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Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall in Mexico
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into Mexico's northern Gulf coast near the U.S. border late Monday with winds of 65 mph (100 kph), threatening heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in Mexico and Texas. ...Read More
Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations
DENVER (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others. ...Read More
Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip
NEW YORK (AP) — An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday. ...Read More
Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said. ...Read More
Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s. ...Read More
Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender. ...Read More
US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore. ...Read More
Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use
NEW YORK (AP) — Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they'll be used. ...Read More
NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions
CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. (AP) — As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights. ...Read More
US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds
MIAMI (AP) — More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II. ...Read More
Greeting card giant Hallmark heads for 2nd century
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online. ...Read More
Weakened Earl packs less force than feared
CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Earl took aim at Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages accustomed to nor'easters. ...Read More
US says goodbye to Earl as storm spins into Canada
YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — In the end, Hurricane Earl wasn't even as bad as some of the no-name nor'easters that pound New England from time to time. ...Read More
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. ...Read More
2 babies killed after semi hits vehicles in Ariz.
PHOENIX (AP) — Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix. ...Read More
JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good
NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes there's no going back. ...Read More
For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other
NEW YORK (AP) — American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities. ...Read More
Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal transportation safety officials are using the deadly crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a long-standing debate about whether small children should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults. ...Read More
Craigslist removes adult services section
Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored." ...Read More
Suspect in consulate death appears in Texas court
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — A Texas newspaper reports a man suspected of ordering the assassination of a U.S. consulate worker in Mexico has appeared in federal court in San Antonio. ...Read More
Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: Business
YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note. ...Read More
BP: Crews lifting key device from Gulf face delay
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Icelike crystals had formed Saturday on the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, forcing BP crews to wait before they could safely hoist the device to the surface. ...Read More
Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported. ...Read More
AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin can take down the fence. ...Read More
Want cheapskates to spend? Hawk gizmos that save
NEW YORK (AP) — How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money. ...Read More
Greenest state behind the waste-to-energy race
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Government officials from around the world used to come to this port city to catch a glimpse of the future: Two-story piles of trash would disappear into a furnace and eventually be transformed into electricity to power thousands of homes. ...Read More
Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest
NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday. ...Read More
Farms being prosecuted for importing Thai workers
HONOLULU (AP) — Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison. ...Read More
Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure
Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored." ...Read More
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. ...Read More
Race complicates reservation crime fight
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, pistol whipping them and firing bullets above the husband's head. ...Read More
9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder
NEW YORK (AP) — It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is. ...Read More
Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Motivated by the deaths of two friends in war-zone explosions, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer decided to become a bomb hunter. ...Read More
Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota. ...Read More
Racial violence changes student _ and school
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well. ...Read More
Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. ...Read More
Attorney: JetBlue attendant in NYC flap resigned
NEW YORK (AP) — A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday. ...Read More
1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution
NEW YORK (AP) — Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist. ...Read More
Weakened Earl hits Mass. with wind, rain, surf
CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Earl headed for Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping wind-driven rain on Cape Cod's gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages. ...Read More
Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings
PHOENIX (AP) — A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up. ...Read More
BP raises blowout preventer, key evidence in probe
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP crews worked Saturday to slowly raise the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, careful not to damage or drop a key piece of evidence in the spill investigation. ...Read More
Body of boxing promoter's son found on Wash. peak
SEATTLE (AP) — A five-day search for the missing son of top boxing promoter Bob Arum ended when a helicopter located John Arum's body on a rugged Washington state mountain in North Cascades National Park, authorities say. ...Read More
Tropical Storm Hermine forms in the Gulf of Mexico
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Hermine has formed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas. ...Read More
Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle. ...Read More
Tropical Storm Hermine gaining strength in Gulf
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Hermine is getting a little stronger in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads toward the coasts of Texas and Mexico. ...Read More
Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities opened shelters and warned people to watch out for mudslides Monday as Tropical Storm Hermine approached the northeastern border with Texas, the second major storm to hit the area this season. ...Read More
Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD
CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. ...Read More
Colo fire destroys buildings; no injuries reported
DENVER (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 3 1/2 square miles Monday, destroying some structures and triggering evacuations of about 200 homes. ...Read More
Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock Nine member Jefferson Thomas has died at age 67 in Columbus, Ohio. ...Read More
Hermine comes ashore in Mexico as tropical storm
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Hermine has come ashore in extreme northeastern Mexico. ...Read More
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