Nation and World
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Building Dean hits Caribbean; Gulf Coast next?
Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - CASTRIES, St. Lucia -- Hurricane Dean roared into the eastern Caribbean on Friday, tearing away roofs, flooding streets and causing at least three deaths on small island...
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Those who survived quake were first to open ground
Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - PISCO, Peru -- The distance between life and death in Peru's magnitude-8 earthquake was the number of steps to open ground. Many of the 510 people who died weren't close...
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Category 3 Hurricane Dean tears through eastern Caribbean
Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Hurricane Dean strengthens to Category 3 in Caribbean with 125 mph winds; 1 dead CASTRIES, St. Lucia -- Hurricane Dean strengthened into a Category 3 storm and tore thro...
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QB all alone after friends agree to plea
Aug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - RICHMOND, Va. -- It's up to Michael Vick now. His last two co-defendants pleaded guilty Friday and implicated Vick in bankrolling gambling on dogfights. One of them said...
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End of an era: Hastert won't seek re-electionAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - The high school wrestling coach who rose to House Speaker stepped off the political mat Friday. Congressman Denny Hastert told several hundred supporters gathered at the...
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Lender forced to borrow
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The credit mess forced Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, to borrow $11.5 billion on Thursday, shocking financial markets ...
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Army suicide rate soars
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It's not just the war. Or the hardship of being far from home. Often it's the age-old, heartbreaking "Dear John" notes from wives and sweethearts that driv...
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Erin brings torrential rain to Texas
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - HOUSTON -- The tropical weather season revved up Thursday as the Atlantic's first hurricane formed and quickly strengthened, and as Tropical Storm Erin's remnants soaked...
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Republican Pryce to retire
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Republicans scrambled to find a candidate for one of the nation's most competitive congressional districts Thursday as Rep. Deborah Pryce, nearly a cas...
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Kraft's Post cereal may be up for sale
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Shares of Kraft Foods dipped in trading Thursday after a published report said the world's No. 2 food maker was mulling a sale of its Post cereal division. The Wall Stre...