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New Orleans residents to return to no power (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:30:55 +0800

Lisa and Cliff Lyons stand in the flooded yard in front of their home in Coin du Lestin Estates that was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008, in Slidell, La. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)AP - Enter at your own risk, New Orleans. That was the message from Mayor Ray Nagin, who gave residents the go-ahead to return to the Crescent City on Wednesday night at midnight, but with several warnings — many homes were without electricity or working toilets and a dusk-to-dawn curfew would still be in effect.


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Man accused of killing 6 in Wash. recently jailed (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:30:19 +0800

Washington State Troopers and a Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy lead shooting suspect, Isaac Zamora, 28, to the county jail, Tuesday Sept. 2, 2008 in Mount Vernon, Wash., after he led authorities on a high speed chase from Alger, Wash. The Washington State Patrol says six people are dead and two are wounded after a shooting rampage. Authorities say Zamora turned himself in after the shootings Tuesday afternoon. A sheriff's deputy is among the dead. (AP Photo/The Skagit Valley Herald, Scott Terrell)AP - A man recently released from jail on drug charges and whose mother calls him "desperately mentally ill" is accused ! of a shooting spree that left six people dead and two others injured in northwest Washington.


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Removal hearing set to begin for Detroit mayor (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:28:02 +0800

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner's courtroom during a hearing on the mayor's bond in Detroit, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The judge said he would rule at 4 p.m. Tuesday on Kilpatrick's request to ease travel restrictions and remove an electronic tether, the key conditions of his release in the assault case. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has failed to stop Gov. Jennifer Granholm from moving ahead with an extraordinary public hearing that could cost him his job in a scandal over steamy text messages and millions of tax dollars.


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Suit against gay marriage recognition in NY tossed (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:17:56 +0800

Octogenarians Del Martin (L) and Phyllis Lyon (R) participate in the first legal same-sex marriage ceremony at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California in this June 16, 2008 file photograph. Martin, a Lesbian activist died on August 27, 2008 at the UCSF hospice in San Francisco with her spouse Lyon at her side according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Pool/Files/Reuters)AP - A judge has thrown out the first direct legal challenge to the New York governor's move to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, calling the policy a legally allowable stand for fairness.


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Defense seeks new trial in baby microwave death (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:52:58 +0800

AP - A former cellmate who said a woman convicted of microwaving her baby daughter confessed to the crime has changed her story, the mother's attorneys said Tuesday as they asked for a new trial.

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Southern U.S. coast nervously watches Hanna (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:23:48 +0800

People salvage items during flooding from Tropical Storm Hanna, in L'Artibonite, northern Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The storm has spawned flooding in Haiti that left 10 people dead in Gonaives, along Haiti's western coast, according to the country's civil protection department. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Nervous residents rushed to buy plywood and generators while emergency officials in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas weighed possible evacuations Tuesday as Tropical Storm Hanna was expected to shift toward a tough-to-predict landfall along the southern Atlantic coast by the end of the week.


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Illegal immigrants opted to stay during Gustav (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:50:09 +0800

Jose Gordillo, right, and his son Raul Hernandez, both natives of Mexico, are seen at home where they live in New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The two are illegal immigrants who have been helping rebuilding New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. They stayed behind when Gustav struck because they were afraid of being arrested if they boarded the buses and trains arranged by emergency officials. (AP Photo/Peter Prengaman)AP - Many of the illegal immigrants who have been rebuilding New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina stayed behind when Gustav struck because they were afraid of being arrested if they boarded the b! uses and trains arranged by emergency officials.


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Chicago students skip school in funding protest (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:49:08 +0800

These are some of the hundreds of Chicago public school students with their parents who lined up to fill out applications in the New Trier High School as they boycotted the first day of classes Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 in Northfield, Ill. to protest unequal school funding. The group rode buses more than 30 miles north to try to enroll in the wealthy suburban district. Boycott organizers acknowledge the move was largely symbolic because students would have to show proof that they live in the district or pay tuition to attend a school outside their home district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - More than 1,0! 00 Chicago public school students skipped the first day of classes Tuesday to protest unequal education funding, a boycott organizers said would continue through the week with help from retired teachers who will turn office lobbies into impromptu classrooms.


