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South Texas begins cleanup after Dolly (AP)

Homes sit under floodwaters after Hurricane Dolly hit the area in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, July  24, 2008. Homes sit under floodwaters after Hurricane Dolly hit the area in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, July  24, 2008. Power was restored to large parts of this border city and floodwaters were dropping Thursday, a day after the hurricane hit. Officials said a man was electrocuted from a downed power line, the only death reported in Mexico from Dolly, which struck land just north of the border in Texas. (AP Photo)AP - Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.


Racial issue raised in Atlantic City prosecution (AP)
AP - As one notorious Atlantic City corruption case nears its end, another is heating up.
Allies of Phoenix mayor fight recall effort (AP)

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, center, talks to the media before boarding a new Metro light rail train in Phoenix, in this July 10, 2008 file photo. Anna Gaines, a retired teacher, is leading an effort to recall Gordon, because, she said, illegal immigrants are committing crimes in Phoenix and Gordon isn't doing enough to fix the problem.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - It's a political oddity: a TV commercial extolling the public safety record of a sitting mayor, except the spot isn't soliciting votes and the politician's name isn't scheduled to appear on the November ballot.


Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations (AP)

This undated photo provided by the Steinhauer family on Thursday, July 24, 2008 shows Bryan Steinhauer.  (AP Photo/courtesy of Steinhauer family)AP - It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York. Police say a hulking basketball player from Serbia beat a fellow college student to a bloody pulp and fled to his home country, setting off a diplomatic crisis.


Gaps in aging levees leave D.C. landmarks exposed (AP)

In this April 9, 2007 file photo, tourists visit the World War II memorial and the Lincoln Monument, background, on the National Mall in Washington. To the left and right of the reflecting pool are levees meant to hold back water in case of flooding. Built on swamp land with almost no natural barriers against high water, the District of Columbia is under the constant threat of flooding. Making matters worse is an out-of-date sewer system that needs to be expanded to handle more water and a levee system that engineers have said is inadequate. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)AP - Strolling beside the Reflecting Pool with the Lincoln Memorial in the distance, it's easy to overlook a gentle rise in the landscape a few yards to the north.


3 shot at Phoenix college; suspect arrested (AP)

A Phoenix police cruiser sits outside South Mountain Community College Thursday, July 24, 2008 afte three people were shot at the college in Phoenix. Officials say three people were shot Thursday afternoon at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, and two of them were critically injured.(AP Photo/Matt York)AP - A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby.


911 calls released in case of missing Orlando girl (AP)

Casey Anthony wipes tears from her eyes at a bond hearing at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, July 22, 2008. The 22-year-old mother reported her daughter missing last week, more than a month after the little girl allegedly disappeared. Anthony faces charges of child endangerment, making false officials statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.(AP Photo/Red Huber, pool)AP - The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday.


Ex-mayor who lied about Army record to face judge (AP)

In this Nov. 1, 2007 file photo, former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy, center, arrives at the U.S. District Courthouse in Camden, N.J.   Levy, 61, who admitted to a federal judge that he embellished his military record to get nearly an additional $25,000 in disability benefits from the government, is to be sentenced Friday July 25, 2008. He likely faces up to six months in prison under a plea deal but is hoping to receive probation.  (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)AP - Robert Levy's record in the Vietnam War was impressive: two Army tours and several honors, including a Bronze Star. It just wasn't as impressive as he claimed.


OSHA to give report on blast at Ga. sugar refinery (AP)

In a Feb. 8, 2008 file photo smoke rises from a section of the Imperial Sugar Company plant after an explosion ripped apart the plant on the Savannah River in Port Wentworth, Ga. Ed Foulke Jr., head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is scheduled Friday, July 25, 2008, to release his agency's findings in connection with the Feb. 7 explosion  (AP Photo/Stephen Morton, File)AP - Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be "significant" penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators released their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery.


Teen gets jail for coaxing toddlers to smoke pot (AP)
AP - A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.
Prosecutor: Escaped convict, wife, daughter slain (AP)
AP - A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities said.
Va. executes killer who challenged injections (AP)
AP - A killer who argued Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the nation's second-busiest death chamber.
Charges dismissed against Marine in Iraq shootings (AP)
AP - Charges have been dismissed against a Camp Pendleton Marine sniper accused in the shooting deaths of two Syrians in Iraq, Marine Corps officials said Thursday.
1 dead in N.H. storms that levels several homes (AP)
AP - Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims.
Lawmakers: NJ legislator focus of child porn probe (AP)

In this Tuesday,  July 1, 2003, file photograph, New Jersey State Assemblyman Neil Cohen, D-Union, is seen as he talks about a bill at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Cohen is being investigated for child pornography possession on his legislative office computer, according to four officials familiar with the situation. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price, File)AP - Authorities are investigating whether a veteran state lawmaker possessed child pornography on his office computer, two assemblymen who share an office with him said Thursday.


Miss. River oil spill idles ships near New Orleans (AP)

Workers use absorbent mops to soak up fuel oil on a bank of the Mississippi River in Jesuit Bend, La., Thursday, July 24, 2008. A ship collided with an oil barge spilling 9,000 barrels of fuel oil Wednesday forcing the closure of the river from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical tankers and smaller vessels stacked up Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between a barge and tanker spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the nation's busy shipping waterway.


Feds say Utah mine operator courted danger (AP)

Richard Stickler, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, presents the findings of the Crandall Canyon mine collapse Thursday, July 24, 2008, in Price, Utah. Miners and rescuers were killed last year. Federal regulators say the operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said Thursday.


Ark. man accused in 4 boat deaths pleads guilty (AP)

Family members and friends of the captain and crew of the 'Joe Cool' fishing charter boat leave federal court Thursday, July 24, 2008 in Miami. One of two men accused of the slayings last year of four people aboard the 'Joe Cool' changed his plea Thursday to guilty in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year pleaded guilty Thursday in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.


Grizzly bear attacks woman in Alaska near lodge (AP)
AP - A 21-year-old woman working at a lodge for the summer was attacked by a grizzly bear about 25 yards outside a building.
Report: Hate crimes hit 5-year high in LA County (AP)

Robin S. Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, presents the commission's 2007 Hate Crimes report during a news conference in Los Angeles Thursday, July 24, 2008. Hate crimes in the county soared last year to their highest mark in five years even as overall crime dropped across the region, according to the report. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Hate crimes in Los Angeles County soared last year to their highest mark in five years even as overall crime dropped across the region, according to a report released Thursday.



 


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