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 Firefighters combat the Poomacha fire on a mountain in northern San Diego
California   Disaster   Firefighter   Photos   Wildfires  
 Independent online 
Firefighters hold the line
| By Gina Keating | Los Angeles - Exhausted California firefighters worked on Friday to contain two wildfires threatening homes along the coast before sundown, when shifting winds were expected to giv... (photo: U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen)
080113-N-9852I-003 BAHRAIN (Jan. 13, 2008) President George W. Bush shakes hands with Marine Staff Sgt. Matthew Grudzien, of Vidalia, La. while meeting with Lt. Eric Madonia, left, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Cmdr. Lynn Chow, of San Diego, Calif.; Lance Cpl. Joshua Paige, of Cadillac, Mich.; Senior Chief Master-at-Arms Tony Cooke, of Bardstown, Ky.; Master-at-Arms Seaman Mary Rosario, of Oakland, Calif.; Aviation Warfare Systems Operator First Class Chuck Fields, of Ponca City, Okla. and other service members representing more than 25,000 Sailors serving at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, home of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, 5th Fleet headquarters.       wnhires  (js1)
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 Syracuse 
Bush honors troops, new Americans in radio address
| WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, serving almost seven years as a wartime president, marked the nation's 232nd birthday by honoring the U.S. armed forces and celebrating the citizenship of new Ameri... (photo: U.S. Navy / Chief Mass Communication Specialist Robert G. Inverso )
Almonds (sl1)  The Times Of India 
Almond prices gain on better offtake
|                 NEW DELHI: Almond prices shot up by 200 per 40 kg in the national capital today on pick up in demand from retailers and stockists amid ti... (photo: GNU)
Almond   Delhi   Fruit   Photos   Prices  
Colorado Rockies  The Examiner 
Rockies overcome 9-run deficit to beat Marlins
DENVER (Map, News) - The blasts returned to Coors Field long before the fireworks. | In a throwback to the pre-humidor days, Colorado homered six times and beat the Florida Marlins 18-17 on Friday nig... (photo: GFDL / Onetwo1 )
Baseball   Colorado   League   Photos   Sports  
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Michael Phelps The Examiner
Phelps sets record; Torres makes 5th Olympic team
OMAHA, Neb. (Map, News) - Michael Phelps set another world record. No surprise there. Dara Torres is going back to the Olympics. Who would've believed it? | Fresh off an ... (photo: AP / Nati Harnik)
Olympics   Photos   Sports   Swimming   US  
Orangutan 067/ntf1 The Examiner
Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply
BANGKOK, Thailand (Map, News) - Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ap... (photo: Creative Commons / Kabir )
Bangkok   Islands   Orangutan   Photos   Thailand   Wildlife  
Cha Seung Baek The Examiner
Baek leads San Diego to 5-1 victory
PHOENIX (Map, News) - For five dominating innings, Cha Seung Baek looked as if he might become the first San Diego Padre to throw a no-hitter. | The Arizona Diamondbacks ... (photo: Creative Commons )
Baseball   League   Photos   Sports   Star  
Carmelita Jeter, Tori Edwards and Allyson Felix compete in the women's 100 meter race, jsa1 The Examiner
Felix, Gay advance easily at Olympic trials
EUGENE, Ore. (Map, News) - Allyson Felix still has work to do to earn her trip to Beijing. | If things keep going the way they did Friday, it won't be hard work. | Felix ... (photo: AP / Eric Gay)
Athletics   Beijing   Olympic   Photos   Trials   US  
Jessica Alba London Evening Standard
Jessica Alba shows off the return of her fantastic figure
| The couple look relaxed on a shopping trip in Beverley Hills | Jessica Alba once again proudly showed off her fantastic figure - just a month after giving birth to her ... (photo: AP )
Actress   Celebrity   Photos   Star  
David Beckham London Evening Standard
High fives but Beckham suffers major England disappointment
| David Beckham netted his fifth Major League Soccer goal of the season but could not prevent Los Angeles Galaxy falling to a 2-1 loss to New England Revolution last nigh... (photo: creative commons photo / mastermaq)
Football   League   Losangeles   Photos   Stars  
Smoking Star Tribune
Jesse Helms, the former conservative Republican senator from North Carolina, dies at 86
| RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where ... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
           
Gas Station The Columbus Dispatch
Gas pipeline must avoid creek, park, state says
State officials have again asked federal regulators to require the builders of a natural-gas pipeline to avoid crossing the Big Darby Creek altogether and to avoid crossi... (photo: GFDL)
Economy   Energy   Fuels   Ohio   Photos  
Snakes San Diego
Vaccine credited with saving snakebit dog
FALLBROOK | The overgrown field of Spanish mustard and wild oats bordering John and Lori Richwine's Fallbrook home is a haven for rattlesnakes. The rattlers are an accept... (photo: public domain / )
