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    NY considers creating 'organ-removal' ambulance (AP)
    AP - Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant. -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    City gives deadline for leaving FEMA trailers (AP)

    Windows and shutters remain broken at this home where police fatally shot a mentally ill man after nearly a 10-hour standoff early Wednesday, June 4, 2008, in one the neighborhoods that was hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - New Orleans is giving residents until July to vacate federally issued trailers intended as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:25:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Lesbian kiss at Seattle ballpark stirs debate (AP)

    Sirbrina Guerrero stands in front of the Seattle Mariners' ballpark Tuesday, June 3, 2008, in Seattle. Guerrero was admonished while watching a game at the park a week earlier by an usher who told her and Guerrero's date that it was inappropriate that the two women should be kissing. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch.


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:09:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Mass. lawmaker accused in sex case enters hospital (AP)
    AP - A state senator arrested this week for attempting to grope one woman and making lewd comments to a second was admitted to a psychiatric hospital Thursday. -- read full article
    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:54:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Police plan vehicle checkpoints in DC neighborhood (AP)

    Matthew Simmons, 79, watches as a police car drives by his house on Trinidad Avenue in Northeast Washington, Thursday, June 5, 2008, near where a police checkpoint will be set up Saturday. Stung by an outbreak of violence, including eight killings last weekend alone, police are taking the unusual step of establishing vehicle checkpoints in the crime-ridden neighborhood in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Leah L. Jones)AP - Stung by an outbreak of violence, including eight killings last weekend alone, police are taking the unusual step of establishing vehicle checkpoints in a crime-ridden neighborhood in the nation's capital.


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:56:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    RFK's oldest child discusses legacy 40 years later (AP)

    Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, June 4, 2008, in Washington. Kennedy Townsend still doesn't like to talk publicly about her memories of the June 6, 1968, death of her father. But she clearly remembers — and freely talks about — the letter her father gave her the day her uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in 1963 after he was assassinated. Her father would be buried at Arlington five years later.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend still doesn't like to talk publicly about her memories of the June 6, 1968, death of her father, Robert F. Kennedy.


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    Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:28:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Military shoots down missile in test off Hawaii (AP)

    This photo released by the Department of Defense shows one of two interceptor missiles launched from the USS Lake Erie based at Pearl Harbor on Thursday June 5, 2008.  The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year. The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii's island of Kauai. The USS Lake Erie fired two interceptor missiles that shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The target was shot down about 100 miles northwest of Kauai about five minutes after it was fired. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)AP - The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:19:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bond to be considered for man after 22 years on death row (AP)
    AP - A Tennessee man who has spent 22 years on death row is expected to appear in court Friday for a bail hearing that could set him free. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:22:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Video shows bystanders ignoring hit-and-run victim (AP)

    The Hartford Police Department provided this image taken from a surveillance video showing a man, lying in the street, center frame, just after a car hit him, Friday May 30, 2008 in Hartford, Conn. The 78-year-old man was tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver, and car after car zoomed by as he laid motionless on the busy city street. The victim, Angel Arce Torres, was in critical condition in Hartford Hospital. Authorities say he is paralyzed. (AP Photo/Hartford Police Dept.)AP - A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:05:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Denver pastor pleads in insurance fraud case (AP)
    AP - A prominent Denver-area pastor accused of falsifying insurance documents to funnel money to church groups he controlled pleaded guilty Thursday to felony theft and was sentenced to serve probation and pay restitution. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:13:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Flight attendant pleads not guilty to plane fire (AP)
    AP - A flight attendant who pleaded not guilty Thursday to setting a bathroom fire aboard a jet was also on a plane whose lavatory caught fire about five weeks earlier, a federal prosecutor said. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:24:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Air Force: Sensor moisture caused 1st B-2 crash (AP)

    In this July 25, 2006 file photo released by the Department of Defense, a U.S. Air Force  B-2 Spirit stealth bomber refuels from a KC-10 Extender aircraft over Australia during exercise Green Lighting. The Air Force on Thursday June 5, 2008 said the first crash of a B-2 stealth bomber was caused by moisture in sensors and estimated the loss of the aircraft at $1.4 billion. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, Shane A. Cuomo, File)AP - The Air Force on Thursday said the first crash of a B-2 stealth bomber was caused by moisture in sensors and estimated the loss of the aircraft at $1.4 billion.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:32:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Storms pop up in Plains as forecasters sound alarm (AP)

    In this photo provided by Gloria Folkers, an elephant wanders through Gloria and Melvin Folkers' backyard in WaKeeney, Kan., on Thursday, June 5, 2008. The elephant was one of two that escaped a traveling circus in WaKeeney. They were apparently frightened by the storm and wandered through the town after breaking loose, said Trego County Sheriff Richard Schneider. (AP Photo/Gloria Folkers)AP - Tornadoes dropped onto the Great Plains on Thursday after forecasters warned of a potentially historic outbreak, causing some damage and spooking a pair of circus elephants in Kansas that escaped their enclosure and roamed a town before being captured.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:16:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Indictment: Broadcom ex-CEO built drug warehouse (AP)

    In this Nov. 9, 2004 file photo, Henry Nicholas, billionaire co-founder of chip maker Broadcom, gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, Calif.  Federal officials unsealed indictments Thursday, June 5, 2008, charging Nicholas with drug charges and crimes related to stock options back-dating.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - Federal prosecutors may have charged Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III in one of the largest stock-option backdating cases in U.S. history, but it was allegations that the billionaire drugged his business cohorts, hired prostitutes and maintained a drug warehouse that grabbed headlines.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:37:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Japan's space lab about to get bigger (AP)

    In this image from NASA TV astronaut Michael Fossum works to install the second of two television cameras onto the Japanese Kibo module during a spacewalk at the international space station, Thursday, June 5, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - The newest space station addition, a giant Japanese science lab, is about to get bigger.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:28:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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