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Gay marriage opponents seek to reverse new law (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:25:05 +0800

Brian Camenker of the watchdog activist group Mass Resistance poses in this June 28, 2006 file photo in Waltham, Mass. Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married in Massachusetts if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state. (AP Photo/William B. Plowman, file)AP - The gay marriage fight in Massachusetts might not be over after all.


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Sex offender laws in Nevada face court challenge (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:22:46 +0800

John Walsh gives a thumbs up as President Bush  looks on during a signing ceremony for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in the Rose Garden at the White House in this July 27, 2006 file photo. Nevada and other states are adopting laws that publicize the names of sex offenders on the Internet. But sex offenders say they have rights, too, and argue it's wrong to lump those guilty of minor offenses with the worst offenders. Some are challenging the laws. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)AP - Eager to protect children from sexual predators, Nevada and other states across the nation are adopting laws that publicize the nam! es of offenders on the Internet.


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University opening new integrative medicine center (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:44:48 +0800

AP - Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life.

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Killers of Calif. student sentenced to death (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:24:35 +0800

AP - Two men who tortured an Irvine college student to reveal where her family kept valuables and then strangled her in her home have been sentenced to death.

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Protesters take over grounds of Hawaiian palace (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:23:46 +0800

AP - For the second time this year, a Native Hawaiian sovereignty group has taken over the grounds of Iolani Palace, residence of Hawaii's last monarch.

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Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:02:35 +0800

This still frame image from video provided by Bigfoot Global LLC, shows what is claimed by them to be a bigfoot or sasquatch creature in an undisclosed area of a northern Georgia forest in June 2008. (AP Photo/Bigfoot Global LLC)AP - Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the Sasquatch show, as unreal as it may be.


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FBI: Prints prove 'Rockefeller' is German man (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:00:18 +0800

Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley, left, speaks to members of the media, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008 during a news conference at a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Boston. Ed Davis, Boston police commissioner, second from left, Tom Lee, deputy Boston police superintendent, third from left, and Boston Police's Bruce Holloway, right, listen. The FBI said Friday that it pulled fingerprints off decades-old immigration papers to identify the kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller as a German man who came to the U.S. as a youth and later adopted several aliases. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)A! P - The FBI said Friday that it matched fingerprints from a German man's decades-old immigration papers to a kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller — the first forensic link to a conclusion California authorities had already made.


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Idaho killer tells mother he had evil in his heart (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:22:01 +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 - The man who admits kidnapping two northern Idaho children and killing one of them wrote a letter to his mother blaming ! society for feeding the evil in his heart, a prosecution witness testified Friday.


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Pa. 'sex cult' child rapist released from prison (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:09:15 +0800

AP - A man who raped three girls at a church-affiliated school that prosecutors labeled a sex cult was released Friday after serving more than 30 years in prison, putting his neighbors on edge.

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Nazi camp liberator James Hoyt dies at 83 (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:52:11 +0800

This photo provided by Welcome Books shows James Hoyt, posing in Oxford, Iowa, as part of the Oxford Project. Hoyt, one of the four U.S. soldiers who first discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II, died Monday, Aug. 11, 2008 in his sleep at his home in rural Oxford. where he was photographed as part of the Oxford Project. He was 83. The cause of Hoyt's death has yet to be determined. (AP Photo/From The Oxford Project courtesy Welcome Books. © 2008 Peter Feldstein)AP - James Hoyt, one of four U.S. soldiers who discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp as World War II neared its end, has died.


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Construction begins on $57M San Diego border fence (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:51:07 +0800

James Swanson, a Border Patrol special operations supervisor, looks on as a U.S. construction crew fills the Smuggler's Gulch canyon near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, Calif., Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the continental United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environ! mental reviews and legal challenges.


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Texas to review arson case that ended in execution (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:53:27 +0800

AP - A commission created to investigate allegations of forensic misconduct in the nation's busiest capital punishment state will, in its first inquiry, determine whether a man executed in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three daughters actually started the blaze.

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Ore. service honors 9 killed in fire copter crash (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:31:03 +0800

A card and flowers are part of a memorial set up at Grayback firefighting headquarters in White City, Ore., Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, for firefighters killed in a northern California wildfire helicopter crash.  Nine were killed in the crash, seven from the Grayback unit. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Under a hot sun filtering through skies hazy with smoke from burning forests, a chrome fire bell tolled Friday to honor nine men killed in the crash of a firefighting helicopter in Northern California.


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Texas school district letting teachers carry guns (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:18:21 +0800

Guns are seen inside a display case at the Cabela's store in Fort Worth, Texas, June 26, 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)AP - A tiny Texas district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings when classes begin this month, provided the gun-toting employees follow certain requirements.


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Is John Edwards' former aide covering for him? (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:16:34 +0800

In this Dec. 27, 2006 photo provided by the National Enquirer, former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, is shown with videographer Rielle Hunter in the 9th Ward of New Orleans, La. On Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, Edwards admitted to having an affair with Hunter. (AP Photo/The National Enquirer)AP - For nearly a decade, Andrew Young was John Edwards' loyal foot soldier as Edwards rocketed from millionaire trial lawyer to U.S. senator to two-time White House hopeful.


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ND base in nuclear missile mistake deemed safe (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:14:54 +0800

AP - A North Dakota bomber wing that came under scrutiny for mistakenly shipping nuclear missiles across the country is now operating safely, the Air Force said Friday.

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Detroit mayor to stand trial on assault charges (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:26:33 +0800

Attorney for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, James Parkman III, talks with reporters outside Detroit's 36th District Court after Kilpatrick's preliminary examination on assault charges on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008 in Detroit. Kilpatrick was bound over for trial. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)AP - A judge ruled Friday that there's enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators.


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Texas ends several polygamous-sect custody cases (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:14:33 +0800

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, foreground, looks toward enlargements of police booking photos as he speaks during a news conference Monday, July 28, 2008, in Austin, Texas. He announced that five members of a polygamist sect have turned themselves in to authorities after they were indicted last week in Eldorado, Texas. The five men were indicted last week with Warren Jeffs, whose photo is on the right, the already-jailed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.   (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)AP - State child welfare authorities have decided that the courts no longer need to oversee! 34 children taken from a polygamous sect's ranch in west Texas.


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NYC heroes lift bus off pregnant woman; baby lives (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:10:06 +0800

Rev. Roger Hanbrick, left, lead prayers during a vigil outside St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York, Friday August 15, 2008.  The vigil was held for Donette Sanz, 33, a pregnant traffic agent who was struck by a runaway van, and to announce a fund for her 3-pound, 6 ounce baby boy named Sean Michael Sanz, who survived after delivery by Caesarean section.    (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Dozens of strangers converged from all directions to lift a 5-ton bus off the body of a pregnant woman — a superhuman effort that managed to save the life of her child but was too late for her.


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Ala. county faces biggest US municipal bankruptcy (AP)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:24:50 +0800

AP - Alabama's largest county appears headed for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a $3.2 billion mess created by the nation's credit crunch and a colossal, corruption-riddled sewer project.

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