By 2010-09-04T16:11:53Z CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- One Nevada gubernatorial hopeful sees a speedy fix to Nevada's budget crisis....
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By 2010-09-04T16:32:39Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year - and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter....
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By DOUG FERGUSON 2010-09-04T16:27:37Z NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Tiger Woods didn't miss many shots and didn't make any bogeys on his way to a 6-under 65 that kept his playoff hopes alive in the Deutsche Bank Championship....
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By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-04T16:12:49Z HAVANA (AP) -- What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?...
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By RAVI NESSMAN 2010-09-04T15:17:51Z DAIRA DINPANAH, Pakistan (AP) -- Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be....
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By 2010-09-04T10:37:13Z DUBLIN (AP) -- Anti-war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair on Saturday as he arrived for the first public signing of his fast-selling memoir....
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By PATRICK CONDON 2010-09-04T07:55:46Z FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street....
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By 2010-09-04T05:01:23Z BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Bristol Palin said she didn't think twice before waltzing into "Dancing with the Stars," though she's barely danced in her life....
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By HOWARD FENDRICH 2010-09-04T04:18:36Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Even Rafael Nadal felt compelled to applaud when his second-round opponent at the U.S. Open hit a spectacular, full-sprint winner and was left doing the splits at the net....
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By 2010-09-04T03:46:32Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Nine people have died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed Saturday on New Zealand's South Island, police said....
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By GEORGE TIBBITS 2010-09-04T03:44:37Z SEATTLE (AP) -- A search helicopter on Friday spotted the body of the son of boxing promoter Bob Arum on a Washington state mountainside, five days after he was reported missing, a national park spokeswoman said....
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By MATTHEW DALY 2010-09-04T03:24:18Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling....
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By 2010-09-04T02:38:54Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- The New York Times is reporting that the security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to get government business after the company faced strong criticism for its conduct in Iraq....
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By 2010-09-04T00:39:57Z LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kara DioGuardi is officially out at "American Idol."...
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By ALAN ROBINSON 2010-09-03T23:56:13Z PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger isn't the only Steelers quarterback who might be out for four weeks....
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By ALESSANDRA RIZZO and DAN PERRY 2010-09-03T23:09:25Z CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry....
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By LINDA DEUTSCH 2010-09-03T23:13:02Z LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A witness in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial recanted statements Friday that he saw defendant Howard K. Stern give the celebrity model excessive drugs....
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By JOE MANDAK 2010-09-03T23:10:23Z PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was "100 percent" effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests....
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By PAUL DAVENPORT and AMANDA LEE MYERS 2010-09-03T22:43:43Z PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert....
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By JOSEPH WHITE 2010-09-03T21:53:06Z Nyjer Morgan's wild week has landed him an eight-game suspension, one of nine punishments handed out Friday by Major League Baseball following a brawl between Washington Nationals and Florida Marlins....
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By TRAVIS LOLLER 2010-09-03T21:44:07Z MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal investigators have decided a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee was arson....
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By 2010-09-03T18:14:37Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries or serious damage....
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By 2010-09-03T17:48:48Z HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don't text the sheriff. Authorities said a Helena teen hit a wrong number and inadvertently sent a message to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton, saying "Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?"...
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By MARY ESCH 2010-09-03T17:07:27Z BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters....
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By 2010-09-03T16:45:17Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- An aircraft believed to be a cargo plane crashed Friday outside Dubai, an airport official said. There was no immediate word on casualties....
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