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    Families, troops mourn 4 Scouts killed in tornado (AP)

    Eight-year-old Cub Scout Baileigh Rohde holds a candle and looks up at Boy Scout Josh Dohse, left, during a candlelight vigil in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, June 12, 2008, for the four Boy Scouts killed after a twister flattened their camp in Iowa Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:34:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Johns Hopkins raps AP story on lead experiment (AP)
    AP - For about 20 years, Dr. Michael Klag has used a fertilizer made from Milwaukee municipal sludge on azaleas and yew shrubs at his suburban Baltimore home. And Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says he's never had any question about its safety. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:59:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Serial killer pleads guilty to 1979 slaying in Pa. (AP)
    AP - A confessed serial killer has pleaded guilty to the 1979 rape and murder of a nurse in southeast Pennsylvania. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:29:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Woman arrested in cold case has other dead spouses (AP)

    In this photo provided by the Augusta, Ga., Police Dept. Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, June 10, 2008.  It took years, but authorities have charged the 76-year-old with hiring a hit man, and investigators think  she may have also killed her four other husbands in four other states. (AP Photo/  Augusta Police Dept.)AP - For two decades, Al Gentry begged investigators to take another look at the mystery of who killed his brother, Harold, and left his gunshot-ridden body sprawled on the floor of the home he shared with his wife.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:29:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NC couple face murder in death of son tied to tree (AP)
    AP - A couple accused of tying their 13-year-old son to a tree for two nights to punish him for disobedience has been charged with murder in his death, authorities said Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:44:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Spain extradites suspected arms trafficker to NY (AP)
    AP - A wealthy international arms dealer was extradited to the United States on Friday to face charges he supplied millions of dollars in weapons to Colombian rebels to attack American forces there. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:34:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Police: 2 dead in NC bottling plant shooting (AP)

    An employee talks with an investigator, left, outside a Sundrop Bottling plant in Concord, N.C., Friday, June 13, 2008 where two people were shot and  killed. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - Two people were shot and killed Friday morning during an apparent robbery at a soda bottling plant.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:34:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Upper Midwest flooding forces evacuations (AP)

    Brandon Smith carries his two cats, Fry and Bender, to dry land from their flooded and evacuated home on June 11, 2008 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rising flood waters swamped the river city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Friday, forcing residents to flee their homes, and officials to abandon city hall amid a crisis that has left 15 people dead.(AFP/Getty Images/David Greedy)AP - Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 400 city blocks were under water.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:47:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ala. chemical weapons worker dies of heart attack (AP)

    This Thursday, May 29, 2008 file photo shows the chemical weapons incinerator at the Annniston Army Depot at Anniston, Ala. Officials say a worker died Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at the Annniston Army Depot, where chemical weapons are destroyed. Officials say the death was not the result of chemical agents.   (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP - A worker at an incinerator that destroys chemical weapons for the Army died of an apparent heart attack he suffered while working, a coroner said Thursday.


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    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:02:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    3 injured in crane accident at Cowboys' stadium (AP)
    AP - A cable failed as a construction crane was being lifted off the ground Thursday at the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium, injuring at least three people, a team spokesman said. -- read full article
    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:52:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    4 victims of deadly Iowa tornado were model youth (AP)

    In this photo released by family members shows Aaron Eilerts of Eagle Grove, Iowa. Eilerts is one of four Boy Scouts killed when a tornado stuck a scout camp Wednesday, June 11, 2008, in Little Sioux, Iowa. (AP Photo Family photo via the Eagle Grove Eagle)AP - The four boys killed when a tornado hit rural western Iowa on Wednesday were among the elite of the Boy Scouts of America, hand-picked by their scoutmasters to attend the high-adventure camp.


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    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:02:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    SC first to get 'I Believe' license plates (AP)
    AP - South Carolina's lieutenant governor announced Thursday that he is willing to put up $4,000 of his own money so his state can become the first in the nation to issue "I Believe" license plates with the image of a cross and a stained glass window. -- read full article
    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:07:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    107-year-old NH man to lead Andover alumni parade (AP)

    C. Yardley Chittick poses in his room  in Concord, N.H., Thursday, June 12, 2008. The 107-year-old man, a member of the class of 1918, will lead the reunion parade at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., this weekend. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - A 107-year-old man who once turned down a job offer from Thomas Edison has been chosen to lead a parade at the Massachusetts prep school he graduated from 90 years ago. C. Yardley Chittick of Concord is the last surviving member of the class of 1918 at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.


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    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:39:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    ACLU sues Texas youth prison system claiming abuse (AP)
    AP - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Texas youth prison system on Thursday, claiming girl inmates have been traumatized by practices such as solitary confinement and strip searches. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:01:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ga. group aims to coax more seminarians to pulpit (AP)

    John Helmstadter, a student at Yale Divinity School, participates in the session on 'Pastoral Leaders in Community' with Fund for Theological Education Ministry Fellows, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at Amerson House at St. Bartholomew's Church in Atlanta .About 100 seminarians from denominations including the United Methodist, Roman Catholic and Unitarian Universalist churches are attending a weeklong conference in Atlanta that aims to encourage their interest in taking their seminary degrees to the pulpit. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary)AP - They come from a host of Christian denominations, but one thing unites them: they are part of a shrinking number of theology students nationally who are interested in taking over a pulpit rather than doing something else with their degrees.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:03:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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