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    Urban beekeeping is the latest buzz (AP)

    Cindy Barclay works with her beehive in her yard in Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, April 30, 2008.  City dwellers across the country are rapidly discovering the appeal of urban beekeeping.  Large cities like Chicago, Seattle, Boston, Dallas and San Francisco are even promoting beekeeping for pollination health, to keep city vegetation green and lush.  In New York City, a growing population of beekeepers are raising the insects in community gardens and on building roofs, even though it's technically illegal to keep bees in the Big Apple.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - When Cindy Barclay asks visitors to her booth at the local farmers market if they want to try honey from downtown Albany, they're often shocked.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:47:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Indictment: Broadcom ex-CEO built drug warehouse (AP)

    In this Nov. 9, 2004, 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 10:59:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Suspect indicted in '75 murder of Tenn. Girl Scout (AP)
    AP - A suspect in the 1975 slaying of a 9-year-old Girl Scout, who disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies, has been indicted by a grand jury, prosecutors announced Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:54:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Blackwater opens San Diego training center (AP)

    A shooting range at a new Blackwater training facility is seen Thursday, June 5, 2008, in San  Diego. (AP Photo)AP - A new counterterrorism training facility operated by military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide echoed with the grunts of Navy sailors, a day after a federal judge ordered the city to let classes begin.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:03:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Marine charged with voluntary manslaughter in Iraqi deaths (AP)
    AP - A Marine sniper has been charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two civilians in Iraq, his attorney said Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:49:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Tenn. death row inmate House given $500,000 bond (AP)

    In an April 16, 2008 file photo, death row inmate Paul House talks during at interview at the Louis M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville, Tenn.  Criminal Court Judge Shayne Sexton set bond jFriday, June 6, 2008, at half a million dollars for House, who is being retried on a murder charge after spending 22 years on Tennessee's death row. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - A judge has set bond at half a million dollars for a man who is being retried on a murder charge after spending 22 years on Tennessee's death row.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:02:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NYPD guards NY Times building after 2 men climb facade (AP)

    A man climbs the New York Times' tower, hours after the arrest of a French skyscraper climber who scaled the midtown Manhattan building Thursday June 5, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - A cordon of police officers and private security stood guard Friday in front of The New York Times building after two daredevils scaled the skyscraper in midtown Manhattan within hours of each other.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:27:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Eastern Mich. agrees to pay $350K in fines in killing case (AP)
    AP - Eastern Michigan University has agreed to pay $350,000 in fines for covering up the rape and killing of a student in her dorm room by telling reporters and her parents there were no signs of foul play. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:41:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Eagle wounded by poacher gets new beak, new look (AP)

    Biologist Jane Fink Cantwell, holds Beauty, a bald eagle, after a surgery to give her an artificial beak more than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, Monday, May 19, 2008, in St. Maries, Idaho.  A final beak made of tougher material will be created and attached later. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)AP - More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:58:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Los Angeles teachers stage 1-hour walkout (AP)
    AP - Teachers hoisting protest signs and yelling into bullhorns skipped class Friday in the nation's second-largest school district to protest a state budget they contend will cost their district $353 million and lead to cutbacks. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:09:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    WVU president calls resignation 'difficult' (AP)

    West Virginia University President Mike Garrison addresses the Board of Governors in a Friday, May 30, 2008 photo, at the WVU Law School in Morgantown, W.Va.  Garrison said Friday, June 6, 2008, that he will resign by September 1 to end the controversy surrounding the awarding of a master's degree to the governor's daughter.   (AP Photo/Dale Sparks, File)AP - West Virginia University President Mike Garrison said Friday he will resign in September to end the controversy surrounding the improper awarding of a master's degree to the governor's daughter.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:13:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Tornado tears through swath of Minnesota (AP)
    AP - A strong storm packing at least one tornado raked a half-mile-wide "path of destruction" in northwestern Minnesota, ripping up roofs and trees and pushing cars off the road Friday, the National Weather Service said. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:34:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Man indicted in '75 slaying of Tenn. Girl Scout (AP)
    AP - A suspect in the 1975 slaying of a 9-year-old Girl Scout, who disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies, has been indicted by a grand jury, prosecutors announced Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:01:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Court orders new sentence for al-Qaida member (AP)
    AP - A federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday of a Virginia man convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, but said that he must be resentenced. -- read full article
    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:18:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    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
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