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Police: Hostages taken in Pa. bank before suspect surrenders 24 Apr 08, 22:08 ET AP - A man with a device strapped to his chest took eight people hostage inside a bank before authorities arranged for him to speak to an estranged girlfriend and then surrender peacefully Thursday afternoon, police said. more More teenage mothers emerge in Texas polygamy probe 24 Apr 08, 21:13 ET Reuters - Texas authorities said on Thursday they identified 25 more mothers below age 18 among those removed from a polygamist compound, raising to about 460 the number of minors at the heart of a huge abuse probe. more Shots reported at 2 schools in Omaha; soccer player injured 24 Apr 08, 19:49 ET AP - An eighth-grade soccer player was shot and wounded during a game at a middle school Thursday, around the same time that gunfire was reported at an elementary school about a mile away. more Quake shakes downtown Reno; no damage immediately apparent 24 Apr 08, 19:27 ET AP - An earthquake has shaken buildings in downtown Reno, but there are no immediate reports of damage. more Calif. gov sees wider deficit amid "tough year" 24 Apr 08, 19:04 ET Reuters - Saying California was going through a "very, very tough year," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday warned the nation's most populous state faced even bigger budget deficits than previously projected. more U.S. to step up prosecution of Mexico border crime 24 Apr 08, 19:01 ET Reuters - The United States is hiring more federal prosecutors to help crack down on gunrunning and the smuggling of drugs and illegal immigrants over the porous U.S.-Mexico border, officials said on Thursday. more Rabid bobcat attacks Ariz. hikers, is killed with hammer 24 Apr 08, 17:04 ET AP - A couple hiking in the mountains outside Tucson were clawed and bitten by a rabid bobcat that did not relent until the man killed it with his geologist's hammer. more Conservationists struggle to save rare Calif. wetland 24 Apr 08, 16:43 ET AP - Along the U.S.-Mexico border, the fragile salt marshes at the mouth of the Tijuana River are clinging to life as one of the last vestiges of undeveloped California coast, where tall grasses sway gently in the breeze and rare birds stop to nest. more Artificially cooling Earth may prove perilous: study 24 Apr 08, 14:13 ET AFP - Radical proposals to inject sulfur particles into the Earth's stratosphere to cool it down and battle global warming could instead badly damage the ozone layer, a study warned Thursday. more Test run for 2010 census is scaled back, worrying experts 24 Apr 08, 14:08 ET AP - The Census Bureau has scaled back its dress rehearsal for the once-a-decade national head count, raising fears that thousands of soldiers, immigrants and other hard-to-reach people will go uncounted when the population survey is conducted in 2010. more Obesity and low birthweight mar health of kids 24 Apr 08, 12:19 ET Reuters - Rising obesity rates and a large percentage of children born with low birthweights are dragging down the overall health of American children in their first decade of life, according to a report tracking the health and well-being of young children in the United States. more U.S. gasoline theft on the rise along with prices 24 Apr 08, 09:03 ET Reuters - U.S. motorists, angered by soaring gasoline prices, are resorting increasingly to theft -- a trend that could worsen heading into summer driving season, a national association of fuel retailers said Thursday. more Panel: WVU improperly granted degree to governor's daughter 24 Apr 08, 07:45 ET AP - Chastised for showing "seriously flawed" judgment in awarding the governor's daughter a master's degree she didn't earn, West Virginia University is weighing what must be done to recover from the scandal. more Police: Woman lived with partially mumified body of sister 24 Apr 08, 06:34 ET AP - Detroit police say they've found the partially mummified body of a woman in her 80s on the kitchen floor of a house where her mentally troubled sister was living. more Marketing of boot camps under congressional scrutiny 24 Apr 08, 02:19 ET AP - Youth boot camps and their referral services are using deceptive marketing practices when trying to convince parents of troubled kids to try the programs, a federal investigation has found. more Appeals court stays execution of sea lions 24 Apr 08, 00:54 ET Reuters - A U.S. federal court gave a stay of execution on Wednesday to 85 sea lions slated to be killed starting on Thursday to help boost salmon stocks below a dam connecting the states of Washington and Oregon. more Phone number in Texas abuse report linked to Colo. woman 24 Apr 08, 00:53 ET AP - A woman suspected of making false abuse claims in Colorado used a telephone number that was later used to report alleged abuse at a polygamist retreat in west Texas, according to an affidavit made public Wednesday. more "Mobsters without borders" are global threat: U.S. 24 Apr 08, 00:12 ET Reuters - Crime groups operating as "mobsters without borders" have gained significant footholds in global markets and provide logistic support to terrorists, the United States said on Wednesday. more Apple posts billion-dollar profit as Mac sales rocket 24 Apr 08, 00:08 ET AFP - Apple reported on Wednesday that profits in the first three months of the year topped one billion dollars as sales of Macintosh computers climbed more than 50 percent. more

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