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Grand Canyon floods breach dam, force evacuations (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:44:35 +0800

In this photo released by the the National Park Service (NPS), an NPS employee is lowered down to a point overlooking the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River where one of 16 stranded rafters is waiting to be short hauled out. An earthen dam broke near the Grand Canyon early Sunday after heavy rains that forced officials to pluck hundreds of residents and campers from the gorge by helicopter. A private boating party of 16 people was stranded on a ledge at the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River after flood waters carried their rafts away. The boaters were found uninjured and were being rescued from the !  canyon, whose floor is unreachable in many places except by helicopter. (AP Photo/National Park Service)AP - When Cedar Hemmings and his small party returned from a Grand Canyon hike to the spot where they had tied their rafts, they found that a flash flood had left them stranded.


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Back to school: Shaky economy hits kids (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:39:44 +0800

AP - Hard times and higher fuel prices will follow kids back to school this fall.

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Tropical Storm Fay moves in on Florida Keys (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:31:36 +0800

This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 at 12:15 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Fay over Cuba where she is lashing the island with heavy rain and wind.  The storm will move east a bit more before turning northward and making a beeline for Florida over the next couple of days.(AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - While some Key West businesses began putting up hurricane shutters in preparation for Tropical Storm Fay, tourists and residents still strolled lazily through town.


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CCC workers celebrate contributions 75 years later (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:04:18 +0800

This undated photo provided by the State of Connecticut shows Camp Roosevelt, in Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth, Conn. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Conservation Act, which created the CCC, helped change up to 4 million young men's lives and a reinvigorate a struggling nation. (AP Photo/State of Connecticut)AP - An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps.


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Ex-Marine decries prosecution in civilian court (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:58:44 +0800

Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, center, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, with his attorney's, Douglas L. Applegate, left, and Joseph M. Preis, right, in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008.  Nazario faces charges that he shot detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. It's a precedent-setting prosecution with the possibility of a conviction that would expose all former military personnel to prosecution in civilian federal court for actions in combat.  The trial starts on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 in Riverside, Calif.  (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - A former Marine s! ergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence on charges that he killed unarmed detainees in Fallujah, Iraq.


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Hawaii palace takeover leader couldn't find throne (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:15:38 +0800

AP - The leader of a Hawaiian pro-sovereignty group that broke into a historic palace once home to royalty said he planned to chain himself to the throne but couldn't find it because he had never been in the palace before.

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Schwarzenegger has surgery on knee hurt in workout (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:11:56 +0800

AP - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has had surgery to repair his right knee, which he injured while exercising about two weeks ago.

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Calif. man rescued after 2 nights in old mine (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:41:45 +0800

AP - A man was rescued from an abandoned gold mine Sunday after tumbling more than 100 feet and spending two nights at the bottom of the dark shaft, authorities said.

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Fairs tout green efforts, but some still struggle (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:37:01 +0800

Visitors to the Illinois State Fair buy mini donuts from the Donut Family stand at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. The Donut Family vendor is in contention for the fair's first-ever Green Vendor Award because it uses paper products and not Styrofoam. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - The doughnut stand's exterior was plastic and studded with incandescent lights. It had its own humming generators. And the cold water for sale came in plastic bottles.


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Texas officials want 8 sect kids back in custody (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:34:05 +0800

In an April 18, 2008, file photo Judge Barbara Walther arrives at Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas.  Texas child welfare authorities Monday Aug. 18, 2008,  are asking  Judge Walther to put eight children from the polygamist sect's ranch, ranging in age from 5 to 17, back in state custody, alleging their mothers have refused to limit contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages.  (AP Photo/Eric Gay/file)AP - More than two months after being forced to return children from a polygamist sect to their parents, Texas child welfare authorities want eight of the youngsters put back in f! oster care.


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Joys, burdens of being best face Phelps now (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:11:42 +0800

Michael Phelps poses with his eighth gold medal in swimming at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 17, 2008. (David Gray/Reuters)AP - He stood, literally, on top of the world: Everest. The highest mountain on earth.


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Texas authorities say body is abducted clerk (AP)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:03:47 +0800

AP - A body found in a remote area was been identified as the clerk whose abduction from a store in a small North Texas town was recorded by security cameras, authorities said Sunday.

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