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Breast Milk of Oregon Women Contaminated
Autistic Boy Dies After Unproven Treatment
Libraries Offering Audiobook Downloads
A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
Bulletproof vests not fail-proof
Man Accused of Civil War Tomb Desecration
U.S. Mint Confiscates 10 Rare Gold Coins
Microsoft signs film deal for "Halo" video games
Federal Judge OKs Global Warming Lawsuit
California sues 39 drug makers for inflated prices
Hurricane Katrina Lands in Fla., Killing 2
Couple Wrongly Tied to Radical Harassed
Walter Reed Medical Center to Be Closed
Along came a spider..
Aid Agency Said to Hide Iraq Insurgents
Internet Phone Customers May Get Cut Off
Montana's governor eyes coal to solve U.S. fuel costs
Rolling Blackouts Cut Power in California
Gooden Surrenders After Fleeing DUI Stop
China, Russia Wrap Up Military Exercise


Breast Milk of Oregon Women Contaminated
The breast milk of Oregon women is contaminated with a high level of toxic flame retardants known as PBDEs, researchers say.

Autistic Boy Dies After Unproven Treatment
An autistic boy died after receiving an unproven treatment that some people believe may cure the neurological and developmental disorder.

Libraries Offering Audiobook Downloads
A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed. Rather, public libraries from New York City to Alameda, Calif., are letting patrons download Tom Clancy techno-thrillers, Arabic tutorials and other titles to which they can listen on their computers or portable music players — all without leaving home.

A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Bulletproof vests not fail-proof
Bulletproof vests similar to those still worn by thousands of police officers failed to stop at least one of six bullets fired at them 58% of the time, according to a new analysis by the Justice Department. The department reviewed 103 vests containing the fabric Zylon.

Man Accused of Civil War Tomb Desecration
A young man performing court-ordered community service in a cemetery was charged with breaking into a Civil War-era tomb and desecrating remains by pulling apart a skeleton and posing for pictures with the skull and other bones.

U.S. Mint Confiscates 10 Rare Gold Coins
The U.S. Mint seized 10 Double Eagle gold coins from 1933, among the rarest and most valuable coins in the world, that a jeweler says she turned in to determine their authenticity.

Microsoft signs film deal for "Halo" video games
Microsoft Corp. has signed a deal with two film studios to make a movie based on its popular space-based video game series "Halo," a spokesman for Universal Pictures said on Wednesday.

Federal Judge OKs Global Warming Lawsuit
Environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they back financially contribute to global warming, a judge has ruled.

California sues 39 drug makers for inflated prices
California's attorney general said on Thursday the state has filed a lawsuit accusing 37 more pharmaceutical companies of bilking the state's Medicaid program of hundreds of millions of dollars by inflating drug prices.

Hurricane Katrina Lands in Fla., Killing 2
Hurricane Katrina churned through Florida's densely populated southeastern coast Thursday with sustained winds of 80 mph and lashing rain. Two people were killed by falling trees.

Couple Wrongly Tied to Radical Harassed
A couple whose home was wrongly identified on national television as belonging to an Islamic radical has faced harassment, and police are providing special protection.

Walter Reed Medical Center to Be Closed
Siding with the Pentagon, the base-closing commission voted Thursday to shut down the Army's historic Walter Reed hospital and move about 20,000 defense workers miles away from their offices just outside the nation's capital.

Along came a spider..
A German woman was so shocked by a spider crawling across her face that she lost control of her car and crashed head on into a roadside tree, police in the western town of Rheine said on Thursday.

Aid Agency Said to Hide Iraq Insurgents
Italy's Red Cross treated four Iraqi insurgents and hid them from U.S. forces in exchange for the freedom of two Italian aid workers kidnapped last year in Baghdad, an official said in an interview published Thursday.

Internet Phone Customers May Get Cut Off
Providers of Internet-based phone services may be forced next week to cut off tens of thousands of customers who haven't formally acknowledged that they understand the problems they may encounter dialing 911 in an emergency.

Montana's governor eyes coal to solve U.S. fuel costs
Montana's governor wants to solve America's rising energy costs using a technology discovered in Germany 80 years ago that converts coal into gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel.

Rolling Blackouts Cut Power in California
AP - Sweltering late-summer heat and the loss of key transmission lines Thursday forced power officials in Southern California to impose rolling blackouts, leaving as many as half a million people without power for an hour at a time, officials said.

Gooden Surrenders After Fleeing DUI Stop
Former baseball star Dwight Gooden, sought by police since he fled a DUI traffic stop three days ago, turned himself in at a county jail Thursday, police said.

China, Russia Wrap Up Military Exercise
Thousands of Chinese and Russian troops wrapped up their first joint military exercises Thursday with a mock invasion by paratroopers on China's east coast.
25 Aug 2005