How citizens stepped up to end manhunt Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 04:18 PM -0700
The television image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind as she ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning her relatives to lock the...[more]
Gay crashes out of 200m trials Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 03:23 PM -0700
EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - World champion Tyson Gay's dream of an Olympics double ended in pain when he crashed out of the U.S. 200 meters quarter-finals on Saturday.
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FedEx delivers pot to wrong spot Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 03:11 PM -0700
A mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company.[more]
Gospel singer Wright hurt in Pa. car accident Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 02:53 PM -0700
Gospel singer the Rev. Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver, police in central Pennsylvania said Saturday.[more]
37 hurt in Iowa town's fireworks display Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 02:46 PM -0700
A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators.[more]
California's wildfire in check -- for now Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 02:36 PM -0700
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Firefighters in California have fended off a blaze threatening more than 3,000 homes in and around the coastal town of Goleta and are turning their attention to preventing...[more]
2 Mississippi River locks reopen Category: US NewsPublish Date: 07-05-2008 02:30 PM -0700
The Army Corps of Engineers says two navigational locks along the Mississippi River have reopened after being closed because of flooding.[more]