31 Jul 2010

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Evacuation order lifted as crews battle California blaze

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire Saturday as flames encroached on power lines that provide electricity throughout the region.

31 Jul 2010 8:11am GMT

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Debris in relief well sets back work on gusher (AP)

James Lee Witt, right, listens to BP PLC CEO of Gulf Coast Restoration Organization Bob Dudley as he speaks at a news conference to announce Witt's hiring as an advisor to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill response in Biloxi, Miss., Friday, July 30, 2010. Witt, the former FEMA director under President Bill Clinton, is expected to advise BP through its long-term response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil gusher a little memento that is expected to push their work back about a day.


31 Jul 2010 8:00am GMT

Air tanker drops fire retardant, slows LA wildfire (AP)

Firefighters spray water on burning plants as flames race across the desert floor in Palmdale, Calif., Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - Water-dropping aircraft slowed the progress of a wildfire that was bearing down on hundreds of homes in the high desert north of Los Angeles.


31 Jul 2010 7:47am GMT

The big day: Chelsea Clinton to wed in upstate NY (AP)

Bill and Hillary Clinton leave a party in honor of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky Friday, July 30, 2010 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Chelsea Clinton was poised to marry her longtime boyfriend at an exclusive estate along New York's Hudson River after weeks of intrigue, secrecy and buzz that caused hundreds to crowd into this small village hoping to catch of a glimpse of a former president, a secretary of state or their publicity-shy daughter.


31 Jul 2010 7:39am GMT

Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law (AP)

Arizona Republicans Gov. Jan Brewer, left, and Sen. John McCain abruptly end a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., Friday, July 30, 2010. Brewer and McCain held the news conference in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale to applaud a U.S. Air Force decision to base new F-35 combat jets at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, but the event abruptly ended when the barrage of questions were regarding the Arizona immigration law and the next steps the governor was taking in the court battle.. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - A federal appeals court has decided not to step into the controversy over Arizona's tough immigration law until November, leaving state officials to consider other steps they might take in the meantime.


31 Jul 2010 7:39am GMT

Gore will not be charged over masseuse allegations (AP)

FILE - In this Friday, July 16, 2010 file photo, former Vice President Al Gore introduces Vice President Joe Biden at the annual Tennessee Democratic Party Jackson Day in Nashville, Tenn. Former Vice President Al Gore was cleared Friday, July 30, 2010 of allegations he groped and assaulted a masseuse in a luxury Portland hotel room in 2006, closing a case that could have tarnished the Nobel prize winner's reputation. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)AP - The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed.


31 Jul 2010 7:20am GMT

Cleanup of Mich. river oil spill will take months (AP)

Veterinarian Scott Ford, left, feeds a rescued goose with a liquid nutritional supplement as volunteer Sarah Klepinger assists in Marshall, Mich., Friday, July 30, 2010. Volunteers and government officers 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. Enbridge Inc. said its focus was shifting to cleaning up the spilled oil in the Kalamazoo River, which it estimates at 820,000 gallons. The Environmental Protection Agency puts the total at more than 1 million gallons. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Officials investigating the cause of a huge oil spill along a major river in southern Michigan say it will take months to clean up the mess, and damage to wetlands and wildlife may last considerably longer.


31 Jul 2010 7:01am GMT

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Court denies request for expedited Ariz. immigration law appeal

A federal appeals court has denied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request for an expedited hearing on the state's controversial immigration law. Instead, the case has been scheduled for a hearing during the first week in November.

31 Jul 2010 5:35am GMT

Fla. church to hold Quran-burning event

In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a non-denominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

31 Jul 2010 4:50am GMT

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12-year-old girl injured on Wis. 'free fall' ride (AP)

AP - A 12-year-old girl at an amusement park plunged more than 40 feet to the ground on Friday, seriously injuring herself when a safety net under a "free fall" attraction failed to catch her.

31 Jul 2010 4:04am GMT

Deadly gas explosion destroys building in Calif. (AP)

Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department stand at the site where a suspected natural gas explosion occurred Friday July 30, 2010 in Los Angeles. The explosion collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, fire officials said. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A deadly gas explosion obliterated an industrial building with such violent force Friday that a worker was hurled into the street, car windows were shattered and a survivor had his hair singed in the inferno.


31 Jul 2010 3:11am GMT

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No charges for Gore over alleged sexual assault

Former Vice President Al Gore will not face prosecution on an allegation of sexual assault from 2006, according to the Multnomah County district attorney's office.

