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Forecasters: Floridians should prepare for hurricane (AP) » Full Story

Andrew Cardwell of Pirate Scooter Rentals fills up gasoline cans Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008 in Key West, Fla. in preparation for Tropical Storm Fay. Forecasters warned that Fay could bring hurricane-force winds to the Florida Keys as soon as Monday. Fay could hit as a Category 1 or 2 hurricane, with winds perhaps reaching more than 100 mph, forecasters said Saturday, stressing that it was too early to tell how intense the storm would become. In anticipation, Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency for the state.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - Residents and tourists in the Florida Keys prepared Saturday for Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane and begin battering the island chain as soon as Monday.




Windmills split town and families (AP) » Full Story

John Yancey  stands on his property with a wind turbine from the Maple Ridge Wind Farm in background on Thursday, August 7, 2008, in Harrisburg, N.Y.  The $400 million Maple Ridge wind project, the largest in New York state, brought money and jobs and a wondrous sense of prosperity to a place that had long given up on any.  (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)AP - "Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home.




9/11 aid groups close or adapt as money wanes (AP) » Full Story

Cynthia Gonzales, 16, and Peter Negron, 18, of Tuesday's Children, a group of children who lost a parent during the Sept. 11 attacks, are among 23 teenagers volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. Tuesday's Children is one of hundreds of groups that sprang up after Sept. 11, offering everything from counseling to music lessons to families of the victims. The charity, and others like it, are struggling to stay afloat as donations dry up. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - Terry Grace Sears knows she has still has work to do helping the families of Sept. 11 victims, seeing the proof last week on the faces of kids just beginning to open up about their parents' deaths in the terror attack.




Bear attacks inside Anchorage have people on edge (AP) » Full Story

Alaska Fish and Game biologist Rick Sinnott, front, and Sean Farley walk past bear prints with bicycle tracks through them as they look for a bear alone a path Far North Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, Alaska on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, where a jogger and a bicyclist were attacked by a sow with two cubs this summer. The attacks happened on wilderness trails shared by humans and bears. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.





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Key Constituency at Play At Candidates' Faith Forum - Washington Post » Full Story

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Key Constituency at Play At Candidates' Faith Forum
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
Forum host Rick Warren has said he considers both candidates to be a friend. (By Vincent Yu -- Associated Press) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.
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GOP plans shot down over oil - San Francisco Chronicle » Full Story

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GOP plans shot down over oil
San Francisco Chronicle - 27 minutes ago
Editor - If the Republicans do have the temerity to shut down the government to pad the profits of their sponsors in the oil industry, as you report they plan to do ("GOP has plans for drilling face-off," Aug. 10), it will be a triumph of greed over ...
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FBI probe targets father of embattled Detroit mayor - USA Today » Full Story

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FBI probe targets father of embattled Detroit mayor
USA Today - 2 hours ago
By David Ashenfelter and ML Elrick, Detroit Free Press DETROIT - The FBI is investigating whether Bernard Kilpatrick, the father of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was involved in payoff schemes to steer city business to contractors, according to five ...
Video: Judge: Detroit Mayor to Stand Trial on Assault AssociatedPress
Mayor Kilpatrick to stand trial on assault charges Detroit Free Press
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A Nation of None and All of the Above - New York Times » Full Story

A Nation of None and All of the Above
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By SAM ROBERTS Deep inside a data dump by the Census Bureau last week was a startling racial projection: By midcentury, the United States will be home to 80 million more white people.
Hispanic population surge can't be ignored Dallas Morning News
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$57 million border fence finally being built » Full Story
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Children among 7 dead in Memphis house fire » Full Story
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Gas down 35 cents in 30 days » Full Story
Another penny came off the national average price of gasoline Saturday, the 30th straight daily decline, bringing the total drop in the period to more than 35 cents a gallon.



Bigfoot hunters defend claim of discovery » Full Story
A pair of Georgia men faced more than a half hour of skeptical questions from reporters Friday as they defended their claim that they stumbled upon the body of Bigfoot while hiking in a remote North Georgia forest.




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Texas school district to let teachers carry guns » Full Story
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.



Prosecutors focus on Blackwater case: report » Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have sent letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards, possibly as a prelude to indictments for a shooting incident that killed 17 Iraqi civilians in September, The Washington Post reported in its Sunday editions.



FBI identifies "Rockefeller" as German con man » Full Story
BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who passed himself off as a member of New York's Rockefeller oil dynasty is really a German who conned his way into U.S. high society, federal investigators said on Friday.




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