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NAACP picks young activist as its new president

Posted on May 17, 2008 - 3:33 am
AP - The NAACP board of directors has chosen Ben Jealous, a former news executive and lifelong activist, as the organization's next president and the youngest in its 99-year history.

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Van jumps curb in NYC; trolley crashes in LA
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 3:07 am - AP
AP - An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people, authorities said.

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Chemist gets life for killing husband in acid vat
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 2:41 am - AP
AP - A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was still alive.

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Mexicans arrested at filthy 'drop house' charged
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 2:14 am - AP
AP - Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid "drop house" in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were threatened with sexual assault, authorities said Friday.

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Ill fugitive headed back to Md. years after escape
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 2:14 am - AP
AP - An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried as a waste of time because he is ill and aging.

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Police find 3 decomposing bodies inside NJ home
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 2:13 am - AP
AP - Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.

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Texas minister charged in Internet sex sting
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 2:13 am - AP
AP - A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.

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Same-sex marriage ruling also victory for SF mayor
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 1:47 am - AP
AP - Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state's ban.

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Winning Mega Millions ticket sold near Cincinnati
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 1:47 am - AP
AP - The Ohio Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Ohio.

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Mexicans arrested at filthy 'drop house' in LA charged
Posted on May 17, 2008 - 1:21 am - AP
AP - Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid "drop house" in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were threatened with sexual assault, authorities said Friday.

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Gay marriage ruling in Calif. will test public opinion
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 8:30 pm - AP
AP - The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.

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Texas assesses whether sect 'girls' are adults
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 8:30 pm - AP
AP - When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along: The sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex.

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Gay marriage ruling in California will test public opinion
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 7:11 pm - AP
AP - The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.

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Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 6:18 pm - AP
AP - Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

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Calif. measure will test public opinion on gay marriage
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 5:51 pm - AP
AP - The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.

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Tribe seeks conciliation with SoCal deputies
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 5:51 pm - AP
AP - The leader of a Southern California Indian tribe and a sheriff's department vowed Friday to work together to lower tensions after three people were killed on the reservation in gun battles with deputies.

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3.1-magnitude quake reported in Coffeeville, Ala.
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 5:51 pm - AP
AP - The southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville has been shaken by a small earthquake.

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FBI: Ohio man wrote threats because ex left him
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 4:58 pm - AP
AP - A man who wrote hundreds of hateful letters to black and mixed race men seen with white women apparently was motivated by a girlfriend who left him for a black man, the FBI said Friday.

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Ailing fugitive headed back to Md. years after prison escape
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 4:58 pm - AP
AP - An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried as a waste of time because he is ill and aging.

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AP IMPACT: Losing racehorses killed in Puerto Rico
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 3:39 pm - AP
AP - For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death — losers often don't even make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by injection at a clinic behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, said chief veterinarian Jose Garcia.

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Texas: Immigration checks, hurricanes don't mix
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 3:39 pm - AP
AP - South Texas emergency managers working to ensure the area is prepared for a hurricane are worried that federal officials will cause disastrous delays by insisting on running inland checkpoints for illegal immigrants even during a massive evacuation.

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Life for Calif. woman guilty of acid vat killing
Posted on May 16, 2008 - 2:46 pm - AP
AP - A central California biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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