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    DC residents start applying for gun permits (AP)

    A man looks at a 45-caliber pistol displayed at a booth at the Defense and Sporting Arms show held in a shopping mall in Manila July 17, 2008. Gun ownership is high in the Philippines, since the constitution allows people to own weapons.  REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES)AP - The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned Washington's strict 32-year-old handgun ban was among the first to arrive as the city started registering firearms.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:58:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend (AP)

    A photo of Ricky Green hangs in a shrine located along the main street in Bolinas, Calif., Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Six young people — including two juveniles — allegedly attacked and stabbed Green with a viciousness that is forcing Bolinas to search its soul for meaning. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - Ricky Green wandered into this town some months ago, a stranger just a bit stranger than most. He had shed his middle-class respectability — a job as a graphic artist in the 'burbs — strapped a guitar over his shoulder and landed here on what he told people was "a spiritual journey."


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:21:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Midwest's flood-prone communities consider buyouts (AP)

    This June 14, 2008 file photo shows floodwaters  in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Weeks after the latest massive floods in the Midwest, voluntary buyouts are again being considered in at least five states — Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois.   Officials in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have been telling residents it could be a year or more before they know how much will be available for buyouts. Officials have said that half of the estimated 4,000 homes that were damaged will have to be demolished. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - Debbie Halcomb unpacked boxes as she moved back into her flood-damaged home, but worried that her damp carpet harbors mold. She enjoys the normally tranquil setting of Winfield, a community about three miles from the Mississippi River. But she's had enough. She's hoping for a government buyout so she can move to higher ground.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:18:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bush set to survey Northern California wildfires (AP)

    President Bush speaks as county music entertainer Kenny Chesney, second from left, and a members of his band watch in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, July 16, 2008, in Washington after President Bush hosted a social dinner in honor of Major League Baseball. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - The White House said President Bush will visit Northern California on Thursday to get a first-hand look at the wildfires that have ravaged hundreds of square miles and strained the state's firefighting resources.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:15:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports (AP)

    An obese man walks through Sydney. British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AP - Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reported Thursday.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:36:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NASA moon capsule running late, full of problems (AP)

    This artist rendering shows NASA's next-generation of moon rockets being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala. Ares I, left, is the crew launch vehicle that will carry astronauts to space. Ares V is the cargo launch vehicle that will deliver the lunar lander and other large hardware to space.  By day, the engineers in Huntsville, work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover, working on a competing design. These dissenters and their backers say their alternative rocket would be safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft, which have already cost NASA $7 billion. (AP Photo/NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center)AP - Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday.


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    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:42:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wayward N.J. dolphins move to different river (AP)

    Boaters look on as dolphins swim in the Shrewsbury River Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Sea Bright, N.J. The group of 15 dolphins who have taken up residence in a river near the Jersey Shore will be allowed to stay there through the July Fourth holiday weekend, even though a nearby fireworks display draws heavy boat traffic. Patrols will enforce a perimeter around the dolphins throughout the holiday weekend, state police Sgt. Stephen Jones said.  (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Some of the dolphins that have been entertaining spectators in a river at the New Jersey shore appear to have moved into another waterway instead of returning to the ocean.


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    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:54:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wis. Supreme Court rules against men in abuse case (AP)
    AP - The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by five men who claimed two Roman Catholic dioceses should have reported sexual abuse claims against a teacher before he moved on to a Kentucky diocese and molested them. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:03:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Millions to improve Texas colonias go unspent (AP)

    A young boy is reflected in standing water in drainage ditch as he takes out the trash at his home in the Grande Acres colonia near Santa Rosa, Texas, Thursday, July 10, 2008.  The colonia was supposed to get sewer service through a nearly $4 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But the city of Santa Rosa never took advantage of the grant, which has now expired. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - During a recent afternoon storm, brothers Angel and Salvador Badillo sat under a tin roof with a couple of friends, sipping beers as the open drainage ditch in front of their clapboard house filled like a moat.


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    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:41:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Calif. court rejects gay-marriage-initiative case (AP)
    AP - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to hear a challenge to a ballot initiative that seeks to ban same-sex marriages. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:27:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    W.Va. man pleads guilty in torture of woman (AP)

    This Sept. 9, 2007 file photo released by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Bobby Brewster in Logan, W.Va., after he and five others were arrested for holding a Charleston woman captive in a Big Creek home for at least a week. Brewster has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young woman who authorities say was held captive in West Virginia. He was sentenced on Tuesday July 15, 2008 to at least 13 and as many as 40 years in prison, The Charleston Gazette reported. (AP Photo/West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority)AP - A fifth person has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young woman who authorities say was held captive in West Virginia last summer.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:05:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    DeBakey remembered as medical pioneer, good friend (AP)

    Pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey speaks after being presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, in April 2008. DeBakey, whose clients ranged from actress Marlene Dietrich to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, has died in Houston, Texas, at the age of 99, media reports said on July 12, 2008.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - In a tribute mixed with praise and personal anecdotes, pioneering heart surgeon Michael DeBakey was remembered at a memorial service Wednesday as not only a brilliant physician and medical innovator but also a friend and humanitarian.


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    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:40:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    6th body pulled from Calif. canal after crash (AP)

    In this photo provided by The Patterson Irrigator newspaper, firefighters keep a close eye on the waters of the Delta-Mendota Canal in Westley, Calif., Tuesday, July 15, 2008. The California Highway Patrol says at least eight people have plunged into the Delta-Mendota Canal after a van of farm laborers and another vehicle collided in rural Stanislaus County. (AP Photo/The Patterson Irrigator, Elias Funez)AP - A sixth body was pulled from a rural, central California canal Wednesday after a collision between a septic truck and a sport utility vehicle carrying farm workers from a peach orchard. A seventh victim remained missing and is presumed dead.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:44:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Police: N.M. suicide was similar to 'CSI' episode (AP)
    AP - It looked like something out of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." And sure enough, it was. -- read full article
    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:41:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Woman accused of poisoning son in Pa. hospital (AP)

    This undated police photo shows Amber Brewington. The Tennessee woman tried to poison her hospitalized infant son by repeatedly injecting salt water into his feeding tube in what she claimed were attempts to hasten the death of a sick and suffering child, police said. But police said the boy's ongoing medical problems appeared to have been caused by his mother, who also told them she was suffering from severe postpartum depression. Brewington was charged Wednesday, July 16, 2008 with one count of attempted homicide after telling police she had injected her son with salt water five or six times in Tennessee and Pennsylvania hospitals. (AP Photo/Police via The Pittsburgh Tribune Review)AP - A woman poisoned her infant son by repeatedly injecting salt water into his feeding tube at hospitals in Tennessee and Pittsburgh in what she claimed were attempts to hasten the death of a suffering child, authorities said Wednesday.


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    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:18:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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