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"(CNN) -- Talking trash has taken on a whole new meaning in Gary, Indiana -- where residents have taken their trash and their talk to the steps of City Council.",
"Gary, Indiana, has not had garbage collection since July 12.",
"Pick-up is set to resume Wednesday.",
"Residents in Gary have not had trash pick-up since July 12, when Mayor Rudy Clay ordered garbage collections halted as part of an ongoing dispute between City Council and his attempts to outsource the job to sanitation giant Allied Waste.",
"But the issue was solved Tuesday night when the council voted to continue their contract with Allied.",
"Garbage that had piled up for nine days will be picked up Wednesday.",
"\"The people will be happy when this garbage is picked up,\" the mayor said Tuesday night.",
"\"We don't deserve to have all this garbage on the streets.",
"The saga came to a head on Monday morning when dozens of protesters, with full trash bags in hand, arrived at city hall to criticize the mayor.",
"The group, Miller Citizens Corporation of Gary, is angry about a $12-a-month trash tax, a $5 million no-bid contract with Allied, and dozens of laid-off city garbage workers.",
"The group filed suit against the city last November on two counts: it claimed the contract with Allied was not submitted for public bids, and the trash fee may not be levied without City Council approval.",
"In February, Judge Thomas Webber of Lake County -- where Gary is located -- ruled the Allied contract null and void, and mandated the city to stop collecting the tax until it was approved by the council.",
"However, Allied continued to be paid monthly.",
"The City Council voted against the trash tax on July 7.",
"The mayor then ordered Allied to stop collecting garbage, saying the city couldn't afford to pay the company.",
"Defending his $5 million contract with Allied on the steps of city hall Monday morning, the mayor said, \"The old system cost the tax payers $9 million a year and received 40 to 50 complaints a day.\"",
"He also said that maintenance costs were costing the city $600,000 a year.",
"As Mayor Clay spoke, in front of the bags of trash, a scrolling sign on the City Hall property flashed \"Keep Gary Clean.",
"Let's Pick It UP!\" CNN's Kara Devlin contributed to this report."
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"Residents in Gary, Indiana, have not had trash pick-up since July 12 .",
"Mayor halted garbage collection during outsourcing dispute with City Council .",
"Full trash bags in hand, dozens of protesters go to city hall to criticize mayor .",
"Council relents on outsourcing contract; pick-up to resume Wednesday ."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (VBS.TV) -- Uganda has crept back into our consciousness lately with synchronized bomb attacks that took the lives of 76 people in the nation's capital Kampala during the World Cup festivities.",
"When we were last in Kampala, we set out to learn more about the desperate fight for the survival of mountain gorillas.",
"With a dwindling population of 700, they have been victims of poaching, disease, war, civil unrest, slaughter and displacement.",
"Under pressure from rebel factions in Uganda and the DRC who massacred gorillas because the conservationists were \"getting on their nerves,\" our guide tracks the remaining apes -- by armpit stench and dung -- to keep tabs on their health.",
"We traveled to the remote jungle area known as Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the southwestern part of Uganda, bordering with Rwanda and the DRC, areas plagued with dictatorships, genocide and decades of civil and national wars.",
"Ten years earlier, eight park visitors had been abducted and then murdered by a group of Rwandan armed rebels in an effort to destabilize the region.",
"The drive from Kampala was harrowing.",
"Our driver sped and swerved obsessively, overtaking anyone in his path despite on-coming traffic.",
"We witnessed three traffic accidents, two fatalities and an adventurous couple having sex in the middle of a dark mountain road after midnight.",
"With four guards armed with machetes and rifles, two advance gorilla trackers, and our guide Levi we ventured into the dense tropical rainforest that is home to roughly half of the 700 remaining mountain gorillas in the world.",
"Here we encountered the gentle beasts and found out more about their plight.",
"See more of this story at VBS.TV ."
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"Mountain gorillas victims of poaching, disease, war, slaughter, displacement .",
"VBS.TV staff travels to Uganda to find out more of the plight of gorillas .",
"VBS.TV says gorillas have dwindled down to about 700 in the world ."
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"Gaza City (CNN) -- Take a soccer-crazy crowd and a traditional Palestinian opening ceremony.",
"Add a splash of corporate sponsorship, and sprinkle in some black-clad, gun-toting security.",
"What you're left with is the World Cup of soccer -- Gaza style.",
"The 16-team, two-week tournament culminated Saturday with the field narrowed down to France and Jordan.",
"The idea for the contest was the brainchild of American aid worker Patrick McGrann and a Palestinian colleague.",
"\"There were a lot of us who were offended that Gaza is not allowed to participate with the rest of the world -- whether it's diplomacy, whether it's schooling, whether it's education or whether it's sports,\" McGrann said.",
"\"So we chose to try and come up with something special.",
"And in this case, a Gaza World Cup.",
"If the rest of the world gets a World Cup, we thought Gaza should get one too.\"",
"While the teams wore the colors of France and Jordan, almost all of the players were Palestinian.",
"Foreign nationals working for the United Nations and other aid organizations rounded out the teams to give it its international flavor.",
"American player Corey Pattison played for the French team.",
"He said they found a way to work past the language barrier.",
"\"When I get out there, it's more like, 'Corey, go forward, go forward, go forward.",
"Don't kick the ball out of bounds,'\" he said.",
"A crowd of several thousand men, along with a few women, watched the two teams battle in a game played down to the proverbial wire.",
"After scoring a goal a piece, the match went into overtime -- with the French besting the Jordanians on penalty shots.",
"The crowd, as expected, went wild.",
"And the jubilation of the players could not be contained.",
"One jumped up on the rail separating the field from the spectators, took off his jersey and led the crowd in a raucous chant.",
"While organizers had hoped to keep politics out of the cup, the politicians could not stay away.",
"Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh presided over the award ceremony.",
"But this was a day for Gazans to put aside politics and their many problems, at least for a while, and bask in the glory of hosting -- and winning -- the World Cup."
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"Palestinians stage 16-team soccer \"World Cup\" in Gaza .",
"Teams made up of local players plus international aid workers .",
"\"France\" beats \"Jordan\" on penalty kicks in the final ."
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"(CNN) -- A former Communist-era naval base in east Europe could soon become the most important new European superyacht hub in decades.",
"Porto Montenegro marina is being developed in the Bay of Kotor in southern Montenegro, the tiny former-Yugoslav nation, a region with the lowest GDP in Europe.",
"It is the brainchild of multi-millionaire gold miner Peter Munk who hopes his plans will turn this area into a glamorous and economically thriving hotspot to rival the likes of Monaco, Cannes and Portofino.",
"To this end, the bay, with its picturesque mountains, is undergoing a transformation that will leave it decorated with luxury penthouses, upmarket shopping boulevards and the capacity to hold 600 yachts in its harbor.",
"But despite the grandness of the development, it was not so long ago that 82-year-old Munk, thought the scheme an impossible dream.",
"\"I never thought I'd have the opportunity to put all this into practice,\" said Monk, who is CEO of Barrik Gold, the world's largest gold mining company.",
"\"Where would I get the chance to create the perfect port in Europe, somewhere that's large and protected, where the water is deep and where the government is co-operating?",
"It would be a chance in a million,\" he said.",
"So how did he get from notions of a \"fantasy port\" to the very real Porto Montenegro development?",
"It was some chance comments that piqued his interest back in 2000, in his former role as chairman and CEO of the largest Canadian/US real-estate firm Trizec Properties, which had interests throughout Central Europe.",
"Advisors recommended having a look at Montenegro, in those days part of the rump of former Yugoslavia.",
"\"The Canadian ambassador in Belgrade also recommended it to me.",
"He said I should have a look next time I'm in Europe,\" he says.",
"In 2003, he was flown in a government helicopter over the Bay of Kotor.",
"This huge, mountain-fringed harbor had been hidden from view for decades, during its time housing the Tivat naval base, home of the Yugoslav navy.",
"Foreign charts were out of date and there had been a 30-mile no-fly zone over the bay.",
"The location was for many years, quite literally, off the radar.",
"When Monk saw the bay he was gobsmacked.",
"\"I absolutely flipped.",
"I dropped my knickers.",
"I'd never seen anywhere as beautiful in my life,\" he said.",
"This was the virgin territory he had been waiting for and he met with Montenegrin Prime Minister, Milo Dukanovic, who told him that they were keen to privatize some military assets, including the base at Tivat.",
"Next came the money: \"That was easy.",
"I just got some friends involved.",
"They are all yachtsmen.\" Today, Porto Montenegro is making strides, with phase one complete and over 85 boats of all sizes in place.",
"\"Our investment is a transformational investment, not just of the base, but of the country,\" says Munk.",
"The first fruits of this can be seen with a range of developments in the region -- hotels -- built to planning restrictions that mean this will hopefully not become yet another concrete jungle -- a golf course, and international flights to Tivat airport.",
"\"People have seen that if we can attract hundreds of yachts it will open up the whole country.",
"They see the wealth that comes from the big yachts, which provide the employment, the foreign currency, the purchasing power.\"",
"He adds: \"We're not taking a dollar out.",
"We're putting in an infrastructure, we're educating, we're attracting other investors.",
"We're creating roads, buildings, pure water, an image.",
"\"We're investing hundreds of millions of dollars.",
"In the meantime 60 to 70 Montenegrins can work for us directly at an income level unknown under communism.\"",
"Subscribe to SuperYachtWorld .",
"COPYRIGHT © 2010 IPC MEDIA LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ."
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"Is Porto Montenegro set to become the most glamorous yacht hub in decades?",
"Multi-millionaire behind the project believes it will strongly benefit local economy .",
"Site of development is former Communist era naval-base and international \"no fly\" zone ."
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"(CNN) -- Iraqi kids find a musical escape .",
"Nashat Majeed, an Iraqi music teacher passes on his love for the guitar to Iraqi children.",
"They are among the lucky ones; members of Baghdad's dwindling elite -- well educated, straight-A students, looking for an outlet to have \"fun\" and feel \"normal.\"",
"Arwa Damon meets the kids and their teacher, who says adults need to pass on the language of music, not the language of war.",
"Eco-awareness .",
"The UAE has one of the world's highest per-capita ecological footprints.",
"We talk to one environmental NGO trying to raise awareness through an innovative campaign that uses a stop-motion animation video.",
"UAE dhow races .",
"Dhows are the traditional Arab ships that have been plying the seas for centuries.",
"Even though they no longer rule the waves of the Persian Gulf as they once did, these majestic vessels still play a vital role in contemporary culture as a bridge to the past.",
"Tracey Holmes reports how dhow is making a comeback as a racing boat of choice for young Emiratis.",
"\"The Jewel of Muscat\" update .",
"One hundred and forty-one days after setting sail from the shores of Oman, the handmade vessel \"The Jewel of Muscat\" arrived at its final destination, Singapore.",
"IME was there for the February launch of this dhow -- a reconstruction of the ninth-century wreck of a hand-sewn plank ship made without a single nail.",
"We bring you an update on this story as captain and crew dock safely to a huge welcome.",
"Campus forum .",
"We hold a roundtable discussion with students at the Mohammed Bin Rashed School for Communication at the American University in Dubai.",
"Studying journalism and digital production and storytelling, these youths share their concerns about the state of Arab media and tell us their hopes for their contributions to this field in the future."
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"A group of young Iraqis is learning the language of music .",
"An animated film is aimed at getting Emiratis to reduce their eco footprint .",
"Traditional Arab sailing dhows are proving to be popular racing boats in the UAE .",
"The handmade boat \"The Jewel of Muscat\" completes its voyage ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- Somalia is \"one of the world's most complicated humanitarian crises,\" with 40 percent of the population relying on United Nations aid for survival, the U.N.'s envoy to the troubled African nation told the Security Council Wednesday.",
"Somalia \"challenges the rules of statehood,\" Mark Bowden, U.N. humanitarian and resident coordinator for Somalia, said.",
"The country's central government is extremely weak and the drought-stricken nation is essentially lawless.",
"What security does exist is provided by militias and rebel groups.",
"And clashes between rebel groups and government forces have been especially fierce since 2009, when the current moderate president came to power.",
"Bowden emphasized the importance of continued U.N. funding to \"sustain assistance to this most acute humanitarian crisis.\"",
"Civilians \"bear the main brunt of current conflict,\" Bowden reported to the Security Council.",
"Numbers tell a story of misery.",
"Some 1.2 million Somalis have been forced from their home villages or regions.",
"About 200,000 were forced from the capital of Mogadishu this year alone.",
"Since March, the country has suffered 3,000 conflict-related casualties.",
"One in five Somali children is undernourished.",
"Much of the country's violence is fueled by the need for basic resources, Bowden said.",
"Food riots have \"been the pattern of what's happened in Mogadishu for the last 18 years,\" he told the 15-member Security Council.",
"Bowden was pressed by council members on recent allegations that aid to Somalia has been siphoned off by Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-affiliated Somali group.",
"Bowden said that allegations of misuse were taken very seriously and officials are addressing the problem.",
"Bowden's findings were not totally negative.",
"Thanks to U.N. aid, 1.3 million Somalis now have access to clean water and vaccination campaigns are continuing even in areas occupied by insurgent groups, Bowden said.",
"Somalia has been kept polio-free at a time when many other African nations are seeing a resurgence of the disease, Bowden said."
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"U.N. coordinator details dire situation in Somalia .",
"One in five Somali children are undernourished .",
"African country still free of polio .",
"International funding called critical for Somalia ."
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"(CNN) -- Mexico's top security official says the Sinaloa drug cartel was likely behind the kidnapping of a group of four journalists, two of whom were freed in a police rescue.",
"The kidnappers wanted to use the reporters, who were connected with some of Mexico's largest news organizations, to force the media to transmit \"criminal messages,\" Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna told reporters Saturday.",
"A federal police rescue freed two of the four journalists, who were kidnapped Monday while covering a riot at a prison in the northern state of Durango, Garcia Luna said.",
"A third was released Thursday.",
"But the whereabouts of the fourth reporter were unclear Sunday.",
"The two rescued journalists sat beside Garcia Luna and described their captivity to reporters Saturday.",
"\"It is a sad and bitter experience that nobody wants even the worst of their enemies to go through,\" Multimedios camerman Javier Canales said, noting that he suffered psychological abuse and threats.",
"\"Since the moment they took us, we thought they were going to kill us,\" Televisa Laguna photojournalist Alejandro Hernandez said, according to state news agency Notimex.",
"Their kidnapping was a high-profile reminder of an issue that has been increasingly common amid Mexico's escalating drug war: violence against the journalists who cover it.",
"The journalists were kidnapped Monday while reporting on a protest by inmates and relatives at a local prison, which made news after Mexico's Attorney General's office revealed guards there let free a squad of imprisoned hit men to carry out a massacre of 17 people in a nearby town.",
"The journalists were abducted in the Laguna region, Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights said -- an area which has been the scene of vicious fighting between the Zetas crime group and the Sinaloa cartel.",
"It includes the state of Durango and parts of neighboring Coahuila.",
"On Friday, the signal of one of Mexico's largest television networks faded to black for almost an hour as a symbolic protest.",
"\"We will not pretend that nothing is happening,\" said Denise Maerker, anchor of Televisa's \"Punto de Partida\" as she opened the show.",
"Critics have said the government does not do enough to hold criminals accountable.",
"On Friday, Mexico City's Milenio newspaper published an editorial calling on the government to step up its game to solve the hostage situation.",
"In the editorial, journalist Ciro Gomez Leyva alluded to demands from the kidnappers for the media to publish certain images in return for the release of the journalists.",
"\"That is not our duty. The media is not designed nor equipped to negotiate in a hostage situation,\" Gomez wrote.",
"Garcia Luna said Saturday that investigations would continue to determine who was responsible.",
"\"The Mexican state is above any criminal organization or group and is much stronger than these organizations,\" he said.",
"The powerful Sinaloa cartel, which Garcia Luna said may have been behind the kidnapping, transports multi-ton quantities of drugs from Mexico to the U.S., according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.",
"Forbes magazine has estimated the fortune of its leader, Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán Loera, at $1 billion.",
"He escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001.",
"CNN's Krupskaia Alis and Gustavo Valdes contributed to this report."
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"Police rescue two of the four kidnapped journalists .",
"Another reporter was released last week .",
"The journalists were kidnapped while covering a prison protest ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The human cost of the Afghan conflict is escalating, with killings and attacks on children by the Taliban and other insurgent groups soaring, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday.",
"\"Afghan children and women are increasingly bearing the brunt of this conflict,\" says Staffan de Mistura, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general.",
"\"They are being killed and injured in their homes and communities in greater numbers than ever before.\"",
"According to the United Nations' 2010 Mid-Year Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, in the first six months of this year, 55 percent more children were killed or wounded by the Taliban and other anti-government groups than in the same period in 2009.",
"The number of women killed or wounded by the Taliban and other insurgents increased by six percent.",
"The report says casualties caused by pro-government forces, including the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan security forces, fell 30 percent in the first six months of 2010.",
"From January 1 to June 30, 2010, the UNAMA Human Rights Unit documented a total of 3,268 civilian casualties, including 1,271 deaths and 1,997 injuries.",
"Anti-government forces were responsible for 2,477 casualties.",
"That is 76 percent of all casualties, up 53 percent from 2009.",
"Pro-government forces were responsible for 386 civilian casualties, 12 percent of all casualties, down from 30 percent in 2009.",
"The United Nations notes two lethal developments: Insurgents, it says, are using more improvised explosive devices (IEDs) throughout the country and are assassinating and executing more civilians.",
"IEDs alone accounted for 29 percent of all civilian deaths in the period, including 74 children, a 155-percent surge from the same span last year.",
"Assassinations and executions, meanwhile, soared by more than 95 percent and included the public executions of children.",
"Aerial attacks are the most harmful tactic used by ISAF forces, causing 69 of the 223 civilian deaths attributed to pro-government forces in the first six months of 2010 -- a total of 31 percent -- and injuring 45 Afghan civilians.",
"However, civilian deaths caused by aerial attacks decreased 64 percent from the same period in 2009, according to the report.",
"The United Nations says this reflects greater implementation of an ISAF tactical directive from July 2009 on regulating the use of airstrikes and other measures to reduce civilian casualties.",
"ISAF, in a statement, said the new U.N. report is consistent with figures tracked by ISAF headquarters.",
"It quoted Gen. David Petraeus's new tactical directive, in which he says, \"We must continue our emphasis on reducing the loss of innocent civilian life to an absolute minimum.",
"\"Every Afghan death diminishes our cause.",
"While we have made progress in our efforts to reduce coalition-caused civilian casualties, we know the measure by which our mission will be judged is protecting the population from harm by either side.",
"We will redouble our efforts to prevent insurgents from harming their neighbors.\""
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"Children and women are bearing the brunt of the attacks, the report says .",
"The Taliban is responsible for the most attacks .",
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"(CNN) -- The Nixon Presidential Library released 154 hours of tape recordings and 30,000 pages of documents from the Nixon White House on Tuesday, offering a revealing look at the state of mind of America's 37th president at the start of what would prove to be his disastrous abbreviated second term.",
"President Richard Nixon smiles and waves to a supporter in Washington in January 1973.",
"The recordings, encompassing almost 1,000 conversations in January and February of 1973, cover a range of topics, including, among other things, the conclusion of the Vietnam Paris peace talks, the Supreme Court's controversial Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling, the death of former President Lyndon Johnson, and a rapidly metastasizing Watergate scandal.",
"They show President Richard Nixon at both his best -- delving into the intricacies of Cold War diplomacy -- and his worst, plotting against his perceived political enemies in the media and elsewhere.",
"Still basking in the afterglow of a landslide 49-state reelection in 1972, Nixon at one point tells aide Charles Colson that he wants nothing to do with those who would advise reaching out to critics in order to try and unify the country.",
"\"Those people that wanted me to have [an] 'era of good feelings' ... Somebody wrote me a memorandum about that and I told [White House Chief of Staff H.R.]",
"Haldeman if anyone ever showed me that again I'm gonna flush them down the goddamn john,\" Nixon says.",
"\"You should,\" Colson replies.",
"At another point, Nixon tells then-Republican National Committee Chairman George H.W.",
"Bush that the GOP can further boost its electoral fortunes by recruiting \"attractive\" women to run for office.",
"Recounting a recent visit to the South Carolina state legislature, Nixon tells Bush that he \"noticed a couple of very attractive women, both of them Republicans. ...",
"I want you to be sure to emphasize to our people, God, let's look for some. ...",
"Understand, I don't do it because I'm for women, but I'm doing it because I think maybe a woman might win someplace where a man might not. ...",
"So have you got that in mind?\" Bush replies that he'll \"certainly keep it in mind.\"",
"Nixon also indicates a deep distrust of his senior Cabinet officers, telling Colson on January 5, 1973, to start keeping a detailed log of phone calls made by then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger.",
"\"Incidentally, I want it on his private phone too,\" Nixon tells Colson.",
"\"We can get that, can't we?\" Colson then replies that he thinks it can be done.",
"\"Sure, goddamn it.",
"We can get it through the FBI,\" Nixon replies.",
"\"The FBI is to get, to keep the log, on his phone.",
"That's all we want to know, who the hell he calls.\"",
"The tapes often show Nixon with a penchant for fixating on even the smallest political disruptions.",
"On January 20, 1973 -- the day of his second inauguration -- Nixon calls a Secret Service agent to say he \"saw the incident where some kid tried to rush the car...",
"I want to be sure they file a charge against him [and don't] just let him go.\"",
"The agent assures Nixon that the protester has been put in custody and that a charge has been filed.",
"The Nixon Presidential Library, in Yorba Linda, California, has been operated by the National Archives since 2007.",
"CNN's Elaine Quijano and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"Among the topics: Paris peace talks, Roe v. Wade, Watergate .",
"In one tape, Nixon orders detailed logs be kept of Henry Kissinger's phone calls ."
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"Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Hundreds of runners braved their luck Wednesday on the first day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona -- but just two men, an Australian and a Spaniard, were taken to hospital afterward with injuries, the Navarra regional government said.",
"It was considered a thrilling but safe start to the annual tradition in Pamplona, which has tallied 14 deaths since record-keeping began in 1924, including the fatal goring of a Spanish man last year, and thousands of injuries.",
"The run in Pamplona started 400 years ago and became popular worldwide after author Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in the 1920s in his book \"The Sun Also Rises,\" also published under the title \"Fiesta.\"",
"It is now broadcast live across Spain by state television TVE, which estimated there were more than a thousand runners.",
"An 18-year-old Australian man from Melbourne was taken to hospital with various injuries sustained on the narrow street that descends into the bullring.",
"And a Spanish man, 20, from Zaragoza also went to hospital with an eye injury sustained on a street almost halfway through the run, the Navarra regional government said on its website.",
"Both were initially listed in stable condition but under close observation, the website said.",
"It took the six bulls and a pack of tame steers, which help guide the bulls, a full 17 seconds to emerge from the corrals after the opening rocket was fired to signal the start of the run.",
"But the pack then moved swiftly through the cobblestone streets of old Pamplona along the 825-meter (902-yard) course to the bullring, where the bulls will die later in the day in a bullfight.",
"The run lasted just 2 minutes and 23 seconds and the bull and steer pack stayed mainly together, which long-time observers say usually means a safer run -- unlike when a bull or bulls get separated, frightened and may charge directly into the runners.",
"Television images showed mostly men dressed in the traditional white outfits with red handkerchiefs, but also a small number of women, and even one man with a football helmet, which is prohibited but was apparently not noticed by the hundreds of police officers who eject, before the run, people carrying cameras or who are drunk.",
"The aim is safety, so that runners can focus on the run.",
"Television images showed numerous runners making hard falls to the pavement, tripping over other runners or colliding with the bulls.",
"The daily run continues for eight days, through July 14, at 8 a.m. (2 a.m.",
"ET), and is the highlight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona that attracts hundreds of thousands to the non-stop fiesta."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- \"And if you think you're too busy to Twitter, you need to --\" \"And if you think you're too busy to Twi --\" \"And if you th --\" As Rob typed, the words disappeared in front of his eyes.",
"He tried to continue his blog post, only to see the sentence disappear once more.",
"Finally another message appeared: .",
"\"Come to bed!\" From downstairs in our bedroom, I'd taken over the screen on my husband's laptop.",
"His amusement at my technical prowess in messing with him outweighed -- marginally -- his annoyance.",
"He closed his computer and joined me in our bedroom.",
"It's rare for our marriage to go a day offline.",
"The Internet is our shared playground, shared passion and shared livelihood.",
"But what matters to our relationship is not that we both love the Web: It's that we both use the Web to enjoy what we have in common.",
"Tomorrow marks our 10th wedding anniversary, a major milestone.",
"We've not only outlasted my own parents' marriage (eight years), we've outlasted CD-ROMS, dial-up modems and floppy drives.",
"And while I like to think we'd have made it to the big 10 with or without a high-speed Internet connection, the Web has definitely played a major role in finding and stoking the shared joys that sustain our relationship.",
"Oprah.com: What makes a marriage last .",
"Develop a creative connection .",
"Before we had kids or blogs, we had Sisko, our black lab -- Rob described him as the snooze button on our biological clocks.",
"Our obsession with Sisko was the subject of great amusement and mockery among our friends, not least because we trained him with \"Star Trek\"-themed commands.",
"The Web gave us a place to indulge our shared obsession without (audible) derision: We posted online photos from every dog walk, and when Sisko's ear was torn by a pit bull, we created an online monument to \"Siskogh,\" illustrated with photos we manipulated to look like the famous Van Gogh self-portrait.",
"Whether your creative passions are sparked by dogs, doughnuts or Degas, a shared online project is a terrific way of developing or deepening a creative connection to your sweetie.",
"Find new interests .",
"Some couples are shaken by the divorce of close friends or the disappearance of their favorite restaurant.",
"Our world was rocked by the cancellation of the last \"Star Trek\" series.",
"After a few months of groping for new topics of conversation, I happened across an online announcement for a new pottery studio in our neighborhood.",
"We popped by to check it out, and within a matter of weeks our \"Star Trek\" conversations were replaced by discussions of throwing and glazing techniques.",
"Use the Web to search your community's events calendar and try at least one new activity together each month.",
"Oprah.com: 6 steps to bring our your inner adventurer .",
"Play together .",
"You may think of a Wii gaming system as the dream birthday gift for a 13-year-old boy, but it was also the dream gift for this 37-year-old girl.",
"Rob got me a Wii for my birthday so I could play Dance Dance Revolution, a game I'd loved during a few arcade visits over the years.",
"Much to my surprise and delight, he took to DDR too.",
"Instead of sitting on the sofa with our separate computers, we spent that summer's evenings on our feet, dancing our guts out.",
"The playfulness and physical energy of our dance nights were great for our connection, our health and our passion.",
"Get perspective .",
"When I go to a party with Rob, we tend to go in separate directions and talk with different people.",
"The high point of the evening is always when I wander over to his elbow and intrude on his conversation -- seeing the way he connects with, listens to and amuses other people gives me fresh eyes on the qualities I love about him and makes me happier and prouder than ever.",
"The same thing happens when I drop in on his Facebook page or Twitter feed-- there he is, entertaining people with his latest quip, offering a word of support to a great cause or cramming a wise and poignant note into 140 characters.",
"Tracking your sweetie's blog, photos or Facebook page is a great way to keep him in your heart and enjoy that renewed appreciation for his wonderful qualities.",
"Build a community of supporters .",
"It takes a village to sustain a marriage as surely as it takes a village to raise a kid.",
"When you know folks are rooting for you, it helps you get through the inevitable hard times and gives you a community to share and amplify your joys.",
"Your online community can be a great, encouraging fan section, especially if kids or work keep you from getting out much as a couple.",
"Rob and I tweet back and forth so frequently that we get lots of affirmation: \"It's hard to think of a cuter Twitter couple than @robcottingham and @awsamuel,\" one person tweeted recently.",
"\"Even though I don't know either of them!\"",
"Agree on limits .",
"When Rob had surgery to fix his double hernias, I was in the recovery room as he woke from his anesthetic.",
"We checked out his incisions together, and he suggested I snap some pictures with my iPhone.",
"\"Want me to tweet the photo?\"",
"I asked, and he nodded.",
"A few weeks later, a friend commented on the gory snaps, much to Rob's surprise.",
"The anesthetic hadn't fully worn off by the time of our shoot, apparently, and Rob had no memory of the tweeting.",
"In some relationships, tweeting bedside photos would be a major violation; in ours, it was a cause for amusement.",
"Agree on clear boundaries for what can go online and what needs to stay private, or at least offline.",
"Whether you're looking at your 10th wedding anniversary in the rear-view mirror, or wondering if that guy you just started dating could be the one you'll be with 10 years from now, the Web can help nourish your relationship.",
"Love isn't easy, but the Internet can make it a little easier.",
"Oprah.com: The 5-point marriage checklist .",
"Alexandra Samuel, Ph.D., is the director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University and the principal of Social Signal, a social media agency that has launched more than 30 online communities.",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Tracking your man's blog or Facebook page is a great way to keep him in your heart .",
"Some couples play video games together like Dance Dance, Revolution .",
"Check online for community activities you and spouse can do together ."
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"Duisburg, Germany (CNN) -- As Germany paused Saturday to honor those who died at a German music festival last week, the pastor leading a memorial service sought to comfort those who lost loved ones, telling them \"love is stronger than death.\"",
"Pastor Nikolaus Schneider spoke at the memorial at the Salvator Church in Duisburg.",
"The church was the center of observances in the northern German town.",
"Thousands of people came for the service, which was intended to honor the 21 people who died and more than 500 people who were injured at the Love Parade music festival on July 24.",
"Schneider told mourners that they should not sacrifice their trust in God or their zest for life as even the \"the Love Parade became a dance of death.\"",
"Hannelore Kraft, the prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, cried audibly during the service.",
"She spoke at length afterwards, promising a full investigation into the incident.",
"She also had a message for those who lost loved ones, telling them to \"open your hearts to those who want to give you comfort\" and assuring them \"you are not alone.\"",
"The service was broadcast at 14 other churches in town and at the local soccer arena, where about 1,000 people turned out to watch.",
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff both cut short their holidays to be at the service.",
"Duisburg Mayor Adolf Sauerland was not there, however, after reports he had received death threats for allowing the Love Parade festival to take place in the city.",
"The day began with a candle procession from the scene of the tragedy to Salvator Church and the arena.",
"The church can accommodate about 500 people, and the seats were reserved mainly for relatives of the victims.",
"Joachim Mueller-Lange, the vicar responsible for emergency spiritual healing, said all the families of those killed had been invited, including some who live abroad.",
"Some families did not attend because burials were being held Saturday, while others declined because they wished for something more private, he said.",
"A remembrance ceremony was also held at the Duisburg synagogue.",
"The fatal crush happened July 24 in an underpass between the main event site and an expansion area.",
"Witnesses told CNN affiliate NTV that people pushed into the tunnel from both sides until it was dangerously overcrowded.",
"People were crushed against the walls and one another, losing consciousness and creating panic.",
"The Duisburg public prosecutor's office said 511 were injured.",
"Police cordoned off the underpass Saturday to prevent a similar scene among mourners who may go to pay their respects.",
"Merkel has called for a thorough investigation into the incident and said she was \"horrified and saddened\" by the tragedy.",
"Some 1.4 million people had shown up at the popular festival, which featured dozens of DJs spinning techno music for hours, Carsten Leub of NTV said.",
"Organizers had expected only 700,000 to 800,000 attendees, so they opened an additional event site to accommodate more people.",
"The numbers are disputed by police, who say the area can hold between 250,000 and 350,000, and at no time was it filled to capacity.",
"Witnesses told NTV that police were warned at least an hour before the incident that the underpass was becoming dangerously crowded.",
"An additional entryway had been opened before the accident to relieve some of the pressure.",
"Police are investigating the cause of the back-up in the underpass.",
"CNN's Diana Magnay contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Festival became \"a dance of death,\" pastor says .",
"Memorial service comes a week after a stampede at a German music festival .",
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff attended the service .",
"Others watched the service in churches and at a local soccer arena ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court is backing Ohio elections officials in an ongoing dispute over allegations of voter registration fraud.",
"Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner filed the emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"The justices in an unsigned opinion Friday blocked a lower court order directing the Ohio Secretary of State -- a Democrat -- to update the state's voter registration database after information provided by some newly registered voters did not match up with Social Security and driver registration numbers.",
"The state Republican party had asked for enforcement of a temporary restraining order, but the justices ultimately denied that request.",
"The appeal, from Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and other elections officials, follows a Tuesday ruling from the 6th U.S.",
"Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that sided with the state GOP.",
"It ordered Brunner to create a system by Friday to provide a list of newly registered voters whose Social Security numbers or driver's license numbers do not match their names.",
"By reversing the lower courts decision, Brunner said in a statement that the Supreme Court's had \"protected the voting rights of all Ohioans, allowing our bipartisan elections officials to continue preparing for a successful November election.",
"\"We filed this appeal to protect all Ohio voters from illegal challenges and barriers that unfairly silence the votes of some to the advantage of others,\" she said.",
"The state Republican Party contends that there is widespread voter fraud in Ohio -- a crucial battleground state for the 2008 presidential election -- and that Brunner \"turned off\" its process for verifying voter registrations while allowing Ohioans to cast ballots on the same day they registered.",
"In reaction to the high court's decision state GOP Chairman Bob Bennett said in a statement, \"This decision was made on a technicality, not on the merits of the case.\"",
"\"We are again calling on the Secretary of State to comply with federal law by providing clear instructions to election administrators on how to handle questionable voter registration forms,\" Bennett said.",
"Bennett had accused Brunner of concealing fraudulent voter registrations in hopes of swinging the state to Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate.",
"Brunner's office has acknowledged that preliminary information provided by about 200,000 registered voters may not match up.",
"Brunner said Tuesday she had prepared for the appeals court's \"possible adverse decision\" ahead of time by announcing plans to \"further improve the statewide voter registration database.\"",
"The appeals court opinion called Ohio's current system \"virtually useless\" and said it does \"nothing to address the anti-fraud objective.\""
] |
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"NEW: Secretary of state says high court \"protected the voting rights of all Ohioans\"\nHigh court backs Ohio Secretary of State in voter registration dispute .",
"Earlier ruling ordered list of newly registered Ohio voters with mismatched data .",
"Republican Party contends voter fraud could help swing state towards Obama ."
