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16-year-old dies in Tennessee school shooting (AP)

Keyana Callier, 16, sits outside Central High School in Knoxville, Tenn.,  on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 after a shooting in the school cafeteria. Authorities say a student, was fatally shot during a dispute and a fellow student taken into custody.  (AP Photo/ Knoxville News Sentinel, J.Miles Cary)AP - A student fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor.





Jump in measles outbreaks worries health officials (AP)

AP - The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, government health officials reported Thursday.




Tropical Storm Fay forces more evacuations in Fla. (AP)

National Guard troops and local law enforcement officers wade through water in the Lamplighter Village neighborhood as they help residents evacuate from the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Fay in Melbourne, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Torrential rains from a slow-moving Tropical Storm Fay triggered a new round of flooding Thursday, submerging roads and forcing dozens of people to flee the rising water in their homes.





FDNY cites confusion, lapses in fatal WTC fire (AP)

AP - Blocked stairwells, radio confusion and misinformation about the water supply thwarted efforts to put out a blaze at a condemned ground zero skyscraper that killed two firefighters last year, an internal report said Thursday.




RI bishop wants US to halt mass immigration raids (AP)

Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, photographed in his office in Providence, R.I,  has called on U.S. immigration authorities in a letter to stop arresting illegal immigrants in mass sweeps in Rhode Island, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.  (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors.





Pa. police make arrest in 1985 slaying of boy, 13 (AP)

Joseph Geiger, 43, of Pottsville, Pa., center, is escorted by Cpl. Robert Betnar from the Pennsylvania State Police station in Schuylkill Haven, Pa. Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, after Geiger was arrested in the 1985 homicide of David Reed. Reed, whose remains were found in a wooded area just outside of Cressona, Pa., four months after he was reported missing, was 13 at the time of his death. (AP Photo/Jimmy May)AP - Police arrested a man Thursday in the 1985 killing of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found months after he left home on a bicycle. The fatal beating was apparently sparked by an argument over stolen marijuana plants, authorities said.





Suspect holds authorities at bay in Md. motel (AP)

AP - A burglary suspect wanted in four states was holed up in a western Maryland hotel Thursday with a woman believed to be his pregnant girlfriend, and had threatened to kill her and any officers who approached him, police said.




NYC cash-for-tests program shows mixed results (AP)

AP - A privately funded initiative that pays students in some New York City high schools up to $1,000 for passing Advanced Placement tests is not making the grade, critics say.




2 NJ children reunited with dad in Georgia (AP)

In a handout photo released by Congressman Chris Smith's office, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008,  Joseph Evans; left, of Mount Laurel, N.J., is seen in Tbilisi, Georgia Thursday after being reunited with his daughters; he is holding 3-year old Sophia Evans; and Ashley Evans, 7, is seen at bottom left; with U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey. The two girls were trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Milosch via U.S. Rep. Smith's office)AP - Two little girls from New Jersey have been reunited with their father after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks.





Canyon flood damaged 'most beautiful place' (AP)

A Hualapai tribal police officer checks names of tourist who were making their way out of the Grand Canyon coming from Supai, Ariz. Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 in Peach Springs, Ariz.  Flooding along the western end of the Grand Canyon after heavy weekend rains caused flooding near Havasu Falls, a side canyon of the Grand Canyon. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - It may be four weeks until tourists can return to stare as towering waterfalls cascade into blue-green pools near an American Indian village in a canyon miles west of Grand Canyon National Park headquarters.





Trial to begin for ex-Marine in Fallujah case (AP)

Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, at one of his attorney's, Joseph M. Preis', office in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008. Nazario faces charges of shooting detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. It's a precedent-setting prosecution with the possibility of a conviction that would expose all former military personnel to prosecution in civilian federal court for actions in combat.  The trial starts on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 in Riverside, Calif.  (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - For more than a year, Jose Luis Nazario Jr. has waited for his day in federal court to face allegations he killed unarmed detainees in Iraq — the first time such charges have been brought under a federal law that allows the prosecution of former military service members for war crimes.





