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China pressures families of miners

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - XINTAI, China -- Officials increased the pressure on the distraught families of 181 trapped miners Tuesday, deploying riot police, threats and money to silence their ang...
Federal aid for new bridge in Minneapolis

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- With all the victims believed to have been recovered, federal investigators gave state transportation officials clearance Tuesday to pull away the concret...
Crackdown means fewer hands for the harvest

By Juliana Barbassa Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- With fruit rotting in fields, unmilked cows suffering in barns and shuttered farmhouses, growers are painting a bleak picture of their industry under ne...
Miners' families asking whether safety lost out to profits

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - 3c43 1-line hed, 3c21 1-line drop hed, trim to 12 inches. HUNTINGTON, Utah -- With six trapped coal miners all but left for dead in a crumbling mountain, families and fr...
College campus fires increasing

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The number of fires reported in university and college housing has increased sharply in recent years as students plug in more electrical gear, inclu...
Russia stages air show

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - ZHUKOVSKY, Russia -- Russia opened its largest air show in post-Soviet history on Tuesday, showing off its growing military footprint and global assertiveness while seek...
Happy landing for Endeavour

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts safely home Tuesday, NASA looked ahead to three more launches at risk fo...
Ugandans demand journalist's deportation

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - KAMPALA, Uganda -- Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportat...
Read a lot? You're in the minority

Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open. Tonight, as you feel its stare from ...
Once-sleepy Swiss town awakes with soccer fever

By Bradley S. Klapper Associated Press
Aug 21, 2007 11:00 pm - WEGGIS, Switzerland -- This once-sleepy resort that charmed Mark Twain more than a century ago is suddenly booming with investment and confidence, thanks in large part t...

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