Tropical Storm Fay stays on Florida's coast
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday, moving north along the Florida coast but not going out over the Atlantic Ocean, where many had feared it could strengthen and curve back toward the state as a hurricane....
Study: Cost often not factor when picking college
NEW YORK (AP) -- Even if a student plans on a major where the financial rewards aren't so obvious, such as art history or philosophy, most American families don't factor in their child's expected earning power when considering the potential debt load for college....
Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year - and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group....
Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit
ATLANTA (AP) -- Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit....
States throw out costly electronic voting machines
The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers....
Girl from polygamist group ordered into state care
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge....
Situation still 'fragile' in Grand Canyon village
PHOENIX (AP) -- Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding, authorities said....
Flooding recedes in South Texas after foot of rain
McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Flooding receded Tuesday in southern Texas and main highways reopened after a deluge of as much as 13 inches of rain, as the drenching weather shifted to the northern end of the state and Oklahoma....
Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46....
NJ congressman in Georgia to help trapped sisters
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey congressman has arrived in the Republic of Georgia in an effort to bring home two young girls stuck overseas since the conflict with Russia began....
World News
Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite....
Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area
IGOETI, Georgia (AP) -- A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days....
Twin car bombings hit Algerian hotel, barracks
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- Twin car bombings rocked a hotel and military headquarters in the Algerian town of Bouira on Wednesday, killing 11 people a day after a suicide bombing in a neighboring region killed 43, official media and witnesses said....
Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home....
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora visits Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Lebanon's prime minister traveled to Baghdad on Wednesday in only the third such visit by a top Arab leader since the U.S.-led invasion five and a half years ago....
NKorea vows to boost 'war deterrent'
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea stepped up criticism of ongoing U.S.-South Korea military exercises, warning Wednesday that it would boost its "war deterrent" - a euphemism for its nuclear programs....
Pirates seize Malaysian tanker off Somalia's coast
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Armed pirates seized a Malaysian palm oil tanker with 39 crew off the coast of Somalia - the fourth hijacking in a month, a global maritime watchdog said Wednesday....
Post-Olympic clamp on Muslim Xinjiang possible
URUMQI, China (AP) -- As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades....
Darfur tribal chiefs throw in with al-Bashir
EL GENEINA, Sudan (AP) -- When Sudan's president landed in this remote western Darfur town, he was warmly greeted by a man who by all logic should be his mortal enemy - a tribal chief the Sudanese leader is charged with trying to exterminate....
Glitter held at Thai airport after prison release
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, refused to board airplanes out of Thailand on Wednesday after being denied entry into the country, a senior immigration official said....
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