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Bush team, Congress negotiate $700B bailout (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:34 AM CDT AP - The Bush administration asked Congress on Saturday for the power to buy $700 billion in toxic assets clogging the financial system and threatening the economy as negotiations began on the largest bailout since the Great Depression.

Ike evacuees jump gun, sneak back onto island (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:42 AM CDT AP - Rats, raw sewage and a no-excuses curfew await exiled residents who try to return to storm-wrecked Galveston Island when it reopens next week, officials warned Saturday, a week after Hurricane Ike came thundering ashore.

Obama, McCain combine for record $94M spending (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:39 AM CDT AP - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain together spent $94 million in August, a record spree mostly aimed at about a dozen states that will probably decide their historic presidential contest.

Poll: Racial misgivings of whites an Obama issue (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:37 AM CDT AP - Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles.

Musicians had harrowing escape from SC jet crash (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:58 AM CDT AP - Fans of former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and disc jockey DJ AM anxiously waited Sunday for word on the critical burns the two suffered in an incredible escape from the flaming wreckage of their private jet.

Court orders Cheney to preserve VP records (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:46 AM CDT AP - A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president.

Florida's Medicaid recipients file federal lawsuit (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:48 AM CDT AP - Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mick Jagger to Mickey Mantle. Today, he enjoys such freedom only in his dreams.

Battered Galveston ready to rebuild after Ike (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:27 PM CDT AP - The eight-pointed star on the wall outside Trey Click's office marks it as a "survivor." The squat, orange building withstood the ravages of the 1900 hurricane, which nearly flattened this barrier island city and still stands as the nation's deadliest natural disaster.

Black fraternal society rediscovered in Barbados (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:36 PM CDT AP - The history of the Mosaic Templars was believed to have drawn to a close in the 1930s, when the Great Depression swallowed one of the largest benevolent societies for blacks in the nation and likely the world.

Alaska town opens 'road to nowhere' (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 09:15 PM CDT AP - Alaska now has a Road to Nowhere going to what would have been the Bridge to Nowhere.

Arkansas compound raided in child porn case (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:07 PM CDT AP - Federal authorities conducting a child-porn investigation raided the headquarters Saturday of a ministry run by a convicted tax evader once labeled by prosecutors as a polygamist who preys on girls and women.

One man's luck: A genius grant, but so much more (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:47 PM CDT AP - On Tuesday, the new list of MacArthur "genius award" winners will be announced. If you're on it, here's what to expect:

Scientists monitor growing Lake Erie algae bloom (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:38 PM CDT AP - Giant floating fields of algae are back in strength this year on Lake Erie and scientists are trying to figure out why.

Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:48 PM CDT AP - Alice and Jeff Speck didn't have a car and didn't want one. But District of Columbia zoning regulations required them to carve out a place to park one at the house they were building.

Citizenship ceremony largest in St. Louis history (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 05:26 AM CDT AP - They had learned English, mastered American civics, undergone extensive background checks and adapted to a new culture.

West Texas braces for Mexican reservoir release (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 04:02 PM CDT AP - Helicopters dropped huge sandbags on a levee and a crew of prison inmates worked to create a makeshift dam Saturday in this rural border city threatened by flooding from the Rio Grande.

Nearly 250,000 Ohio customers remain without power (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:22 PM CDT AP - Almost a quarter million homes and businesses across Ohio remained without power Saturday, one week after a huge storm blacked out large swaths of the state.

Frustrated in Ohio: 5 days without power for some (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 05:36 AM CDT AP - Facing a fifth day without power, the residents of a senior housing community in western Ohio took to the street with foam signs to protest the failure of Dayton Power and Light Co. to restore electricity.

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