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Southeast braces for Hanna as Ike strengthens
Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine.
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FEMA to cover hotel costs for some Gustav evacuees
Victims of Hurricane Gustav who can't return to their homes over the next month because of storm damage or power outages can have their hotel costs covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, officials said Thursday.
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Detroit mayor pleads guilty in sex scandal, quits
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months.
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Americans get to know once-obscure Alaska governor
Doug Watts, a painter from Phoenix, watched in spite of himself. There was Sarah Palin on television, and he found himself mesmerized.
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Judge sentences Jonesboro shooter to 4 years
A man who as a teen helped shoot and kill five people in a schoolyard ambush was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison on an unrelated federal weapons charge.
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Prisons scramble to make digital TV switch
The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation - broadcast television.
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Woman dubbed Al-Qaida backer skips NY arraignment
An American-educated Pakistani woman who's been labeled an al-Qaida supporter refused to appear in federal court Thursday to answer charges that she tried to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents after they detained her this summer in Afghanistan.
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McGreevey's ex offers to drop claim if he pays up
A lawyer for former Gov. James McGreevey's ex-wife said Thursday she will drop a charge that she was duped into marrying him if he agrees to pay her $109,000 a judge says he owes.
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Terror claims against NJ Muslim leader rejected
An influential New Jersey Muslim leader accused by some federal officials of having terrorist ties but praised by others as being an important ally won his fight to gain permanent U.S. residency Thursday.
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Intruders shot after Texas couple wrests shotgun
When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice.
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Tracking HannaMeteorologists have been tracking Hanna, which has been a tropical storm and a hurricane.
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Gustav: The path of destructionView Hurricane Gustav's path of destruction.
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Gustav-Katrina ComparisonSee a timeline comparing the two hurricanes.
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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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Raleigh Convention Center InteractiveThe Grand Opening of the new Raleigh Convention Center is Sept. 5 and 6.
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