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Sheldon Wasajja, 2, of Malden, Mass., cools off in a fountain in Boston, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. Temperatures reached into the 90s in Boston Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Heat wave ebbs in parts of U.S.

AP - 54 minutes ago

NEW YORK - Relief from the sweltering summer heat is on the way Wednesday, at least for the northeast, as a cold front is expected to lower temperatures to the mid-80s.

HEALTH

Meth's grip

Methamphetamines remain the nation's top drug problem, a study finds.

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Fire-fighting goats

Goats are used to help prevent brush fires by eating undergrowth.

Abortion issues

Hiding the truth

A report finds pregnancy centers often mislead women about abortion risks.

  • S.C. woman charged in baby's 1988 death AP - 10 minutes ago

    COLUMBIA, S.C. - Eighteen years after her 8-month-old baby died, a mother walked into a police station and told officers she killed her son while staying at a home for unwed mothers, police said.

  • United Airlines flight service director Nicole Smith helps a passenger effected by a power outage at a major air traffic control center in Southern California at the San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday July 18, 2006, in South San Francisco The outage at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center was reported shortly after 5:30 p.m. and was restored about 90 minutes later, said Allen Kenitzer, a regional spokesman for FAA. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur)
    Calif. air traffic center outage probed AP - Wed Jul 19, 5:36 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES - Thousands of travelers across the western United States and Canada had their plans disrupted by an 80-minute power outage at a radar facility that handles flights in and out of Southern California.

  • Workers make repairs and upgrades to a tunnel in the Big Dig project, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Boston. Two Big Dig tunnels were closed for inspections and repairs after 12 tons of ceiling panels fell, killing 38-year-old Milena Del Valle as she and her husband drove through the tunnel July 10 on their way to the airport. (AP Photo/David L Ryan, Pool)
    Investigations into Big Dig failure spread AP - 2 hours, 38 minutes ago

    BOSTON - Efforts to investigate the embattled Big Dig project spread to the courts, the federal government and the state Legislature as pressure mounted on the head of the project.

  • A fire at Providence Harbor, apparently started by a lightning strike from a thunderstorm, burns Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
    Lightening sparks fire as tanker unloading AP - Wed Jul 19, 2:55 AM ET

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fire engulfed a dock area at the Port of Providence on Tuesday night when lightning struck as a tanker was unloading gasoline, sending large plumes of smoke and fireballs into the air.

  • Colorado to ban child marriages AP - Wed Jul 19, 2:12 AM ET

    DENVER - Gov. Bill Owens signed a measure banning child brides, ending an uproar sparked by a court ruling that said 12-year-old girls could enter common-law marriages in Colorado.

  • In this photo provided by KTRK-ABC News, Andrea Yates is shown during a videotaped jail interview with psychiatrist Lucy Puryear on July 27, 2001, in Houston. The tape, shown in court Monday, July 10, 2006, during her retrial, shows Yates explaining why she drowned her five children. (AP Photo/KTRK-ABC News)
    Yates told psychiatrist kids didn't obey AP - Wed Jul 19, 3:08 AM ET

    HOUSTON - In a videotaped interview with a forensic psychiatrist after drowning her children in a bathtub, a wide-eyed Andrea Yates sat in an orange jumpsuit and explained: "They didn't do things God likes."

  • In this undated photo provided by her family, Destiny Norton is shown in Salt Lake City. A $15,000 reward was offered Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in the case of the missing five-year-old who disappeared Sunday. (AP Photo/Norton family)
    Police searching for 5-year-old girl AP - Tue Jul 18, 9:22 PM ET

    SALT LAKE CITY - Police scoured the neighborhood Tuesday of a missing 5-year-old girl whose parents said she disappeared from her front porch after arguing with them about having to go to bed.

  • Fire engulfs tanker at Port of Providence AP - Wed Jul 19, 12:34 AM ET

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fire engulfed a tanker ship at the Port of Providence on Tuesday night, sending large plumes of smoke and fireballs into the air.

  • Conn. clerk admits to juice tampering AP - Tue Jul 18, 11:48 PM ET

    STAMFORD, Conn. - A store clerk charged with spiking bottled grape juice that sickened more than 40 churchgoers admitted to the tampering, saying he did it because he was not appreciated at work, according to an arrest affidavit filed Tuesday.

  • Prosecutor Leah Case, left, talks with Florida Department of Law Enforcement crime lab expert Emily Booth Varan, as they prepare to show to the jury one of four bats used to beat six people to death, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, during the murder trial of Troy Victorino, Michael Salas and Jerone Hunter at St. Johns County Courthouse in St. Augustine, Fla. The three men are accused of killing six people, Aug. 6, 2004, in Deltona, Fla. (AP Photo/Barbara V. Perez, Pool)
    Guard testifies in video slay trial AP - Tue Jul 18, 6:02 PM ET

    ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - One of the men charged with fatally stabbing six people over an Xbox video game system said as he was booked into jail that he had killed someone, a guard testified Tuesday.

  • BETonSports Chief Executive David Carruthers in an undated file photo. Carruthers was detained by U.S. authorities while changing planes in Dallas, the company said on Monday. (Vismedia/Reuters)
    Experts: Arrests won't hurt online casinos AP - Tue Jul 18, 6:33 PM ET

    FORT WORTH, Texas - One day after federal officials announced indictments of operators of an offshore Internet gambling site, there were signs of how difficult it will be to prosecute the case.

  • Sharon Lau, right, a clinic defense and research director with the National Abortion Federation, and an unidentified assistant video tape and photograph anti-abortion protesters outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic, the only abortion facility in Mississippi, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Jackson, Miss. Several anti-abortion groups are rallying and protesting at the clinic in an effort to close the facility. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)
    Tribal head ousted 2nd time over clinic AP - Tue Jul 18, 7:59 PM ET

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal president who was ousted and then reinstated after proposing an abortion clinic on the reservation was again stripped of her leadership role Tuesday.

  • Mexico's President Vicente Fox arrives for the opening ceremony of the Iberoamerican congress on Migration and Development in Madrid, Tuesday, July 18, 2006. Fox said Tuesday his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush had expressed 'commitment and conviction' toward approving major immigration reform by the end of the year. Fox's remarks appeared to contradict statements attributed to him Monday on the plane bringing him here from the summit. Then, Fox was quoted as saying Bush told him approval of reforms by year's end was unlikely because of the November congressional elections in the United States. (AP Photo/Paul White, Pool)
    Immigrant sweep snags 58 at Fort Bragg AP - Tue Jul 18, 2:01 PM ET

    FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Federal agents conducting a sweep aimed at illegal immigrants detained 58 civilian workers Tuesday as they tried to enter Fort Bragg with suspected false or fraudulently obtained identification, officials said.

  • Lesbian couple files malpractice suit AP - Tue Jul 18, 4:23 PM ET

    STAMFORD, Conn. - In what attorneys say is the first case of its kind since Connecticut legalized civil unions, a lesbian couple filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Tuesday claiming botched cancer treatments damaged their love life.

  • Santa Barbara newspaper at center of news AP - Tue Jul 18, 2:15 PM ET

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The newspaper in this seaside Southern California community isn't just reporting the news these days.

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