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    Suspect agrees to testify in Fla. homeless beating (AP)
    AP - One of three men accused of fatally beating a homeless man as he slept on a park bench pleaded guilty Friday and agreed to testify against the others. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 23:18:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Plane crashes into Mont. building, kills pilot (AP)
    AP - An airplane carrying mail crashed into a building early Friday in a fiery explosion, killing the pilot, officials said. No one on the ground was injured. -- read full article
    Sat, 24 May 2008 06:57:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Texas appeals sect ruling, lets 3 families reunite (AP)

    Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints mothers Marie Steed, left, and Sarah Barlow smile as the leave the Tom Green county courthouse after a ruling in their favor in San Angelo, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 2008. An Austin, Texas appeals court ruled that the state had no cause to take their children. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children from a polygamist sect's ranch was unjustified, but they also agreed to reunite 12 children with their parents while the case moves on.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 23:59:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NYC issues warning after aphrodisiac kills man (AP)

    This undated photo provided by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows Black Stone, one of the names of an illegal substance made from toad venom and sold as an aphrodisiac. Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from the substance, sold at sex shops and neighborhood stores under names including Piedra, Love Stone, Jamaican Stone, Black Stone and Chinese Rock, after the product apparently killed a 35-year-old man. (AP Photo/NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)AP - Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a man.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 07:08:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Parents claim racism in Harper Lee's Ala. hometown (AP)

    Watching the filming of a scene for the 1962 movie 'To Kill a Mockingbird' are producer Alan Pakula and author Harper Lee, whose Pulitzer prize winning novel has been adapted for the screen. A south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Lee's book is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-life legal case involving allegations of racism at school. (AP Photo)AP - A south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Harper Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-life legal case involving allegations of racism at school.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:43:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Colorado officials tour damage from huge tornado (AP)

    Clean-up has yet to begin in the hardest hit area after Thursday's tornado in Windsor, Colo,  Friday May 23, 2008. Utility workers have been busy tracking leaks and damaged power lines. Stormy weather, natural gas leaks and the threat of explosions kept hundreds of anxious residents from assessing the damage to their homes on Friday, a day after a large tornado tore through a 35-mile stretch of northern Colorado, killing one person and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Will Powers)AP - Stormy weather, natural gas leaks and the threat of explosions kept hundreds of anxious residents from assessing the damage to their homes on Friday, a day after a large tornado tore through a 35-mile stretch of northern Colorado, killing one person and injuring dozens.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:47:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Crews struggle to contain California wildfire (AP)

    From left, James Perkins, Chad Brisendine and Ephraim Murad, of the Fresno Fire Dept., monitor the Summit Fire from the deck of a home in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Gilroy, Calif., Friday, May 23, 2008.  Calmer winds and heavy fog brought some much-needed relief Friday morning to firefighters working to rein in a wildfire that quickly consumed a dozen buildings in the Santa Cruz Mountains a day earlier.  By dawn, the blaze was 20 percent contained after scorching over 3,000 acres. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Firefighters continued to fight a persistent wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains that has chewed through acres of centuries-old redwoods, destroyed at least 17 homes and displaced hundreds of people.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 08:06:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    400 jurors could be screened for Simpson trial (AP)

    O.J. Simpson ducks into a car outside the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, September 19, 2007. Television network NBC dismissed speculation Thursday that Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, would appear on an upcoming version of its reality TV program, AP - Court officials and lawyers preparing for O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial said Thursday that lengthy questionnaires will be given to a jury pool that could number 400 or more.


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    Thu, 22 May 2008 20:33:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Monitors urged for all with high blood pressure (AP)

    A diabetic has his blood pressure read by at a clinic in Los Angeles, July 30, 2007. People with diabetes are twice as likely to have arthritis, putting them in a double bind as the pain in their joints keeps them from getting the exercise they need to keep both diseases at bay, the CDC said on Thursday. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)AP - Everyone with high blood pressure — some 72 million Americans — should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers.


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    Thu, 22 May 2008 19:30:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    LA welcomes 18,000 new citizens, a city record (AP)

    Over 18,000 new United States citizens take their citizenship oaths during naturalization ceremonies at the Los Angeles Convention Center Thursday, May 22, 2008.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Record crowds of immigrants — more than 18,000 in all — took citizenship oaths here Thursday, a showing credited to rising fees, a heated debate over illegal immigration and one of the brand-new Americans raising their hands.


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    Thu, 22 May 2008 22:50:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Obama to stand in for Sen. Kennedy at Wesleyan (AP)

    Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., left, guides a sailboat up to a pier in Hyannisport, Mass., while sailing with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, right, off the coast of Hyannisport, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Kennedy checked out of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Wednesday after he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Barack Obama has agreed to deliver the commencement address at Wesleyan University in place of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who pulled out Thursday after finding out he had brain cancer.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 05:13:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Tornadoes rip through Colorado, Kansas; 1 killed (AP)

    An old barn stands in a wheat field as a sever thunderstorm passes in the distance near Ogallah, Kan., Thursday, May 22, 2008. Severe thunderstorms dropped tornadoes across much of northwest Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - A large tornado skipped through several northern Colorado towns on Thursday, destroying dozens of homes, flipping tractor-trailers and freight rail cars, and killing at least one person.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 06:09:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Prosecutor: Seattle Jewish center shooter was sane (AP)

    Naveed Haq listens during closing arguments by King County deputy prosecutor Don Raz at the King County Courthouse in Seattle on Thursday, May 22, 2008. The parents of a man charged with shooting six women, one fatally, at a Seattle Jewish center two years ago hugged some of the victims and solemnly apologized Thursday as their son's trial concluded. (AP Photo/Dan DeLong, Pool)AP - A prosecutor told jurors Thursday that a man charged with a fatal shooting at a Jewish center knew right from wrong and used murder to get out a message.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 02:30:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Missouri to control St. Louis schools 3 more years (AP)
    AP - The state will extend its control over the struggling St. Louis public schools for three additional years. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 02:47:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Study: Humpback whale population rises (AP)

    In this Jan. 23, 2005 file picture, a humpback whale leaps out of the water in the channel off the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The number of endangered humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean has dramatically increased to more than 18,000 over the last 40 years, according to a new study. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades, a new study says.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 08:17:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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