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• US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds (AP)
• Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage (AP)
• US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore (AP)
• Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations (AP)
• NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions (AP)
• Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)
• Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use (AP)
• Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3 (AP)
• USS Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival (AP)
• Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate (AP)
• Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD (AP)
• Greeting card giant Hallmark heads for 2nd century (AP)
• Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas (AP)
• Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest (AP)

US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:16 AM PDT AP - More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II.

Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:44 PM PDT AP - A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender.

US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:24 PM PDT AP - The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.

Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:27 PM PDT AP - A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others.

NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:00 AM PDT AP - As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT AP - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.

Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:17 PM PDT AP - Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they'll be used.

Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3 (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:05 PM PDT AP - A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.

USS Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:07 AM PDT AP - The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle.

Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:18 AM PDT AP - Federal transportation safety officials are using the deadly crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a long-standing debate about whether small children should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults.

Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:11 PM PDT AP - John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Greeting card giant Hallmark heads for 2nd century (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:49 AM PDT AP - Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online.

Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:43 AM PDT AP - Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.

Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:32 AM PDT AP - The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday.

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