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Professor's body found in burned Idaho home (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:35:56 +0800

Mike Robinson, left, helps his parents Lynda and Mo Robinson look through the rubble of their home Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, in Boise, Idaho, after a wildfire moved through. More than 100 residents were evacuated before the fire was under control early Tuesday. Many evacuees spent the night at a nearby church or elementary school. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller)AP - The air was still thick with the smell of smoke when fire crews allowed Christopher Lee and his wife to return to their charred neighborhood and collect their belongings — or what was left of them.


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Fear grips immigrants after Miss. plant raid (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:16:02 +0800

Members of the Homeland Security ICE team raid Howard Industries in Laurel, Miss. during a raid for undocumented workers Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. Howard Industries produces dozens of products, ranging from electrical transformers to medical supplies, according to the company's Web site. (AP Photo/George Clark)AP - A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.


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Gustav weakens but could become hurricane again (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:10:53 +0800

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Gustav about 130 miles southeast of Guantanamo, Cuba. In addition, an area of low pressure northeast of the northern Leeward islands is producing showers and thunderstorms. This system may develop into a tropical depression over the next few days as it moves northwestward. Farther south, moderate to strong thunderstorms are develop over far northern South America. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical Storm Gustav stalled in the Caribbean early Wednesday a day after hitting Haiti as a hurricane.


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Incomes fall in Michigan, number in poverty rises (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:43:53 +0800

An auction sign is displayed on a house in Rochester Hills, Mich., in this Oct. 4, 2007 file photo. Michigan was the only state where poverty rose and incomes fell last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesda, Aug. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)AP - Government data painted a bleak economic picture for Michigan, where the auto industry's downward plunge has rippled across the state.


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Memorial to Hurricane Katrina victims taking shape (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:17:43 +0800

Work continues on the Hurricane Katrina memorial in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. The land was vacant just five weeks ago and workers are rushing to complete the memorial by the third anniversary of the hurricane, which is Friday. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Six mausoleums for the unclaimed dead of Hurricane Katrina stand on what was vacant land just five weeks ago, as New Orleans — in what could be a testament to its determination — scrambles to complete a memorial by Friday's third anniversary of the storm.


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Mich. governor, Detroit mayor have strained past (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:53:50 +0800

In this July 21, 2003 file photo, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, listens as Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm addresses a news conference in Detroit. Michigan's governor and Detroit's embattled mayor have had a strained relationship for years and the tension is bound to escalate when she holds a hearing next week to decide whether to remove him from office for misconduct. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP - Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick come from the same powerful Democratic political machine, yet they have had a strained relationship for years.


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Fed official: Colo. men no true threat to Obama (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:29:07 +0800

A photo released by the Aurora, Colo., police department Monday Aug. 25, 2008, shows the booking photo of Tharin Gartrell who was arrested during a traffic stop early Sunday by police in the eastern Denver suburb of Aurora. (AP Photo/Aurora Police Department)AP - A group of suspected drug users arrested in Denver this weekend with methamphetamine, guns and bulletproof vests made racist threats against Barack Obama but posed no true danger to the presidential candidate as he accepts the Democratic nomination here this week, federal authorities said Tuesday.


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Flash floods surprise drivers in Southwest, kill 2 (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:54:00 +0800

AP - Eunice Mork and four of her closest friends were returning from a trip they made all the time — a 55-mile drive from playing bingo in Parker to their homes in Salome.

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DA: NM escaped inmates may have had inside help (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:23:40 +0800

This undated photo, supplied by the Curry County Sheriff's Department, shows Edward Salas, one of eight men who escaped Sunday night, Aug. 23, 2008, from the Curry County jail in Clovis, N.M. He has been convicted of murdering a 10-year-old Clovis boy in 2005 and had been sentenced to life in prison. He was waiting to be transferred to the state Corrections Department when he escaped. (AP Photo/Curry County Sheriff's Department)AP - Five inmates who broke out of a New Mexico jail — including a killer and a man accused of murder — remained on the loose Tuesday, and a prosecutor said investigators were focusing on the possib! ility that someone inside aided in the weekend escape.


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Hurricane recovery confronts low literacy rate (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:11:54 +0800

Henry Lee Burton talks with a reporter while sitting in his truck before going to work in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Burton often brings his adult literacy course work to his job. Overshadowed by bureaucratic failures and slow-moving rebuilding programs, there is a backstory to New Orleans' Katrina recovery rooted in a broken school system and the legacy of segregation: as many as 70 percent of adults read below a ninth-grade level and over 40 percent cannot comprehend basic government forms. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Marsha Williams had always hesitated when mail arrived from the government. After Hurr! icane Katrina, she began to fear the letters.


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New attack ad on TV, but this one targets hot dogs (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:11:09 +0800

In this still image from video provided by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a scene from a TV commercial created by the Cancer Project called 'Protect Our Kids' is seen. (AP Photo/Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the Cancer Project)AP - A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer."


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NYC judge orders release of Rosenberg testimony (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:17:38 +0800

AP - A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of key secret grand jury testimony in the atomic spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, citing its value to historians in the debate over national security versus freedom.

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Ohio man sentenced for writing racial hate letters (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:54:23 +0800

AP - A man who wrote hundreds of threatening letters over 20 years to black and mixed-race men — including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter — was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 10 months in prison.

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Colleges confront shootings with survival training (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:19:16 +0800

AP - Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any "improvised weapon," from a backpack to a laptop computer.

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Jury: Worker covered up damage at Ohio nuke plant (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:07:11 +0800

AP - Jurors on Tuesday convicted a former nuclear plant engineer of hiding information from government regulators about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor.

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JetBlue pilot smells smoke, returns flight to JFK (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:02:36 +0800

Handout photo from JetBlue airlines shows the tail of a JetBlue airliner. Cut-price JetBlue airline on Monday announced a seven-dollar blanket and pillow charge on flights longer than two hours, the latest in a series of surcharges US airlines are introducing to offset a slump in the business.(AFP/HO/File)AP - JetBlue says one of its flights returned to Kennedy Airport shortly after takeoff after the pilot reported smelling smoke in the cockpit.


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SAT scores stay at lowest level in nearly a decade (AP)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:09:43 +0800

HOLD FOR RELEASE at 11 a.m. EDT; chart shows latest SAT scores;AP - For a second straight year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade, a trend attributed to a record number of students now taking the test.


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