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DES MOINES, Iowa - This year's corn crop was Bill Talsma's lottery ticket - a potentially record-setting haul worth millions.
July 10, 2008
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By DAVID PITT
Associated Press Writer
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National
SAN FRANCISCO - Fire crews from Nevada and Oregon have arrived to help California firefighters battle hundreds of blazes that are darkening the sky over the San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley, leading public health officials to issue air-quality warnings.
July 10, 2008
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By TERENCE CHEA
Associated Press Writer
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National
WASHINGTON - Despite persistently high oil prices, global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, the government predicted Wednesday.
July 10, 2008
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
DEAR ABBY: I was divorced twice before I met my present husband, "Lou." We have been married seven years. When we're with his extended family or new acquaintances, Lou makes a point in his loud, animated way of letting everyone know that he is my third husband. It's embarrassing. And because I am at a loss for words, I usually stay silent.
July 10, 2008
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By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
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Coffee Break
WASHINGTON - The House is to vote Wednesday on extending relief to more than 20 million taxpayers in danger of getting hit by the alternative minimum tax this year, setting up a war of wills with the Senate on how to deal with an unpopular levy that many believe must be stopped in its tracks.
July 10, 2008
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By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes tumbled for the sixth time in seven months in May while median prices kept plunging, underscoring the depth of the nation's housing woes.
July 10, 2008
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
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Washington
BANGKOK, Thailand - Dire warnings that cyclone survivors in Myanmar might fall prey to disease and starvation failed to take into account the survival instincts of those affected, aid agencies and disaster experts say.
July 10, 2008
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BY GRANT PECK
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi authorities have arrested 701 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants this year, including some who were plotting attacks against the kingdom's oil and economic installations, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
July 10, 2008
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By DONNA ABU NASR
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WICHITA FALLS, Texas - By all accounts Col. Samuel Lofton III was a star in the Air Force - a professional, demanding officer who in less than three years led his 82nd Training Group to be the best of the four such groups at Sheppard Air Force Base.
July 10, 2008
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By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press Writer
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National
MILWAUKEE - Richard de Wilde was still reeling from the more than $600,000 in damage that last summer's flooding did to his organic vegetable farm when new storms swept through this month, dumping rocks, gravel and silt on some acres, washing away fences and contaminating fields with runoff.
July 10, 2008
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By M.L. JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
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National
WICHITA, Kan. - Kansas farmers were finally able to get into their fields to harvest winter wheat over the weekend as the ground dried out ahead of the next wave of storms.
July 09, 2008
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press Writer
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National
BUNGOMA, Kenya - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor.
July 09, 2008
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By KATHARINE HOURELD
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BAGHDAD - A bomb struck a district council building Tuesday in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, killing at least nine people, including four Americans - two soldiers and two government employees, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
July 09, 2008
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By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WINFIELD, Mo. - The swollen Mississippi River burst through yet another levee Tuesday, not endangering any towns but proving to anxious Midwesterners that the high water is still a threat.
July 09, 2008
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By CHERYL WITTENAUER
Associated Press Writer
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National
GLOUCESTER, Mass. - A pregnant high school student disputed the notion Tuesday that girls in this New England fishing town made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.
July 09, 2008
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By MELISSA TRUJILLO
Associated Press Writer
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National
