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LA fears long night of New Year’s arsons awaits (AP)

December 31st, 2011 | Author: admin

A Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter extinguishes multiple cars on fire in a carport in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. For the third night in a row, a rash of arson fires has sent firefighters scrambling to extinguish car fires in various neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Most of the fires on this night occurred in the San Fernando Valley. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP – On what would already be one of their busiest nights of the year, police and firefighters Saturday will be patrolling neighborhoods, taking hotline phone calls and scrambling to identify who was behind the arson fires that have spooked the Hollywood area for two straight nights and were making it an uneasy New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles.


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US awaits release of 3 students held in Egypt (AP)

November 25th, 2011 | Author: admin

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 file image from Egyptian state television, three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. An official says an Egyptian court has ordered release of 3 US students arrested during Cairo unrest.(AP Photo/ Egyptian TV, File)AP – Family and friends of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo waited anxiously Friday for news that they had been released from police custody.


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A surreal sight, a ghost 405 freeway, awaits LA (AP)

July 16th, 2011 | Author: admin

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pleads with Los Angeles residents to stay away from the 405 freeway on the weekend of July 16-17, during a news conference at the Sherman Oaks Galleria mall Wednesday, July 13, 2011, in Los Angeles. Beginning Friday evening, authorities will begin shutting down a 10-mile segment of the freeway for 53 hours so crews can demolish one side of the Mulholland Drive Bridge as part of a $1 billion highway improvement project. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP – When the sun rises above Los Angeles on Saturday, residents in this car-dependent, traffic-choked city will see a rare sight: a 10-mile stretch of one of the nation’s busiest freeways turned into a virtual ghost road.


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In jail on sex charge, IMF head awaits his fate (AP)

May 17th, 2011 | Author: admin

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square Saturday to clean it, in New York. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)AP – IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn awoke Tuesday in a notorious jail on an attempted rape charge as the outside world swirled with questions about the truth of the accusations and pressure mounted on him to step down.


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As Democrats’ message lags, GOP awaits huge wins (AP)

October 16th, 2010 | Author: admin

FILE - In this June 2, 2010, file photo former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey, president of The New School, speaks before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in New York. With Democrats in power while the unemployment rate stands at 9.6 percent, 'it's difficult to say, 'Well it could have been worse,'' said Kerrey, who once headed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, of the upcoming Nov. 2 elections. 'The poll numbers and the enthusiasm on the right, versus the lack of the enthusiasm on the left, suggest a pretty big Republican night,' he said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP – Two weeks before Election Day, Democrats fear their grip on the House may be gone, and Republicans are poised to celebrate big gains in the Senate and governors’ mansions as well.


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New era awaits Giants at New Meadowlands

September 12th, 2010 | Author: admin

John Mara, whose family started the Giants and now owns half the team, says he’s not trying to beat the Jets, he’s trying to beat the Panthers first, then the Cowboys, Redskins and Eagles in the NFC East. Mara shares a stadium with the Jets then, not Hard Knocks swagger, attitude and mouth.

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BP says unprepared for Gulf spill; pipe awaits cut (AP)

June 3rd, 2010 | Author: admin

**CORRECTS DAY OF THE WEEK** In this image made from video made available by British Petroleum (BP PLC), a robot submarine works preparing the capping device, lower left, early Thursday June 2, 2010. (AP Photo/BP PLC)AP – BP’s top executive acknowledged Thursday the global oil giant was unprepared to fight a catastrophic deepwater oil spill as engineers were forced yet again to reconfigure plans for executing their latest gambit to control the Gulf of Mexico gusher.


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