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Crews contain Colo. wildfire; residents return (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:37:10 +0800

Bobra Goldsmith.78, surveys the remnants of her home on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, which was destroyed after a utility pole toppled sparking the first of three fires in rural Boulder County, Colo.  Thousands of residents returned to their homes Thursday, thankful that an erratic, fast-moving wildfire fanned by high winds in Boulder County spared all but two homes. Crews made steady progress encircling the blaze and called the lack of casualties and significant property damage nothing short of a miracle.(AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - Thousands of evacuated residents, including former FEMA chief Michael D. Brown, began returning to their homes Thursday after firefighters gained control over a wildfire near Denver that destroyed two houses and several outbuildings.


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Fatal police shooting sparks violent protests (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:41:49 +0800

Gabrielle Rae holds a photo of Oscar Grant while attending a BART board of directors meeting on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, in Oakland, Calif. Speakers criticized the transit agency for its handling of a New Year's Days incident involving a BART police officer who shot and killed Grant, an unarmed 22-year old. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face-down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and fatally shoots the man in the back — then looks up.


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Calif. court rejects lawsuit against tax increases (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:36:45 +0800

AP - An anti-tax group will consider new legal action after a California appeals court tossed out a lawsuit that sought to block tax increases passed by Democrats in the state Legislature, the group said Thursday.

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Border Patrol to close Calif. plaza for new fence (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:29:26 +0800

A sign hung by the Raza Rights Coalition hangs on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Friendship Park in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. The U.S.. Border Patrol will close the park on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean to make way for a triple fence, people who were informed by the agency said Wednesday. Friendship Park, in the U.S. which was dedicated in 1971 by then-First Lady Patricia Nixon, draws big crowds on both sides of the border, especially on summer weekends. The top of the sign reads in Spanish 'No to the wall of death.'  (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A half-acre plaza that has stood for the goodwill between Mexico and the United States is closing to make way for a triple fence along the U.S. southern border, the California State Parks Department confirmed Thursday.


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Missouri Sen. Kit Bond won't seek re-election (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:18:07 +0800

Missouri's senior Sen. Christopher 'Kit' Bond, R-Mo., addresses members of the Missouri House of Representatives Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, in Jefferson City, Mo. Bond, 69, announced he would not seek re-election in 2010. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall)AP - Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2010, saying he wants to go out "at the top of my game" and setting the stage for what one expert said could be a "land rush" for the seat.


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Catholics targeted by NY man in $17M Ponzi scheme (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:07:49 +0800

AP - An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through ads in Catholic newspapers.

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Northwest flooding closes roads, stalls commerce (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:03:59 +0800

Interstate 5 is covered by the flooding Chehalis River Thursday morning, Jan. 8, 2009, in Chehalis, Wash. Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures from rapid snowmelt and the three main highways across the Cascade Range were closed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes Thursday, brought freight trains to a standstill and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link Seattle's busy ports with markets around the country.


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Police: Teen planning school shooting in custody (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:49:19 +0800

AP - A teenager who authorities say was plotting to "shoot up" a North Carolina high school is in custody because of a tip from a teen who chatted with the suspect online, investigators said Thursday.

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Diocese seeks $20M from breakaway Episcopalians (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:29:19 +0800

AP - Episcopal leaders in Pittsburgh went to court Thursday seeking to recover $20 million in assets they believe were wrongfully taken when the conservative branches split from the liberal diocese in October.

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Missing Kan. boy was once briefly in state custody (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:20:10 +0800

AP - A boy whose disappearance went unreported for 10 years was once taken away from his adoptive parents, then returned days later, Kansas' social services agency said Thursday.

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LA judge hears bid to dismiss MySpace conviction (AP)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:18:50 +0800

This Sept. 4, 2008 file photo shows Lori Drew leaves court in Los Angeles.   Contending it's not a federal crime to violate the service terms of a Web site, a defense attorney has asked a judge to dismiss the conviction of Drew in a cruel Internet hoax on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - An attorney for a woman convicted in a MySpace hoax directed at a teen who ended up committing suicide asked a judge to dismiss her convictions Thursday, saying a computer-fraud law was improperly used to prosecute her.


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