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Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:52:23 GMT
AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is asking legislators to consider whether they should change the state's immigration law in the wake of a judge's ruling blocking enforcement of parts of it.
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NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:41:31 GMT
AP - The showdown between Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid has fascinated the American public for nearly 130 years with its classic, Old West storyline of the frontier lawman hunting down the notorious gunslinger.
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Time to scrap BP brand? Gas-station owners divided
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:55:20 GMT
AP - BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of efforts to repair the company's badly damaged reputation.
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Feds arrest Polish immigrant in NM smuggling case
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:53:56 GMT AP - An Illinois man faces human smuggling charges after investigators say he placed an ad in a Chicago-area Polish language newspaper, offering to drive illegal immigrants to New Mexico to take advantage of the state's lax driver's license rules.
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2 killed in plane crash pulled from Lake Michigan
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:54:00 GMT
AP - State police divers on Friday recovered the remains of two of four missing passengers who were on a medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan last week.
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Bill Clinton emerges on Chelsea's NY wedding eve
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:50:07 GMT
AP - Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.
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Moms work full-time for hikers' release from Iran
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:56:30 GMT
AP - Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was a sales call.
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Signs of oil spill recovery entering new phase
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:29:38 GMT
AP - BP's new boss says it's time for a "scaleback" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal officials say there is no way the crude could reach the East Coast. And fishing areas are starting to reopen.
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Wildlife rescue escalates at Mich. river oil spill
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:48:21 GMT
AP - Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained.
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South bakes, humidity feels like 100-plus degrees
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:09:22 GMT
AP - Heat advisories were posted from the Carolinas to the Great Plains as the South continued to roast Friday under temperatures and humidity that made beaches feel more like bakeries.
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Mo. Senate race may narrow to Blunt, Carnahan
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:24:22 GMT AP - He calls her a "rubber stamp" for President Barack Obama and liberal congressional leaders. She "calls bull" on his attempts to represent regular folks, suggesting he's more attuned to lobbyists and corporate interests.
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DC Metro crash spurs federal oversight push
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:38:46 GMT AP - Supporters of a bill that would give federal regulators power to force transit agencies to make safety improvements are rallying around a ruling that the lack of federal oversight contributed to the fatal Metro crash in Washington last year.
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Suspect in 2 Panama killings eluded police in US
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:52:41 GMT
AP - A North Carolina man accused of killing two Americans in Panama was married with three kids, living a successful life with a lucrative landscaping business and a beautiful mountain home.
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Mother accused of starving 3 kids gets life term
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:40:07 GMT
AP - A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Friday after changing her plea to guilty in the middle of her trial.
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NJ man gets jail for Phillies game vomit-assault
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:21:15 GMT
AP - A 21-year-old man who intentionally vomited on a spectator and his 11-year-old daughter at a Philadelphia Phillies game was sentenced Friday to up to three months in jail and community service, which the judge suggested be fulfilled by cleaning ballpark toilets and trash.
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Calif. wildfire forces hundreds from homes
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:41:15 GMT
AP - A huge wildfire churned through high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles on Friday, destroying a few buildings and forcing people from about 2,000 homes. Most of the displaced residents were allowed to return as the threat eased.
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Attorney: Returned Russian boy back in orphanage
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:01:00 GMT AP - An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage.
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4th bear caught after deadly MT campground attack
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:14:52 GMT
AP - The fourth grizzly bear believed involved in a triple mauling at a Montana campground has been captured, with DNA tests due Friday that could confirm the family of grizzlies killed a Michigan man and injured two other people.
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Judge bars evidence linked to Anna Nicole overdose
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:18:56 GMT
AP - The judge in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors and lawyer-boyfriend said Friday he was barring all evidence linking the defendants to Smith's fatal drug overdose because they were not charged with causing her death.
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Official: 2 dead in South LA building explosion
(AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:23:01 GMT
AP - An industrial building with a tampered gas line exploded Friday, killing a man who was hurled into the street and another who was electrocuted by a downed power line, officials said.
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