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    Champ retains NYC hot-dog eating title in overtime (AP)

    Joey Chestnut is declared the winner of the annual hot dog eating contest, Friday July 4, 2008, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Joey Chestnut reclaimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi with 59 hot dogs in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off. (AP Photo/Ed Ou)AP - Joey Chestnut achieved frankfurter immortality Friday, outdueling his celebrated Japanese rival in an epic hot-dog eating contest that pushed both of the gluttonous gladiators to the brink.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:15:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit (AP)

    This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming 'Girls Gone Wild' founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. (AP Photo, file)AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:01:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Statue of Liberty's crown may reopen to public (AP)

    This undated file photo shows a close up of the Statue of Liberty. The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth. (AP Photo/File)AP - The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:10:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser (AP)

    In this Aug. 22, 2001 photo, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., gives the thumbs-up sign as he leaves WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday,  after taping a announcement that he will retire when his current term ends in 2003. Helms has died at age 86, the Jesse Helms research center says. (AP Photo/Grant Halverson, file)AP - "Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:36:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 (AP)

    File image of former Republican Senator Jesse Helms speaking at the Christian Coalition Annual Meeting. (file/Reuters)AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:45:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    FBI probe latest setback for beleaguered Detroit (AP)

    Detroit City Council Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. leads the council during a meeting in Detroit, Monday, June 30, 2008. A mayoral text-messaging sex scandal, federal investigation into a City Council-approved $47 million sludge recycling deal, and poorly run and deficit-plagued public school system have dashed inroads toward respect and reopened Detroit to outside ridicule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:47:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    U.S. marks Independence Day with fireworks, revelry (AP)

    Fireworks explode over the Manhattan skyline during the 32nd annual Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display,  Friday, July 4, 2008 in New York. Some 30,000 shells were  set off — more than 1,000 per minute.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:50:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Twin fires raging along California central coast (AP)

    A firefighter uses a drip torch to start a backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, July 4, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, mostly ignited by lightning, that have scorched more then 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar)AP - Weary firefighters got no Independence Day reprieve from a pair of out-of-control wildfires that roared along California's central coast, chewing through opposite ends of an arid forest in the Los Padres National Forest.


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    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:37:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Auction house seeks to sell Rosa Parks collection (AP)

    This undated photo provided by New York City auction house Guernsey's, shows a hat believed to have been worn by Rosa Parks the day in December 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus.  Guernsey's has been asked by a Wayne County, Mich., probate court judge in Detroit to find a buyer, preferably a museum, university or other institution for thousands of Parks' personal items. Among them are her presidential and congressional medals, a post card from Martin Luther King Jr., and the hat shown. (AP Photo/Guernsey's, ho)AP - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:23:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NY researcher: `Yankee Doodle' turns 250 - maybe (AP)

    Paul Huey, an archaeologist for New York state, poses in front of a painting depicting Dr. Richard Shuckburg composing the lyrics to 'Yankee Doodle' in Rensselaer, N.Y., Monday, June 30, 2008.  Huey believes he has narrowed down a date in June 1758 that Shuckburg, a British army physician, wrote the lyrics.  As the story goes, Shuckburgh penned the lyrics at Fort Crailo, in Rensselaer, after being amused by the sloppy drill and appearance of New England militiamen.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:23:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83 (AP)

    In this Jan. 24, 1996 file photo, a man dressed as Bozo, left, poses with Bozo creator, Larry Harmon, as they celebrate the character's 50th birthday during the National Association of Television Program Executives convention in Las Vegas. Harmon, who appeared as Bozo the Clown for decades and licensed the name to other Bozos around the world, died Thursday, July 3, 2008, at his home of congestive heart failure,according to his longtime publicist, Jerry Digney. He was 83.   (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, file)AP - Larry Harmon wasn't the original Bozo the Clown, but he was the real one. Harmon, who portrayed the wing-haired clown for more than half a century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure, said his publicist, Jerry Digney. He was 83.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:36:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Crazy cat that frightened neighborhood mends ways (AP)
    AP - A combative cat named Lewis who frightened the neighbors and got his owner into legal trouble two years ago has done so well under house arrest that the case has now been scratched. -- read full article
    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:11:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Freed US hostages, families reuniting in Texas (AP)

    Freed hostage and military contractors, Marc Gonzalves, center with cap, and  Thomas Howes in flight suit to the right arrive at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The U.S. military contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell — were held for five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. They were part of 15 hostages rescued from the FARC rebels in Columbia. (AP PHOTO/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)  MAGS OUT NO SALES SAN ANTONIO OUTAP - Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they've been absent from for more than five years.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:07:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Tension builds over Coney Island rebuilding plan (AP)

    People attend Astroland park in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn Thursday, June 19, 2008  in New York. A developer who owns 11 acres of Coney Island wants to break ground next year on a $1.5 billion complex that includes high-rise hotels, retail stores, movie theaters, an indoor water park and New York's first new roller coaster since the now-landmarked Cyclone was built of wood 75 years ago. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - The Fourth of July weekend has always been one of the most exciting times of the year for Coney Island: Crowds line the boardwalk to watch the hot-dog eating contest, visitors take terrifying roller coaster rides, and beachgoers frolic in the sand and surf.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:35:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Guerrilla gardeners dig in to beautify Los Angeles (AP)

    Guerrilla Gardener Angela Clubb works on a freeway off-ramp in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Thursday, June 26, 2008. Getting approval to beautify public property can be cumbersome, so guerrilla gardeners in cities worldwide take matters into their own dirt-caked hands. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.


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    Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:38:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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