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• 3 Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant

  Published on: 07/25/08 By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Writer

  Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town.

• Audit finds serious hazards from abandoned mines

  Published on: 07/25/08 By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer

  The government has endangered the public's health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West, according to a scathing audit released Friday.

• Effort to curb oil speculation stalls in Senate

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press Writer

  Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing $4-a-gallon gasoline, and they rejected Republican calls to expand offshore oil production.

• Community college shooting stemmed from fist fight

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press Writer

  A man suspected of shooting three people in a community-college computer lab lost a fistfight to one of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since, a police detective said Friday.

• Grandmother pleads guilty in Texas child porn case

  Published on: 07/25/08 The Associated Press

  A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case.

• Struggling college students turn to food banks

  Published on: 07/25/08 By WHITNEY MALKIN Associated Press Writer

  Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread.

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• Closure on Till case may help turn page on race

  Published on: 07/25/08 By MARY SANCHEZ McClatchy Newspapers

  People say that Emmett Till never got justice.

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• Catholics to pope: Lift the birth control ban

  Published on: 07/25/08 The Associated Press

  More than 50 dissident Catholic groups from around the world have written an open letter asking Pope Benedict XVI to lift the church's ban on birth control.

• A baby's impulse to cry saves him after NH tornado

  Published on: 07/25/08 By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI Associated Press Writer

  The cries of a baby led rescuers to him in the wreckage of a home flattened by a tornado that killed his grandmother and blew his grandfather into the yard, officials said Friday.

• Tracing tomatoes from field to fork _ a new system

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press Writers

  When there's an urgent need to trace fruits and vegetables in a crisis like the salmonella outbreak, a lot of the pieces for a rapid-response system are in place. But nobody has quite figured out how to put them together to operate seamlessly in the vast American marketplace.

• NYC parking ticket? Start watching your temper

  Published on: 07/25/08 By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press Writer

  It would be an understatement to say traffic agents aren't well-liked on the congested streets of New York.

• AP Interview: Spitzer may yet face ethics inquiry

  Published on: 07/25/08 The Associated Press

  The panel that charged former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's aides with ethics violations in a political scandal may investigate whether Spitzer orchestrated delays in the initial probe.

• Vets allege mismanagement of retirement colony

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer

  Nestled among the lush forests and mountain foothills of rural southeastern Oklahoma is a soldier's utopia, a sleepy enclave where U.S. military veterans can claim their share of the American dream for pennies on the dollar.

• Tarantulas, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer

  South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem: The floodwaters they're slogging through are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and even deadly tarantulas.

• McCain steps up criticism of Obama over Iraq

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer

  Republican presidential candidate John McCain says that Democratic rival Barack Obama's policies would have led to defeat in both Iraq and Afghanistan and caused the entire Middle East to erupt into war.

• Assault claim tightens terms against Detroit mayor

  Published on: 07/25/08 By ED WHITE Associated Press Writer

  Investigators alleged Friday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick berated and attacked them as they tried to serve a subpoena to a friend, and a judge ordered the troubled mayor to pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing.

• First ships crawl down Mississippi after spill

  

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  Published on: 07/25/08 By ALAN SAYRE Associated Press Writer

  The first of 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill began crawling down the Mississippi River Friday after the Coast Guard reopened the waterway to traffic, but it could be days before all of the ships are cleared.

• Police fire shots near Pa. Christian radio station

  Published on: 07/25/08 The Associated Press

  Shots were fired near a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania after police responded to reports that an armed man was headed to the station's offices.

• Former football player sentenced in brawl

  Published on: 07/25/08 By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writer

  A former Tulane University football player convicted of attempted manslaughter for his role in a brawl outside a Bourbon Street nightclub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

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