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"(CNN) -- The son of an Iranian woman facing imprisonment and possible execution by stoning has been told that Iranian authorities will contact him about his mother's case Thursday, a human rights activist said Sunday.",
"Mina Ahadi, chairwoman of the International Committee Against Stoning and Execution, said authorities contacted the son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani on Sunday.",
"They did not specify the nature of the information he would receive on Thursday.",
"Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006, and was originally sentenced to death by stoning.",
"Iranian authorities say the sentence has been put on hold, but there have been no reports as to whether a new sentence has been imposed.",
"The 43-year-old mother of two is reportedly still being held held in Tabriz prison.",
"Iran's judiciary could reinstate her sentence of death by stoning, execute her by another means, or possibly even grant her a reprieve, according to human rights groups.",
"Ashtiani's attorney, Mohammad Mostafaei, told CNN earlier this month that his client confessed to the crime after being subjected to 99 lashes.",
"He said she later recanted the confession and denied any wrongdoing.",
"Mostafaei has gone into hiding since last weekend after being interrogated by Iranian authorities, human rights groups say.",
"Advocates and Mostafaei say his wife and brother-in-law are being held by Iranian authorities.",
"A letter believed to be written by Mostafaei was posted on the Internet on Saturday, calling for the release of his relatives.",
"The lawyer says he has cooperated with interrogators, and says his wife and brother-in-law are victims of of \"hostage taking.\"",
"Mostafaei said he and his family are innocent of any wrongdoing.",
"CNN's Gena Somra contributed to this report."
] |
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"Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006 .",
"Iranian authorities say the sentence has been put on hold .",
"There have been no reports on whether a new sentence has been imposed ."
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"(CNN) -- A sweeping drug bust in Puerto Rico involving more than 500 U.S. drug agents and Puerto Rican police early Friday is being described by officials as the biggest drug trafficking arrest/operation ever conducted on the Caribbean island.",
"\"This ... massive operation rid the west coast of Puerto Rico of the most hard-core and violent traffickers terrorizing this part of the Island,\" said Javier F. Pena, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Caribbean Division, in a joint statement released by that agency and the Department of Justice.",
"In the statement, authorities announced that a federal grand jury indicted 158 people -- including drug ring leaders, suppliers, supervisors, runners and sellers -- as a result of the joint investigation.",
"The defendants are charged in three different indictments with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, crack, cocaine and marijuana, as well as conspiracy to possess firearms during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, the statement said.",
"If convicted, the defendants would face a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment, with fines of up to $4 million.",
"Many of the arrests were made at a public housing complex near schools and sport facilities where officials expect some 300,000 visitors and 600 athletes from about 33 countries for the Central American and Caribbean Games, according to the statement.",
"The games start July 17 in Mayaguez."
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"Biggest drug trafficking arrest-operation ever conducted on Puerto Rico, officials say .",
"More than 500 U.S. drug agents and Puerto Rican police were involved .",
"158 people are indicted on drug- and gun-related charges .",
"If convicted, defendants would face up to life in prison, $4 million in fines ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Fifteen people, including a baby, were killed and 18 others were injured Sunday when a truck on its way to Lagos, Nigeria, crashed into several vehicles and caught fire, police said Monday.",
"Lagos police spokesman Frank Mba said the truck's brakes failed outside Lagos, and the driver lost control.",
"The 18 people injured were being treated in a hospital, Mba said."
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"A baby was among those killed in the multi-vehicle crash .",
"The truck was headed to Lagos when its brakes failed ."
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"(CNN) -- An Iranian court may render the final verdict Thursday in the case of Sakineh Mohammedie Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for allegedly committing adultery.",
"That case was placed under review after her attorney, Mohammad Mostafaei, helped launch a worldwide campaign to clear her.",
"Now, as Ashtiani's two children wait to hear word of their mother's fate, Mostafaei's family must also await word of his.",
"That's because Mostafaei, a prominent human rights lawyer, was being held Wednesday at a detention center in Istanbul, Turkey, where he has requested asylum, said Metin Corabatir, a representative in Turkey for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.",
"He allegedly entered the country with improper documentation, the agency said.",
"Turkey does not require visas for citizens from neighboring Iran to enter the country.",
"As a result, it is the first place hundreds of Iranians fled to after the Iranian government cracked down on opposition activists and critics over the past year.",
"Human rights groups are urging officials to grant his asylum request because they say he could be in grave danger if he is forced to return to Iran.",
"There is no word yet on whether any nation is willing to accept him.",
"Mostafaei went into hiding July 24, after facing a lengthy interrogation at Iran's notorious Evin prison, the same day rallies were being held worldwide to draw attention to the Ashtiani case.",
"His wife and brother-in-law were reportedly arrested that night at his office in Tehran as they tried to gather his belongings.",
"The Iranian government has since released Mostafaei's brother-in-law, but human rights groups said they are holding his wife as collateral until Mostafaei returns.",
"In a now widely circulated open letter reportedly penned by Mostafaei and posted on the internet, the lawyer accused Iranian authorities of holding his wife \"hostage.\"",
"He also explained why he made the painful choice of leaving his wife behind.",
"\"Despite the arrest of the person I love most in my life, I decided not to ever set foot in a judicial office where the interrogators do not abide by any basic laws,\" he wrote.",
"\"Hostage taking is never legal\" Mostafaei said.",
"\"I decided not to appear unless the interrogator's office tries hard enough to come and arrest me in my silo that I have built for myself.\"",
"Mostafaei was asked by CNN in early July if he was worried about his safety after bringing so much attention to Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006 and condemned to die by the brutal method of stoning.",
"Mostafaei told CNN that he knew the risks -- he had been detained briefly after Iran's post-election turmoil in June 2009 -- but that would not stop him fighting for human rights.",
"But it was that very fight that forced him to flee the country he calls home.",
"As part of that open letter, Mostafaei cried out to the Iranian government -- and to God -- for the strange twist in his fate.",
"\"For the past few years all my thoughts have been towards saving people who did not deserve to die.\"",
"he wrote. \"I was so occupied with saving these people that I hardly got to see my dear wife and daughter.",
"... And for someone who has always worked towards justice and the interests of the Islamic Republic, is this the way I am paid back for my God-loving and human-loving actions?\"",
"\"I leave you and your interrogator at the mercy of God, the creator,\" he continued.",
"\"I hope that you won't let my child cry for her mother, not eating food and wanting her mother back.",
"She needs to hug her mother.",
"If through this separation from her mother she gets hurt, it's a sin that you have committed.\"",
"The Iranian government has not commented on the detention of Mostafaei's wife.",
"Meanwhile, human rights activists are urging the international community not to forget Ashtiani, who may soon die.",
"Nor the man who tried to set her free.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
] |
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"Prominent human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei is being held in Turkey .",
"He helped bring attention to the case of the Iranian woman who was to be stoned .",
"In an open letter, he appeals for the well-being of his family ."
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"(CNN) -- Misty Croslin, the last person known to see a 5-year-old Florida girl before she was reported missing on February 9, 2009, faces a sentence of up to 210 years in prison after pleading no contest Monday to unrelated drug charges.",
"Croslin entered no contest pleas to seven counts of trafficking prescription drugs before a Putnam County, Florida, judge, said Chris Kelly, a spokesman for the state attorney's office.",
"Each first-degree count carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.",
"Croslin has a St. John's County court appearance Tuesday on a single trafficking charge.",
"All the counts stem from a series of incidents between around January of this year, during which Croslin allegedly sold hydrocodone to undercover officers.",
"Calls to Croslin's attorney, Robert Fields, were not immediately returned Monday.",
"Kelly said that in terms of sentencing, there's no distinction between pleading no contest to a felony and pleading guilty.",
"At the time Haleigh Cummings went missing, Croslin was 17 and lived in the family's mobile home with her then-husband, Ronald Cummings, and the girl and her 4-year-old brother.",
"Croslin and Ronald Cummings were both arrested in January along with three others after allegedly selling about $3,900 worth of drugs to undercover officers, authorities said.",
"The two divorced after Haleigh's disappearance.",
"Croslin told police she tucked Haleigh and the brother into bed about 8 p.m. February 8, 2009, and went to sleep two hours later.",
"She said she awoke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a cinder block propping open a back door.",
"Ronald Cummings reported Haleigh missing when he returned from work at dawn.",
"Police have said Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, the girl's mother, are not considered suspects.",
"Authorities believe Haleigh is dead and are treating the case as a homicide investigation.",
"Authorities have previously said physical evidence contradicts Croslin's account of the events that night.",
"However, police have stopped short of naming Croslin as a suspect.",
"In televised interviews, Croslin has said she does not know what happened to Haleigh but believes \"the other side of the family\" knows where she is."
] |
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"Misty Croslin pleads no contest to seven counts of drug trafficking .",
"She faces up to 210 years in prison, and possibly more .",
"Croslin was the last person known to see 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings ."
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"(CNN) -- Four days after an al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for targeting an oil tanker, the United Arab Emirates government has acknowledged that it was indeed attacked, state media said Friday.",
"The government had earlier said the tanker was passing through the Strait of Hormuz when it was exposed to a high wave as a result of an earthquake shock.",
"However, the state news agency WAM reported, the tanker \"was the target of a terrorist attack while passing through international waters near the Strait of Hormuz.\"",
"Workers fixed the damage to the vessel and the attack caused no human injuries or oil spills, the agency said.",
"The militant Islamist group claimed responsibility for the explosion aboard the oil tanker on Monday.",
"In a statement posted on various websites that regularly carry messages from al Qaeda leaders, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades included a picture of a man they claimed carried out a suicide attack on the tanker on July 28.",
"The group said the attack was intended to \"strike an economic blow to the infidels.\"",
"It is believed to be behind several attacks in the Middle East, including the October 2004 attack on a hotel and nearby camp sites in Egypt that killed more than three dozen people.",
"The statement from the Abdullah Azzam Brigades said the attack on the tanker was the \"conquest of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman\" -- a reference to the imprisoned blind cleric who inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York."
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"State agency says attack was terror-related .",
"At first, United Arab Emirates officials had denied terror link .",
"Tanker was targeted while passing through Strait of Hormuz ."
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"New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- When we started thinking about the contents of this piece, our first thought was to highlight all of the progress, accomplishments and successes that the St. Bernard Project has achieved since Katrina.",
"We thought of numbers: 302 -- the number of homes that the St. Bernard Project has rebuilt; 85 -- the number of residents who utilize our free evidenced-based clinical services at our Center for Wellness and Mental Health each week.",
"We thought of all of those who have made it possible: 25,000 volunteers; nearly 1,000 AmeriCorps members; companies like Entergy, Patron Tequila, KPMG, GE and United Way, and citizens like Ari Mittleman, who has made 20 volunteer trips over the past four years, and the Solon family from Massachusetts, who has raised enough funds to move three families home and who spent the summer volunteering with the project.",
"Then, we remembered Mr. Andre, an 82-year old St. Bernard Parish resident who was a World War II veteran and who, when we met him six months after Katrina was still sleeping each night in his Ford Ranger pickup while waiting for a FEMA trailer that he would not receive for another six weeks.",
"As we were saying goodbye to Mr. Andre, he made a simple request: \"Don't forget us.",
"We want to come home.",
"When we thought about Mr. Andre, we realized a few things: First, the St. Bernard Project's successes are dwarfed by the progress that the greater New Orleans area has made.",
"Second, despite the progress, significant work is left.",
"The New Orleans area is a wonderful place to live, and the city is, in many ways, thriving.",
"Families are reuniting, neighborhoods are being restored, and there is a shared sense of pride in the region's resilience.",
"In Mayor Mitch Landrieu, we have a leader who is committed to uniting the city and bringing to government the true character of New Orleans' residents: inclusion, hard work and problem solving.",
"An entrepreneurial movement is surging through the city, led by GNO Inc., Tulane University and Idea Village.",
"Thanks to New Schools for New Orleans, there are dozens of highly effective charter schools, like Akili Academy, and because of a revitalized public school board, the chances are much better that children will receive the education that they deserve.",
"Nearly five years after Katrina, we need to celebrate success, but we also need to honor Mr. Andre's request.",
"We can not forget the people who are not yet home.",
"All of the above-mentioned successes are great, but they mean less to American families who are still waiting to move home.",
"Today, nearly 900 families who own homes are still living in FEMA trailers.",
"More than 6,000 families own homes that they can not afford to rebuild.",
"Rental prices have risen so that 49 percent of the population cannot afford the average cost of a home to rent.",
"All too many family-centered neighborhoods now are pocked with blighted houses or vacant lots.",
"As much as we would all like it to be, the recovery is not complete.",
"That is where Saints quarterback Drew Breese and his war cry come in.",
"To keep our pledge to Mr. Andre, all stakeholders -- Louisiana citizens, volunteers from around the world, corporations and local, state and federal government -- need to follow the command Breese made to his fellow Saints late last football season and \"finish strong.\"",
"In football, finishing strong means playing hard through all four quarters and through every game of the season.",
"In Louisiana's recovery, finishing strong means: .",
"• Governmental leadership that makes decisions that impact residents in ways that the leaders would want their own families to be impacted.",
"• Creating schools so that our community members' children are educated the way that we would want our children to be educated.",
"• Americans and corporations not viewing community as being limited by proximity and instead, like the hundreds of thousands of volunteers, working hard to help American families rebuild their homes.",
"• Understanding that the recovery is not complete until all residents are back in safe and humane homes.",
"By following Breese's command, the Saints won the Super Bowl.",
"By remembering Mr. Andre's words and by listening to Breese, we can win the recovery.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the co-authors."
] |
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"Liz McCartney was 2008 CNN Hero of the Year for her work in New Orleans .",
"She and co-founder of her nonprofit say much has been accomplished in five years .",
"Still, they say, many families lack acceptable housing .",
"New Orleans needs to \"finish strong\" the way the Saints did in the NFL, co-authors say ."
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"Columbus, Ohio (CNN) -- President Obama said Wednesday that he has \"no regrets\" about his comments last week supporting the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from the site of the September 11 terror attacks in New York.",
"\"The answer is no regrets,\" Obama said when asked about bringing up the issue Friday at a White House dinner commemorating the start of Islamic holy month of Ramadan.",
"At the dinner, Obama said that those wanting to build the Islamic center and mosque have the constitutional right to religious freedom.",
"On Saturday, he clarified that he was talking only about the right to build the center and not the \"wisdom\" of doing so close to \"ground zero,\" where more than 2,700 people died when planes hijacked by terrorists slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.",
"The remarks sparked a national debate on the emotional issue, with many Republicans condemning the president as insensitive to families of victims and out of touch with the views of most Americans.",
"Many Democrats responded that the right to religious freedom applies to all Americans, though some -- including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- said they oppose having the Islamic center so close to ground zero.",
"A CNN poll showed that 70 percent of respondents opposed having an Islamic center near the site.",
"A separate poll released Wednesday by the Siena Research Institute found that 63 percent opposed it, but 64 percent said the center's developers have a constitutional right to build it."
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"President Obama's remarks last week became a political issue .",
"Republicans criticized the comments as being out of touch with the public .",
"Obama and Democrats say religious freedom is a constitutional right ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Amtrak Northeast Corridor service between New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, continued to be affected by ongoing signal problems Wednesday in New Jersey, Amtrak said in a 10 a.m. statement.",
"In addition, while New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor service improved as the morning progressed, the line was still suffering delays into the afternoon, the railroad's website said in a 12:24 p.m. update.",
"The outage was caused by a downed tree that fell into the overhead wire system near Hamilton, New Jersey, Amtrak said.",
"As a result, Amtrak trains were moving at greatly reduced speeds, with some trains canceled due to associated congestion.",
"Amtrak said its personnel were working to repair the problem, but passengers should expect westbound/southbound delays of 90 to 120 minutes and 60 to 90 minute eastbound/northbound delays.",
"No trains were stranded between stations, and passengers were being re-accommodated on other trains where available, Amtrak said.",
"Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole couldn't say how long trains would be traveling with reduced speed and frequency before service would be completely restored.",
"New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor service between New Brunswick, New Jersey, and New York was back on schedule or close to on schedule in both directions, according to the transit website.",
"However, 30- to 45-minute delays plagued the Northeast Corridor line into the afternoon because of signal problems, the website said.",
"Service was suspended most of the morning in both directions between Trenton, New Jersey, and New Brunswick, because of the signal problems.",
"Passengers were advised to get on the 11:17 a.m. train departing from Trenton.",
"Transit and suburban buses were accepting rail tickets and passes for fares Wednesday morning, the website said.",
"CNN's Mark Norman contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: New Jersey Transit started Trenton train service again in the late morning .",
"Train signal problems continued throughout the morning, extending Northeast Corridor delays .",
"A signal failure early Wednesday caused delays between New York and Philadelphia .",
"The issues were affecting both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains ."
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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A South Korean fishing boat and its four crew members were heading home Saturday after being held for a month in North Korea, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.",
"South Korean fishing boats anchored at Geojin port, Goseong, South Korea, August 1.",
"The Yeonan-ho and its crew were handed over to a South Korean patrol boat waiting at the sea border Saturday evening, Yonhap reported, citing South Korean maritime police.",
"North Korean officials captured the vessel and its crew July 30 after the boat strayed deep into North Korean territorial waters, North's Korean Central News Agency reported at the time.",
"South Korea's Defense and Unification Ministry said the 29-ton vessel had been returning from its fishing operations and mistakenly crossed seven miles into North Korean waters in the process, according to Yonhap.",
"South and North Korea have remained in conflict since the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.",
"The war ended in a truce but no formal peace treaty was ever signed.",
"Rapprochement talks between the two sides hit a wall after conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008.",
"He had a tougher stance toward the North than his liberal predecessor, Roh Moo-Hyun.",
"Tensions between the two were heightened in July when North Korea launched seven short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan.",
"The launches came after North Korea conducted a nuclear test on May 25 and threatened the United States and South Korean ships near its territorial waters.",
"Several steps in the past week have hinted at a thaw in relations, however.",
"Last week, the two sides had the first high-level, cross-border contact in nearly two years.",
"On Friday, the countries reached an agreement on future reunions for families separated for decades by the Korean War.",
"The agreement on reunions came after three days of talks between the two sides, mediated by the Red Cross, in North Korea, Yonhap reported.",
"Reunions will be held from September 26 to October 1 at Mt.",
"Keumgang, Yonhap reported."
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"Reunions for divided families to be held from September 26 to October 1 .",
"Agreement comes after three days of talks mediated by Red Cross .",
"Talks were first cross-border contact between North and South in two years ."
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"(CNN) -- Accused \"Craigslist killer\" Philip Markoff wrote his ex-fiancee's name in what appeared to be blood on the wall of his jail cell before dying \"at his own hand,\" a Massachusetts prosecutor said Tuesday.",
"Markoff was found dead in his jail cell in Boston on Sunday morning, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley said.",
"The evidence collected so far indicates the onetime medical student killed himself by cutting himself multiple times with a makeshift scalpel crafted from a pen and a piece of metal, Conley told reporters.",
"The words \"Megan\" and \"pocket\" were scrawled on the wall when he was found, Conley said.",
"Megan appears to refer to Markoff's former fiancee, Megan McAllister, but investigators had not divined the meaning of \"pocket,\" the prosecutor said.",
"\"We're still studying that,\" he said.",
"Markoff, 24, was a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine when arrested in April 2009.",
"He had pleaded not guilty.",
"McAllister, his fiancee, maintained Markoff's innocence, but the couple broke off their engagement shortly after his arrest.",
"While toxicology reports are still out, \"At this point we can definitively say he's responsible for taking his own life,\" Conley said.",
"Surveillance video from the jail shows no one entered Markoff's private cell between the time he shut off his light early Sunday morning and the time he was found dead about eight hours later, he said.",
"\"He inflicted a series of puncture wounds and incisions on his body, including his neck, arms, wrist and ankles,\" Conley said.",
"\"He hit several veins and the carotid artery in his neck.",
"All of these wounds are consistent with suicide.\"",
"A large, clear plastic bag of a type issued to inmates was fastened around his neck with a piece of gauze, and a second bag was fastened around his feet, Conley said.",
"An autopsy found his death to be the result of a combination of blood loss and asphyxiation.",
"Markoff was charged with the April 14, 2009, fatal shooting and attempted robbery of Julissa Brisman, 25, at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel.",
"Police said that Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on the online classifieds service Craigslist, and Markoff might have met her through the site.",
"He also faced charges in connection with robberies of women at hotels in Boston and in Warwick, Rhode Island.",
"In the Rhode Island incident, police said, the robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room.",
"Conley said Markoff's death deprives Brisman's family of seeing justice pronounced, but said the evidence against the suspect was \"overwhelming in quantity and substance.\"",
"\"This death should not divert attention from what really happened here,\" he said.",
"\"It should not obscure the overwhelming evidence against Mr. Markoff by the brutality of his crime.",
"It is in no small way the ultimate indicator of consciousness of guilt.\""
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"Prosecutors say \"Megan\" and \"pocket\" were scrawled on Markoff's cell wall .",
"Markoff \"died at his own hand,\" the district attorney says .",
"He faced charges in the 2009 killing of model-masseuse Julissa Brisman .",
"Conley says the evidence against Markoff was \"overwhelming\""
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"(CNN) -- A police officer shut down an impromptu concert by Switchfoot front man Jon Foreman Sunday night, escorting him away from a group of fans outside a Tampa amphitheatre.",
"\"Just got forcefully removed from my aftershow by the police...",
"Officer Fisher grabbed me by the arm and shut us down.",
"Really?! ?,\" Foreman said in a post to his Twitter account.",
"Switchfoot played a concert with the Goo Goo Dolls at the 1-800 Ask-Gary Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds Sunday.",
"\"Over the years, I've had a few policeman shut these after-shows down.",
"Maybe they are nervous because these types of gatherings are unusual,\" Foreman said in an e-mail Monday.",
"\"Many times on tour I play after our show when time allows.",
"The after-shows are all about the love of the music -- all acoustic: no amps, no mics, no tickets, just a couple tunes and whoever wants to listen.",
"I see it as a chance to connect with music in a different way.\"",
"The crowd showed up when Foreman tweeted to fans, asking them to meet him after the show.",
"\"Aftershow tonight directy [sic] behind the ampitheatre [sic], be there in a 1/2 hour,\" said Foreman, who included links to a map showing the location and a picture of himself standing on a concrete barrier near the venue.",
"Video of the incident posted on YouTube shows Foreman playing a couple of songs on an acoustic guitar with a collection of fans around him when the officer walks up and says, \"It's over.",
"It's over. C'mon, let's go.\"",
"The officer identified himself as \"Fisher\" when Foreman asked who he was and offered to shake his hand.",
"After the small crowd mildly protested, asking if one more song could be played, and Foreman hesitated to leave, the officer said, \"If I call somebody over here, we will be forcing you out.",
"So what do you want to do?\" The smiling Foreman offered his hand again, which the officer shook, and escorted the singer away.",
"\"Thank you, Jon,\" several fans shouted as the crowd applauded.",
"\"Thanks for singing along friends!",
"We'll get the cops singing along next time...,\" Foreman tweeted.",
"CNN contacted Tampa police, but a spokesman said he was not aware of an incident.",
"\"The officer last night wouldn't give me a reason for shutting it down, he only said that he had a family to go home to,\" Foreman told CNN.",
"I respect the authorities, they have a difficult job.\"",
"The San Diego, California-based Christian alternative rock group is best known for its mainstream hits \"Dare You to Move,\" from \"A Walk to Remember\" soundtrack and \"Meant to Live,\" which was featured on the U.K. version of the Spiderman 2 soundtrack.",
"The band won a 1999 Dove Award for Song of the Year for \"New Way to Be Human,\" and earned a Grammy nomination for the album \"Learning to Breathe\" in the Best Rock Gospel Album category a year later.",
"\"I love playing on the big stages in front of thousands of folks, it feels like a megaphone.",
"It's how I pay the bills and it's the best job in the world.",
"But I also love playing for just a few folks for free.",
"It feels like a whisper.\"",
"Foreman said of the intimate post-show gatherings he sometimes calls via Twitter.",
"\"It's the chance to dust off the Bob Dylan covers and play new tunes.",
"It's a gift: just to play for the love of the song.\""
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"The band is on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls .",
"YouTube video shows Foreman playing a couple of songs before police break things up ."
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"(CNN) -- Miami Heat basketball player Udonis Haslem was charged with possession of marijuana on Sunday after a traffic stop, the Florida Highway Patrol said.",
"A state trooper stopped Haslem Sunday afternoon for speeding and illegal window tint, the patrol said in a statement.",
"During the stop, a trooper smelled marijuana, and a subsequent search turned up evidence of the drug, the patrol said.",
"Haslem, who was driving a 2008 Mercedes, and his passenger, Antwain Fleming, were scheduled to be taken to the Miami-Dade County Jail.",
"Both men were charged with possession of marijuana, according to the highway patrol.",
"Haslem also was charged with speeding and illegal window tint."
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"Udonis Haslem and his passenger were arrested after a traffic stop .",
"Both were charged with possession of marijuana .",
"Haslem also was charged with speeding and illegal window tint ."
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"(CNN) -- Unemployed, single and apparently fed up with criticism from her mother, a 29-year-old Orangeburg, South Carolina, woman suffocated her two toddlers with her bare hands before strapping them into car seats and submerging her car in a river, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Shaquan Duley is facing two counts of murder in the deaths of her sons, ages 1 and 2, said Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams.",
"She is set to appear in court Wednesday.",
"\"She was a mother that was unemployed.",
"She had no means of taking care of her children,\" Williams told reporters.",
"\"She lives with her mother and her mother was a very, I guess, firm individual.",
"... She often talked with her daughter about, I guess, maybe being more of a mother or being more reliable.\"",
"Mother and daughter argued the night before the children's bodies were found early Monday in Duley's Chrysler sedan, submerged in the Edisto River, he said.",
"\"We believe this is a direct response (to the argument) from Ms. Duley,\" he said.",
"\"I believe she was just fed up with her mother telling her she couldn't take care of the children and she wasn't taking care of her children and she just wanted to be free.\"",
"However, he said, \"this wasn't a hardened criminal.",
"This was a young lady in trouble, in trouble in more ways than she realized.\"",
"Duley has no previous criminal history, he said.",
"Duley's third child, a 5-year-old daughter, was at the home of Duley's mother.",
"Police identified the dead children as Ja'van T. Duley, age 1, and Devean C. Duley, 2.",
"Under questioning, Duley told authorities she smothered the boys by putting her hand over their mouths at the Trumps Inn in Orangeburg, Williams said.",
"She drove them to the river while \"trying to find a way to discard the bodies,\" he said.",
"\"She just wanted to get rid of the children, as sad as it may be,\" Williams said.",
"Authorities do not know how long the boys had been dead before they went into the water, he said.",
"Duley initially reported that she had lost control of the car and it had rolled into the river.",
"But authorities from the outset believed her story didn't add up, Williams said.",
"Her clothes were dry, he said, and there were no skid marks or other indications of an accident at the scene.",
"In addition, Duley reported she had walked a mile before flagging down a motorist to call for help, Williams said previously.",
"The sheriff told CBS' \"The Early Show\" that she could have run to residences nearby.",
"Authorities responded to a report of a car accident near a boat landing on the river Monday, and divers found the children's bodies.",
"Williams said Monday he couldn't confirm reports that the key was still in the car's ignition, but he said the car apparently was in neutral.",
"Ramona Milhouse told CNN she lives next to the boat landing, and her house and a neighbor's house are clearly visible from the road.",
"She said she was at home around the time Duley told authorities she lost control of her car.",
"\"I don't know why the young lady would walk that far when we are here, that's easy to see, and we have phones so we could have called someone for her,\" Milhouse said.",
"In addition, she said, the road near the landing is a busy one.",
"\"It's not a quiet country road,\" she said.",
"\"There's a lot of people driving up and down, all parts of the day and night.\"",
"She said she did not see the car go into the water, but heard sirens as authorities responded.",
"\"When I heard what happened, I just couldn't go to sleep at all, thinking about those two little boys,\" she said.",
"It wasn't immediately known whether Duley had retained an attorney.",
"Williams described Duley as distraught, but said she showed no signs of remorse.",
"\"I don't believe she woke up and said, 'I'm going to the Shillings Bridge Road to get rid of my children,'\" he said.",
"\"Of course, that hasn't been determined.",
"I believe she was just angry, upset and for some reason found the boat ramp, but mind you the children were deceased ... so (she was) trying to find a way to discard the bodies.\"",
"The father of the two children has not been found, Williams said.",
"Duley \"was more or less being mother and father for the children,\" he said.",
"\"The mom has basically been a good mom,\" he said, but was just unable to financially support the children.",
"\"For whatever reason, this was her weakest moment,\" he said.",
"The South Carolina Department of Social Services has no record of prior involvement with Duley, department spokeswoman Marilyn Matheus said.",
"The incident has striking similarities to a 1994 case, also in South Carolina.",
"The bodies of Michael Daniel Smith, 3, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith were found in their mother's car, still strapped into their car seats, in John D. Long Lake in Union, South Carolina.",
"Their mother, Susan Smith, was convicted on two counts of murder, but jurors opted to spare her the death penalty and she was sentenced to life in prison.",
"The case inflamed racial tensions in Union, because Susan Smith claimed at first she had been carjacked by an African-American man.",
"She stuck to that story for nine days, issuing tearful pleas for her sons' return on national media outlets, before confessing to authorities.",
"Prosecutors alleged she killed her children after being rejected by a man she was dating who did not want children.",
"Duley spent two years as a cashier at a Dairy-O fast-food restaurant a couple of years ago, said assistant manager Grace Simpson.",
"\"She was such a good-natured person, very friendly, but quiet,\" Simpson recalled.",
"\"Never disciplined.",
"Never in trouble with our boss.",
"She left because she chose to.",
"We don't have health insurance here, and she wanted to just move on and up with her life maybe.\"",
"At the time Duley worked for Dairy-O, she did not have children, Simpson believes.",
"Simpson did not know if she was married at the time.",
"\"Whatever compelled Shaquan to do what she did ... Lord please be with her,\" said Simpson.",
"\"I cannot judge Shaquan.",
"I will not judge her. But God, be kind to her.\" HLN's Natisha Lance and CNN's Ashley Fantz contributed to this report."
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"Authorities say the children were dead before they went into the water .",
"Sheriff says a South Carolina mother admitted she suffocated two of her kids .",
"Shaquan Duley, 29, will be charged with murder, sheriff says .",
"The bodies of Duley's two children were found in South Carolina's Edisto River ."
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"(CNN) -- The bodies of two children trapped inside a car submerged in the Edisto River in South Carolina have been recovered, and their mother has been arrested, authorities said Monday.",
"State troopers responded to a report of a car accident early Monday and found a Chrysler sedan in the water near a boat landing in Orangeburg County.",
"Divers discovered the bodies of the two boys, ages 1 and 2, which were taken from the car and sent to the county coroner for autopsies, authorities said.",
"Their mother is 29-year-old Shaquan Duley, Sheriff Larry Williams told HLN's Nancy Grace.",
"She was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident.",
"Williams said the boys' mother walked almost a mile before calling for help.",
"While the woman described the incident as an accident, Williams told CNN that \"it has a stench of foul play.\"",
"It wasn't immediately known whether Duley had retained an attorney.",
"Williams said he couldn't confirm reports that the key was still in the car's ignition, but he said the car apparently was in neutral.",
"He added Duley didn't appear wet, saying, \"She didn't have any evidence that she had been submerged in the water.\"",
"The car went off a boat ramp that is about 10 yards off the roadway shoulder and sits at a 90-degree angle.",
"\"She said she was going down road and lost control of vehicle and happened to be at juncture where boat ramp was,\" Williams told Grace.",
"However, he added, \"There's no evidence that she ran off the road at any time.\"",
"The woman says she flagged a motorist down to use a cell phone to call in the incident, Williams said.",
"Police are trying to track down that individual.",
"Duley was questioned \"on and off\" Monday afternoon and expected to be booked at the jail sometime in the evening, the sheriff said earlier in the day.",
"The boys' father, who doesn't live at the same residence as the children, has been interviewed by investigators, Williams said.",
"The sheriff said he didn't know the father's whereabouts at the time of the incident.",
"Duley has a third child, a 5-year-old daughter, who was at the home of her maternal grandmother where they all lived, he said.",
"HLN's Natisha Lance contributed to this report."
