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19-year-old mayor puts Muskogee on the map
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – John Tyler Hammons may have already performed his grandest feat as mayor, even before taking office. He put Muskogee, Okla., in the national spotlight.
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Ellen DeGeneres to marry longtime companion
Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” telling the studio audience the news that the California Supreme Court had struck down state laws against gay marriage.
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Firsts of a kind
The first mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating from about 2500 B.C. The ingredients were water, alkali and cassia oil.
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In a 'race against time,' rescuers continue work
YINHUA, China – Four days after a powerful earthquake turned this picturesque mountain town into a jumble of beams, bricks and gray roof tiles, villagers stood on a knoll to watch rescue workers pick through the remains of a six-story apartment block. At one point came a hush, and then a burst of applause, as a man emerged from a slit in the rubble, his body draped in a floral blanket.
- Obama connects McCain to Bush's 'failed policies'
WATERTOWN, S.D. – Sen. Barack Obama responded sharply yesterday to attacks on his foreign policy, linking President Bush and Sen. John McCain as partners in “the failed policies” of the past seven years and criticizing them for “hypocrisy, fear-peddling, fear-mongering.”
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Myanmar increases cyclone toll to 78,000
BANGKOK, Thailand – Myanmar's government almost doubled the official death toll yesterday to 78,000, two weeks after a huge cyclone ravaged much of the Irrawaddy River delta and the country's main city, Yangon.
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- Tribal and sheriff's officials vow to ease tensions after shootouts
SAN JACINTO – The leader of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department vowed yesterday to work together to lower tensions after three people were killed on the reservation in gunbattles with deputies.
- New charges in UCLA body-part sale case
LOS ANGELES – The former director of UCLA's cadaver program and a businessman were indicted yesterday on eight felony counts involving black market sales of donated human body parts in a scheme that allegedly cheated the university out of more than $1 million.
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17 hurt, 3 seriously, when ride collapses
ANGELS CAMP – Three people attending the annual fair celebrating the popular Calaveras County jumping frog contest were seriously injured last night when a carnival ride collapsed.
- 1965 prison escapee arrested in N.C.
RALEIGH, N.C. – An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody yesterday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried as a waste of time because he's ill and old.
- VA e-mailer's motives probed by lawmakers
WASHINGTON – Two congressional committee chairmen said yesterday that they plan to investigate whether there were broader motives behind a Veterans Affairs Department employee's e-mailed suggestion to diagnose veterans with mental disorders that have a lower disability payout.
- HIV-positive man who spit on cop gets 35 years in prison
DALLAS – A homeless man who spit in the mouth and eye of a police officer and then taunted him, saying he was HIV positive, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon: his saliva.
- Hurricane evacuations won't deter border agents
McALLEN, Texas – Federal border agents say they'll search for illegal immigrants at inland Texas checkpoints even during a hurricane evacuation, a plan state and local officials say could lead to disastrous delays and discourage some people from getting out.
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ACLU president to resign in October
NEW YORK – American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen announced yesterday she'll step down in October after leading the group for nearly two decades.
- West Point general wants gender-neutral words in songs
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The head of the U.S. Military Academy thinks it's time to replace the “men” and “sons” in West Point's two most beloved songs with more gender-neutral lyrics.
- Bush appeals to Saudi king for boost in oil production
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – President Bush used a private visit to King Abdullah's ranch yesterday to make another appeal for an increase in oil production that might give U.S. consumers some relief at the gasoline pump. The Saudis responded by announcing they had decided a week ago on a modest increase of 300,000 barrels a day.
- New subway system helps give Dominican president a third term
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominicans who went to the polls yesterday had been given chickens, beer, promises of new homes and even cash during a spirited frenzy of campaigning.
- U.S. planning 40-acre prison complex in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon plans to build a 40-acre detention complex on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.
- U.S. Marine gets 4 years in prison for sexually abusing Japanese girl
TOKYO – A U.S. court-martial sentenced a Marine to four years in prison yesterday for sexually abusing a 14-year-old Japanese girl in February, ending a case that had deepened anger over the U.S. military presence in Japan.
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Christian school targeted by bomb
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A bomb was detonated outside a Christian school before dawn yesterday, causing no injuries but further alarming the territory's tiny Christian community.
- Iraq PM offers Sunni insurgents amnesty, cash
BAGHDAD – Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki offered amnesty and cash payments to Sunni insurgents in Mosul yesterday.
- In Baghdad, doughnut shop provides taste of home
BAGHDAD – Inside the heavily fortified Green Zone – where a towering wall rings about 1,300 acres of land to protect U.S. diplomats, contractors, Iraqi officials and soldiers – Ingo Sahlmann and Gaylene Scott sat down for a beer in the garden of their Green Zone home and office.
- Satellite link lets Marine in Iraq help with birth of first baby in W. Virginia
With her husband fighting a war more than 6,000 miles away in Iraq, Heather Midcap thought she would have to give birth to their daughter at Wheeling Hospital without him.
- Daily developments
Sgt. John K. Daggett, 21, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Thursday in Halifax, Canada, of wounds suffered May 1 in Baghdad, when an explosive device struck his vehicle.
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