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US groups ask for release of Cuban who sewed lips
MIAMI -- Cuban-American groups in South Florida and journalism watchdog organizations are seeking the release of 22 Cuban political prisoners, including an independent journalist who apparently sewed his lips shut to protest his treatment. (Updated 2:23 p.m. PT)
Man slashes throat after hearing guilty verdict
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A Massachusetts man is recovering after slashing his own throat upon hearing his conviction of assaulting a child. (Updated 2:20 p.m. PT)
Retired Notre Dame president to donate kidney
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A former University of Notre Dame president plans to donate a kidney to a woman Monday in a four-patient transplant procedure involving his nephew as a recipient. (Updated 2:13 p.m. PT)
Bus crash in Texas kills 14 on a pilgrimage
SHERMAN, Texas -- An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to an open-air religious festival blew a tire and skidded off a highway early Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 40. (Updated 2:11 p.m. PT)
Man held without bail in Times Square club death
NEW YORK -- A bar worker has been ordered held without bail in the killing of a Lil' Kim fan during the rapper's birthday party at a popular Times Square karaoke club. (Updated 2:08 p.m. PT)
Charges continue piling up against Detroit mayor
DETROIT -- For anyone keeping score, the leader of the nation's 11th-largest city now faces 10 felony charges in two separate cases. (Updated 2:07 p.m. PT)
Mercury in the Great Salt Lake is studied
GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah -- The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury. (Updated 1:59 p.m. PT)
Rich town in the Hamptons is crying poverty
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. -- The social calendar is still a whirl of glamorous lawn parties, wine tastings, gallery openings, beach get-togethers and gala benefits in the Hamptons, the summer playground for the millionaire Learjet Set. But down at Town Hall, the local government could use a handout. (Updated 1:55 p.m. PT)
44-pound feline Prince Chunk gets new home in NJ
BLACKWOOD, N.J. -- New Jersey's fat cat has a home. A family in southern New Jersey will get the 44-pound "Prince Chunk" next week, according to the Camden County Animal Shelter. The shelter won't disclose the family's identity. (Updated 1:38 p.m. PT)
Fla. dive team finds no evidence of missing girl
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Authorities in Orlando, Fla., say a dive team training at a pond near the home of a missing toddler found no evidence of the girl's whereabouts. (Updated 1:34 p.m. PT)
Additional headlines:
- Marine ordered to stand trial in Fallujah killings
- 'Rockefeller' saga a tale of multiple identities
- Al-Arian trial postponed as judge questions case
- Group promotes New Orleans anthem
- Officials find recorder from deadly chopper crash
- Osteen's wife denies assaulting flight attendant
- Ask AP: Drilling for oil, the role of honeybees
- Judge: NJ's ex-governor owes wife no alimony
- Ga. woman gets new trial in death of boyfriend, 85
- US man who spied for China gets nearly 16 years
- W.Va. offers licenses for those who fear 'beast'
- ABA index will rate justice around the world
- N.H. girl killed in flash flood as car swept away
- Appeal hearing begins in Detroit mayor's jailing
- Plane makes emergency landing at Calif. airport
- Illegal immigrant from Honduras executed in Texas
- Tropical Storm Hernan expected to strengthen
- Calif. boy pleads not guilty in gay teen's slaying
 | THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2008 |
- Police raid Md. mayor's home and kill his dogs
- Katrina survivors' caretaker charged in abduction
- Michigan governor's medical records breached
- Canadian sentenced in Alaska pipeline blast plot
- 32 research monkeys die in accident at Nevada lab
- NRA pressed on accusations it hired a mole
- 2 Philly social workers fired in starvation death
- Ariz. officials: Migrant-packed SUV rolls, kills 9
- 'Road rage' was motive in Fla. federal agent's death
- Anti-China activists face federal criminal charges
- Navajo president vetoes ban on public tobacco
- Feds charge Keys man with lobster poaching
- 'World's Greatest Dad' pleads guilty to sex crime
- $3M cash bail for suspect in Wis. border shooting
- Doctor pleads not guilty to abusing patients in LA
- US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,134
