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Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 months
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AP - Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe — a dead woman lay on his chest. He knew he had to get her off, fast. Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman's own belt and drag her off. But his legs were still pinned.
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Wrigley rooftops hurting as Cubs, economy struggle
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 AP - The crowded rooftop bleachers overlooking Wrigley Field stand as proof that no matter how bad the Chicago Cubs played, the ballpark was simply not big enough to hold everyone who wanted to see them play.
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Tropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas
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 AP - Tropical Storm Hermine rolled into south Texas early Tuesday, bringing heavy rains and strong winds to an area battered by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer.
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Colorado wildfire destroys dozens of homes
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 AP - A wind-whipped wildfire sent flames roaring through a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying dozens of homes — some that belonged to the firefighters themselves, authorities said early Tuesday.
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Boston Dawna, the Batman of Venice Beach, retires
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 AP - Hipsters, hustlers, celebrities, thieves, dope peddlers and just about everyone else in gritty, quirky Venice Beach know Boston Dawna. You can't miss the one-woman crime fighter.
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Protest over fatal shooting by LAPD turns violent
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AP - A protest over the fatal police shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles at officers, set trash cans on fire and refused to disperse.
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Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip
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 AP - An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday.
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Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3
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 AP - A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.
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Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio
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 AP - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.
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Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage
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AP - A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender.
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US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore
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 AP - The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.
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Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use
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AP - Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they'll be used.
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Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD
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AP - John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate
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AP - Federal transportation safety officials are using the deadly crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a long-standing debate about whether small children should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults.
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NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions
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 AP - As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.
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