Barack Obama's newly minted running mate will join the Democratic hopeful onstage Saturday at a rally in this capital city where Obama launched his White House bid, a campaign official said.
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Florida Keys officials closed schools, opened shelters and urged visitors to leave as Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane Sunday, but residents and tourists seemed in no hurry to evacuate.
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Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States.
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A man caught on video choking and robbing an 85-year-old woman in a building elevator is believed to be responsible for other assaults on elderly victims in the city, police said Tuesday.
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Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.
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Ghouls have made a resurgence in cemeteries throughout the United States, prying plates and ornaments from headstones and selling them to scrap yards.
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More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday.
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Shawn Johnson of the United States finally got her Olympic gold medal, blowing away the field Tuesday with her routine on the balance beam - the last event of the women's gymnastics competition.
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