GA town: Uphold law, uphold pants
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:01:27 GMT
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The town of Dublin, Georgia, is putting saggy, baggy pants in the category of indecent exposure, with violators facing fines of up to $200. 
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2,000 more troops to Afghanistan
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:12:50 GMT
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As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including a number of U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan soon under a proposal by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN has learned. 
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Victim in acid attack out of hospital
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:23:11 GMT
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The 28-year-old victim of an acid attack was released Sunday from a Portland, Oregon, hospital, a nursing supervisor said, nearly a week after an unknown assailant threw a cup of the caustic liquid in her face. 
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Plan C to get Chile miners: Use oil drill
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:53:42 GMT
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Hedging their bets, officials in Chile said on Sunday they will set up an oil drill as a third option to rescue the 33 miners trapped underground since August 5. 
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3rd migrant survived Mexico massacre
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:56:55 GMT
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A third migrant survived a massacre that left 72 dead in a Mexican border state, and could play a key role in authorities' investigation of the crime, El Salvador's president said. 
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Rare color footage of London blitz found
(AP)
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:33:32 GMT
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AP - Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.
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NKorea prepares for biggest convention in 30 years
(AP)
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:14:23 GMT
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 AP - Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut.
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Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:29:31 GMT
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 AP - A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain.
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Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio
(AP)
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:27:14 GMT
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 AP - Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
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Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:43:41 GMT
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 AP - Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.
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Death toll 44 in Guatemala mudslides; more missing
(AP)
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:25:33 GMT
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 AP - Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala's official death toll to 44 after days of torrential rains.
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Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:53:48 GMT
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 AP - The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:18:17 GMT
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AP - They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.
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Fish fried: Djokovic fillets American at US Open
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:18:30 GMT
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 AP - What could have been a great day for American tennis instead turned into a dominating afternoon for Novak Djokovic.
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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program
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Date Added:
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:25:56 GMT
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 AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.
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Peace Corps volunteer killed in Africa
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Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:50:18 GMT
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Thomas Maresco, 24, an aid worker from Florida, died Saturday from a gunshot wound in Lesotho, the Peace Corps said. Police believe he was the target of a robbery. 
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Obama to lay out new economic plan
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Date Added:
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:52:38 GMT
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With less than two months to go until a critical midterm election likely to turn on the economy, President Obama this week will lay out a new economic plan. 
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McCain wants Obama to visit border
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Date Added:
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:16:02 GMT
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Republican Sen. John McCain on Sunday invited President Barack Obama to visit the border with Mexico to get a complete picture of the region and called on the president to do more for security. 
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Pope watching, may intervene in stoning case
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Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:45:45 GMT
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Pope Benedict XVI has not ruled out getting involved in the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, the Vatican says, calling the practice "brutal." 
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75,000 bags of dog treats recalled
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Date Added:
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:38:45 GMT
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A leading pet product company has issued a voluntary recall of nearly 75,000 bags of dog treats due to salmonella concerns, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 
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