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    Navy attorney in USS Liberty investigation dies (AP)
    AP - Ward Boston, a former Navy attorney who helped investigate the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 crewmen and years later said President Lyndon Johnson ordered that the assault be ruled an accident, has died. He was 84. -- read full article
    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:15:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Man who took parts from corpses gets 9 to 27 years (AP)
    AP - A man convicted of secretly cutting up corpses — including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke — has received a sentence of nine to 27 years in prison for his role in a ghoulish multimillion-dollar body parts scheme. -- read full article
    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:53:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Collapsed bridge's successor may be done by Sept. (AP)

    One of the precast cements which comprises of the main span of the new Interstate 35W bridge is hoisted up Monday, June 16, 2008 in Minneapolis. The bridge replaces the old bridge which collapsed Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 people and severing a critical link in the state's largest city. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Two halves of a sparkling new Interstate 35W freeway bridge stretch toward each other over the Mississippi River, separated by a gap of about 200 feet that shrinks with each day as workers toil around the clock.


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    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:49:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Teenager from faith-healing family dies in Oregon (AP)
    AP - Authorities say a teenager from a faith-healing family died from an illness that could have been easily treated, just a few months after a toddler cousin of his died in a case that has led to criminal charges. -- read full article
    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:25:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NC state trooper fatally shot during traffic stop (AP)
    AP - Authorities charged a Florida man with first-degree murder Wednesday after a state Highway Patrol trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in western North Carolina. -- read full article
    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:10:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    3 men charged with killing suspected mob informant (AP)
    AP - Three reputed associates of the Gambino crime family have been charged with murdering a suspected mob informant in 1998. -- read full article
    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:16:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Pigs who swam through floodwaters killed on levee (AP)

    A pig who somehow floated or swam several miles from the flooded hog barns near Oakville, Iowa, attempts to crawl over the levee from the Mississippi River side of a sandbagged levee near Kingston, Iowa, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - Luck ran out for about a dozen pigs who escaped their flooded farm, swam through raging floodwaters and scrambled atop a sandbag levee in southeastern Iowa.


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    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:44:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ill. jury convicts former police sgt. of 4 rapes (AP)
    AP - A former Bloomington police sergeant was convicted Wednesday of raping four women and stalking a fifth, ending a trial in which prosecutors said he was driven by pornography-fueled fantasies. -- read full article
    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:28:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Political leaders attend Tim Russert's private funeral (AP)

    Maureen Orth, widow of the late Tim Russert, and their son Luke Russert, watch as the casket of the Meet the Press host is carried into Holy Trinity Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The crowd at Tim Russert's funeral Wednesday would have made a great panel on his Sunday morning news show.


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    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:38:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Suspected Mich. serial killer gets life in prison (AP)

    Matthew Macon, 28, listens to Judge William Collette in Ingham County Circuit Court during his sentencing Wednesday, June 18, 2008, in Mason, Mich. Macon was sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole for killing two Lansing women, Sandra Eichorn, 64, and Karen Delgado-Yates, 41. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)AP - A suspected serial killer smiled and proclaimed his innocence Wednesday before being sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole in the violent killings of two women last year.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:45:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Egyptian student pleads guilty to terrorist aid (AP)

    Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, right, talks to his attorney as co-defendent Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, looks down during a bond hearing Aug. 6, 2007, at the Berkeley County Court House in Moncks Corner, S.C. The Egyptian college student pleaded guilty at the Federal Courthouse in Tampa, Fla.  Wednesday June 18, 2008,  to making a video demonstrating how to build a remote bomb detonator. He faces 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in August. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - An Egyptian college student pleaded guilty Wednesday to making a video demonstrating how to build a remote bomb detonator to help terrorists kill enemies including American soldiers.


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    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:56:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Flooding over, but trash now problem in Iowa city (AP)

    Women throw a flood destroyed piece of furniture onto the growing mounds of garbage sitting curbside in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Flood victims were told to separate items into piles such as appliances, scrap metal, wood debris and hazardous waste such as paint products, weed killer and cleaners.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The floodwaters are gone, but in front of thousands of homes and in much of downtown a new eyesore has taken their place: trash.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:22:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    States weigh options in offshore drilling fight (AP)
    AP - Governors in some coastal states promised to fight attempts to tap offshore petroleum reserves, citing concerns about the environment and tourism. Others agreed with President Bush's call to lift a 27-year-old federal ban on offshore drilling but said states should decide whether to allow it. -- read full article
    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:54:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Both sides in marriage fight aim for mainstream (AP)

    Newlyweds Sharon Papo (L) and Amber Weiss (R) stand with Patti and David Weiss outside San Francisco City Hall after exchanging wedding vows on the first full day of legal same-sex marriages in California June 17, 2008. Gay marriage supporters see the move by the most populous U.S. state to allow same-sex weddings as an historic move long overdue, while opponents brand it a moral tragedy.    REUTERS/Erin Siegal (UNITED STATES)AP - When gay and lesbian couples started getting married in California this week, one set of voices was quiet among the choruses of "Here Come the Brides" — those of the conservative activists who put a same-sex marriage ban on the November ballot.


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    Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:06:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Iranian widow faces terror charges in New York (AP)

    Zeina Taleb-Jedi, 52,  poses for a photo in New York, Friday June 13, 2008.  In March 2003, Taleb-Jedi  found herself trapped in a cold, dusty bunker in Iraq as invading U.S. forces began blowing up buildings and inflicting causalities all around her. More than five years later, she remains stuck in legal limbo in New York, facing federal terrorism charges labeling her a leader of a militant group advocating the violent overthrow of the Iranian government. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - In March 2003, Zeinab Taleb-Jedi was a middle-aged widow who found herself trapped in a cold, dusty bunker in Iraq as invading U.S. forces began blowing up buildings and inflicting casualties all around her.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:37:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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