Photos   Snakes   Vaccine   Venom   Wild  
 Mandy Rivett, phlebotomist at the Community Blood Bank of the Lancaster County Medical Society in Lincoln, Neb., right, begins drawing blood from donor Doug Delhay Monday, Jan. 16, 2005. Since 1998, Delhay has donated three gallons of whole blood and 13 Toledo Blade
Blood donors get chance to win a Harley-Davidson
In order to increase awareness about the need for blood and platelet donors, the American Red Cross is holding a sweepstakes with a prize of a 105th Anniversary Edition H... (photo: AP Photo/Bill Wolf)
Anniversary   Blood   Custom   Photos   Toledo  
 Sept. 11 still is etched in our minds. The terrorist threat it revealed is a real and present danger. It is not the worst threat we face. Catastrophic climate change has already wreaked more economic damag WN/Bero Amer Philadelphia Daily News
Hundreds remember 9/11 flight crews with sculpture
| LINDA STEWART BALL | The Associated Press | GRAPEVINE, Texas - On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ... (photo: WN/Bero Amer)
Airlines   Flight   Photos   Planes   Texas  
 Vice President Dick Cheney addresses family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon on during the five-year observance ceremony on Sept. 11, 2006. Seated on the dais from left to right are Chaplain Lt. Col. William O. B Chicago Sun-Times
Texas monument honors flight crews killed on 9/11
| GRAPEVINE, Texas -- On a pedestal at a Texas intersection about 1,500 miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants and two pilots, ... (photo: DoD /Helene C. Stikkel. )
Airline   Airport   Dallas   Flight   Photos  
Business & Economy Science & Technology
- Offshore oil drilling: An early jump in Florida
- Wal-Mart adopts local produce
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- S.C. lottery sales pull a surprise
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 Firefighters combat the Poomacha fire on a mountain in northern San Diego
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- Lee leads Asian assault at Arkansas Championship
- Indians sign Jeff Weaver to minor league deal
- Chalmers looks to be a quick study with Miami Heat
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080113-N-9852I-003 BAHRAIN (Jan. 13, 2008) President George W. Bush shakes hands with Marine Staff Sgt. Matthew Grudzien, of Vidalia, La. while meeting with Lt. Eric Madonia, left, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Cmdr. Lynn Chow, of San Diego, Calif.; Lance Cpl. Joshua Paige, of Cadillac, Mich.; Senior Chief Master-at-Arms Tony Cooke, of Bardstown, Ky.; Master-at-Arms Seaman Mary Rosario, of Oakland, Calif.; Aviation Warfare Systems Operator First Class Chuck Fields, of Ponca City, Okla. and other service members representing more than 25,000 Sailors serving at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, home of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, 5th Fleet headquarters.       wnhires  (js1)
Bush honors troops, new Americans in radio address
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- Man stabbed to death at Asheville movie theater
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- See up-and-coming opera stars in two spotlight performances
- Jessica Alba shows off the return of her fantastic figure
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Jessica Alba shows off the return of her fantastic figure
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Terrorism Health
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- Rice 'proud' of Iraq invasion
- Rice says 'proud' of US invasion of Iraq
 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice answers questions on the Middle East during a news conference with President George W. Bush Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, in Crawford, Texas. (gm1)
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- Health Highlights: July 5, 2008
- State abortions rates have declined; why not for teens?
- Web may hold key to fighting new HIV wave
- Jesse Helms, the former conservative Republican senator from
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Jesse Helms, the former conservative Republican senator from North Carolina, dies at 86
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- Sign criticizes localities for immigration policy
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- Senate's No. 2 Democrat says Republicans blocking health
- Allies now, Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in New
Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama
Obama tries for inroads with conservatives, would expand Bush's religious charity effort
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- Man stabbed to death at Asheville movie theater
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Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama
Obama tries for inroads with conservatives, would expand Bush's religious charity effort
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