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"Sheriff identifies arrested woman as 29-year-old Shaquan Duley .",
"Incident has \"stench of foul play,\" Orangeburg County sheriff says .",
"Bodies of two children recovered from Edisto River in South Carolina .",
"They were trapped in a submerged car; their mother has been arrested ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A Washington D.C. Metropolitan police car was incorrectly edited into a clip of \"The Real Housewives of D.C.,\" a publicist for the reality show's production company said Sunday.",
"The information came to light a day after District police announced they would investigate whether reality stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi got a police escort for their limousine to attend a party, as depicted on this week's episode of the reality TV show.",
"The Salahis grabbed headlines as \"White House crashers\" after attending President Barack Obama's first state dinner without an invitation in November.",
"The party shown in this week's series took place the evening of October 13 at The Park at Fourteenth, six weeks before the White House event.",
"\"Half Yard Productions reviewed all of the footage from the party in question and the police escort for the Salahi's limo was a Park Police escort,\" said Bronagh Hanley, a publicist for Half Yard, in an email to CNN.",
"\"The MPD [Metropolitan Police Department] car featured in the episode was not the escort car and was edited into the shot incorrectly.\"",
"Lisa Bloom, the Salahis' lawyer, concurred that Metropolitan police were not involved in escorting her clients, but didn't know if there was an escort provide by Park Police.",
"Bloom said all reality show contracts say producers can manipulate the facts, manipulate the video and there's nothing the talent can do about it.",
"She said it really puts people in a bind.",
"District police spokesman Lt. Nicholas Breul told CNN Saturday that they were alerted to the episode by a reporter who saw the reality show on TV.",
"\"The chief has asked that an investigation be conducted into whether or not there was any type of an escort for the Salahis.",
"We're working to identify the car and the officer.\"",
"Breul told CNN that the department typically provides escorts for the president of the United States and other dignitaries, but not for private citizens.",
"\"Escorts are generally used for safety reasons to swiftly move people, and those are generally dignitaries, from one point or another,\" Breul told CNN.",
"\"Generally speaking, there are no escorts for people going to parties or social functions.\"",
"According to the Washington Post, the markings on the police cruiser identify it as belonging to the police department's 3rd District.",
"Capt. Juanita Mitchell, the watch commander for the 3rd District, did not know about the alleged escort.",
"\"I have no knowledge of what you are referring to,\" Mitchell told CNN.",
"CNN requested comment from Park Police, but has not heard back from the agency.",
"CNN's David Desola contributed to this report."
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"Publicist says D.C. police car was incorrectly edited into TV show .",
"D.C. police investigate incident depicted on \"Real Housewives\" episode .",
"Authorities are trying to determine whether Salahis got a police escort to a party .",
"Salahis are known as \"White House crashers\" after attending state dinner uninvited ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor, who asked for a priest \"to read her the last rites\" Sunday, left the hospital Monday afternoon because she \"wants to spend her final days at her home,\" her publicist said.",
"Gabor, 93, is suffering complications from last month's hip-replacement surgery, but she and her husband decided against additional surgery, publicist John Blanchette said.",
"Doctors told her the chances of success from the procedure was 50-50, so she chose to go home instead, Blanchette said.",
"An ambulance carried the actress from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles to her Bel Air, California, home Monday afternoon, he said.",
"\"The doctors did everything they could do,\" her husband, Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, said.",
"\"The rest is up to her to whether she recovers or not.\"",
"Gabor has been hospitalized for most of the past month since breaking her hip in a fall from bed on July 17.",
"Saturday marked Gabor's 24th wedding anniversary with Von Anhalt, her eighth husband.",
"She was rushed to the hospital from her Bel Air, California, home Friday night, Blanchette said.",
"She underwent surgery for the removal of a blood clot that night, a complication relating to her recent hip replacement surgery, he said.",
"Gabor had just returned home from the hospital on Wednesday, three weeks after undergoing surgery to replace the broken hip.",
"She has been frail and \"pretty much confined to a wheelchair\" since a 2002 car accident, said Von Anhalt.",
"The crash happened when the car in which she was riding with her hairdresser slammed into a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.",
"The glamorous Hungarian-born actress, the second of the three celebrated Gabor sisters, is most famous for her many marriages.",
"Among her other husbands was Oscar-winning actor George Sanders.",
"Her more prominent films include John Huston's 1952 Toulouse-Lautrec biopic, \"Moulin Rouge,\" \"The Story of Three Loves\" in 1953, \"The Girl in the Kremlin\" in 1957 and Orson Welles' 1958 classic, \"Touch of Evil.\""
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"NEW: Zsa Zsa Gabor was released from the hospital Monday .",
"Husband Frederic Von Anhalt: \"Doctors did everything they could do\" for Gabor .",
"The actress asked for last rites on Sunday; Gabor, 93, broke her hip in July .",
"Glamorous Hungarian-born actress is most famous for her many marriages ."
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"(CNN) -- The youngest survivor of a plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens last week has been released from a hospital in Alaska, according to his family.",
"Willy Phillips Jr., 13, was released from Children's Hospital at Providence Alaska Medical Center and is traveling back to his home state of Maryland, his mother said in a statement Saturday.",
"Willy's father, former Stevens staffer Bill Phillips, was among the five people killed in the crash Monday night near Dillingham, Alaska.",
"In the statement, Janet Phillips thanked first-responders and other medical personnel \"for their heroic efforts the night they spent on the mountain with Willy.",
"Thank you for bringing Willy back.\"",
"Phillips also extended her condolences to the other families who lost loved ones in the wreck.",
"\"Bill and our boys shared many Alaska memories,\" Phillips said in the statement.",
"\"They loved Alaska, and as we leave we know Alaska will remain imprinted on our hearts.\"",
"In addition to Willy, the survivors of the crash are former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe and his 19-year-old son, Kevin, and Jim Moorhard of Alexandria, Virginia.",
"Killed in the crash were Bill Phillips Sr., Stevens, 86; pilot Terry Smith, 62, of Eagle River, Alaska; Dana Tindall, 48, of Anchorage, Alaska; and Corey Tindall, 16, of Anchorage, Alaska.",
"A memorial service for the elder Phillips will be held Friday in Potomac, Maryland, according to the statement.",
"Meanwhile, federal investigators continue to probe what caused the plane to crash into a rugged mountainside in southwestern Alaska, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.",
"Alaska Air National Guard rescuers were hampered by poor weather and terrain -- slogging for hours through rain, fog and wind to reach the site of the plane crash.",
"Autopsies on the five victims found the deaths were the result of blunt force trauma, Greg Wilkinson, an official at the medical examiner's office, said Friday.",
"He said the state medical examiner, Dr. Katherine Raven, found the injuries to be consistent with this type of crash.",
"Raven also found that the injuries were not survivable, he said.",
"A funeral for Stevens, who served in the U.S. Senate for 40 years, will be held Wednesday at the Anchorage Baptist Temple in Anchorage."
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"Willy Phillips Jr. was among four survivors of the crash .",
"Former Sen. Ted Stevens died in the crash .",
"Phillips' father was among those killed .",
"The investigation into the cause of the Monday crash continues ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- By wading into the issue of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, President Barack Obama provided Republicans with an emotion-ridden attack vehicle while diverting attention from campaign themes of fellow Democrats.",
"A senior Republican strategist told CNN that GOP candidates are being encouraged to talk about the issue as much as possible.",
"In Florida, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott launched a statewide television ad Monday criticizing Obama for backing the right of Muslims to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from where the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks killed more than 2,700 people.",
"\"Barack Obama says building a mosque at ground zero is about tolerance,\" Scott says in the ad, looking directly into the camera.",
"\"He's wrong. It's about truth.\" The \"truth,\" Scott claims, is this: \"Muslim fanatics murdered thousands of innocent Americans on 9/11, just yards from the proposed mosque.\"",
"\"The fight against terrorism isn't over,\" Scott concludes.",
"\"Mr. President, ground zero is the wrong place for a mosque.\"",
"Meanwhile, a House Democratic leadership aide said the issue was dominating the political conversation when Democrats need to stress campaign themes such as economic recovery and saving social security.",
"\"We understand why the president would want to talk about this issue, but the timing couldn't have been any worse,\" the House Democratic leadership aide told CNN.",
"Despite the concerns of Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada on Monday came out against building the Islamic center and mosque.",
"\"The First Amendment protects freedom of religion.",
"Sen. Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else,\" said a statement issued by Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley.",
"Reid is involved in a tough re-election campaign against conservative Republican Sharron Angle.",
"The statement on the ground zero issue also called for Republicans to back a Democratic bill that would provide health care aid and compensation for firefighters, police officers and other first responders to the 9/11 attacks.",
"For its part, the White House sought to tamp down the discussion Monday.",
"Speaking to reporters, White House spokesman Bill Burton sidestepped a question on Republican strategy and tried to declare the debate over.",
"\"The president didn't do this because of the politics,\" Burton said, adding: \"I think that it's a debate that was had and we've weighed in.\"",
"On Sunday, the topic dominated morning talk shows, with Republicans calling Obama insensitive for supporting the right of Muslims to build the Islamic center so close to ground zero.",
"Some predicted political repercussions for Democrats in November's congressional election, even though they agreed with Obama that freedom of religion is a vital part of American democracy.",
"\"The Muslims have, as everyone else does, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish,\" Rep. Peter King, R-New York, said on CNN's \"State of the Union\" program.",
"\"What I'm saying, though, is they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish this is causing to so many good people.\"",
"Republican strategist Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor to CNN, summed up the GOP perspective.",
"\"Intellectually, the president may be right, but this is an emotional issue, and people who lost kids, brothers, sisters, fathers, what have you, do not want that mosque in New York, and it's going to be a big, big issue for Democrats across this country,\" Rollins said on the CBS program \"Face the Nation.\"",
"On the same program, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine challenged the Republican logic.",
"\"You know, we see an awful lot of Republicans going out and saying we've got to respect the Constitution, and that means we have to respect it,\" Kaine said.",
"\"We can't tarnish people's First Amendment rights.\"",
"Democratic Gov.",
"Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania said on the CBS program that the Islamic center issue shouldn't have political resonance.",
"\"I can't imagine that any American -- given the challenges facing this country -- is going to vote based on what he said about the mosque,\" Rendell said of the November election.",
"\"The mosque is an unfortunate situation, but we do have a right to practice our religion freely wherever we choose.",
"Rights are not subject to the popular vote or majority vote.\"",
"In his speech at a White House dinner Friday marking the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Obama said Muslims \"have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.\"",
"\"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,\" the president added.",
"The next day, Obama told CNN Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry that he was \"not commenting on the wisdom\" of the project, just the broader principle that the government should treat \"everyone equal, regardless\" of religion.",
"His comments were considered by some to backtrack from what he said at the dinner, prompting a White House spokesman to further clarify the president's remarks later Saturday.",
"Both the topic and Obama'sneed to clarify his initial remarks evoked criticism from Republicans.",
"Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told \"FOX News Sunday\" that Obama's stance demonstrated how \"Washington, the White House, the administration, the president himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.\"",
"\"This is sort of the dichotomy that people sense, that they're being lectured to -- not listened to -- and I think that's the reason why a lot of people are very upset with Washington,\" Cornyn said.",
"On the CNN program, King said Obama's lack of clarity further muddied the issue.",
"\"If the president was going to get into this, he should have been much more clear, much more precise, and you can't be changing your position from day to day on an issue which does go to our Constitution, and it also goes to extreme sensitivity,\" King said.",
"Democrats responded that critics fail to distinguish between the al Qaeda terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks and the Islam religion, which includes peaceful adherents all over the world, including the United States.",
"\"It is only insensitive if you regard Islam as the culprit as opposed to al Qaeda as the culprit,\" Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, said on the CNN program.",
"\"We were not attacked by all Muslims. ...",
"There were Muslims killed there.",
"There were Muslims who ran in as first responders to help.\"",
"The issue was one of personal rights, not political popularity, Nadler said, adding: \"We do not put the Bill of Rights, we do not put the religious freedom to a vote.\"",
"The House Democratic leadership aide lamented that the topic was getting so much attention.",
"\"We were supposed to be talking about Social Security in this coming week,\" the aide said, referring to Democratic criticism of Republican calls to privatize the government-run pension program.",
"\"This is a really good issue for us.",
"And instead, we're talking about the mosque.\"",
"Obama's remarks Friday drew praise from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced his support for the Islamic center last week.",
"Bloomberg compared Obama's speech to a letter former President George Washington wrote more than two centuries ago in support of a Jewish congregation in Newport, Rhode Island.",
"In the speech, Obama called the 9/11 attacks \"a deeply traumatic event for our country.\"",
"\"The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved ones is unimaginable,\" Obama continued.",
"\"So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders.",
"Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.\"",
"The Islamic center's leaders say they plan to build the $100 million, 13-story facility called Cordoba House two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.",
"The developer, Sharif el-Gamal, describes the project as an \"Islamic community center\" that would include a 500-seat performing arts center, a lecture hall, a swimming pool, a gym, a culinary school, a restaurant and a prayer space for Muslims.",
"Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose the plan, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Wednesday.",
"CNN's Mark Preston contributed to this story ."
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"NEW: Florida Republican runs a statewide ad on the issue .",
"Keep talking about Obama's stance on the issue, Republicans told .",
"Democrats lament the matter is drowning out campaign themes ."
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"(CNN) -- Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean says he has submitted the necessary paperwork to run for president of Haiti, a country he left when he was a child.",
"Jean made the anticipated announcement Thursday on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"The singer traveled to Haiti to submit the paperwork.",
"Jean was one of the first, and most visible, celebrities to offer aid after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in January.",
"He has also been an outspoken proponent of the nation through his Yele Haiti Foundation, which has come under scrutiny for how it spends its money.",
"\"Yes, it's my first time announcing it live -- that today I went in, and I signed, and I am running to be the president of Haiti,\" said Jean, in his first television interview about his decision to run.",
"Whoever is elected in November, the new president will face the monumental task of rebuilding the country that was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people, destroyed 60 percent of government infrastructure and left more than 180,000 homes uninhabitable.",
"Whoever steps in will also oversee the billions of dollars in international aid promised to the country since the quake.",
"\"Now that our country has toppled, it's a chance to rebuild from the bottom on up,\" Jean said, adding he will be the voice of Haiti's youth.",
"Jean's announcement quickly became a top topic on the internet, with many debating whether the music star best known for rapping, playing the guitar and dancing, could actually lead a country.",
"One outspoken critic was actor Sean Penn, who has lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for months to help manage 50,000 displaced Haitians living in a camp.",
"Penn said he questioned Jean's motives.",
"\"What the Haitian people need now is a leader who is genuinely willing to sacrifice,\" Penn said.",
"\"I haven't seen or heard anything of him in these last six months that I've been in Haiti.",
"I think he's an important voice.",
"I hope he doesn't sacrifice that voice by taking the eye off the very devastating realities on the ground.\"",
"Penn mentioned past allegations that Jean mishandled funds from his nonprofit organization Yele Haiti and used some of the money donated for Haitians.",
"\"He claims he didn't do it. That has to be looked into it,\" Penn said.",
"\"I've been there. I know what $400,000 could do for these people's lives.\"",
"At the time, Jean tearfully denied the allegations that he misappropriated funds from his Yele Haiti charity and experts on nonprofits said they couldn't find serious wrongdoing.",
"iReporter: Jean made 'several key mistakes' Jean shot to fame in the mid-1990s as a member of the Fugees, a U.S.-based hip-hop and reggae group.",
"He now performs as a solo artist.",
"Jean was born in Haiti, and moved to the United States as a young boy.",
"He recently resigned as chairman of the Yele Haiti Foundation.",
"Jean, dressed in a gray suit and a red-, black- and white-striped tie, stressed the need for Haiti to improve education, as well as its agriculture, security and health care.",
"He also said job creation would be a central part of his campaign going forward."
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"Jean stresses the need for education, jobs, agriculture, security and health care .",
"Elections are scheduled for late November .",
"Jean says he will represent the voice of the youth ."
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"(CNN) -- A federal judge has denied a request to move the trial of Brian David Mitchell, who is accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart in 2002, but may revisit the issue depending on the results of potential juror questionnaires.",
"Mitchell's defense attorneys had argued that he should receive a trial outside the state of Utah because publicity in the case has prejudiced the pool of potential jurors against him and jeopardized his right to a fair trial.",
"They cited Mitchell's constitutional rights as well as a federal rule of criminal procedure.",
"But U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled Monday that \"this is not one of the extreme cases where a change of venue based on presumed prejudice is constitutionally required.\"",
"And while he \"is not satisfied that so great a prejudice exists in this district that defendant cannot receive a fair and impartial trial,\" the judge said concerns over seating an impartial jury could be valid.",
"\"Due to the high-profile nature of this case ... the court undoubtedly has concerns regarding the appropriateness of holding (the) defendant's trial in this district,\" Kimball wrote.",
"\"But the court believes that its concerns may be effectively addressed and answered through the use of the juror questionnaire that the court and parties plan to employ prior to the actual voir dire (jury selection).\"",
"Kimball said he would reserve the ruling on that issue until after the questionnaire responses have been reviewed.",
"Mitchell, 56, is scheduled to stand trial November 1 on charges of kidnapping then-14-year-old Smart in June 2002 and transporting her across state lines for improper purposes.",
"He is accused of snatching Smart at knifepoint from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City, Utah, home.",
"She was found nine months later, walking down a street in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy with Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.",
"Mitchell, a drifter and self-described prophet who called himself \"Emmanuel,\" had done some handyman work at the Smarts' home.",
"Barzee, 64, pleaded guilty in November to kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor, and in May was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.",
"As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, she has agreed to cooperate in the state and federal cases against her husband.",
"She also pleaded guilty but mentally ill in state court to conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping in an attempt to kidnap Smart's cousin a month after Smart's disappearance.",
"Barzee was given a sentence of one to 15 years to be served concurrently with her federal sentence, and given credit for the seven years she has already spent in custody.",
"Smart, now 22, testified in October as part of Mitchell's competency hearing that after kidnapping her, Mitchell took her to a wooded area behind her home and performed a mock marriage ceremony with her before sexually assaulting her.",
"She testified she was repeatedly assaulted during her months in captivity.",
"While the case garnered international attention, Kimball noted in his ruling that more than eight years have passed since the kidnapping and seven years since Mitchell's arrest.",
"While there was extensive media coverage at the time, the judge said the coverage has fallen off in recent years to stories about the criminal cases against Barzee and Mitchell, and that the coverage has been even-handed.",
"\"The media has undoubtedly been interested in covering the proceedings in this case, but the court has not sensed any kind of 'carnival atmosphere,'\" Kimball wrote.",
"And he pointed out that the jury pool will not come only from Salt Lake City or Salt Lake County, but the entire state of Utah, which has a population of 2.8 million people.",
"\"This is not a case where there is a heightened risk of prejudice in a small community,\" Kimball said.",
"He dismissed defense concerns about the large number of volunteers who searched for Smart after her disappearance, saying such volunteers could be easily weeded out and a potential juror would not necessarily be influenced even if they knew someone who had participated.",
"\"Even though defendant's main defense at trial will be an insanity defense, defendant has not demonstrated any media prejudice in this regard,\" the judge wrote.",
"\"In fact, reports referring to defendant's homeless lifestyle, his grandiose religious beliefs and his disruptive singing in court are likely more favorable than unfavorable to his insanity defense.\"",
"Defense attorneys presented an expert survey that showed 92 percent of Utah residents believed Mitchell to be probably or definitely guilty and that 77 percent said they had read, seen, or heard that Mitchell had been found competent to stand trial.",
"But Kimball questioned those results, saying the queries to respondents were in some cases leading and failed to include \"meaningful details.\""
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"A judge ruled earlier this year that Mitchell is competent to stand trial .",
"His wife is cooperating with authorities ."
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"(CNN) -- Actor, activist and environmentalist, Ted Danson isn't afraid to tackle any number of roles.",
"Perhaps best known for his part as likeable barman Sam Malone in \"Cheers\" for 12 years, he more recently recast himself as an unscrupulous billionaire in \"Damages.\"",
"But away from his on-screen heroes and villains, Ted's most enduring real-life role has been as a committed environmentalist working to conserve the oceans.",
"Optimistic and engaging, Danson is a board member of Oceana, a group committed to ocean and marine-life protection, that he helped establish in 1987.",
"Last year he appeared before the U.S. Congress to urge the moratorium on offshore drilling for oil to be reinstated.",
"His personal environmental epiphany came in the 1980s when had to explain to his daughter that she could not swim in the sea because the water was too polluted.",
"It presented him with some tough questions on the state of the environment, which he responded to by taking action.",
"Read Ted's op-ed on how industrial fishing practices are killing our oceans .",
"As well as spearheading campaigns for Oceana and lending his voice to narrate the 2009 documentary film \"The End of the Line,\" he's in the process of co-authoring a book on ocean conservation.",
"\"For over 20 years, I've been watching this issue grow and build in the public consciousness and I am convinced that we're now at a tipping point,\" he said.",
"\"The rise in awareness of, and fight against, climate change has convinced me that people are ready for a book that brings to light the critical issues regarding the future of our oceans.\"",
"From overfishing and acidification of the seas and being a big fish in Hollywood send in your questions for Ted and join the conversation.",
"Use the \"Sound off\" box at the bottom of this page for your questions.",
"We'll use the best questions in the live broadcast here on CNN.com."
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"Ted Danson will be live on CNN.com on April 1 at 10am ET in a 30-minute interview .",
"Actor and environmental campaigner will answer your questions during the show .",
"Send in your question using the Sound Off box at the bottom of the page ."
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"(CNN) -- The campus of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, was locked down for several hours Sunday morning after a former student shot two people in a dormitory and then shot himself, university and police officials said.",
"A former Hampton University student allegedly shot two people and himself, locking down the campus Sunday.",
"The former student entered Harkness Hall shortly before 1 a.m. by following a pizza deliveryman, said the university's president, Dr. William Harvey, at an afternoon news conference.",
"The former student shot the deliveryman and the night manager of the dorm, who came into the hall after he heard shots, Harvey explained.",
"The man then shot himself. No one was killed in the incident, which prompted the evacuation of the dorm and a lockdown of the campus, the president said.",
"The three wounded were taken to area hospitals, Harvey said.",
"The dormitory night manager was treated and released, he said.",
"Hampton city police said they had the shooter in custody.",
"The motive for the shootings is not clear, university and law enforcement officials said.",
"Harvey praised the first-responders to the incident, saying their quick action likely averted further tragedy.",
"He also lauded the school's system of text messages, e-mails and phone messages that warned students about the situation and the campus lockdown.",
"Hampton is about 70 miles southeast of Richmond, Virginia."
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"Alleged shooter gained entry by following a pizza deliveryman .",
"Alleged shooter shot deliveryman, dorm night manager and self .",
"Hampton city police said they had the shooter in custody ."
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"ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Police took into custody a man they say walked into Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, and took several people hostage Friday.",
"Police in New Hampshire take the hostage taker into custody Friday evening.",
"The man, Lee Eisenberg, claimed to have a bomb strapped to his chest, but it turned out to be road flares held with duct tape, police said.",
"\"He was someone who was not known to my campaign headquarters until he walked in the door today,\" Clinton said Friday evening in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she met with the hostages and their families.",
"\"It appears he is someone who was in need of help and sought attention in absolutely the wrong way,\" she said.",
"\"It was for me and my campaign an especially tense and difficult day.\"",
"Flanked by local police, Clinton expressed her gratitude to the team that resolved the hostage situation.",
"\"I want to thank them for their professionalism and their extraordinary work today,\" she said.",
"\"We're immensely relieved that this has ended peacefully.\"",
"Clinton also praised her staffers for showing courage and handling the situation \"extraordinarily well.\"",
"She said she doesn't expect any changes to her schedule or her campaign in light of the incident.",
"The situation began when Eisenberg walked into the office at about 1 p.m., Maj. Michael Hambrook of the New Hampshire State Police told CNN affiliate WMUR-TV.",
"Watch police take up positions » .",
"On Friday afternoon, one of the hostages contacted the CNN Washington bureau and then put Eisenberg on the phone.",
"The hostage and Eisenberg called CNN multiple times throughout the afternoon and talked to CNN staffers.",
"Eisenberg said he had mental problems and couldn't get anyone to help him.",
"CNN assumed Eisenberg could be watching CNN's broadcast and chose not to report his calls to avoid compromising the safety of the hostages.",
"Several people were caught up at the start of the hostage situation.",
"See the location of the office » .",
"A woman with a baby was released by the hostage-taker early on, she told a witness, Lettie Tzizik, who spoke to WMUR.",
"See photos of the hostage situation » .",
"\"A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911.",
"A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,' \" the Web site reported.",
"Bill Shaheen, chairman of Clinton's New Hampshire campaign, told WMUR the people held were volunteers.",
"Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. at a Democratic National Committee event, but canceled the talk because of the situation, DNC Chairman Howard Dean said.",
"Watch Dean break the news » .",
"Buildings close to the storefront campaign office on Main Street were evacuated, including local campaign centers for Clinton's Democratic presidential rivals, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards.",
"Cassandra Hamilton, who works in an office adjacent to the Clinton office, told WMUR: \"I walked out and I immediately started running, and I saw that the road was blocked off.",
"They told me run and keep going.\"",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Kelly Marshall contributed to this report."
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"Police arrest man they say held Clinton campaign workers hostage .",
"Hostages released from Clinton campaign office ."
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"(EW.com) -- After various Websites noted a curious surge in votes Tuesday for a contestant in Oprah Winfrey's \"Your OWN Show\" contest, OWN, the television network Winfrey will launch in January, confirms to EW it is investigating.",
"The online contest is really a search for contestants for an OWN reality series in which competitors will then vie for their own show on the network.",
"Until yesterday, Zach Anner, a witty wheelchair-bound Texan who explains in his video that he has cerebral palsy (\"the sexiest of the palsies\") and pitches \"a travel show for people who never thought they could travel,\" held a commanding lead.",
"But in the afternoon, contestant Dr. Phyllis -- who proposes a reality show on teachers because the drama is in the classroom, rather convincingly -- took the top spot by amassing votes at a rate that spurred some techno-savvy readers into sleuth mode.",
"Geekosystem has a detailed breakdown of the various claims (complete with graphs) among them that for at least a few hours, the source code for Phyllis' \"Vote\" button differed from that of all the other contestants and that as quickly as her vote-per-minute average rose it dropped later that day (from 1,923 votes a minute to 3).",
"Contacted by EW, a spokesperson for OWN issued the following statement: \"The online voting rules for the 'Your OWN Show' video submission competition were carefully crafted to be fair to everyone.",
"Any allegations of impropriety will be investigated and the appropriate actions taken to keep the process unbiased.\"",
"(As of 5:15 p.m. ET Wednesday, Anner was back in the lead, by a margin of more than 400,000 votes; Dr. Phyllis could not be reached for comment.)",
"While some conspiracy theorists have gone as far as to suggest that Winfrey could be rigging the competition against Anner, he has not jumped to that conclusion: \"I sincerely doubt that Oprah would do anything like that,\" he says in a statement to EW.",
"\"She's probably too busy building schools and helping children to even notice someone like me.",
"I'm grateful for everyone's continued support and to Oprah for giving me this opportunity.",
"Thanks again, happy travels, and keep being sexy!\"",
"See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Contestant Dr. Phyllis was recieving votes at a rate that made some suspicious .",
"The contest is a search for contestants for an OWN reality series ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday it is unconstitutional to punish an adult for private use of marijuana as long as it doesn't harm anyone else.",
"A recent poll showed 29 percent of Americans believe the best way to deal with marijuana is to legalize it.",
"The unanimous ruling makes Argentina the second Latin American country in the past four days to allow personal use of a formerly illegal drug.",
"The case in question involved five young men who were arrested for having a few marijuana cigarettes in their pockets.",
"Supreme Court Justice Carlos Fayt, who at one time supported laws that make personal use of marijuana illegal, told the state-run Telam news agency that \"reality\" changed his mind.",
"Argentina's action came amid growing momentum in Latin America toward decriminalization of possessing small amounts of certain drugs.",
"Mexico enacted a law Friday that decriminalizes possessing low quantities of most drugs, including marijuana, heroin, cocaine and LSD.",
"Earlier this year, a Brazilian appeals court ruled that possession of drugs for personal use is not illegal.",
"Analysts see the shift in attitude as recognition that current methods in the war on drugs are not working.",
"\"It seems quite clear that drug policy based primarily on interdiction and enforcement has failed,\" said Robert Pastor, a Latin America national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s.",
"\"Therefore, it's natural for people to stand back and ask, 'Is there a better way?'",
"\" Pastor noted that some recent research has shown that handling drug use as a health challenge and focusing on treatment may be more efficient.",
"\"What Argentina and Mexico are doing in many ways is blazing a new path,\" Pastor said.",
"Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue policy institute in Washington, sees a trend at work.",
"\"It's all part of a harm-reduction approach,\" Hakim said, noting that policymakers are shifting away from getting rid of drugs and toward figuring out how to reduce harm to users and society.",
"Mexico has been considering decriminalization for several years, particularly under the administration of former President Vicente Fox, who held office from 2000-2006.",
"But efforts by the Mexican congress toward decriminalization met with strong resistance from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.",
"\"Mexico tried it under Fox and the U.S. got so snippety that they had to back down,\" Hakim said.",
"President Obama's inauguration in January may have changed the calculus, analysts said.",
"The Mexican congress passed the measure in April and President Felipe Calderon quietly signed it into law.",
"In a visit to the United States, Fox said in May a new approach is needed.",
"\"I believe it's time to open the debate over legalizing drugs,\" he told CNN.",
"\"It must be done in conjunction with the United States, but it is time to open the debate.\"",
"Earlier this year, Fox's predecessor and two other former leaders of Latin American nations also called for the decriminalization of marijuana for personal use and a change in strategy in the war on drugs.",
"The three ex-presidents were members of the 17-nation Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, which issued its recommendations in February after studying the issue for a year.",
"\"The problem is that current policies are based on prejudices and fears and not on results,\" former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria said at a news conference in which the commission's recommendations were presented.",
"Former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil said the group called for only the decriminalization of marijuana and not other illicit drugs because \"you have to start somewhere.\"",
"Fox's predecessor, Ernesto Zedillo, was president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000.",
"Gaviria was president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994.",
"And Cardoso led Brazil from 1995 to 2002.",
"In his swing through the United States, Fox said any change in drug laws must be accompanied by an education campaign in schools and homes.",
"And because the United States is a large consumer of marijuana that comes from Latin America, any steps toward legalization must be supported in Washington, he said.",
"Gaviria had said in February that the time was right to start a debate on the subject because of the new administration in Washington.",
"\"In many states in the United States, as is the case in California, they have begun to change federal policies with regard to tolerating marijuana for therapeutic purposes.",
"And in Washington there's some consensus that the current policy is failing,\" Gaviria said.",
"The Inter-American Dialogue's Hakim said one recent poll showed that 29 percent of Americans think the best way to deal with marijuana is to legalize it.",
"Pastor, the former Carter official, wondered whether anyone in Washington is paying attention.",
"\"The question,\" he said Tuesday, \"is whether the United States will be open to this new path.\""
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"Mexico enacted law that decriminalizes possessing low quantities of most drugs ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- America's top diplomat to Kenya has announced that the United States has suspended a $7 million \"capacity building\" program for the country's Ministry of Education, citing corruption.",
"\"The United States shares the deep concern of Kenya's development partners and the Kenyan people regarding the continuous revelations of large-scale corruption,\" Ambassador Michael Ranneberger said in a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Nairobi, Kenya.",
"The announcement comes after allegations of major corruption in the country's much-praised free schooling campaign for primary education.",
"\"Those culpable for the fraud should not merely be sacked, they should be prosecuted and put behind bars,\" said the U.S. ambassador.",
"The United States, Britain and other major donor governments have recently become increasingly vocal in their criticism of corruption and the slow pace of reform in Kenya."
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"Announcement comes after allegations of corruption in free schooling campaign .",
"U.S., Britain, other donor governments criticize corruption, slow pace of reform in Kenya ."
