Wozniacki wallops Sharapova at US tennis Open
(AFP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 15 mins agoAFP - Caroline Wozniacki lived up to her top-seed status at the US Open on Monday by defeating former champion Maria Sharapova in a fourth-round blockbuster.
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Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 31 mins agoAP - A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others.
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Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 47 mins agoAP - Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.
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Man scaling skyscraper in downtown San Francisco
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 49 mins agoAP - San Francisco authorities say they plan to arrest a man who is scaling the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper - just as soon as he reaches the top.
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Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 52 mins agoAP - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.
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Coyote killed; may have attacked 2 in NYC suburb
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 2 hours agoAP - Police have killed a coyote believed to the same animal that attacked a teen and a toddler in two separate incidents within about an hour in a New York City suburb.
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Tropical Storm Hermine grows and aims for Mexico border
(Reuters)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 2 hours agoReuters - Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday as it approached landfall near the U.S.-Mexico border, but oil and gas operations in the Gulf were unaffected.
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Wozniacki ousts Sharapova at US Open
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 2 hours agoAFP - Top seed Caroline Wozniacki stayed on course for her maiden Grand Slam title on Monday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Maria Sharapova in a pulsating fourth-round tie.
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Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 3 hours agoAP - A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender.
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Hermine prompts hurricane watches in Mexico, Texas
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 3 hours agoAFP - Tropical Storm Hermine pushed north in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, strengthening as it headed toward the US-Mexico border area and threatening storm surges and mudslides, forecasters said.
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Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 3 hours agoAP - A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.
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Obama Unpopular Ahead of Midterms: Will the GOP Benefit?
(Time.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoTime.com - Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?
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UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoAP - The U.N. atomic agency expressed alarm Monday about Iran's decision to bar some of its inspectors, suggesting that its efforts to monitor the country's nuclear program were suffering as a result.
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Obama's Next Economic Plan: Don't Call It a Stimulus
(Time.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoTime.com - The President is coming up with programs and plans that sound just like additional stimulus. Just don't call it stimulus!
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Trucking in the U.S.A.: Where the Accent is Russian
(Time.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoTime.com - Immigrants from the old Eastern bloc seem to be clustering around the trucking industry, bringing with it a set of cultural and legal problems
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How Weather Reporters Stay Safe While Covering Hurricanes
(Time.com)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoTime.com - Hurricane Earl swept through the Eastern seaboard on Sept. 2, swirling up the North Carolina coast with winds well over 100 m.p.h. but never making landfall. TIME wants to know: How do reporters work in the middle of a hurricane?
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Delta Airlines flight to Liberia to boost commerce: Sirleaf
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 6 hours agoAFP - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday hailed the launch of a Delta Airlines flight linking Liberia to the United States as a boost for business and tourism in the west African nation.
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Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 6 hours agoAP - Federal transportation safety officials are using the deadly crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a long-standing debate about whether small children should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults.
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Pregnant Amish woman hurt in Ohio buggy crash dies
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 7 hours agoAP - A pregnant Amish woman injured when an SUV rear-ended her family's buggy in northeast Ohio has died.
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Nadal, Clijsters progress at US Open, Murray out
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 13 hours agoAFP - Andy Murray was a major casualty at the US Open on Sunday but Rafael Nadal stormed through as did Kim Clijsters and Venus Williams in the women's tournament.
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