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• NY comptroller audits gas prices on state Thruway 8/28/2008, 12:53 p.m. EDT
• New York Lottery's Midday draw 8/28/2008, 12:51 p.m. EDT
• Correction: Poverty-income glance 8/28/2008, 12:40 p.m. EDT
- NATIONAL NEWS
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• Injuries reported after crane topples in Dallas 8/28/2008, 12:48 p.m. EDT
• Jurors hear arguments in Ohio microwaved-baby case 8/28/2008, 12:39 p.m. EDT
• Fla. man charged in road rage shooting of agent 8/28/2008, 12:23 p.m. EDT
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• Dalai Lama admitted to hospital in India for tests 8/28/2008, 12:56 p.m. EDT
• Asian alliance snubs Russian plea for support 8/28/2008, 12:49 p.m. EDT
• 2 Chinese policemen killed, 7 wounded in Xinjiang 8/28/2008, 12:27 p.m. EDT
- POLITICS NEWS
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• Biden: Obama cannot win without Pennsylvania 8/28/2008, 1:04 p.m. EDT
• McCain says no vice presidential decision yet 8/28/2008, 12:46 p.m. EDT
• Obama plays some hoops, works on speech 8/28/2008, 12:46 p.m. EDT
- BUSINESS NEWS
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• MBIA, Tiffany, UAL, Williams Sonoma are big movers 8/28/2008, 12:58 p.m. EDT
• Court allows extradition of hacker to US 8/28/2008, 12:56 p.m. EDT
• Toyota lowers 2009 global sales target 8/28/2008, 12:48 p.m. EDT
- SCI-TECH NEWS
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• Reborn retail site fires salvo in shipping war 8/28/2008, 11:05 a.m. EDT
• China Telecom says profit slips 8 percent 8/28/2008, 10:10 a.m. EDT
• TiVo shows another profit, but outlook weak 8/28/2008, 9:26 a.m. EDT
- HEALTH NEWS
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• Correction: Hot Dogs-Cancer story 8/28/2008, 12:09 p.m. EDT
• CDC: Salmonella outbreak appears to be over 8/28/2008, 12:06 p.m. EDT
• Cells change identity in promising breakthrough 8/28/2008, 6:20 a.m. EDT
- SPORTS NEWS
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• Stu Barnes retires, joins Stars' coaching staff 8/28/2008, 12:06 p.m. EDT
• Oregon QB Costa out for season with knee injury 8/28/2008, 11:54 a.m. EDT
• MLB spends $2.5M to give umps 2nd look at homers 8/28/2008, 11:04 a.m. EDT
- ENTERTAINMENT
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• Every little bit Phelps: Swimmer a VMA presenter 8/28/2008, 12:47 p.m. EDT
• Rapper DMX pleads out Florida drug case 8/28/2008, 12:30 p.m. EDT
• Kanye West performs on sidelines of Dem convention 8/28/2008, 11:55 a.m. EDT
TOP STORIES FROM THE AP
APNewsAlert
(AP) 8/28/2008, 1:08 p.m. ET
DECATUR, Ga. — CORRECTS: Accrediting group says Georgia county system becomes nation's third school district in 40 years to lose accreditation. (Corrects APNewsAlert that school district was first in nation in 40 years to lose accreditation.) MORE »
Mom of missing Fla. girl could return to jail
(AP) 8/28/2008, 1:08 p.m. ET
ORLANDO, Fla. — A bounty hunter who helped free the mother of a missing Florida toddler wants his associates to withdraw her bail. MORE »
Biden: Obama cannot win without Pennsylvania
(AP) 8/28/2008, 1:05 p.m. ET
DENVER — Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden told Pennsylvania delegates Thursday that running mate Barack Obama can't win the White House without the Keystone State. MORE »
Pentagon brass meet secretly with Pakistanis
(AP) 8/28/2008, 1:01 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — With violence worsening in Afghanistan and Pakistan, top U.S. military officers conducted a secret strategy session with commanders from Islamabad on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean. MORE »
Friends: Abramoff a changed man, deserves leniency
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:58 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — It used to be, when Jack Abramoff needed something, he had an address book full of powerful Capitol Hill contacts to call on, people he plied with expensive meals, campaign contributions and golf junkets. MORE »
Dalai Lama admitted to hospital in India for tests
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:56 p.m. ET
MUMBAI, India — The Dalai Lama was admitted to a hospital in this western Indian city on Thursday to undergo tests for abdominal discomfort, his spokesman said. MORE »
Asian alliance snubs Russian plea for support
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:49 p.m. ET
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — China and several Central Asian nations rebuffed Russia's hopes of international support for its actions in Georgia, issuing a statement Thursday denouncing the use of force and calling for respect for every country's territorial integrity. MORE »
Injuries reported after crane topples in Dallas
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:48 p.m. ET
DALLAS — A crane lowering a heavy length of pipe has toppled at a city water pumping station on the Trinity River in Dallas, injuring two workers. MORE »
McCain says no vice presidential decision yet
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:46 p.m. ET
DENVER — Looking toward his turn in the spotlight, Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain sought to siphon attention from Democrat Barack Obama's show in Denver by playing coy about his pick for vice president. MORE »
Obama plays some hoops, works on speech
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:46 p.m. ET
