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They’ve recently gone to war themselves, but a cadre of Kansas National Guard members has volunteered for a year _ maybe longer _ to help wounded soldiers get back on their feet.Located in a cluster of tan modular structures adjacent to Irwin Army...
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Treasury prices mostly fell Friday ahead of the long holiday weekend as traders booked profits in an abbreviated session.
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A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab...
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Homicide investigators used ground-penetrating radar Friday to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple were buried in the backyard.
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Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.
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Barack Obama’s spokesman fired off a fast criticism of Republican John McCain’s new running mate on Friday, but the Democratic candidate himself quickly...
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Machinists union leadership has called for a strike after deciding Boeing’s final contract offer isn’t good enough.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s surprise choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has given a brief, upbeat biography of her the kind...
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John Edwards will emerge from seclusion and speak next month at Hofstra University in New York, taking the stage exactly one month after admitting to an extramarital...
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A highly respected retired NYPD detective with inoperable liver cancer was charged with bank robbery Friday after authorities identified him as the so-called Bling...
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A defense attorney says his client will plead guilty to conspiracy in a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery...
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Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome...
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AP, Seattle
The machinists union has rejected Boeing’s final contract proposal and has called for a strike.
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Stocks have ended the day sharply lower after the government said personal incomes fell last month by the largest amount in nearly three years while consumer spending...
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a...
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A lush, under-the-stars spread of handmade bread, gourmet olives and fine wine makes an unlikely launch for a weekend dedicated to ending hunger, empowering poor...
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Gold prices fell slightly Friday as a stronger dollar prompted selling from investors seeking commodities as an inflation hedge.
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AP, Montreal
A provincial health official says an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with the bacteria salmonellosis across Quebec.
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AP, Miami
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Gustav has again strengthened into a hurricane.
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Jennifer Aniston will make a return visit to NBC, the TV network where she became a breakout star on “Friends.”
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AP, Charlotte
A North Carolina man has been formally indicted on a charge that he threatened to shoot Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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This spring, Russian tanks and missiles rolled across the cobblestones of Red Square as soldiers in olive green uniforms goose-stepped and a military band played the...
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It’s been two years since Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy Stengel sat behind the wheel, and life is much different now.The 22-year-old Marine suffered massive internal...
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It’s been two years since Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy Stengel sat behind the wheel, and life is much different now.The 22-year-old Marine suffered massive internal...
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AP, Fort Campbell
Army Sgt. Maj. David Allard used to break down troops to prepare them for the rigors of the infantry. But after suffering a brain injury in Iraq, he got a new...
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AP, Baghdad
The number of wounded soldiers has become a hallmark of the nearly 5-year-old Iraq war, pointing to both the use of roadside bombs as the extremists’ weapon of...
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AP, Philadelphia
Antoine Rosenbaum, shot in the back by a stranger and paralyzed from the chest down, carries a heavy load for someone just 25.So does Sophorina Wright as she gets him...
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AP, Cibolo
The glut of unsold houses pocking the nation’s newer neighborhoods may be just what the doctor ordered for thousands of wounded servicemembers facing homelessness...
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AP, San Antonio
Rose Lage swears it is true: Suddenly, in the midst of a fitful night of sleep last June, she knew that her son had been injured in Iraq.”I heard my son’s...
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President Bush visited wounded U.S. troops on Thursday and praised the treatment they’re receiving at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where shoddy conditions...
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AP, Mount Lebanon
A soldier whose injuries in Iraq forced him to leave the military early “inadvertently” received a letter from the Army asking him to repay a portion of his...
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The pic above shows a very fatal bomb blast right in front of the solider but one wonders how bad this could have been. Bringing to light the faces that surely makes an...
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AP, Baghdad
A U.S. brigadier general was wounded in a roadside bombing Monday in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military reported. He was the highest-ranking American officer to be...
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AP, Charleston
A mayoral candidate who is also a police officer shot a man in the back during a convenience store argument _ but was only defending himself, a prosecutor...
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AP, Temecula
In a Sept. 29 story about wounded soldiers, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the brother of an injured veteran. He is Dara Tan, not Dada Tan.
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AP, Temecula
He was one of America’s first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and...
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AP, San Antonio
Officials and volunteers broke ground Saturday on a $4 million support center for the families of severely wounded soldiers who seek treatment and rehabilitation...
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Finally, the devils got their due. These are just the cool frothing bubbles of the real things the Year of the Dog has instored for the Chinese, if they keep on giving...
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New York rapper Cameron Giles aka Camron was shot and wounded in his car near a waterfront night spot.
According to his manager & close friend the artist took a...
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Sgt. Tim Norton uses a boom to water-ski during a ski clinic for people with physical disabilities at Sea World in San Antonio, Texas, , Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. The All Can Ski program, put on by the San Antonio Sports Foundation, has been teaching...
