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Authorities: 92 structures destroyed in Colo. fire
Tue, 2010-09-07 22:59By 2010-09-08T02:59:53Z BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- David Myers knew it was time to leave when he looked out into the forest and spotted bright red flames towering skyward. Then came a blinding cloud of smoke and a deafening roar as the fire ripped through the wilderness....
Orioles deny CC Sabathia his 20th victory
Tue, 2010-09-07 22:20By HOWIE RUMBERG 2010-09-08T02:20:07Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Jake Arrieta pitched efficiently into the seventh inning, Adam Jones had a two-run single in a three-run first and the Baltimore Orioles denied their nemesis, CC Sabathia, his 20th victory with a 6-2 win Tuesday night over the New York Yankees....
Pressure rises on pastor who wants to burn Quran
Tue, 2010-09-07 22:18By MITCH STACY 2010-09-08T02:18:47Z GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere....
WTC steel column installed at ground zero
Tue, 2010-09-07 22:12By DEEPTI HAJELA 2010-09-08T02:12:15Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit....
Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts
Tue, 2010-09-07 21:02By BARBARA SURK 2010-09-08T01:02:07Z BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing Saddam Hussein's image....
Sect leader Jeffs fights extradition to Texas
Tue, 2010-09-07 21:02By JENNIFER DOBNER 2010-09-08T01:02:06Z SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday refused to sign a waiver that would have allowed his extradition to Texas, where he faces bigamy, aggravated sexual assault and assault charges over alleged incidents with underage girls at a church ranch....
Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
Tue, 2010-09-07 21:02By WILL WEISSERT 2010-09-08T01:02:02Z HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war....
Floods leave tens of thousands homeless in Mexico
Tue, 2010-09-07 21:02By ANTONIO VILLEGAS and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ 2010-09-08T01:02:01Z VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) -- Weeks of torrential rains have unleashed flooding in huge swaths of southern Mexico, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes....
UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
Tue, 2010-09-07 21:01By ANITA SNOW 2010-09-08T01:01:50Z UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July - more than double the number previously reported - and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens....
Grim outlook for Democrats puts House up for grabs
Tue, 2010-09-07 21:01By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 2010-09-08T01:01:39Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are scratching to survive in races all across the country. Disgruntled voters, a sluggish economy and vanishing enthusiasm for President Barack Obama have put 75 seats or more - the vast majority held by Democrats - at risk of changing hands....
Boise State gains ground in AP Top 25
Tue, 2010-09-07 19:04By RALPH D. RUSSO 2010-09-07T23:04:45Z More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country. Boise State gained seven first-place votes and closed in on No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Ohio State as the top three teams in the first regular season Associated Press football poll held their spots from the preseason....
EU decries 'barbaric' plans to stone Iranian woman
Tue, 2010-09-07 19:03By BRIAN MURPHY and NASSER KARIMI 2010-09-07T23:03:19Z TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it "barbaric" and an Iranian spokesman saying it's about punishing a criminal and not a human rights issue....
Nanny: Bloody syringes in Anna Nicole's bathroom
Tue, 2010-09-07 17:40By LINDA DEUTSCH 2010-09-07T21:40:38Z LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A nanny who worked for Anna Nicole Smith in the last months of her life said Tuesday that she found bloody syringes and cotton balls, and sometimes a spoon with liquid, inside a bathroom that the celebrity model, her lawyer-boyfriend and her psychiatrist emerged from....
Chicago Mayor Daley won't run for re-election
Tue, 2010-09-07 16:43By TAMMY WEBBER 2010-09-07T20:43:31Z CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who has presided over the nation's third-largest city for 21 years, like his father did before him, announced Tuesday that he will not run for a seventh term, saying the time "just feels right."...
US smoking rate still stuck at 1 in 5 adults
Tue, 2010-09-07 16:35By MIKE STOBBE 2010-09-07T20:35:03Z ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday....
John Lennon killer Chapman denied parole in NY
Tue, 2010-09-07 16:34By CAROLYN THOMPSON 2010-09-07T20:34:51Z BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- John Lennon's killer was again denied parole in New York, nearly 30 years after gunning down the ex-Beatle outside the musician's New York City apartment building....
Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute
Tue, 2010-09-07 16:34By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH 2010-09-07T20:34:48Z RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks....
Walters, Letterman compare notes on heart surgery
Tue, 2010-09-07 14:28By FRAZIER MOORE 2010-09-07T18:28:57Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Barbara Walters is feeling wonderful after heart surgery in May - and has practically no scar, she added proudly Tuesday as she returned to active duty on "The View" after taking the summer off for recovery....
Mexico's Pemex reports blast at major refinery
Tue, 2010-09-07 12:58By 2010-09-07T16:58:09Z MEXICO CITY (AP) -- State-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos says an explosion has occurred at its Cadereyta refinery outside the northern city of Monterrey....
Flight attendant in passenger tiff to be evaluated
Tue, 2010-09-07 12:20By COLLEEN LONG 2010-09-07T16:20:46Z NEW YORK (AP) -- The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal....
