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June 4, 2009
JEFF CARLTON Associated Press Writer/Photo Courtesy AP DALLAS (AP) — Murder charges were dropped at the prosecution’s request Thursday in
June 4, 2009
A Virginia community is saddened by the death last night of 11-year-old Chelal Matos. Two boys were struck by lightning
June 4, 2009
James Travis was one of the storied World War II airmen as a part of the nation’s first black military
June 4, 2009
NEW YORK CITY – Funeral services were held today for a New York police officer who was killed by friendly
June 4, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Olympic teammates Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer will reunite to take part in
June 4, 2009
MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Tourette syndrome occurs in 3 out of every 1,000 school-aged children, and
June 4, 2009
Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” died
June 4, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — The date for Whitney Houston’s comeback has been set. Arista Records says her long-awaited album will
June 4, 2009
CAIRO – President Barack Obama delivered a major speech to the Muslim world today (Thursday) from Cairo, Egypt. The speech
June 4, 2009
I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one…
June 3, 2009
CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned
June 3, 2009
TERRY COLLINS Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, California (AP) — A transit police officer said right after fatally shooting a man
June 3, 2009
President Obama is in the Middle East, on a trip that he, and much of the Islamic world have raised
June 3, 2009
WASHINGTON – The first lady told graduating seniors of a Washington, D.C. high school to believe in themselves. At her
June 3, 2009
An Albany, Georgia high school teacher was fired for sending sexual text messages to a teenage student, then driving to
June 3, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the smiling photos of Barack and Michelle Obama, the couple went through a tough time
June 3, 2009
JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina revoked the licenses of a funeral
June 3, 2009
Shirley, NY – Surveillance cameras captured a bat-wielding, masked man entering a convenience store in Shirley, New York, after midnight.
June 3, 2009
Today President Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia on a trip that begins as a major outreach to the Muslim world.
June 3, 2009
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Eighty-six-year-old Johnnie Leach leans on his cane as he sits in warm sunshine on the steps…