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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.