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- Canadian drug dealers exploit tiny Mich. airports
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- US law students help resettle Iraqi refugees
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- Rep. Bachmann: Always rising, never compromising
- NY honoring 1st Union officer killed in Civil War
- Libyan combat stymies moves on antiaircraft threat
| Ex-head of Nathan's Famous hot dogs dies at 89 Posted: 15 May 2011 02:00 PM PDT The man who helped turn his father's Coney Island, N.Y, hot dog stand into a nationally-recognized chain has died in Florida.            |
| Bid to name Lake Tahoe cove after Mark Twain fails Posted: 15 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT Mark Twain will have to wait to get recognition in the state where he assumed his pen name nearly 150 years ago.  |
| 2 La teens thrown from spinning carnival ride Posted: 15 May 2011 01:40 PM PDT Authorities say two teenagers thrown from a spinning carnival ride on a high school campus are in the hospital in stable condition.  |
| Billy Graham leaves NC hospital, resting at home Posted: 15 May 2011 01:10 PM PDT The Rev. Billy Graham was back at his North Carolina home Sunday after being hospitalized for five days with pneumonia.  |
| First lady welcomed at historically black college Posted: 15 May 2011 12:53 PM PDT First lady Michelle Obama was welcomed with thunderous cheers and told the 550 graduating from Spelman College, an historically black women's school, that no matter where they go, they need to bring the school's ideals to the world.  |
| Mobile home fire kills 4 in Texas Posted: 15 May 2011 12:20 PM PDT A fire in a mobile home leaves four dead in Texas, including three children. Officials with the Conroe Fire Department say a 27-year-old woman and three children ranging in age from 3 to 8 died in the early Sunday morning fire.  |
| AA flight returns to Phoenix after smoke reported Posted: 15 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT An American Airlines flight headed to Chicago was forced to return to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after the pilot reported light smoke in the cabin.  |
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| Chicago trial could reveal Pakistan-militant link Posted: 15 May 2011 10:10 AM PDT The allegations against Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana are fairly straightforward: He helped a former boarding school friend serve as a scout for terrorists who carried out a 2008 rampage that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai.  |
| Ohio St. investigation delays 'gold pants' rewards Posted: 15 May 2011 09:30 AM PDT An NCAA investigation into rules infractions by the Ohio State football program has delayed release of the team's 2010 "gold pants" charms, an award that team members receive if they beat rival Michigan.  |
| NJ crime increases raise issue of police layoffs Posted: 15 May 2011 09:20 AM PDT They ranged in age from 24 to 70 and are linked solely by the way their lives ended, in gunfire on Newark's streets.  |
| Canadian drug dealers exploit tiny Mich. airports Posted: 15 May 2011 09:10 AM PDT A Cessna airplane touched down about midnight, dropped a load of drugs and was back in the air in 90 seconds. Suddenly, the pilot of a U.S. border patrol helicopter hovering nearby turned on a powerful spotlight and tracked an SUV fleeing with hockey bags stuffed with 175 pounds of marijuana and 400,000 Ecstasy-type pills.  |
| Ill. apartment fire kills 6, including 3 children Posted: 15 May 2011 08:50 AM PDT Some residents jumped from their windows to escape flames as a fire ripped through a suburban Chicago apartment building early Sunday, leaving six dead and a dozen others injured.  |
| Obama visit validates hard work of Tenn. graduates Posted: 15 May 2011 08:40 AM PDT President Barack Obama will be delivering the commencement speech at a Tennessee school where students have overcome high crime, intense poverty and broken families.  |
| US law students help resettle Iraqi refugees Posted: 15 May 2011 08:30 AM PDT As a Christian human rights activist in Iraq, Ban Jamil Yousef Katto lived in fear. Her priest and friends were killed in a church massacre and nearby explosions twice destroyed her apartment in Baghdad.  |
| After tornadoes, junk donations become challenge Posted: 15 May 2011 07:50 AM PDT Relief officials inundated with donations after the flurry of twisters that killed more than 300 people across the South are sorting through the broken toys and used underwear they don't need while hunting for places to store mountains of vital supplies like canned food.  |
| Gingrich dismisses idea of No. 2 spot on ticket Posted: 15 May 2011 07:19 AM PDT Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he is very serious about seeking the presidency, but he's laughing off any suggestion that he could end up with the Republican Party's vice presidential nomination next year.  |
| Rep. Bachmann: Always rising, never compromising Posted: 15 May 2011 05:59 AM PDT Michele Bachmann was a self-styled "education researcher" making a run for a Minnesota school board seat in 1999 when the question came up at a candidate forum: If elected, would she serve all four years?  |
| NY honoring 1st Union officer killed in Civil War Posted: 15 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Col. Elmer Ellsworth and James Jackson died within feet of one another, yet the perspectives reflected in historical markers to the two men are as far apart as the 333 miles separating one tribute from the other.  |
| Libyan combat stymies moves on antiaircraft threat Posted: 15 May 2011 03:40 AM PDT The fierce combat in Libya has unleashed a once-hidden arsenal of portable anti-aircraft missiles that the government fears could easily be siphoned off to terror groups, giving rise to a potential threat to commercial aviation that the U.S. is only beginning to confront, government officials and arms experts said.  |
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