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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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USDA recalls 36 million pounds of ground turkey
    Federal officials are recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey produced by Cargill Inc. linked to a California death and at least 76 other salmonella  illnesses nationwide.
Video catches witness horror at police beating

    A standing-room-only crowd applauds Ron Thomas, father of Kelly Thomas, after he spoke Tuesday night before the Fullerton City Council.Six police officers have been placed on leave after a video surfaced of witnesses expressing horror after seeing a homeless man beaten to death, allegedly by the officers.


Dozens charged in child porn ring bust
    More than 70 people have been charged with taking part in an international child pornography ring that traded images over the Internet, the Justice Department says.
Casey Anthony won't have to return to Fla.
    Casey Anthony can continue her undercover life for now, after a judge ruled Wednesday she does not have to immediately return to Florida to start serving her probation for check fraud.
Woman: D.B. Cooper was my uncle

    The accused skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper is shown in these FBI sketches.A woman says she knows the identity of D.B. Cooper, the nickname given to the man who carried out the only unsolved plane hijacking in U.S. history: her uncle.


Mom accused of punching toddler on bus
    A mother accused of punching her toddler son in the mouth on a city bus and shouting expletives at him was surrounded by a "hostile" crowd of passengers until police arrived.
Pickup taken from home of dead NH girl

    This cell phone photo shows law enforcement officials standing near a silver pickup truck being removed Wednesday from where it was parked near the home of Celina Cass, in Stewartstown, N.H.Investigators probing the death of an 11-year-old northern New Hampshire girl hauled away a silver pickup truck from outside her home Wednesday.


Strapped states cutting unemployment benefits

    The national unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 29 months, and analysts polled by Reuters expect the Labor Department to report on Friday it was 9.2 percent in July.U.S. states are making "unprecedented" cuts to unemployment benefit programs, hoping to keep their budgets in line, according a National Employment Law Project report.


ACLU seeks info on how police use cellphone data
    American Civil Liberties Union affiliates around the country are demanding local law enforcement agencies disclose how they collect and use cellphone location data.
US was chief target of cyber attacks: McAfee
    The United States was the main target of cyber attacks that were part of "Operation Shady RAT," the five-year-long hacking effort that went after governments, corporations and organizations around the world.
2 Georgia prep football players die

    Aug. 3: A Georgia high school mourns the loss of a rising football star. WALB's Cade Fowler reports. (NBC News Channel)Two Georgia high school football players have died, one of them after he collapsed while leaving the field after practice.


Reputed Klansman James Ford Seale dies
    James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for his role in the segregation-era abduction and killing of two black men in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with federal Bureau of Prisons said.
Gamblers find loophole in Mass. lottery game
    Massachusetts has restricted ticket purchases for one of its lottery games after the Boston Globe reported that high-stakes gamblers had discovered a way to game the system due to a loophole.
Charde Houston: Teaching girls self-esteem

    Charde Houston of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx says she went through rough times as a child.Cause Celeb talks with WNBA All-Star Chardé Houston about her nonprofit foundation, Project Youth Opportunities Unlimited , which teaches disadvantaged youth about everything from respect and leadership to safe sex.


'Miracle turtle' returns to the sea

    Andre crawls to the ocean in Juno Beach, Fla., on Wednesday.A green sea turtle was released back to the sea after being cared for during a year in which he got surgeries to repair gashes in his shell.


Polygamist leader makes opening statement

    Warren Jeffs is escorted by security into the Tom Green County Courthouse, on Tuesday, in San Angelo, Texas. Jeffs faces two counts of sexual assault of a child.Texas prosecutors are done calling witnesses in the trial of a polygamist leader accused of sexually assaulting two girls he took as brides during so-called "spiritual marriages."


US gun industry sues to block rifle sales reporting
    The gun industry plans to file lawsuits on Wednesday challenging requirements that weapons dealers along the U.S. border with Mexico report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles, escalating the fight with the Obama administration.
Worst-case scenario: US to 'snatch' Pakistan nukes?
    As U.S.-Pakistani relations spiral downward, the specter of a showdown between the increasingly antagonistic allies is garnering more attention, including the worst-case scenario of the U.S. attempting to “snatch” Pakistan’s 100-plus nuclear weapons if it feared they were about to fall into the wrong hands.

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