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"(CNN) -- A judge has ordered an independent inquiry into whether war-crimes prosecutors at The Hague may have intimidated and/or pressured witnesses testifying in the continuing trial of a Serbian politician accused of war crimes.",
"Presiding Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti announced he would appoint an amicus curiae (friend of the court) to look into the charges, according to documents posted on the website of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.",
"The U.N. court deals with war crimes that occurred during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s.",
"Antonetti ordered the inquiry on June 29, but it received scant attention until Wednesday, when a reporter asked about it at The Hague.",
"The inquiry cites former Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte as well as prosecutors Hildegard Urtz-Retzlaff and Daniel Saxon.",
"Del Ponte stepped down from the job at the end of 2007 and is now Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina.",
"\"She's only mentioned because she's the former head of the office, but the allegations are aimed at the investigators and lawyers who worked for her,\" said Frederick Swinnen, special assistant to the current prosecutor at The Hague, in a telephone interview Wednesday with CNN.",
"A man who answered the telephone at the Swiss Embassy in Buenos Aires said Del Ponte was on vacation and not available.",
"The allegations concern testimony in the continuing trial of Vojislav Seselj, a former political ally of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 while on trial at The Hague.",
"Seselj first made similar complaints three years ago, Swinnen said.",
"He noted that the defendant has himself been convicted for contempt of court.",
"The friend of the court has not yet been appointed, he said Wednesday.",
"\"There are several candidates; it's still at a preliminary stage,\" he said, adding that he did not expect the inquiry to find any malfeasance.",
"\"Our view is our staff has acted in a professional way and within the rules,\" he said.",
"\"Once an amicus curiae is appointed, we will work with him and assist him in his task.\"",
"The inquiry was initiated after a number of witnesses complained \"that they had been allegedly intimidated or pressured\" by prosecutors, said Swinnen.",
"\"The chamber obviously took these allegations very seriously and decided that it would be wrong to leave any space for doubt arising either on the protection of the rights of the accused or on the investigation techniques by members of OTP [Office of the Prosecutor],\" said Christian Chartier, acting spokesman for registry and chambers, in a statement on the court's website.",
"The friend of the court is to report back to the chamber within six months whether there are sufficient grounds to start contempt proceedings against investigators for the prosecution, he said.",
"One witness said he and his family \"were subjected to tremendous pressure by the prosecution,\" including 30 to 50 telephone calls per say from the prosecution, the judge wrote.",
"Another said prosecutors told him that, \"if he testified, after that he could go to America, that he would get a good salary and would get money.\"",
"Complaining statements also \"mention sleep deprivation during interviews, psychological pressuring, an instance of blackmail (the investigators offered relocation in exchange for the testimony they hoped to obtain), threats (one, for example, about preparing an indictment against a witness if he refused to testify), or even illegal payments of money,\" the judge wrote.",
"The prosecution said it \"considers these allegations to be utterly devoid of factual basis.\""
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"(CNN) -- Clark Dever and Joe Dinardo have always taken things to the extreme.",
"Joe Dinardo, left, and Clark Dever will be spending only 12 hours in each city before going to their next stop.",
"So when JetBlue announced a monthlong all-you-can-jet pass for $599, it was as if the airline had practically issued them a challenge.",
"\"We decided to come up with the most extreme length you could take it and have the most fun without being crazy,\" Dinardo told CNN.",
"\"We've always pushed each other to be more outrageous, so this is just taking that to another level.\"",
"Dever and Dinardo, friends since their freshman year of college at SUNY Buffalo, will be crisscrossing the country, spending only 12 hours in each city before heading back to the airport and jetting to their next destination.",
"The deal allows passengers unlimited travel to all cities JetBlue services from September 8 to October 8 for $599.",
"Dever, who was recently saving up money to be a professional photographer, quit his job, and Dinardo decided to use all of his accumulated vacation time from his job to take the trip.",
"They plan to make the most of the deal, hitting at least 29 cities in the 31 days by taking about 49 one-way flights.",
"They'll sleep during their flights, take showers in gyms, and have friends work as runners to swap out bags of clothes when they fly into New York's JFK airport about every three days.",
"They've even worked with some companies to obtain sponsorships.",
"They plan to interview fellow fliers to get the skinny on the best places to go in hopes of taking the \"local's tour\" of a city as opposed to a generic tourist trip for their Web site twelvehoursinacity.com.",
"\"What better way to get a snapshot of the United States,\" Dever said.",
"\"To really capture the unique culture of each city, to meet all of the different people.\"",
"And for them, the price is unbeatable.",
"The way they see it, if each flight cost $200, they're taking a $10,000 trip for only $600.",
"Which is exactly why the promotion has received such a great deal of buzz, specifically among social networking platforms.",
"JetBlue suspended the deal two days early, saying they were sold out, though the company declined to specify how many people bought them.",
"Jennifer Milano, who is taking time off from freelance work to take advantage, grabbed a pass right away.",
"She decided that with the buzz on Twitter, she could start organizing a group of fellow all-you-can-jet travelers, calling it the 599club.",
"She created a site where people are sharing their itineraries in an attempt to either travel together, meet up with Twitter followers in their cities or try to couch surf at other people's homes.",
"Some may even meet in California to go skydiving together.",
"Will and Cara Dearman had been planning to move to New York from Austin, Texas, when they heard about the deal.",
"So they decided to pack up their home, bring in the movers and head off for vacation before their big move.",
"Given JetBlue's hub structure, many travelers found a slight hiccup: If they were in the Midwest, they might have to travel all the way back to New York to travel to the West Coast.",
"The couple will be spending a large chunk of their trip in South America and the Caribbean and will be doing video interviews with entrepreneurs around the world for Will Dearman's Web site, TheStrategyBlog.com.",
"For Greg Krause, the pass is a chance to raise money for a charity close to his heart, an elementary school in Zambia that his parents created for orphaned children in a small village two hours from a main road.",
"Krause plans to go to 24 cities, using about 45 different flights, to have both an enjoyable vacation and hopefully meet people who will donate to the school.",
"He also will be documenting his trip on his Web site, 30daysonjetblue.com.",
"Though Dever and Dinardo may have the most exhausting schedule, they, like many others, think that if nothing else, the trip will be a true adventure.",
"\"No matter what happens, there will certainly be a story that comes out of this trip,\" Dever said.",
"\"For us, the biggest concern will be finding a place to shower.",
"We certainly don't want to be the stinky guys on the plane, especially for that many flights.",
"But either way, its going to be an adventure, a tiring but exciting adventure.\""
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"Clark Dever, Joe Dinardo going to cities for 12 hours, then getting on next flight .",
"Some travelers taking around 40 one-way flights to make most of deal .",
"Dever: \"It's going to be an adventure, a tiring but exciting adventure\""
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"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel's two largest parties each claimed a mandate early Wednesday after exit polls showed a surprise first-place finish by the ruling Kadima party and dramatic gains by its conservative rivals.",
"Kadima's Tzipi Livni won more support than was predicted in the Israeli elections.",
"Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's failure to assemble a ruling coalition for Kadima last year triggered Tuesday's elections.",
"But she told supporters after the vote that the narrow edge Kadima appears to have held over the conservative Likud shows her party is \"the common denominator of Israeli society.\"",
"Livni called on Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu \"to respect the choice of Israel's citizens ... and to join a unity government, led by us, that will be based on the large parties in Israel, left and right.\"",
"But Netanyahu said the showing by Likud -- which appears to have more than doubled the number of seats it holds in the Knesset -- Israel's parliament -- show voters have rejected Kadima's leadership, and he said conservative parties could form a majority when the results are in.",
"\"With God's help, I shall head the coming government,\" he said.",
"\"I am sure that I can manage to put together a good, broad-based and stable government that will be able to deal with the security crisis and the economic crisis.\"",
"\"It's a typical Israeli election in that you might have two winners,\" Israeli political analyst Chemi Shalev told CNN.",
"\"The clear-cut winner, in the sense that she did much better than any expectations, is Tzipi Livni and Kadima.",
"But we have to judge elections by the bottom line, and if it turns out that ... Benjamin Netanyahu will be the the prime minister, he will be judged to have been the winner.\"",
"CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman and Israeli political analysts warned that exit polls had been wrong in past elections.",
"The campaign was dominated by the recent war with Palestinian militants in Gaza, which was popular within Israel despite widespread international condemnation.",
"Netanyahu was a harsh critic of Kadima founder Ariel Sharon's 2005 withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza, and his supporters say he has been proven right.",
"Unofficial results gave Kadima a narrow lead over Likud, with the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu in third place and Labor -- Israel's founding party and Kadima's current coalition partner -- in fourth.",
"According to Israeli media, with all precincts reporting, Kadima was on track to win 28 seats in the 120-member Knesset, the same as it currently holds.",
"Likud was forecast to win 27 -- a dramatic jump from its current 12.",
"Yisrael Beiteinu was on track to win 15 seats, up from 11 currently, while Labor appeared to have slid from 18 seats to 13.",
"A fourth-place finish would be an unprecedentedly weak showing for Labor, now led by Defense Minister and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.",
"With those numbers, Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, a party even further right-wing than Likud, would be the third largest faction in the legislature.",
"If the numbers hold up and Lieberman's party surpasses Labor, the founding party of the Jewish state, it would be unprecedented.",
"Lieberman, 50, is a polarizing figure whose party has been accused of racism against Palestinians and Arab citizens of Israel.",
"But he said early Wednesday that his party \"is not only the key to the next coalition, it will also set the agenda for the next government.\"",
"And Likud member Reuven Rivlin, a former Knesset speaker, said voters decided \"to change the ideas of the former government.\"",
"\"We have to continue the negotiations with the Palestinians, but under mutuality and under the idea that it is a give and take -- that after the agreement, we will find ourselves at peace,\" Rivlin said.",
"Shalev suggested a Kadima-Likud-Labor coalition is possible -- but it was not clear who would lead it.",
"The next prime minister will have six weeks to form a coalition government.",
"A government needs a controlling majority of 61 in the 120-seat Knesset.",
"Neither Likud nor Kadima is expected to reach even half that figure.",
"Livni took control of Kadima in September, when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stepped down as the party leader amid several corruption investigations.",
"She has been careful not to cast herself as a dove in the election with advertising focused on the military assault in Gaza and tough statements against the Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas.",
"Netanyahu served as prime minister from 1996 to 1999.",
"He has supported the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and opposed further territorial concessions to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
"Kadima member Machman Shai told CNN that Livni \"was attacked from the right and the left.",
"They said she was not capable for the job -- very chauvinistic.",
"And I think it was all wrong.",
"She is a leader and up to leading Israel in the years to come.\"",
"Early joy at Kadima HQ » .",
"\"The majority of the people want a windfall,\" Netanyahu said Tuesday while casting his ballot.",
"\"They want a change of direction to security, honor and hope, and I think they will vote for this today.\"",
"About 5.2 million people were eligible to vote, choosing from 33 parties, with polls closing at 10 p.m. (3 p.m. ...",
"According to the Central Election Committee, 62.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots -- about 2 percentage points higher than the country's last elections, in 2006.",
"Will a new leader make any difference? ...",
"This year, the election was expected to largely determine which Israeli parties should take credit for the recent war in Gaza.",
"iReport.com: See photos of the scene as voters head to the polls .",
"Despite international condemnation over the high number of Palestinian civilian casualties, it was a popular war in Israel.",
"Domestic support was strong throughout, especially among residents within Palestinian militant rocket range, and it was perceived in Israel as a success.",
"Polls showed that could bode well for Israel's right-wing parties.",
"Defense Minister Ehud Barak, head of the Labor Party, also hoped for a sizable boost from the three-week Gaza war.",
"But it probably will not be enough to lead the government.",
"Before the operation, Labor was tipped to win just eight seats.",
"That doubled in some polls, albeit briefly.",
"A small number of rockets are still falling in southern Israel, and that could play into the hands of Netanyahu.",
"He was not in a position of power during the war, but he sought to capitalize on his opposition to Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, telling voters he warned the move would result in Palestinian militant rockets hitting major cities.",
"At the time he was ridiculed by his political rivals, but his supporters say he was proven right.",
"CNN's Michal Zippori, Paula Hancocks and Bill Schneider contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Unofficial results show right-wing party overtaking founding party .",
"Polls shows Kadima is \"common denominator of Israeli society,\" Livni says .",
"Netanyahu's Likud party doubles seats in Knesset, according to polls .",
"Analysts warn that Israeli exits polls have been wrong before ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Former porn star Jenna Jameson said she wants to get back with Tito Ortiz four days after things got \"tragically out of hand\" and he was arrested on a domestic violence charge.",
"But the couple's reconciliation \"is irrelevant\" to the prosecution of Ortiz since it is the state of California, not Jameson, who filed the charge against the mixed martial artist, a police spokesman said.",
"A restraining order prevents Ortiz and Jameson from reuniting immediately.",
"Ortiz, 35, was arrested at his Huntington Beach, California, home Monday morning when Jameson's father called police as the couple argued.",
"\"By calling the police, my father was trying to defuse a private issue between two people,\" Jameson said in a written statement Friday.",
"Ortiz and his lawyer told reporters later Monday that he was upset because he thought Jameson had relapsed in her rehabilitation from a prescription drug addiction.",
"Jameson, 36, was captured by cameras alternately saying Ortiz was \"the sweetest, most amazing man\" and later saying that he had beaten her.",
"\"Unfortunately, what actually happened has now been dramatically distorted and misinterpreted and remarks that both Tito and I made after the police arrived reflect the state of shock that we were both in,\" Jameson said Friday.",
"Now, she says she wants him back in her life.",
"\"He's a fantastic father and I'm confident we can work through this challenge,\" she said.",
"While Ortiz and his lawyer did not immediately respond to calls for comment, the former Ultimate Fighting champ made it clear Monday night that he wanted her back.",
"Tears rolled down his cheeks as Ortiz listened to his lawyer talk to reporters.",
"\"They have two children together,\" attorney Chip Matthews said.",
"\"They have planned on spending their lives together and they want nothing more than to work together.\""
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"Restraining order prevents Ortiz and Jameson from reuniting immediately .",
"Ortiz says problems began because he thought Jameson had relapsed with drugs ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The rescue and recovery efforts of the Pakistan floods that have killed more than 800 could become more complicated as weather officials predict more monsoon rains starting Monday.",
"The Pakistan Meteorological Department said Sindh, Punjab, Kashmir, eastern parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and eastern parts of Balochistan would receive monsoon rains.",
"Areas along the Indus River would be badly affected due to extremely high flood conditions.",
"The death toll from the flooding has risen to at least 800, the information minister of a northern province said Saturday.",
"The number reflects those killed only in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, previously known as the North West Frontier Province, said spokesman Mian Iftikhar Hussain.",
"Flooding has also been reported in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.",
"Twenty-five deaths were recorded there Friday, Hussain said.",
"The United Nations says the number of people affected by the floods has risen to nearly 1 million people, with infrastructure receiving major damage.",
"Rushing water also has washed away thousands of acres of crops, government buildings, businesses, schools, bridges and homes, officials said.",
"The United States will assist in relief efforts by bringing in 50,000 meals, rescue boats and helicopters, 12 pre-fabricated steel bridges and water filtration units, the embassy in Islamabad said.",
"According to Geo TV, 150 people are missing in a northwestern province and 3,700 homes were swept away.",
"Forty-seven bridges in Sawat have been destroyed or damaged.",
"Geo TV also said 3,000 are in a camp in Nowshera and are without enough water and food.",
"Displaced residents are unhappy with the government response, Geo TV said.",
"Trains have also been delayed, frustrating commuters.",
"\"They have made this a joke,\" a commuter told the network.",
"\"There are young children here but there is no water, nor is there any seating, they have taken our ticket money yet after every few minutes they change the train timings.",
"They are playing a game of lies and deceit.\"",
"Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited Kyhber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday and found tourists and local residents trapped because of the heavy floods, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.",
"President Asif Ali Zardari said all available resources would be used to help those stranded by the waters, the APP reported.",
"Many of the victims died when floodwaters swept away hundreds of mud houses in parts of Swat Valley and the districts of Shangla and Tank, according to Bashir Ahmed Bilour, a provincial minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.",
"Hussain said flooding has cut off the Swat Valley and the districts of Shangla and Peshawar.",
"There is no way to get to these areas by road, he said.",
"The Pakistani Air Force has been helping with rescue efforts, spokesman Tariq Yazdanie said in an interview on Pakistani TV.",
"The recent torrential rains have broken all previous records of rainfall in the country, he said.",
"The United Nations said there is a need for help in providing emergency shelter, food, drinking water and sanitation facilities.",
"Its agencies are geared to help with these issues.",
"The European Commission is providing 30 million euros ($39 million) to help the people affected by the flooding.",
"\"Pakistan has been hit by terrible floods and more rain is forecast.",
"Our thoughts are with those affected by them,\" said Kristalina Georgieva, European commissioner for international Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.",
"\"I am pleased that our decision to provide new humanitarian funding for the most vulnerable people in Pakistan will also be able to benefit the people, who have suffered from this disaster.\"",
"According to a Pentagon official with knowledge of the operations, the U.S. is assisting with the delivery of meals to the affected region.",
"A C-130 carrying 12,000 Halal meals (MREs but tailored for people of Islamic faith) was on its way to Pakistan on Saturday.",
"By Saturday afternoon another 45,000 meals were to be delivered.",
"Officials promised further assistance efforts in the coming days.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah and Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators involved in the case of serial killing suspect Elias Abuelazam went to Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday to retrieve two of his bags, Michigan police said.",
"Abuelazam is suspected of slashing 18 victims in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio, killing five.",
"He was arrested at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, last week as he was attempting to board a flight to Israel.",
"Abuelazam has agreed to be sent back to Michigan to face charges, but he remains in custody in Atlanta.",
"Michigan authorities have some two weeks to pick him up.",
"As of Monday afternoon, police said they do not know how, or when, Abuelazam will be transported.",
"He traveled last week from Detroit, Michigan, to Louisville, before heading to Atlanta, police said.",
"The airline company misplaced his luggage and the bags never made it to Atlanta, they added.",
"Michigan authorities said they took the two bags back with them.",
"Lt. Steven Sipes of the Michigan police declined to say what was in the luggage, but he added the bags are now part of the department's investigation.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"Authorities are working to transfer him to Michigan .",
"He is linked to 18 stabbings in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio, police say ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal has signed on with Washington-based Leading Authorities to find paid speaking appearances for him, the lecture agency announced Tuesday.",
"McChrystal, who also will be lecturing at Yale University this fall, will earn between $30,000 to $60,000 an event, according to one person knowledgeable with the deal.",
"He already has booked \"multiple engagements,\" the source said, adding that there has been a \"significant amount of interest across industries\" to hear him speak.",
"His first paid speech will be this fall at a private engagement.",
"McChrystal commanded the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan until he resigned from the military this year after controversial comments published in a magazine profile.",
"The retired general will speak about leadership, management strategy and global affairs, according to a Leading Authorities press release.",
"A spokeswoman for Yale said earlier that McChrystal has been appointed a senior fellow with the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at the university, beginning in the fall semester.",
"McChrystal will teach a graduate-level seminar for students in the international relations master's program, Yale spokeswoman Dorie Baker said.",
"CNN's Vaughn Sterling and Adam Levine contributed to this report."
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"A source says he will earn between $30,000 and $60,000 per event .",
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"McChrystal also will be lecturing at Yale University this fall ."
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"(CNN) -- Craigslist will replace its controversial online \"erotic services\" listings with a section where ads are individually checked by Craigslist employees before they are posted, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.",
"Craigslist will replace its \"erotic services\" listings with ads that are screened by the site's employees.",
"The popular classified-ad Web site, which Blumenthal called \"a blatant Internet brothel,\" has been accused by law enforcement officials across the United States of promoting prostitution through its erotic ads.",
"\"Craigslist is heeding our clear call for conscience and common sense, sending a strong signal that Internet sites must police themselves to protect others,\" Blumenthal said.",
"Craigslist representatives met in New York last week with Blumenthal and the attorneys general of Missouri and Illinois, all of whom asked the company to shut down its \"erotic services\" sections in their states.",
"Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff Thomas Dart called Craigslist \"the single largest source of prostitution in the nation.\"",
"\"As head of the multistate attorney general task force,\" Blumenthal said, \"I was informed by Craigslist late last night that it will eliminate the 'erotic services' section within seven days, create a new section called 'adult services' and manually review every ad posted there to bar flagrant prostitution and pornography.\"",
"Listen to Blumenthal talk to CNN Radio about the change » .",
"\"So far, it looks like we've struck the right balance, and most of the feedback we're getting right now is positive,\" Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"He said his company does not view the law enforcement community's involvement as pressure.",
"\"We're looking for constructive criticism, and certainly we've been getting plenty of that,\" Buckmaster said.",
"Craigslist executives released a statement Wednesday confirming the change, which it said will take place after current ads expire in seven days.",
"New ads in the \"adult services\" section \"will be opened for postings by legal adult service providers,\" the company said.",
"\"Each posting to this new category will be manually reviewed before appearing on the site, to ensure compliance with Craigslist posting guidelines and terms of use,\" it said.",
"Advertisers will pay a $10 fee for each new ad, it said.",
"Blumenthal said state agencies will keep a close eye on the Web site and others \"to make sure prostitution and pornography do not migrate and move elsewhere.\"",
"\"We will be monitoring closely to make sure that this measure is more than a name change from 'erotic' to 'adult' and that the manual blocking is tough and effective to scrub prostitution and pornography,\" he said.",
"\"Our continuing investigation will assure that these steps are substance, not just spin, and that Craigslist really shuts down its open online red-light district.\"",
"Craigslist drew attention recently after a 23-year-old medical student was charged in the death of a masseuse in a Boston, Massachusetts, hotel room and in a hotel assault in Rhode Island.",
"Police have said it appeared that the attacker in both cases had responded to the victims' Craigslist ads.",
"The Craigslist statement said ads on its site have been associated with \"far lower rates of violent crime than print classifieds, let alone rates of violent crime pertaining to American society as a whole.\"",
"It suggested that the online ads are safer because of verification measures, community monitoring, the electronic trail left by those using the site and Craigslist's cooperation with investigators.",
"In November, Craigslist entered into an agreement with more than 40 attorneys general and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to add safeguards to combat unlawful activity and improve public safety.",
"As part of the reforms, Craigslist agreed to implement credit card verification, assess a fee and require a phone number from people posting \"erotic services.\""
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"NEW: CEO says company \"looking for constructive criticism\"\nCraigslist will replace its controversial \"erotic services\" listings with a new section .",
"Sex-related ads will be checked by Craigslist employees before posting .",
"Connecticut attorney general: Craigslist must shut down \"online red-light district\""
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"(CNN) -- Apparently, reality star Snooki is not just too pretty for jail, she is too pretty for court.",
"Nicole Polizzi, also known as Snooki on MTV's reality show \"Jersey Shore,\" did not attend a court hearing in New Jersey on Wednesday.",
"Her lawyer, Ray Raya, appeared on her behalf, to enter a \"not guilty\" plea on a disorderly conduct charge, according to a Seaside Heights Municipal Court spokesman.",
"The 22-year-old was arrested in late July on the beaches of Seaside Heights, New Jersey.",
"She will not serve jail time, but faces potential fines ranging from $250 to $1,000.",
"She is expected to attend her next hearing, set for September 8, the court spokesman said.",
"Polizzi told MTV News that jail is not the place for someone as attractive as she is.",
"\"I'm too pretty to be in jail.",
"I'm a good person.",
"I'm not a criminal and I will never go back there,\" the \"Jersey Shore\" star said.",
"She said she realizes she may have had too many drinks, but that it's nothing to get crazy over.",
"\"I don't know why people take it so seriously,\" Polizzi said.",
"\"I had a couple cocktails, and they just put me in a drunk tank to sober me up.\"",
"The arrest of the TV star even caught the attention of Arizona Sen. John McCain.",
"McCain jokingly brought up the arrest during a recent visit to Phoenix radio station KMLE Country 108.",
"\"I have a question for you that I thought about on the way over: Should Snooki go to jail?",
"Or -- a question for our listeners -- is Snooki too good-looking to go to jail?\"",
"McCain asked.",
"\"This has given a whole new meaning to our justice system, and I'm kind of leaning towards Snooki being too good-looking.\""
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"A court official expects her to appear in court on September 8 .",
"She says she is too pretty for jail ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Prosecutors grilled Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday about whether he accepted gifts as a lawmaker.",
"Sen. Ted Stevens and his daughter Beth Stevens arrive Monday at the federal courthouse.",
"The defense rested its case after prosecutors sparred with the Republican senator, who is charged with breaking Senate ethics rules by failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and renovations on his home in Alaska.",
"Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, battled with prosecutor Brenda Morris during his three days on the stand.",
"They tangled over whether a massage chair in Stevens' home was a gift or a loan, with Stevens asserting he had told his friend and neighbor, Bob Persons, he could not accept a gift under Senate rules.",
"\"He said it was a gift, and I said I could not take it,\" Stevens insisted, recalling details of the purchase in 2001.",
"\"But you kept it?\" Morris asked.",
"\"It's still there,\" Stevens replied, acknowledging the chair is at his townhouse in Washington.",
"The prosecution has been trying to show that Stevens failed to disclose about $250,000 worth of goods and services provided for his Alaskan home over the course of about seven years.",
"Senators are required to report gifts on forms that are filed annually.",
"Prosecutors dueled with Stevens over specifics about the chair in an effort to show that he was crafty in his ability to find ways around reporting the gifts or providing full disclosure about them.",
"In his second day on the stand, Stevens testified that he and his wife paid for all the improvements on their Alaska chalet, which was extensively remodeled about eight years ago.",
"He also attempted to address a series of e-mails that prosecutors introduced earlier in the trial.",
"During cross-examination, Stevens stood firm in his denials of wrongdoing through testy exchanges with Morris, who accused him of trying to \"cover your butt\" with a series of e-mails asking about invoices and billing.",
"\"No, my bottom wasn't bare,\" Stevens replied.",
"His defense team responded that former Alaska businessman Bill Allen, who arranged much of the the work on Stevens' home, quashed bills without Stevens' knowledge.",
"Allen has pleaded guilty to trying to bribe a number of Alaska state officials -- not including Stevens -- and was the prosecution's star witness.",
"Stevens is not charged with taking bribes.",
"Stevens, 84, hopes to clear his name by November, in time for voters to decide whether to elect him to a seventh term representing Alaska, as he has done for nearly 40 years.",
"He was the last witness for the defense.",
"Closing arguments are expected Tuesday, with jury deliberations expected to begin Wednesday.",
"CNN's Paul Courson contributed to this report."
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"Sides argue whether massage chair in Stevens' home was a gift or a loan .",
"Stevens: \"He said it was a gift, and I said I could not take it\"\nClosing arguments expected to begin Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- The boy stood out because of the bright blue shirt he was wearing, not for his arms stretched toward the heavens or the look in his eyes that said: I am hungry.",
"All the other boys were desperate, too.",
"Photographer Paula Bronstein looked down at them from the Pakistani military helicopter about to drop food and water.",
"She would never know their names but she would tell their story.",
"Click. click. click. The boy in the blue shirt is one of 20 million Pakistanis suffering in a land washed away by massive monsoon flooding.",
"Aid workers say that media coverage of a disaster helps bring in donations.",
"Bronstein, working for Getty Images, and other photographers are attempting to unveil the unfathomable scope of Pakistan's human misery.",
"Three weeks into the crisis, thousands of homeless packed into makeshift, fly-infested camps.",
"They endured the searing summer heat and the ache of their empty bellies.",
"They wondered, with more rain on the way, when they might see home again.",
"If ever. Some voiced frustration that aid had not reached them.",
"Others were downright angry at their own government for perceived failure in a time of national need.",
"Much of the criticism has been pointed at President Asif Ali Zardari, who was in Europe as the crisis unfolded and was late visiting flood zones.",
"Zardari again left Pakistan Wednesday, arriving in the Russian town of Sochi to participate in a four-nation summit with Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Russia, according to the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.",
"Zardari's office has defended the president's travels as part of his job and called the criticism \"venomous propaganda of his opponents.\"",
"But one thing is clear: Zardari, leader of a country already coping with poverty and violence, will have to deal with far-reaching consequences of the floods.",
"The United Nations has received less than half of the $460 million it needs for relief efforts.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's office said she would announce more aid Thursday on top of the roughly $70 million already pledged by Washington.",
"No one knows exactly why the flow of aid money is failing to keep up with the need, though Bronstein, interviewed Wednesday on CNN, suspected one reason might be the death toll.",
"At just over 1,400, it is low given the scale of the disaster.",
"\"What usually takes people's breath away is the sheer number of people who die,\" she said.",
"\"But this is a different kind of disaster.\"",
"It has been evolving and people's suffering increased incrementally along with the water that spread from the mountains in the north to the plains of the south.",
"Aid workers have also said it has been hard to reach people because of continuing rain and damaged or flooded bridges and roads.",
"In villages and towns where they were able to get through, people raced trucks carrying relief.",
"Only the young boys, like the one with the blue shirt, had the energy to keep up, it seemed to Bronstein.",
"From the back of an aid truck all she could see were a mess of tangled arms forced through open windows.",
"Others grabbed onto chunks of ice distributed by a local charity.",
"Another photo showed a woman in a black and pink dupatta (scarf).",
"Her left hand hugged her cheek in despair, her eyes failed to meet the camera's lens.",
"Bronstein snapped a perfect portrait of uncertainty.",
"\"When you are here, you see how little people have,\" Bronstein said.",
"\"The poorest people have been affected.\"",
"Even when the rescue choppers land or the boats arrived, many Pakistanis were reluctant to leave home.",
"They depended on the land and their animals to make a living.",
"They already lost their crops.",
"If they left their livestock behind, they would be leaving with nothing.",
"How would they restart life?",
"But it was only from the air, said Bronstein, that she could see what it meant for one-fifth of the country to be underwater.",
"A group of people stood on an island of dry, dusty ground with a handful of ramshackle shelters.",
"They were surrounded by water, water and more water.",
"The helicopter hovered before dropping bags of flour and 10-packs of bottled water.",
"A man on a rooftop thrashed his arms about for attention.",
"No one can afford to be forgotten, to be left behind or left without.",
"Bronstein pointed her camera toward people who have nothing.",
"The world, she felt, needed to see.",
"CNN's Sara Sidner and Reza Sayah in Pakistan, and Isha Sesay contributed to this report."
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"NEW: 'People have nothing,' she says .",
"NEW: Thousands are enduring empty bellies .",
"NEW: Desperate people rush aid trucks as they come through ."
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"(LifeWire) -- Misti Guertin was a publicist with a full roster of clients and a growing salary when her husband, Gary, 56, was offered a job managing a luxury resort on a private island in the Caribbean.",
"\"It takes some heartfelt conversations to begin balancing the career scales in a marriage,\" says an expert.",
"\"My career was just beginning to bloom,\" says the Stuart, Florida, resident, \"but we both placed more emphasis on Gary's career.\"",
"Misti, 47, was raised to believe that the man's career comes first.",
"So she went, taking a token title as co-manager of the resort.",
"But less than a year after their arrival in 2005, a fire ravaged the resort and Gary's contract was terminated.",
"\"The strain on our relationship was sizable,\" she says.",
"The couple returned to Florida, where Misti went back to work as a publicist and Gary as the general manager of a yacht club and marina.",
"Her income this year, she says, will exceed Gary's.",
"It's common for couples to place more emphasis on the man's career, according to a 2007 study of more than 9,000 married men and women ages 25-59.",
"The researchers, from the University of Iowa and the University of California-Davis, also found that when couples relocate, the husband tends to get a salary boost -- $3,000 on average.",
"But the wife loses $750.",
"\"When couples migrate, they are [typically] doing it for the benefit of the husband's career, and so the wife is what we call the 'trailing spouse,'\" says study author Mary Noonan, associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa.",
"\"She may have to take a job in the new location that is a less-than-ideal match for her skills [or] qualifications.\"",
"Expert: 'Things are moving slowly in the right direction' Why do couples, even today, let the woman's job take a back seat?",
"Blame it on socialization, says Noonan.",
"While it may not be true for every relationship, more often than not, she says, \"men and women are taught to play very different roles within marriage.",
"Women are socialized to play a homemaking role within the family, whereas men are encouraged to focus on their careers and breadwinning.\"",
"See how one dad has taken on child-rearing duties » .",
"Daniel Buccino, a psychotherapist and faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, agrees.",
"\"Until more men are willing to say, 'You know, honey, you shouldn't have to change your name or sacrifice your career, and I'll stay home with our kids and aging parents,' progress will remain glacial,\" he says.",
"\"But things are moving slowly in the right direction.\"",
"After Dayna Steele, 48, published her first book in March and began making the media rounds, she found herself dealing with subtle power plays at home.",
"\"I have tried very hard to schedule around my husband's full-time job and keep him posted on my schedule, confirming dates before I book them,\" says Steele, a former radio host living in Seabrook, Texas.",
"\"Then, he started scheduling things over mine without telling me.",
"\"It turned into a battle when I first tried to point out to him what he was doing -- trivializing my new career after promising to support it because he had a 'more important' job.\"",
"Steele knows her husband's salary and benefits are important but says her career deserves respect, too.",
"\"We're not quite all the way there, but we're making some progress,\" she says.",
"Steele's husband, Charles Justiz, 55, a NASA research pilot, says he does his best to show he values his wife's career, but it can be challenging, especially with two children.",
"\"We've had some collisions,\" he admits.",
"\"I can't call NASA and say, 'Excuse me, I can't come in because my wife has a book signing.'\"",
"See how CNN journalists juggle careers with motherhood » .",
"But they're both working on being more flexible, he says.",
"\"I love my wife, and the old saying is true: 'If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.'\"",
"'Balancing career scales' Experts have some tips for couples clashing over a career move: .",
"Trade places.",
"\"It takes some heartfelt conversations to begin balancing the career scales in a marriage,\" says Les Parrott, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Seattle Pacific University.",
"\"It requires both spouses to be honest with their feelings.\"",
"Parrott asks clients to list what's important to them about their careers, assigning each element a value from 1 to 10.",
"After each spouse makes a list, they try to guess how much their partner values each item.",
"\"It's almost always an eye-opener,\" says Parrott.",
"\"It helps them empathize.",
"It helps them trade places.",
"And with that new perspective, they are ready for a more honest and grace-filled exploration of their options together.\"",
"Try the \"package deal\" approach.",
"When a couple is considering relocating, Buccino says, one spouse should see what the new company can do for the other.",
"Switch off. Buccino says the fluidity of today's job market gives couples \"opportunities to evaluate and re-evaluate and hopefully switch off between whose career takes priority at various phases along the marital life cycle.\"",
"When neither is willing to budge, there's always the long-distance marriage.",
"\"I have seen two-career couples that live in two different cities,\" Buccino says, \"because neither is willing to pass up great career opportunities.\"",
"While such an arrangement may be a good interim move, it can take a toll on the relationship.",
"\"Some couples have not made it,\" Buccino says.",
"\"If they're committed to each other and the relationship, and otherwise so busy with work when apart, then it can work.",
"But I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a first choice.\"",
"LifeWire provides original and syndicated lifestyle content to Web publishers.",
"Sarah Jio is a Seattle-based writer who has contributed to \"Cooking Light,\" \"SELF,\" \"Glamour\" and many other publications."
