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• Horses dragged driver as he tried to stop rampage (AP)
• Analysis: Militant interaction poses new threats (AP)
• Officials say BP spill now hitting all Gulf states (AP)
• Relief well is last best hope to contain gusher (AP)
• Widow lives with corpses of husband, twin (AP)
• Study shows teens benefit from later school day (AP)
• Hot enough for ya? Temps soar to near 100 in East (AP)
• Census worker taken to court for trespassing (AP)
• July 4th partiers fall 3 stories in Ala.; 1 dead (AP)
• Eating champ leaves NY jail after hot dog fracas (AP)
• Derided no more, suburban life is turning serious (AP)
• Fireworks follow sun-scorched July 4 festivals (AP)
• Patient among 5 dead in Texas air ambulance crash (AP)
• Police: Suspect in baby shooting in Calif. jail (AP)
• Wyoming threatens to sell prime Grand Teton land (AP)
• Tech firms aim to keep wayward walkers on path (AP)
• On July 4 in spill country, pondering America (AP)

Horses dragged driver as he tried to stop rampage (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:51 PM PDT AP - The buggy driver whose horses trampled spectators at this town's Fourth of July parade had tried desperately to stop the rampage, clinging to the reins as the animals dragged him down the street, his family said Monday.

Analysis: Militant interaction poses new threats (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:04 PM PDT AP - U.S. officials boast that al-Qaida has never been weaker, its upper ranks decimated because of the stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan and special operations raids in Afghanistan.

Officials say BP spill now hitting all Gulf states (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:17 PM PDT AP - Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill found on a Texas beach were confirmed Monday as the first evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.

Relief well is last best hope to contain gusher (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:02 AM PDT AP - As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more confident that the relief well it expects to complete in August will succeed where all previous efforts to contain or kill the gusher have failed.

Widow lives with corpses of husband, twin (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. But she wasn't alone, not really, not as long as she could visit her husband and twin sister.

Study shows teens benefit from later school day (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 02:17 PM PDT AP - Giving teens 30 extra minutes to start their school day leads to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness, and even healthier breakfasts, a small study found.

Hot enough for ya? Temps soar to near 100 in East (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - The heat wasn't going to keep Jerryll Freels inside on his vacation.

Census worker taken to court for trespassing (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:17 PM PDT AP - In these divisive times, Census worker Russell Haas has come to expect some resistance when he goes door to door to count the residents of the rugged communities near Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. He didn't expect to get arrested.

July 4th partiers fall 3 stories in Ala.; 1 dead (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:48 AM PDT AP - A wooden deck crumpled under a group of Fourth of July partiers in Alabama, killing one person and injuring six others.

Eating champ leaves NY jail after hot dog fracas (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:25 AM PDT AP - Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, arrested at a July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, was freed Monday after a night in jail, looking a little weary and saying he was hungry.

Derided no more, suburban life is turning serious (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:13 AM PDT AP - The numbingly similar tract homes, endless strip malls and multiple minivans filled with youth soccer players indelibly mark this former Indian mission territory as a Kansas City suburb.

Fireworks follow sun-scorched July 4 festivals (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 01:58 AM PDT AP - The nation's largest fireworks show lit up the sky in a burst of red, white and blue over the Hudson River straddling New York and New Jersey on Sunday, a scene that was repeated in hundreds of communities in a sizzling end to a scorching day for much of the U.S.

Patient among 5 dead in Texas air ambulance crash (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 03:12 AM PDT AP - A patient and his wife were among the dead when an air ambulance crashed shortly after takeoff from a West Texas airport, killing all 5 people on board.

Police: Suspect in baby shooting in Calif. jail (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:33 PM PDT AP - A suspect in the shooting death of a 4-month-old boy killed after a family baptism celebration was in a Los Angeles County jail Sunday, three days after he was captured in Mexico and 10 months after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Wyoming threatens to sell prime Grand Teton land (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 08:43 PM PDT AP - For Sale: Two square miles of Grand Teton National Park.

Tech firms aim to keep wayward walkers on path (AP) Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:12 AM PDT AP - Todd Atwood says he doesn't worry too much about accidents when walking down the street using his iPhone to make calls, send text messages or check his e-mail.

On July 4 in spill country, pondering America (AP) Posted: 04 Jul 2010 05:49 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.

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