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    Town shows economic woes weighing on election (AP)

    Todd and Sherri Brink stand with their family from left, Todd Jr, 10, Madison, four months (in Sherri's arms), Taylor, 3, and Braydon, 2, in front of their trailer in Wakarusa, Ind., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008.  Todd Brink worked at Monaco Coach Corp., which has closed its plant here, leaving him without a job. The Brink family was living in a home and now the family of six are living in this trailer.   In Indiana, nearly one in four RV workers was unemployed in August — either temporarily or permanently, state officials say. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)AP - In this corner of America known as the RV capital of the world, Todd Brink once made a good living producing the gleaming behemoths that cruised the nation's open roads. He was prospering. So, too, was the industry.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:46:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Feds: Judge should ax Pa. Muslim scientist's suit (AP)
    AP - A federal judge does not have the jurisdiction to second-guess security clearance decisions and should throw out a lawsuit by a Muslim scientist who claims he wrongly lost his clearance — and his job — at a nuclear warship plant, U.S. Justice Department attorneys said in court documents. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:17:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hunting-dog owners try to keep opponents at bay (AP)

    Retired veterinarian David Birdsall walks his hunting Black and Tan hound Lady on his property at his home in Gloucester, Va., Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. Hunting with hounds in Virginia dates nearly to the founding of Jamestown, America's first permanent English settlement.  A Humane Society,  report concluded, 'the practice of hunting animals with hounds is unsuitable in modern-day Virginia.' (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - In a state considered the American birthplace of hunting with hounds, George Washington's favorite sport has become a target for some Virginia landowners who say baying dogs and their owners are trampling property rights.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:45:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    US senior centers plan for boom of 'boomers' (AP)
    AP - Susan Lather envisions a day when paninis and mock cocktails will take their place next to fruit cups and club sandwiches on the lunch menu at the Enfield Senior Center. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:12:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    2 young brothers die in Louisiana apartment fire (AP)
    AP - Two brothers — an infant and a toddler — have been found dead in the smoldering ruins of a Louisiana apartment building that caught fire. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:56:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Memorial to slain gay student dedicated in Wyo. (AP)

    Flowers are placed on the corner of a bench later to be dedicated as the Matthew Shepard Memorial Bench Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 in Laramie, Wyo. Shepard was killed as part of an anti-gay hate crime 10 years ago this October. (AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Andy Carpenean)AP - The nation — and the city of Laramie — has become more accepting of gays and lesbians in the 10 years since a gay University of Wyoming student was beaten, lashed to a lonely fence and left to die, his mother said Saturday.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:13:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Nephew: Ind. bus driver grieving students' deaths (AP)

    The wreckage of a special needs school bus from Twin Lakes School Corp. is lifted back to the road following a crash Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, on U.S. 24 west of Logansport, Ind. A school bus carrying special-needs students collided with two dump trucks in a horrific crash Friday in rural northern Indiana, killing four children and injuring the bus driver, authorities said. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)AP - The driver of a school bus struck by two dump trucks in rural northern Indiana is devastated that the four special-needs students she was taking home died in the crash, a relative said Saturday.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:38:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Texas homeowner acquitted of killing teen intruder (AP)
    AP - A Texas jury acquitted a man accused of killing a boy who broke into his home looking for a snack — a case that sparked outrage in this border city, where many thought the man should not have even been charged. -- read full article
    Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:54:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hurricane Kyle bolts Carolina, races toward Maine (AP)

    Graphic shows the projected path of Tropical Storm Kyle;AP - Hurricane Kyle raced toward Maine early Sunday, triggering the state's first hurricane watch in 17 years as it roared over the Atlantic off North Carolina on a northward trek that threatened to bring flooding and damaging winds inland.


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    Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:26:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Japanese man can't be tried in LA for murder (AP)

    Defense attorney Mark Geragos, who represents Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura, leaves a news conference after a hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Torrance, Calif., Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. Judge Steven Van Sicklen ruled that Miura cannot be tried for murder in the shooting death of his wife, but prosecutors may proceed with a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A Japanese businessman cannot be tried for murder in the 1981 shooting death of his wife, but prosecutors may proceed with a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, a judge ruled Friday.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:39:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Maine study weighs impact of more wood heating (AP)
    AP - Burning more wood for heat could save homeowners money in oil-dependent Maine, but a task force in the nation's most forested state cautioned that care is needed to avoid health problems and damage to the wood products industry. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:35:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Freight brakeman in deadly LA train collision sues (AP)

    Metrolink Chairman Ron Roberts, second right, listens to Union Pacific Railroad Executive Vice President of Operations Dennis Duffy, right, read his opening statement during a briefing on the Metrolink crash in Chatsworth, Calif., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2008, in Washington. Others witnesses are NTSB board members Kitty Higgings left, and Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Joseph Boardman. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The brakeman on the freight train involved in a deadly collision with a commuter train filed a lawsuit Friday against the commuter railroad and the companies that provide its engineers.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:38:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    4 special-needs students die in Indiana bus crash (AP)

    The wreckage of a special needs school bus from Twin Lakes School Corp. is lifted back to the road following a crash Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, on U.S. 24 west of Logansport, Ind. A school bus carrying special-needs students collided with two dump trucks in a horrific crash Friday in rural northern Indiana, killing four children and injuring the bus driver, authorities said. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, John Terhune)AP - Two dump trucks struck a school bus carrying special-needs students, leaving the bus in a ditch along a rural highway — its front end and roof crushed — and four young children dead.


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    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:33:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    UCLA group discovers humungous prime number (AP)
    AP - Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:49:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Philly high school football player dies of MRSA (AP)
    AP - Philadelphia school district officials say a high school football player has died of a drug-resistant staph infection. -- read full article
    Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:17:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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