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Some leave Gulf Coast ahead of likely evacuations (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:48:11 +0800

Residents of Ormond Nursing and Care Center line the hall with belongings in paper sacks as they wait to evacuate in preparation for Hurricane Gustav, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, in Destrehan Friday, La. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)AP - As city officials detailed plans for an evacuation that could be called over the weekend, some residents weren't waiting to be told to leave.


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Hurricane Gustav gains strength on way to Cuba (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:36:27 +0800

Rain clouds form off Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman Island seen from Westin Casuarina Resort and Spa at sunset as the Gustav storm system approaches, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Gustav rapidly gained power early Saturday and verged on becoming a fearsome Category 3 hurricane as it neared western Cuba on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast three years after Hur! ricane Katrina.


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NYPD: former detective arrested as 'Bling Bandit' (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:18:44 +0800

AP - He was a respected former NYPD detective and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who struggled in recent months with inoperable liver cancer.

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McCain's choice of running mate is hardly known (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:33:09 +0800

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks after being chosen the Republican vice presidential running mate for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain at a campaign event in Dayton, Ohio August 29, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)AP - In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor's office and now — making history — to John McCain's side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket.


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Army Experience Center offers simulations at mall (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:59:51 +0800

Maj. Larry Dillard of the U.S Army, right, and chief marketing officer Edward Walters of the U.S. Army, far right, talks to the Associated Press about the Army Experience Center, while sitting in the Black Hawk simulator, which is a model helicopter that takes particpants on a virtual flight through of a remote mountain village, allowing them to shoot at enemies as they protect a U.S. convoy headed to a medical facility, in Philadelphia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Staffed by soldiers eager to share their experiences and stocked with high-tech simulators, video gaming stations and interactive exhibits, the Army Experience Cente! r is a new frontier in marketing for Army officials who hope to give the public a better understanding of today's military. (AP Photo/Justin Maxon)AP - "Heads up! Enemy helicopter inbound!"


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Maine artist creates HOPE image decades after LOVE (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:51:52 +0800

Artist Robert Indiana poses Thursday, Aug. 29, 2008 at his studio in Vinalhaven, Maine. Indiana, who in the 1960s created the pop icon LOVE, now has created a similar image with HOPE, with proceeds going to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Joel Page)AP - The Maine artist who brought LOVE to the world is doing the same with HOPE.


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In New Orleans, no shelter for those who stay (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:17:59 +0800

Bill Lister (R) holds a support for window covering while Tyler Malejko saws in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Gustav. Exactly three years after deadly Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, authorities on Friday begin bussing people out of the city ahead of the possible landfall of Gustav, forecast to hit the area early Tuesday as a powerful Category Three hurricane.(AFP/Matthew Hinton)AP - Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked! . Those who stay will be on their own.


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2 airliners nearly collide over Atlantic (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:39:09 +0800

AP - Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said Friday.

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Police: DNA links man to slaying of Kutcher's ex (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:05:42 +0800

AP - DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.

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Report: NASA studies extending shuttle to 2015 (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:53:10 +0800

AP - NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.

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Katrina's unclaimed dead entombed, Gustav looms (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:35:32 +0800

Residents and city officials pray during a memorial ceremony on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. New Orleans braces for Tropical Storm Gustav as it enters the Gulf of Mexico.(AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - At 9:38 a.m. on Friday, about 200 mourners rang handbells to mark the moment three years ago when New Orleans' levees were breached by high waters from Hurricane Katrina, flooding most of the city and leading to the deaths of about 1,600 people.


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Radar used to search for couple missing since '85 (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:18:51 +0800

This is an aerial view of the former home of a couple, who went missing in 1985, where investigators, near the pool, are using ground-penetrating radar, searching for evidence in their disappearance Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, in San Marino, Calif. Newlyweds Jonathan and Linda Sohus, who are presumed dead, lived in the home but vanished in 1985. Nine years later, workers building a pool for the new owners unearthed a man's bones, but they remain unidentified. German Christian Gerhartsreiter, who was known as Christopher Chichester to the couple and in recent years called himself Clark Rockefeller, is accused of kidnapping his daughter ! on a Boston street last month after losing custody of her in his divorce. His arrest has investigators re-examining the Sohuses' property. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Homicide investigators used ground-penetrating radar Friday to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple were buried in the backyard.


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Forecasters: Gustav strengthens into a hurricane (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:15:09 +0800

Retired Army Gen. Russel Honore, right, listens to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin make remarks at the graveside of a Hurricane Katrina victim at a memorial service in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Honore led his Army troops in the early days after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. It has been three years since the deadly storm struck the city and unclaimed victims are just being buried. Joining Nagin and Honore is City Council woman Shelley Midura. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - On the same day that residents marked the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's wrath, another storm strengthened into a hurric! ane miles away and threatened to hit the Gulf Coast once again.


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Hurricane victims rebuild fortress-like homes (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:04:24 +0800

Jorge Montanes loads belongings into a van as he prepares to evacuate with his family from Hurricane Gustav, in Chalmette, Louisiana. August 29, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)AP - Floodwaters 5 feet deep filled sculptor and retired Navy Cmdr. Robert Noguere's bayfront home when Hurricane Ivan made landfall in 2004.


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Hurricane-force winds, heavy rain hit Phoenix area (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:49:59 +0800

AP - A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, damaging several airliners and collapsing a brand-new college football facility.

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Lawyer: Guilty plea coming in Pa. collar-bomb case (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:29:51 +0800

AP - A defense attorney says his client will plead guilty to conspiracy in a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man.

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Demand for military bomb techs at all-time high (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:12:21 +0800

A remote-operated robotic bomb defuser picks up a rocket during Iraqi military explosive ordinance training at Lions military camp in Anbar province August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ)AP - Many things have gone wrong for Navy Senior Chief Tommy Gura while disarming nearly 200 improvised explosive devices in Iraq. He's been shot at and targeted for mortar attacks. His robots have blown up and he's lost communication to call for backup.


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Ohio jury convicts mom in microwaved-baby case (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:05:44 +0800

In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, China Arnold sits in a Montgomery County courtroom during a break in jury selection in Dayton, Ohio. A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death, a prosecutor said Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, during closing arguments of the woman's retrial. 'She could have stopped it with one finger, but she didn't,' Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Daniel Brandt said. (AP Photo/Ron Alvey, Pool)AP - A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense att! orney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.


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Gustav headed for current that fuels big storms (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:57:16 +0800

The center of Tropical Storm Gustav is pictured over the Caribbean Sea in this NOAA satellite image taken early August 29, 2008. REUTERS/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/HandoutAP - The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It's called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers say Gustav is headed right for it, reminiscent of Katrina.


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Calif. farmers use guns, poison to safeguard crops (AP)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:15:58 +0800

AP - Farmers in "America's Salad Bowl" are turning into hunters — stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer — to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields.

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