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"(CNN) -- The mother of the man who gunned down eight of his colleagues at a beer distributor in Connecticut earlier this month says her son was \"no monster,\" but a \"gentle spirit\" who had reached his limit after being racially harassed at work.",
"Omar Thornton, 34, called his mother, Lille Holliday, before fatally shooting himself, putting an end to the terrifying shooting spree that left eight people dead at Hartford Distributors in Manchester, Connecticut, on August 3.",
"\"He said, 'I just killed the five most racist people,' and I knew he wasn't playing because he don't talk like that,\" Holliday told CNN's Soledad O'Brien in an interview that aired Tuesday.",
"Holliday said when she looked at her caller ID and saw that the phone call was coming from her son's place of employment, \"I just kind of lost it.\"",
"Manchester police have said they have found no evidence of racial discrimination, and the president of Hartford Distributors said Thornton never filed a claim alleging racial discrimination.",
"Instead, the company said it had asked him to resign after it found him stealing and selling alcoholic beverages.",
"Holliday disputed that statement in the interview, saying, \"I know he reported the [racial] problems because he brought home the papers that they signed.\"",
"Thornton's girlfriend, Kristi Hannah, has said Thornton reported seeing drawings of a hangman with a noose around its neck as well as hearing the N-word directed toward him.",
"Holliday said she had few clues as to what Thornton was planning, but noted, \"I could just kind of see slowly he was just getting frustrated and aggravated.\"",
"\"He was getting more stressed out and he started to just kind of change,\" Holliday said.",
"\"He started not being so relaxed but I never thought that it would be possible that something like this would happen.\"",
"Asked about the how calm Thornton sounded when he placed a 911 call to police after the killings, Holliday said, \"I think that he was at his limit and the calmness is something that he's always been.",
"I've never really seen him enraged.\"",
"Instead, Holliday described her son as a \"gentle spirit\" who would buy his mother's favorite ice cream and leave it in her freezer or leave a rose for her on her table.",
"\"I wish he was still here with me,\" she said. \"I miss him so much.\""
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"His mother says he was being racially harassed and had reached his limit .",
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"(CNN) -- Shaquan Duley made a tearful first appearance Wednesday in a South Carolina courtroom to face murder charges in the deaths of her two toddler sons, her lawyer said.",
"Handcuffed and dressed in orange jail coveralls, Duley sniffled and sobbed through her arraignment, which lasted less than three minutes.",
"She entered no plea to the charges, and no date was set for her next appearance.",
"Duley faces two counts of murder in the deaths of her two sons, 1-year-old Ja'van Duley and 2-year-old Devean Duley.",
"Investigators said Duley, 29, was unemployed, single and apparently fed up with criticism from her mother when she smothered her children, strapped their lifeless bodies into car seats and submerged her car in the Edisto River.",
"Her lawyer, Carl B.",
"Grant, described her as \"distraught\" and said she was \"extremely sad and tearful\" during the proceedings.",
"\"She had a solemn attitude and was crying before she entered court,\" Grant said.",
"He said he has not yet seen the full case against Duley, but added, \"I can assure you there is more than has been said and reported by anyone.\"",
"Before the appearance, Grant said that if his client was asked to enter a plea, it would be \"not guilty.\"",
"Duley's mother, other relatives and members of her church attended to show their support during the arraignment, Grant said.",
"The boys' bodies were discovered early Monday after witnesses reported Duley's car had gone into the Edisto River outside Orangeburg, about 75 miles northwest of Charleston.",
"Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams told reporters Duley had no means of taking care of her children.",
"\"She lives with her mother, and her mother was a very, I guess, firm individual,\" Williams said.",
"\"She often talked with her daughter about, I guess, maybe being more of a mother or being more reliable.\"",
"Mother and daughter argued the night before the children's bodies were found in Duley's Chrysler sedan, Williams said.",
"\"We believe this is a direct response (to the argument) from Ms. Duley,\" he said.",
"\"I believe she was just fed up with her mother telling her she couldn't take care of the children, and she wasn't taking care of her children, and she just wanted to be free.\"",
"However, he said, \"this wasn't a hardened criminal.",
"This was a young lady in trouble, in trouble in more ways than she realized.\"",
"Duley has no previous criminal history, he said.",
"Her third child, a 5-year-old daughter, was at the home of Duley's mother at the time of the deaths and did not appear in court Wednesday.",
"Duley told authorities she smothered the boys by putting her hand over their mouths at the Trumps Inn in Orangeburg, Williams said.",
"Then she drove them to the river while \"trying to find a way to discard the bodies,\" he said.",
"\"She just wanted to get rid of the children, as sad as it may be,\" Williams said.",
"Authorities do not know how long the boys had been dead before they went into the water, he said.",
"Duley first reported that she had lost control of the car, and it had rolled into the river.",
"But authorities believed her story didn't add up from the beginning, Williams said.",
"Her clothes were dry, he said, and there were no skid marks or other indications of an accident at the scene.",
"Authorities responded to a report of a car accident near a boat landing on the river Monday, and divers found the children's bodies.",
"Williams described Duley as distraught, but said she showed no signs of remorse.",
"\"I don't believe she woke up and said, 'I'm going to the Shillings Bridge Road to get rid of my children,' \" he said.",
"\"Of course, that hasn't been determined.",
"I believe she was just angry, upset and for some reason found the boat ramp, but mind you the children were deceased ... so (she was) trying to find a way to discard the bodies.\"",
"The father of the two children has not been found, Williams said.",
"Duley \"was more or less being mother and father for the children,\" he said.",
"The S.C. Department of Social Services has no record of prior involvement with Duley, department spokeswoman Marilyn Matheus said.",
"The incident has striking similarities to a 1994 case, also in South Carolina.",
"The bodies of Michael Daniel Smith, 3, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith were found in their mother's car, still strapped into their car seats, in a lake in the town of Union.",
"Their mother, Susan Smith, was convicted on two counts of murder, but jurors spared her the death penalty and sentenced her to life in prison.",
"In Session's Beth Karas, HLN's Natisha Lance and CNN's Ashley Fantz contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Tuesday was anything but a routine day for Deputy Brandon Jenkins, who spent three hours in his patrol car after nearly 50,000 honeybees decided to park on it.",
"The Wake County Sheriff's Office officer had responded around 9:40 a.m. to a call of a person possibly being attacked by bees.",
"He found a disabled truck on U.S. 64 a few miles east of Raleigh, North Carolina.",
"Behind it was a trailer holding 60 boxes of bees.",
"The truck driver, who was headed for Rocky Mount, had been hauling the bees at night, when they are quiet and not apt to fly.",
"He spent a couple hours after daybreak trying to get someone to tow the trailer and his truck.",
"That's when Jenkins, 31, pulled up 50 yards behind in his Dodge Charger.",
"By then, the day was beginning to warm.",
"\"The bees were hot and bothered,\" said Charles Heatherly, one of two beekeepers who later swarmed to Jenkins' assistance.",
"It was not clear how the bees got away from the truck, but a lid from one box was seen on the side of the road.",
"\"It was mind-boggling how many bees were out there,\" Jenkins told CNN.",
"Eventually, the vehicles were towed off, leaving him still in his Dodge.",
"\"I was told that usually when a truck starts moving, the bees will follow behind.\"",
"Wrong. Jennifer Keller, who assisted Heatherly, said the leftover bees were likely drawn to the light color of the Dodge.",
"The insects spent the next three hours crawling over the vehicle, especially on the trunk and side panels.",
"\"At some point, it was hard to see out of the windows,\" said Jenkins.",
"Heatherly, a hobbyist, and Keller, a honeybee technician at North Carolina State University, went to work.",
"\"They got a little testy,\" said Heatherly who, like Keller, was not wearing a protective body suit.",
"They used smoke on the bees, which Keller says \"masks their communication,\" and a spray bottle of sugar water.",
"The sticky mix makes it harder for the bees to fly and they concentrate on grooming themselves rather than attacking humans.",
"At some point, Jenkins was advised to drive his patrol car some distance to blow the bees off.",
"But that didn't work. Eventually, the beekeepers brushed the bees onto a piece of plastic and then into a hive box.",
"Keller and Heatherly between them were stung only three or four times.",
"Jenkins said about six bees got in his patrol car.",
"He dispatched a couple when \"they got too close to my personal space.\"",
"Tuesday's incident was an unusual demonstration of how bees stick together.",
"\"They pull together as a unit,\" said Keller.",
"\"As a whole, they are quite amazing.\""
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"Two beekeepers came to his assistance, using smoke and sugar water .",
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who remade Heidi Montag died when his Jeep plunged off a Malibu highway into the ocean Monday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.",
"Dr. Frank Ryan, 50, had just finished hiking with his border collie on a giant sand dune along the Pacific Coast Highway when the crash happened, according to his own Twitter message posted minutes earlier.",
"\"The Jeep veered to the right and ran off the roadway,\" Officer Steven Reid said.",
"\"The Jeep overturned down a rocky embankment towards the ocean and eventually came to rest on its roof.\"",
"The dog was seriously injured, Reid said.",
"It was taken to a veterinary hospital for treatment.",
"\"He was the most amazing person I have ever known,\" reality TV star Montag said in tweets posted Tuesday morning.",
"\"He was an angel and changed my life and the lives of everyone he met.\"",
"Ryan defended the 10 cosmetic surgery procedures he performed on Montag as a \"very well-thought out, calculated career move.\"",
"\"Celebrities in the public eye need to look good,\" Ryan told HLN's \"Showbiz Tonight.\"",
"\"That's all there is to it.\" The list of procedures Ryan did on Montag, a star of MTV's \"The Hills,\" included breast implants, a nose job, Botox in her forehead, a brow lift, fat injections in her cheeks, a chin reduction and liposuction.",
"\"No one needs elective cosmetic surgery; that is something that they desire,\" Ryan said.",
"\"That is what Heidi desired.\""
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"Denver, Colorado (CNN) -- The FBI said Tuesday it will look into an April 2009 beating of a man by Denver, Colorado, police, an incident that resulted in disciplinary action against two officers but no charges.",
"Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper requested the investigation Tuesday, arguing that a federal probe would \"help ensure justice is appropriately served.\"",
"Tuesday afternoon, the FBI said it would look into the matter, but said little else.",
"\"As with any allegation that may fall within the FBI's purview, the Denver office will conduct a review of those events to determine if there is a basis for a federal civil rights investigation,\" the bureau said.",
"\"Per FBI policy, the Denver Division will not discuss ongoing investigative matters.\"",
"One of the two police officers involved received a three-day suspension and the other was docked a day's pay as a result of the incident, according to documents released by Denver officials Tuesday.",
"In a statement released by his office, Hickenlooper said the video doesn't look good \"when viewed in isolation,\" but that it \"tells only a portion of the story.\"",
"The officers were disciplined for filing false reports after a review by the city's manager of safety, Ron Perea.",
"But Perea said in a letter released Tuesday that the statements in their reports stemmed from \"more of a misperception\" than a \"willful, intentional or knowing\" attempt to deceive their superiors.",
"\"Viewing the video alone is inflammatory,\" Perea wrote.",
"\"However, when the entirety of the situation is reviewed as it should be, I believe I made an appropriate disciplinary decision.\"",
"Despite that finding, the city's independent monitor is now calling for the officers to be fired.",
"\"It was clear to me they were trying to cover up what actually happened and make it look better than it was,\" said Richard Rosenthal, who reviews police internal investigations, told CNN affilliate KMGH.",
"And Michael DeHerrera, the 24-year-old man seen being taken down and struck in the video footage recorded by a police camera, said Monday that he also wants the officers to lose their jobs.",
"\"I think they should be fired, and if not, prosecuted for assault,\" DeHerrera said.",
"\"I think if any one of us had done these actions and assaulted someone, we would all be in jail.\"",
"The scene was captured by a street surveillance camera located across the intersection from where the beating took place.",
"On the video, DeHerrera is seen talking animatedly on a mobile phone while police officers kneel over a friend who was being arrested on charges of punching an off-duty officer working security at a bar.",
"The friend was being thrown out of the bar when the altercation occurred, according to police reports.",
"Another officer who responded the fight confronted DeHerrera, who was on the phone with his father, a veteran police officer.",
"Soon afterward, the officer grabs DeHerrera by the head and shoves him to the pavement, and the camera pulls away seconds later.",
"DeHerrera's father, Anthony DeHerrera, told HLN's \"Prime News\" that Denver police mishandled the situation.",
"\"Officers have so many tools on their belts nowadays, there is no reason to take somebody down the way they did,\" said the elder DeHerrera, a veteran sheriff's deputy in southern Colorado's Pueblo County.",
"He said he could hear sirens in the background while he was on the phone with his son, \"so I felt law enforcement was arriving and everything going to be OK,\" he said.",
"\"And then I heard somebody in the background say 'Drop the phone,' and some obscenities.",
"The next thing I hear is a thud.",
"Then Michael was not talking anymore, so I knew it was Michael that got hit.\"",
"He said he yelled his son's name into the phone for about seven minutes, but, \"All we could hear was cussing in the background and some thuds.\"",
"The younger DeHerrera had a bloody nose and a cut above his left eye when a police sergeant questioned him after the incident, according to the sergeant's report.",
"He admitted to grabbing police officers he said were struggling with his friend, but denied attempting to punch anyone.",
"\"I was already handcuffed, and every time I was trying to tell them what happened, they hit me,\" he told the sergeant, according to the report.",
"And witness statements found both men shoved the police officer seen in the video while they were across the street and out of view of the camera, Perea wrote.",
"\"While there can certainly be debate whether the force was excessive or inappropriate, looking at all available evidence I do not believe excessive or inappropriate force could be proven,\" Perea added.",
"According to KMGH, charges against DeHerrera and a friend at the scene were dropped, and both men received a monetary settlement from the city.",
"Hickenlooper, a Democrat now running for Colorado's governor, said it was \"appropriate for the independent monitor to question the manager of safety's decision\" in the case.",
"\"Very few cities have this type of check-and-balance system that we have created in Denver,\" Hickenlooper's statement said.",
"\"Even still, we are asking for a federal review of the matter.\"",
"CNN's Jim Spellman contributed to this report."
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"Mayor seeks to \"ensure justice is appropriately served\"\nOfficers involved were disciplined for filing a false report ."
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"(CNN) -- I was out roaming the streets of east London with a group of friends back in 2007 when we stumbled across this sweaty hipster club tucked between an old church and a bank.",
"It wasn't a very large space, holding maybe a couple of hundred people, but what it lacked in size was more than made up in the energy coming from the predominantly white, eclectic crowd on the dance floor.",
"The music was a continuous flow of everything from '80s house music to current hip hop and I had just enough beers in me to join the raucous crowd in singing the words of each song at the top of my lungs.",
"From Inner City's \"Big Fun\" to House of Pain's \"Jump Around,\" it seemed with each track, the crowd grew louder and louder.",
"Then Kanye West's \"Gold Digger\" came on.",
"For those of you who don't remember the chorus, allow me to refresh your memory: .",
"\"Now I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger .",
"But she ain't messin' with no broke niggas\" I've never sobered up so quickly before in my life.",
"There I was, one of maybe a handful of black people in a crowded, dark room with hundreds of drunk white people yelling the N-word.",
"Now obviously I never felt I was in any real danger.",
"And even as the crowd repeated the word over and over and over again, not once did I think anyone around me meant anything malicious by it.",
"Still, I became angry ...",
"I just wasn't sure at whom. I thought, \"What is it with white people and that word?\"",
"But then I also had to ask myself, \"What is it with black people and that word?\"",
"After all, at least on that night, Kanye was the one who brought it up.",
"Last week Dr. Laura Schlessinger used the word repeatedly on her radio show in a discussion with a caller.",
"The knee jerk reaction to her rant is to demand she be fired.",
"That was also the response to Don Imus' on-air racial slur back in 2007, and Rush Limbaugh's racially charged comment in 2003, and of course who can forget Jimmy The Greek for sort of getting the ball rolling in 1988.",
"I believe Schlessinger and the others deserve the repercussions their actions have drawn, but I am frustrated that as a nation we continue to interpret the censure of such people as progress while ignoring some of the uncomfortable truths nestled inside their racist diatribes.",
"It is in dissecting these uncomfortable truths that we get to the actual social progress, not with the cosmetic firings that make us all feel better for a moment.",
"For example, I know there is a contingent of black people who claim our usage of the N-word is done so affectionately that's why it's OK for us to use it and not whites.",
"I don't believe it's OK for anyone to use the word because of its undeniable link to one of the country's most brutal and disgusting periods.",
"It was a word used to intimidate and belittle.",
"Any attempt to alter its meaning through some warped sense of exclusivity is not only misguided, but disrespectful to the blood of both blacks and whites that was spilled in the name of racial equality.",
"Yes, between friends it could hold a different connotation.",
"But I would argue there is very little affection in Kanye using the word in a song, and that our continual injection of the word into pop culture is not only hypocritical but unintentionally gives white hipsters in London, Sydney, New York or any other city where a song like \"Gold Digger\" can be heard, permission to say it.",
"The substantive question, the one that could lead to a better understanding, isn't who is saying the N-word, but why.",
"Now, if a white person said something like that, they could be labeled a racist.",
"Me? Someone out there is calling me an Uncle Tom right now.",
"And it's this sophomoric labeling that keeps us locked in a hamster wheel.",
"It's hard for me to believe that Schlessinger's remarks were rooted in a genuine yearning to promote honest dialogue about race --more like a belligerent attempt to shock, likely out of her own frustrations.",
"How could a white person who has been in media as long as she has be ignorant of the ramifications of uttering the N-word on air?",
"But she was right about one thing: Culturally neither blacks nor whites have the courage to talk honestly across color lines.",
"We still act as if \"colorblindness\" can be achieved without addressing the nuances of race in a country with a complicated history such as ours.",
"So, politically we coin euphemisms like \"inner city\" and \"real Americans\" as if no one knows what's really being said.",
"We draw lines in the sand on topics such as the N-word and we're quick to assign harsh names to anyone who tries to cross that line, because bullying is much easier than listening.",
"I know, I know, we have a black president, that's got to mean something, right?",
"Yes, it does. But also keep in mind the nation has also seen a dramatic increase in hate group membership and we have a new political movement with racist organizers woven into the early stages of its fabric since the election of that black president.",
"This language isn't helping.",
"There is still a lot of work to be done and quite frankly the rebuke of Schlessinger does very little in addressing that work.",
"Just as dismissing Imus, Limbaugh et al has done little.",
"Public gaffes like these need to move beyond reactionary name-calling and firings and toward the kind of conversations that can only happen when we remove the muzzle of fear.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson."
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"\"What is it with white people and that word?\"",
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"Writer: Word too freighted and hurtful to be tossed around by Dr. Laura or anyone else ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- The discovery of the exact location of a stockade and dozens of personal artifacts belonging to its Union prisoners is one of the biggest archaeological Civil War finds in decades, federal and Georgia officials said Monday.",
"Outside of scholars and Civil War buffs, few people have heard of the Confederacy's Camp Lawton, which replaced the infamous and overcrowded Andersonville prison in fall 1864.",
"For nearly 150 years, its exact location was not known, the U.S.",
"Fish and Wildlife Service, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Georgia Southern University said.",
"Georgia Southern students earlier this year began their search at a state park and federal fish hatchery for evidence of the wall timbers and interior buildings.",
"\"Archaeologists call it one of the most significant Civil War discoveries in decades,\" a joint statement read.",
"Officials would provide no details until the formal announcement Wednesday morning at Magnolia Springs State Park, five miles north of Millen in southeast Georgia.",
"An open house for the public will follow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Life at Lawton, described as \"foul and fetid,\" wasn't much better than at Andersonville, with the exception of plentiful water from Magnolia Springs.",
"In its six weeks' existence, between 725 and 1,330 men died at the prison camp.",
"The 42-acre stockade held about 10,000 men before it was hastily closed when Union forces approached.",
"Monday's announcement follows weeks of speculation that began after a locked chain-linked fence went up around the hatchery adjoining the state park.",
"Townspeople in nearby Millen made the secrecy part of their water cooler discussions.",
"\"It's created a lot of buzz, what's going on out there,\" said Connie Lee, owner of Cindy's Cafe, a popular meeting place in the town of about 3,500.",
"Rumors have included the discovery of a chest with important papers, gold, a burial trench and, yes, even Union Gen. William Sherman's horse.",
"There are no photos of Lawton and few visual stockade details, although a Union mapmaker painted some important watercolors of the prison.",
"He also kept a 5,000-page journal that detailed the misery at Camp Lawton, which was built to hold up to 40,000 prisoners.",
"\"The weather has been rainy and cold at nights,\" Pvt.",
"Robert Knox Sneden, who was previously imprisoned at Andersonville, wrote in his diary on Nov. 1, 1864.",
"\"Many prisoners have died from exposure, as not more than half of us have any shelter but a blanket propped upon sticks. ... ... ...",
"Our rations have grown smaller in bulk too, and we have the same hunger as of old.\"",
"The impending arrival of Federal forces during Sherman's March to the Sea soon forced the Confederates to move the prisoners elsewhere, including Florence, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia.",
"In early December 1864, Union cavalry found the empty prison, a freshly dug area and a board reading \"650 buried here.\"",
"Outraged, troops apparently burned much of the stockade and the camp buildings, and a depot and a hotel in Millen, which was a transportation hub.",
"Many of the state park facilities -- including a pool, houses and the main office -- sit atop the prison site.",
"Some earthworks, long known to visitors and historians, survived.",
"The artifacts will deepen the knowledge of the tough daily life of prisoners and guards alike, said a historian who has completed a manuscript on the camp.",
"\"[Lawton] illustrates almost every Civil War POW issue,\" said John K. Derden, professor emeritus at East Georgia College which has campuses in nearby Statesboro and Swainsboro.",
"Derden cited health conditions, death rates, prisoner exchanges and the South's dwindling ability to manage a population where disease and poor sanitation were in abundance.",
"Until now, Andersonville was the sole POW camp in the South to capture the public's attention and imagination.",
"Besides the camp's own horrors, Clara Barton made Andersonville famous through her extensive campaign to have POW graves found and soldiers reinterred at a national cemetery.",
"The prison's commandant, Henry H. Wirz, was hanged in 1865, the only man to be hanged for war crimes during the Civil War.",
"Monuments dot Andersonville National Historic Site, which drew 136,000 visitors last year.",
"A 1996 movie tells its story.",
"None of that happened at Camp Lawton, where time and its remote location put it on the road to obscurity, fortunately for archaeologists.",
"That promises to change beginning Wednesday, when the public will get its first glimpse of what life might have been like for prisoners, many of whom had been moved to Lawton from Andersonville.",
"Lee and Walter Bragg, owner of Millen Auto Parts, hope anything associated with the discovery will boost the depressed area, where a 10.7 percent unemployment rate exceeds the state average.",
"\"Our county [Jenkins] needs something to revitalize Millen,\" Lee said."
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"Open house will follow Wednesday's formal announcement .",
"Major archaeological find at site of Civil War prison camp .",
"Learn more from the Virginia Historical Society ."
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"St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) -- Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected and at levels toxic to marine life, researchers reported Monday.",
"Initial findings from a new survey of the Gulf conclude that dispersants may have sent the oil to the ocean floor, where it has turned up at the bottom of an undersea canyon within 40 miles of the Florida Panhandle.",
"Plankton and other organisms showed a \"strong toxic response\" to the crude, according to researchers from the University of South Florida.",
"\"The dispersant is moving the oil down out of the surface and into the deeper waters, where it can affect phytoplankton and other marine life,\" said John Paul, a marine microbiologist at USF.",
"Results of the latest survey are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but CNN obtained a summary of the initial conclusions Monday night.",
"Tests conducted offshore indicate the oil matches the 205-million-gallon Deepwater Horizon spill, which has been temporarily capped for a month, the summary states.",
"Some of it has spread into the DeSoto Canyon, a channel on the ocean floor east of the ruptured well.",
"That canyon comprises part of the spawning grounds for much of the Gulf's commercial fish.",
"\"To date, this is the easternmost location for the occurrence of subsurface oils,\" the report states.",
"The oil is not \"draping\" across the bottom, but is spread out in \"small, unevenly distributed droplets,\" the report states.",
"USF chemical oceanographer David Hollander said that when an ultraviolet light used to detect oil was turned onto the sea floor, \"All of a sudden, it turns out to be a constellation of little dots.\"",
"And the oil could well up onto the continental shelf and resurface later, Paul said.",
"Or it could be eaten by fish and other animals and accumulate in the food chain, Hollander said.",
"\"It's in such small droplets that you can see it -- you can filter it and see it,\" he said.",
"\"But if you look at it, it's transparent, and small larval fish see these droplets as food so they're ingesting pure oil.\"",
"The Environmental Protection Agency has previously reported some oil turning up in the sediment at the bottom of the Gulf, but has not determined whether it came from the Deepwater Horizon spill that erupted in April or whether it was already present.",
"And on August 4, the head of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration warned that oil could persist in the water even though the well has been temporarily capped.",
"The oil company BP used more than 1.8 million gallons of chemical dispersants on the Deepwater Horizon spill between its eruption in late April and the time the well was capped in mid-July.",
"BP says the chemicals allowed the oil to be broken up into droplets small enough that microbes can digest it, and the Environmental Protection Agency has said the dispersants were no more toxic than the oil itself.",
"Critics warned the full effect of the dispersants on the food chain was not known and that their use in deep water effectively concealed the full extent of the spill.",
"NOAA spokeswoman Mary Jane Schramm said on Monday that she had not seen the latest study and couldn't comment on it.",
"BP spokesman John Curry, meanwhile, said the company wants \"to know everything everyone wants to know.\"",
"The company is responsible for capping, cleaning up and compensating victims of the oil spill, and it has committed to spending $500 million to research the spill's impact over the next 10 years.",
"The latest study will \"add another piece to the puzzle,\" Curry said.",
"\"There will be others that'll want to look at this study and want to look at doing some additional research,\" he said.",
"\"There's been extensive testing up to this point, and I'm sure there will be much more going forward.\"",
"CNN's Vivian Kuo contributed to this report."
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"Plankton showed \"strong toxic response\" to the crude, initial results show .",
"Researchers say the oil could resurface later ."
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"Rome, Italy (CNN) -- The city of Florence and the Italian government are embroiled in a dispute -- again -- over who owns one of the world's most famous statues, Michelangelo's David.",
"The issue has been simmering for years.",
"The Florence mayor's office said the debate began in the early 1990, and the city's various mayors have brought it up from time to time.",
"It's mainly about the bottom line -- some 8 million euros a year in ticket sales at Florence's La Galleria dell'Accademia, also simply known as L'Accademia or the Accademia Gallery, where David is displayed.",
"That money, however, goes to the Italian government, and not the city.",
"Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi recently asked that David's earnings go to Florence instead, because \"after all, the David is ours,\"' said one of his press officers.",
"While tourism brings money to Florence, it also brings a lot of costs, such as cleaning and security, said the press officer.",
"The mayor does not feel it's fair that the burden of maintaining the city and its centuries-old buildings should fall solely on its citizens.",
"Following the request, the Heritage Ministry commissioned a study to determine who is the rightful owner of David.",
"The ministry's lawyers recently concluded that according to documents they found in archives, David belongs to Italy, not the city of Florence.",
"The government bases that assumption on the fact that Italy paid for David to be moved from its original spot, in central Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, to L'Accademia, according to Renzi's press officer.",
"Eugenio Giani, president of the Florence City Council, said in a statement Monday that \"the opinion of the Roman lawyers is very dangerous,\" noting all of the city's \"heritage\" that fills state museums.",
"He points out that Florence's city hall commissioned and paid for the statue's creation in the 16th Century.",
"It stood at the Palazzo Vecchio for nearly four centuries, until 1873, when it was moved to L'Accademia in order to better preserve it.",
"When Italy was unified in 1871, the Palazzo Vecchio was returned to Florence under law, he said.",
"Giani said his records show the new Rome-based Italian government paid to move David because it took the responsibility of \"tutelage\" over the new nation's heritage.",
"\"The state did not for sure want to lay claim to the ownership of the David given two years' prior law,\" he said.",
"\"Instead, it wanted to carry out a tutelage function, which is part of its competence to this day and by which the city of Florence had agreed to place the David at the Accademia.\"",
"Many of the paintings and statues in Italian-run Florence museums such as the Uffizzi Gallery belong to the city, Giani said.",
"Some of the proceeds should be given to Florence, he said: \"The city of Florence has the right to partake in the profits.\"",
"Michelangelo, who was a native of Florence, completed the sculpture in 1504.",
"It has been a symbol of Florence's defiance against its enemies ever since.",
"Renzi told the Florence daily newspaper Il Corriere Fiorentino \"with all due respect to the Roman lawyers, the incontestable documents held in possession by the state administration are clear: the David belongs to the city of Florence.\"",
"The Italian Heritage Ministry's Sandro Bondi indicated in a statement Monday he is not ready to hand over ownership of the statue.",
"Bondi said he found himself embroiled in \"an absurd and inopportune\" dispute about the statue \"against (his) will.\"",
"His statement referred to the question of the statue's ownership as \"a petty matter\" -- but one that also should \"be addressed in a sharing, planning manner.\"",
"He said he would work with Florence representatives in such a manner, with a goal of avoiding controversy."
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"The issue is who gets the 8 million euros tickets generate each year ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Two U.S. senators from New Jersey intensified their calls for the British and Scottish governments -- and oil giant BP -- to provide information surrounding the circumstances of the convicted Lockerbie bomber's release a year ago.",
"The British government urged Libya on Friday not to celebrate the anniversary of the convicted bomber's release, saying it would be \"offensive and deeply insensitive\" to the families of the 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Scotland.",
"Also Friday, the Obama administration again blasted the decision by Scotland to release Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi from prison exactly a year ago on compassionate grounds due to a diagnosis of terminal cancer.",
"\"As we have expressed repeatedly to Scottish authorities, we maintain that al Megrahi should serve out the entirety of his sentence in prison in Scotland,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a written statement.",
"President Barack Obama's assistant on homeland security and counterterrorism, John Brennan, called the release of al Megrahi \"unfortunate and inappropriate.\"",
"Democratic Sens.",
"Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg noted al Megrahi was only given three months to live when he released, but he is still alive today.",
"Menendez noted that on August 20, 2009, al Megrahi stepped off a plane into the arms of a cheering throng in Libya.",
"\"A mass murderer tasted freedom, experiencing joy,\" Menendez said.",
"\"It was a scene that made the stomach turn ... that made old wounds fresh again in the hearts of those whose family members died at the hands of that man.\"",
"Lautenberg said, \"It is the families of those victims who deserve compassion, not this terrorist.\"",
"\"Al Megrahi ... is very much free, living in the lap of luxury by all accounts,\" Menendez said.",
"Doctors who examined the convicted terrorist in prison now say he could live another 10 years, he said.",
"The case has outraged many on both sides of the Atlantic, and led U.S. senators to demand answers from Scotland about the details of his release.",
"Menendez said his office has sent letters to British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, \"laying out those areas where questions linger\" and asking for additional answers and documentation.",
"Scottish authorities have defended their actions in the case, saying Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill relied on a medical report from the top doctor in the Scottish Prison Service, along with reports from the parole board and prison governor, in deciding to free al Megrahi, who had been serving a life sentence.",
"\"We took the decision in good faith,\" Salmond told Sky News on Friday.",
"\"We followed the judicial processes, the law of Scotland and the jurisdiction the Lockerbie atrocity has been governed [by], not for the last year, but for the last 20 years.\"",
"Under the Scotland Act of 1998, Scotland has its own government that is responsible for most of the day-to-day issues there, including the justice system.",
"It took charge of the case because the flight al Megrahi was convicted of bombing exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.",
"Scottish authorities have insisted that three doctors hired by Libya to assess al Megrahi's condition last year played no part in the decision to release him.",
"Menendez said he wants to know what was discussed when the doctors met with Libyan officials.",
"Dr. Andrew Fraser, the director of health and care at the Scottish Prison Service, also said the three-month prognosis was a reasonable estimate.",
"U.S. senators also have repeatedly voiced suspicions that Scotland released al Megrahi as part of a deal allowing BP to drill off the Libyan coast.",
"Salmond has already shot down such concerns, saying \"there is no evidence whatsoever\" of any link.",
"Menendez plans to chair a U.S. Senate hearing in September on the controversy surrounding al Megrahi's release.",
"Friday, Menendez said the senators have asked the British and Scottish governments to conduct an independent investigation in the United Kingdom, which he said Cameron supported before he became prime minister.",
"Lautenberg called on British and Scottish officials to stop \"stonewalling and side-tracking.\"",
"\"Help us clear the air; help us give information to the families.\"",
"Menendez also said letters are being sent to Libyan and Qatari leaders, inquiring whether \"commercial interests\" led them to pressure Britain and Scotland to release al Megrahi.",
"Al Megrahi is the only person ever convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground.",
"Most of the dead were Americans.",
"The flight had been heading to New York from Frankfurt, Germany, via London, England, when it blew up.",
"A special Scottish court in the Netherlands convicted al Megrahi in 2001."
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"NEW: Clinton, Brennan blast decision to release al Megrahi .",
"Two U.S. senators call for the British and Scottish governments and BP to furnish information .",
"UK: Celebrating bomber's release would be \"offensive and deeply insensitive\"\nAl Megrahi was released a year ago on humanitarian grounds ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- A former Israeli soldier has posted photos of herself on Facebook posing in front of blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, prompting harsh reactions.",
"The former soldier, identified online as \"Eden from Ashdod\" in Israel, is seen smiling sitting on a blast barrier next to a blindfolded man.",
"In another picture she is sitting in front of three blindfolded Palestinians, one with his hands tied in front of him.",
"The photos have since been taken down from her Facebook site, but Israeli media reports the photos were labeled \"IDF -- best time of my life.\"",
"\"These photos are disgraceful; in no way does the IDF condone this behaviour,\" said Israel Defense Forces spokesman Capt.",
"Barak Raz in a written statement.",
"\"In matters of information security aside, we are talking about a serious viloation of the IDF ethical code, and I imagine that if she was on active duty today she would no doubt be court martialled.\"",
"Raz said Eden left the military a year ago, but, \"nevertheless her commanders have been informed.\"",
"However, because Eden has left the IDF it is not clear if the military will be able to take any action against her.",
"Jawad Amawi, director of legal affairs for the Palestinian government's prisoners ministry, told CNN, \"She did this act while she was in military service, so in retrospect the Israeli occupation is responsible for her acts.",
"This is a breach of international law, clearly a breach of human rights.\"",
"Amawi says his department will try to take legal action against the former soldier.",
"Israeli media reports one of the comments posted by a friend of Eden said, \"That looks really sexy for you.\"",
"The photo shows Eden smiling in front of blindfolded prisoners.",
"She posted this response: \"I wonder if he is on Facebook too -- I'll have to tag him in the photo.\""
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"Israeli military calls it \"shameful behavior\" by the soldier .",
"It is not clear if the military can take any action against her ."
