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At inner-city LA high, nearly 6 in 10 drop out (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:09:52 +0800

Students walk outside Jefferson High School in Los Angeles before class starts Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. With a 58 percent dropout rate, Jefferson has the worst record in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which averages 33.6 percent dropouts, compared to a statewide average of 24.2 percent, according to recent state figures. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Amid the verdant lawn and leafy trees of the tidy Jefferson Senior High School campus, a police officer patrols the grounds and a sign warns that guns are illegal.


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Fay makes landfall in southwest Florida (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:05:53 +0800

Map shows the location and projected path of Tropical Storm Fay; 1c x 3 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 98.4 mmAP - Tropical Storm Fay made landfall on Florida's southwest coast early Tuesday, bringing soaking rains and gusty winds but nothing like the destruction last seen in the area during a 2004 killer hurricane.


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Judge: Detroit mayor removal hearing can't proceed (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:04:19 +0800

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, after spending the night in the Wayne County Jail, sits in the courtroom as he faces Judge Thomas Jackson during a bond appeal hearing in Detroit, Michigan August 8, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won a small but much-needed legal victory when a judge ruled the Detroit City Council doesn't have the authority to force him from office.


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Flood waters in South Texas recede after torrent (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:25:34 +0800

AP - The Rio Grande Valley's main highway was reopened and flood waters receded after up to 13 inches of rain swamped southern Texas.

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Search to resume for missing Grand Canyon tourists (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:11:50 +0800

Evacuees rest in a Red Cross shelter Aug. 18, 2008 in Peach Springs, Ariz. Flooding along the western end of the Grand Canyon after heavy weekend rains caused flooding near Havasu Falls, a side canyon of the Grand Canyon forcing many residents and hikers to be evacuated. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - A handful of hikers remained unaccounted for after flooding struck a tiny village near the Grand Canyon rim, a community so remote it is the only one in America where the mail is delivered by mule.


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Hearing to resume in new polygamist sect case (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:10:50 +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 - A mother accused of abuse for allegedly allowing her then-12-year-old daughter to marry polygamist leader Warren Jeffs plans to call in her defense a stepdaughter who returned voluntarily to the polygamist community.


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Wyo. tribe mourns 3 teens, loss of cultural ties (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:45:03 +0800

AP - Rows of rundown houses sit among stunted trees on a bleak, wind-swept plateau. The nearest mountains are a faint smudge on the horizon, and a boarded-up house marks the end of the road.

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Defense: Prosecutors bending law for MySpace hoax (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:19 +0800

AP - A defense attorney for the Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide argued in court papers that prosecutors are bending a cyber crime statute to prosecute his client.

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Iraqi refugees arriving in US for resettlement (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:28:28 +0800

AP - Thousands of Iraqi refugees have arrived in the United States as part of a nationwide resettlement program to bring 12,000 Iraqis to the United States by the end of next month, officials said.

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Defense: Cousin killed Ohio baby in microwave (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:53:48 +0800

AP - The cousin of a month-old girl who was burned to death in a microwave told friends that he was responsible for putting her in the oven, a defense attorney said Monday during opening statements in the retrial of the child's mother.

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AP: Mexican peppers posed problem before outbreak (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:08:22 +0800

Jalapeno peppers sit for sale in a market in Mexico City, Friday, July 25, 2008.  Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak in the United States, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced to Mexican chilies.


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What storm? Keys take Tropical Storm Fay in stride (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:28:29 +0800

An unidentified couple walk in the rain as Tropical Storm Fay approaches the Florida Keys in Big Pine Key, Fla., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Florida Keys and bore down on the Gulf Coast.


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RI, town reach $20 million deal in club fire suits (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:23:45 +0800

In this Feb. 20, 2003 file photo, firefighters spray water on to the charred remains of the nightclub, The Station located in West Warwick, R.I., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003.  The state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick have each agreed to pay $10 million to those left behind after a nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according to court documents filed Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - The state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick have each agreed to pay $10 million to those left behind after a nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according to court documents filed Monday.


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Potter, Leno, Favre are constants for Class of '12 (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:18:42 +0800

In this image originally released by Warner Bros., Daniel Radcliff, portraying Harry Potter, left, Rupert Grint, portraying Ron Weasley, center, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger are shown in a scene from the film, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'.  Warner Bros. says it's bumping 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' from its planned November release into next summer.  The sixth installment in the blockbuster franchise about boy wizard Harry now will open July 17 rather than Nov. 21, the studio said Thursday, Aug. 14.  (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Murray Close)AP - Students entering college this fall have l! ived their whole lives in a digital world — where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.


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Pa. teens ordered to trial in immigrant's death (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:44:01 +0800

Crystal Dillman, the fiancee Luis Ramirez, is moved to tears as members of Latina show their support for the couple  outside the Schuylkill County Courthouse, in Pottsville, Pa., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. A preliminary hearings was held for three suspects charged in the beating death of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old Mexican immigrant who was severely beaten on July 12, in Shenandoah, Pa. Latina is a Chicago-based grass roots organization working to defend Latino immigrant rights. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illeg! al immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, epithet-filled melee.


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College presidents seek debate on drinking age (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:57:07 +0800

AP - College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

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Quickly spreading brush fire burns homes in Reno (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:52:24 +0800

Firemen walk in front of Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., early Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008 after firefighters battled a three-alarm fire that started late Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. The Santa Clara County Fire Department says the three-alarm fire has burned the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings on the computer company's northern California campus. It was contained early Wednesday morning and no one was injured. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A wind-whipped fire quickly crackled through sagebrush and grass on a residential hillside Monday in northern Reno before destroying several homes and forcing evacuations.! No serious injuries were reported.


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BACK TO SCHOOL: More kids walk as fuel costs rise (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:04:23 +0800

AP - Faced with soaring diesel fuel costs, school districts are forcing students to use the old-fashioned way to get to class: on their own two feet.

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Clintons join in mourning for Ark. party leader (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:48:56 +0800

Former President Bill Clinton speaks at funeral services for Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, Pool)AP - Former President Clinton and others remembered the slain chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party on Monday for his strength of character and the unity he brought to Democrats in the past two political seasons.


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Mom to stand trial on Mich. prison escape charge (AP)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:14:57 +0800

Susan LeFevre, 53, right, talks with her attorney William Swor at her preliminary examination in district court in Plymouth, Mich., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. The California mother of three will face trial on an escape charge more than three decades after she fled a Michigan prison.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - A California woman who escaped from a Michigan prison more than 30 years ago and remade her life as a suburban mother of three is "extremely uncomfortable" back behind bars and wants to move the case through the courts as quickly as possible, her attorney said Monday.


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