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Monday, September 5, 2011

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Wildfire destroys 470 homes near Austin, Texas
    At least 5,000 people were forced from their homes in the county about 25 miles east of Austin, many of them fearing the worst while spending the night in emergency shelters.
Lee's torrential remnants turn deadly in Miss.
    A plodding system dumping a torrent of rain across the South turned deadly in Mississippi when a man was swept away by floodwaters after trying to cross a swollen creek, authorities said Monday.
Factory-like mills feed NYC heroin market

    The exterior of a home in Fort Lee, N.J., where heroin was packaged. Narcotics investigators who shut down the heroin mill earlier this year and others like it say they represent the new, more serene face of the still-thriving heroin trade in the New York City area, for decades the drug’s national epicenter. Authorities say more abuse by a broader customer base has taken a devastating human toll that's difficult to measure.


Patched-up schools to open after Minot flooding

    Ramstad Middle School Principal Jim Tschetter gives tours to students at temporary classrooms outside the city auditorium in Minot, N.D., in late August. Minot schools open their doors on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, a week behind schedule after the worst flooding in the city's history. In his first year as superintendent of Minot's public schools, Mark Vollmer is stepping into a mess: Record flooding wrecked six of his schools, forcing the district to delay the start of the year.


Obama says Congress must pass job program

    President Barack Obama jogs down the ramp of Air force One as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after a trip to New Jersey to tour Hurricane Irene damage on Sunday.President Barack Obama said Monday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs as he used a boisterous rally to aim a partisan barb at the opposition.


US man killed in plane collision with girlfriend
    A pilot was communicating by radio with her boyfriend before their planes collided in the air over Alaska last week, killing him, a federal investigator said.
Fire sparked by plane crash threatens 650 homes
    Fire officials are reporting calmer weather as firefighters battle a wildfire that has forced 650 homes in a California mountain community to flee.
St. Pete making progress with homeless

    Robert Marbut, of Texas, stands inside of the Pinellas Safe Harbor in Clearwater, Fla., a 500-bed shelter for homeless people in the county, on Aug. 12. The shelter is being funded by the Pinellas County Sheriff's office. St. Petersburg started getting tough last year with a panhandling ban and talk of limiting the frequent public feedings downtown thrown by churches and charities that had become a magnet for the homeless.


US archdiocese readies for new leader

    Catholic Archbishop of Denver Charles Chaput sits for an interview at a news conference on July 20, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. Chaput, 66, will be installed Thursday to lead a Philadelphia archdiocese of nearly 1.5 million Catholics rocked by two scathing grand jury reports in 2005 and 2011 that claim the church concealed sex-abuse allegations for decades and transferred pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes.A Native American archbishop takes the helm this week of the nation's sixth-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese at perhaps the most troubled time in its modern history.


Crazy Horse sculptor's widow carries on mountain dream

    "If this project stops because I die, my life has been wasted," says Ruth Ziolkowski. Nearly every morning for more than half a century, 85-year-old Ruth Ziolkowski rises around dawn, puts her feet on the ground and gives thanks she is part of a dream.


Italian police defend their Knox murder probe

    Amanda Knox, right, talks to her lawyer Carlo dalla Vedova during a hearing of her appeals case at the Perugia court, Italy, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. The appeals case of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, resumed Monday with lawyers questioning independent experts who cast doubt on the evidence used in the first trial. The 24-year-old from Seattle who has been behind bars since the November 2007 murder was in the Perugia courtroom, as was her co-defendant and onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Ahead of the hearing, the first after the summer break, the sister of victim Meredith Kercher issued a letter asking the appeals court to assess "every single (piece) of evidence" so that justice can be done. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)The police official who conducted the original investigation in the Amanda Knox case defended her standards Monday, after an independent review harshly criticized the evidence used to convict the American student of murdering her British roommate.


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