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Wildfires in LA reduce hundreds of homes to ash (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:27 AM CST AP - Southern Californians endured a third day of destruction Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires torched hundreds of mobile homes and mansions, forced tens of thousands of people to flee and shut down major freeways.

Gay advocates protest marriage ban across nation (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:30 AM CST AP - Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the vote that banned gay marriage in California and to urge supporters not to quit the fight for the right to wed.

Space shuttle Endeavour soars toward space station (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:19 AM CST AP - Speeding 17,000 miles an hour around Earth, space shuttle Endeavour aimed for a docking with the international space station Sunday to drop off a new housemate and deliver equipment which will change the outpost into a two-kitchen, two-bath, five-bedroom home.

Obama election spurs race crimes around country (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:35 AM CST AP - Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Mobile home park is ground zero of Calif. wildfire (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 08:32 PM CST AP - Fire Capt. Andrew Ruiz and his crew tried to save scores of mobile homes at Oakridge Mobile Home Park early Saturday morning. By daybreak, just one home was standing in the section of the park where they had fought their battle, now a landscape of wreckage and ashes.

Suspect arrested in Northern Calif. office deaths (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 10:32 PM CST AP - A 47-year-old engineer arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting three of his co-workers had been laid off hours earlier and returned to the office to ask for a meeting with the victims, police said Saturday.

Gunfire, mayhem erupt in lobby of Waldorf-Astoria (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 10:38 PM CST AP - Gunfire erupted in the storied Waldorf-Astoria hotel during a brazen robbery attempt Saturday at a lobby jewelry store, wounding a security guard and sending guests diving for cover.

Houston Zoo mourns death of popular Asian elephant (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 05:33 PM CST AP - An inquisitive Asian elephant known for being the largest of its kind born in captivity in the United States died at the Houston Zoo this week after suddenly contracting an incurable disease.

North Carolina storm kills 2, destroys homes (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 05:24 PM CST AP - As a tornado ripped through his North Carolina neighborhood, Curt Jernigan huddled in his bathroom, praying for the raging winds to spare him.

Fort Worth is 4th Episcopal diocese to break away (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 02:04 PM CST AP - The theologically conservative Diocese of Fort Worth voted Saturday to split from the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church, the fourth traditional diocese to do so in a long-running debate over the Bible, gay relationships and other issues.

'Today' show's Ann Curry struggling up Kilimanjaro (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 09:33 PM CST AP - Climbing Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro is no weekend hike, and the "Today" show's Ann Curry was feeling it on Saturday.

Wildfire chases patients from LA hospital (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 05:02 PM CST AP - Most of the 200 patients were asleep when Santa Ana winds that had swept down from the high desert circled the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in fire.

College sports try to fend off blitz from economy (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 12:05 PM CST AP - While Georgia practices just beyond the walls of his office, Alan Thomas toils over his own game plan. He's no Mark Richt, but this administrator's work from behind a desk is just as important to the Bulldogs' success as a strong-armed quarterback.

New Calif. wildfire breaks out in Orange County (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 01:58 PM CST AP - Fire officials in Southern California say a wildfire has broken out in Orange County and high wind is pushing flames toward a subdivision.

Horse advocates decry government euthanasia option (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 01:37 PM CST AP - A stampede of opposition is growing over a proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to kill or allow unrestricted sale of wild horses captured from western public land because of budget constraints.

Natural gas rush stirs environmental concerns (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 10:45 AM CST AP - Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up "unconventional" gas fields touted as a key to the nation's energy future.

30 years after, the legacy of Jonestown (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 11:21 AM CST AP - Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.

Guilty plea in killings of mom, fetus and toddler (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 11:13 AM CST AP - Prosecutors in Kansas are seeking a life sentence for a man who killed his pregnant ex-wife, her unborn child and the woman's 8-month-old daughter.

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