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Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf
1 hour ago
 AP - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike.
SF Bay area officer, 2 others killed in gun fight
10 hours ago
AP - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday.
Kentucky works to keep embattled institution open
20 hours ago
AP - Physically, Deron Dickerson was a 38-year-old man. Mentally, he was a toddler who needed constant supervision.
4th Pa. teen charged in killing of immigrant
21 hours ago
 AP - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.
Democrats post big gains in voter registration
3 hours ago
 AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet
18 hours ago
 AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
Don't take it off end near for NYC smut palace
19 hours ago
 AP - The end may be near for Scores, the legendary strip club that has attracted celebrities while withstanding Mafia infiltration, FBI raids and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crusade against smut.
Crash with suspect's SUV kills Philly officer
15 hours ago
AP - A 16-year-old in a stolen vehicle smashed into a police car during a chase, killing one of two officers in the cruiser, authorities said Saturday.
40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites
15 hours ago
 AP - Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968.
House explosion kills 2 in Chicago suburb
15 hours ago
AP - An explosion destroyed a house early Saturday and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home were found in the wreckage, authorities said. Seven other homes were destroyed.
Hanna dumps rain on mid-Atlantic, heads north
11 hours ago
 AP - Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.
7 years on, Sept. 11 is so far and yet so close
19 hours ago
AP - It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.
High-resolution satellite launched in California
17 hours ago
AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.
Ex-NJ politician headed to trial on fraud charges
18 hours ago
AP - A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a way to boost his income and increase his pension benefits from $28,000 a year to $81,000.
Police: Bomb scare on train in NJ was hoax
21 hours ago
AP - Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax.
2nd trial starting for infamous Texas KFC murders
26 hours ago
 AP - When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more heinous crime just three days before his arrest for that September 1983 robbery.
Yellowstone RV park full despite fuel costs
27 hours ago
 AP - In the heart of the park here on a recent warm day, all 358 spaces at the Fishing Bridge Recreational Vehicle Park were jammed with RVs and camping equipment.
Life goes on but fears remain at shooting campus
19 hours ago
 AP - Her first week of classes at Northern Illinois University made it clear to freshman Miraynda Castro that she wasn't beginning her college career at just any campus.
Wash. rampage suspect in court: 'I kill for God'
31 hours ago
 AP - "I kill for God. I listen to God," a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him.
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