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    Ex-inmate helps make Bush nominee 'controversial' (AP)
    AP - Had this been like most nominations for federal judgeships, the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America might have been packing up his office and heading for the courthouse by now. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    White Americans no longer a majority by 2042 (AP)
    AP - White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:03:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Civilian flaggers may direct traffic in Mass. (AP)
    AP - It's a long-cherished perk of Massachusetts police unions: the roadside construction detail. But now state officials are proposing replacing police officers at some state projects with civilian flaggers dressed in orange safety vests. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:22:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Man arrested in Vegas slaying of former Olympian (AP)
    AP - Authorities say a Las Vegas man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of former Olympic boxer Rhoshii Wells. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:05:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Court: Saudi Arabia not liable in Sept. 11 attacks (AP)

    A view of part of the September 11 Memorial, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, during a media tour at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - A federal appeals court has ruled that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes cannot be held liable in the Sept. 11 attacks.


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    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:29:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jury deliberating in Osteen lawsuit (AP)

    Lakewood Church co-pastor Victoria Osteen, right, departs during the noon break from the 113th district court, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008 in the Harris County Civil Courthouse in Houston. Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown is suing Victoria Osteen, claiming the co-pastor of Houston's famed Lakewood Church became verbally and physically abusive before the start of a flight from Houston to Vail, Colo. (AP Photo/The Houston Chronicle, Steve Ueckert)AP - Jurors began deliberations Thursday in a lawsuit alleging that the wife of megachurch pastor Joel Osteen physically and verbally abused a flight attendant — a claim rejected by Victoria Osteen's lawyer as a made-up story concocted to land a courtroom payday.


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    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:28:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Police: 2 people killed in Des Moines, Iowa (AP)
    AP - Des Moines police say two women have been killed near a home where a man took his three children hostage. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:26:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fire at apartment complex routs hundreds in Pa. (AP)
    AP - Firefighters doused hot spots Thursday after a towering fire ripped through a luxury apartment complex built on the once blighted riverfront and left 375 people without homes. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:09:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NJ girls visiting family are trapped in Georgia (AP)
    AP - A couple is trying to get their two children out of the Republic of Georgia after the Russian invasion of the country trapped the girls at their grandparents' farm. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:25:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Crusading ex-Pa. lawmaker takes in sex offenders (AP)
    AP - A former tough-on-crime Pennsylvania lawmaker has adopted a new and unpopular cause, taking into his home three sex offenders who couldn't find a place to live — a stand that has angered neighbors, drawn pickets and touched off a zoning dispute. -- read full article
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:54:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    New judge orders Detroit mayor's tether back on (AP)

    Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Lisa Lindsey objects to the ruling by Circuit Judge Leonard Townsend that allows Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to be released from his tether, allowing him to attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver, during Kilpatrick's appearance in court on obstruction of justice charges. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)AP - A judge has ordered Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to again wear an electronic tether, hours after another judge said he could take it off.


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    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:32:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Search of gunman's house finds weapons and a will (AP)

    This undated photo released by the Little Rock Police Department on Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008 shows a man identified by the police as Timothy Dale Johnson . Johnson barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters Wednesday and fatally shot the state party chairman before speeding off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase. (AP Photo/Little Rock Police Dept)AP - The man who fatally shot the chairman of the state Democratic Party after he lost his job had a Post-it note at home with the victim's last name and phone number along with 14 guns, antidepressants and a last will and testament, according to court documents.


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    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:54:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Border Patrol agent wounds man near Mexican border (AP)

    A U.S. Border Patrol car is seen from the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. An unidentified U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded Mexican Edgar Israel Ortega Chavez, 22, when he was throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area, authorities said Wednesday. Ortega was hospitalized with a bullet wound in his right torso after Mexican authorities found him alongside the dry, concrete-lined Tijuana River basin, Tijuana police said. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area, authorities said Wednesday.


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    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:44:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Doctors debate when to declare organ donors dead (AP)

    Rob and Mary Ann Apmann play with their 21-month-old son Zachary at The Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colo., Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. Zachary is one of three babies who got heart transplants using a non-traditional approach. (AP Photo Jack Dempsey)AP - A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?


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    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:42:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NY nuke plant to miss target date on sirens (AP)
    AP - Another deadline will pass Thursday without a new emergency siren system going into service around the Indian Point nuclear power plant, just 35 miles north of midtown Manhattan. -- read full article
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:01:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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