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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

NATIONAL

Fireworks display accident hurts 37

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) | A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.

Brothers give clinic to native village

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) | When residents of a tiny Kenyan village sold their chickens and cattle to buy Milton Ochieng a $900 plane ticket to Dartmouth College, they told him they wanted something in return.

FDA investigation broadens beyond tomatoes

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Clergy learning new ways to help terminally ill

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

SACRAMENTO, Calif. | On a January afternoon, the Rev. Faith Moran lay dying in the Sacramento home where her husband, Michael, had prepared the death experience she would have wanted.

National briefs

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

Mississippi opens to ship traffic

Lawn-chair pilot lands safely in Idaho

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

BEND, Ore. (AP) | Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.

Wildfires strain exhausted crews

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) | A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyons Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.

Curtiss flight was July 4th marvel

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

On a steamy Fourth of July evening a century ago, a wood-and-fabric biplane lifted off from Stony Brook Farm and stayed airborne for almost a mile in a stupendous triumph over gravity witnessed by more than 2,000 people.

National Briefs

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.

Twin blazes scorch central California

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes.

Obamas hit campaign trail for Fourth

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

It was a family Fourth of July for Democrat Barack Obama as his wife, daughters, sister and other relatives helped him make an Independence Day play for this reliably conservative state.

1,215 troops in Iraq mark 4th of July by re-enlisting

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

From combined dispatches

Bush: Follow-through on African aid

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

President Bush will arrive in Japan on Sunday on a mission to hold leading nations at the Group of Eight summit to their past commitments to give aid to sub-Saharan Africa, but will be confronted, at the same time, by his own government's failure to abide by a commitment to the Japanese.

Ex-Sen. Helms, icon of right, dies at 86

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, the polarizing North Carolina Republican who was an icon to conservatives and a demon to liberals, died early Friday in Raleigh, N.C. He was 86.

Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:25:50 -0000

A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

Statue of Liberty crown may reopen

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:10:28 -0000

The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.

Pal in case of Vermont girl regrets involvement

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:12:43 -0000

When Kevin Grosenheider received a call early Monday from his friend, Raymond Gagnon, asking him to dispose of a safe, he decided to help him out.

AMERICAN SCENE

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

TEXAS

Freed U.S. hostages doing well, military says

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0000

Three U.S. hostages rescued from Colombian rebels after more than five years in captivity are in good condition and undergoing the transition back to normal life, military officials said Thursday.