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Mormon aid on gay marriage ban generates complaint (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:23:15 +0800

AP - A California gay rights activist filed a complaint Thursday accusing the Mormon church of failing to report the full value of the work it did to support the state's new ban on same-sex marriage.

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White powder sent to Mormon temples in Utah, LA (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:08:35 +0800

Thousands of people protest in front of the Salt Lake Temple against the Mormon Church's role in the passage of proposition 8 in California, in this Nov. 7, 2008 photo. The rally included a march around the two city blocks surrounding Temple Square and the Church Office Building. (Photo and caption submitted by John Langford)AP - Letters containing a suspicious white powder were sent Thursday to Mormon temples in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City that were the sites of protests against the church's support of California's gay marriage ban.


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Cast of millions puts on Calif. earthquake drill (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:27:16 +0800

Emily Loren, 17, is assisted by a Los Angeles fireman during an earthquake drill at Bishop Alemany H.S. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Southern Californians dropped to the ground, covered their heads and held onto the furniture Thursday for a mock 'Big One,' an earthquake drill billed as the largest in U.S. history and aimed at testing everyone from state leaders to students who donned fake blood to play victim. At exactly 10 a.m., television news programs announced there was an earthquake disaster drill, then cut to cameras in school classrooms showing children ducking under their desks and holding onto t!  hem. A full day of mock post-earthquake exercises such as rescues, emergency medical care and news conferences was planned. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - People across Southern California on Thursday looked like they had stepped out of a disaster movie. Children ducked under their desks. Victims with fake blood lay on the ground. First responders sprang into action to treat the "wounded."


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King family seeks to cash in on MLK-Obama items (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:04:21 +0800

T-shirts featuring President-elect Barack Obama and civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., are for sale on an Atlanta street, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. The King family is scrambling to get a share of the proceeds from the wave of unauthorized T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil rights leader alongside Obama. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Zealous guardians of his words and his likeness, the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is demanding a share of the proceeds from the sudden wave of T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil rights leader alongside B! arack Obama.


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Gunshot report at Virginia Tech is a false alarm (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:12:20 +0800

AP - An exploded cartridge from a nail gun produced sounds similar to gunfire near a Virginia Tech dormitory Thursday, briefly scaring a campus still scarred from mass shootings last year.

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Special prosecutor to handle Texas dragging case (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:08:18 +0800

These photos released by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office show Charles Costley, left, and Shannon Finley, both 27, who face murder charges in the dragging death of Brandon McClelland in Lamar County, Texas. His torn-apart body was found on a rural Texas road on Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Lamar County Sheriff's Office)AP - Under pressure from the victim's family, the district attorney prosecuting the death of a black man who was run over and dragged about 70 feet has recused himself because he once represented one of the murder suspects.


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Suits claim election-night abuse by Chicago police (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:50:20 +0800

AP - A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that while a huge Chicago crowd celebrated the election of the first black U.S. president, some white city police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama's victory from home.

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SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:33:21 +0800

AP - A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

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UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:25:11 +0800

Cars drive through thick smog on a street in Beijing in September 2008. Enormous brown clouds of pollution hanging over Asia are killing hundreds of thousands of people, melting glaciers, changing weather patterns and damaging crops, the United Nations said Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday.


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Man charged in Obama plot says grand jury skewed (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:17:34 +0800

Mike Schlesselman, the father of Paul Schlesselman, one of the skinheads accused of plotting to murder presidential candidate Sen. Barrack Obama, leaves the Clifford Davis-Odell Horton Federal Building in Memphis, Tenn. without comment, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 after a federal magistrate granted a defense requested delay in the hearing. Schlesselman's sister, Kayla Schlesselman, is over the left shoulder of her father. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell)AP - One of two white supremacists charged with plotting to kill President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people argued Thursday that a federal grand jury was racially s! tacked against him.


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In bad economy, boat owners abandon their vessels (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:08:33 +0800

An abandoned commercial vessel sits on its side in Fisherman's Cut near Bethel Island, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants. Boats have long been a barometer of consumer confidence, disposable income and the state of the economy. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have ! driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants.


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Death on Mount Hood: A widow's quest for answers (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:48:28 +0800

In this photo provided by the Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit, the Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit searches the north side of Mount Hood, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006, in Oregon. Rescue teams headed up the flanks of treacherous Mount Hood on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, to search for three climbers reported missing in heavy snow. No real break in the weather came until Dec. 16. Searchers found the cave with Kelly James' body in it the next day. The search for his companions was called off four days later. (AP Photo/Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit, Dr. Lindsay Clunes)AP - Shivering, weak and injured in a snow cave, on a mountain! he and two climbing companions had tried to conquer, Kelly James managed to reach his wife on his cell phone.


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7 rescued as floods wash out Oregon road, culvert (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:43:42 +0800

AP - A woman and two young children were rescued from the top of their SUV as floodwaters swept over the vehicle's roof on a coastal Oregon road.

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Wisconsin court says 1985 killer should be freed (AP)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:31:25 +0800

AP - A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday that a man who killed a Catholic priest and two others in a church 23 years ago should be released from a mental hospital.

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