- Ex-Olympics sprinter gets 21 years in NY rape case
- '60s songwriter Erik Darling dies at 74
- Former child workers describe perilous environment
- Families with children from China embracing Games
- Forecasters increase Atlantic hurricane outlook
- 2 La. businessmen sentenced in Iran export plot
- Probes of Ga. woman with dead spouses stay open
- Clarification: Gay Marriage-Activism story
- 3 plead guilty in online gambling case
- Arson probed at SC prosecutor's after court burns
- Special delivery: FedEx to deliver 2 Fla. turtles
- Seized library computers may hold Ivins clues
- Remote-control warriors suffer war stress
- Md. mayor wants probe into raid at his home
- Obituaries in the news
- Virginia dig searches for black Southern heritage
- Arson probed at SC prosecutor's after court burns
- Surprises in first adoption survey to include men
- EPA denies Texas governor's ethanol waiver request
- Man accused of murder leads police to new suspect
- Anthrax widow says she's thankful FBI solved case
- D.C. Madam's mother: Don't release suicide photos
- 1 man held, others questioned in SC deputy death
- Correction: House Explosion-Fines story
- La. trooper IDs body unclaimed since his boyhood
- Killer gets life sentence plus pizza in plea deal
- Correction: BC-TX--House Explosion-Fines story
- FBI: LA hospitals used homeless in medical fraud
- Few tour anti-Bush bus during Crawford stop
- Court rejects suit opposing religion in vets care
- Prosecutors in multistate killings face long road
| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2008 |
- 4 polygamist sect members post bond in Texas
- Witness: Tribe aimed to create immigrant haven
- Plea deal reached in Wis. homicide-torture case
- Man pleads guilty in Pa. Dutch Country slaying
- Aide to plead guilty in Pa. corruption case
- Prosecutors: 'Gone Wild' worker pleads not guilty
- 3 charged in federal courthouse bombing in Calif.
- Feds drop case against 1 in Gambino takedown
- Former Chicago alderman admits taking payoffs
- US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 496
- List of deadliest US firefighting incidents
- Pa. charges trucker with murder in East attacks
- Mexican soldiers enter Arizona, hold agent briefly
- Border agents unevenly spread on boundary
- Agriprocessors reacts to child labor allegations
- Gas utility could face fines in Texas explosion
- Ky. weapons depot reports second mustard gas leak
- Judge tells Idaho killer's standby counsel to stay
- Maritime Museum moves WWII boat to be restored
- Judge rejects 4 Sept. 11 settlements as excessive
- Prison for man who smuggled while a gov't witness
- Post office posts $1 billion loss
- Year after Utah mine collapse, many failures clear
- Official: Teen in firearms case had Camp David map
- NY stock-swindler's plea in faked suicide delayed
- Copter crash-lands after turned away from AF base
- 3 states to consider affirmative action ban
- Guantanamo theme at NY Coney Island sideshow
- Man shoots dog, bullet strikes 9-year-old grandson
- Tenn. church rampage suspect eyes insanity defense
- Wash. state diploma mill figure gets prison time
- Sheriffs: 2 tiger attacks show tougher laws needed
- Georgia woman dies after 911 address mistake
- Military jury reaches verdict at Guantanamo trial
- Clinton honors 43 schools for anti-obesity efforts
- Feds finalize habitat for endangered bighorn sheep
- At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs
- Rockefeller attorney denies link to Calif. case
- Preacher stole, then killed to cover his tracks
| TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2008 |
- Judge tosses sex crime convictions of DNA exonoree
- Brewer says feds OK'd 'Legal Weed' on bottle caps
- Ladders, buoys considered for deadly border canal
- Agents accidentally shot while gun being holstered
- Violent storms spawn tornadoes in Chicago area
- Priest gets 10 years for abusing 3 Arizona teens
- NY charges for woman in Afghan military shooting
- 3rd trial in 'Mineola Swinger's Club' under way
- Indictment links "Junior" Gotti to 3 NY killings
- 2 window washers die in fall at NYC building
- Miss. state pathologist's contract is terminated
- Woman pleads guilty in Ky. social worker slaying
- Pa. rape suspect shoots at police before arrest
- Study says China top violator of Sudan embargo
- Capsule reviews of 'Pineapple Express' and others
- Famed Atlanta resident who ate bananas comes to TV
- Return of Ark. ex-lawmaker in sex case blocked
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