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    Fay kills 10 in Fla., makes record 4th landfall (AP)

    Residents in boat survey neighborhood flood damage from Tropical Storm Fay in Debary, Fla., Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Tropical Storm Fay hobbled across Florida for a fifth day Friday as the state's death toll rose to five, while residents began plodding through muddy water to assess the flood damage to their homes. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - APALACHICOLA, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay began wrapping up its disastrous slog across Florida on Saturday by making a record fourth landfall on the Panhandle's coast. Emergency officials said 10 people have been killed in the state alone.


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    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:57:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Soldier gets 15 months in prison for desertion (AP)
    AP - A soldier who fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty in Fort Carson, Colo., to a reduced charge of desertion. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:42:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Mormon supporters of gay unions take to cyberspace (AP)
    AP - Prompted by their church's support for a California initiative to ban gay marriage, some Mormons are voicing opposition to the proposed ban on the Internet — saying in cyberspace what they might not be able to express in church buildings. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:26:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    2 Marines refuse to testify in ex-comrade's case (AP)

    Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, at one of his attorney's, Joseph M. Preis', office in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008. Nazario faces charges of shooting detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. It's a precedent-setting prosecution with the possibility of a conviction that would expose all former military personnel to prosecution in civilian federal court for actions in combat.  The trial starts on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 in Riverside, Calif.  (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - A judge found two Marines in contempt of court Friday for refusing to testify against a former squad leader accused of killing unarmed detainees in Iraq, but he rejected the prosecution's pleas to throw the men in jail immediately.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:00:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Detroit mayor rejects plea deal in assault case (AP)

    Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, talks to attorneys Juan Mateo, center, and Gerald Evelyn before being arraigned on assault charges in 3rd Circuit Court in Detroit Friday, August 22, 2008. Prosecutor Doug Baker proposed a deal for Kilpatrick, saying one of two charges would be dropped if Kilpatrick resigns.  (AP Photo/Bryan Mitchell)AP - Prosecutors made a "limited-time offer" Friday to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: Resign by Sept. 3 in exchange for the dismissal of one of two assault charges against him. Kilpatrick rejected the deal, which a mayoral spokesman dismissed as grandstanding.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:26:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Immigration agency vows more enforcement (AP)

    Marcelo Padilla, right, and Carlos Garcia hold an American flag outside the Fremont High School auditorium, in Fremont, Neb., where hundreds of people crowded Tuesday, July 29, 2008, to attend a public hearing on a plan that would outlaw renting housing to or hiring illegal immigrants in this city of 25,000.  (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Federal immigration officials vowed Friday to intensify efforts to track down illegal immigrants after scrapping a trial "self-deportation" program that attracted only eight volunteers.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:26:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Fired Philly TV anchor admits e-mail hacking (AP)
    AP - A fired TV newscaster admitted in court Friday that he illegally hacked into his co-anchor's e-mail accounts and leaked private information about her to gossip columnists. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:02:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    College presidents spark debate on drinking age (AP)

    A student drinks a beer through a hose as it is held by another student, March 2008 on South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida. US parents, politicians and educators have responded with outrage to a radical proposal by over 100 university heads that the country reduce the legal age for drinking alcohol to combat AP - The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old drinking age. They got it.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:22:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Md. standoff ends when police burst in on suspect (AP)

    This undated picture provided by Maryland State Police shows James A. Prevatt III. The burglary suspect holed up in a motel with his pregnant girlfriend threatened to shoot a police robot bringing food and ignored his mother's plea to surrender, police said Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 as the standoff dragged into its third day. (AP Photo/Maryland State Police)AP - Police ended a two-day standoff with a burglary suspect holed up in a motel with his pregnant girlfriend, bursting into the room and grabbing the man after he was brought food Friday, authorities said.


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    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:42:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jury: Confessed killer of Idaho boy can get death (AP)

    In this Oct. 16, 2006 file photo, Joseph Edward Duncan III, right, is shown during a hearing at the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department Justice building in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. A federal jury on Friday, Aug. 22, 2008, deemed Joseph Edward Duncan III eligible for the death penalty for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old Idaho boy. (AP Photo/Kathy Plonka, Pool, File)AP - A man who kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered a 9-year-old Idaho boy was deemed eligible for the death penalty by a jury on Friday, soon after the killer himself came close to thanking prosecutors for showing the panel sickening videos of him abusing the child.


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    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:12:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    SC sex offender gets 25 years for gun charge (AP)
    AP - A man acquitted last year of charges he raped two girls in an underground dungeon has been sentenced to 25 years on a federal gun charge. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:26:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Teen's tough act may have had role in shooting (AP)

    Roger McDonald, holds an undated photograph of his nephew Ryan McDonald after the 15 year old was fatally shot by another student at Central High School in Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Lisa Norman-Hudson)AP - Tough-talking Ryan McDonald grew up in a rough blue-collar neighborhood, teased as "Mr. Clean" since childhood after an ailment left him permanently bald.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:25:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Confessed accomplice talks about serial shootings (AP)
    AP - Two men accused of being a serial-killing team faced each other for the first time in more than a year Friday as attorneys sparred over their alleged roles in a series of random, late-night attacks during the summer of 2006. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:48:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NYC, foes split over effect of gun shop lawsuits (AP)
    AP - Managers at the Bob Moates Sport Shop were spoiling for a fight when they found out New York City was suing the Virginia store over the way it sold firearms. -- read full article
    Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:50:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Neb. 'safe-haven' law allows abandonment of teens (AP)

    A sign proclaiming the Alegent Health Emmanuel Medical Center a safe haven place is seen in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. State Sen. Arnie Stuthman of Platte Center helped usher LB 157, a bill that made Nebraska the last state in the nation to pass a so-called safe haven law. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:23:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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