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• Reckless driving trial postponed for NH woman

  Reckless driving trial postponed for NH woman LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A trial on a negligent driving charge has been postponed again for a New Hampshire woman serving a one-year sentence for killing her best friend in a speed boat crash. more »

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• Boston Dawna, the Batman of Venice Beach, retires

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hipsters, hustlers, celebrities, thieves, dope peddlers and just about everyone else in gritty, quirky Venice Beach knows Boston Dawna. For nearly 40 years, the one-woman crime fighter has cruised the gritty, quirky... more »

  JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press Writer Associated Press12 minutes ago

• AP Top Missouri News at 3:59 a.m. CDT

  (AP) — Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments... more »

  Associated Press41 minutes ago

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• EU calls 'barbaric' plans to stone Iranian woman

  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has condemned the death sentence by stoning for a widowed Iranian woman convicted of adultery. Ashtiani's lawyer has said there are still worries the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end... more »

  Associated Press44 minutes ago

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  Chavez's base, the poor, wobbles as election looms

  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — On a hilltop overlooking Caracas, dozens of shacks made of wood scraps and corrugated zinc have risen among tall weeds — a new slum tacked on to an old one as the poor face harder times in Venezuela. The couple and... more »

  FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Writer Associated Press1 hour ago

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  Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 months

  Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman's own belt and drag her off. In the ruins of a flattened, five-story university building, he was surrounded by survivors and corpses —... more »

  LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Associated Press1 hour ago

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  A South Korean woman walks by a service center of Kia Motors in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The top executive at Kia Motors has resigned after the company issued a global recall for 100,000 vehicles over defective wiring, the... more »

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  A woman rides on a bicycle past hire bike bays where only one hire bike is available in London, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Thousands of London subway workers have begun a 24-hour walkout on Monday evening. Minor delays are reported on some lines but... more »

  Akira Suemori Associated Press2 hours ago

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  London commuters struggle as strike closes subway

  LONDON (AP) — Millions of Londoners struggled to get to work by road, rail, boat and bicycle Tuesday as a strike by London Underground workers shut down much of the city's subway system. Thousands of maintenance workers, drivers and station... more »

  Associated Press2 hours ago

• Today in History

  In 1892, James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans in a fight conducted under the Marquess of Queensberry rules. In 1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in... more »

  The Associated Press, Associated Press5 hours ago

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