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    Mom in Web bullying case turns grief into activism (AP)

    Tina Meier, mother of Megan Meier, who committed suicide on October 16, 2007 after being victimized by cyber bullies, now works to teach others about the harmful effect of internet harassment. She has created the Megan Meier foundation, speaks at schools, and is working with stopcyberbullying.org to raise awareness about the issue. She is photographed in her home in O' Fallon, Mo. on Tuesday, May 27, 2008, reflected in the glass framing of a chalk drawing of her daughter that was given to her by her aunt as a Christmas present the year that Megan died. (AP Photo/ Sarah Conard)AP - When Tina Meier's 13-year-old daughter committed suicide after being bullied on the Internet, her grief was so encompassing she felt at times she couldn't breathe. She had trouble being around loved ones who reminded her of her child. Even today, recollections of those first holidays after Megan's death are foggy at best.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 10:41:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fire destroys landmark seafood business in Boston (AP)

    Boston firefighters pour water on James Hook & Co., a landmark lobster business in downtown Boston that erupted in a seven-alarm blaze overnight Friday May 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Patricia McDonnell)AP - A fire destroyed a landmark seafood business on the waterfront early Friday, snarling rush hour traffic and raising fears the building would collapse into the harbor. There were no reports of injuries.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 16:48:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Calif. torture trial airs family horror stories (AP)
    AP - For weeks, the three wives of Mansa Musa Muhummed and most of their 19 children have been telling a jury countless stories of torture and starvation that they kept to themselves for years. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 12:09:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    CVS execs acquitted of corruption charges in R.I. (AP)

    In this file photo taken Jan. 30, 2007, Carlos Ortiz, former CVS vice president of government affairs, leaves federal court in Providence, R.I., following his arraignment on conspiracy and bribery charges. A jury deliberated for less than two hours before finding Ortiz and John R. Kramer not guilty of 23 counts of bribery, mail fraud and conspiracy on Friday, May 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Two former CVS executives were acquitted Friday of bribing a Rhode Island state senator for legislative favors, dealing a blow to the federal government's probe into corruption in the Statehouse.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 17:42:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    States grapple with fuel costs for school buses (AP)

    Robbie Sutton, an employee with Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Transportation Department, fills a bus with diesel fuel at Southern Nash High School in Bailey, N.C., Thursday, May 29, 2008. Every three and a half school days, Nash-Rocky Mount School buses consume 7500 gallons of fuel. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - The reality of rising fuel prices cost students in a Tennessee school district their bus ride to school this week on the last day of the year.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 12:09:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Sect members waiting for children to be returned (AP)

    A woman of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds a hymn book in April 2008. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that 468 children seized from the polygamist sect must be returned to their parents, saying state child welfare officials had overstepped their authority.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Deseret Morning News)AP - Now, the waiting begins. A Texas Supreme Court ruling paves the way for members of a polygamist sect to get their children out of foster care, but it remains unclear when that might happen or what kind of restrictions might be imposed.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 17:20:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Crane collapses in New York City; at least 2 dead (AP)

    A pair of construction workers embrace as rescue crews work at the scene of a crane collapse on New York's Upper East Side Friday, May 30, 2008 in New York.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-story apartment building as it fell to the ground, killing two construction workers and seriously injuring another.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:50:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Signals, cell phone focuses of Boston train crash (AP)

    An unidentified official from National Transportation Safety Board talks on his cell phone near a commuter train, Thursday, May 29, 2008, that was collided with another train, not photographed, that killed one of the operators and injured more than a dozen passengers on Wednesday, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)AP - Federal investigators at the site of a fatal commuter train crash checked trackside signals Thursday, as well as reports that the trolley driver who was killed may have been on a cell phone.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 19:33:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NY prosecutors: Reputed Gambino captain arrested (AP)

    Nicholas Corozzo, right, the reputed current head of the Gambino crime family, is escorted out of the Jacob Javitz Federal Building, following his surrender to federal agents  in New York, Thursday, May, 29, 2008. Corozzo is charged with extorting construction companies, running a major illegal gambling operation and ordering a gangland hit that also took a bystander's life in 1996.(AP Photo/Edouard H.R. Gluck)AP - On the run for nearly four months, a reputed Mafia capo strolled up to the FBI's New York City office on Thursday and surrendered on charges he ordered a decades-old gangland hit that took an innocent bystander's life.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 20:13:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Massive fire hits condo complex near Boston (AP)
    AP - Firefighters are battling a huge fire at a condomimium complex north of Boston. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 20:57:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    White House issues climate report 4 years late (AP)

    Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (C) and digintaries attend the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Yokohama. African leaders at a development summit with Japan pledged to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the fight against global warming.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AP - Under a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-based "one-stop shop" of specific threats to the United States from man-made global warming.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 19:07:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Gender-based math gap missing in some countries (AP)
    AP - Boys outperform girls on a math test given to children worldwide, but the gender gap is less pronounced in countries where women and men have similar rights and opportunities, according to a study published Thursday. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 22:25:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Doctor who treated pro wrestler faces more charges (AP)
    AP - The personal doctor to a pro wrestler who killed himself, his wife and their 7-year-old son last year was charged Thursday in a new 175-count federal indictment with conspiracy and improperly dispensing drugs. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Helicopter crashes at Mich. hospital, no deaths (AP)
    AP - A medical helicopter crashed on the roof of a hospital Thursday, catching fire moments after the two people on board escaped with minor injuries, authorities said. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 21:47:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    10 states act to stop teacher sex abuse (AP)
    AP - Ten states have taken action in recent months to crack down on sexually abusive teachers following a stream of arrests and reports that have documented the problem of educators victimizing students. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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