AP - The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats.
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2010-09-05 21:28
Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers (AP)
2010-09-05 21:28
Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand (AP)
AP - Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.
2010-09-05 21:28
Racial violence changes student
AP - Duong Nghe Ly can't wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.
2010-09-05 19:02
Army studies concussions' effects on bomb techs (AP)
AP - Motivated by the deaths of two friends in war-zone explosions, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer decided to become a bomb hunter.
2010-09-05 19:02
9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP)
AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.
2010-09-05 19:02
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP)
AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.
2010-09-05 09:11
Race complicates reservation crime fight (AP)
AP - For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, pistol whipping them and firing bullets above the husband's head.
2010-09-05 06:45
2 babies killed after semi hits vehicles in Ariz. (AP)
AP - Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix.
2010-09-05 06:45
For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other (AP)
AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.
2010-09-05 06:45
JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good (AP)
AP - Sometimes there's no going back.
2010-09-05 04:19
AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins (AP)
AP - Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.
2010-09-05 04:19
Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP)
AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."
2010-09-05 04:19
BP: Crews lifting device from Gulf face delay (AP)
AP - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed stop the gusher four months ago.
2010-09-05 01:53
Farms being prosecuted for importing Thai workers (AP)
AP - Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison.
2010-09-05 01:53
Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court (AP)
AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
2010-09-05 01:53
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP)
AP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.
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