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• Eastern US cooks in summer heat, temps reach 100s (AP)
• Floods close Chicago interstate, damage Iowa dam (AP)
• Crews fixing well in 'cat-and-mouse' with weather (AP)
• Search ends for Lake Michigan plane crash victims (AP)
• Rangel ethics charges create headache for allies (AP)
• Ex-mayor makes Memphis, Tenn. primary about race (AP)
• Despite oil, baby turtles being released to Gulf (AP)
• Bonnie barely a tropical depression in Gulf (AP)
• Univ. of Va. puts out Faulkner audio archives (AP)
• Army sergeant guilty of sex trafficking in Wash. (AP)
• Mexican official charged with aiding drug dealing (AP)
• American Samoa detective shot outside courthouse (AP)
• NYC police: Charred note found at fatal fire scene (AP)
• 2 killed in explosion near Pittsburgh-area well (AP)

Eastern US cooks in summer heat, temps reach 100s (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors.

Floods close Chicago interstate, damage Iowa dam (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:32 PM PDT AP - Standing water on Chicago-area expressways turned what should have been an easy Saturday morning drive into a soggy, snarled mess after heavy rains across the Midwest closed roads, stranded residents and punched a hole through an Iowa dam.

Crews fixing well in 'cat-and-mouse' with weather (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Crews hurried to get back to work on plugging BP's leaky oil well Saturday after Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled, and engineers hoped for a window of clear weather long enough to stop the gusher for good.

Search ends for Lake Michigan plane crash victims (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - Authorities abandoned hope Saturday of finding alive four people missing since a small plane plunged into Lake Michigan while flying a cancer patient to the Mayo Clinic.

Rangel ethics charges create headache for allies (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:27 PM PDT AP - Friends and political allies of embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel are noticeably quiet after the disclosure that the 40-year House veteran and dean of the New York congressional delegation may face serious charges from a House ethics panel.

Ex-mayor makes Memphis, Tenn. primary about race (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - In the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a once-unbeatable former mayor wants the Democratic congressional primary to be a referendum on race.

Despite oil, baby turtles being released to Gulf (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 10:36 AM PDT AP - Federal biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters of the eastern Gulf, BP will have cleaned up its goopy mess.

Bonnie barely a tropical depression in Gulf (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 07:55 AM PDT AP - Bonnie is barely a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico and the storm with winds near 30 mph (50 kph) is not expected strengthen as it heads toward the site of the blown-out oil well.

Univ. of Va. puts out Faulkner audio archives (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 08:41 AM PDT AP - Fans of Southern literature have read William Faulkner for decades. Now they can hear the author speak.

Army sergeant guilty of sex trafficking in Wash. (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2010 12:53 AM PDT AP - A 27-year-old Army sergeant from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state has pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking of a child and attempted sex trafficking of a child.

Mexican official charged with aiding drug dealing (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:21 PM PDT AP - A Mexican law enforcement official who worked with U.S. authorities was charged with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and arranging the arrests of his drug boss' rivals, according to a far-reaching indictment against a gang that ferries drugs along California's border with Mexico.

American Samoa detective shot outside courthouse (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT AP - A man who had just attended a relative's court hearing fatally shot a veteran police officer outside the courthouse, then stood over the fallen detective and fired two more times as officers and several reporters were nearby, police officials said.

NYC police: Charred note found at fatal fire scene (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:52 PM PDT AP - A badly charred note with the words "am sorry" was discovered Friday in the torched apartment where investigators suspect a teenager killed his mother and siblings before committing suicide, police said.

2 killed in explosion near Pittsburgh-area well (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2010 07:08 PM PDT AP - An oil storage tank at a natural gas well exploded Friday morning, killing two workers, leaving a third man remarkably uninjured and sparking a smoky well fire that smoldered for hours.

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