Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to "return home to the country we love."
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - The American Civil Liberties Union said Saturday that it plans to investigate the actions of federal law enforcers who arrested five Rainbow Family members in western Wyoming during their annual gathering.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - A popular beach on Long Island was evacuated at the height of a holiday weekend after stray, unexploded fireworks washed ashore the day after a July Fourth show, state parks officials said Saturday.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - Dale Metta, who manages a gun shop just outside the District of Columbia limits in Maryland, has had to turn away dozens of city residents wanting to buy handguns in recent days. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down Washington's 32-year-old ban on possessing handguns.
Read After DC gun ban overturned, city seeks new rules
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - Playing with matches, being careless with a campfire, even burning a letter from an estranged husband: Some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's recent history have been started by people.
Read At root of most wildfires, by far: People
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Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 3:41 am, Over one day old
AP - A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes.
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Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 3:41 am, Over one day old
AP - More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.
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