(WCCO) Minneapolis A 6-year-old Edina, Minn. girl has been hospitalized after a horrific accident at a swimming pool.
Abigail Taylor was severely injured Friday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club.
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]]> A video is circulating on-line of the slow murder of this minor, Kurdish female. Amnesty International apparently brought this story to light. Security personnel stood by while the teen ager was tortured to death.
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]]> A 55-year-old U. S. Army veteran who has trouble walking is offering to mow lawns for $10 each to raise money so his dog can have a hip replacement operation costing about $8,000.
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]]> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to delay a Bush administration plan to allow Mexican trucks full access to U.S. highways. The trucks would have to be declared safe first, the lawmakers said, and Mexico would have to give U.S....
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]]> DRUG testing on animals could be drastically reduced thanks to work by scientists at a Manchester University "spin-off" company. In a move welcomed by British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection campaigners, university researchers have won

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]]> Palmerston North residents are calling on big businesses to clean up their act
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]]> The 14-year-old freshman was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.


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]]> Nine Neolithic-era buildings have been excavated in the Stonehenge world heritage site, according to a report in the journal British Archaeology.
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]]> Just a few grams of manure holds millions of E. coli organisms and it takes only a few to sicken people. Herbs also are germ factories and can sicken people weeks after they are harvested and purchased. "Anything leafy-green had more E. coli-posititive...
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]]> Within hours, nature would begin to eradicate it. In 50,000 years, all that would remain would be some arch
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]]> BINDI Irwin's star continues to rise, with the eight-year-old giving her own sit-down interviews following the death of her father.

Millions of viewers tuned in last month as Terri Irwin gave exclusive interviews about the death of her husband Steve
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]]> Climbers respond to a call to submit eyewitness accounts and photographs of the killing by Chinese troops of unarmed Tibetans fleeing into Nepal. Multiple reports confirm that monks, nuns, and children were brutally fired upon and at least 2 people killed
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]]> A remarkable look at how zealous county clerks has been selling public records and putting people's lives on the Internet.

Associated Press Investigative Report of the Year
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]]> The group of nine and 10-year-olds remembered the registration details by turning the numbers into a chant, before a classmate arrived with a pen. The three thieves were traced and arrested within 40 minutes, police said.
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]]> .S. military casualties have surged in Iraq in recent weeks, with U.S. troops engaging in perilous urban sweeps to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad while facing unrelenting violence elsewhere.
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]]> WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- The strain of deadly E. coli behind a recent outbreak has been linked to a cattle ranch next to Salinas Valley spinach fields, California and federal investigators said Thursday.
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]]> Global warming will push up insurance premiums in high-risk areas like coastal Florida and other hurricane-prone parts of the United States, an insurance company official said Tuesday.

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]]> he days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world’s most popular building material with optical fiber from Schott to create a new type of concrete that transmits light.
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]]> The poll, taken before North Korea announced its first nuclear test, also found the war in Iraq continues to take a toll on Bush and the Republicans. Why am I not surprised? A good source for related stories. Painting: “YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS!”
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]]> Would you vote for President Bush if he could run again? The results are SCAREY SO FAR, I AM SHOCKED!! PLEASE VOTE NO!
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]]> How will the next Governor of Florida, Jim Davis or Charlie Crist, fix the problem of DCF abuse they inherit from Jeb Bush's Administration?
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]]> CNN) -- North Korea could launch a nuclear missile unless the U.S. sits down for face-to-face talks, an unnamed North Korean official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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]]> It is essential that people across America and around the World take cognizance of the dangers of a Middle East war directed against Iran and act decisively to challenge the US military agenda and reverse the tide of war.


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]]> The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason ... is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of the Straits of Hormuz off Iran.
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]]> New York's leading candidate for governor, Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer, said he will push to legalize same-sex marriage if he is elected in November..read more
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]]> IT MAY sound like a sci-fi fantasy but shoppers may one day be able to pay their grocery bills using a microchip implanted in their body.
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]]> ORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Arizona (AP) -- A man in a dark shirt and hat emblazoned with the word police has raped 10 girls and a young woman after "arresting" them -- a string of attacks that has made people on the reservation suspicious of police.
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]]> Teenage brothers in Atlanta are accused of torturing a puppy to death, then showing the dead dog to neighborhood children who were threatened if they told anyone.


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]]> Michael Wilson, a professor at UC Berkeley's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, said the United States is becoming a "dumping ground" for consumer goods that are unwanted and illegal in much of the world
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]]> The thing those wacky neoCons lack is a BRAND. So let’s give them DEAD ELEPHANTS! Be the first in your commute to sport one of these edgy, ironic bumper-stickers! They’re fun, they’re FREE, and they’ll show we’re ready to take our country back on Nov 7.
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]]> Do not miss the call by Olympia Dukakis; you can also read Sean Penn's call to drive out Bush and see the highlights of it read out by Mark Ruffalo. The statements of other noteworthies speaking out are available to watch, read and/or hear on this page.
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]]> A 13-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns to her breasts after two youths sprayed her with lighter fluid and set fire to her T-shirt, Toronto police said.
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]]> At least 30 dogs got stranded inside a shelter in San Antonio when landlord locked rescuers out yesterday.

They are now pleading for legal help & support from animal activists

CONTACT INFO
www.hopeanimalrescue.petfinder.org
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]]> Lawful and peaceful protests that, for example, urge a consumer boycott of a company that does not use humane procedures, could be the target of this provision if the activity resulted in economic damage to the company.

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]]> An attorney and volunteer for the Animal Protection & Rescue League (APRL) has filed suit in the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County against the owner of Sonoma Foie Gras, based on images obtained in visits to the farm
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]]> It was a rough week in Washington for the law. As president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, I spent much of the week fighting against the passage of the Military Commission Act, which stripped the fundamental right of habeas corpus from.....
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]]> THE world's top polluting nations have been told to prepare for decades of weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and pursue green energy sources.

Environment and energy ministers meeting in the Mexican city of Monterrey vowed to work
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]]> A rare electric ray - the only one of a litter of nine to survive a premature birth after his mother was caught in a net - has gone on public display.
Sparky is only 3ins (8cm) long but already has a deadly electric charge.

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