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Nov 9 12:02 AM US/Eastern By REGAN E. DOHERTY Associated Press Writer  JERUSALEM (AP) - The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday. ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An oil spill fouled miles of fragile coastline Thursday, sending environmentalists scrambling to save tarred marine life and leaving local officials questioning the Coast Guard's response to the ship collision that triggered the slick.About 58,000 gallons of oil spilled from a South Korea-bound container ship when ...

Nov 9 12:09 AM US/Eastern By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special   LAS VEGAS (AP) - A memorabilia dealer accusing O.J. Simpson of robbing him testified Thursday that the former football star burst into a hotel room with a handful of other men, including one wielding a gun, and carried off hundreds of collector's items. ...

TOKYO (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned on Friday that Japan and its neighbors must do more to confront security problems in Asia, calling it one of the "last places on earth with the potential for a nuclear confrontation."It will take more than one or two countries to overcome ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California sued the federal government on Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation's first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.More than a dozen other states are poised to follow California's lead if it is granted the waiver ...

AP Posted: 2007-11-08 14:45:58 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Nov. 8  ) - A captain ran a small cruise ship with 66 people aboard aground in an isolated stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway early Thursday after it began taking on water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The captain wanted to keep the 207-foot ship from sinking, Lt. ...

By Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post WASHINGTON — His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002, when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency (NSA) to an AT&T office in San Francisco. "What the heck is the NSA doing here?" Mark Klein, a former ...

Pekka-Eric Auvinen poses with a pistol before embarking on a rampage that resulted in nine deaths, including his own As he posed online with his murder weapon, the killer struck an eerie echo of Cho Seung Hui, who made recordings of himself that he posted to the NBC American television network ...

AP Posted: 2007-11-08 09:52:36 Filed Under: Recalls WASHINGTON (Nov. 7) - Millions of Chinese-made toys for children have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful date rape drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia ...