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    Drinking games prove deadly to college students (AP)

    This Friday, May 30, 2008 picture shows a portrait of Jenna Foellmi on her gravestone in Brownsville, Minn. Jenna, a student at Winona State University, died Dec. 14, 2007 after a night of drinking. Between 1999 and 2005, 157 people between the ages of 18-23 died from drinking so much alcohol that their bodies stopped working. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached over to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:23:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    A-Rod's wife alleges infidelity in divorce papers (AP)

    New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, right, and his wife, Cynthia, arrive to the 12th annual GQ 'Men of the Year' party at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. The wife of Alex Rodriguez has filed for divorce in a Miami court. A lawyer for Cynthia Rodriguez filed the papers on Monday July 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce Monday, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children."


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:19:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Animal rights protesters torment scientists (AP)

    Animal rights activists, who declined to give their names, demonstrate outside the home of a University of California professor, on Saturday, May 31, 2008, in Berkeley, Calif. Borrowing the kind of tactics used by anti-abortion demonstrators, animal rights activists are increasingly taking their rage straight to scientists' front doors, harassing and terrorizing researchers and their families in their homes.  (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - In the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, nine protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:17:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NOAA report: US coral reefs in severe decline (AP)
    AP - Almost half the coral reef ecosystems in United States territory are in poor or fair condition, mostly because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a government report released Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:54:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Calif. group proposes George W. Bush Sewage Plant (AP)

    Exterior view of the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant is shown in San Francisco, Monday, July 7, 2008. Supporters of the Presidential Memorial Commission have turned in their application to propose to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. The supporters are hoping to put the idea before San Francisco voters as a November ballot issue. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A California group submitted a proposal Monday to rename a sewage treatment plant after President Bush, calling the initiative a fitting tribute to the outgoing chief executive and the "mess" he'll leave behind.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:24:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Missing boy found safe, fugitive dad killed by bus (AP)
    AP - A desperate five-day search for a 9-year-old boy abducted by his father in Southern California ended in Mexico, where the man died after being hit by a bus and the boy was found safe across town, authorities said Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:33:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    EPA dropped wetlands cases after high court ruling (AP)
    AP - The Bush administration didn't pursue hundreds of potential water pollution cases after a 2006 Supreme Court decision that restricted the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate seasonal streams and wetlands. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:55:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Convicted husband leads Calif. police to a body (AP)

    This 1999 California DMV photo shows Nina Reiser. A California software programmer convicted of killing his estranged wife, Nina Riser, has led police to a corpse that is believed to be hers. An attorney for Hans Reiser said his client led police to a wooded area of Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland hills. (AP Photo/DMV photo via The Oakland Tribune)AP - A prominent software programmer who had denied having anything to do with his estranged wife's disappearance even after he was convicted of her murder led police Monday to what is believed to be her body, defense attorneys said.


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    Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:52:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    1st Atlantic season hurricane becomes Category 3 (AP)

    This  satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Bertha collected at 6:45 a.m. EDT Monday July 7, 2008. As of 5 a.m. EDT Monday, Hurricane Bertha was about 845 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say it is too early to say if or where the storm will hit land. Maximum sustained winds have increased to speeds of 75 mph with higher gusts. Some strengthening is expected during the next couple of days. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - Hurricane Bertha strengthened to a Category 3 storm Monday as it swirled in the central Atlantic, but it posed no immediate threat to land.


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    Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:44:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Freed US hostage denounces Colombian rebels (AP)

    Rescued Colombia US hostage Marc D. Gonsalves, left, stands on stage with unidentified members of his family at a 'Yellow Ribbon Ceremony' during which each of the returnees, including Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, was able to speak briefly to the press, Monday July 7, 2008, at Fort Sam Houston's Brooke Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas.  (AP Photo/Darren Abate)AP - Among the smiles and hugs shared by three American hostages freed last week from rebels in Colombia and their families, one of the men on Monday angrily denounced their captors as "terrorists with a capital 'T.'"


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    Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:37:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hot, drier weather developing on Calif. firelines (AP)

    Firefighters are surrounded by morning fog mixed with haze from a wildfire at an airstrip in Big Sur, Calif., Monday, July 7, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Monday, but the situation may get worse since temperatures are expected to rise.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - As some residents whose homes were threatened by a vast Southern California wildfire were allowed to return home on Monday, forecasters warned that the cooler, damper conditions that have aided recent firefighting efforts would soon turn in favor of the flames.


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    Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:07:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Proposal to euthanize wild horses spurs debate (AP)
    AP - Animal rights activists and ranchers are clashing over a federal proposal to euthanize wild horses as a way to deal with their surplus numbers. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:48:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Officials predict longer and stronger fire season (AP)

    Firefighter Brian Britton, of Ojai, Calif., throws flares unto a hillside during a backburn operation along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Sunday, July 6, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Sunday. Fires have burned more than 800 square miles of land and destroyed at least 69 homes throughout California in the past two weeks.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - In the past few years, Rich Nieto's work has started earlier and lasted longer.


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:10:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Park Service seeks to reach changing population (AP)

    Joquetta Johnson, a school teacher from Baltimore,  enjoys the overlook of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Saturday, June 21, 2008.  The park lies in a tri-state area with a hour drive from Washington D.C. and Baltimore. (AP Photo/Martin B. Cherry)AP - She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. What, she wondered when a friend suggested it, could a park in rural, lily-white West Virginia hold for a black teacher from Baltimore?


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    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:45:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Drinking games prove deadly to college students (AP)
    AP - On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached out to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch. -- read full article
    Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:07:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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