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NYC council takes up term limit change this week (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:17:24 +0800

Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at City Hall in New York, Thursday Oct. 2, 2008. Bloomberg announced plans for a third term in office, but is almost certain to face a legal challenge if he tries to alter the city's term-limits law and seek four more years in office. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's crusade to change term limits law so he can run again gets its first official test this week with a bill in the City Council, where it will compete with legislation intended to stop him.


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'Bride' and 'groom' to be restored to Calif. forms (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:49:35 +0800

Rick Yorgason, right,a supporter of the proposed California ban on same-sex marriage,constitutional amendment. asks voter Kevin Patel, left, about his thoughts on gay marriage during a poll of voters in Elk Grove, Calif., on  Aug. 23, 2008. Proposed bans on same-sex marriage are on the ballot in three important states this fall, rousing passions on both sides, yet neither John McCain nor Barack Obama seem eager to push the issue high on their campaign agendas. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)AP - The words "bride" and "groom" will reappear on all marriage license applications issued in California starting next mon! th, state health officials said.


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Deadlines set for designating polar bear habitat (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:41:33 +0800

In this 2007 file photo, a Polar Bear is seen outside Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Ice unearthed in Canada that stayed frozen for 700,000 years, even in warmer times, should allay fears of melting permafrost venting its vast carbon stores to hasten global warming, a study said Friday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - The federal government will designate "critical habitat" for polar bears off Alaska's coast, a decision that could add restrictions to future offshore petroleum exploration or drilling.


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Defense: 'Precious Doe' defendant kicked girl, 3 (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:09:55 +0800

AP - The man accused of murdering 3-year-old Erica Green kicked her in the head but didn't mean to kill her, his attorney told a jury Monday in the case of a victim the city mourned for four years only knowing her as "Precious Doe."

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Calif. mom who drove son to gang fight convicted (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:38:02 +0800

AP - A mother was convicted of second-degree murder Monday for driving her teenage son and his friends to a fatal fight with a rival gang.

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Prosecutor: Phoenix shooting suspect kept records (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:21:52 +0800

Dale Hausner, left, talks with his attorney Ken Everett during his trial in the Maricopa County Superior Court Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Hausner, one of two men arrested in the 'Serial Shooters' case, has pleaded not guilty in eight killings and 20 other attacks that occurred during 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo/Pool, Mark Henle)AP - The man accused of leading the notorious Serial Shooter attacks two years ago watched with excitement as news reports logged his alleged killings and fear spread through neighborhoods across the Phoenix area, a prosecutor said Monday.


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Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:49:02 +0800

AP - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated.

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Ky. authorities e-mail suspect in woman's death (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:37:42 +0800

This undated photo released by the Kentucky State Police shows Simpson County, Ky., Deputy Randall Creek. Creek, 41, is being sought in the murder of Debbie R. Rediess. Rediess, 46, was fatally shot outside her home early Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008,  a mile north of Smiths Grove, Ky. The sheriff's deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky taunted state police in an e-mail exchange Monday, threatening a county jailer and telling police he was going to 'make them earn their money' in their search for him. (AP Photo/Daily News, Kentucky State Police)AP - A sheriff's deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky taunted state police in an e-mail exchange Monday, threatening a county jailer and telling police he was going to "make them earn their money" in their search for him.


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Hundreds gather to watch ND bridge demolition (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:35:03 +0800

AP - Pigeons scattered and several hundred people watched Monday when a 450-foot section of a historic Missouri River bridge was blown up to make way for a new span.

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Nobels awarded for AIDS, cancer virus research (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:07:34 +0800

German cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen stands in his laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the AIDS virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)AP - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention in showing a viral cause for cervical cancer shared the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for breakthroughs that have led to lifesaving drugs and a vaccine.


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Sharpton: Bell verdict protests were peaceful (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:14:15 +0800

The Rev. Al Sharpton arrives at criminal court Monday, Oct. 6 , 2008, in New York. Sharpton is on trial for the traffic-choking protests over the deadly police shooting of an unarmed New York city man. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - The Rev. Al Sharpton says he convened civil rights leaders after the Sean Bell police-shooting acquittals to come up with a way for all New Yorkers to express their outrage.


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AP Enterprise: In bad economy, power cutoffs soar (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:36:02 +0800

Marie Williams, right, helps her daughter Richelle with homework at their home in Cohoes, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008.  Williams' power was cut off this summer for about a week, forcing her girls to do homework by candlelight. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - The number of Americans whose electricity or gas has been shut off for nonpayment of their bills is up sharply in many parts of the country as people struggle to cope with higher prices and a shaky economy.


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Transgender Ga. official wins legal battle (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:47:52 +0800

AP - Georgia's top court ruled in favor of a transgender politician who was slapped with a lawsuit by two political opponents who claimed she misled voters by running as a woman.

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FBI file reveals Evel Knievel's dark side (AP)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:09:08 +0800

Evel Knievel, is seen May 11, 2006 file photo in Clearwater, Fla.  Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law — the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them. But even he objected to a 1970s FBI investigation of whether he was involved in a string of beatings. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press, the federal government came close to charging Knievel, who in turn threatened to sue the FBI for alleging he was connected to a crime syndicate. Neither followed through.  (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)AP - Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law — the late motorcycle dare! devil often reveled in them. But even he objected to a 1970s FBI investigation of whether he was involved in a string of beatings.


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OJ Simpson jury says witness testimony not trusted (AP)

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:47:58 +0800

Juror Dora Pettit, center, speaks during a news conference at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. The jurors who convicted O.J. Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas say they relied more on video and other documented evidence than on witness testimony. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Jurors who found O.J. Simpson guilty in his armed robbery trial say secret audio tapes and surveillance video swayed them more than witness accounts.


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