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Hanna takes aim at Bahamas, Ike next in line (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:44:29 +0800

A man holding a child stands next to a big wave, on Paradise Island, on the northeast shore of Nassau, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. Many beaches were labeled as no swimming areas due to the approach of Tropical Storm Hanna into the Bahamas island chain. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)AP - While officials from Nassau to South Carolina were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Hanna, behind it, Hurricane Ike was gaining strength as it lumbered across the Atlantic as a powerful Category 4 storm.


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New Orleans residents returning home after Gustav (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:40:28 +0800

A Louisiana National Guard Chinook helicopter drops sand bags into a 150 feet breach in the levee at Pointe Celeste, threatening to inundate some of the same homes that were devastated during hurricane Katrina in the Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)AP - City and state officials tried to hold them off, but New Orleans residents would have none of it. After Hurricane Gustav brushed by the city, they wanted back in, and now.


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Back to school for Chicago public school students (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:46:24 +0800

Local residents welcome hundreds of Chicago public school students with their parents as they arrive to fill out applications in the New Trier High School while boycotting the first day of Chicago school 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 - Public school students who skipped classes to protest unequal education funding were urged to return to their desks Thursday after the boycott was prematurely called off.


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Atlantic Coast watches Hanna's shifting trek (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:27:03 +0800

Judson Syrett, 28, of Charleston, takes some pictures of waves after surfing on Sullivan's Island, S.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008.  Forecasters tentatively projected Tropical Storm Hanna, still in the Caribbean, would hit South Carolina early Saturday after glancing along the edges of Florida and Georgia.  (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)AP - Coastal residents moved boats and booked inland hotel rooms while National Guard troops prepared to deploy along the Southeastern coast as Tropical Storm Hanna plowed through the Atlantic on a shifting track toward the U.S.


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Report: US drug use shows little change in 2007 (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:33:37 +0800

AP - Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults declined significantly last year as supplies dried up, leading to higher prices and reduced purity, the government reports. Overall use of illicit drugs showed little change.

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Potential plea deal in the works for Detroit mayor (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:32:18 +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 - After months of defiantly holding onto his office, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appeared ready to give it up as part of a plea deal with prosecutors in a sex-and-misconduct scandal that has embarrassed the nation's 11th-largest city for months.


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Investigators puzzled by trail of Wash. killings (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:22:31 +0800

The body of Anne Jackson, a Skagit Co. sheriff's deputy who was one of six people killed Tuesday in a shooting rampage near Alger, Wash., is removed from the neighborhood where she was killed Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. A gunman is accused of killing six people and wounding four in the rampage. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A somber police motorcade carried a slain deputy's body away from the scene of a bloody rampage Wednesday as investigators tried to determine what set off a shooting and stabbing spree that left six people dead and four wounded.


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Ohio mom spared death penalty for microwaving baby (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:54:29 +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 woman convicted of murdering her infant daughter by microwaving her was spared the death penalty Wednesday by a jury that couldn't re! ach a unanimous decision.


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La. gov and New Orleans mayor are praised (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:03:53 +0800

St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, in the St. Bernard Parish of New Orleans.  (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - If Hurricane Katrina was one big lesson in government bungling, Gustav has been an open-book test of whether the politicians learned anything from the disaster.


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RI nightclub owners reach settlement in fatal fire (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:55:36 +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 - ! The owner of the radio station that ran ads for a concert where a fire killed 100 people agreed to pay $22 million. A beer distributor that helped promote the show agreed to $16 million.


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Defendant in Pa. collar-bomb case pleads guilty (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:16:56 +0800

AP - A man admitted in federal court Wednesday that he helped plot a bizarre bank robbery that ended when a bomb strapped around a pizza deliveryman's neck exploded and killed him, the first conviction in the 5-year-old case.

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Immigration issues resurface on some state ballots (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:13:16 +0800

ESL (English-as-a-second-language) teacher Xavier Chavez teaches a summer history class at Benson High School in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.  There is a ballot measure up before Oregon voters in November to limit the amount of time students can spend in ESL classes.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - In a high school classroom, Xavier Chavez is trying to teach a group of restless teenagers about Manifest Destiny — the 19th century belief that the United States was divinely fated to stretch from sea to shining sea.


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Judge pleads not guilty to sex crime charges (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:36:31 +0800

U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent arrives at the federal courthouse for a hearing on his indictment on sex crime charges Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008  in Houston. He was  indicted last week on federal sex crimes following a Department of Justice investigation. He is facing two counts of abusive sexual contact and one count of attempted aggravated sexual abuse.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - A federal judge, promising a "horde of witnesses" in his defense, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he fondled a former case manager and tried to force her into a sexual act.


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7 years for Conn. trash hauler accused of mob ties (AP)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:27:28 +0800

Danbury, Conn., trash hauler James Galante leaves U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 with his son A.J. Galante was sentenced to 87 months in prison on a variety of charges, including racketeering and fraud.  (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - A Connecticut trash hauler was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Wednesday for a price-fixing conspiracy that authorities say was supported by mob muscle, violence and extortion.


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