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    3 dead, 3 injured in SoCal chopper crash (AP)
    AP - A tour helicopter crashed in rainy weather on an island off the Southern California coast Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring three others, a county sheriff's deputy said. -- read full article
    Sat, 24 May 2008 18:53:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    AP engages pastors, parishoners about racism in US (AP)

    New Hope Baptist Church Deacon Jesse McGee believes his Bible class studies have helped him handle the subject of interracial marriages, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in Jackson, Miss. He especially credits 'One Blood,' a book on race, with providing insights. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Jesse McGee points to trophies he won in local marathons. He mentions his work with youth and volunteer school programs. He praises his church's efforts to deliver scripture lessons to inmates.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 17:05:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Univ. of Arizona team to call shots for Mars robot (AP)

    This fully working Phoenix Mars Lander, located in the University of Arizona's Science Operations Center north of the campus in Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday, May 7, 2008, is used for testing by the mission scientists. If the lander makes a successful touchdown in Mars' northern polar region, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will turn over scientific control to researchers at the university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.  (AP Photo/John Miller)AP - A robotic spacecraft scheduled to land Sunday on Mars will be operated by NASA. But it's scientists at a University of Arizona lab who will be calling the shots on what the robot does.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 16:00:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    High school in wartime sets soldiers' kids apart (AP)

    Fort Campbell High School seniors sign each others yearbooks on May 7, 2008, in Clarksville, Tenn. Students from the school's class of 2008 has memories of school life in wartime that sets the class of 116 teenagers apart. Most students at the largest high school on an American military base has had at least one parent gone on lengthy deployments in Iraq or Afghanistan. Former classmates have gone to fight, or are getting ready to go now, and two who fell were mourned at a ceremony just weeks before graduation.   (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP - When Evelyn Burwell put on a cap and gown to accept her high school diploma, she knew someone wasn't in the audience — her dad.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 11:41:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Attorney: KC cops in miscarriage case to be fired (AP)
    AP - An attorney whose firm represents two Kansas City, Mo., police officers says the pair will be fired after they failed to get medical treatment for a pregnant suspect. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 23:29:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Obama gains delegates, moves closer to nomination (AP)

    Democratic presidential hopeful US Senator Barack Obama (R) greets former US Senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards (L) during a rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Democratic front-runner Barack Obama scored a coup Wednesday in his White House nominating battle against Hillary Clinton by winning the high-profile endorsement of blue-collar champion John Edwards.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AP - Barack Obama inched closer to securing the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, picking up five delegates, including a California congressman who switched his allegiance from Hillary Rodham Clinton.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 18:36:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NY cop went hunting for homeless man, DA says (AP)

    This undated file photo provided by the Westchester County District Attorney's office Sept. 6, 2007, shows Mount Kisco Police Officer George Bubaris, 30, of South Salem, N.Y.  Bubaris goes on trial Friday, May 23, 2008 on charges that he killed Rene Perez in 2007. Prosecutors say Bubaris, 31, drove the intoxicated Perez, a 42-year-old homeless illegal immigrant, to an out-of-the-way area and 'inflicted blunt force trauma to Perez's abdomen,' leaving him to die.  (AP Photo/Westchester County District Attorney, File)AP - A suburban policeman hunted down a homeless, frequently arrested illegal immigrant, hit him hard and left him to die last year, a prosecutor told jurors in opening statements of his manslaughter trial Friday.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 21:33:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Vallejo, Calif. files for bankruptcy protection (AP)

    A sign is seen in  Vallejo, Calif., on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. The city of Vallejo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, May 23, 2008, to deal with a ballooning budget deficit caused by soaring employee costs and declining tax revenue. The San Francisco Bay area suburb of about 120,000 residents became the largest California city to seek bankruptcy protection. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - The city of Vallejo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday to deal with a ballooning budget deficit caused by soaring employee costs and declining tax revenue.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 21:36:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Arrest warrant issued in case of drugged skater (AP)
    AP - Authorities on Friday searched for a man charged with giving a date-rape drug to former Olympic ice dancing gold medalist Oksana "Pasha" Grishuk. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 23:59:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Myanmar leader makes first visit to relief camp (AP)

    A woman carries her baby at a village hit by Cyclone Nargis, outside Yangon May 18, 2008. Aid was trickling in on Sunday to an estimated 2.5 million people left destitute by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta as more foreign envoys tried to get the junta to admit large-scale international relief. (Stringer/Reuters)AP - The leader of Myanmar's ruling junta made his first visit to a refugee camp Sunday, patting the heads of babies and shaking hands with cyclone survivors, amid growing international criticism over the government's handling of the crisis.


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    Sun, 18 May 2008 20:24:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    1 dead in crane collapse at KC-area power plant (AP)
    AP - An 800-ton crane collapsed Friday at a construction site near a Kansas City Power & Light power plant, killing one worker and injuring three others, authorities said. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 21:52:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Unmarked chopper patrols New York City from above (AP)

    Crew chief Detective John Diaz uses the instruments in the New York Police Department's surveillance helicopter to patrol the streets below, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in New York.  The chopper's arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment is powerful enough to stealthily read license plates - or even pedestrian's faces - from high above. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 04:24:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Sailor suffers minor burns in US carrier fire (AP)
    AP - A fire aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier left one sailor with minor burns and 23 others with heat stress. -- read full article
    Sat, 24 May 2008 00:26:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Chicago considering boarding schools for homeless (AP)

    Tinesheia Howard is seen in the library at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Ill., April 21, 2008. Howard spent 18 months in a homeless shelter while attending Chicago's North Lawndale College Preparatory High School and says she supports a Chicago Public Schools proposal to create boarding schools or residential programs for students who are homeless or whose academic progress is being stymied by chaotic conditions outside school. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - She began high school in a shelter, doing homework on the floor of the bathroom. It was the only place with lights after 9 p.m. Her senior year was spent raising her little brother when her mother disappeared on cocaine binges.


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    Fri, 23 May 2008 19:33:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    No charges for 2 Marines accused in Afghan deaths (AP)

    Maj. Fred C. Galvin is seen outside Camp Lejeune near Jacksonville, N.C., on  Jan. 8, 2008. A Marine Corps general says two officers whose unit was accused of indiscriminately killing of up to 19 Afghan civilians in 2007 will not face criminal charges. The Marines said Friday, May 23, 2008, that Lt. General Samuel Helland made the decision not to bring charges against  Galvin, 38, commander of the 120-person special operations company, and Capt. Vincent J. Noble, 29, a platoon leader, after reviewing the findings of a special tribunal that heard more than three weeks of testimony about the incident.    (AP Photo/Chuck Beckley)AP - Two Marine officers in a unit that was accused of killing as many as 19 Afghan civilians in 2007 will not face criminal charges, the military said Friday.


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    Sat, 24 May 2008 04:05:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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