AP – Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Most notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don’t end there.
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Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill
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AP – Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II’s end reflecting on a victory dearly earned and on men who helped make that happen but never came home.
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Pearl Harbor marks 65th anniversary of WWII’s end
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AFP – Cricket’s world governing body charged three Pakistan stars with anti-corruption offences and provisionally suspended them, as the trio protested their innocence in an alleged betting scam.
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ICC charges Pakistan trio over betting scam
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AP – A 9-year-old boy ran to get cash from his mother’s purse to appease an armed intruder, but when he returned the man was stabbing his parents with a kitchen knife in the bedroom, according to recently released search warrants in the triple murder case.
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Warrants detail stabbings at Calif. beach house
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AP – As the last of 30,000 U.S. reinforcements arrive in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday got a firsthand look at operations in the dangerous south where Afghan and international troops are ramping up security.
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Gates visits US forces in southern Afghanistan
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AP – Roger Federer is one cool customer.
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Federer beats the heat, Beck; Soderling looms
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AP – A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks for those who want to stay close to their homes but know they need better shelter from the onslaught of Earl.
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Comfort Inn a hurricane hostel in NC
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AP – Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.
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FBI: 6 accused in forced labor of 400 Thai workers
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AP – It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory.
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Arizona governor stumbles during debate
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AP – Illinois’ prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Pat Quinn during an election year because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thursday.
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Embattled Illinois prisons chief resigns
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AP – The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon’s office affairs, city Correction Department records show.
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Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail
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AP – The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds Thursday on North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and potentially most destructive stop on the storm’s projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.
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Heavy rain from Hurricane Earl smacks NC islands
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AP – Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said: “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?”
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Wash. woman in acid attack recounts agonizing pain
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“Resistance operations” will continue against Israelis despite the arrests of Hamas activists in the West Bank, a Hamas official said Thursday.
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Hamas, 10 groups vow to attack Israelis
AP – The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site still have financial hurdles to clear: They haven’t finished buying all the property they want for the project and are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.
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Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles
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Reuters – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not be as strong as action by Congress, a senior administration official said.
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EPA to issue more rules in climate fight
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Jennifer Lopez — ‘American Idol’ Deal Imminent
An oil and gas production platform has exploded 80 miles off the central coast of Louisiana, with 13 people overboard, including one injured, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning.
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Oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico
AP – The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
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Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion
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AP – Mariner Energy, Inc. shares dropped more than 4 percent Thursday following news that one of its production platforms exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mariner Energy shares fall after platform blast
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