| |  Hurricane Dolly makes landfall in South Texas
1:40PM CT
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Hurricane Dolly gathered strength and slammed into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, damaging an apartment complex and knocking out power to thousands. | | |
 Judge upholds convictions of ex-Newark mayor
1:58PM CT
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the corruption convictions of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and his one-time mistress, but indicated that James probably will get less than the 15- to 20-year prison sentence prosecutors are seeking. | | |
Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking
1:56PM CT
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking. | | |
 Texas grand jury indicts polygamist sect members
3:43AM CT
ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, already convicted in Utah of rape as an accomplice and awaiting trial in Arizona on other charges related to underage marriages, is now accused of assaulting a girl in Texas in January 2005. | | |
Calif. woman attacked by bear, drives self to help
2:00PM CT
CALIENTE, Calif. (AP) - A woman walking her two dogs in a rural area of Southern California was attacked and severely injured by a bear, but managed to escape and drive herself to a nearby fire station. | | |
 Tourism travails: summer fun faces uncertain times
5:51AM CT
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - The sign outside the Aquarius motel reads: "Spend a night, Not a paycheck," but some Midwest travelers have canceled reservations and other visitors stay fewer nights. On the nation's opposite coast, vacationers in Oregon worried about $4 gas splurge less on meals and skip the frills on getaways. | | |
 New Jersey to require organ donation decision
5:41AM CT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law. | | |
Penn. lawmakers urged to use sex-offender tracking
5:43AM CT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's auditor general wants his state to join the estimated two dozen others that track some released sex offenders with global positioning satellite technology. | | |
 Prosecutor: Missing Fla. girl may have been killed
1:45AM CT
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive. | | |
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