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    7 years on, Sept. 11 is so far and yet so close (AP)
    AP - It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history. -- read full article
    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:47:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    House explosion kills 2 in Chicago suburb (AP)
    AP - Authorities in northern Illinois say an explosion has destroyed a house and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home have been found in the wreckage. -- read full article
    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:29:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites (AP)

    Ralph McClintock holds news clippings in Jericho, Vt., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. When McClintock  boarded the USS Pueblo in early January 1968, he was planning for a three-week mission collecting electronic intelligence off the coast of North Korea in the Sea of Japan. Instead, the 24-year-old communications technician from Milton, Mass., found himself a prisoner of war and a pawn in the Cold War sideshow. Next week, 40 of the 69 surviving crew members of the Pueblo will hold their every-other year reunion at the Inn at Essex. There will be exhibits and speakers by experts on U.S.-Korean relations.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968.


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    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:09:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Crash with suspect SUV kills Phila. police officer (AP)
    AP - An allegedly intoxicated teen motorist smashed into a police car during a chase and one of the two officers in the cruiser was killed, authorities said Saturday. -- read full article
    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:41:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Don't take it off — end near for NYC smut palace (AP)

    A homeless man occupies the doorway of the vacant 'Scores' gentleman's club on New York City's West Side, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. New York State authorities closed the club in the spring of 2008 after a police raid resulted in several dancers working at the club being charged with prostitution and it's unlikely that the state liquor board will allow the remaining 'Scores' on Manhattan's East Side to continue operating. (AP Photo/Cameron Bloch)AP - The end may be near for Scores, the legendary strip club that has attracted celebrities while withstanding Mafia infiltration, FBI raids and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crusade against smut.


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    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:12:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet (AP)

    This undated file photo shows civil rights workers Michael Schwerner,  left, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, right, who disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss., June 21,1964. The three civil rights workers were abducted, killed and buried in an earthen dam in rural Neshoba County. In 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of three counts of manslaughter for orchestrating the killings. (AP Photo/FBI,File)AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.


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    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:23:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    4th Pa. teen charged in killing of immigrant (AP)

    Crystal Dillman, the fiancee Luis Ramirez, is moved to tears as members of Latina show their support for the couple  outside the Schuylkill County Courthouse, in Pottsville, Pa., Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. A preliminary hearings was held for three suspects charged in the beating death of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old Mexican immigrant who was severely beaten on July 12, in Shenandoah, Pa. Latina is a Chicago-based grass roots organization working to defend Latino immigrant rights. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.


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    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:15:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Kentucky works to keep embattled institution open (AP)
    AP - Physically, Deron Dickerson was a 38-year-old man. Mentally, he was a toddler who needed constant supervision. -- read full article
    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:09:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hanna dumps rain on mid-Atlantic, heads north (AP)

    Residents walk through a dune that was washed away by Tropical Storm Hanna at the east end of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, after the storm made landfall overnight in the area.   (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.


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    Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:48:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    David Pryor tapped to head Ark. Democratic Party (AP)
    AP - Former Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor will lead the state Democratic Party after the shooting death of its chairman, Bill Gwatney. -- read full article
    Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:11:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    3 killed, 1 missing in Coast Guard copter crash (AP)

    This image provided by the US Navy shows a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter over the waters of near Oahu, Hawaii on Dec. 20, 2002. similar to the one crashed. A US Coast Guard helicopter similar to the one pictured crashed in waters five miles south of Honolulu Thursday night Sept. 4, 2008 and officials say three crewmembers have been recovered and one remains missing. Officials aren't releasing the recovered crewmembers' conditions.(AP Photo/US Navy, Keith W. DeVinney)AP - Rescuers on Friday searched for a missing crew member from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in ocean waters off Oahu, killing the three others on board.


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    Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:45:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Unemployment climbs to 5-year high of 6.1 percent (AP)

    Robert Wittke, left, 24, who says he has been looking for full or part-time work for about two months, talks with manager Jennifer Kaminsky as he fills out an application  at Snelling Staffing Services in East Brunswick, N.J., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)AP - The nation's unemployment rate bolted above the psychologically important 6 percent level last month for the first time in five years — and it's likely to go even higher in the months ahead, possibly throwing the economy into a tailspin as Americans pick a new president.


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    Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:04:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jail terms for 4 San Diego men in surfer's death (AP)
    AP - Four San Diego men have been sentenced to between 90 and 349 days in jail for their roles in the beating death of professional surfer Emery Kauanui (kow-ah-NOO'-ee) last year. -- read full article
    Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:35:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Alaskans to receive state payouts topping $3,200 (AP)
    AP - It's the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here and this year's take is extra sweet: $3,269, a record share of the state's oil wealth combined with a special cash payout to help with stratospheric energy prices. -- read full article
    Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:30:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Last dance: Ga. town closes its only strip club (AP)

    In this photo provided by the city of Lavonia, Ga., a backhoe is seen waiting to remove a sign from the Cafe Risque in Lavonia, Ga. The city of Lavonia spent one million dollars to buy the Cafe Risque strip club and then promptly shut it down, a new strategy for towns trying to run off such establishments. (AP Photo)AP - The windowless building that once housed the town's only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final party.


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    Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:56:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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