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Fay may strengthen, hit Fla. again
August 20, 2008Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path reaching the coast Wednesday and headed for the Atlantic Ocean, where it could strengthen and curve back toward Florida — possibly as a hurricane.
Minor wreck turns into deadly rampage
August 20, 2008A Florida man was arrested after allegedly going on a violent rampage after a minor fender-bender, slashing and stabbing the occupants of a car, then running over and killing a woman who had been riding in another nearby vehicle.
Obama and veep choice to campaign Saturday
August 20, 2008Barack Obama's newly minted running mate will be hitting the trail with the Democratic hopeful Saturday, a senior Obama adviser told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - A convicted sex offender admitted Tuesday that he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student two years ago, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.
Funeral homes facing problem of abandoned ashes (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. Someone loved the people once, enough to have their bodies cremated then promptly forgot or decided they didn't want them.
Ohio says no to voting machine 'sleepovers' (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday.
Widow of Confederate soldier dies at 93 (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - 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.
Note by Ark. party leader's killer still a mystery (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - Police said Tuesday they hadn't found any connection between slain Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney and a telephone number written with his last name on a Post-It note found in the home of the man who killed him.
Rights museum picks Gore, Nash for Freedom Awards (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - Former Vice President Al Gore and civil rights activist Diane Nash were named Tuesday as recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Awards.
Ford begins production of new Fiesta in Germany (AP)
August 20, 2008
AP - Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it has begun production of its new subcompact Fiesta at a plant in Germany.