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"(CNN) -- A federal appeals court in San Francisco, California, has blocked same-sex marriages in that state from resuming immediately, until the three-judge panel hears broader questions over the constitutionality of such marriages.",
"The brief order from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late Monday set aside a federal judge's decision earlier this month that would have permitted same-sex marriages to resume in California as early as Wednesday.",
"That came after the judge ruled a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violated federal civil rights laws.",
"The appeals court also set a fast schedule to hear the merits of the constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative defining marriage as only between one man and one woman.",
"Oral arguments will now be held the week of December 6, meaning a decision on whether same-sex couples can legally wed likely will not be decided until sometime next year.",
"Opponents of Proposition 8 seeking to overturn the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages will not appeal Monday's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to spokesman Yousef Robb with the American Foundation for Equal Rights.",
"Opponents could ask the Supreme Court to intervene on the narrow question of whether to allow the stay to be lifted, but both sides of the debate agree the odds of the justices getting involved at this stage are very slim.",
"The case has had an up-and-down series of rulings and referendums.",
"The state's high court had allowed same-sex marriage, but then the voter referendum two years ago passed with 52 percent of the vote.",
"The California Supreme Court subsequently allowed that initiative to stand, saying it represented the will of the people.",
"Opponents of the law next filed a federal challenge, saying the law violated 14th Amendment constitutional protections of due process and equal protection.",
"Judge Vaughn Walker on August 4 agreed, issuing a 136-page opinion that concluded, \"Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license.\"",
"The Reagan-appointed judge added, \"Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.\"",
"Same sex marriage is currently legal in five states and in the District of Columbia, while civil unions are permitted in New Jersey.",
"The five states are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa, and New Hampshire.",
"Walker's landmark ruling assured a swift federal appeal that ultimately may reach the Supreme Court.",
"One sticking point could be whether Proposition 8 supporters in court -- all private citizens and groups -- have legal \"standing\" to continue appealing the case.",
"State officials, including the governor and attorney general, support individual same-sex couples challenging the law.",
"Such state \"actors\" traditionally defend voter referendums and legislation.",
"Some legal experts say if the appeals court eventually rules Proposition 8 backers cannot bring their petition for relief , the Supreme Court may not seek to intervene further, giving no clear guidance on the larger question of the constitutionality of same-sex marriage nationwide.",
"The high court, in a 1997 unrelated appeal, had expressed \"grave doubts\" about the ability of such private groups to challenge rulings that strike down ballot initiatives.",
"Walker's ruling had given the losing side a chance to appeal, and he held off allowing same-sex marriages from resuming until an emergency injunction request could be decided by the higher court.",
"Among the federal appeals judges who agreed Monday to block same-sex marriages from resuming immediately was Sidney Thomas, a Montana native who was interviewed this spring by President Obama for the Supreme Court vacancy that eventually went to Elena Kagan.",
"The case is Perry v. Schwarzenegger (10-16696)."
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"California's Proposition 8 defines marriage as only between one man and one woman .",
"On August 4, a federal judge ruled that Prop 8 violates federal civil rights laws .",
"Monday's appeals court ruling sets aside that ruling pending further hearings .",
"Arguments will now be held before the appeals court in early December ."
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"(CNN) -- A vaccine to prevent HIV infection, the virus that leads to AIDS, has shown modest results for the first time, researchers have found, raising hopes that a disease that kills millions every year may someday be beaten.",
"Researchers found those who received the vaccine combination were 31 percent less likely to contract HIV.",
"In what is being called the world's largest HIV vaccine trial ever -- involving more than 16,000 participants in Thailand -- researchers found that people who received a series of inoculations of a prime vaccine and booster vaccine were 31 percent less likely to get HIV, compared with those on a placebo.",
"\"Before this study, it was thought vaccine for HIV is not possible,\" Colonel Jerome Kim, who is the HIV vaccines product manager for the U.S. Army, told CNN.",
"HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus, which is the virus that causes AIDS -- acquired immune deficiency syndrome.",
"Kim emphasized that the level of effectiveness of the latest vaccine was modest, but given the failures of previous HIV vaccine trials, \"yesterday we would have thought an HIV vaccine wasn't possible.\"",
"Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta discuss the excitement surrounding the vaccine » .",
"He called the results from the trial an important first step that will help researchers work toward a more effective vaccine.",
"Researchers have tried to prevent the spread of HIV since they discovered its cause in 1986.",
"Previous vaccine trials failed to prevent infection.",
"And during one trial, the vaccine seemed to boost the chance of being infected, which ended testing early.",
"The new study was conducted in Thailand, with more than 16,000 people between ages 18 and 30 participating.",
"They were all HIV negative at the beginning of the trial.",
"Nearly 8,200 received a placebo and a similar number received a combination of six vaccines over six months.",
"All were followed for three years.",
"Researchers found that those who received the vaccine combination were 31 percent less likely to contract HIV compared with those on a placebo.",
"\"This shows a statistically significant effect,\" Kim said.",
"He cautioned that a lot more research was necessary, because the vaccine did not prevent everyone from being infected.",
"Fifty-one people in the vaccine group eventually contracted HIV, compared with 74 in the placebo group.",
"\"These results show that development of a safe and effective preventive HIV vaccine is possible,\" said Colonel Nelson Michael, who is director of the U.S. military HIV research program.",
"The combination of vaccines tested targeted strains circulating in Thailand.",
"It was unclear how the vaccines would work elsewhere, Kim said.",
"Researchers will announce details of their initial findings at the AIDS Vaccine Conference next month in Paris, France.",
"The study was funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.",
"According to Kim, the U.S. military was involved in the study because U.S. service members are at risk and \"there's a national security threat from HIV.\"",
"He said Congress set up a program to protect service members from HIV and the U.S. military has collaborated with health officials and researchers in Thailand for a long time.",
"The vaccines are manufactured by Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases and Sanofi Pasteur.",
"The Thai Ministry of Health carried out the clinical trial.",
"According to estimates by WHO and UNAIDS, 33 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2007.",
"That same year, some 2.7 million people became newly infected, and 2 million died of AIDS, including 270,000 children.",
"Two-thirds of HIV infections are in sub-Saharan Africa."
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"New vaccine cut risk of HIV infection by 31 percent in world's largest HIV trial .",
"Combination of prime, booster vaccines prove effective, researchers say .",
"Researchers tested strains in Thailand; not known if vaccine would work elsewhere ."
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"Dallas, Texas (CNN) -- A gunman who fired shots at a Texas police department near a college campus has been killed, the college said.",
"Shots were fired Tuesday at the McKinney Police Department near Collin College's Central Park Campus in McKinney, Texas, according to campus spokeswoman Lisa Vasquez.",
"The incident took place shortly after 9 a.m.",
"The gunman parked his car at the McKinney Police Department before the shooting took place, Vasquez said.",
"She said the shooter has been killed, but it is not known whether he was killed by police or if he killed himself.",
"Vasquez said it does not appear that any students, faculty, or staff were injured in the incident.",
"The college's emergency alert system notified students and staff immediately about the shooting and the campus was on lockdown for two hours.",
"Campus activities have since resumed, Vasquez said.",
"The city was also put on lockdown briefly.",
"CNN affiliate WFAA, quoting an eyewitness, reported that many shots were fired.",
"The witness said the shooter was in an open field, firing randomly at vehicles driving by.",
"The eyewitness saw only one shooter and eventually police shot toward him.",
"Collin College is a two-year community college with an enrollment of 3,800 students.",
"Classes begin there on Monday."
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"NEW: The gunman is dead, a college spokeswoman says .",
"The shooting incident took place near a police station and campus .",
"It's not clear whether police killed the gunman or if he shot himself .",
"The campus of Collin College was locked down immediately ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- The former Israeli soldier who posted photos of herself on Facebook posing in front of blindfolded Palestinians waved off criticism of her actions, arguing that her behavior was no different than that of news outlets.",
"\"This was just a military (service) experience,\" Eden Abergil said in an interview on Tuesday with Israeli Army Radio.",
"\"The media does the same thing.\"",
"Abergil, the former soldier identified online as \"Eden from Ashdod,\" is seen smiling sitting on a blast barrier next to a blindfolded man.",
"In another picture she is sitting in front of three blindfolded Palestinians, one with his hands tied in front of him.",
"\"I ask the media -- when you take pictures of handcuffed prisoners for TV, do you ask for their permission?",
"Do these Arab men agree to it?",
"I really do not understand what is wrong.",
"\"I have already apologized to the people who were actually hurt by me.",
"This picture was without any political saying, just a thing of military (service) experience and no more.\"",
"Abergil was interviewed on Ilana Dayan's Nachon Lehaboker show.",
"The photos have since been taken down from her Facebook site, but Israeli media reports the photos were labeled \"IDF -- best time of my life.\"",
"The photos have been slammed by Israelis and Palestinians.",
"In another interview on Dayan's show, a Channel 2 Army commentator, Roni Daniel, expressed anger over Abergil's attitude.",
"\"I deeply regret that she doesn't even understand what is wrong with this.",
"I regret that the commanders did not see this (when it happened).",
"It is unfitting, wrong and unethical,\" Daniel said.",
"\"These photos are disgraceful; in no way does the IDF condone this behavior,\" said Israel Defense Forces spokesman Capt.",
"Barak Raz in a written statement.",
"\"In matters of information security aside, we are talking about a serious violation of the IDF ethical code, and I imagine that if she was on active duty today she would no doubt be court martialed.\"",
"Raz said Abergil left the military a year ago, but, \"nevertheless her commanders have been informed.\"",
"However, because Abergil has left the IDF it is not clear if the military will be able to take any action against her.",
"Jawad Amawi, director of legal affairs for the Palestinian government's prisoners ministry, told CNN, \"She did this act while she was in military service, so in retrospect the Israeli occupation is responsible for her acts.",
"This is a breach of international law, clearly a breach of human rights.\"",
"Amawi said his department will try to take legal action against the former soldier.",
"Israeli media reported one of the comments posted by a friend of Abergil said, \"That looks really sexy for you.\"",
"The photo shows Abergil smiling in front of blindfolded prisoners.",
"She posted this response: \"I wonder if he is on Facebook too -- I'll have to tag him in the photo,\" an apparent reference to one of the prisoners in the photo."
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"She said the pictures had no political message .",
"One commentator regrets that she doesn't understand what she did wrong ."
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"Chachran Sharif, Pakistan (CNN) -- Imam Baksh used two cots as shelter over his head and a third to shield him from the drenched earth.",
"The 80-year-old man was among thousands in Chachran Sharif who could see his home submerged under water -- about half of the Pakistani town looked more like a lake than a community of people.",
"Even the mosque was under water and people were using boats to rescue their cows, goats and sheep, dragging the terrified animals onto dry -- or at least dryer -- land.",
"Chachran Sharif, in Pakistan's Punjab province, is one of many villages, towns and cities across Pakistan reeling from torrential monsoon rain and flooding that authorities now say have affected 12 million people and killed as many as 1,500.",
"Pakistan's disaster management authority estimated that 650,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed.",
"By comparison, the earthquake of 2005 affected 3.2 million people and damaged or destroyed 611,000 homes.",
"And no relief is in sight as the bloated Indus River overflows its banks and more rain continues to fall.",
"Pakistan's Meteorological Department issued an alert for the southern province of Sindh, far away from the northern Swat Valley, where the crisis began.",
"\"Pakistan has been hit by the worst flood of its history,\" said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in a televised speech Friday.",
"\"As I speak, the flood is still engulfing new areas and adding to the scale of devastation.\"",
"Gilani said a true assessment of the loss to life and infrastructure can be determined only after the water recedes.",
"He appealed to the international community and to Pakistanis living abroad to dig deep into their pockets.",
"Relief agencies said donations are needed urgently to alleviate suffering.",
"Patrick Fuller has worked for the International Red Cross for 15 years and been involved in other disasters.",
"Still, he said Friday he was shocked by what he saw.",
"\"These people need help desperately and the world needs to wake up,\" Fuller told CNN.",
"People can't go back to their homes.",
"They are living in a precarious situation.\"",
"He said there has been a conspicuous absence of aid in some areas, despite efforts by the Red Cross and other international aid groups.",
"Parts of the Swat Valley remain inaccessible by road; helicopters provide the only way in or out for people, food, clean water or medicine.",
"At Chakdara, south of the valley's largest city, Mingora, people queued for more than four hours to cross a rickety temporary suspension bridge above swirling brown water.",
"With the main highway crossing destroyed, people trying to escape were using a decrepit British-built 19th century bridge that was damaged in the rain.",
"Meanwhile, among the suffering, anger grew at the government for perceived lack of action.",
"Pakistanis hurled stinging criticism at President Asif Ali Zardari, who was in England for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron during the worst of the crisis.",
"Advisor Farahnaz Ispahani said Zardari was simply doing his job as head of state and had ensured the crisis at home was being adequately addressed by the prime minister.",
"In Chachran Sharif, there were few signs of aid for the flood-displaced and frustration mixed with drizzle in the air.",
"\"We elected him,\" one man said about Zardari.",
"\"Where is he?\" U.S. emergency relief teams were continuing to arrive in Peshawar for distribution by Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, the State Department said Friday.",
"In all, the U.S. Agency for International Development has committed $35 million in aid to international organizations and non-governmental organizations, it said.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Dan Rivers and Moni Basu contributed to this story."
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"An alert is issued for southern Sindh province .",
"What were once villages and towns are now lakes .",
"Pakistanis grow angry at the president for leaving the country ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- The United Nations estimates more than a billion dollars damage from the Pakistan flooding.",
"In a phone conference to reporters in New York Friday, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Pakistan said the cost to rebuild the affected parts of the country \"has to be measured in terms of hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more than a billion.\"",
"Martin Mogwanja, the UN's coordinator in Islamabad, Pakistan, said, \"There is going to be a tremendous cost in terms of repairing roads, bridges, telecommunications and electricity infrastructure,\" and most importantly, the farming and irrigation infrastructure.",
"The United Nations is preparing an initial flood emergency response plan to address the immediate needs of Pakistan and the affected population, he said.",
"Mogwanja said the response will cover 90 days initially and \"will address the most pressing needs in the area of food security, health care, sanitation and shelter.\"",
"The U.N. plan and a flash appeal for funding will be introduced to the international community in the near future, he said.",
"\"An estimated 1,400 people have been killed by the flood waters so far, but this number may rise as new bodies may be found,\" said Mogwanja.",
"The terrain is so waterlogged that many families can't bury their loved ones at traditional burial grounds.",
"Some people are traveling to higher ground to conduct burials, and others are waiting for family members and the appropriate time, Mogwanja said.",
"\"It is indeed, a very, very sad occasion,\" he said.",
"\"More than 250,000 homes have been badly damaged or destroyed, leaving at least 1.5 million people homeless,\" said Mogwanja.",
"To help combat homelessness, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has provided more than 11,000 tents.",
"Pakistan has reported that at least 12 million people are affected by the flood but Mogwanja said only 4 million have been affected and that the estimate could rise.",
"\"These estimates that we are providing are based upon the figures that we are receiving from the disaster management authorities in different provinces,\" Mogwanja said.",
"He said monsoon season could last two to four weeks and that the United Nations and its partners have been providing emergency assistance since the start of the flood.",
"The priorities which have been provided for so far include: 500 metric tons of food from the World Food Programme, clean drinking water from UNICEF to more than 700,000 people, and 40 cholera kits from the World Health Organization to health centers in Pakistan.",
"\"However, this is only a small fraction of what is required, given the scale of this disaster and also its geographic scope, spreading across the poor, large provinces of the country,\" Mogwanja said."
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"(CNN) -- It was a Friday night in June 2007 when 22-year-old college student Kelly Nolan left her home to meet friends at a bar in Madison, Wisconsin.",
"Kelly Nolan's body was found two weeks after she disappeared after a night out with friends.",
"Police say she and three girlfriends spent the evening at a bar in the State Street area of Madison.",
"About 11:30 p.m., Nolan and her friends separated, because her friends wanted to go home, and Nolan continued on to another bar.",
"It is unclear exactly whom Nolan was with afterward.",
"Two weeks after she went missing that night, her body was found in a wooded area on private property 11 miles from where she'd last been seen.",
"The coroner and police have characterized her death as a homicide but have not released a cause of death or details on the condition of her body.",
"\"We have collected a lot of crime scene evidence and feel confident this case can be solved,\" said Joel De Spain, a spokesman for the Madison Police Department.",
"According to police, Nolan's last contact with anyone was a cell phone call in the early morning to her sister, April.",
"Triangulation from pings on her cell phone led police to search the area where they found her body July 9.",
"Tom Paras, owner of Amy's Cafe, a bar in the State Street area, said an employee met Nolan at another nearby watering hole called the Lava Lounge.",
"Police won't confirm it, but the witness claims that he and Nolan walked out of the bar together because another male bar patron had been harassing Nolan, Paras said.",
"\"The guy was giving her the creeps,\" Paras said.",
"The two walked out, but then Nolan asked Paras' employee to wait for her to use the bathroom.",
"\"They were both very drunk,\" Paras said, \"And he admits he was stupid to have left her there when he saw her talking to that guy again outside, but he assumed they were friends.\"",
"According to Paras, the real problem is that no one has an accurate description of this person of interest.",
"Watch an update on the case » .",
"Furthermore, police have not revealed any possible motive in Nolan's murder, nor have they said whether she had been sexually assaulted.",
"Investigators even reviewed surveillance video from the bar but found nothing that shows Nolan interacting with the individual last seen with her.",
"There is a $12,000 reward being offered for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible for Kelly Nolan's murder.",
"Anyone with a tip is asked to call the Madison Police Department at (608) 266-6014."
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"(CNN) -- The United States and its allies have plenty to worry about in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with al Qaeda, two Talibans, the Haqqani Network and a plethora of other militant groups active.",
"But the United States and intelligence analysts believe another group, one of Pakistan's most powerful and well-established, is also broadening its horizons.",
"It is Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which means \"Army of the Pure.\"",
"It was blamed for the attack on Mumbai, India, hotels in November 2008 in which nearly 200 people were killed over three days.",
"That attack \"shows the organization's global ambitions,\" said Dan Benjamin, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism.",
"Bernjamin has been in Islamabad meeting Pakistani officials this week as part of a \"strategic dialogue\" between the United States and Pakistan.",
"Lashkar-e-Tayyiba \"appears to have a very complex mix of indigenous and international targets,\" Benjamin said at a U.S. Embassy briefing Thursday.",
"\"We are working with Pakistan's civilian authorities to investigate further into this organization, but definitely [Lashkar-e-Tayyiba] maintains some level of connections with al Qaeda,\" Benjamin said at the briefing [WHEN added above].",
"Earlier this year, Benjamin said of the Mumbai attacks: \"The target was set directly out of [Osama] bin Laden's book, filling the gap created by a diminished al Qaeda.\"",
"Lashkar-e-Tayyiba claims it is focused on the same issue as it was when created: freeing the disputed territory of Kashmir from Indian rule, experts say.",
"In a rare interview earlier this year, the man widely regarded as the organization lader, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, told The Independent newspaper that the group was not involved in the Mumbai attacks, despite substantial evidence to the contrary.",
"Lashkar-e-Tayyiba was allegedly behind several high-profile attacks in India.",
"And it is precisely because it is aimed at India's presence in Kashmir that the organization has been tolerated and even supported by Pakistani officials over the years -- even after it was banned there in 2002, intelligence officials and some Pakistani officials say.",
"The current Pakistani ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, wrote three years ago that Lashkar-e-Tayyiba was \"backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani intelligence services.\"",
"Saeed has been periodically put under house arrest when things have got a little overheated, but the group maintains an expansive compound near Lahore in Punjab and according to intelligence analysts remains well-connected to elements of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI.",
"NATO in Afghanistan believes Lashkar is extensively involved with militant groups there.",
"Friday, the International Security Assistance Force said it had detained a Taliban commander in the eastern Nangahar province who had \"assisted with the recent influx of [Lashkar-e-Tayyiba] insurgents into the province.\"",
"They are believed to have worked with the Haqqani Network to carry out attacks on Indian targets in Kabul, including several this year.",
"Much to Pakistan's consternation, India has expanded its presence in Afghanistan, especially through Indian government-aided construction and training projects, since the overthrow of the Taliban.",
"Lashkar-e-Tayyiba fighters are also believed to have joined the Taliban in attacks on U.S.",
"Forward Operating Bases in eastern Afghanistan over the last couple of years.",
"One scholar who has long studied Lashkar believes it is well placed to expand its activities.",
"\"Evidence suggests Lashkar has support cells in the Persian Gulf, Britain, North America, mainland Europe, and possibly Australia,\" wrote Stephen Tankel this year in a paper for the New America Foundation.",
"The case of David Headley suggests that is the case.",
"The Pakistani-born American citizen confessed this year to a planning role in the Mumbai attacks and a conspiracy with senior figures in Lashkar-e-Tayyiba to attack the office in Copenhagen of the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.",
"He said he visited Pakistan several times to meet with Lashkar leaders."
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"Organization has \"complex mix of indigenous and international targets,\" State Department says .",
"Lashkar-e-Tayyiba says it is focused only on freeing Kashmir from Indian rule, experts say .",
"Lashkar-e-Tayyiba joined Taliban in attacks on U.S. bases in Afghanistan, experts say ."
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"(CNN) -- Soccer City, once the venue of South Africa's most significant black freedom rallies, will next month host a sport that was open only to whites in the country's apartheid-rule era.",
"Rugby officials announced on Wednesday that South Africa's Springboks will take on New Zealand's All Blacks at the Johannesburg soccer stadium, which stages the 2010 World Cup final this weekend.",
"The rebuilt ground, scene of Nelson Mandela's first speech in the city after his release from prison in 1990, is situated near the predominantly black township of Soweto.",
"\"This is an historic day and one in which the whole of South Africa can celebrate,\" South African Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins said in a statement on the ruling body's website.",
"\"Taking the Springboks to what is already an iconic world venue gives our players and supporters the best stage on which to enjoy rugby.",
"But it also allows us to continue the nation building through sport that we have enjoyed throughout the FIFA World Cup.\"",
"Check out a 360-degree panorama of Soccer City .",
"While South African rugby was once dominated by whites, the game has become more mixed there -- especially since hosting the 1995 World Cup -- and players such as Chester Williams and Bryan Habana have become household names.",
"The Blue Bulls rugby team also played a Super 14 match at Soweto's Orlando Stadium in May this year as their home venue in Pretoria was unavailable due to the World Cup.",
"The August 21 fixture will be South Africa's first home match of the 2010 Tri-Nations tournament, which also features Australia.",
"Soccer City, which is also known as National Stadium, has a capacity of 88,791.",
"The SARU has made some tickets available at reduced prices in order to get near the previous best crowd for a home rugby international -- 95,000 at Johannesburg's Ellis Park when the British Lions visited in 1955.",
"More than 9,000 of the available tickets will be sold at 350 Rand ($45) and 5,000 for just 100 rand ($13).",
"The match had originally been scheduled for Ellis Park, but host province Golden Lions agreed to make the switch.",
"\"The only thing that surprised us was the near unanimity of our stakeholders in embracing this decision,\" Lions chairman Kevin De Klerk said.",
"\"The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive and as much as we love Ellis Park, there was widespread agreement that we must take such a significant rugby match to one of the best stadiums not just in South Africa but in the world.",
"\"I'd particularly like to thank [our] key sponsors ...",
"They have had to make major sacrifices on some of their contractual rights but the way they have supported us in recognizing the potential benefits of this move -- not just for rugby, but for South Africa -- has been magnificent.\"",
"The Springboks will begin the defense of their Tri-Nations crown in New Zealand on Saturday, the first of two clashes with the Kiwis before heading to Australia for a match in Brisbane on July 24."
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"(CNN) -- Federal officials have given the go-ahead for a motorcycle race in California's Johnson Valley Open Area, where a truck race turned deadly Saturday, killing eight and injuring nine, officials said Friday.",
"The Bureau of Land Management issued a statement announcing it has granted the American Motorcycle Association approval to proceed with its scheduled off-road race in the Southern California desert area this weekend after assessing the association's safety and crowd control requirements.",
"\"As part of an overall increased oversight of permit activities, the BLM has closely coordinated this weekend's event with the race promoter to ensure that the safety of the spectators and participants is of the highest priority,\" the statement said.",
"\"Race coordinators have put in place additional safeguards at the start/finish line, pit row areas, and have increased security and medical presence to ensure safe racing conditions.\"",
"Bureau officials said they are working with enforcement agencies in the ongoing investigation into Saturday's deadly crash.",
"For now, events promoted by Mojave Desert Racing remain suspended, it added.",
"That organization was the promoter of last Saturday's race.",
"Mojave Desert Racing was barred by the bureau Thursday.",
"In last week's deadly crash, a truck taking part in a 200-mile off-road race crashed into a crowd of spectators."
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"Mohave Desert Racing events remain suspended, the bureau says ."
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"(CNN) -- The African American woman who called Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice and heard the radio talk show host use the N-word 11 times said Thursday that she was confused and hurt by the call.",
"\"I was calling her to get some help,\" Nita Hanson told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"I did not expect to hear the things that she said to me.\"",
"Hanson called Schlessinger August 11, seeking advice on how to deal with racist comments from her white husband's friends and relatives.",
"The conversation evolved into a discussion on whether it's appropriate to ever use the N-word, with Schlessinger arguing it's used on HBO and by black comedians.",
"National furor erupted after Schlessinger ended up using the word 11 times during the five-minute call with Hanson.",
"\"It's never OK to use that word,\" Hanson said.",
"\"I have a problem with Dr. Laura because she's old enough to know better.",
"She knows where that word came from.\"",
"Join the discussion about disparaging words .",
"The embattled Schlessinger, 63, announced Tuesday she will not renew her contract that is up at the end of the year, telling CNN's \"Larry King Live\" she wants to \"regain my First Amendment rights.\"",
"Schlessinger apologized for her remarks but Hanson said that was not good enough.",
"\"I think she apologized because she got caught, to be honest with you,\" Hanson told CNN.",
"\"At this point, there's nothing she can do for me.\"",
"In announcing her decision \"not to do radio anymore\" after being in the business for more than 30 years, Schlessinger said, \"I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry or some special-interest group deciding this is a time to silence a voice of dissent.\"",
"Hanson said Schlessinger's offense went beyond using a derogatory word.",
"\"She said I shouldn't marry outside my race,\" Hanson said.",
"Hanson has been married three years and called Schlessinger for advice after she kept hearing her husband's friends make comments about black people.",
"She listened to Schlessinger's show all the time and trusted her, Hanson said.",
"\"It's very hurtful,\" Hanson said.",
"Schlessinger told CNN Tuesday that while she was still \"regretful\" over the incident, she feels her freedom of speech rights \"have been usurped by angry, hateful groups who don't want to debate -- they want to eliminate.\"",
"\"I decided it was time to move on to other venues where I could say my peace and not have to live in fear anymore,\" she said."
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"The radio talk-show host ended up using the N-word repeatedly .",
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"(CNN) -- The former mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for accepting bribes in one of the state's largest political corruption scandals, according to the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey.",
"Peter Cammarano III, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares to spend twenty-four months in prison for illegally accepting $25,000 in bribes -- all of which he must repay to the government.",
"The judge also ordered Cammarano to two years of supervised release upon completion of his jail term.",
"In April, the ex-mayor pleaded guilty before a federal judge to conspiracy and extortion, following his arrest just three weeks after becoming Hoboken's youngest mayor.",
"The U.S. attorney's office said that Cammarano took bribes from a government witness who posed as a real estate developer in exchange for promised future assistance in Hoboken's government matters.",
"Prosecutors said that at his plea hearing, Cammarano said that he accepted three illegal cash payments from the government witness.",
"Two payments, totaling $15,000, were received while he was a councilman at-large for Hoboken.",
"He further admitted that he accepted an added $10,000 after being elected and sworn in as mayor.",
"Shortly after his arrest, Cammarano stepped down as mayor of Hoboken.",
"In a statement to the city clerk's office at the time, he denied all criminal wrongdoing, but said the charges had disrupted the city government and his ability to perform his duties as mayor .",
"The U.S. attorney's statement said that Cammarano's sentencing resulted from an undercover FBI investigation into public corruption and money-laundering.",
"Cammarano was one of 44 civic leaders and public officials nabbed in an investigation called \"Operation Bid Rig.\"",
"In a statement to CNN, Cammarano's attorney, Joseph A Hayden, said, \"Peter Cammarano made a catastrophic mistake with respect to his conduct.",
"He has accepted responsibility and pleaded guilty.",
"He will serve his sentence.",
"He is a young man and will rebuild his life.",
"In the future he will once again make positive contributions to society.\"",
"Cammarano is free on bond and is scheduled surrender to authorities on September 20, 2010, to being his prison term."
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"He was arrested after just three weeks in office .",
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"London, England (CNN) -- Singer George Michael has been charged with possession of cannabis and driving while unfit through drink or drugs, London's Metropolitan Police Service said Thursday.",
"Michael, 47, was released on bail and told to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in north London on August 24, police said.",
"Police did not say what led to the arrest, but Michael -- whose real name is Georgios Panayiotou -- was widely reported to have been involved in an accident in the early hours of July 4, in which he allegedly crashed his car into a north London photo shop.",
"Michael was found guilty in 2007 of unfit driving through tiredness and prescription medication and received a two-year driving ban, according to British media.",
"He was arrested again the following year near Hampstead Heath park in north London and cautioned for possession of a controlled substance, according to news reports."
