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    US court reviews ruling in teen's terrorism death (AP)

    A Dec. 8, 2004 file photo shows Joyce and Stanley Boim outside federal court in Chicago. The Boims 17-year-old son, David, was shot and killed by terrorists on Israel's West Bank in 1996. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December 2007 threw out a lower court's order that requiring a number of U.S.-based Islamic activists to pay a whopping $156 million, but now  the appeals court is second-guessing itself and revisiting the emotionally charged case. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - David Boim was standing at a bus stop in a West Bank town near Jerusalem 12 years ago when terrorists opened fire, fatally shooting the 17-year-old American teenager.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:55:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hundreds of homes flood as Ike passes Louisiana (AP)

    Parish workers use sandbags to add to the top of a levee as water is forced over by the winds from Hurricane Ike in Scarsdale, La., Friday, Sept. 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Storm surge driven by Hurricane Ike breached levees in coastal Louisiana Friday and flooded hundreds of homes in areas along the Gulf of Mexico still recovering from Gustav.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:15:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Woman who slashed Mo. mom, took baby gets 30 years (AP)

    Shannon Torrez is led from the Franklin County Sheriff's Department by Deputy Karen Burns right, and Lieutenant Dave Boehm, center, to a van which will take her to her sentencing in Union, Mo., on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Torrez entered an Alford plea in May to one count each of child kidnapping, armed criminal action and first-degree assault. She did not admit guilt with her plea but conceded there was enough evidence for a guilty verdict. (AP Photo/ Sarah Conard)AP - A woman who slashed a young mother's throat and kidnapped her newborn in rural eastern Missouri, setting off a frantic search that drew national attention, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:32:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    LA serial killer could be connected to other cases (AP)
    AP - Investigators are reviewing at least 30 unsolved murder cases for possible links to an unidentified serial killer suspected in at least 11 slayings since 1985. -- read full article
    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:30:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ex-Antioch teachers launch school without campus (AP)

    From the left, student Derrick Lane, professor Don Wallis, and students Dennie Eagleson, Ben Stringer, and Brooke Bryan, listen to a speaker during a journalism class being held in the basement of a home, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The unconventional classes are taught by former Antioch College teachers, who hope to keep the spirit of the financially strapped school alive until it reopens. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - In a wood-paneled basement filled with boxes of nuts, bolts and screws, a college journalism class is under way.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:54:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    At least 12 dead in LA commuter train wreck (AP)

    A Los Angeles City Fire Department firefighter rescues a victim from the wreckage of a Metrolink commuter train after a train crash in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Ryan Ling)AP - Los Angeles fire officials say at least 12 people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:17:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Devastating Ike roars ashore in Galveston (AP)

    Evan Norcom looks at a wave from Hurricane Ike while standing on the sea wall in Galveston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Ike's eye was forecast to strike somewhere near Galveston late Friday or early Saturday then head inland for Houston.  (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded calls to evacuate made futile calls for rescue.


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    Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:15:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hawaii attack survivor tells tale of finicky shark (AP)
    AP - A surfer who put his fingers into the mouth of a shark to pry himself free during an attack believes the fish took no further interest in him because it didn't like the taste of his leg. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:22:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    'Take a Child Outside' week gains some ground (AP)
    AP - A large group of well-meaning officials from several states have a message for you and your family: Go take a hike. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:43:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Chicago cops ask court to reverse conviction (AP)

    This undated photo, supplied by the Iowa Department of Corrections, shows Chicago police officer Michael Mette, who is serving a five-year sentence in an Iowa prison cell after being convicted of assault causing serious injuries. The charges stem from a 2005 fight in which Mette punched Dubuque student Jake Gothard, who suffered a broken nose, cheek and jaw. Attorneys for Mette asked the Iowa state Court of Appeals in Des Moines on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, to reverse his conviction and dismiss the charge against him. (AP Photo/ Iowa Department of Corrections)AP - About 40 Chicago police officers rode a bus from Chicago to Des Moines in hopes of persuading an appeals court to free a fellow police officer serving a prison sentence.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:20:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    In Hurricane Ike, bumpy ride with bird's-eye view (AP)

    NASA satellite handout image show Hurricane Ike. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Houston, Texas, the fourth largest US city, as officials warned that those who stay behind in some coastal areas AP - Amid the engines' roar, the Air Force Reserve pilots and navigator worked calmly as their huge plane neared the eyewall of Hurricane Ike.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:07:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Survey finds holes in US disaster preparedness (AP)

    Next to nearly 40 others evacuees, Zaylan Shaffer, 4, sleeps on a cot in the Killeen Community Center in Killeen, Texas, on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 11, 2008. Shaffer, from Ontario, Canada, was on vacation with his family in Bay City, Texas, when residents were asked to evacuate the area. Precautions for Hurricane Ike has displaced evacuees all over Central Texas with Killeen at over 100 evacuees so far and numbers are expected to increase by the weekend.  (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, Sarah Moore Kuschell)AP - In a disaster such as an earthquake or terrorist attack, nearly two-thirds of U.S. parents would disregard orders to evacuate and would rush to pick up their kids from school, according to a new survey.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:20:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Colo. plant and Somali workers fight over prayer (AP)
    AP - Tensions have flared between Somali workers and officials at a Colorado meatpacking plant over when employees can break for prayer during the Muslim observance of Ramadan. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:08:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Schwarzenegger facing criticism from all sides (AP)

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, is surrounded by reporters outside his Capitol office in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2008. The celebrity governor has spent the summer being bombarded by near-constant criticism from all sides for failing to lead the state out of the same kind of fiscal disaster he promised to solve after he replaced former Gov. Gray Davis. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The summer's been a bummer for Arnold Schwarzenegger.


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    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:52:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Program helps fishermen turn junk gear into power (AP)
    AP - When fishing gear is lost off boats, it's not really gone. In webs and rolling clumps, the nets, ropes and traps endure for decades as destructive artifacts of the fishery, suffocating life on the ocean floor, snaring fish and twisting into propellers. -- read full article
    Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:37:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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