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Businesses have role to play in thwarting terror

    "He hasn't done anything unlawful â€Ultimately, it was the keen eye of a Texas gun shop clerk that helped authorities find an AWOL soldier who'd stashed bomb-making material in his nearby motel room for a planned attack on Fort Hood soldiers.


Drought is damaging Texas' oyster fisheries

    Workers shuck oysters at Jeri's Seafood in Smith Point, Texas. Oysters are a $217 million industry on the Gulf Coast.  Tracy Woody heaved a hemp bag filled with oysters across the deck of his boat and began inspecting his catch. One shell after another was empty.


Hot weather persists in central United States

    A Civil War re-enactor sits in the shade of his tent in the Union Army Camp to avoid the blistering heat in Manassas, Virginia on July 21.Sticky heat was expected to smother much of the country's midsection in coming days as hotter than usual temperatures continued to roast parts of the Midwest and South, forecasters said on Sunday.


Heat wave threatens elderly in remote towns

    John Pangburn and his wife, Wanda Pangburn, watch television in their home on a hot summer day in Mulhall, Okla. "I can't take the heat like my husband can," said Wanda. "I can go outside for a little bit, but I just don't stay out for long." The air is cool inside Ray Knight's makeshift coffee shop on the main strip in this tiny northern Oklahoma farming community, but there aren't many customers.


Smallest med school in U.S. opens with 8 students
    The University of Kansas hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a rural medical school. The school will have the smallest four-year medical education site in the country when eight students begin classes Monday on a satellite campus.
When the balloons inflated, so did a man's career

    Treb Heining poses with balloons in his office in Costa Mesa, Calif., on June 2. When he was a 15-year-old kid hawking balloons down the street at Disneyland, Heining never thought his love for helium-filled spheroids would, well, balloon the way it has. If you've never met Heining, the chances are great you've bumped into at least one of his balloons. He's the guy who has dropped millions of them on Times Square New Year's Eve celebrations, presidential nominating conventions (for both Democrats and Republicans) and more than a dozen Super Bowls. When he was just a high school kid hawking balloons with Mickey Mouse's picture on them, Treb Heining never imagined that his affection for those little helium-filled orbs would blow up into anything more than a fun summertime job.


Divers search pond for sign of missing girl

    Celina Cass of West Stewartstown, N.H., poses in a basketball team uniform in Canann, Vt., in 2010. Law enforcement officials are searching for Cass, who they say was last seen at her home the night of Monday, July 25.Divers are searching a pond in northern New Hampshire for any sign of an 11-year-old girl who's been missing for six days.


Defense tries to spare life of Ohio serial killer

    Anthony Sowell listens to testimony during his trial Thursday, July 14, in Cleveland. Sowell, charged with killing 11 women and dumping their remains around his property, told police that he began losing control of his anger about the time the victims started disappearing, according to an interrogation video played Thursday for jurors. Defense attorneys are trying to spare the life of an ex-Marine convicted of killing 11 women by painting him as someone who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses.


Study looks at experiences of gay Mormons
    Evan Clayson came out as gay to his Mormon congregation from the pulpit in Houston earlier this year.

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