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"(CNN) -- Intan Suci Nurhati was on her way to a religious gathering when her sisters called to say they were under attack.",
"\"They were running for their safety as they called,\" she said.",
"\"When I heard, I realized how far it was to the main compound, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.'",
"\" Nurhati and her family are members of a Muslim minority sect called the Ahmadi, who hold annual gatherings in each country where they have a community.",
"It was in July 2005 that the Indonesian gathering came under attack by -- Nurhati estimates -- 10,000 people throwing stones.",
"The protesters outnumbered the Ahmadi by 100 to 1.",
"Nurhati was on her way to the gathering in Parung, West Java province, from the capital Jakarta with a member of the Indonesian Parliament when the attack happened.",
"By the time she arrived, houses and books had been burned, she said.",
"\"No one was killed, but there were some minor injuries from the throwing of rocks.",
"We decided to call off the conference.",
"It was unsafe to go on with the gathering,\" said Nurhati, 27, a graduate student studying climate change at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"\"There was so much anger in their faces,\" said Nurhati, a native of Indonesia who has been living in the United States for 10 years.",
"Police provided buses to get the Ahmadi community to safety, but Nurhati does not know of any arrests or prosecutions as a result of the attack.",
"\"It was really disappointing.",
"We have the right to be there. But the police were trying to minimize the clashes, rather than trying to say we have the right to be there,\" she said.",
"Indonesia -- the most populous Muslim country in the world -- is often touted as an example of tolerance and democracy in the Islamic world.",
"But a huge new study suggests it's actually among the most restrictive countries in the world when it comes to religion.",
"The study charted publicly reported incidents of religious violence, intolerance, intimidation and discrimination in 198 countries and territories from mid-2006 to mid-2008, its authors said.",
"Brian Grim, the lead researcher on the project, said he worked on the study for more than three years.",
"The report looks not only at legal restrictions, but also at how laws are implemented and how social tensions restrict freedom of religion, even where there is no official or legal bar against the practice.",
"Indonesia has both. In fact, more than two out of three people around the world live in countries with high or very high restrictions on religion, according to the report, which claims to be the first to systematically measure religious discrimination.",
"It produced some surprising findings and makes it possible to compare countries in ways that could not be done before, its authors say.",
"\"Most reports don't try to quantify,\" Grim said.",
"\"What you are left with is studies that don't allow you to see patterns.\"",
"The study, \"Global Restrictions on Religion,\" found some interesting ones.",
"For example, \"religion-related violence happens in the majority of countries, but only in one in 10 does that escalate\" to terrorism causing casualties, Grim said.",
"The study tracked violence between religious groups in 126 countries -- 64 percent of the countries in the survey.",
"But there was religion-related terrorism leading to injury or death in only 17 countries -- 9 percent of those in the study.",
"In about a quarter of all countries, majority groups use force or threat of force against minority religions, according to the study, from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington.",
"Nearly half of all countries restrict the activities of foreign missionaries or prohibit them altogether.",
"Ninety percent have some requirement that religious groups register with the government, usually in return for some benefit such as a tax exemption.",
"But in 40 percent of countries, those registration requirements result in major problems for those groups.",
"\"Others often focus on naming and shaming, but this one is looking more in depth at what goes on on the street in countries -- what affects a person's ability to freely practice religion in society,\" Grim said.",
"\"Sometimes, one incident of violence can affect a whole country.\"",
"The report also makes it possible to compare what kinds of restrictions are placed on religious practices in different countries.",
"China, for example, has tight legal controls on the practice of religion, but has has relatively little social conflict over faith.",
"India, by contrast, has only moderate government restrictions on religious observance, but very high levels of social hostility -- primarily between Muslims and Hindus.",
"Brazil has the lowest ratings in both categories among the 25 largest countries in the world, while Pakistan has the highest, followed closely by Indonesia.",
"Egypt, Iran and Bangladesh also rate poorly for religious freedom, while Japan, the United States, South Africa, Italy and the United Kingdom score well.",
"European governments place more restrictions on religion than do governments in sub-Saharan Africa or South America, the survey concluded.",
"While the U.S. has a low level of government restriction on religion, it does experience a moderate amount of social tension, the report found.",
"\"The test is not whether someone who belongs to the majority faith and is affluent and is socially advanced feels restrictions, but whether religious minorities do,\" said Alan Cooperman, associate director of research at the Pew Forum.",
"\"So in the United States, what does a Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a small city feel?\"",
"Religious discrimination in the United States is not simply a matter of people feeling uncomfortable, he added.",
"\"Law enforcement officials report to the FBI every year on hate crimes, including religious bias,\" he said.",
"\"There were about 1,400 each year [in the study], and they were reported in nearly all 50 states.",
"Those crimes run the gamut, but they include arsons.\"",
"The U.S. was also marked down because of the Bush administration's \"global war on terror,\" Grim said.",
"\"The fact [is] that we have detainees from a war that at least one side is calling religion-related -- the Guantanamo detainees,\" he said.",
"Neither the September 11, 2001, attacks and their aftermath, nor the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas this year were included in the time period covered by the study, he said, but both could have increased the U.S. score for social hostilities based on religion, Grim said.",
"\"Scores are not fixed.",
"Situations can change, which is why we are looking at this as an over-time study,\" he said.",
"\"Countries and societies will change in how they respond to the situations they face.\"",
"In fact, the authors plan to revisit the question of religious restrictions regularly, so they can track changes over time, and the U.S. might rank differently when the Fort Hood shootings are included -- if investigators rule that they were motivated at least partly by religion.",
"The study authors do not assign motives to incidents of discrimination, instead relying on local sources to determine the causes.",
"The study does not rank countries from \"best\" to \"worst\" -- saying such a list would not be meaningful -- but instead groups them into those with very high restrictions, high restrictions, moderate or low.",
"It does not include North Korea, because there is not enough reliable data from the reclusive communist state, the authors said.",
"CNN's Tricia Escobedo in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Amber Lemna says studying \"The Secret\" is changing her life for the better.",
"The 2006 book and film discusses the law of attraction, something adherents say allows people to attract what they want by envisioning it and believing it will come.",
"Lemna says she's used it to kick-start a business idea: attaching decorated tabs to credit cards so people can easily pull the cards from wallets.",
"Thanks to \"The Secret,\" she says, she's attracted people and resources to help her and already is selling the tabs in 10 local stores.",
"\"Nothing has been the same since I've listened to the CD [of the book],\" said Lemna, 29.",
"\"I can control how my day goes.\"",
"So the Minneapolis, Minnesota-area insurance agent bristles when she hears people using the troubles of self-help entrepreneur James Arthur Ray, who appears in but did not create \"The Secret\" film, to bash the attraction principles.",
"Ray integrates the law of attraction into his teachings on obtaining spiritual, financial, mental and physical wealth.",
"He postponed all his scheduled events through the end of the year after three people died after spending time in a sweat lodge session he led near Sedona, Arizona, in October.",
"Police are investigating the deaths, and Ray has said his organization is working with authorities to determine what happened; no charges have been filed.",
"\"It works with or without him,\" Lemna said of the book and film -- both works of Australian TV producer Rhonda Byrne.",
"\"[Ray is] just an advocate.\"",
"Self-help is a multibillion-dollar-a-year unregulated industry in the United States, according to John C. Norcross, professor of psychology at the University of Scranton.",
"Norcross says hundreds of quality, research-supported self-help programs on career growth, health and self-esteem exist.",
"But he and other critics say some gurus, promising secrets to greater happiness and wealth, offer advice that at best isn't proven effective and at worst could send someone down a poorly suited or dangerous path.",
"\"You can publish anything making the most outrageous claims as long as it's not libelous,\" said Norcross, co-author of \"Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health.\"",
"Norcross takes particular umbrage at Ray and law of attraction advocates, saying they generally offer anecdotal evidence that their way works, but don't offer scientific evidence to support the claims.",
"Ray, who has written books and holds seminars and other events, says on his Web site that he blends \"the practical and mystical into a usable and easy-to-access formula for achieving true wealth across all aspects of life.\"",
"His six-step Journey of Power series of events costs participants thousands of dollars.",
"One of the steps, the Spiritual Warrior retreat, which was under way when the October sweat lodge deaths happened, costs $9,695 per person.",
"\"When people are pursuing a program of undocumented effectiveness, they are not spending time and money pursuing a program they know works,\" Norcross said.",
"A media representative for Ray declined to comment about the criticism.",
"Dave Orton, who has attended several of Ray's programs, says Ray's techniques have helped him break habits and thoughts that hindered him and have given him tools to achieve goals \"in a more elegant and rapid manner.\"",
"The 33-year-old technology-company program manager from Boise, Idaho, says Ray's and other self-help programs helped him get his professional certification in project management.",
"Orton, who wasn't at the event near Sedona, says the deaths were tragic and unacceptable.",
"But he says he isn't turned off to the self-help industry or Ray's teachings, and he may be interested in attending another Ray event in the future.",
"\"The results in my own life, that's what I'd trust more than a third-party study,\" Orton said.",
"\"My [project management] certificate is hanging on the wall right now.",
"It's not just a dream.\" Psychologists: How to choose .",
"Several people trained in psychology, however, told CNN that too many self-help authors and presenters offer little scientific evidence that backs up their claims.",
"Gerald Rosen, a clinical psychologist in Seattle, Washington, says he believes more self-help books should undergo pre-publication testing -- especially those written by psychologists, who he says should be held to a high professional standard.",
"\"When you look at a book for depression, there probably isn't a blurb on the back that says this book has been shown in studies to help 65 percent of those who have been diagnosed with this.",
"There's just a claim that this can happen for you,\" said Rosen, a former chairman of the American Psychological Association's task force on self-help therapies.",
"Norcross says that a lack of scientific evidence isn't the only thing to look out for.",
"Other characteristics that should make consumers wary, he says: .",
"• Authors or speakers who don't have formal training in the featured topic.",
"\"They should look for someone with rigorous training at an accredited university and who has spent years investigating and conducting these treatments,\" Norcross said.",
"• Programs that don't screen consumers for problems.",
"For example, Norcross says, certain programs might be harmful for a person with bipolar disorder.",
"• People who reject conventional knowledge and instead imply a revolutionary secret.",
"\"It's marketing, essentially,\" Norcross said.",
"• People who propose solutions for all problems instead of particular problems.",
"Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society, said consumers should be wary of programs that cost a lot of money but teach no hands-on skills.",
"\"It's one thing to pay a trade school.",
"It's another to pay the same kind of money to ... seek a mystical effect on your prosperity,\" said Shermer, who holds a master's degree in experimental psychology and a doctorate in the history of science.",
"He also warns that the effects can be fleeting.",
"\"Corporate America has wasted millions\" on motivational seminars, Shermer said.",
"\"The marketing and sales guys get fired up, but the effects of those types of seminars are weeks at minimum, months at best.",
"That's why a lot of them do corporate retreats every six months, because the effects fade.\"",
"Shermer suggests that consumers try out a self-help adviser's book or tape before committing to an expensive getaway \"to see if there's a connection for you.\"",
"People interested in a program also should talk to previous participants at least six months after they used it, he said.",
"\"If you talked a day after, they would have to rationalize it to a certain extent [even if it were no good] because they just paid a lot of money,\" Shermer said.",
"As for Lemna, she says the changes in her life are all the proof she needs that \"The Secret\" is working.",
"\"I'm sure there are people who need [scientific evidence], fine.",
"Then find something that works for you,\" she said."
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"Some programs don't screen for conditions that might make someone ill-suited, expert says .",
"\"The Secret\" user: Changes in my life are all the proof I need that it works ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Federal officials Thursday barred the promoters of last week's deadly off-road race in Southern California from holding future races on public land while an investigation is under way.",
"Saturday night's crash in the desert east of Los Angeles left eight people dead and nine injured when a truck taking part in the 200-mile event crashed into a crowd of spectators along the track.",
"The driver won't face charges in the accident, the California Highway Patrol announced Monday, but the federal Bureau of Land Management is investigating whether sanctioning body Mojave Desert Racing violated any safety regulations.",
"According to its permit, Mojave Desert Racing had five more races scheduled for 2010.",
"The company has not responded to repeated calls for comment since Saturday's fatal crash.",
"\"BLM has suspended any future permitted events of MDR Productions while the investigation is underway,\" the agency announced Thursday.",
"In addition, another promoter's upcoming motorcycle race is under new scrutiny, and future events \"are being reviewed on a case-by-case basis,\" BLM said in a written statement.",
"The agency said that off-highway races are a popular activity and that its investigation \"will be aimed at ensuring the public safety remains our first priority.\"",
"Last weekend's race was part of an amateur series on a course in the Lucerne Valley area of San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles.",
"Mojave Desert Racing urges spectators to stay back 100 feet from the 50-mile course, but a California Highway Patrol spokesman said there were \"no delineations\" for the course.",
"Images from the night of the crash show trucks speeding within feet of spectators.",
"Brett Sloppy, the driver of the out-of-control truck, did not respond to repeated requests for comment but announced in a post on his Facebook page that he was devastated by what happened.",
"\"My thoughts and prayers go out to all the familys and friends involved,\" he wrote.",
"\"Thank you too all my friends for sticking with me even thru these tragic times I love you all.\"",
"Keith Carty, a friend of one of the victims in the California crash, told CNN's HLN that races attract a certain type of person: someone who wants to participate as much as watch an event.",
"\"It's not anybody's turn to baby-sit us.",
"We're out there. We understand the risk.",
"Everybody that was there understood the risk: the drivers, the spectators, everybody,\" he said.",
"CNN's Stan Wilson contributed to this report."
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"The California Highway Patrol says it will not file criminal charges against the driver .",
"The driver says he is devastated by the incident .",
"Saturday night's crash left eight people dead ."
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"(CNN) -- \"This can be yours,\" the black-and-white newspaper advertisement promised above an image of a tree-lined ranch home in Pontchartrain Park.",
"At the bottom, it said \"Available to Negroes.\"",
"It was the 1950s in segregated New Orleans, Louisiana, and the promise of a slice of suburbia for black Americans lured hundreds to the new community.",
"That included Meldon Woods, an Air Force corporal who had been given a home loan for his military service through the GI Bill.",
"He and his wife, Audrey, a schoolteacher at the time, purchased a two-story home in 1957 where they raised their four children.",
"Fifty years later, he was forced to evacuate that home as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans on August 29, 2005.",
"\"My husband said, no, he was not leaving, because he was upstairs and if the water came, he'd be upstairs,\" Audrey Woods recalled.",
"\"I never would have left him.",
"So my youngest son, he came and said, 'Mama, get in the car.",
"Daddy get in the car.'",
"\" Meldon Woods eventually relented and left his home and the neighborhood he helped turn into a strong, solid African-American community.",
"Katrina whipped up 15-foot waves on Lake Pontchartrain, flooding the London Canal levee that lies west of Pontchartrain Park.",
"As much as 20 feet of water flooded the neighborhood.",
"Not a single home in Pontchartrain Park was left unscathed.",
"Water rose nearly to the rooftop of the Woods' home, where Meldon had planned to ride out the storm.",
"A few weeks later, they returned to utter devastation.",
"\"I didn't know whether to cry, scream.",
"I didn't really know what to do,\" Audrey Woods said.",
"\"But my knees kind of buckled when I looked in here and I was, 'Oh my God.'",
"\" The elderly couple didn't waste any time reflecting: They immediately focused on rebuilding.",
"\"They had on these white suits with white masks ... and they're hauling out pieces of sheet rock,\" said Justin Woods, the youngest of the Woods' four children.",
"\"My father with a cane, carrying a piece of sheet rock out.",
"And I remember calling Rhea and saying, 'Do you know what your parents are doing?",
"They're gutting the house ... by themselves.'",
"\" It was the same spirit and determination that helped create Pontchartrain Park where, according to many locals, children were raised with a sense of community and family.",
"All four of the Woods' children went on to become successful in their careers -- a common theme for the children of Pontchartrain Park such as Lisa Jackson, the current head of the Environmental Protection Agency; jazz musician Terence Blanchard; former mayors Ernest and Mark Morial; and actor Wendell Pierce from HBO's \"The Wire.\"",
"Interactive: Meet the residents of Pontchartrain Park .",
"Even BP vice president and spokesman Darryl Willis, originally from Louisiana, is rebuilding his home in Pontchartrain Park as he continues to manage the Gulf oil disaster.",
"Those successes were built on the sacrifices of the men and women who settled in Pontchartrain Park, says Pierce, who now spends his time in New Orleans starring in the new HBO series \"Treme\" about post-Katrina New Orleans.",
"\"My parents' generation took something ugly like segregation and turned it into ... one of the most stable American neighborhoods, not only in this city, but around the country,\" he said.",
"\"It was [a] dogged fight by these young parents who had this opportunity to build a life for their families in one of the most difficult times in modern history: Jim Crow segregation, Deep South, New Orleans.\"",
"That fight to create a better future for their kids instilled a deep sense of commitment to the neighborhood in Pierce.",
"And that is why the actor has committed the past two years to rebuilding Pontchartrain Park.",
"Pierce staged a massive effort to get the city of New Orleans to start rebuilding the neighborhood's blighted and abandoned properties.",
"Only 30 percent of the neighborhood's residents had returned two years after Katrina -- the second slowest rate of return in New Orleans behind the city's devastated and impoverished Ninth Ward, according to Pierce.",
"Opinion: Russel Honoré on New Orleans today .",
"With the help of Troy Henry, a management consultant and boyhood friend, Pierce formed a nonprofit community corporation to get the city to sell back some of the houses so they could be rebuilt and resold at an affordable price.",
"It has not all been smooth sailing -- some locals have criticized his involvement.",
"\"I got a lot of pushback that I was, you know, a local kid come home with some success and trying to do a land grab myself,\" Pierce told CNN's Soledad O'Brien.",
"\"It was hurtful.\" In November 2008, New Orleans signed a deal with Pierce's Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation to rebuild 400 homes.",
"It was a huge success, but the start of a slow process: A year-and-a-half after the agreement, the city had turned over only four plots.",
"Today, Pierce is credited with raising the return rate in The Park from about 33 percent to more than 50 percent.",
"But not every former resident wants to return.",
"Lisa Oubre wants nothing to do with her husband's plan to rebuild their home in Pontchartrain Park, where they raised their son before Katrina.",
"Hurby Oubre wants Jacques, who was 10 years old when Katrina struck, to enjoy the same childhood he experienced growing up in Pontchartrain Park.",
"\"It was a real neighborhood.",
"Everyone knew who you were,\" Hurby said.",
"\"Everyone looked out for you.",
"Your neighbors, they'd chastise you [if] they saw you doing something wrong.\"",
"Since 2005, the Oubre family has been split between two cities: Hurby works in New Orleans as a mail carrier, while Lisa is employed in Baton Rouge, where she lives with Jacques who is now in high school.",
"She has no plans to return to Pontchartrain Park.",
"\"I can't go back there, I can't do that again,\" Lisa said.",
"\"God knows we've lost enough.",
"We lost every single thing we've ever owned up to that day in 2005. ...",
"When is the ripple effect going to stop rolling over our lives?\"",
"Hurby still holds out hope that one day his family will be reunited in Pontchartrain Park.",
"\"That's my home. ... I wasn't going to let it die, and I knew that.",
"I always felt that.",
"I always said I'd go back,\" he said.",
"\"You can't really get frustrated or angry with anybody for going through that traumatic experience and not wanting to come back.\"",
"When asked who he's building his home for, he responds, \"Hopefully I'm building it for my family.\""
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"Residents established a strong middle-class community, despite the limits of segregation .",
"Hurricane Katrina uprooted the community, damaging every home .",
"Today, more than half of Pontchartrain Park's residents have returned ."
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"(CNN) -- The White House Press Office accidentally e-mailed a draft version of President Obama's Thursday schedule on Wednesday night that included the back-and-forth between White House staffers.",
"Members of the media got a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into President Obama's schedule.",
"The e-mail, sent on a daily basis to inform the media of the next day's events, at first appeared to be like any other press schedule.",
"But at the bottom of the e-mail, there was a series of exchanges from the press team, as well as a draft of the schedule.",
"The first section of the schedule noted that in the morning, Obama planned to talk with homeowners who have refinanced their homes and benefited from lower mortgage payments.",
"One staffer, recommending changes to that line, wrote to \"put more emphasis on the real people aspect of this.\"",
"The draft version said Obama will talk \"with his economic team,\" and also attending the meeting \"will be a handful of households.\"",
"The final version took the emphasis off the economic team and said \"Attending the meeting will be a handful of homeowners ... as well as members of President Obama's economic team.\"",
"The draft schedule also showed the president hosting Seder to celebrate Passover.",
"The dinner was marked \"closed press,\" meaning no reporters allowed.",
"One staffer asked, \"Can we remove the dinner at the end of the day?\"",
"\"We put it on yesterday's deal -- so folks already know that it's happening.",
"They'll wonder why it's not listed if we don't include it on there,\" another staffer replied.",
"The staffer who asked to remove the dinner from the schedule replied, \"Apparently Jewish here and in neighboring states are now calling wondering why they have not been invited.\"",
"The dinner was not listed on the final schedule.",
"In another exchange, one staffer recommended nixing a line about Obama meeting with leaders from the Veterans Service Organizations and Military Service Organizations since the president was now meeting with them before his remarks in an event closed to the media.",
"\"Can we keep it and just change it to say before.",
"Its good for us to say we are meeting with them,\" another replied.",
"The final copy kept the line, noting that the VSO and MSO leaders would meet with Obama before his remarks.",
"The White House says the error was made by a sleep-deprived staffer, adding that the staffer will not suffer repercussions for the mistake."
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"(CNN) -- The mayor of a small Louisiana town was indicted on several charges for allegedly accepting bribes from businesspeople, federal prosecutors said Thursday.",
"Thomas A. Nelson Jr., 40, the mayor of New Roads, Louisiana, is charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Louisiana said in a statement.",
"Nelson also is charged with wire fraud, using an interstate facility in aid of racketeering, making false statements to the FBI and forfeiture, prosecutors said.",
"If convicted, Nelson faces up to 65 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine, authorities said.",
"His indictment came as part of an ongoing investigation known as \"Operation Blighted Officials.\"",
"According to a superseding indictment, Nelson allegedly obtained \"thousands of dollars in cash and other things of value, such as tickets to sporting events, luxury hotel rooms and meals from businesspeople in exchange for using his position as mayor for the benefit of the businesspeople in connection with transactions Nelson believed were worth millions of dollars,\" the statement said.",
"\"The superseding indictment further alleges that Nelson deprived the citizens of New Roads of his honest services as mayor and lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation,\" authorities said.",
"New Roads is about 35 miles northwest of Baton Rouge.",
"Its population was nearly 5,000 in the 2000 Census."
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"(CNN) -- Residents in Seattle, Washington, were shaken Tuesday afternoon by what sounded like explosions after two F-15s were dispatched in response to a report of a small plane that entered restricted airspace where President Barack Obama was campaigning for Sen. Patty Murray.",
"The rumblings -- caused by sonic booms from the jets -- rattled buildings, windows and nerves in the Puget Sound region, according to CNN affiliate KIRO.",
"Viewers of the affiliate from as far away as Tacoma -- about 40 miles south of Seattle -- reported hearing the booms.",
"Dozens of residents called the city's 911 system, causing it to shut down in some areas for about an hour due to the flood of calls, Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department told KIRO.",
"\"Many house and car alarms have been set off that we will not be able to respond to,\" Troyer told the affiliate.",
"The jets were launched out of Portland, Oregon, and \"were on afterburners the whole time,\" Allen Kenitzer of the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.",
"The plane in question -- identified by the FAA as a Cessna 180 -- left the temporarily restricted airspace before the jets intercepted it, said John Cornelio of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).",
"The pilot of the plane later landed it near Lake Washington, Kenitzer said.",
"The incident is under investigation.",
"CNN's Patrick Oppmann and Adam Levine contributed to this report."
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"The jets were scrambled in response to a plane that entered restricted airspace .",
"President Barack Obama was in the region Tuesday .",
"The plane left the restricted airspace before it was intercepted ."
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"(CNN) -- The average American woman can live long enough to celebrate her 80th birthday, so if a woman is able to become pregnant using in vitro fertilization with a donor egg at 56, she could still watch her child grow into an adult.",
"But just because it's possible, does that mean she should?",
"Some feel that having children after 45 is unfair because the parents might not live to see the kids become adults.",
"The death of 69-year-old Maria del Carmen Bousada of Spain, who used in vitro fertilization with a donor egg to have twin boys at 66, has the fertility treatment community bracing for a backlash.",
"It could rival the fallout from octuplet mom Nadya Suleman -- and it seems to have already started.",
"In a national online survey about fertility conducted in May by Johnson & Johnson's Babycenter.com, 7 out of 10 moms who responded wanted tougher regulation laws for IVF treatments, and half of the 1,095 respondents thought it was bad for the children if a parent conceived past 45.",
"Fertility specialists understand those concerns, but they say it's not that simple.",
"Although it's rare for anyone older than 55 to get the go-ahead for IVF, that guideline is peer-enforced rather than mandated, and decisions typically are made on a case-by-case basis.",
"Georgia Dardick, an advertising executive in Boynton Beach, Florida, was one of those cases.",
"Dardick tried to conceive via IVF six times and seriously considered adoption, but at 51, she wasn't ready to let go of her desire to have a baby.",
"\"Fifty was the cutoff for my doctor, but they agreed to give us one more try,\" she said.",
"She had her daughter in January.",
"Dardick said she never planned to have a baby at 51, but feels that she made the right decision, despite the judgments others may have.",
"\"The word selfish has come into my mind.",
"But for any parent, having a child is selfish.",
"No matter what your age is, once you have that child, you owe that child everything.",
"I live the best, healthiest life I can.\"",
"Doctors say society's views of aging needs to change.",
"\"The 40 and 45-year-old of today is not the 40-year-old of the past; the 50-year-old [today] is not the same of the past,\" said Dr. John Jain, a physician at the Santa Monica (California) Fertility Clinic who has treated age-related infertility for 15 years.",
"\"They're eating healthy.",
"A woman who is 45 is barely halfway through [her] life.\"",
"Healthy or not, having a child at that age can cause tremendous stress on the body.",
"Candidates for IVF after 45 use either an egg donor or their own frozen embryos from a prior cycle and are screened for underlying medical problems, such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension or lung disease, said Dr. Charles Coddington of the Mayo Clinic's reproductive endocrinology department in Rochester, Minnesota.",
"Still, \"if somebody were in good health, it would be hard to say, 'you shouldn't have a baby,' \" he said.",
"\"One has to judge where they are, health-wise and financially.\"",
"But if a woman who claims to be 55 is actually in her mid-60s -- as Bousada reportedly did -- what's a doctor to do?",
"Not much, physicians say.",
"Watch report on death of 69-year-old mother » .",
"\"The truth may get dimmed to fit into the realm of a patient that may be acceptable.",
"I don't sit there and say, 'Go get your birth certificate.'",
"If someone's coming in and they're saying they're 52 or 55, I take it at face value,\" Coddington said, who does refer questionable cases to the fertility center's ethics board.",
"Even for those who choose to use it, the availability of this technology can be a double-edged sword.",
"Dardick said she wouldn't change anything, but if she did have to do it all over again, she said she may have considered adoption earlier.",
"\"In a way, there's this hope always out there for you, and once you get into it, it's harder to break away,\" she said.",
"It's the intense desire to have a biological child that Manhattan-based psychotherapist Joan Winograd, who specializes in fertility issues for women 40 and older, has been treating for 20 years.",
"\"I work with women who've been very successful.",
"They went to the right schools, got married and they feel that everything comes to you if you work hard.",
"But then they realize pregnancy doesn't happen that way,\" said Winograd.",
"She helps her clients find balance -- and limits -- by creating a plan: How long should they try IVF?",
"How long until they consider adoption or child-free living?",
"\"They need that.\" Winograd said, \"because many times a doctor will say, 'Look, this is your money, this is your dream; who am I to say that you can't do it anymore.'\"",
"While doctors do help women try to reach their dream, Jain said he isn't afraid to tell a patient \"no\" if they simply aren't healthy enough -- or are just too old.",
"But, Jain said, it's all based on his judgment as a trained physician.",
"\"Ninety-five percent of us do a great job about regulating ourselves.",
"I personally don't want to see more regulation, because it becomes problematic, and it can be more costly.",
"Someone who's failed three cycles and [has already spent] $50,000 -- with the next cycle, will I be more aggressive?",
"Certainly,\" Jain said.",
"\"But maybe there's a middle ground, if the rule is that donor IVF will not be offered for women over 55 years of age.",
"Regulations at the extremes might be useful.\"",
"Even though Dardick plans on living her life as a new mom for quite some time, she said having a baby at her age isn't ideal.",
"She and her husband are taking careful precautions by adjusting their financial planning to make sure their daughter will be financially secure.",
"They're also tightening bonds with extended family and friends, should anything happen to her or her husband -- a decision Bousada may have made as well, as her twin boys are now in the custody of a relative.",
"Those, Dardick said, are the decisions one has to make when having a child later in life.",
"\"\"People feel that it's not fair to the child because you may not live long enough,\" Dardick said.",
"But as someone who lost a father as a teenager, she knows \"there are no guarantees in life.\""
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- The number of U.S. troops remaining in Iraq is about 52,000, the U.S. military said Thursday.",
"That puts U.S. Forces-Iraq on track to draw down to 50,000 troops by September 1, when Operation New Dawn is to begin and forces are to switch to an advise-and-assist role.",
"The Pentagon on Wednesday had estimated the number of U.S. forces in Iraq at 56,000, which reflected the last calculation conducted August 17, the military said in a news release.",
"The 4,000-member 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team departed to Kuwait on Wednesday and Thursday.",
"The brigade's departure comes more than seven years after U.S. combat forces entered Iraq, though it does not signify the end of all U.S. combat forces in the country.",
"In all, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq has decreased by more than 90,000 in the past 18 months and Obama has promised that all U.S. forces will be out by the end of 2011.",
"But there is plenty of work left to do, former U.S.",
"Ambassador Ryan Crocker said Wednesday.",
"\"Iraq is still at the beginning of the story of its evolution since 2003,\" he said, referring to the date of the U.S.-led invasion of the country.",
"In fact, Iraq has been without a functioning government for more than five months, electricity and other utilities are available only sporadically in the capital, and violence appears to be increasing.",
"At least 48 people were killed Tuesday in an attack outside a military recruiting center in Baghdad.",
"\"We're going to have to leave a large footprint behind, and this is not going away for us as an issue,\" Crocker said.",
"The State Department is preparing to make up much of that footprint.",
"It will handle many of the responsibilities currently shouldered by the military, increasing its security contractors from 2,700 to nearly 7,000, sources said.",
"They are expected to work with diplomats and police trainers in some facilities.",
"The State Department has asked for an additional $400 million to cover the costs, though it was not clear it would get it.",
"The State Department has asked the U.S. military to leave behind surveillance systems, about 50 bomb-resistant vehicles and a few dozen UH-60 helicopters, a military official said.",
"Although the department got a lot of what it wanted, the Pentagon said it could not give them all the helicopters because they are needed in Afghanistan, the official said.",
"According to the Pentagon, 4,419 U.S. troops have died in Iraq.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Adam Levine contributed to this story."
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"Obama has promised to draw down to 50,000 by September 1 .",
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"(CNN) -- Alberto Contador was crowned Tour de France champion for the third time on Sunday as Mark Cavendish won the final stage of cycling's premier event, which was delayed after seven-time winner Lance Armstrong's team were ordered to change their jerseys.",
"Contador had the customary winner's cruise into the Champs-Elysees in Paris, having taken a 39-second lead over Andy Schleck in what is the traditionally decisive penultimate stage on Saturday.",
"He was 81st in a 161-strong peloton behind Cavendish -- all credited with the same time of two hours, 42 minutes and 21 seconds -- with Armstrong 106th as he completed his final Tour in 23rd overall.",
"The 38-year-old finished more than 39 minutes behind Contador, his teammate at Astana last year, after suffering from crashes early on in the grueling 21-stage race.",
"Armstrong team removes special jerseys for cancer survivors .",
"Russia's Denis Menchov was third overall ahead of Contador's fellow Spaniard Samuel Sanchez.",
"\"It is a Tour in which I had a lot of pressure, especially physically as I was not at my best level.",
"It took a lot of confidence to face difficult situations,\" the 27-year-old Contador told the race's official website.",
"\"Today is therefore a great relief for me, it is a moment that I feel like I've been liberated from all the pressure.",
"\"The three wins are all very different.",
"The first, in 2007, had something special, precisely because that was the first.",
"Last year, the context was difficult and this made it difficult.",
"And this year I have had difficult moments, but I could count on a strong team.",
"\"I realize that each year I gain in experience.",
"I know better manage a team throughout the race.",
"Now I am happy to enjoy this victory and I'll take a good vacation.\"",
"British rider Cavendish triumphed in the closing leg of the three-week event for the second year in a row, his fifth stage win of 2010, but his late burst was not enough to deny Alessandro Petacchi the sprinters' title.",
"Petacchi finished second ahead of New Zealand's Julian Dean to become only the second Italian to win the green jersey.",
"\"I'm disappointed this year not to win the green jersey.",
"I set out to do so -- it was a target for this year -- but I had some bad luck in the first days and was out of the running,\" Cavendish said.",
"\"But the team fought back, did our best and I lost it by 11 points.",
"But we won five stages and we've got to be happy with this year's Tour.\"",
"Armstrong's Radioshack claimed the overall team prize as Christopher Horner was 10th overall, Levi Leipheimer 13th and Andreas Kloeden 14th.",
"They were made to take off special black jerseys worn to promote Armstrong's cancer charity during the neutral zone run ahead of the official start of the 102-kilometer stage from Longjumeau.",
"The peloton, which set a slow pace anyway, waited as the American and his teammates changed back into their regulation jerseys.",
"France's Anthony Chartreau claimed the climbers' title, while Saxo Bank's Schleck was the top young rider."
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"Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador wins Tour de France for the third time in four years .",
"Astana rider enjoys customary winner's cruise into Paris on Sunday with 39-second lead .",
"British rider Mark Cavendish wins final stage for the second year in a row .",
"Stage was delayed as Lance Armstrong's team had to change out of special jerseys ."
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"(CNN) -- Wildlife researchers in Sri Lanka have photographed one of the world's most reclusive primates for the first time.",
"Sightings of the Horton Plains slender loris -- a small nocturnal primate with extremely thin arms and legs and huge round eyes -- are so rare that the creature has only been seen four times since 1937.",
"Conservationists feared the species had become extinct during a 63-year gap between sightings from 1939 to 2002.",
"Populations of all types of slender loris, which are native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka and southern India, have been in decline in recent years because of destruction of their forest habitat by logging, agriculture and development.",
"That prompted an 18-month study of the creatures led by researchers working for the Zoological Society of London's Edge project -- a conservation initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of animals on the brink of extinction.",
"Researchers from the University of Colombo and the Open University of Sri Lanka also took part.",
"Research leader Saman Gamage said more than 1,000 nocturnal studies in 120 different forest areas had been conducted as part of the study.",
"\"This discovery is a great reward for the ongoing field research we undertake across much of south-western Sri Lanka,\" Gamage said.",
"ZSL Conservation biologist Dr. Craig Turner said the study was the first close examination of a Horton Plains slender loris ever conducted.",
"The pictures show a 20-centimeter long male adult sitting on a forest branch forest.",
"Conservationists have discovered it appears to have shorter and sturdier limbs than other loris; a possible adaptation for the cooler, high-altitude montane -- or cloud -- forest in which it lives.",
"That could mean the Horton Plains slender loris is a distinct species in its own right, said Gamage.",
"Results of the study are published in the latest edition of the journal Primate Conservation.",
"\"We are thrilled to have captured the first ever photographs and prove its continued existence -- especially after its 65 year disappearing act,\" said Turner.",
"\"The discovery improves our knowledge of this species, but we need to focus our efforts on the conservation and restoration of the remaining montane forest where this species still exists.",
"Currently this accounts for less than one percent of the land area of Sri Lanka.\""
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"Conservationists have photographed endangered primate for the first time .",
"Loris is native to Sri Lanka but threatened by deforestation .",
"Researchers believe Horton Plains slender loris could be a distinct species ."
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"(CNN) -- The Cameroon Football Federation has appointed veteran Spaniard Javier Clemente as the coach of the African country's national team.",
"The 60-year-old, who has previous international experience with Spain and Serbia, returns to management after a short stint at relegated La Liga club Real Valladolid at the end of last season.",
"He replaces Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who stepped down from the role after Cameroon lost all three matches at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.",
"Clemente becomes Cameroon's fourth coach since May 2009, with German Otto Pfister and Thomas Nkono having also been charge in that time, and will sign a two-year contract.",
"\"Javier Clemente is the new coach of Cameroon.",
"The signing of the contract will take place in Yaounde on August 28,\" read a statement on the Cameroon federation's official website on Tuesday.",
"\"In his role, he will also be assisted by Francois Omam-Biyik.",
"The former Indomitable Lion will serve as assistant coach.",
"\"Jacques Songo'o, who served alongside Paul Le Guen as assistant coach in charge of goalkeepers during the World Cup, keeps his post.\"",
"Clemente, whose playing career was cut short by injury in 1971, started coaching four years later and has been in charge of clubs such as Athletic Bilbao (three times), Espanyol (twice), Marseille, Real Sociedad and Real Betis.",
"He coached Spain between 1992-98, going to two World Cups and Euro 96, but lasted less than two years with Serbia.",
"His first task will be to help the Indomitable Lions to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.",
"Four-times champions Cameroon's first game is next month away to Mauritius, with Senegal and Congo Democratic Republic also in Group E."