Weak economy spurs growth for community colleges (AP)

Whitney Daniels and her mom Debbie, of Matthews, Va., look over an online catalog at the Rappahannock Community College in Glenns, Va., Tuesday July 29, 2008.  Whitney had hoped to attend a four-year state school this fall, but the recent performance of stock markets diminished her family's college fund, making Rappahannock a better alternative, at least for the short term. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Two-year community colleges are seeing record enrollment as families squeezed by tough economic times steer high school graduates away from more expensive four-year universities.





Chicago's black politicians building own dynasties (AP)

This Jan. 8, 2003 file photo shows Illinois Sen. Emil Jones, D-Chicago, left, smiling after being sworn in as Illinois Senate President while his son Emil Jones III, right, watches at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.  On Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, Jones announced that he would not seek re-election and made it clear prefers that his son, Emil Jones III, to take his seat. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - In a city where the mayor holds the same job his father once did, politics can seem little different from the years of the legendary Democratic Machine. But the faces of political privilege — long dominated by white ethnic groups — have changed as powerful black politicians use their clout to build new dynasties.





'Incalculable loss' — US Rep. Tubbs Jones mourned (AP)

In this May 8, 2006 file photo, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, questions the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections during a meeting in Cleveland. Tubbs Jones remained in a hospital Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, a spokeswoman said. No other information was released. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)AP - Tributes from political allies and even one-time enemies came pouring in for Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a trailblazer whose energy and outspokenness made her one of Congress' most dynamic leaders.





Bush says New Orleans is on its way back (AP)

President George W. Bush dons a New Orleans Saints cap presented to him quarterback Drew Brees, left, as he arrives at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on the way to events marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in Kenner, La., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Bush said Wednesday that "hope is coming back" to New Orleans with the help of $126 billion in disaster aid poured into the Gulf Coast region over three years after Hurricane Katrina.





Mom of missing Fla. girl released on $500,000 bail (AP)

Casey Anthonymother of missing toddler Caylee,  is escorted from the Orange County Florida jail by her attorney Jose Baez,right, after posting a $500,000  bond in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)AP - The mother of a missing toddler was released from jail on $500,000 bail Thursday and returned to her parents' home, where authorities will monitor her with an electronic ankle device.





Man dies when bluff collapses at San Diego beach (AP)

California State Park lifeguard Ed Vodrazka, left, and San Diego Fire's Maurice Luque, center, return a backpack dug from the rubble to a relative, right, of a man killed in a bluff collapse at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - A tourist from Nevada was killed Wednesday when a stretch of oceanside bluff at the Torrey Pines State Beach collapses, authorities said.





NYC mayor spins back his turbine idea for city (AP)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg discusses alternative energy at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Louie Traub)AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing off his suggestion to put windmills on city bridges and rooftops after newspapers mocked the idea with photo illustrations of turbines on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building.





Killer of train passengers gets 11 life sentences (AP)

Juan Alvarez enters the courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, in Los Angeles. Alvarez, convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash that he blamed on an attempt to commit suicide was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life terms by a judge who denounced him as a remorseless killer. (AP Photo/Annie Wells, Pool)AP - A man convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash that he blamed on an attempt to commit suicide was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life terms by a judge who denounced him as a remorseless killer.





China hopes to attract more US college students (AP)

Melissa Sconyers, who studied abroad in China, is photographed in front of the Chinese flag in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. China is hoping that American college students watching the Summer Olympics will want to travel there, providing a bump similar to what Australia and Greece enjoyed in 2000 and 2004. China is the seventh most popular destination for U.S. students, according to the Institute of International Education. But it's growing so quickly that, if trends continue, it will soon pass countries like Britain, Spain and Italy and become the most popular. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP — China is hoping that American college students watching the Summer Olympics will want to travel there, providing a bump similar to what Australia and Greece enjoyed in 2000 and 2004.





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