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Forecasters downgrade Fay to a tropical depression (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:18:29 +0800

A road sign warns motorists of flood water from Tropical Storm Fay on a street in St. George Island, Fla.,Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The storm began wrapping up its disastrous slog across Florida on Saturday by making a record fourth landfall on the Panhandle's coast. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)AP - Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression Saturday night, but cities along the Gulf Coast were still bracing for heavy rain.


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Clinton backers split over Biden as VP choice (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:13:07 +0800

In this Thursday, June 28, 2007, file photo, Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, listens to Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., during the televised Democratic presidential candidates debate at Howard University in Washington. Democrats coalesced around Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his running mate on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, while Republicans quickly seized on the Delaware senator's past criticism of the presidential candidate's inexperience. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters had mixed reactions Saturday to the selection! of Joe Biden as the Democrats' vice presidential candidate.


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New Orleans repeating deadly levee blunders (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:06:44 +0800

Geneva Stanford, a 76-year-old health care worker, says she is glad to be home as she talks on the front porch of her home in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans Monday, Aug. 4, 2008.  Her home is approximately  200 feet from a rebuilt floodwall (background) that Hurricane Katrina broke. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.


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US hoops back on top, beats Spain for gold medal (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:59:18 +0800

USA's Kobe Bryant celebrates on the podium after beating Spain 118-107 in the men's gold medal basketball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008.  (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore.


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Plane crash in Utah kills pilot, 9 clinic workers (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:48:04 +0800

In this photo provided by the Grand County Sheriff's Office, the aftermath of a fatal plane crash is seen, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, in Moab, Utah. A twin-engine plane crashed and burned near an airport not far from Arches National Park in southeastern Utah, killing all 10 people on board, an official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Grand County Sheriff's Office)AP - It had already been a long day when Dr. Lansing Ellsworth and his team of dermatology specialists climbed aboard a twin-engine plane in southeastern Utah, ready to return home to their families 200 miles away.


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Biden makes debut as Obama's running mate (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:01:53 +0800

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., and his vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden D-Del., appear together at a campaign stop  Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware made his debut as Barack Obama's running mate, criticizing Republican John McCain as a captive to the "right wing of his party" who is insensitive to woes facing middle-class Americans.


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Stars of song, sport to top Olympic closing show (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:50:30 +0800

Tibetan exile monks shout slogans and carry Tibetan flags during a protest rally to mark the end of the Beijing Olympics in Dharmsala, India, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Hundreds of Tibetans took to streets shouting slogans such as 'China, Games Over' and 'Rise Up' as China prepares the closing ceremony for the Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)AP - A Spanish tenor, a British soccer star and a throng of kung-fu fighters are among the scheduled closing-ceremony attractions Sunday night as China concludes its first Olympics and hands over the role of Summer Games to London.


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Bikers escort WTC steel from NYC to Pa. memorial (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:19:58 +0800

AP - The roar of 1,000 motorcycles accompanied a steel beam from the World Trade Center on Saturday as it traveled to Pennsylvania, where it will be part of a memorial to those who died there in a Sept. 11 airliner crash.

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Man, pregnant girlfriend charged in Md. standoff (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:53:14 +0800

This undated picture provided by Maryland State Police shows James A. Prevatt III. The burglary suspect holed up in a motel with his pregnant girlfriend threatened to shoot a police robot bringing food and ignored his mother's plea to surrender, police said Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 as the standoff dragged into its third day. (AP Photo/Maryland State Police)AP - A man who held police at bay during a two-day Maryland motel standoff and his pregnant girlfriend, who claimed to be his hostage, both face charges, state police said Saturday.


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Clashing views of MIT grad suspected of terrorism (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:04:07 +0800

AP - To supporters, Aafia Siddiqui is a devout Muslim, a scholar educated at MIT and Brandeis, who fled to Pakistan after 9/11 because of anti-Muslim sentiment.

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BACK TO SCHOOL: Schools separate ninth-graders (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:01:45 +0800

Tasnim Mohamed poses with her school books at her home Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 in Houston. Tasnim Mohamed graduated from Aldine's Eisenhower Ninth Grade School in the spring. She said it provided her the personal attention she wanted. Given the importance of ninth grade — and the difficulties many adolescents face — some educators are turning to ninth-grade-only schools to separate 14- and 15-year-olds from older kids and make the transition easier.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Ninth grade, often the first year of high school, is a critical time when many students sink or swim while coping with new academic responsibilities and learning the oh-so-important social hierarchy.


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Okla. state worker temporarily gets 6-figure bonus (AP)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:09:19 +0800

AP - Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 — but it was only temporary.

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