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    5 killed in Manhattan blaze, including 3 children (AP)
    AP - Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire early Saturday, some taking refuge from the smoky blaze in a full bathtub and underneath a sink, fire officials said. -- read full article
    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:04:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wildfire threatens homes, wineries in Napa Valley (AP)
    AP - Hundreds of firefighters are battling a fast-growing wildfire that is threatening homes and wineries in California's Napa Valley. -- read full article
    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:11:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Lost manatee headed to Fla. after Mass. rescue (AP)
    AP - A wayward manatee is headed home to Florida after being pulled from frigid Cape Cod waters in an early morning rescue. -- read full article
    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:59:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Endangered Miss. frogs get a break in the weather (AP)

    Two gopher frogs are shown at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008.  For the first time in 10 years, a pond in south Mississippi got enough rain this year to let gopher frogs, one of the nation's most endangered animals, turn from tadpole to frog without human help.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least a decade, it's had a good reason not to look.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:47:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Wyo. town reflects 10 years after Shepard's murder (AP)

    Students sing at a vigil against violence at Prexy's Pasture on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, Wyo., in this Oct. 10, 1999 file photo. The weekend marked the one-year anniversary death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, who was tied to a fence and beaten into a coma from which he died two days later. on Oct. 7, 1998. In the 10 years since Shepard's death, more than 30 states have passed laws addressing bias-related crimes against gays, but gay-rights advocates point to a series of frustrations including the failure of federal hate-crime legislation. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:00:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Washington weighs lethal meds for terminally ill (AP)

    In this still frame from a TV advertisement produced by supporters of Washington state's assisted suicide ballot initiative, Nancy Niedzielski, who lost her husband Randy to brain cancer, is shown. The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients. (AP Photo/Courtesy Yes on I-1000)AP - The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:56:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans (AP)

    In this Wednesday, June 4, 2008 file photo, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko returns to the Federal Courthouse where a jury found him guilty on 16 counts of a 24-count indictment in his corruption trail  in Chicago. Federal prosecutors moved Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:44:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Japanese businessman in murder plot hangs himself (AP)

    Escorted by Los Angeles police, Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, a Japanese businessman accused of arranging the murder of his wife in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, arrives at Los Angeles International Airport after being extradited from Saipan early Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A Japanese businessman charged with plotting the murder of his wife in Los Angeles 27 years ago hanged himself with his shirt in a downtown jail cell only hours after arriving to face trial, police said Saturday.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:05:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Marriage ruling not the end of debate in Conn. (AP)

    The audience cheers at a rally at the State Capitol  in Hartford, Conn., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 held to celebrate a ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court to allow same-sex weddings.   (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a longshot bid to block the unions.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:39:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    All that money you've lost — where did it go? (AP)

    In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 file photo, artist Laura Gilbert displays her 'Zero Dollar' artwork in front of the New York Stock Exchange  in New York. If you're looking to track down your missing money — figure out who has it now, maybe ask to have it back — you might be disappointed to learn that is was never really money in the first place. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.


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    Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:41:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Judge: Castroneves can race in Australia (AP)

    Helio Castroneves, seen here on October 04, 2008, was given permission to race at an Indy-Car event later this month in Australia by a US judge Friday even though the Brazilian faces federal tax evasion charges, the Miami Herald reported.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Darrell Ingham)AP - Helio Castroneves can leave the country for an IndyCar event this month in Australia after a federal judge agreed Friday to modify bail conditions on tax charges the driver's facing.


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    Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:40:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Man, 88, fatally shoots ailing wife at NJ hospital (AP)
    AP - An elderly man fatally shot his ailing wife in her hospital bed Friday and was in critical condition after turning the gun on himself, an official said. -- read full article
    Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:39:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry (AP)

    Janet Peck left, embraces her partner, Carol Conklin, after Peck spoke at a news conference in Hartford, Conn., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Peck was commenting on ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court making gay marriage.  Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.  (AP Photo/Bob Child)AP - Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will be put before voters in a state where same-sex couples are legally wed.


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    Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Economy is overriding issue in governors' races (AP)

    In this Aug. 14, 2008 file photo, Republican candidate for governor U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof, R-Mo., speaks to a visitor at the annual Missouri State Fair Governor's Ham Breakfast Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, in Sedalia, Mo. Hulshof faces Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon in the November election. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall)AP - In his bid to become the next governor of Missouri, Rep. Kenny Hulshof survived a bitter primary that at one point saw the candidates bashing each other for supporting public funding for drugs such as Viagra.


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    Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:59:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    New York teachers sue over ban on campaign buttons (AP)

    Buttons to promote the comic book biographies of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) 
and U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) are seen at their publisher's office in San Diego October 6, 2008. The life stories of U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama hit comic book stands on October 8 -- and the company behind the illustrated bios hopes plenty of adults will buy them. Picture taken October 6, 2008.     REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.


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    Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:29:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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