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After almost a month of telling the National Football League, the Atlanta Falcons and anyone else who would listen that he was innocent of the charges brought against him, Michael Vick’s role in illegal dogfighting could reach a staggering $100 million in lost future salary.
That not does not include the cost to his reputation […]

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BAGHDAD - A helicopter crash in northern Iraq on Wednesday killed 14 U.S. soldiers. The worst incident of its kind in more than two years.
The military said in a statement that the 14 soldiers, assigned to Task Force Lightning, died when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding went down in northern Iraq on […]

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While the families of the six miners still trapped in Utah’s Crandall Canyon mine said Monday they wanted another large hole bored to help rescue workers find their loved ones, experts cautioned against continued drilling and raised questions about the safety of previous efforts that resulted in the deaths of three emergency workers Thursday.
The […]

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Hurricane Dean lashed Mexico’s Caribbean coastline with fierce winds and heavy rain Tuesday as forecasters warned the rare Category 5 storm could bring “catastrophic” damage to the region as it continues to head west toward the middle of the Yucatan Peninsula on a course that appears to rule out any damage in Texas.
The eye […]

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HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 21 - On Monday officials indefinitely stopped efforts to save six coal miners as a group of mining experts concluded that the area where the men were trapped was structurally unstable and would probably collapse again. The families of the Crandall Canyon miner’s aren’t the only ones raising questions about […]

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WASHINGTON - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick agreed on Monday to plead guilty in a dog-fighting case that could wreck the U.S. star’s football career.
Had Vick not cut a deal, the 27-year-old multi-millionaire was likely to face a new indictment with more charges, legal sources have said.
The National Football League Web site said Vick, […]

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Endeavour cast off from the ISS at 9.56pm AEST ending a stay of close to nine days at the orbiting laboratory to continue construction efforts. The U.S. space agency says the shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station in preparation for an earlier-than-expected landing.
Hurricane Dean, a powerful category four storm rolling through […]

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KINGSTON, Jamaica - The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Dean, a category 4, was projected to reach the most dangerous classification, a Category 5 storm.
At 11 p.m., the center of Hurricane Dean was located near latitude 17.6 north, longitude 78.8 west, or about 135 miles west-southwest […]

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A Chinese passenger jet burst into flames after making a routine landing in Japan today, destroying the jet on the runway just moments after all 165 people on board fled the aircraft.
All 157 passengers - including two small children- fled the Boeing 737-800 unhurt on inflated emergency slides just minutes before the plane burst […]

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HUNTINGTON, Utah — Rescuers were to start drilling a fifth hole into a collapsed Utah coal mine late Sunday. Officials all but declared dead yesterday six miners they have been trying to rescue for the past two weeks.
Work began Sunday afternoon on a fifth bore hole into another section of the mine, in the […]

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