than 360 domestic and farm animals, many of them emaciated, injured and suffering from mange and parasites, were rescued Tuesday from a filthy southwest Missouri property where they were hoarded and bred, authorities said! .


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Dog guarded owner's body for weeks after suicide (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:23:38 +0800

AP - A dog stood guard over her owner's body for up to six weeks after the man committed suicide on the remote northeastern Colorado plains, authorities said.

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Can NY infrastructure handle floods, intense heat? (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:10:57 +0800

Britain's Prince Charles, seen in February 2008, delivers a speech on climate change before representatives from the environment and industry/energy Parliamentary commitees at the European Parliament in Brussels. The widespread development of genetically modified crops risks leading to the worst environmental AP - Flooded subways. Bridges deteriorating in the hot sun. Rising seas nipping at the edges of Manhattan.


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440 years for former Ill. cop convicted of 4 rapes (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:39:21 +0800

AP - A former police sergeant convicted of raping four women was sentenced to 440 years in prison Tuesday.

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Fatal crash 3rd in 3 months for volunteer pilots (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:42:12 +0800

A chaplain from the Mansfield Fire Department says a prayer by the wreckage of a still smoldering small plane that crashed in the parking lot of a supermarket in Easton, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Preliminary reports indicated that three people were killed. (AP Photo/Robert Klein)AP - A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months for a network of charities that ferry patients to medical treatment.


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Trial begins over $30M Cezanne stolen in 1978 (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:32:58 +0800

AP - At first, nothing seemed out of place when Michael Bakwin returned to his home in the Berkshires after he and his family went away for Memorial Day weekend in 1978.

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Man convicted of murder in boy's starvation death (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:23:29 +0800

AP - A man who had agreed to care for his ex-girlfriend's son was convicted Tuesday of starving the 7-year-old to death while forcing him to spend his last few days in a tiny closet.

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No bail for Md. mom accused in starving death (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:06:53 +0800

A February 14, 2006 photo released by  Seeta Khadan-Newton shows Ria Ramkissoon and her son Javon Thompson. Ramkissoon, who was involved with a group that calls itself 1 Mind Ministries, was charged August 10 with first-degree murder for allegedly starving to death her son Javon Thompson, who was about 15 months old at the time. (AP Photo/ courtesy of Seeta Khadan-Newton)AP - A 21-year-old woman accused of staving her toddler to death while a member of a religious cult was ordered held without bail Tuesday, and her attorney suggested that she was not responsible for her son's slaying.


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Republicans seek nomination to succeed Tancredo (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:37:01 +0800

In this Dec. 12, 2007 file photo, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., listens during the Des Moines Register Republican Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa. Four Republicans are competing Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008 for the GOP nomination to succeed Tancredo, the five-term congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Four Republicans competed Tuesday for the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo, the five-term Colorado congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence.


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Judge rules Detroit mayor didn't violate bond (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:19:07 +0800

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in court during an emergency bond appeal hearing in front of Judge Thomas Jackson at the Wayne County Third Circuit Court, Friday, August 8, 2008 in Detroit. Judge Jackson ruled that Kilpatrick could go free after spending Thursday night in jail but must post a $50,000 cash bond. After the judge ruled he violated terms of his release on bond, he  is barred from any travel outside the state, and must wear an electronic tether.(AP Photo/Bryan Mitchell)AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's third trip to court in a week turned into a victory Tuesday when a judge threw out prosecutors' claim! that a visit with his sister violated the terms of his bail in an assault case.


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Kids' baseball teams going farther, get younger (AP)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:18:28 +0800

Eight-year-old Brady Kemp throws a baseball to his fathery, Larry Kemp, during a short workout at Shiloh Park in Brandon, Miss., Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. A member of a select baseball travel ball team, Brady and his family have traveled extensively to get him and his teammates to tournaments. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - One inning at a time, Brady Kemp is getting closer to his dream of playing for the Atlanta Braves. He has endured numbing road trips to no-name ballparks and crashed in small-town motels after late games.


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