DENVER — Barack Obama aims to weave the personal with the political Thursday night as he tells 75,000 supporters in a football stadium — and millions more at home — how as president he would make a difference in their lives. MORE »
Jurors hear arguments in Ohio microwaved-baby case
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:39 p.m. ET
DAYTON, Ohio — A prosecutor says an Ohio mother intentionally put her month-old baby in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death. MORE »
2 Chinese policemen killed, 7 wounded in Xinjiang
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:27 p.m. ET
BEIJING — Chinese police clashed with members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority in the far western region of Xinjiang, authorities and an activist said Thursday, the first reported outbreak of violence in the area since two high-profile attacks during the Olympics. MORE »
Tourists flee as Gustav churns toward Jamaica
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:23 p.m. ET
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tourists and oil workers fled Thursday as Gustav churned toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands with winds near hurricane force. Louisiana called a state of emergency and put the National Guard on standby, hoping to avoid the chaos of Hurricane Katrina three years ago. MORE »
Fla. man charged in road rage shooting of agent
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:23 p.m. ET
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A grand jury has indicted a Broward County man on manslaughter charges in what police are calling the road rage shooting of a federal customs agent. MORE »
Gulf Coast states prepare as Gustav strengthens
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:23 p.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS — National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles are selling briskly, and one small-town mayor has spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area is skittishly watching as a storm marches across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary. MORE »
AP interview: prosecutor expects Mladic's arrest
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:22 p.m. ET
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia's war crimes prosecutor said Thursday he expects the quick arrest of top war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, but predicted that the wartime Bosnian Serb military commander is not hiding in disguise like Radovan Karadzic was. MORE »
Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:21 p.m. ET
CAIRO, Egypt — The start of the holy month of Ramadan next week is causing clock confusion in the Middle East. Egypt and the Palestinians are falling back an hour far earlier than usual, trying to reduce daylight hours for Muslims fasting until sunset in sweltering summer temperatures. MORE »
DNC '08: Reviewing the big show
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:16 p.m. ET
DENVER — A pivotal moment in the 1998 movie "Pleasantville" comes when an unusual remote control pulls a brother and sister into their television set. They emerge on the other side, inside the world of the show they are watching. MORE »
US Army hearing on death of 4 Iraqis ends
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:12 p.m. ET
VILSECK, Germany — Defense lawyers for two U.S. soldiers told a military court Thursday that their clients did not participate in the killings of four Iraqis last year and had little, if any, knowledge of them. MORE »
Top Iraqi official detained at Baghdad airport
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:03 p.m. ET
BAGHDAD — U.S. forces arrested a top Shiite official in Iraq's government as he stepped off a plane in Baghdad, a political ally said Thursday, and a U.S. military intelligence official linked the man to a June bombing that killed four Americans and six Iraqis. MORE »
Feds take over case of man in alleged Obama threat
(AP) 8/28/2008, 12:02 p.m. ET
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The case against a Colorado man accused of making racist threats against Barack Obama has been transferred to federal court, but the reason hasn't been explained. MORE »
Duke offers British public a bargain masterpiece
(AP) 8/28/2008, 11:51 a.m. ET
LONDON — A British aristocrat is offering two public art galleries a 50 million-pound (US$92 million) bargain — a Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Titian that has been on display in Britain for 200 years but now could be sold overseas. MORE »
US hits Ugandan rebel chief with sanctions
(AP) 8/28/2008, 11:49 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Thursday slapped new sanctions on the leader of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebel group as patience wears thin with the slow pace of peace talks with the African nation's government. MORE »
Bombing of Pakistani government bus kills 8
(AP) 8/28/2008, 11:39 a.m. ET
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A bomb struck a bus filled with Pakistani police and government workers as it crossed a bridge on Thursday, sending the vehicle hurtling over the railing and into the riverbed below. Eight people died in the latest attack in Pakistan's country's tribal border region. MORE »
Detroit mayor's lawyer says she's losing witnesses
(AP) 8/28/2008, 11:39 a.m. ET
DETROIT — Three lawyers are refusing to testify next week at a removal hearing for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, possibly harming his ability to defend himself. MORE »
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