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Gustav evacuees grow weary in crowded shelters (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:45:48 +0800

Eddie Brown looks out the entrance of a shelter set up for evacuees from Hurricane Gustav in Shreveport, La., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Many of the people that fled the storm are complaining about sub-standard facilities devoid of any Red Cross or FEMA aid. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - With his city spared from major damage, and his husky body surpassing the edges of a narrow cot, Eddie Brown had come to believe Gustav was no longer the villain in this hurricane story: It was this rusted and vacant Sam's warehouse brimming with 3,000 evacuees.


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Great White offers $1M to settle fatal fire suits (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:43:29 +0800

In this Feb. 20, 2003 file photo released by the Rhode Island Attorney Generals office, nightclub worker Scott Vieira, right front, and Daniel Biechele, right, tour manager for the band Great White, appear near the stage in the Station nightclub, in West Warwick, R.I., as foam behind the stage bursts into flames. Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked the nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 in Providence. (AP Photo/Rhode Island Attorney Generals office, Daniel Davidson, File)AP - ! Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday.


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Tanker call canceled around time of fatal takeoff (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:28:28 +0800

A United States Forest service air tanker drops retardant on a burning hillside and hand crews watch from a nearby ridge in the Angeles National Forest near Green Valley, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. The fire is named the 'South' incident and has burned nearly 200 acres since it started around noon on Sunday. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - The order for a firefighting air tanker to drop retardant on a blaze in California was canceled about the same time the plane crashed during takeoff at an airport north of Reno, killing three people, officials said Tuesday.


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E. coli outbreak in Oklahoma kills 1, sickens 200 (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:09:07 +0800

AP - An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma has sickened more than 200 people and killed at least one person, state health officials said Tuesday.

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Muslim pilot from Pa. allowed to resume flying (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:48:08 +0800

AP - A commercial airline pilot who alleges his job was threatened because his name was on a secret terrorist watch list can resume flying, according to a letter his lawyers released Tuesday. The pilot claims he was put on the list because he is Muslim.

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Tropical quartet: 4 storms with more to come (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:57:44 +0800

This image provided by NOAA was taken at 4:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008. At 500 a.m. EDT the center of tropical storm Hanna was located about 90 miles southeast of Great Inagua Island and about 115 miles southwest of Grand Turk Island. Hanna is drifting toward the north near 2 mph and forecasters expect a gradual turn toward the northwest to begin later today. Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph with higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast during the next two days and Hanna could regain hurricane intensity by Thursday. Tropical storm Ike can be seen further to the east in the mid-Atlantic. Ike is moving toward the west-n! orthwest near 18 mph and a gradual turn toward the west is expected over the next 48 hours. Satellite images indicate that the maximum sustained winds remain near 65 mph with higher gusts. Ike is forecast to become a hurricane later today and continue to strengthen over the next couple of days. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - The tropics seem to be going crazy what with the remnants of Gustav, the new threat from Hanna, a strengthening Ike and newcomer Josephine. Get used to it.


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Passenger jet circling Los Angeles with blown tire (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:29:07 +0800

An American Airlines Boeing 757 touches down at Los Angeles International Airport in August 2008. An American Airlines jet bound for Toronto is returning to Los Angeles after a tire burst during take-off, authorities said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AP - An American Airlines jet carrying nearly 140 people is returning to Los Angeles International Airport after apparently blowing a tire during takeoff for Toronto.


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NJ dolphin spotters beware: That might be a shark (AP)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:30:10 +0800

AP - Wildlife officials have added some bite to their warnings against bothering a family of bottlenose dolphins hanging out in two New Jersey rivers: They say sharks have been known to frequent the area as well.

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