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• Tiger claws out 2-shot lead at wind-whipped PGA (AP)
• Tropical Storm Bill forms as Ana races west (AP)
• Campaign tactics back as Obama presses health care (AP)
• Bollywood star downplays incident at US airport (AP)
• Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate (AP)
• Parched California scorched by multiple wildfires (AP)
• Gay marriage fight, `kiss-ins' smack Mormon image (AP)
• Pitino scandal reveals couple's odd courtship (AP)
• Family `ecstatic' after word Mo. man will be freed (AP)
• Mich. cruisers worry days of classic cars are over (AP)
• Suspect in 1964 civil rights worker killings dies (AP)
• Gun law complaints trail Obama during park tours (AP)
• Tax dodgers scramble to come clean amid crackdown (AP)
• Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor (AP)
• Drake's Pa. oil well idea changed world in 1859 (AP)
• Colonial BancGroup shut down by federal officials (AP)
• Controller bantering about dead cat before crash (AP)
• NY shopkeeper who defended store recounts shooting (AP)
• Wash. group puts markers on graves of mentally ill (AP)
• AP IMPACT: For-profit colleges boost lending (AP)

Tiger claws out 2-shot lead at wind-whipped PGA (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:11 PM PDT AP - Tiger Woods is one round away from winning another major, with more company than he wanted.

Tropical Storm Bill forms as Ana races west (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT AP - The government of the Netherland Antilles issued a tropical storm watch for St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius on Saturday as Ana raced west through the Atlantic.

Campaign tactics back as Obama presses health care (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is using political tactics and rhetorical devices honed in his White House campaign to regain the upper hand in the health care debate over increasingly vocal critics.

Bollywood star downplays incident at US airport (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is downplaying being questioned at the New Jersey airport.

Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - Now, it's personal.

Parched California scorched by multiple wildfires (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:27 PM PDT AP - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders Saturday as 6,800 firefighters battled to control nearly a dozen blazes across the parched state.

Gay marriage fight, `kiss-ins' smack Mormon image (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:18 PM PDT AP - The Mormon church's vigorous, well-heeled support for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California last year, has turned the Utah-based faith into a lightning rod for gay rights activism, including a nationwide "kiss-in" Saturday.

Pitino scandal reveals couple's odd courtship (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 01:29 PM PDT AP - In Rick Pitino's words, his equipment manager's wife was welcomed into Louisville's close-knit basketball family. Beneath the surface, however, was an explosive secret.

Family `ecstatic' after word Mo. man will be freed (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:43 PM PDT AP - Family members of a Missouri man imprisoned in Myanmar for swimming to the home of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi waited Saturday for his return to the United States, and said they were thrilled that his ordeal appeared to be over.

Mich. cruisers worry days of classic cars are over (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:38 PM PDT AP - Jack Beller's blue 1966 Corvette has the classic big-block engine and the enormous carburetor that make putting the keys in the ignition a roaring ode to muscle car history.

Suspect in 1964 civil rights worker killings dies (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:12 AM PDT AP - Federal authorities will continue to investigate the 1964 Mississippi killings of three civil rights workers — a case that helped pass landmark legislation — despite the death of a key suspect, the Justice Department says.

Gun law complaints trail Obama during park tours (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - Family in tow for a tour of national treasures far from Washington, President Barack Obama is trailed by criticism from gun opponents and parks advocates for allowing firearms into such majestic places as this.

Tax dodgers scramble to come clean amid crackdown (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT AP - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers — and the Internal Revenue Service.

Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 02:03 PM PDT AP - The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.

Drake's Pa. oil well idea changed world in 1859 (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 12:21 PM PDT AP - The oil boom that began 150 years ago in this small northwestern Pennsylvania town changed the world and made countless people rich, but not the man who found the way to successfully extract black gold from the earth.

Colonial BancGroup shut down by federal officials (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 10:59 AM PDT AP - Real estate lender Colonial BancGroup Inc. has been shut down by federal officials in the biggest U.S. bank failure this year.

Controller bantering about dead cat before crash (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:01 AM PDT AP - The air traffic controller handling the small plane involved in a deadly crash with a helicopter over the Hudson River was chatting on the telephone about a dead cat at the airport and initially failed to warn the pilot of other aircraft in his path, officials say.

NY shopkeeper who defended store recounts shooting (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 11:01 AM PDT AP - The sidewalk outside the Harlem store still was smeared with blood Friday, and the glass on the door still was blown out.

Wash. group puts markers on graves of mentally ill (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 10:41 AM PDT AP - Faded numbers stamped into small cement blocks marked the graves of more than 3,200 mentally ill patients buried here at Western State Hospital between the 1870s and 1953. Over time, the stones themselves sank into the earth, leaving the dead in almost perfect obscurity.

AP IMPACT: For-profit colleges boost lending (AP) Posted: 15 Aug 2009 10:42 AM PDT AP - Some of the nation's biggest for-profit colleges and vocational schools are boosting enrollment in tough times by making more loans directly to cash-strapped students, knowing full well many of them probably won't be able to repay what they borrowed.

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