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    <title><![CDATA[ Ike damages 80 percent of homes on Grand Turk ]]></title>
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        The Turks and Caicos premier says Hurricane Ike has damaged 80 percent of the homes on Grand Turk island.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ New England braces for Hanna&#39;s drenching rains ]]></title>
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        Southern New England is bracing for drenching rain and gusts near 50 mph as Tropical Storm Hanna runs up the Eastern Seaboard.      
    
  

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        John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan&#39;s bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami&#39;s airport.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ High-resolution satellite launched in California ]]></title>
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        A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond&#39;s home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ London calling at New York Fashion Week ]]></title>
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        Designers at New York Fashion week heard London calling - from 1975.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Powerful storm raises fears from Caribbean to Gulf ]]></title>
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        &quot;Extremely dangerous&quot; Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it roared on an uncertain path that forced millions from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico, to nervously wonder where it would eventually strike.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ House explosion kills 2 in Chicago suburb ]]></title>
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        An explosion destroyed a house early Saturday and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home were found in the wreckage, authorities said. Seven other homes were destroyed.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ 40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites ]]></title>
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        Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Life goes on but fears remain at shooting campus ]]></title>
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        Her first week of classes at Northern Illinois University made it clear to freshman Miraynda Castro that she wasn&#39;t beginning her college career at just any campus.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Wash. rampage suspect in court: &#39;I kill for God&#39; ]]></title>
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        &quot;I kill for God. I listen to God,&quot; a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ 2nd trial starting for infamous Texas KFC murders ]]></title>
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        When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more heinous crime just three days before his arrest for that September 1983 robbery.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Rice: `Good way forward&#39; with new Pakistan leader ]]></title>
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        Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan&#39;s election of a new president Saturday was a positive sign for the civilian government of the U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ 7 years on, Sept. 11 is so far and yet so close ]]></title>
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        It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Hurricane Ike churns west, triggers fears ]]></title>
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        For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Ex-NJ politician headed to trial on fraud charges ]]></title>
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        A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a way to boost his income and increase his pension benefits - from $28,000 a year to $81,000.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Ex-mayor of Mo. town shot in city hall attack dies ]]></title>
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        The former mayor of the St. Louis suburb who was badly wounded when a gunman opened fire at a February city council meeting has died of complications connected to his injuries.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Robert Novak column describes cancer treatment ]]></title>
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        Since being diagnosed with brain cancer, Robert Novak has lost partial vision and undergone surgery to remove a tumor, the conservative political commentator wrote in a column published Saturday.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Hurricane Ike near Turks and Caicos; Cuba braces ]]></title>
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        The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the large eye of an &quot;extremely dangerous&quot; Hurricane Ike is lurking &quot;near or over&quot; the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.      
    
  

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        A minor earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay area Friday night.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[ Yellowstone RV park full despite fuel costs ]]></title>
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        In the heart of the park here on a recent warm day, all 358 spaces at the Fishing Bridge Recreational Vehicle Park were jammed with RVs and camping equipment.      
    
  

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