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Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:27:02 +0800

In this photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Game, two five gallon backpack sprayers used to spray pesticides directly on the buds of marijuana plants to keep the insects down are shown on Monday, July 28, 2008 at Longmeadow Creek in Tulare County near Johnsondale, Calif. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Game)AP - National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

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Murder case ends blocks from where it began in LA (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:51:40 +0800

Escorted by Los Angeles police, Kazuyoshi Miura, right, a Japanese businessman accused of arranging the murder of his wife in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, arrives at Los Angeles International Airport after being extradited from Saipan early Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A strange cold case murder story that stretched halfway around the globe and back over a span of nearly 30 years ended this weekend a few blocks from where it began, with the shocking suicide of Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura in a downtown jail cell.


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Attorney: Jailed O.J. believes he was 'railroaded' (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:14:08 +0800

O.J. Simpson reacts after being convicted on all charges in his Las Vegas kidnapping and robbery trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas October 3, 2008. (Daniel Gluskoter/Pool/Reuters)AP - O.J. Simpson, locked in jail and pondering his future, feels hopeful he will win a new trial on appeal because he believes jury interviews show "he was absolutely railroaded," his lawyer told The Associated Press.


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5 killed in Manhattan blaze, including 3 children (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:54:36 +0800

Neighbors point to an apartment on the top floor of a building  in New York where five people — including three children — died in an early morning fire Saturday, Oct.  11,  2008  (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze Saturday that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said.


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Counting cards: NY collection includes 6,356 decks (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:11:14 +0800

A set of playing cards featuring the Kennedy family is displayed at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. The university has a playing card collection that spans four centuries and 50 countries and is among the biggest of its kind in the world. Scholars say cards can be useful records of social history, depicting how political figures and historical events were seen in their times. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics.


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Washington weighs lethal meds for terminally ill (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:56:01 +0800

In this still frame from a TV advertisement produced by supporters of Washington state's assisted suicide ballot initiative, Nancy Niedzielski, who lost her husband Randy to brain cancer, is shown. The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. (AP Photo/Courtesy Yes on I-1000)AP - The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally! ill patients.


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Endangered Miss. frogs get a break in the weather (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:47:28 +0800

Two gopher frogs are shown at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008.  For the first time in 10 years, a pond in south Mississippi got enough rain this year to let gopher frogs, one of the nation's most endangered animals, turn from tadpole to frog without human help.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least a decade, it's had a good reason not to look.


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Lost manatee headed to Fla. after Mass. rescue (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:59:01 +0800

AP - A wayward manatee is headed home to Florida after being pulled from frigid Cape Cod waters in an early morning rescue.

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All that money you've lost — where did it go? (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:41:56 +0800

In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 file photo, artist Laura Gilbert displays her 'Zero Dollar' artwork in front of the New York Stock Exchange  in New York. If you're looking to track down your missing money — figure out who has it now, maybe ask to have it back — you might be disappointed to learn that is was never really money in the first place. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.


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Marriage ruling not the end of debate in Conn. (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:39:06 +0800

The audience cheers at a rally at the State Capitol  in Hartford, Conn., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 held to celebrate a ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court to allow same-sex weddings.   (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a longshot bid to block the unions.


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Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans (AP)

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:44:47 +0800

In this Wednesday, June 4, 2008 file photo, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko returns to the Federal Courthouse where a jury found him guilty on 16 counts of a 24-count indictment in his corruption trail  in Chicago. Federal prosecutors moved Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to f! ederal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.


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Wyo. town reflects 10 years after Shepard's murder (AP)

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:00:20 +0800

Students sing at a vigil against violence at Prexy's Pasture on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, Wyo., in this Oct. 10, 1999 file photo. The weekend marked the one-year anniversary death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, who was tied to a fence and beaten into a coma from which he died two days later. on Oct. 7, 1998. In the 10 years since Shepard's death, more than 30 states have passed laws addressing bias-related crimes against gays, but gay-rights advocates point to a series of frustrations including the failure of federal hate-crime legislation. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP! - A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays.


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