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- Researcher: Smaller 'dead zone' recorded in Gulf
- Peterson's murder trial follows years of acrimony
- Navy christens last of 3 ships honoring 9/11 sites
- Ark. man sentenced to death for killing officer
- UN faces major obstacles if Assad falls from power
- A Death Valley drive with the click of a mouse
- 3 shot dead in Pa.; girl taken, found safe in Ohio
- US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat
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| Hundreds gather in Conn. to name rare white bison Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT Lakota tribe members from South Dakota were among hundreds of people who gathered at a Connecticut farm to celebrate the birth of one of the rarest animals in the world -- a white bison.           |
| US intelligence sees poverty plummet by 2030 Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:09 PM PDT Poverty across the planet will drop sharply by 2030, with a rising middle class of some two billion people pushing for more rights and resources.  |
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| House Ways and Means chairman fighting cancer Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:09 PM PDT The chairman of the House's tax-writing committee says he's been diagnosed with a "very early, highly treatable and curable type" of cancer.  |
| Researcher: Smaller 'dead zone' recorded in Gulf Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT A new report says this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone," an area of low oxygen that develops every spring and summer, is the fourth-smallest since measurements of the zones began in 1985.  |
| Peterson's murder trial follows years of acrimony Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT One relative of Drew Peterson's long-missing fourth wife calls him a dog who deserves to be chained. The boorish, motorcycle-loving ex-police officer on trial in the death of his third wife makes unsavory comments about his alleged victims' families, calling some money-grubbers. He points out one relative's criminal history.  |
| Navy christens last of 3 ships honoring 9/11 sites Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:39 AM PDT The USS Somerset -- the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites -- was christened Saturday in honor of the passengers and crew of the plane that crashed short of terrorists' intended target after passengers stormed the cockpit.  |
| Ark. man sentenced to death for killing officer Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:39 AM PDT An Arkansas man who shot a police officer during a traffic stop last year, then coldly shot him again in the face while he was pleading for his life, was sentenced to death on Saturday.  |
| UN faces major obstacles if Assad falls from power Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT Senior officials looking into the role the U.N. could play in Syria if Bashar Assad falls from power face major obstacles, including a bitter division among world powers and the absence of an opposition leader.  |
| A Death Valley drive with the click of a mouse Posted: 28 Jul 2012 08:09 AM PDT Imagine being the only driver on a two-lane asphalt highway as the stark desolation of Death Valley National park passes on each side and the crystal blue sky stretches up from the horizon.  |
| 3 shot dead in Pa.; girl taken, found safe in Ohio Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:59 AM PDT Authorities in south-central Pennsylvania say a man confronting his estranged wife about custody arrangements for their daughter shot her to death and also killed her boyfriend and his mother, then fled with the 4-year-old girl before the two were found about 250 miles away in Ohio.  |
| US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone had tampered with it. He sent word to his superiors about the break-in.  |
| Friend: Md. man held in shooting plot gentle giant Posted: 28 Jul 2012 02:09 AM PDT A Maryland man accused of threatening to shoot up his workplace and who police say called himself "a joker" is a "gentle giant" who collected firearms for target practice and had expressed concerns about someone breaking into his apartment, a friend said Saturday.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:19 AM PDT "Good evening, Mr. Bond." -- Queen Elizabeth II to actor Daniel Craig, in character as 007, as the monarch starred in a short movie filmed in Buckingham Palace that was one of the highlights of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics.  |
| Obama and Romney compete for Jewish voters Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:59 AM PDT On a trip to Israel, Mitt Romney is trying to win over a tiny sliver of a small -- but powerful -- section of the American electorate. President Barack Obama is doing the same at home.  |
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| Defense: Shooting suspect was seeing psychiatrist Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:59 AM PDT The former graduate student accused in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting was being treated by a psychiatrist at the university where he studied, the first indication that he may have sought help before the rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 58.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:29 AM PDT Weather Underground Forecast for Saturday, July 28, 2012. Expect more showers and thunderstorms across the eastern U.S. as two frontal boundaries affect the region on Saturday. One cold front will extend down the East Coast, from the Northeast to the Gulf states. Meanwhile, another cold front over the Upper Midwest is moving over the Great Lakes and into the Ohio ...  |
| Jackson move to Mayo could point to complications Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:10 AM PDT An expert in psychiatric care says Jesse Jackson Jr.'s transfer to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota could indicate a complicating physical illness arose during the Illinois congressman's treatment for depression.  |
| 2 Colo. victims mourned at funerals in Ohio, Texas Posted: 27 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT The woman whom Matt McQuinn loved and whose life he saved by taking three bullets for her wept as pastors spoke of his heroism and sacrifice during his funeral Saturday, and of the senselessness of the shooting spree at a Colorado movie theater where he and 11 others were killed just more than a week ago.  |
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