AP - Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.
AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won a small but much-needed legal victory when a judge ruled the Detroit City Council doesn't have the authority to force him from office.
AP - Amid the verdant lawn and leafy trees of the tidy Jefferson Senior High School campus, a police officer patrols the grounds and a sign warns that guns are illegal.
AP - A sailor rescued after he fell into Lake Michigan says one of the worst moments of the 12-hour ordeal came near the end, when a Coast Guard helicopter seemed to have its spotlight on him, only to turn away. -- read full article
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AP - A Connecticut baseball umpires group has reversed its decision to give a lifetime achievement award to a convicted child sex offender. -- read full article
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AP - Authorities accuse a former Michigan elementary school teacher of having sex with a 12-year-old boy she was tutoring at her home. -- read full article
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:15:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths.
AP - The funeral for slain Arkansas Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney was marked by humor as former President Clinton and others remembered the man who had touched their lives.
AP - Washington state voters cast ballots Tuesday in a primary that would almost certainly set up the nation's most competitive governor's race with a reprise of the 2004 cliffhanger that was decided by 133 votes. -- read full article
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:26:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The Rio Grande Valley's main highway was open to traffic again Tuesday as flooding receded following a deluge of up to 13 inches of rain across southern Texas. -- read full article
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AP - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday. -- read full article
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AP - Tropical Storm Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida, never growing into the hurricane that forecasters had cautioned it could become.
AP - Former President Clinton and others remembered the slain chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party on Monday for his strength of character and the unity he brought to Democrats in the past two political seasons.