South Texas begins cleanup after Dolly
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley....
Allies of Phoenix mayor fight recall effort
PHOENIX (AP) -- It's a political oddity: a TV commercial extolling the public safety record of a sitting mayor, except the spot isn't soliciting votes and the politician's name isn't scheduled to appear on the November ballot....
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
NEW YORK (AP) -- It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York. Police say a hulking basketball player from Serbia beat a fellow college student to a bloody pulp and fled to his home country, setting off a diplomatic crisis....
Gaps in aging levees leave D.C. landmarks exposed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Strolling beside the Reflecting Pool with the Lincoln Memorial in the distance, it's easy to overlook a gentle rise in the landscape a few yards to the north....
3 shot at Phoenix college; suspect arrested
PHOENIX (AP) -- A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby....
911 calls released in case of missing Orlando girl
MIAMI (AP) -- The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday....
Ex-mayor who lied about Army record to face judge
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) -- Robert Levy's record in the Vietnam War was impressive: two Army tours and several honors, including a Bronze Star. It just wasn't as impressive as he claimed....
OSHA to give report on blast at Ga. sugar refinery
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be "significant" penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators released their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery....
Teen gets jail for coaxing toddlers to smoke pot
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison....
World News
Rice: Pakistan should do more to end violence
PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory....
Olympic ticket sale in Beijing starts stampede
BEIJING (AP) -- Eager fans swarmed and in some cases scuffled as they lined up at sales windows Friday to get the final batch of tickets for next month's Olympics....
Olympian PR bout under way in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their "very limited" understanding of violent anti-government protests in Tibet....
Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror
BERLIN (AP) -- Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago....
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
NEW YORK (AP) -- It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York. Police say a hulking basketball player from Serbia beat a fellow college student to a bloody pulp and fled to his home country, setting off a diplomatic crisis....
Damaged Qantas jet makes emergency stop in Manila
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A Qantas flight en route to Australia from London made an emergency stop in Manila on Friday after a loud bang punched a hole in the Boeing 747-400's fuselage, officials and passengers said....
NATO soldier, 3 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A NATO soldier was killed and two were wounded during a clash with militants in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the military alliance said Friday....
Iran to increase cooperation with IAEA
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A senior envoy said Friday that Iran wants to expand its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but said the IAEA should not be cast as a "U.N. watchdog" looking for signs of secret nuclear weapons programs....
8 killed, 4 injured in Greek shipyard blast
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- An explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four more, Greek authorities said Friday....
Scottish voters deal blow to British leader Brown
LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered new political humiliation when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election....
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