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    NC couple face murder in death of son tied to tree (AP)

    This undated police handout, shows  36-year-old Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, who along with Brice Brian McMillan,  have been charged with murder and felony child abuse Friday, June 13, 2008, after the Macclesfield N.C., couple, allegedly tied their 13-year-old son to a tree for two nights as a punishment for disobedience.(AP Photo/police)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.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:52:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Sketch released in case of 2 Okla. girls slain (AP)

    The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation released this sketch Friday, June 13, 2008, of a 'person of interest' investigators want to interview about the slayings of two girls along an eastern Oklahoma country road. a spokesperson said the man was seen standing near a white pickup truck around the time and place the youngsters were shot to death on Sunday afternoon.(AP Photo/ Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)AP - Authorities released a sketch Friday of a "person of interest" investigators want to interview about the slayings of two girls along an eastern Oklahoma country road.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:04:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    3 in Ohio guilty of plot against US troops in Iraq (AP)

    These undated handout photos provided by the Justice Department show, from left, Marwan El-Hindi, Wassim Mazloum and Mohammad Amawi, which the Justice Department said Friday, June 13, 2008, that a federal jury has convicted the three Ohio men of plotting to attack U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The guilty verdicts were returned by a jury in Toledo,Ohio. (AP Photo/Justice Department)AP - Three Ohio men were convicted Friday of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq, a case put together with help from a former soldier who posed as a radical bent on violence.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:52:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Navy: Pilot killed in jet collision over Nevada (AP)
    AP - Two fighter jets from the U.S. Navy's elite training school collided Friday over northern Nevada's high desert, killing one pilot and injuring two others who parachuted to safety. -- read full article
    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:04:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Weather appears good for shuttle's landing (AP)

    In this image provided by NASA backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation on Wednesday June 11, 2008. Earlier the STS-124 and Expedition 17 crews concluded almost nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station.(AP Photo/NASA)AP - The weather looked favorable for space shuttle Discovery to return to Earth Saturday after a two-week mission in which it delivered a new Japanese lab to the international space station.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:19:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    FDA: Florida, Mexico suspects in tomato outbreak (AP)

    Workers stand with crates of tomatoes at the Central de Abastos market in Mexico City, Thursday, June 12, 2008. Export-quality tomatoes labeled 'Ready to Eat' in English flooded Mexico City markets on Thursday after a salmonella scare in the U.S. stopped them from crossing the border. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Parts of Florida and Mexico were supplying "the vast majority" of tomatoes sold when the salmonella outbreak began in April and thus remain leading suspects, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:05:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Calif prepares for busy week of same-sex marriages (AP)

    Lock Kwan, left, and Dadis Najib verify each others information before being sworn in as deputy county clerks on Thursday, June 12, 2008 in San Francisco.  Around the state, clerks are preparing for an expected flood of weddings starting as early as Monday, when California becomes the second state after Massachusetts to allow gays to marry. County offices are adding staff, extending hours and training and deputizing hundreds of volunteer marriage commissioners. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Christina Izzo)AP - City worker Eileen Shields usually spends her days answering questions about West Nile Virus, bed bugs and other health concerns, but next week she'll be one of hundreds of volunteers at City Hall helping same-sex couples tie the knot.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:30:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Calif. firefighters still struggling with blaze (AP)

    Firefighter Kim Deseni ,of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, works a hot spot on the Humboldt Fire near Paradise, Calif.,  Friday, June 13, 2008.  More than 1,500 firefighters are battling the blaze that has destroyed more than 20 homes and consumed more than  20,000 acres.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - As a wildfire bore down on his home of 15 years, hopscotching between properties here, Larry Knifong decided to take his chances and stay — that is, until the flames raced up a ridge toward this ranch-style house.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:23:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Floods swamp Iowa town; Drinking water near gone (AP)

    First avenue looking southwest is flooded in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 13, 2008. (Frank Polich/Reuters)AP - Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has ever seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:33:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    New law prompts Calif. county to halt all weddings (AP)

    A couple is interviewed by a news crew before a meeting held at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center to provide the latest information on same-sex marriage developments in Los Angeles June 12, 2008. Same-sex marriages will be allowed statewide for the first time on June 17, thanks to a landmark state Supreme Court decision last month. REUTERS/Phil McCarten (UNITED STATES)AP - Heterosexual couples are rushing to get married in a conservative California county that plans to halt all civil wedding ceremonies as gay marriage is set to be legalized.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:50:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Plea in escort service case involving Spitzer (AP)

    Attorney Murray Richman speaks during a news conference after representing Mark Brener Thursday, June 12, 2008  in New York. Brener, accused of running an escort service that led to the downfall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer appeared Thursday in federal court in Manhattan after negotiating a plea deal with the U.S. attorney's office. Richman called the deal fair. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - The operator of a high-priced escort service that counted a former New York governor among its clients pleaded guilty Thursday after a criminal probe put the company out of business and Eliot Spitzer out of office.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:39:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NASA: Metal clip fell off shuttle but not problem (AP)

    This image provided by NASA shows a view of the Space Shuttle Discovery soon after the shuttle and the International Space Station began their post-undocking relative separation on Wednesday June 11, 2008. One of the Expedition 17 crewmembers recorded the photo with a digital still camera. Landing is targeted for Kennedy Space Center at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A metal clip fell from Discovery's brakes on Friday but NASA said it won't delay the space shuttle's scheduled landing on Saturday.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:44:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Manson follower Susan Atkins mulled for release (AP)
    AP - Former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, could soon be released from prison because she is near death, authorities said. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:21:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Kan. residents assess damage after deadly twisters (AP)

    Residents walk past tornado damaged homes in Chapman, Kan., Thursday, June 12, 2008. Tornadoes  raked Kansas on Wednesday, killing at least two people, destroying much of the small town of Chapman and causing extensive damage on the Kansas State University campus. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagnerl)AP - As a tornado bore down on their town, Debby Peterson and her husband knew they had to find shelter. Their own home didn't have a basement, so they ran to their neighbor's.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:49:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Upper Midwest flooding forces evacuations, floods roads (AP)

    Water from the swollen Cedar River rushes past downtown buildings Thursday, June 12, 2008, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Officials estimated that 100 blocks in Cedar Rapids were under water forcing the evacuation of nearly 4,000 homes and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)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 17:54:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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