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  1. This image originally provided June 28, 2009 by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department shows a sketch of a possible suspect in a series of recent murders in Cherokee County, S.C. Sheriff's deputies searched Friday, July 3, 2009 for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next. (AP Photo/Cherokee County Sheriff's Department via Spartanburg Herald Journal)
    Serial killer has South Carolina residents on edge AP - 2 hours, 12 minutes agoRecommended 446 times

    GAFFNEY, S.C. - Terrified residents canceled Fourth of July plans and holed up in their homes Friday as investigators hunted a serial killer believed to have shot four people to death.

  2. Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, arrives to deliver his sermon during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2009. Jannati, who is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran's ruling clerical hierarchy that stands above the elected government, said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
    Iranian cleric: British Embassy staff to be tried AP - 12 minutes agoRecommended 400 times

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

  3. Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard AP - Fri Jul 3, 4:03 AM ETRecommended 163 times

    CONCORD, N.H. - Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

  4. A South Korean conservative activist burns a defaced North Korean flag and mock missiles during a rally denouncing North Korea's missile launch in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 3, 2009. South Korea said Friday it is closely monitoring North Korean military sites because the communist nation may fire more missiles, amid speculation that a long-range test launch aimed toward the U.S. is possible in coming days.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    SKorea says NKorea fires 3 missiles off east coast AP - 6 minutes agoRecommended 146 times

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired three missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, in what was likely to be seen as a message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day holiday.

  5. Pakistani trucks taking essential supplies Afghanistan near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman. The United States and Russia may soon sign a deal boosting the transit of US supplies to Afghanistan through Russia, the Kommersant daily has reported, citing diplomatic sources.(AFP/File/Asghar Achackzai)
    Russia to allow US arms shipments to Afghanistan AP - Fri Jul 3, 1:40 PM ETRecommended 144 times

    MOSCOW - Russia said Friday it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters U.S. military operations but potentially gives the Kremlin leverage over critical American supplies.

  6. Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, is pictured in an ambulance while arriving at the prison Stadelheim in Munich, May 12, 2009. REUTERS/Pool
    Demjanjuk pronounced fit to stand trial in Germany Reuters - Fri Jul 3, 10:58 AM ETRecommended 135 times

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has been deemed fit enough by medical experts to stand trial for helping to kill 29,000 Jews in World War Two, the state prosecutors office in Munich said Friday.

  7. Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis AP - Fri Jul 3, 12:40 AM ETRecommended 100 times

    DENVER - A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday.

  8. Pallbearers wearing blue shirts with rolled up sleeves, carry the coffin of the television pitchman, Billy Mays, from the church where the funeral mass was held in Mays' hometown, in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks, Pa., Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
    Product pitchman Mays remembered as natural seller AP - Fri Jul 3, 1:40 PM ETRecommended 94 times

    MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. - References to television pitchman Bill Mays' trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.

  9. Map locates South Waziristan, Pakistan and the location of suspected U.S. missile strikes
    Officials: 17 die in US missile strike in Pakistan AP - Fri Jul 3, 11:27 AM ETRecommended 79 times

    ISLAMABAD - U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant communication center Friday, killing 17 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said.

  10. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)
    Palin resigns as governor; leaves plans secret AP - 57 minutes agoRecommended 78 times

    WASILLA, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

  11. Business consultant Katrina Kennedy is seen working at her home in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, July 2, 2009. Kennedy, who does contract work for the state of California, is among hundreds of state contractors who could be receiving IOUs instead of money until the state has enough cash to cover all payments. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
    IOUs spell uncertainty for Calif. small businesses AP - Fri Jul 3, 3:57 AM ETRecommended 73 times

    BERKELEY, Calif. - Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold. Dairyman Mike O'Kelly is wondering whether he is going to have to let employees go.

  12. Powerful weapons found in Northwest drug raids AP - Fri Jul 3, 5:17 AM ETRecommended 73 times

    SEATTLE - Federal agents busted a drug-trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico in Washington state and carried unusually powerful weaponry, injecting a dangerous new factor into drug crime in the region.

  13. Palin to resign as Alaska governor in surprise move Reuters - 2 hours, 6 minutes agoRecommended 63 times

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in 2008, said on Friday she will resign this month, an unexpected move that could signal a run for higher office.

  14. The soaring national debt is recorded on the National Debt Clock in New York, Friday, July 3, 2009. Already complicating efforts by President Barack Obama and Congress to cope with the worst recession in decades, economists warn that the mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington. (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)
    MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Rising debt may be next crisis AP - 2 minutes agoRecommended 62 times

    WASHINGTON - The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It's the national debt.

  15. Colin Daymude, who only recently received his state income tax refund after filing electronically six months ago, is pictured at his home in Dacula, Ga., Friday July 3, 2009. Budget cuts and falling revenues have forced many states to delay income tax returns for months, leaving taxpayers longing for millions of dollars of their money. (AP Photo/John Amis)
    Much-needed tax refunds delayed from Ga. to Calif. AP - Fri Jul 3, 3:40 PM ETRecommended 58 times

    ATLANTA - Colin Daymude was out of work last year after his business failed and eagerly filed his taxes in mid-January, figuring he'd get his refund sooner. He was wrong.

  16. A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)
    Australia discovers 3 new large dinosaurs Reuters - Fri Jul 3, 12:45 PM ETRecommended 58 times

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.

  17. Members of the Comorian community living in France gather at the entrance to the T3 Terminal at Roissy airport, north of Paris, Friday July 3, 2009. An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways took off for Sana'a, Yemen, on Friday. The plane took off 4 and a half hours late, with 72 passengers on board instead of the 180 initially booked. A Yemenia Airways airbus crashed last Tuesday while approaching Moroni, Comoros Islands. The jersey, reading Watwaniya, that means patriot in Comorian, refers to a the Watwaniya movement that fights against giving the status of department to the island of Mayotte, which is part of the Comoros islands archipelago. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
    Protesters block Paris airport over Yemen crash AP - Fri Jul 3, 4:21 PM ETRecommended 48 times

    PARIS - Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros — a route that saw a deadly crash this week, after years of complaints about dangerous conditions on the flight path to the Indian Ocean island nation.

  18. In this undated photo supplied by Queensland Museum, paleontologist Scott Hocknull analyses the Diamantinasaurus fossils in Winton, in central Queensland, Australia. Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and has a name like something from an Arnold Schwazennegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. (AP Photo/Queensland Museum, HO)
    Australian dinosaur that lived 98M years ago found AP - Fri Jul 3, 7:27 AM ETRecommended 42 times

    CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator.

  19. A deserted village in South Wazirstan is seen in this May 18, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Simon Cameron-Moore
    U.S. drone kills 10 in Pakistan, copter crash kills 26 Reuters - Fri Jul 3, 2:45 PM ETRecommended 40 times

    WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles on Friday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an expected Pakistani military offensive in the area.

  20. In this handout photo provided by AEG, pop star Michael Jackson rehearses at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/ Kevin Mazur, AEG/Getty Images)
    Madonna to pay tribute to Jackson in concert AP - Fri Jul 3, 6:42 PM ETRecommended 37 times

    LOS ANGELES - Madonna is paying tribute to Michael Jackson in the same arena where he was to stage his great comeback.

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