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    NY judge: PLO can't disguise terror as war (AP)
    AP - The Palestine Liberation Organization can't win dismissal of a lawsuit by victims of bombings in Israel by claiming the attacks were acts of war rather than terrorism, a judge ruled Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:43:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    2 threats to dog racing: Mass. vote, low interest (AP)

    In this is a June 21, 2005, file photo, greyhounds compete during a race at Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Mass. In the upcoming November 2008 election, Massachusetts voters will decide if greyhound racing will be retained or eliminated in the state. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - Voters in Massachusetts will soon decide whether greyhound racing should continue there, though the real question might be whether the once-popular sport dies a quick death or a slow one.


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    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:29:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    35 years for man who offered speakers for grenades (AP)
    AP - A one-time admirer of Osama bin Laden who plotted a hand-grenade attack at a mall jammed with Christmas shoppers — and tried to trade two stereo speakers for the weapons — was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:57:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Lawsuit seeks Species Act protection for wolverine (AP)
    AP - Environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Interior Department disregarded scientific conclusions that the species was in jeopardy. -- read full article
    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:57:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Court upholds legality of SanFran health care plan (AP)
    AP - San Francisco's landmark universal health care program can continue to operate, after an appeals court ruled Tuesday that it does not violate federal law. -- read full article
    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:25:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Feds propose listing 48 Hawaiian species at once (AP)

    Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, before a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The federal government took a new, ecosystem-based approach to the endangered species list on Tuesday, proposing an all-at-once addition of 48 species, including plants, two birds and a fly, that live only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.


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    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:52:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Slain patrolman was 'Philly through and through' (AP)

    The casket of Philadelphia police Officer Sgt. Patrick McDonald, 30, is taken from Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul after funeral services in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. McDonald was fatally shot as he chased a man on foot after a traffic stop last week. An officer responding to McDonald's distress call killed the gunman in a shootout a short time later. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Before leaving home each morning to patrol the city's streets, Officer Patrick McDonald would crank up Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" and hit the weights in his elaborate basement gym.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:06:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Money meltdown creates identity crises for venues (AP)

    Shown is the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. The meltdown on Wall Street is extending into the worlds of sports and entertainment. Teams, venues and arenas have received millions of dollars from banks in return for splashing their names across their buildings; buildings which now face an uncertain future.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - First the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s, then the accounting scandals earlier this decade, forced ballparks and arenas around the country to change their names. Enron Field became Minute Maid Park, and names like PSINet Stadium and CMGI Field vanished.


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    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:04:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    State rail projects get boost as driving declines (AP)
    AP - The federal government is chipping in nearly $30 million for 15 passenger rail projects across the country as Americans continue to drive less and take the train more, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:26:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Judge will release Simpson jury's questionnaires (AP)

    O.J. Simpson stands in court during a break in his trial at the Clark County Regional Justice in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson trial rested their case Monday with testimony from a gunman who claimed the sports star asked him to bring a weapon to a confrontation with two memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel last year.(AFP/Getty Images/Ethan Miller)AP - The judge in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery-kidnapping case plans to release redacted jury questionnaires once the trial ends and is defending her decision not to release the full surveys immediately.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:09:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jury watches video of suspect hit by SC trooper (AP)

    This July 25, 2008, file photo shows South Carolina Trooper, Steven C. Garren , as he leaves Federal Court in Columbia, S.C. Garren is accused of using his patrol car to ram a fleeing suspect. The civil rights violation trial started Tuesday Sept. 30, 2008 in Greenville, S.C.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain,File)AP - A federal jury that must decide whether a South Carolina state trooper deliberately rammed a fleeing suspect with his patrol car watched a video of the incident Tuesday, and heard the officer bragging about the collision.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:17:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Utah's endangered list: fruity alcoholic beverages (AP)

    Only a few bottles of malt beverages are left on the shelves of a state store Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, in Salt Lake City. As part of a new law, the drinks must contain new labels approved by the alcoholic beverage control department on the front of the product and contain capitalized letters in bold type telling consumers the drinks contain alcohol and at what percentage. The department won't reorder any more of the flavored malt beverages it has in stock until manufacturers comply with new labeling requirements.  (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - Utah's supply of flavored malt beverages will likely be exhausted in a few weeks as manufacturers decide whether to comply with labeling rules intended to make it clear the products contain alcohol.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:51:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Oregon school says 4 confessed to Obama effigy (AP)
    AP - A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday it has punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. -- read full article
    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:56:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Robber convicted of infamous KFC murders in Texas (AP)

    This photo provided by the Texas Attorney General's office show Darnell Hartsfield, who was convicted of capital murder Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008 in Bryan, Texas, for the fatal shootings of five people abducted from a Kilgore, Texas,  Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant 25 years ago. He received an automatic life sentence after prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty. (AP Photo/Texas Attorney General, File)AP - A robber who had been convicted of perjury in the long-unsolved killings of five people abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant 25 years ago was convicted of murder Tuesday.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:26:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    $28M settlement reached in Big Dig death lawsuit (AP)

    This July 11, 2006 file photo taken by the Massachusetts State Police and originally released Tuesday, July 10, 2007, by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the car that was crushed by falling ceiling panels, killing passenger Milena Del Valle in a Big Dig Tunnel in Boston. The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million, attorneys told The Associated Press Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008.   (AP Photo/National Transportation Safety Board)AP - The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million, attorneys told The Associated Press.


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    Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:10:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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