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• Horses take off, injure 24 people at Iowa parade (AP)
• Hotdoggin' it: Ex-champ crashes NYC eating contest (AP)
• Fireworks to follow sun-scorched July 4 festivals (AP)
• On July 4 in spill country, pondering America (AP)
• Dioceses oust abusers they had pledged to monitor (AP)
• Cleveland might feel economic pinch without LeBron (AP)
• Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks (AP)
• Rough weather curtails some Gulf cleanup work (AP)
• 5 killed in West Texas air ambulance crash (AP)
• Towns grapple with tidying forsaken cemeteries (AP)
• Police: NY man blows off arm with party fireworks (AP)
• Man charged in boat crash near Statue of Liberty (AP)
• Chief: 2 arrests linked to Calif. police attacks (AP)
• NY fisherman bitten on arm by blue shark he caught (AP)
• Ship in Boston Harbor runs aground, is evacuated (AP)
• Wyoming threatens to sell prime Grand Teton land (AP)
• Essay: Spy arrests offer bit of Cold War nostalgia (AP)

Horses take off, injure 24 people at Iowa parade (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT AP - Two horses running out of control trampled children collecting candy and other onlookers along a Fourth of July parade route in a small Mississippi River town in eastern Iowa on Sunday.

Hotdoggin' it: Ex-champ crashes NYC eating contest (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 04:30 PM PDT AP - A Japanese eating champion who sat out this year's Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog contest apparently couldn't resist the temptation to hotdog afterward.

Fireworks to follow sun-scorched July 4 festivals (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - The nation's largest fireworks show will light up the skies over the Hudson River straddling New York and New Jersey, one of hundreds around the country that will bring sizzling ends to a scorching day for much of the U.S.

On July 4 in spill country, pondering America (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 02:44 PM PDT AP - From the country's earliest days, when a handful of colonists became fed up with Britain and decided independence was worth dying for, Americans have been guided by fires in their bellies and a deep belief in the ability to accomplish anything.

Dioceses oust abusers they had pledged to monitor (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - At the peak of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, the discipline plan American bishops adopted prompted dioceses to remove nearly all accused clergy from the priesthood.

Cleveland might feel economic pinch without LeBron (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:43 PM PDT AP - Before LeBron James, there were thousands of empty seats for most Cleveland Cavaliers games and downtown was silent after dark. With him, every game is a sellout and nearby bars and restaurants bustle.

Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 10:12 AM PDT AP - Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.

Rough weather curtails some Gulf cleanup work (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:27 PM PDT AP - Cleanup crews across the Gulf of Mexico surveyed damage done by last week's hurricane while contending Sunday with choppy seas that idled many of the boats dedicated to keeping oil from hitting vulnerable beaches and marshes.

5 killed in West Texas air ambulance crash (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - An air ambulance crashed shortly after takeoff from a West Texas airport Sunday, killing all five people on board.

Towns grapple with tidying forsaken cemeteries (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 09:34 AM PDT AP - Almost 125 years ago, 15-month-old Emma Wheeler was laid to rest within sight of her family's church near a stone wall in a New England cemetery.

Police: NY man blows off arm with party fireworks (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 06:37 AM PDT AP - Police say a man lighting fireworks has blown off his arm at a party on New York's Long Island.

Man charged in boat crash near Statue of Liberty (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - A New Jersey man was charged with vehicular manslaughter after a boat crash near the Statue of Liberty that killed a groom-to-be and injured two other men.

Chief: 2 arrests linked to Calif. police attacks (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 05:54 PM PDT AP - Two men who investigators believe are linked to a series of booby trap attacks on police in a town in the Southern California desert have been arrested, authorities said Saturday.

NY fisherman bitten on arm by blue shark he caught (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 06:44 PM PDT AP - The Coast Guard says a captured shark bit a fisherman as he tried to remove a hook from its mouth on a boat off New York's Long Island.

Ship in Boston Harbor runs aground, is evacuated (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 04:33 PM PDT AP - A tour boat headed on a whale watch with 174 people on board was evacuated Saturday after it ran aground on a rocky ledge in Boston Harbor and began taking on water.

Wyoming threatens to sell prime Grand Teton land (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 08:56 AM PDT AP - For Sale: Two square miles of Grand Teton National Park.

Essay: Spy arrests offer bit of Cold War nostalgia (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 10:08 PM PDT AP - The capture of those alleged deep-cover Russian agents has â€" for a moment of nostalgia â€" taken Americans back to a day when their enemy was sneaky but familiar, ensconced right there behind the crenelated red-brick Kremlin walls.

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