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    Miami's vice? City at bottom in volunteering (AP)

    HOLD FOR RELEASE AT 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday; graphic shows volunteering rates by state and cities; two sizes; 1c x 3 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 98.4 mm; 2c x 3 3/8 inches; 96.3 mm x 85.7 mmAP - Blame it on the traffic. Or the number of new immigrants. Or the allure of the beach. Whatever the reason, Miami has secured the bottom spot — No. 50 among major U.S. cities — in new rankings of the percentage of adults who volunteer.


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    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:24:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Carter's new fight, over Ga. dams, a familiar one (AP)
    AP - President Carter has spent his golden years as a global humanitarian: a Nobel laureate pushing for peace in the Middle East, speaking out against the war in Iraq and battling to eradicate deadly diseases in Africa and Asia. -- read full article
    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:21:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    3 missing, 4 dead after weekend of riptides in NY (AP)

    A New York City Police Department boat sits anchored off Coney Island near 23th Street  in Brooklyn, New York while an NYPD helicopter flies overhead, Sunday, July 27, 2008. The police were searching  for a ten-year-old girl who went missing yesterday, Saturday, July 26, 2008. Four swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches, authorities said. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Rescuers suspended their search Sunday for a 10-year-old girl in the water off Coney Island, one of three swimmers still missing from powerful ocean currents at New York City and Long Island beaches over the weekend.


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    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:00:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Floods strip Midwest of tons of valuable topsoil (AP)

    Jim Lankford stands at the edge of a cliff  in his corn field that was damaged by the June flooding in Martinsville, Ind., Tuesday, July 23, 2008. Erosion from June's flooding carved a new path for the river and created dramatic 12-foot cliffs at the edge of some of Lankford's corn fields about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis. ( AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - Jim Lankford's corn crops used to stretch to the White River. Now the river has stretched itself through his crops.


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    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:27:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Oops! Wrong Larry shown on Idaho campaign buttons (AP)
    AP - Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig. -- read full article
    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:56:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    300 evacuated from flooding in Ruidoso, N.M., area (AP)

    This photo provided by Ruidoso News shows the damage caused by flooding at the Ruidoso Downs Racetrack in Ruidoso Downs, N.M. on July 27, 2008. An attempt by Peppers Pride, a New Mexico mare, to go for a record 17 victories in 17 starts was delayed after the flooded track forced Ruidoso Downs to cancel Sunday's races. About 300 people were evacuated from homes, campgrounds and a recreational vehicle park as flooding hit around the resort town of Ruidoso, after the remnants of Hurricane Dolly dumped an estimated six inches on the mountainous area. (AP Photo/Mike Curran, Ruidoso News)AP - About 300 people were evacuated from homes, campgrounds and a recreational vehicle park Sunday after flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Dolly. Two people were reported missing in the water.


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    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:09:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Protesters rally against immigration raid in Iowa (AP)

    Protesters march down a street, Sunday, July 27, 2008, in Postville, Iowa, during an immigration rally.  Busloads of people from Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other nearby cities came to protest a federal immigration raid of the local Agriprocessors plant. Nearly 400 people were arrested during the May raid of the plant. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - About a thousand protesters descended on a small town in northeastern Iowa on Sunday, decrying the raid of a meatpacking plant that arrested nearly 400 residents and calling for a change in federal immigration policies.


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    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:35:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    World War II camp preservation proves difficult (AP)
    AP - His backyard is a maze of car parts, scrap metal and ancient farming equipment — relics that might seem worthless to anyone else but Ron Solders. -- read full article
    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:37:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Suicide hot line got calls from 22,000 veterans (AP)

    Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, 26, from Mt. Sinai, N.Y., carries a young Iraqi boy who was injured during a heavy battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces in this March 25, 2003 file photo near Al Faysaliyah, Iraq. Dwyer died of an accidental overdose after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder for almost five years. (AP Photo/Warren Zinn, Army Times)AP - More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.


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    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:10:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fire destroys 12 homes near Yosemite National Park (AP)

    Orange County Firefighters Tyler Johnson, left and Mike Reinhold look at fires burning across the Briceburg mountains along side the Merced River Sunday, July 27, 2008 in Briceburg, Calif. An out-of-control wildfire burning Sunday near an entrance to Yosemite National Park has destroyed eight homes and threatened thousands more as flames forced authorities to cut power to the park. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - An out-of-control wildfire burning Sunday near an entrance to Yosemite National Park has destroyed 12 homes and threatened thousands more as flames forced authorities to cut power to the park.


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    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Gunman opens fire in Tennessee church, 2 killed (AP)

    The Rev. Chris Buice talks to reporters outside Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., on Sunday, July 27, 2008, after a gunman shot eight church members during a service, killing one. 'We've been touched by a horrible act of violence. We are in a process of healing and we ask everyone for your prayers,' he says. (AP Photo/Duncan Mansfield)AP - A gunman opened fire at a church youth performance Sunday and killed two people, including a man who witnesses called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast.


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    Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:14:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    AP IMPACT: Relatives of televangelist prosper (AP)

    In this May 22, 2008 file photo, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, listens to a colleague speak with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Televangelist Kenneth Copeland is one target of a Senate Finance Committee investigation into allegations of questionable spending and lax financial accountability at six large televangelist organizations that preach health-and-wealth theology. Copeland has fought back the hardest, refusing to answer most questions from Grassley. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)AP - Here in the gentle hills of north Texas, televangelist Kenneth Copeland has built a religious empire teaching that God wants his followers to prosper.


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    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:06:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    4 swimmers dead, 3 missing in N.Y. ocean waters (AP)

    People visit the beach at Coney Island in New York in this June 21, 1998 file photo. Three swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches, authorities said. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel, file)AP - Four swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches, authorities said. At least three more had been rescued.


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    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:05:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Miami's vice? City at bottom in volunteering (AP)

    Bush-Cheney volunteer Ana Santos, left, listens in as Maggie Mustelier handles a call in this Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 file photo at Bush-Cheney headquarters in Miami. Miami has secured the bottom spot — No. 50 among major U.S. cities — in new rankings of the percentage of adults who volunteer.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, FILE)AP - Blame it on the traffic. Or the number of new immigrants. Or the allure of the beach. Whatever the reason, Miami has secured the bottom spot — No. 50 among major U.S. cities — in new rankings of the percentage of adults who volunteer.


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    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:04:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fire still threatens homes west of Yosemite Park (AP)

    President Bush rides on Marine One past a fire line cut by firefighters during a tour of the California wildfires Thursday, July 17, 2008 in Redding, Calif.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - A fast-spreading wildfire raged out of control Sunday near an entrance to Yosemite National Park after forcing residents to evacuate 170 homes and leading authorities to cut power to the park.


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    Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:28:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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