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Bodies, survivors sought in tornadoes' wake (USA Today)

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:50:29 GMT

Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in wrecked houses and piles of debris after a series of storms.

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Tornado season deadliest in a decade (USA Today)

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:34:26 GMT

A near-record number of tornadoes that has pushed the U.S. death toll -- including 47 killer twisters over the weekend -- to ...

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Push on to inspect ice cream vendors' pasts (USA Today)

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:07:27 GMT

A growing number of communities across the USA are moving to prevent sexual predators from becoming ice cream truck drivers.

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Rescuers Search Wreckage After More Than 20 Are Killed in Storms (New York Times)

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:54:53 GMT

Tornadoes and severe storms cut a swath of damage across Missouri, Oklahoma and central Georgia.

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53 illegal immigrants held against will in Phoenix (USA Today)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:35:59 GMT

Fifty-three illegal immigrants found Sunday had been held against their will in a home by suspected smugglers asking for $2,500 ...

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Hezbollah's display leaves Lebanon on edge (Denver Post)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:26:50 GMT

Lebanon hung between fears of all-out war and hopes of political compromise Sunday as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine guns in the mountains overlooking the capital.

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Cost soars to care for disabled veterans (Denver Post)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:13:56 GMT

Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America's vets shrinks.

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Zimbabwe runoff election not likely to happen soon (Denver Post)

editor@denverpost.com (Denver Post Wire Report) — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:13:11 GMT

The runoff pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.

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Papers point to Chavez aiding Colombian rebels (Denver Post)

editor@denverpost.com (Denver Post Wire Report) — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:12:52 GMT

Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border.

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Medical helicopter crashes, killing 3 (Denver Post)

editor@denverpost.com (Denver Post Wire Report) — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:12:36 GMT

A medical helicopter dropped off a patient in La Crosse, Wis., and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday.

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Families take vaccine aautismtheory to court (Denver Post)

editor@denverpost.com (Denver Post Wire Report) — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:12:27 GMT

Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge medicine today as they take their case to a federal court.

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Serbian vote goes pro-West (Denver Post)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:05:51 GMT

Serbian voters rebuffed nationalist parties in parliamentary elections Sunday, indicating they wanted to move closer to Europe despite the recognition of Kosovo's independence by many Western nations.

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Gospel singer Dottie Joyce Rambo dies (Houston Chronicle)

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:18:35 GMT

Gospel singer-songwriter Joyce "Dottie" Rambo died early Sunday when the bus she was in ran off a road in southwest Missouri and struck an embankment.

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Florida wildfires force evacuation of hundreds (LA Times)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Interstate 95 and other major roads are closed because of blazes in Volusia County and Brevard County. Palm Bay officials are suspicious about brush fires there. Wildfires in central Florida on Sunday shut down Interstate 95 and other major roads, forced the evacuation of hundreds of coastal residents, and kept firefighters, deputies, relief workers and state troopers on alert throughout the night....

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6 Killed in Crash in Pennsylvania (New York Times)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:20:11 GMT

A minivan crossed an Interstate median, flipped and was hit by another vehicle in Western Pennsylvania, killing six of seven people on board, state police said Sunday.

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Corruption Case Testimony Taints Rising Political Star (New York Times)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:18:17 GMT

Testimony in the trial of political fund-raiser Antoin Rezko has battered the career of Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, who once had his sights set on the White House.

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Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship (New York Times)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:13:03 GMT

Supporters of a measure in Missouri cite concerns about illegal immigrants voting, but critics say tens of thousands of legal residents could be disenfranchised.

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A few clung to life as many vanished (Denver Post)

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:57:15 GMT

As the cyclone raged around him, Ko Zaw Min clung to a tree with one arm while clutching his newborn son with the other.

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Anti-stress dolls made in SC cheer deployed troops (kansascity.com)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:38:00 GMT

A South Carolina grandmother has become a sensation among stressed-out U.S. military men and women around the globe by sending the most incongruous of gifts: pliable, google-eye dolls.

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Myanmar faces overwhelming health catastrophe (Denver Post)

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:57:59 GMT

An estimated 1.5 million Myanmarese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday, as desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastated Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other help.

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