31 Jul 2010 2:42am GMT

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2 killed in plane crash pulled from Lake Michigan (AP)

This undated photo provided by Cessna shows a Cessna 206. A medical transport plane carrying five people to the Mayo Clinic crashed into Lake Michigan on Friday July 23, 2010 and one person was rescued, officials said. The Cessna 206 left Alma, about 150 miles northwest of Detroit, Friday morning en route to Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo/Cessna) NO SALESAP - 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.


31 Jul 2010 1:57am GMT

Army: Chemical weapons off Hawaii should stay put (AP)

AP - Chemical weapons dumped in deep water five miles south of Pearl Harbor after World War II should remain at the site because moving them could pose more of a threat to people and the environment, the Army said Friday.

31 Jul 2010 1:41am GMT

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'Significant progress' in cleaning Michigan oil spill

Michigan's governor and the boss of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency planned Friday to fly over the location of an oil spill on the Kalamazoo River.

31 Jul 2010 1:36am GMT

Grizzly that fatally mauled 3 people euthanized

A grizzly bear was euthanized Friday after a DNA test determined that it mauled three campers -- one of them fatally -- in a remote area of Montana, an attack that has perplexed wildlife experts.

31 Jul 2010 1:29am GMT

Family transformed three years after bridge disaster

For 13-year-old Arrianna Merritt, the words mother and hero go hand in hand.

31 Jul 2010 1:06am GMT

Russian boy rejected in U.S. is back in orphanage

A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow, Russia, by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and Parents said Friday.

31 Jul 2010 12:41am GMT

Obama says U.S. auto industry 'growing strong' after bailout

President Barack Obama, speaking at a Chrysler plant here Friday, praised the recovery of the embattled U.S. auto industry and celebrated the tough choices he says made a comeback possible.

31 Jul 2010 12:04am GMT

30 Jul 2010

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Grizzly bear euthanized after Mont. triple mauling (AP)

This image provided by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department on Friday July 30, 2010, shows a captured grizzly sow believed to be responsible for the mauling death of one camper and injuring two others near Yellowstone National Park in Montana. The fate of the bear will be determined after DNA tests confirm whether it was responsible for the attacks. (AP Photo/Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department)AP - Wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly bear Friday after DNA tests confirmed that the sow and her cubs were responsible for a triple mauling that killed a Michigan man and injured two other campers.


30 Jul 2010 11:33pm GMT

Moms work full-time for hikers' release from Iran (AP)

Laura Fattal, left, Cindy Hickey, center, and Nora Shourd, mothers of three American hikers jailed in Iran, participate in a demonstration outside Iran's mission to the United Nations, in New York, Friday, July 30, 2010. Saturday marks a year since the hikers were arrested along the Iraqi border. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)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.


30 Jul 2010 10:48pm GMT

Calif. Rep. Lungren caught speeding while on air (AP)

AP - California Rep. Dan Lungren was forced to cut short a radio interview when he was stopped by police in Virginia for speeding while he was live on the air.

30 Jul 2010 10:43pm GMT

NJ man gets jail for Phillies game vomit-assault (AP)

FILE - In this May 25, 2010, file photo, Matthew Clemmens, of Cherry Hill, N.J., looks out a car window as he is driven away from a courthouse in Philadelphia. Clemmens has been sentenced to up to three months in jail on Friday, July 30, 2010, for intentionally vomiting on another spectator and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands at a Philadelphia Phillies game. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)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.


30 Jul 2010 10:25pm GMT

Prosecutors: Smith part of conspiracy to get drugs (AP)

FILE ** Anna Nicole Smith, leaves the U.S. Supreme Court, in this Feb. 28, 2006, file photo taken in Washington. Pre-trial motions are expected to be heard in a hearing Friday July 30, 2010 setting the stage for the trial of two doctors and the attorney boyfriend of the late Anna Nicole Smith, arguing about what evidence will be allowed in court. Jury questioning begins Monday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta,File)AP - In a surprise move, prosecutors in the case of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend say the former Playboy model conspired with the defendants to illegally obtain massive amounts of prescription drugs.


30 Jul 2010 10:22pm GMT

NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid (AP)

Susannah Floyd Garrett, left, and her brother Jarvis Patrick Garrett, grandchildren of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, pose for photos Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering granting a posthumous pardon to Billy the Kid, angering descendants of Pat Garrett who call it an insult to recognize such a violent outlaw. (AP Photo/Sergio Salvador)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.


30 Jul 2010 9:41pm GMT

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Airmen killed in Alaska plane crash identified

The Air Force has identified four airmen who died Wednesday when a cargo plane crashed during a training mission near Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.

30 Jul 2010 9:14pm GMT