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"Former Spain coach Javier Clemente will take charge of Cameroon's national team .",
"The 60-year-old will replace Paul Le Guen when he signs a two-year contract next week .",
"Cameroon lost all three matches at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa .",
"Clemente returns to management after short stint at relegated Real Valladolid ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A team of prosecutors and a panel of law enforcement, legal and social science experts are being assembled to reinvestigate the case of a man convicted in 1988 of sexually abusing children, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Nassau County District Attorney's office.",
"\"A prosecutor's job is not to obtain convictions, but to obtain justice.",
"I cannot predict whether or not our investigation will corroborate the criminal case brought against Mr. [Jesse] Friedman more than two decades ago.",
"What I can guarantee is that my investigation will be thorough andit will be fair,\" Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a statement.",
"Nassau County is on Long Island.",
"The announcement to reopen the case comes in response to a federal appeals court decision that suggested prosecutors had an \"ethical obligation\" to reopen the 1988 child molestation case of Friedman.",
"He was the focus of a 2003 Oscar-nominated documentary, \"Capturing the Friedmans.\"",
"Friedman shared his reaction with CNN Tuesday night in an e-mail: \"I am concerned, given my history with the Nassau County prosecutor's office, of their ability to conduct a fair review of their colleagues.",
"However, taking Kathleen Rice at her word, I am optimistic and hopeful for the first time in more years then I care to admit.\"",
"The 31-page decision, released Monday, questioned \"the process by which the petitioner's conviction was obtained\" and suggested that because of the \"vast moral panic\" about child sexual abuse that was prevalent in the late 1980s and early '90s might have led police officials to cut corners in their investigation.",
"In unusually strong language, the 2nd Circuit Court decision stated that \"... the police, prosecutors and the judge did everything they could to coerce a guilty plea and avoid a trial\" and said there was a \"reasonable likelihood\" Friedman was \"wrongfully convicted\" of sexually abusing children.",
"Friedman, 41, served 13 years in prison and another five on parole.",
"He said he was still digesting the court's decision on Tuesday.",
"\"If the charges went away, that would be wonderful,\" he said.",
"Friedman said he has tried for 20 years to revoke his guilty plea, saying that at the time there was \"no other viable option, the system was in place.\"",
"He said he was offered a guaranteed six- to 18-year sentence in exchange for not pursuing a trial and feared the judge would give him 1,000 years if he didn't plead guilty.",
"\"If I went to trial, I was doomed,\" he said.",
"The court decision stated that although by law the court could not overturn Friedman'sconviction as it was filed too late, it suggested that the Nassau County prosecutor's office reinvestigate the case.",
"The decision cited New York law, which states that it was a prosecutor's duty to \"take reasonable remedial measures when it appears likely that an innocent person was wrongly convicted.\"",
"Friedman was 19 when he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing over a dozen children with his father, Arnold Friedman.",
"His father committed suicide in 1995 in prison.",
"Friedman and his father held computer classes in the basement of their suburban home in Great Neck, New York, where the attacks allegedly took place.",
"In 2003, while watching the documentary \"Capturing the Friedmans,\" he found out that many of the children who accused Friedman of sexually abusing them had been put through hypnotic therapy sessions to recall the attacks.",
"Friedman's attorney, Ronald Kuby, said that it was an opportunity for the prosecutor's office to \"cure an injustice\" and hoped it would end with a decision that Friedman was wrongfully convicted.",
"Friedman, who was paroled in 2001, said he wasn't sure how much it would really change his day-to-day life at this point.",
"\"I don't get those years back, but it would be nice to have my innocence declared, I am not a child molester.\"",
"He said he has an online book business selling popular fiction, which he runs from his home on the U.S. East Coast, where he lives with his wife.",
"\"My focus is on tomorrow,\" he said."
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"NEW: \"I am optimistic and hopeful for the first time\" in years, Jesse Friedman says .",
"In 1988, Friedman pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children .",
"Team of New York prosecutors to work with panel of experts .",
"2nd Circuit Court: Officials \"did everything they could to coerce a guilty plea\""
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"(CNN) -- The imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, was charged with sexual misconduct during a visit by his wife on July Fourth, according to a report released by the Michigan Bureau of Prisons.",
"\"A correctional officer observed him touch the wife on her breast,\" said Russ Marlan, a spokesman for the bureau.",
"\"All prisoners know it's against the rules,\" Marlan said of such contact.",
"The report states that a correctional officer observed via a prison video feed Kilpatrick touch his wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, on her breast with his right hand in the prison visiting room at Oaks Correctional Facility in Manistee.",
"If found guilty of the misconduct Kilpatrick could lose certain privileges, including a loss of visitations from his wife.",
"According to Marlan, the incident also will be discussed during a parole hearing for Kilpatrick in a year.",
"Prisoners are allowed one kiss with visitors and are allowed to hold hands in photographs.",
"Anything else is considered to be misconduct, the prison spokesman said.",
"\"To many it may seem like not a big deal, but we do have people passing contraband back and forth, as well as children in that room,\" said Marlan.",
"Kilpatrick currently is serving a maximum five-year sentence in Michigan for violating probation in a 2008 case against him.",
"That case involved two felony counts of obstruction of justice stemming from Kilpatrick's efforts to cover up an extramarital affair.",
"He also pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a police officer attempting to serve a subpoena on one of his friends in that case.",
"On Tuesday, the former mayor was arraigned in federal court on 19 counts of felony fraud and tax charges.",
"He is accused of using the Kilpatrick Civic Fund -- a tax-exempt fund meant to pay for voter education -- to make cash payments to himself, his family and friends."
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"Kwame Kilpatrick is serving 5-year sentence in Michigan .",
"His wife visited him in prison on July Fourth .",
"Prison officials say he touched his wife on her breast .",
"The sexual misconduct charge could lead to a reduction in privileges ."
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"(CNN) -- Researchers have made an unexpected discovery among the items a member of the Donner Party kept in a carpetbag on the group's ill-fated journey to California: a military document with Abraham Lincoln's handwriting on it.",
"Donner Party member James Reed and his family carried muster rolls with Lincoln's name on them among their treasured heirlooms, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum said in a statement released Monday.",
"A team of librarians, historians and handwriting experts combined forces to confirm that Lincoln's writing was on one of the documents, which list Lincoln and volunteer soldiers who fought in the 1832 Black Hawk War.",
"\"We often find documents that detail fascinating stories about Abraham Lincoln's life and times, but it is rare indeed for the document to have such an intriguing history after it was written,\" said Daniel Stowell, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln.",
"\"That these documents detail part of Lincoln's military service and that they accompanied the Donner Party to California makes them doubly significant.\"",
"All four of the muster rolls include \"Private Abraham Lincoln\" among the list of soldiers.",
"On one of them, experts say two-and-a-half lines are clearly written in Lincoln's hand.",
"And the documents reveal that Lincoln had a horse worth $85 and equipment valued at $15, noting that Lincoln received one tent that was United States property to be returned at the end of his service.",
"The lines Lincoln wrote said: \"Muster Roll of Captain Jacob M. Earleys Company of Mounted Volunteers Mustered out of the service of the United States By order of Brigadier General Atkinson of the United States army on White Water Rivers of Rock River on the 10th day of July 1832.\"",
"The documents are part of the James Frazier Reed Collection at the California State Library.",
"Reed's name appears just beneath Lincoln's on the list.",
"He was one of the organizing members of the Donner Party, the group of pioneers known for resorting to cannibalism while enduring a harsh winter in the Sierra Nevada mountains.",
"He likely inherited the papers from the military company's commander and took them with him when he left Springfield, Illinois, in April 1846 because they were part of his personal history, the Lincoln Presidential Library said.",
"While historians believe the papers accompanied the Donner Party for their entire journey, Reed did not.",
"He was banished from the group after fighting with a teamster and stabbing him to death, Monday's library statement said.",
"He left the papers with his wife after being expelled from the party, and \"she brought them safely in her bosom to California when helped by the first relief party which went to their assistance,\" daughter Martha Jane \"Patty\" Reed recalled."
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"Experts say military list includes Abraham Lincoln's handwriting .",
"The list, from the Black Hawk War, says Lincoln had an $85 horse and $15 of equipment .",
"Historians say an organizing member of the Donner Party carried the documents .",
"They are part of a collection at the California State Library ."
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"(CNN) -- A former Alabama assistant district attorney who specialized in prosecuting sex crimes against minors is accused of enticing what he thought was a teenage girl online for sexual purposes, authorities said.",
"Steven Giardini was indicted on charges of enticement and solicitation crimes over the computer with the intent to produce child pornography, the Alabama Attorney General's Office said in a statement.",
"Giardini, a former prosecutor in Mobile County, was arrested Tuesday.",
"The charges stem from the suspect's alleged communication with what he thought was a 15-year-girl, Alabama Attorney General Troy King said in a statement Tuesday.",
"But instead he was communicating with an agent from the FBI's Internet Crimes Against Children division.",
"The Attorney General's Family Protection Unit presented evidence to a Mobile County, Alabama, grand jury August 13, which handed up the indictment.",
"\"The crimes alleged in this indictment are all the more horrifying in that the defendant was a prosecutor entrusted to protect citizens from evil and criminal wrongdoing,\" King said.",
"\"The people of Alabama should be reassured, however, that no one is above the law, and that those who seek to harm and exploit our children will be punished, whoever they are.\"",
"Giardini is charged with one count of acting with the intent to entice a child under the age of 16 for intercourse, sodomy or sexual purposes; one count of acting with the intent to criminally solicit the production of child pornography; and one count of acting with the intent to entice a child for sexual purposes by means of computer, telephone, personal digital assistant, or other electronic means of communication or information storage.",
"All three charges are felonies.",
"The first is punishable upon conviction by a prison sentence of one to 10 years, with the last two punishable by a two-to-20-year sentence, according to the attorney general's office.",
"Giardini resigned from the district attorney's office in April 2009 after FBI agents searched his Mobile home, CNN affiliate WALA-TV reported.",
"It is not known what they were looking for, the station reported; the search warrant was sealed by a federal judge.",
"Giardini's attorney, Dennis Knizley, noted it has been 16 months since that search, WALA said.",
"\"And of course, his life has been on hold since then,\" Knizley told the station.",
"\"The facts of the case will turn out to be interesting and (we will) address those when we go to trial.\"",
"Knizley denied that Giardini was trying to manufacture child pornography.",
"Giardini was booked into the Mobile County Metro Jail and released on $250,000 bond, WALA said.",
"CNN's Lateef Mungin contributed to this report."
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"Authorities say Steven Giardini thought he was communicating with a 15-year-old girl .",
"But, they say, he was really communicating with the FBI .",
"NEW: Giardini resigned as a prosecutor after his home was searched last year ."
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"(CNN) -- A Chicago, Illinois, police officer was shot and killed Sunday morning after finishing his shift, police said.",
"Officer Michael Bailey, a decorated 20-year veteran of the department, had returned to his home on the south side of Chicago.",
"He was shot outside his personal vehicle about 6 a.m. (7 a.m.",
"ET), police said.",
"Bailey was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:40 a.m., police said .",
"Police had no one in custody as of Sunday afternoon, but suspect more than one attacker, spokesman John Mirabelli said.",
"Watch announcement of officer's death .",
"Bailey, 62, was assigned to the central business district of Chicago, Mirabelli said.",
"He was the third Chicago officer killed since May, police said in a statement.",
"The most recent was July 7, when an officer was shot and killed during a struggle with a suspect in a police facility parking lot."
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"The officer had just finished his shift and was at his home .",
"Police have no suspects in custody ."
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"BINGHAMTON, New York (CNN) -- People who knew the suspected gunman in Friday's shooting at an immigration services center were not surprised by his actions, the police chief in Binghamton, New York, said Saturday.",
"Police tape cordons off the crime scene in Binghamton, New York, on Saturday.",
"\"From the people close to him, the actions that he took were not a surprise to them,\" Chief Joseph Zikuski told reporters at a noon news conference.",
"The police chief said that \"some of this behavior on his part wasn't a total shock,\" but did not elaborate what, if any, previous behavior he meant.",
"A federal law enforcement source identified the suspected gunman as Jiverly Wong.",
"Zikuski said Wong, who was from Vietnam, was 41 and had changed his last name to Voong.",
"\"Apparently people were making fun of him.",
"He felt he was being degraded because of his inability to speak English, and he was upset about that,\" Zikuski said.",
"Watch police question whether teasing led to shooting rampage » .",
"Wong also was upset about recently losing a job, Zikuski said.",
"He had been taking English language classes at the American Civic Association, the site of Friday's shooting rampage, until dropping out the first week in March, the police chief said.",
"Watch investigators struggle to make sense of shooting » .",
"Thirteen people were slain in the association, which helps refugees and immigrants, before Wong apparently turned the gun on himself, authorities said.",
"Four others were wounded and are in local hospitals.",
"They are all expected to survive, Zikuski said.",
"Angela Leach, a representative of the American Civic Association, read a statement through tears at the news conference.",
"View photos from the scene in Binghamton » .",
"\"Whatever drove this individual to do what he did I cannot possibly fathom,\" she said.",
"\"But we will come out of our grief and sadness more resolute in our mission and more dedicated than ever to help people realize the dream of American citizenship.\"",
"Zikuski said Wong was wearing body armor, possibly indicating that he had prepared for a confrontation with police.",
"Zikuski said the suspect was heavily armed and that the victims had \"multiple gunshot\" wounds from Friday's massacre.",
"Watch the latest news from Binghamton » .",
"\"He must have been a coward, he decided to end his own life,\" when he heard police sirens, Zikuski said.",
"By late Saturday, police had begun the grim work of notifying the family members of the victims.",
"Omri Yigal said one of Voong's victims was his wife, Dolores, who was taking English classes at the center to better herself.",
"Yigal said he had no anger for the shooter.",
"\"My thoughts are on my wife.",
"I don't have time for that now,\" he said. Yigal said he felt \"grief for my wife and that's it.\"",
"\"She's come so far,\" he said haltingly, his arms crossed and his eyes to the ground.",
"\"So much.\" President Obama, speaking in Strasbourg, France, after a NATO summit, said his administration is in communication with law enforcement officials in Binghamton.",
"\"I am heartbroken for the families who survived this tragedy and it just underscores the degree to which in each of our countries we have to guard against the kind of senseless violence that the tragedy represents,\" Obama said.",
"Authorities received a 911 phone call at 10:31 a.m. Friday from a receptionist hiding under a desk alerting them to the shooting.",
"The receptionist, who had pretended to be dead before crawling under a desk, said she was shot in the stomach, Zikuski said.",
"Watch Zikuski give a timeline of the shooting » .",
"\"[She's a] very brave lady,\" the police chief said.",
"Police arrived on the scene minutes after the phone call; by that time, the shooting had stopped.",
"The woman is among the four wounded, he said; she is in serious condition.",
"Before entering the building's front door, Wong had apparently used his father's car to barricade the building's door, Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan said.",
"Wong then entered the building front door armed with two handguns, and without saying a word, began shooting, police said.",
"Ryan said two semi-automatic handguns -- a .45-caliber and a 9-millimeter -- found at the center were licensed to Wong.",
"Authorities executed a search warrant at Wong's home in Johnson City, just outside Binghamton, where he lived with his family, Ryan said.",
"\"They took a computer hard drive -- they took an empty long gun case, and some other bags,\" he said.",
"State police received a tip in 1999 from a confidential informant who told them Wong was planning a bank robbery, Zikuski said.",
"The information indicated Wong had a crack or cocaine habit and owned handguns, Zikuski said, and he did not provide additional information.",
"Binghamton, a city of about 50,000 people, is close to the Pennsylvania state line and about 140 miles northwest of New York City.",
"CNN's Allan Chernoff and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Suspected gunman's action \"not a surprise\" to those who knew him, police say .",
"Mayor: Suspect spoke poor English, \"felt people were looking down on him\"\nPresident Obama: \"I am heartbroken for the families\"\nFourteen people, including gunman, died Friday in N.Y. immigration center shootings ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday blasted Scottish authorities' decision to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber last year and agreed on the need to push for a more transparent disclosure of the circumstances surrounding Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi's release.",
"Cameron, however, said he is opposed to a British government investigation into the release.",
"The two leaders also said they addressed a range of issues in talks at the White House, including the war in Afghanistan, sanctions against Iran, the state of the global economy and the responsibilities of BP -- a British company -- after the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.",
"\"We can never say it enough.",
"The United States and the United Kingdom enjoy a truly special relationship,\" Obama said.",
"\"We celebrate a common heritage.",
"We cherish common values.",
"... (And) above all, our alliance thrives because it advances our common interests.\"",
"The meeting was part of Cameron's first U.S. visit as Britain's leader.",
"The two men met with reporters shortly after huddling behind closed doors.",
"Cameron said the release of al Megrahi, who had been sentenced to life for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, was \"wholly wrong.\"",
"Al Megrahi, he said, was \"the biggest mass murder in British history.\"",
"The 1988 bombing killed 270 people.",
"Cameron promised that the British government will cooperate with a congressional investigation into the controversy, though he stressed that the decision to release al Megrahi was made by the Scottish government without any involvement from BP.",
"\"There is absolutely no harm to be done in giving the fullest possible explanation\" regarding the decision to release al Megrahi, Cameron said.",
"\"But I don't think there's any great mystery here.",
"It was simply a \"misguided decision\" by Scottish authorities.",
"The Scottish government freed al Megrahi last August on compassionate grounds after doctors said he had terminal prostate cancer and just three months to live.",
"Al Megrahi is still alive nearly a year later, and news reports in recent days have questioned whether he was as sick as depicted.",
"Questions also have been raised about whether a deal was cut to release him to protect British business interests in Libya, with oil giant BP exerting influence in the case.",
"The Scottish government has insisted that BP never lobbied to free al Megrahi.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and four U.S. senators from New York and New Jersey have called for Britain to revisit the case, even though there is little chance that al Megrahi will be returned to custody from his native Libya.",
"Cameron was scheduled to meet with the senators during his visit to Washington.",
"Obama said most Americans were \"surprised, disappointed and angry\" about the decision to let al Megrahi go.",
"\"We should have all the facts,\" he added.",
"\"They should be laid out there.\" The decision \"ran contrary to how we should be treating terrorists.\"",
"Turning to BP's responsibilities after the Gulf oil spill, Cameron said he \"completely understands\" the anger that exists \"across America.\"",
"\"It is BP's role to cap the leak, to clean up the mess, and to pay appropriate compensation,\" he said.",
"\"I'm in regular touch with senior management at BP, and the president is, too, to make sure that happens.\"",
"The two men said they were united in their goals for the Afghanistan war and in terms of preventing Tehran's acquisition of nuclear weapons.",
"Cameron, however, remains under pressure at home to end the British involvement in the Afghan campaign.",
"Britain is the second-largest contributor of troops to the military coalition fighting Taliban insurgents, behind only the United States.",
"Obama also indicated they had both reaffirmed their commitment to fiscal responsibility in light of spiraling deficits in the major Western economies.",
"At the same time, the president stressed that different countries are taking slightly different approaches, depending on their specific circumstances.",
"Obama has pushed for the need for greater stimulus spending in the short term while addressing deficits as more of a long-term issue; Cameron entered office pledging the enactment of immediate austerity measures.",
"In keeping with those measures, his office said earlier, the prime minister flew on a commercial flight to Washington.",
"While their different approaches to the economic crisis underscore their different political orientations, Obama and Cameron, according to many observers, also have a great deal in common.",
"Among other things, they're a similar age -- Cameron is 43 and Obama is 48 -- and they both campaigned on the slogan of hope and change.",
"Cameron came to power in May in a historic change of government in the United Kingdom, about 18 months after Obama made history with his own election as the United States' first African-American president.",
"The two men bet a bottle of beer on the outcome of the USA-England soccer match in the first round of the World Cup, and exchanged bottles in a lighthearted event when the teams tied 1-1 in June.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"Leaders of the U.S. and Britain condemn the release of the Lockerbie bomber .",
"Cameron says the Scottish government released al Megrahi without BP influence .",
"He pledges to cooperate with a congressional inquiry into the release .",
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"(Mashable) -- It takes longer to read books on a Kindle 2 or an iPad versus a printed book, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered in a recent usability survey.",
"The study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2 percent on the iPad and 10.7 percent on theKindle compared to print.",
"However, Nielsen conceded that the differences in reading speed between the two devices were not \"statistically significant because of the data's fairly high variability\" -- in other words, the study did not prove that the iPad allowed for faster reading than the Kindle.",
"A total of 24 participants (10 is about average for a usability survey) were given short stories by Ernest Hemingway to read in print and oniPads, Kindles and desktop PCs.",
"Hemingway was chosen because his work utilizes simple language and is \"pleasant and engaging to read.\"",
"The narratives took an average of 17 minutes and 20 seconds from start to finish -- enough time to get readers fully \"immersed\" in the stories, Nielsen explained.",
"After reading, participants filled out a brief comprehension questionnaire to make sure no one had skimmed through a story.",
"Users rated their satisfaction with each device; the iPad, Kindle and printed book scored 5.8, 5.7 and 5.6, on a scale of 7, respectively, while the PC received an average score of 3.6 -- due, in part, because reading on a PC reminded readers of work.",
"Participants also complained about the weight of the iPad and the Kindle's weak contrast.",
"As Nielsen notes, the satisfaction ratings on the survey are promising for the future of e-readers and tablet devices.",
"However, I can see universities and businesses taking less kindly to e-readers if further studies prove that they handicap reading speed.",
"What do you think of the results?",
"Do you prefer to read on an e-reader, tablet or in print -- and why?",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"It takes longer to read books on a Kindle or an iPad versus a printed book, a study found .",
"Reading speeds declined by 6.2 percent on the iPad and 10.7 percent on the Kindle .",
"Some people might shy away from e-readers if further studies prove they affect reading speed ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A much-anticipated meeting Tuesday between military officers of the U.S.-led U.N. Command and North Korea in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has been postponed, the command said.",
"A new meeting time was not immediately proposed, the command said.",
"They planned to discuss the March 26 sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan.",
"The U.N. officers were slated to be U.S. colonels, as the United States holds responsibility for U.N. security forces in Korea.",
"North Korea had accepted a U.N. proposal for the meeting of colonel-level leaders to be a precursor to talks between generals on the contentious naval incident.",
"The demilitarized zone was created as part of the armistice signed between North and South Korea in 1953 that halted the Korean War, but the war has never officially ended.",
"The United Nations and North Korea began occasional meetings between generals -- \"General Officer Talks\" -- at Panmunjom in 1998 to lessen tensions.",
"There have been 16 such meetings to date, the last one in March 2009, the United Nations said.",
"On Friday, the United Nations formally condemned the sinking of the Cheonan but did not specifically name North Korea, which an international joint civilian-military investigation deemed culpable.",
"Australia, Britain, the United States, Sweden and South Korea provided experts for the inquiry.",
"\"The Security Council deplores the attack,\" the 15-member council said Friday in what is known as a presidential statement.",
"It urged that \"appropriate and peaceful measures be taken against those responsible for the incident aimed at the peaceful settlement of the issue.\"",
"It also called for full adherence to the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement, which ended hostilities in the Korean War.",
"Despite the absence of North Korea's name in the condemnation, Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the message to the communist nation is \"unmistakable.\"",
"\"This statement is notable and it is clear,\" Rice said after its approval at a Friday session.",
"\"It uses the term 'attack' repeatedly, which you don't have to be a scholar of the English language to understand is not a neutral term.\"",
"South Korea welcomed the statement.",
"\"I think it's crystal clear that [the] Security Council made it clear that North Korea [is] to be blamed and to be condemned,\" said Park In-kook, South Korea's ambassador to the United Nations.",
"A presidential statement, unlike a Security Council resolution, is not legally binding, though it requires approval of the council's five permanent members: China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and United States.",
"The Security Council expressed \"deep sympathy and condolences\" for the deaths of 46 sailors aboard the Cheonan.",
"The isolated North has maintained its innocence, rejecting the investigation findings outright, questioning the validity of the experts involved, asking to conduct its own inquiry and telling the Security Council that North Korea is the true victim of a conspiracy.",
"A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, called the presidential statement \"devoid of any proper judgment,\" according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Friday.",
"He added the case \"should have been settled between the North and the South without referring it to the U.N.",
"The DPRK remains unchanged in its stand to probe the truth about the case to the last.\""
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"Dallas, Texas(CNN) -- Financial troubles and despair over her husband's death were weighing heavily on the mayor of a Texas city who apparently killed herself and her daughter last week, her close friend told CNN.",
"\"I think that the weight of it all became too much for her,\" said Doug Stover, who preceded Jayne Peters as mayor of Coppell, Texas.",
"\"She felt unfortunately, for her, this was the only option she had.\"",
"Police in Coppell said last week that Peters shot and killed her 19-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself.",
"In an interview with CNN's Don Lemon on Saturday, Stover described Peters as \"a very anti-gun person\" and said she had borrowed the gun from a friend, claiming she needed it for a self-defense class.",
"\"The way she died and the ways she behaved in the last days of her life were not characteristic of the way she lived,\" he said.",
"CNN affiliate KTXA reported that Peters faced foreclosure on her home at least twice this year.",
"Ultimately, according to the Foreclosure Listing Service, the home was not foreclosed on, KTXA said.",
"Coppell City Manager Clay Phillips told the affiliate that the city was looking into expenditures charged to Peters' city-issued credit card to see if there were any financial improprieties.",
"Stover said close friends only learned of Peters' financial struggles after her death.",
"\"She never opened up to anybody about her own problems,\" he said.",
"The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Officer ruled Wednesday that the mayor's death was a suicide and her daughter's a homicide.",
"Police found Peters, 55, and her daughter Mary Corinne Peters, 19, Tuesday evening after city officials asked them to check on the family's welfare when the mayor did not show up for a scheduled council meeting.",
"An envelope containing a note and a key to the two-story house had been left on the front door.",
"Three other notes were found inside the house.",
"The outside note warned officers of what they would find inside, The Dallas Morning News reported.",
"One of the suicide notes said that her 19-year-old daughter hid her pain from her friends, according to The Dallas Morning News, and that mother and daughter \"were lost, alone and afraid.\"",
"Police told the News the notes gave no clues as to what led to the shooting, but rather provided instructions on, among other things, how to care for the family's pets.",
"Two dogs were found in the house, the newspaper reported.",
"Peters was elected mayor in May 2009 and had been a member of the city council since 1998.",
"Her husband died of cancer in January 2008.",
"Coppell, 16 miles northwest of Dallas, has a population of 39,000.",
"CNN's Don Lemon contributed to this report."
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"Doug Stover, her predecessor as mayor, says Peters was anti-gun .",
"Her behavior before she died was \"not characteristic of the way she lived,\" he says .",
"Police say it appears that Peters killed herself and her 19-year-old daughter ."
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"(CNN) -- Police have identified the body of a missing mother found Sunday in a vacant lot in Camden, New Jersey.",
"A family member found the body of Jenna Lord, 23, of Collingdale, Pennsylvania, on Sunday in a vacant lot in Camden, according to Jason Laughlin, a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.",
"Family members and police had been searching the area.",
"Lord, described as a formerly troubled young woman who had recently begun to turn her life around, went missing over the July Fourth weekend.",
"She was last seen the morning of July 5, waiting for a train home to Pennsylvania at the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden after attending a Fourth of July gathering the night before, according to her mother, Desiree Caruso.",
"Her body was dressed in the same clothes she was wearing when she went missing, Laughlin reported.",
"Caruso told HLN's \"Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that her daughter's cell phone had died sometime over the weekend, and she used a man's phone at the train station to call her mother.",
"Caruso said she missed the phone call, but talked with the man afterward, who told her that her daughter \"looked a little scared.\"",
"The man told Caruso that he helped Lord buy a train ticket and waited with her until his train arrived.",
"\"His train came a minute before hers, and he got on his train and I guess he figured she would get on her train, but she never got home,\" Caruso said.",
"The man also said that Lord had been approached by another man, who told him he would make sure she got on her train, saying, \"I got this,\" according to Caruso.",
"Surveillance video apparently shows Lord walking around the train station with two men following \"about 5 feet\" behind her, according to Caruso, who had seen the footage.",
"\"It looked like they were saying something to her,\" Caruso said of the tape.",
"\"She looked back and then she just kept walking, and that's the end [of the tape].\"",
"The Camden, Gloucester and Salem County medical examiner said the cause of death is undetermined due to the body's heavy state of decomposition, but there's no evidence of foul play, Laughlin said in a written statement.",
"Investigators aren't able to conduct toxicology tests but are looking into whether other tests could determine how Lord died, Laughlin said.",
"Collingdale, Pennsylvania, Police Chief Robert Adams said Lord was reported missing from his town.",
"Adams said the young mother attended a party in New Jersey and never returned home.",
"The family has said police were not helpful in searching for Lord.",
"But Adams disputes that and said the case involved four jurisdictions and two states.",
"Adams said Lord, who has a young son, was scheduled to appear in court this week on charges of aggravated assault and theft in a neighboring town.",
"She had not gone missing before, he said.",
"\"This is not the conclusion I was not hoping for.",
"I was hoping she'd be found in rehab or found alive and well,\" he added.",
"Lord's family has said police were hesitant to get involved because of her criminal past: She was arrested in 2006 for possession of marijuana and was arrested on assault charges earlier this year, Delaware County court records show.",
"But Caruso said Lord has been clean for six months, and had been reading the Bible daily and concentrating on being a mother to her 3-year-old son.",
"Camden Police Chief John Scott Thomson said in a statement Monday that his department \"worked closely\" with Lord's family in the search for Lord.",
"\"In addition to investigative efforts and continuous radio police broadcasts, Camden City police officers were on foot, distributing flyers and searching with family members during yesterday's discovery,\" Thomson said.",
"\"The Camden Police Department is assisting the Camden County Prosecutor's Office with the investigation into Jenna's cause of death.\""
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"Police said her body was found Sunday in a vacant lot in Camden .",
"Authorities are still working to determine the cause of her death ."
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"Walnut Creek, California (CNN) -- Dueling rallies took place Monday involving a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed passenger.",
"Several hundred people gathered in this suburban community, some 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, with supporters of former officer Johannes Mehserle joined by critics, who said they were calling for justice for his victim, Oscar Grant.",
"The Walnut Creek branch of the Contra Costa County Superior Court closed early Monday because of the rallies, and all cases that were scheduled to be heard Monday afternoon were postponed.",
"Some gas stations and a restaurant in the area also opted to close down for the day.",
"From the air, the crowd appeared to be mostly peaceful, although banners revealed a sharp divide.",
"\"Jail All Racist Killer Cops,\" proclaimed one large banner, held aloft by several people.",
"Other banners proclaimed support for police.",
"\"Free Mehserle,\" some said.",
"The Justice for Oscar Grant supporters started their demonstration across the street but then moved onto the sidewalk in front the courthouse where the Mehserle supporters were demonstrating.",
"There was some shouting between the two sides.",
"Police in riot gear placed metal barriers to keep the two sides apart.",
"The two groups appeared evenly matched in size.",
"Police said at its peak, there appeared to be about 300 people at the event.",
"They said there were no arrests.",
"\"The crowd has been vocal but very cooperative,\" Walnut Creek police Lt. Steve Skinner said.",
"\"There were no acts of violence.",
"It actually went very well on both sides.\"",
"The crowds dispersed after about four hours.",
"The Walnut Creek police department called in most of its police personnel and civilian staff for duty, and the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office helped provide security.",
"Some area departments helped direct traffic.",
"Mehserle, who is white, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 shooting death of Grant, an unarmed black man who was on a train platform at the Fruitvale station in nearby Oakland.",
"The area gets its name from the apricot and cherry orchards that abounded there more than a century ago.",
"Supporters of Mehserle say the killing was a \"tragic mistake\" and say they called the rally to show support for police.",
"They helped spread word for the rally through Facebook.",
"\"Anyone who supports Johannes and our Law Enforcement Officers may attend,\" said a post on the Facebook page.",
"\"This is a PEACEFUL rally to show our support for Johannes, his family and our law enforcement officers.\"",
"It added, \"This rally is NOT about inciting violence, destruction, intolerance, hatred, racism, riots or to upset the Grant family.\"",
"But organizers of the counter-rally say they were standing up for justice for Grant and against racism.",
"They said in a news release they want to make clear that \"justice means that Grant's killer, Mehserle, stays in jail and they throw away the key.\"",
"The website for the Justice for Oscar Grant Committee added, \"Oscar Grant was a young Black man returning home by way of the Fruitvale BART station after celebrating the New Year.",
"This was the only excuse the cop needed to end Grant's life execution-style.",
"Maybe Oscar was too loud, too proud, too Black.",
"Maybe he was too calm during the taunts of the police.",
"Or maybe it was for nothing at all.\"",
"Mehserle faces two to four years in prison at his scheduled August 6 sentencing.",
"He remains in the Los Angles County jail.",
"The judge could also impose an additional term of three, four or 10 years because a firearm was used in the crime.",
"Although police said they were prepared for possible clashes, some people in this normally placid town were not unduly concerned that the rallies might get out of control, even though protests after the verdict in nearby Oakland led to the arrest of 78 people.",
"\"Even though I don't think it's the best idea, because I think it's inflammatory, it's people's right,\" said Sue Klingler.",
"\"I work across the street from the Superior Court, and I'm not concerned at all.\"",
"Another man, who didn't give his name to CNN affiliate KRON-TV, said that Walnut Creek \"is not known for getting outrageous types of demonstrations.\"",
"The January 1, 2009, shooting of the 22-year-old Grant was captured on a bystander's cell phone video camera.",
"The video was widely circulated on the internet and on news broadcasts.",
"The video showed Mehserle pulling his gun and fatally shooting Grant in the back as another officer knelt on the unarmed man.",
"Mehserle testified that the shooting was an accident and that he had mistakenly used his handgun instead of his Taser.",
"Mehserle and other Bay Area Rapid Transit police had been called to the Fruitvale station after passengers complained about fights on a train.",
"Officers pulled several men, including Grant, off the train when it arrived at Fruitvale.",
"The earlier Oakland demonstrations were called in response to Mehserle's acquittal on second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter charges.",
"The Oakland demonstrations began peacefully but were followed by some violence, including vandalism."
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"NEW: Police Lt. says crowds were vocal but orderly .",
"No arrests as opposing groups demonstrate over transit killing .",
"Groups demonstrate about a transit officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man .",
"Officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of Oscar Grant ."
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