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    Plans to send elephant to Mexico stirs debate (AP)

    Dallas zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, right, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Zoo officials plan to send Jenny to a drive-through park in Mexico that they say would be a perfect place for her to live. But a Dallas city councilwoman and several animal activists say that would be a horrible home for Jenny because she gets frightened by cars and deserves a more peaceful existence. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)AP - Jenny the elephant lazily poked her trunk into a bucket of fruit as her keepers at the Dallas Zoo hosed her during her morning bath, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she could soon be shipped far from her home of 22 years. She's also certainly unaware of the debate her possible departure has stirred.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:03:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Theater villain charged in real-life whodunit (AP)

    This Oct. 25, 2007 file photo shows a cast photo from a local dinner-theater mystery production, pulled from the files of producer Peggy Coverdale, on her kitchen table, in Westport, Wash. Bruce Allen Hummel, fourth from right in plaid shirt, portrayed the murderer in the play. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - In the small-town dinner-theater mystery, Bruce Hummel had no trouble admitting he was the killer: "I got my revenge," he told the audience. "Tell that to the sheriff." Now he faces a murder charge in real life.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:45:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Judge: Reforms too slow in Calif.'s youth prisons (AP)
    AP - A judge says state corrections officials are moving too slowly in correcting poor conditions throughout the state's juvenile prison system and is warning that he may step in to make sure changes get made soon. -- read full article
    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:59:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wayward vehicle hits parade watchers in Sheboygan (AP)
    AP - A wayward vehicle drove into the route of a parade Saturday and injured three people, none seriously, authorities reported. -- read full article
    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:40:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fire crews close to containing fire near Yosemite (AP)

    Rio Bravo Hotshot firefighter Cole Cates clear manzanita while cutting fireline on the the Telegraph Fire near Yosemite National Park Wednesday, July 30, 2008, near Mariposa, Calif. Firefighters have made progress containing the blaze after cooler weather and light winds in the region. (AP Photo/Ron Lewis)AP - Firefighters said Saturday they were getting closer to containing a 53-square-mile wildfire that had destroyed more than 20 homes in the mountains outside Yosemite National Park.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:33:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hawaii man accused of helping China design missile (AP)

    In this undated passport photo provided by the Gowadia family, Noshir Gowadia, accused of selling military secrets to China, is shown. Prosecutors say Gowadia used the island as a base to design a stealth cruise missile for China. A federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted Gowadia on 21 counts of conspiracy, money-laundering and falsifying tax returns.  (AP Photo/Gowadia Family)AP - Cheryl Gowadia couldn't figure out why FBI agents in riot gear, guns drawn, were storming her home on Maui's tranquil North Shore. At first, she thought they might be after the man building a pond in her backyard. Instead, she was stunned to learn they wanted to question her husband, a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:58:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NTSB: Plane crash investigation has no 1 focus (AP)

    The wreckage of a business jet, which crashed here Thursday killing eight people, sits in a corn field in Owatonna, Minn., on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were surveying the wreckage Friday, looking for clues. Some investigators were seen examining the runway, where witnesses said the plane landed, then became airborne again before disappearing behind a row of trees. (AP Photo/Richard Sennott, Pool)AP - National Transportation Safety Board investigators haven't focused on any single issue yet as they seek the cause of the corporate jet crash that killed eight people, a board member said Saturday.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:00:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    CDC understated number of new HIV infections in US (AP)

    People walk around the Circle of Friends at the National AIDS Memorial Grove on World Aids Day in San Francisco, California, December 1, 2006. REUTERS/Kimberly WhiteAP - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported Sunday, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:12:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Woman says man held in Wis. shootings raped her (AP)

    This image provided Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 by the Marinette County Jail shows Scott J. Johnson. Johnson, 38, of Iron Mountain, Mich., was arrested on Friday for the shooting deaths of three teenagers after opening fire with an assault rifle on a group of young swimmers. (AP Photo/Marinette County Jail)AP - A woman said a man suspected of opening fire on a group of young adults, killing three, had raped her the night before in the same northern Wisconsin woods where the victims were slain.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:38:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    AP IMPACT: Long haul begins in Iraq for Minn. GIs (AP)

    Sgt. 1st Class Janelle Johnson hugs her daughter, Emily, at Emily's daycare in Randall, Minn., Thursday, April 3, 2008.  Johnson served in Iraq for 16 months. Her daughters, Emily and Elizabeth, were 6 months and 4 years old, respectively, when she was deployed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - In the end, Chad Malmberg put his framed Silver Star on the wall and stowed away his helmet, some old uniforms and the dusty combat boots he had worn in the Iraqi desert.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:31:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    After suicide, feds consider closing anthrax case (AP)

    In this Nov. 30, 2001 file photo, a decontamination crew dressed in hazmat suits stands together as an investigator takes photographs outside Ottilie Lundgren's home in Oxford, Conn., after the house was declared a crime scene. Federal and state officials returned to the home to conduct a more thorough examination. Lundgren, 94, died of inhalation anthrax on Nov. 21.  Federal prosecutors were planning to indict a government scientist in connection with the anthrax deaths, but the man, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, apparently committed suicide. He died July 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Steve Miller, File)AP - The chief suspect in the anthrax attacks now dead, the Justice Department is expected to decide in the days ahead whether to close what had been one of its most publicized unsolved cases.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:36:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jobless rate climbs as 51,000 jobs vanish (AP)

    A woman looks at a job listings board at a Career Center in California. US employers shed 51,000 nonfarm jobs in July marking a seventh straight month of job cuts as the economy struggles for momentum, a Labor Department survey showed Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate in four years and adding to the evidence an economic recovery remains far off.


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    Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:09:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Court official: Trial off in Comair crash (AP)

    In the April 13, 2006 file photo, a Comair jet, below, taxis to the terminal, Thursday, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Ky. Regional airline Comair has told employees, Tuesday, July 8, 2008,  that it expects to cut 8 percent of its work force this fall as part of its plan to ground 14 of its 50-seat jets. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, file)AP - A federal judge called off a trial Friday to hear lawsuits stemming from a 2006 plane crash that killed 49 people in Kentucky after family members and the airline reached settlements in most of the cases.


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    Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:18:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Lindsay Lohan fires back at police 'gay' remark (AP)

    Actress Lindsay Lohan attends Sephora's tenth anniversary celebration at Angel Orensanz Foundation, July 17, 2008 in New York. Lindsay Lohan said police have no business getting involved in her personal life Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, a day after the police chief said the 22-year-old actress had evidently 'gone gay' as a part of his explaination for why the paparazzi were no longer an issue. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)AP - Lindsay Lohan said Friday that police have no business getting involved in her personal life, a day after the police chief explained that the paparazzi were no longer an issue — in part because the 22-year-old actress had evidently "gone gay."


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:07:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Airport boss: Runway where jet crashed is adequate (AP)

    An aerial view of the wreckage from the crash of a small jet in Owatonna, Minn. Thursday, July 31, 2008. The crash killed at least eight people and one is missing. The passengers were traveling on business from Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/The Pioneer Press, Sherri LaRose-Chiglo)AP - The manager of a regional airport where eight people died in the crash of a business jet said Friday that the 5,500-foot runway is adequate, noting that similar aircraft land there routinely.


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    Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:57:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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