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Tropical Storm Fay hugs Florida's Atlantic coast
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Fay meandered north along the Florida Atlantic coast Wednesday but did not immediately head out over the ocean, lessening the chances it will gain strength and become a hurricane....
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Kerry returns to stump 4 years after nomination
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousands of delegates waiting in Boston....
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Wildfire prompts evacuation order in Wash. state
DAVENPORT, Wash. (AP) -- Rain overnight came to the aid of firefighters at a wildfire in Washington state that prompted an evacuation order for dozens of homes....
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Study: Cost often not factor when picking college
NEW YORK (AP) -- Even if a student plans on a major where the financial rewards aren't so obvious, such as art history or philosophy, most American families don't factor in their child's expected earning power when considering the potential debt load for college....
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Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year - and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group....
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Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit
ATLANTA (AP) -- Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit....
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States throw out costly electronic voting machines
The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers....
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Girl from polygamist group ordered into state care
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge....
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Situation still 'fragile' in Grand Canyon village
PHOENIX (AP) -- Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding, authorities said....
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Flooding recedes in South Texas after foot of rain
McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Flooding receded Tuesday in southern Texas and main highways reopened after a deluge of as much as 13 inches of rain, as the drenching weather shifted to the northern end of the state and Oklahoma....
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