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AP - A state lawmaker who gained national notoriety with an anti-homosexual rant was stopped from entering the state Capitol Wednesday when she was found to have a loaded handgun in her purse, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.

24 Jul 2008 12:31am GMT

The U.S. Coast Guard has closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans southward after a tanker and a barge collided, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the river.

24 Jul 2008 12:10am GMT

AP - Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley.

24 Jul 2008 12:10am GMT

AP - A woman who helped her boyfriend steal about $8 million from an armored car company was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison.

24 Jul 2008 12:08am GMT

AP - All six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed off Guam were killed, the Air Force said Wednesday as the search effort shifted focus from rescue to recovery of the crew and pieces of the wreckage.

24 Jul 2008 12:03am GMT

AP - A woman mauled by a bear in rural Kern County underwent 10 hours of surgery and was expected to recover, her neighbor said Wednesday.

23 Jul 2008 11:51pm GMT

AP - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

23 Jul 2008 11:47pm GMT

A downgraded Hurricane Dolly caused damage as it made landfall in Texas on Wednesday afternoon and brought the possibility of flooding over the next two days.

23 Jul 2008 11:42pm GMT

A House panel weighed overturning the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy Wednesday, the first time Congress has considered the rule since it was implemented 15 years ago.

23 Jul 2008 11:37pm GMT

AP - The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it is investigating a near collision of airborne planes at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport — the third such incident at a major airport this month.

23 Jul 2008 10:15pm GMT

AP - Kentucky has started lowering flags to half-staff only for fallen soldiers from the Bluegrass State, upsetting veterans and lawmakers who say the policy dishonors tens of thousands of service members from other states stationed at installations such as Fort Campbell and Fort Knox.

23 Jul 2008 9:46pm GMT

AP - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

23 Jul 2008 9:32pm GMT

AP - The judge in the trial of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says she told jurors that they made the right decision in sparing his life.

23 Jul 2008 9:25pm GMT

For Atlanta native Leah Wells, it's the humiliation she remembers most.

23 Jul 2008 9:17pm GMT

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23 Jul 2008 8:54pm GMT

AP - A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to snatching an 18-year-old girl from a store parking lot, raping her and strangling her with her own belt before dumping her body in a park.

23 Jul 2008 8:52pm GMT

AP - Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group's spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch.

23 Jul 2008 8:22pm GMT

AP - More older children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder while the rate is holding steady for children under 12, according to a government report released Wednesday.

23 Jul 2008 8:18pm GMT

For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet.

23 Jul 2008 8:02pm GMT

The federal government is set to boost the nation's minimum wage Thursday in the second of three increases mandated by Congress.

23 Jul 2008 7:59pm GMT

AP - A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

23 Jul 2008 7:54pm GMT

AP - A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the corruption convictions of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and his one-time mistress, but indicated that James probably will get less than the 15- to 20-year prison sentence prosecutors are seeking.

23 Jul 2008 6:58pm GMT

A Texas grand jury indicted polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs on sexual assault charges and five of his followers also face a variety of charges, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Tuesday.

23 Jul 2008 6:08pm GMT

AP - The sign outside the Aquarius motel reads: "Spend a night, Not a paycheck," but some Midwest travelers have canceled reservations and other visitors stay fewer nights. On the nation's opposite coast, vacationers in Oregon worried about $4 gas splurge less on meals and skip the frills on getaways.

23 Jul 2008 10:51am GMT

Actress Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84.

22 Jul 2008 8:22pm GMT