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Weeks after Ol' Miss flooding, low water concerns (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:40:00 +0800

AP - Low water levels on the Mississippi River is causing problems, just weeks after one of the worst floods ever on Ol' Miss.

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Worry over tactics grows after firefighter deaths (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:34:20 +0800

In this July 5, 2008, file photo, firefighters watch as a brush fire burns out of control in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif. Faced with hundreds of big, hard-to-control blazes, California is struggling with what could be its most expensive wildfire season ever, burning through $285 million in the last six weeks alone and up to $13 million a day. (AP Photo/Phil Klein, File)AP - When a firefighting helicopter went down in Northern California last week, killing nine and injuring four, the mountain crash site was so remote that it could only be reached by air or a full day's hike.


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Jury rejects assault suit against Osteen's wife (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:31:57 +0800

Victoria Osteen and her husband Joel Osteen wait in court during a break in testimony in her civil trial Friday, Aug. 8, 2008 in Houston. Victoria, the co-pastor of Lakewood Church, is being sued by Continental flight attendant Sharon Brown who says Osteen assaulted her on a plane. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Victoria Osteen, the wife of megachurch pastor Joel Osteen, says her faith never faltered after she was sued for allegedly assaulting a flight attendant over a spill on her first-class seat.


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AP Interview: Doctor behind executions speaks out (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:30:40 +0800

AP - He owns three Harleys, is a self-described staunch Roman Catholic — and has helped kill dozens of men. Dr. Alan Doerhoff calls himself the "world's authority on lethal injection."

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Ark. Democrat leader mourned; slay motive elusive (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:38:22 +0800

This undated photo released by the Little Rock Police Department on Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008 shows a man identified by the police as Timothy Dale Johnson . Johnson barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters Wednesday and fatally shot the state party chairman before speeding off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase. (AP Photo/Little Rock Police Dept)AP - Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney was remembered as blunt but loyal and charitable, a day after he was gunned down in his office.


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FBI couldn't find dirt on popular ex-Wis. governor (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:13:40 +0800

AP - The red-vested and gregarious former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus was so well liked, even the FBI couldn't dig up any dirt.

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'Texas 7' fugitive who dropped appeals executed (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:11:32 +0800

Texas death row inmate Michael Rodriguez speaks during a death row interview at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas, July 30, 2008. Rodriguez would be the first of the six surviving members of the infamous 'Texas 7' — seven convicts who broke out of a South Texas prison in December 2000 — to be executed. The gang was captured in Colorado after six weeks on the run. One of them, Larry Harper, killed himself rather than surrender to authorities, but not before they all were involved in the fatal shooting of Aubrey Hawkins, an Irving policeman, during a Christmas Eve robbery of a sporting good! s store in the Dallas suburb. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)AP - A member of the infamous "Texas 7" gang of escaped fugitives was executed Thursday for killing a Dallas-area police officer during their weeks on the run.


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Bush still raking in cash for Republicans (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:06:07 +0800

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during an impromptu news conference in King's Supermarket in Bethlehem, Pa., Wednesday, July 23, 2008. McCain pushed back against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the surge strategy in early 2007. McCain said, 'I am again deeply disappointed that Sen. Obama will not recognize that the surge has succeeded', adding that 'no rational person' could think otherwise. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Bush's popularity has tanked,! but boy can he still bring in the cash.


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Former half-ton man endures hard times in Nebraska (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:03:39 +0800

This file photo from June 8, 2005 shows Patrick Deuel in his Valentine, Neb., home, June 8, 2005. Four years after his gastric bypass surgery, the Nebraska man who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds says he was 540 pounds in May, the last time he was weighed. That's about 100 pounds more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - Times are tough for the Nebraska man who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds, but Patrick Deuel says he's trying to keep a positive outlook.


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Woman who had dogs cloned wanted in Tennessee (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:05:15 +0800

In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said.


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Boy, 4, trapped alone on runaway boat for 45 min. (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:34:25 +0800

AP - A couple watched helplessly as their 4-year-old son was trapped alone on a runaway boat as it spun in circles on Lake Michigan for nearly 45 minutes.

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Idaho killer's jury hears voice of abducted girl (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:40:45 +0800

In this artist's rendering, Joseph Edward Duncan III listens to opening statements in the sentencing phase of his death penalty case in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008. A jury that will decide whether Duncan, a convicted pedophile should be executed listened Wednesday as a prosecutor graphically described how the man killed members of an Idaho family, abducted two children and abused the youngsters at a campsite before murdering one of them. (AP Photo/Ward Hooper)AP - Jurors deciding whether a convicted sex offender who killed four people should be executed heard Thursday the voice of ! a little girl who endured weeks of torture and despair but survived the 2005 attack that decimated her family.


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Pregnant NY traffic agent is hit, dies; baby lives (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:29:57 +0800

AP - A pregnant New York City traffic agent was struck by a van, run over by a bus and killed on Thursday, but doctors were able to save her baby.

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Crane leg collapses in Mass. shipyard; 1 dead (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:30:56 +0800

AP - The leg of a giant crane being dismantled at a shipyard collapsed on Thursday, killing an ironworker, a city official said.

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Just 6 sign up for self-deportation in 1st week (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:10:05 +0800

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official monitors the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, in Phoenix. Federal authorities in Arizona have launched a pilot program aimed at encouraging illegal immigrants who haven't followed deportation orders to arrange their departure from the country. Those choosing to sign up for the program would turn themselves in at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Just six illegal immigrants volunteered to leave the United States in the first week of a pilot program inviting ne! arly a half-million people to self-deport, federal officials said.


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Appeals court in NYC will rehear torture case (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:52:46 +0800

In this file photo Maher Arar listens to a question during a news conference in Ottawa January 26, 2007. A U.S. court will take the unusual step of rehearing a lawsuit it earlier rejected from Arar, a Canadian, who claims the U.S. government sent him illegally to Syria where he was tortured for a year, lawyers said on Thursday. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)AP - A federal appeals court will reconsider its decision to toss out a Canadian engineer's lawsuit over torture he says he endured after being mistaken for an Islamic extremist.


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Big mob case brings guilty pleas, light sentences (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:10:09 +0800

AP - Even for an infamous gang of mobsters already weakened by federal prosecutions spanning decades, Feb. 7, 2008, was an unusually bad day for the Gambino organized crime family.

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Obama camp: Detroit mayor would be a 'distraction' (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:07:36 +0800

Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Lisa Lindsey objects to the ruling by Circuit Judge Leonard Townsend that allows Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to be released from his tether, allowing him to attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver, during Kilpatrick's appearance in court on obstruction of justice charges. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)AP - Barack Obama doesn't want Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his legal troubles to be a distraction at the upcoming Democratic National Convention, and he got his wish Thursday when a judge ordered the city executive to stay home.


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Tiny suburb fights Chicago over airport project (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:24:45 +0800

Arlene Bensen stands outside her home in Bensenville, Ill., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Bensen has lived in the the neighborhood for 52 years and is one of the holdouts at the center of what this village of 20,000 calls a David-and-Goliath battle after Chicago, a city of 3 million, invoked eminent domain to seize 15 percent of Bensenville for upgrades at O'Hare International Airport. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - White-picket fences, neatly cut lawns and backyard swing sets belie the eerie reality about Arlene Bensen's neighborhood: Nearly everyone is gone.


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Investigation dogs Alaska governor (AP)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:52:00 +0800

AP - Gov. Sarah Palin, a rising young GOP star mentioned as a possible running mate for John McCain, could see her clean-hands reputation damaged by a growing furor over whether she tried to get her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.

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