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California's top court overturns gay marriage ban
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AP - In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.
DoD: Chinook helicopters at Pa. plant vandalized
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AP - The Defense Department says two military helicopters at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia were vandalized on the production line.
More rain, thunderstorms hitting soggy Louisiana
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AP - A line of drenching thunderstorms moved across the state from west to east Thursday after record rainfall caused flooding in water-logged parts of Louisiana.
Firefighters get upper hand on Florida wildfire
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AP - A man accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail into woods that are among the thousands of acres that have burned along Florida's Atlantic coast conceded Thursday that he may have accidentally sparked a fire.
Immigrant workers in New Orleans start leaving
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AP - Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
NY prosecutor wins big with Spitzer investigation
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AP - Michael Garcia's predecessors as U.S. attorney in Manhattan took on all five mob families, the titans of Wall Street, Osama bin Laden and even Martha Stewart. So it was largely unnoticed when Garcia wanted to attack public corruption.
HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer
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AP - An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Scandal-plagued Ohio attorney general resigns
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AP - Ohio's attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair.
Pa. woman, brother separated by Nazis to reconnect
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AP - A Philadelphia woman separated from her family by the Nazis is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn't seen in 66 years.
IHT editor Oreskes named AP editor for US news
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AP - Michael Oreskes, editor of the International Herald Tribune and a longtime news executive for The New York Times, has been named by The Associated Press to the new position of managing editor for U.S. news.
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