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Friday, August 19, 2011

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Convicted child killers expected to be freed

    Damien Echols was sentenced to death after his conviction.Three men imprisoned for nearly two decades for the brutal murders of three 8-year-old boys in eastern Arkansas could be released from custody as early as Friday.


The haboob returns! Another wall of dust hits Phoenix

    Lightning reveals a large layer of dust in the sky over Gilbert, Ariz., on Thursday.For the third time this summer, a giant wall of dust swept over Phoenix and parts of central Arizona, turning the sky brown, delaying flights, and knocking out power to thousands.


Red Tape: Airline sued over cashless cabin policy
    A New Jersey man is suing to force airlines to treat cash, and consumers who carry it , with more respect.
Carl Lewis seeks to join NJ senate race

    Former American track and field star Carl Lewis speaks to local media during a visit to a children's library in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, on June 10. Lewis, who is seeking to join the race for a state Senate seat in New Jersey, was acting as the Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization.Nine-time Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis heads back to federal court on Friday, hoping a judge will allow him to remain in the race for state Senate in New Jersey.


Orange goo saga: It wasn't eggs after all, experts say

    Villagers in Kivalina, Alaska, say they've never seen such a phenomenon before.An orange goo that streaked the shore of a remote Alaska village turned out to be fungal spores, not microscopic eggs as indicated by preliminary analysis, scientists said Thursday.


Va. executes man for raping, killing elderly woman

    FILE -This undated file photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Jerry T. Jackson who is scheduled to die by injection at 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. He was convicted of the 2001 rape and murder of 88-year-old Ruth Phillips in her Williamsburg apartment. (AP Photo/Virginia Department of Corrections, File)A man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old woman was executed, becoming Virginia's first inmate to be given a lethal injection using a revised three-drug cocktail.


Two plead guilty in swastika branding case
    The first men charged under a federal law that specifically banned hate crimes against disabled people pleaded guilty Thursday to branding a swastika on the arm of a Navajo man.
After 27 years, man cuts off hair for charity

    Dan McGuinness had more than a foot of his hair cut off Thursday. He says he’ll donate it to charity. A man who has been growing his hair for 27 years had it hacked off for a good cause Thursday.


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