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Court: Va. man owns 1776 copy of Declaration (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:44:08 +0800

In this undated file photo and provided by the Archives of the State of Maine shows a copy of the Declaration of Independence. This rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday Feb. 27, 2009. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776. (AP Photo/Archives of the State of Maine)AP - A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776.


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Assisted suicide ring members prep for court fight (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:43:23 +0800

Jerry Dincin, vice president of Final Exit Network, an alleged assisted suicide ring investigators say may have been involved in as many as 200 deaths around the country, poses at his home in Highland Park, Ill., Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.  (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)AP - Members of an assisted suicide ring say they've done nothing wrong and seem eager for a court battle over criminal charges they helped a Georgia man kill himself, while their supporters are using the case as a rallying cry for more debate about end-of-life issues.


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Guard to pull out of New Orleans after 3 1/2 years (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:13:51 +0800

Louisiana National Guard Lt. Ronald Brown, Jr., left, and Sgt. Wayne Lewis visit a restaurant in the 9th Ward of New Orleans, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. The last units  of the Louisiana National Guard, which came to town after Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005, are pulling out Sunday.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous. Residents long distrustful of the city's police force are worried they will have to fend for themselves.


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Soldier guilty of murder in Iraqi detainee killing (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:00:40 +0800

AP - An Army officer who shot and killed an Iraqi detainee during an interrogation was convicted of murder Friday night by a military jury.

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Neb. court upholds firing of trooper for Klan link (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:08:30 +0800

Robert Henderson is pictured in this undated Nebraska State Patrol file photo. Henderson, who was fired from his job as a Nebraska State Trooper in February 2006 after admitting he was a member of a white-supremacist group. On Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, the Nebraska Supreme Court  upheld the firing of Henderson. Justice John Gerrard wrote in the opinion released Friday, that  Henderson voluntarily associated with an organization that uses violence and terror to oppose the state's founding principles of equality and tolerance. (AP Photo/ Nebraska State Patrol)AP - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the firing of a State Patrol trooper for his ties to the Ku Klux Klan.


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Schwarzenegger declares Calif. drought emergency (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:27:08 +0800

Rain clouds hang over the West Los Angeles area February 13, 2009. With a recent flurry of winter storms doing little to dampen California's latest drought, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation's biggest public utility, voted on February 17, 2009 to impose water rationing in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly two decades. Photo taken February 13, 2009   REUTERS/Sam Mircovich    (UNITED STATES)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday because of three years of below-average rain and snowfall in California, a step that urges urban water agencies to reduce water use by 20 percent.


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More bones found in NM desert; victim total now 13 (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:08:01 +0800

AP - Authorities say bones from 13 victims have been recovered from a desert site west of Albuquerque that authorities have been excavating for about a month.

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Compton eyes comeback as murders fall to new low (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:45:20 +0800

Giovanni Ibanez 10, left, William Gutierrez 10, center, and Andrew Lopez, 8, right, play pool at the at the Los Angeles County SheriffÕs Youth Foundation hall in Compton, Calif. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. Sheriff's deputies direct science and mentoring programs to include boxing, dancing, field trips and help with homework. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Violence has long been part of life in this city on the gritty south side of Los Angeles. In the birthplace of gangsta rap, nightfall once brought gunfire, and wearing the wrong color could get you killed.


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Suspect faces more murder charges in NY rampage (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:27:52 +0800

AP - A twice-fired nursing supervisor accused of a Valentine's Day rampage that left four people dead in upstate New York was indicted on murder charges in two of the slayings Friday.

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Minn. fund makes offers to bridge collapse victims (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:23:43 +0800

Attorney Susan Holden, shown June 11, 2008 in her Minneapolis office, headed a panel of three lawyers charged with dividing up a $36.4 million state compensation fund among the victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Compensation offers have gone out to 179 victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, giving them until mid-April to decide whether to take the state help.


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Airlines, plane maker sued over crash near Buffalo (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:05:13 +0800

Susan Wehle, 55, of Williamsville, N.Y. is seen in an undated file handout photo released by Temple Beth Am of Williamsville, NY. Wehle, a cantor at Temple Beth Am, was killed in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407. Wehle's relatives have sued Continental Airlines and the flight's operators, claiming the aircraft had inadequate deicing equipment and an improperly trained crew. (AP Photo/Temple Beth Am, Jay Terkel)AP - Relatives of a passenger killed when a commuter plane crashed into a house outside Buffalo have sued Continental Airlines and the flight's operators, claiming the aircraft had inadequate deicing equipment and an improperly trained crew.


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Breathing problems reported near Tenn. ash spill (AP)

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:57:38 +0800

This file handout photo provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2009 shows the massive ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tenn., on Dec. 23, 2008, the day following the spill. Cleanup costs could run as high as $825 million after the coal ash spill considered one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority,  President and CEO Tom Kilgore said Thursday, Feb. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/TVA, File)AP - A survey finds Tennessee residents are experiencing breathing problems, stress and anxiety near where more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled from a power plant storage facility.


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