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- Two fires still raging along California’s central coast
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:11:54
AP - Weary firefighters got no rest during the holiday weekend as a pair of out-of-control wildfires roared across the landscape along California’s central coast at opposite ends of the arid Los Padres National Forest.
- Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:03:33
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
- Toledo apartment complex fire leaves 100 homeless
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:48:51
AP - Authorities in Toledo, Ohio, say a fast-moving fire at an apartment complex has destroyed eight buildings and left more than 100 people homeless. - Town fireworks display accident in Iowa injures 12
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:09:15
AP - An accident during a municipal Fourth of July fireworks display injured at least a dozen people, local fire officials said. - FBI probe latest setback for beleaguered Detroit
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:15:07
AP - Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation’s highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.
- NJ party town relaxes rules on kegs, rude gestures
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:53:43
AP - After battling rowdy renters and out-of-control keggers for decades, this Jersey shore party town has finally decided to lighten up a little.
- Hundreds remember 9/11 flight crews with sculpture
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:07
AP - On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants and two pilots, rendered in bronze, now care for a traveling child. - Spitzer call girl drops ‘Girls Gone Wild’ lawsuit
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:20:43
AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York’s former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
- U.S. marks Independence Day with fireworks, revelry
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:50:33
AP - The nation’s largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York’s world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide.
- Statue of Liberty’s crown may reopen to public
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:10:26
AP - 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.
- Champ retains NYC hot-dog eating title in overtime
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:15:50
AP - Joey Chestnut achieved frankfurter immortality Friday, outdueling his celebrated Japanese rival in an epic hot-dog eating contest that pushed both of the gluttonous gladiators to the brink.
- Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:43:59
AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
- Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:53:13
AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner. - Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:36:23
AP - “Compromise, hell!” Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.
- Smooth sailing for yacht builders despite economy
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:21:59
AP - Fuel prices are soaring and credit markets tightening, but the super-rich are still lining up to pay tens of millions of dollars for mega yachts.
- Auction house seeks to sell Rosa Parks collection
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:09:22
AP - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks’ hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.
- NY researcher: `Yankee Doodle’ turns 250 maybe
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:07:34
AP - Wish “Yankee Doodle” a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.
- Farmers say salmonella scare has hurt tomato sales
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:13:14
AP - Expect fewer slices of red, ripe tomatoes next to the grill this holiday weekend.
- 4 people dead in Milwaukee shooting; no arrests
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:55:46
AP - At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.
- Jesse Helms quotes on life and politics
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:18:53
AP - Some quotes of Jesse Helms, who died on the Fourth of July at age 86:
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