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    ND towns unfazed by ICBM rocket booster in ditch (AP)

    In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, a truck carrying a rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is shown overturned on Thursday, July 31, 2008, near Makoti, N.D. The Air Force says there was no threat to the public. Earlier this month, three ballistic missile crew members from the Minot base fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)AP - There's plenty to talk about at the weekly women's coffee klatch in the small town of Parshall, and no one bothered to mention the unarmed booster rocket for an intercontinental ballistic missile lying in a ditch where an Air Force truck overturned.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:23:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ex-SEAL trainee seeks freedom in woman's slaying (AP)
    AP - For 13 years, Dustin Turner has sat in prison claiming his fellow Navy SEAL trainee strangled a vacationing college student by himself, and for the past five years, the other suspect has admitted as much. -- read full article
    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:55:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Border towns grieve together after river shootings (AP)

    This 2008 high school yearbook photo, provided by Lifetouch Photography, shows Tiffany Pohlson, 17, one of three teens killed in a shooting Thursday, July 31, 2008, near Niagara, Wis. A fourth victim, 20-year-old Daniel Louis Gordon, was wounded. Police arrested the alleged gunman, Scott J. Johnson, 38, Friday in the woods not far from the shooting scene. (AP Photo/Lifetouch Photography)AP - Two towns united in sorrow Saturday after a massacre that took place at the body of water that has always divided them.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:48:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Arkansas man buys Wagner baseball card for $1.62M (AP)
    AP - A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold for $1.62 million at a memorabilia auction in Chicago, a sports auction company said Saturday. -- read full article
    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:26:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Tug repeatedly warned before Miss. River collision (AP)

    Work continues in the effort to clean up oil that is leaking from a damaged barge beneath the Mississippi River at the Port of New Orleans Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.  A small flotilla of boats are working to clean up the spill. Oil floats on the river after escaping the clean up efforts.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - The pilot of a huge tanker urged a tug boat pushing a barge to get out of the way of the tanker just before a collision on the Mississippi River, which caused thousands of gallons of fuel oil to spill from the barge into a busy stretch of the inland waterway, Coast Guard radio transmissions showed.


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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:17:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NYC girl survives 180-foot fall down chimney (AP)

    Grace Bergere poses for a photo in the Brooklyn Burogh of New York in this 2006 photo. Bergere, 12, is recovering at a New York City hospital with an injured hip after surviving a 14-story fall from her apartment building's rooftop, Thursday, July 31, 2008, down the chimney shaft, and ending up in a two foot thick cushion of soot in the basement furnace. The accident occurred as she was showing her cousin visiting from California the spectacular view of the city from the top of the family's apartment building. (AP Photo/Kate Milford)AP - A 12-year-old girl just wanted to show her cousin the view from her family's Manhattan rooftop. Instead, she fell into a chimney and plummeted down the flue for 14 stories, emerging nearly unscathed to tell her story after landing in a pile of furnace soot.


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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:21:36 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.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:01:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    New HIV cases in US underestimated by 40 percent (AP)

    UPDATES to clarify chatter; Graphic shows a breakdown of new HIV infections for 2006; two sizes;AP - 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, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.


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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:49:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Kidnapped girl found in Baltimore; Father charged (AP)

    This undated photo released by the Boston Police Department shows a man they identify as Clark Rockefeller. Clark Rockefeller, the man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston last weekend was taken into custody Saturday Aug. 2, 2008 in Baltimore, authorities said.  (AP Photo/Boston Police Department)AP - A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston last weekend was arrested Saturday in Baltimore and the girl was found safe, authorities said.


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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:35:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    After long Iraq deployment, GIs readjust to lives back home (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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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:47:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    In veep search, McCain considers Va. congressman (AP)

    This Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008 file photo shows Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, flanked by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.,  during a news conference at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington. U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia has been asked for 'personal documents' by John McCain's campaign, a Republican knowledgeable with the discussions said Saturday. Cantor, 45, the chief deputy minority whip in the House, has been mentioned among several Republicans as a possible running mate for McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)AP - John McCain's campaign has asked Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor for personal documents as the Republican presidential candidate steps up his search for a running mate, The Associated Press has learned.


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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:32:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Report: Therapist 'scared to death' of scientist (AP)

    A hazardous materials unit worker is hosed down on Capitol Hill in this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001 file photo where worked continued inspecting buildings and offices for anthrax contamination. A top U.S. biodefense researcher, Bruce E. Ivins, 62,  apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported in their Friday Aug. 1, 2008 editions. (AP Photo/Ron Thomas, FILE)AP - Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had attempted to poison people and his therapist said she was "scared to death" of him, according to court testimony that emerged Saturday.


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    Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:23:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fla. man shoots pit bull that attacked his dog (AP)
    AP - A Florida man who shot a pit bull when it latched onto his dog's neck will not face charges, police said. -- read full article
    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:55:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy (AP)

    A document spelling out the terms of surrender, signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, on April 10th 1865, a day after his surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, is displayed at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia, Monday, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Justin Maxon)AP - Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:45:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Man accused of Wis. river killings in court soon (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 - Wisconsin authorities say a man accused of killing three teens swimming in a river and wounding a fourth person is expected in court Monday or Tuesday.


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    Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:04:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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