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Levee break threatens town
But inconvenience turned to frustration is some parts of Illinois Tuesday after one levee failed. Another 27 levees are in danger of overflowing, according to the federal government.
Interactive map: Rampaging rivers
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Strong defense of waterboarding
One of the most explosive memos was the account of the October 2002 Guantanamo Bay meeting in which the CIA's Fredman joined 10 Defense Department officials and lawyers to discuss how to extract better intelligence from..
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Attempts by conservative opponents to halt same-sex marriage in California before the November election failed Tuesday when both a state appeals court and a Sacramento trial judge refused to block local officials from issuing marriage licenses to gay coup..
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Marital bliss, same-sex style, has broken out at county clerk offices all over the Bay Area, with eager gay and lesbian couples exchanging vows the moment the offices opened this morning.
From Sonoma and San Mateo to San Francisco and Contra Costa, ebu..
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Same-sex weddings are being held around the state starting this evening. Here are officials' plans:
Alameda County: The county clerk's office will stay open late tonight - until 8 p.m. - and is one of a handful of offices statewide to wed couples today..
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Frightened Boy Scouts huddled in a shelter as a tornado tore through their western Iowa campground, killing four people and injuring 48 others who had little to no warning of the approaching twister.
Tornadoes also touched down in Kansas, Minnesota and..
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A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man suffered burns when a clothes dryer that he had hooked up to a propane tank exploded, authorities said today.
Charles Ballard suffered second-degree burns on his face, neck and right arm during the accident Sunday at his ho..
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United Airlines said Wednesday that it's cutting up to 1,100 more jobs, removing an additional 70 fuel-guzzling airplanes from its fleet and slashing domestic capacity as it tries to cope with spiraling fuel prices.
The nation's No. 2 carrier said it p..
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A 19-year-old man was shot and killed inside a Pinole bowling alley late Tuesday, the second shooting at an East Bay bowling center in a little more than two weeks, police said today.
Brandon Young of Bay Point was shot numerous times inside Pinole Lan..
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A man found shot and killed in a pickup truck in Santa Rosa was identified by the Sonoma County coroner's office today as 26-year-old Juan Carlos Sandoval.
Sandoval, who lived in Santa Rosa, and a second man were found shot inside a pickup truck on the..
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Now, the waiting begins. A Texas Supreme Court ruling paves the way for members of a polygamist sect to get their children out of foster care, but it remains unclear when that might happen or what kind of restrictions might be imposed.
"I'm happy (when..
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If you want a good glimpse of the multiracial experience in America, get inside Louie Gong’s skin.
“I’m Nooksack, I’m Chinese, I’m French and I’m Scottish,” Gong tells viewers of a multimedia piece he placed on YouTube to help spark discu..
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All too familiar with the gambles of war, Jimmy Kinsey, Kyle Riley and a few dozen fellow soldiers landed in the desert. But for these guys this Memorial Day, the most at stake is a few bucks.
The soldiers-turned-high rollers took a private jet to Las..
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Worst twister season in a a decade
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch about 6 p.m. for 45 of Wisconsin's 72 counties, but canceled the alert five hours later as the storms began to ease.
Slide showTwisted mess
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An injured man who died after being taken to a California Highway Patrol parking lot in Corte Madera was an associate of the Hells Angels motorcycle club and had been shot on Highway 101, authorities said Sunday.
The victim, a 27-year-old San Leandro m..
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The U.S. military cannot automatically discharge people because they are gay, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal.
The three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of..
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A bicycle messenger who had recently started his own delivery business was killed Wednesday when he was hit by a pickup next to Alamo Square, San Francisco police said.
Kirk Janes, 35, was killed at 10:55 a.m. at Fulton and Steiner streets at the north..
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The grandson of a 77-year-old man found shot and killed in his Sonoma Valley home has been arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said today.
Sean Patrick Mooney, 20, of Chico is being held at the Sonoma County Jail in connection with Tuesday nig..
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Nine agents with the federal Transportation Security Administration were accidentally doused with pepper spray at Mineta San Jose International Airport today when a canister of the powerful chemical discharged, an airport official said.
The incident ha..
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A wind-whipped grass fire burned several acres near the top of San Bruno Mountain on Tuesday, threatening one home before firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Dozens of firefighters battled the three-alarm, 7-acre fire to keep it from spreading, and ma..
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