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Chestnut wins Coney Island hot dog contest
NEW YORK (AP)—Joey Chestnut reclaimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down an...
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It's Federer vs. Nadal -- all over again
WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Add up all of Roger Federer’s greatness on grass courts, and the numbers are striking: 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon, 65 overall on the surface
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PJs for GIs
OWASSO, Okla. —Julie Dermody doesn’t want troops who suffer an injury in combat to have an added insult in the form of a flimsy hospital gown
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High and low temperatures and precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 p
High and low temperatures and precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 7 p
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Abdul Qadeer Khan talks nukes
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The disgraced architect of Pakistan’s nuclear program said Friday that it provided centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army under Preside...
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No time to lounge: Lizard's lifespan is short
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—Confused and frustrated that the lizards he was trying to study all suddenly died, Oklahoma State University researcher Kris Karsten came to a conclusion that’s earne...
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Offutt gets new Air Force unit
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb
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Man wrongly jailed can't sue
WICHITA —A man mistakenly jailed in Colorado and Kansas for a month can’t sue Sedgwick County or its sheriff, a federal judge has ruled
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Sentencing delayed for Braden
KINGMAN—The former police chief of Kingman will have to wait two more weeks before hearing his sentence for domestic violence
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Betancourt cries with joy upon arriving in France after 6 years as hostage in Colombia
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PARIS (AP) -- "I cry with joy," Ingrid Betancourt said
Beasley cracked sternum
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MIAMI (AP) -- Michael Beasley slightly cracked his sternum in a collision with a teammate earlier this week, yet still could be with the Miami Heat when the team opens summer league play Monday
KU student dies in shooting
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LAWRENCE -- Lawrence police are searching for a 46-year-old man charged with second-degree murder in the off-campus death of a University of Kansas student
Vacation Bible school gets a pricey facelift
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- It's a wonder vacation Bible school made it out of the 1960s
Big Sur, Los Padres National Forest fires raging along California coast
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Companies begin quest for oil, gas near Florida
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive
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In this Nov. 16, 2007 file photo, President Bush, right, walks with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington.  There are fewer than 200 days left in the Bush presidency, a major factor hanging over the meetings involving leaders from Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada at a Group of Eight summit in Toyako, that begin Monday on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.  Atop the agenda is reaching a deal that would set targets for reducing the pollution that causes global warming. Fukuda, would like to emerge with an agreement on 50 percent overall reductions in greenhouse gases by 2050.  The Jefferson Memorial can be seen in the background. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The problems do not get any easier as President Bush attends his final summit with leaders of industrialized democracies.


Sat Jul 05 21:10:53 -0700 2008

Firefighters monitor a burning redwood tree along Highway 1 in Big Sur, Calif., Saturday, July 5, 2008. Cooler temperatures and marine fog allowed firefighters here to gain some ground early Saturday on an obstinate wildfire that wiped out this world-famous coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.


Sat Jul 05 21:03:06 -0700 2008

Reporters hold up their voice recorders while listening to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during a media availability in his campaign charter en route to St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, July 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.


Sat Jul 05 19:33:51 -0700 2008

In this frame grab from a video released by Colombia's Army taken on July 2, 2008 and released on July 4, 2008, U.S. hostage Keith Stansell, left, is seen with his hands tied together during a Colombian military mission that rescued him and 14 others from captivity in an unknown location in Colombia's Guaviare state.  Colombia's military rescued 15 hostages from the FARC, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 Colombian police and soldiers. The three U.S. military contractors were kidnapped by the FARC more than five years ago after their plane went down while they were on a drug-monitoring flight.  (AP Photo/Colombian Army)AP - The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to "return home to the country we love."


Sat Jul 05 19:40:15 -0700 2008