Two fires still raging along California's central coast
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:04:04 GMT
AP - Cool, damp weather early Saturday helped crews gain ground on the huge wildfire that wiped out this coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade, allowing some personnel and gear to be shifted to a growing blaze farther south
Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:59:58 GMT
AP - Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything but end the war if he is elected.
Employers use federal law to deny benefits
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:04:43 GMT
AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:25:02 GMT
AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:11:05 GMT
AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:08:17 GMT
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:57:04 GMT
AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book-drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:17:07 GMT
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:20:43 GMT
AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
Venus beats Serena for her 5th Wimbledon title
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:01:53 GMT
AP - This time, big sister put little sister in her place. Advantage, Miss Venus Williams. She defeated Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and second in a row.