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Hanna dumps rain on mid-Atlantic, heads north
Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.
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FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet
Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
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Crash with suspect SUV kills Phila. police officer
Authorities in Philadelphia say an allegedly drunken teen motorist has smashed into a police car during a pursuit and one of the officers has died.
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2nd trial starting for infamous Texas KFC murders
When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more heinous crime just three days before his arrest for that September 1983 robbery.
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Police: Bomb scare on train in NJ was hoax
Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax.
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Yellowstone RV park full despite fuel costs
In the heart of the park here on a recent warm day, all 358 spaces at the Fishing Bridge Recreational Vehicle Park were jammed with RVs and camping equipment.
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Wash. rampage suspect in court: 'I kill for God'
"I kill for God. I listen to God," a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him.
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Police: Suspect in Illinois bank standoff dead
A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.
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Minor earthquake rattles San Francisco Bay area
A minor earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay area Friday night.
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Murder trial opens in Tenn. love triangle case
A prosecutor described a schoolteacher's husband as a jealous, calculating killer as trial opened Friday on charges he murdered his wife's teenage lover. But a defense lawyer told the jury that the defendant was a victim himself of a spouse who flaunted her infidelity.
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Tracking HannaMeteorologists have been tracking Hanna, which has been a tropical storm and a hurricane.
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Raleigh Convention Center InteractiveThe Grand Opening of the new Raleigh Convention Center is Sept. 5 and 6.
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Campaign Trail Photos of the WeekView photos from the past week on the campaign trail from AP photographers around the country.
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N.C. Drought Maps Time Lapse AnimationView a time lapse animation of drought conditions since April of 2007.
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The week in entertainment photosA look at the top entertainment stories of the week through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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