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    Specialized NYPD unit tracks graffiti writers (AP)

    Police officer David Seidita, assigned to the Citywide Vandals Task Force, views a graffiti tag outside an apartment complex in Staten Island, New York, Tuesday June 3, 2008.  Graffiti writers are rarely caught holding the can of spray paint. Instead, officers assigned to the task force to police garffiti vandalism rely on calls to the city's 311 hot line. Officers patrol the city, and work with local precincts and other police departments around the country. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Graffiti artists come to New York City from all over the world to make their mark on subway cars, buildings and billboards. They spend hours surveying and then spray-painting hard-to-reach spaces with remarkable precision.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:31:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    CDC: Salmonella illnesses spread to 16 states (AP)

    Jerry Harrell, general manager of Double Eagle in Mesilla, N.M.  washes tomatoes, Thursday, June 5, 2008. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued an alert to consumers after a salmonella outbreak was linked to large uncooked tomatoes in New Mexico and Texas.  (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Shari Vialpando)AP - Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states, federal health officials said Saturday.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:29:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hospital seeks more privileges for John Hinckley (AP)
    AP - Administrators of a Washington psychiatric hospital have asked a federal district judge to expand release privileges of would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr., court records show. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:15:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fla. officials: 4 people dead, 2 deputies injured (AP)
    AP - Three people were fatally shot in a suburban home on Saturday, and a man spotted fleeing the scene was shot and killed after he fired at two sheriff's deputies pursuing him, authorities said. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:18:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Shuttle astronauts to go on final spacewalk (AP)

    This image provided by NASA is one of a series of digital still images documenting the Japanese Experiment Module, or JEM, also called Kibo, in its new home on the International Space Station, this view depicts Kibo's exterior, backdropped by solar array panels for the orbital outpost and one of its trusses, on day seven of the mission, Friday, June 6, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Final outfitting of the international space station's new lab, replacing an empty nitrogen gas tank and retrieving some debris off of a solar wing rotating joint were the tasks Sunday for the final spacewalk of space shuttle Discovery's crew.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:28:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wildfire keeps burning NC wildlife refuge (AP)
    AP - A wildfire that has burned nearly 31,000 acres in eastern North Carolina may smolder for months as it burns decayed vegetation that makes up the soil in the area, a state official said Saturday. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:24:49 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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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:30:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    'Beach-combing' pilot dies in plane crash in Alaska (AP)
    AP - A California pilot died after his small plane stalled and crashed as he was looking at a whale skeleton near a western Alaska village, the pilot of a companion airplane said. -- read full article
    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:58:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Huckabee helps choking NC candidate with Heimlich (AP)

    In this July 8, 2006 file photo, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks with a supporter during a visit to Central City, Iowa. The former Republican presidential candidate performed the Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, at a lunch Saturday in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file)AP - Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee put the squeeze on a politician at the North Carolina Republican Party convention, but in a good way.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:10:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Another successful jump for Robbie Knievel (AP)

    Motorcycle stunt driver Robbie Knievel successfully jumps over 21 Hummers prior to an IRL auto race at Texas Motor Speedway, Saturday, June 7, 2008, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Motorcycle daredevil Robbie Knievel successfully completed a shortened jump Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:20:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    America: At the edge of history once again? (AP)

    In this June 3, 2008 file photo, supporters wave flags as they await the arrival of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for a primary night rally in St. Paul, Minn.  (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)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.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:57:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Coal country malaise claims ex-boomtown's school (AP)

    Members of the class of 2009 at Pocahontas High School gather in front of the school's sign on May 30, 2008. Since Pocahontas High School is closing it's doors following the conclusion of this school season, The junior class and all other students at Pocahontas high School will have to attend larger high schools in Tazewell County. (AP Photo/Eric DiNovo)AP - With one broad smile after another, the images start with preschoolers' antics, proceed through youngsters' Halloween dress-ups and sporting events and into formal prom attire. By the end, the audience is weeping.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:13:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hamilton's home moved to new spot in Harlem (AP)

    Beverly and Steve Laise, dressed in  Revolutionary War period costume, cheer as workers move the onetime home of Alexander Hamilton, known as the Grange, into place in St. Nicholas Park in Manhattan on Saturday June 7, 2008. Hamilton moved into the home in 1802 and was killed in a duel in 1804.(AP Photo / Brian McDermott)AP - Two hundred and eighty tons of American history were on the move Saturday in Harlem.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:52:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Groups to monitor D.C. vehicle checkpoints (AP)

    Residents walk past a police checkpoint in the Trinidad neighborhood of Washington on Saturday, June 7, 2008. Recent violence in the neighborhood prompted police to create a Neighborhood Safety Zone to make sure people have legitimate reasons to be there. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Police in the nation's capital set up controversial vehicle checkpoints Saturday in a neighborhood reeling from gun violence, with civil liberties groups considering legal action and closely observing officers.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:03:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Severe storms bring flooding, tornadoes to Midwest (AP)

    Twin Brothers Kaleb, right, and Kyle Walden, 16, take their bikes alongside Shane Spurgeon, 11, left, who swims in a flooded street in Franklin, Ind., Saturday, June 7, 2008. Storms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on soggy central Indiana on Saturday, threatening dams, inundating highways and sending the Coast Guard to rescue residents from swamped homes. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)AP - Margaret Clemmons stood barefoot on the shoulder of a highway and stared at the floodwaters surrounding her home.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:18:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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