Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Laurel Ranticelli considered driving 40 miles round-trip to take education classes at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Then she realized she could take the same courses from her computer at home and save on fuel costs.
Read High gas prices fuel boom in online classes
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has strengthened back to a Category 2 as it heads toward Bermuda.
Read Hurricane Bertha strengthens to Cat. 2
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Tracey Johnson wields a chain saw, tosses branches and rakes brush under the punishing sun and a heavy pack as smoke from a raging wildfire looms over the mountains nearby.
Read Female inmates doing time on Calif. fire lines
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken from jail in Arizona to a Las Vegas hospital after he was found weak, feverish and "convulsive" in his cell, a jail official said Wednesday.
Read Police: Polygamist sect leader Jeffs hospitalized
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - The courthouse killings case against Brian Nichols was supposed to be as open-and-shut as they come.
Read Atlanta courthouse shooting trial set to open
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Four locomotives pulling a freight train derailed Wednesday into the Mississippi River after an apparent landslide and were leaking oil and fuel, officials said.
Read Train derails into Mississippi River in NE Iowa
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - They tried casinos on the Crow Indian reservation. The one designed to bring in the biggest crowds, Res-a-Vegas, went bust within a year and is now a fireworks stand.
Read Indian tribe in Montana wants to exploit coal
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Gloria Weiss was living in a small SoHo apartment in the 1980s when one of her young students told her that he lived on a boat.
Read For some, waterfront NYC living means a houseboat
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - A federal judge has dismissed Delta Air Lines Inc. from more than 19 pending lawsuits involving a plane crash that killed 49 people two years ago.
Read Delta dismissed from fatal 2006 Ky. crash lawsuits
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old
AP - The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves.
Read US agriculture secretary confident meat is safe
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