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    Coast Guard finds 5 missing sailors in Gulf (AP)
    AP - A helicopter crew found five of six missing regatta competitors alive early Sunday after their boat was found capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:40:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wonder Woman actress finds body on river in D.C. (AP)

    In this May 5, 2008 file photo, actress Lynda Carter shows off her Wonder Woman bracelet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York. Carter says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body Wednesday June 4, 2008 in the Potomac River in Washington.The body of 47-year-old Helen Johnstone of Washington was found floating on the river Wednesday.  (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:17:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Infant dies after thrown by child in daycare (AP)
    AP - An 10-month old girl died Friday after a 7-year-old girl threw the baby to the floor at least twice at a Pittsburgh daycare center, police said. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:28:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Caribbean monk seal becomes extinct (AP)

    An Hawaiian monk seal called Nuka, 18, pokes its head above the water, Monday, in this March 2, 1998 file photo, at the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu. The Caribbean monk seal was declared officially extinct by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service on Friday June 6, 2008. The Hawaiian monk seal population, protected by NOAA, is declining at a rate of about 4 percent annually, according to NOAA. The agency predicts the population could fall below 1,000 in the next three to four years, placing the mammal among the world's most endangered marine species. (AP Photo/Tony Cheng, FILE)AP - Federal officials have confirmed what biologists have long thought: The Caribbean monk seal has gone the way of the dodo.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:13:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Top man on totem pole could get his clothes back (AP)

    A seagull rests on a totemic representation of Alexander Baranof  in Sitka, Alaska on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Some say the original design was altered to dishonor Baranof, the former Russian colonial governor, by stripping him of his clothes. (AP Photo/Chris Miller)AP - For nearly seven decades, a sad-eyed wooden lump of a man has been gazing out over Sitka Sound beset by the pelting rains and biting winds that whip in from the Pacific Ocean.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:22:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Unknown problem interrupts Mars lander's task (AP)

    This image released by NASA taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Thursday, June 5, 2008, shows the Robotic Arm scoop containing a soil sample poised over the partially open door of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer's number four cell, or oven. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)AP - The first sample of Martian dirt dumped onto the opening of the Phoenix lander's tiny testing oven failed to reach the instrument and scientists said Saturday they will devote a few days to trying to determine the cause.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:21:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Mormons to mark 30 years of blacks in priesthood (AP)
    AP - Thirty years have passed, but Heber G. Wolsey still cries when he recalls the day the Mormon church abandoned a policy that had kept black men out of the priesthood. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:36:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Legal issue affects timings of gay weddings (AP)

    In this June 30, 2006 file photo, Stuart Gaffney, bottom, and John Lewis, top, hold hands with their wedding bands on in San Francisco. Now that gay couples have won the right to wed, same-sex couples in California have some weighty decisions to make — and they involve more than choosing rings and a caterer. A ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage will be put to voters in the fall, leaving gay and lesbian couples wondering if they should risk the legal uncertainty and heartbreak of having their freshly minted unions invalidated at the ballot box. (AP Photo/Benjamin Sklar)AP - Drew Snyder and William Ballentine had a commitment ceremony with all the trimmings four years ago, the closest they could get to a wedding at the time.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:25:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Officials: 4 dead, 2 deputies injured in shootouts (AP)
    AP - Authorities in Florida say four people have been killed and two deputies have been wounded in the Tampa area. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:46:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    America: At the edge of history once again? (AP)
    AP - One day this past January, Mary Kim Titla's parents left their home on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in southeastern Arizona and drove across the desert to Phoenix with a single purpose in mind — getting an up-close glimpse of a long shot named Barack Obama. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:57:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Heavy rain floods homes, roads in southern Indiana (AP)
    AP - Emergency crews rescued residents from flooded homes Saturday after storms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on already soggy central Indiana. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:25:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Shuttle astronauts prepare robot arm for first use (AP)

    This image provided by NASA shows the Japanese Pressurized Module, left, the Japanese Logistics Module, top center, the Harmony node, center, the Destiny laboratory, right, of the International Space Station, and the forward section of Space Shuttle Discovery, while docked to the station, are featured in this image photographed by a crewmember during the STS-124 mission's second planned spacewalk on day six of the mission, Thursday, June 5, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Astronauts tried out the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday, but it was a very limited test.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:31:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wildfire keeps burning NC wildlife refuge (AP)

    Assistant County Ranger for Camden County, N.C., Mike Malcolm, looks over some trees that caught fire from spread of a wildfire Thursday, June 5, 2008, in Hyde County, N.C. The wildfire that started on a wildlife refuge in rural eastern North Carolina and burned into privately owned rural land doubled in size as it sent smoke and ash as far away as the Outer Banks and neighboring Virginia. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Chris Curry)AP - A wildfire that has burned 30,000 acres in eastern North Carolina may smolder for months as it burns decayed vegetation that makes up the soil in the area, North Carolina Forest Service spokesman Bill Swartley said Saturday.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:37:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Immigrants fear ID checks aboard ferry (AP)

    The Washington state ferry Elwa approaches the dock at Orcas Village on Orcas Island, in a May 22, 2008 photo. Many illegal immigrants have either risked arrest traveling off-island by ferry or feel trapped there because of spot checks by the U.S. Border Patrol of domestic ferry runs. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Pedro Perez has not left Orcas Island in more than four months. Not for weekend trips with his family, not for cheaper groceries on the mainland, not for medical care — not for anything.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:27:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Oil's biggest day yet drags down stocks (AP)

    The sign at a gas station is seen as a storm passes by Friday, June 6, 2008, in Oak Creek, Wis. Oil prices shot up more than $11 to a new record above $139 Friday after Morgan Stanley predicted prices would hit $150 by the Fourth of July. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - Oil prices made their biggest single-day leap ever Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points and raising the once-unthinkable prospect of $150 oil and more record gas prices by the Fourth of July.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:55:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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