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Television host Oprah Winfrey took to the stage in Iowa
Saturday to campaign for barrack Obama.

In Alaska, oil companies are waging a bidding war for skilled
workers. Shell Oil opened Albian Village, the centerpiece of a
$12 billioin project to house 2,500 employees.

Investigators in Kansas are looking into whether a secret life in
Internet pornography had anything to do with the
disappearance of a Kansas college student.

A retail industry tracking group reports that sales over the past
two days rose more than 7 percent compared to the same time
last year. ShopperTrack tallies up a total of more than 16 billion
dollars for Friday and Saturday.

Nationwide, thousands of college students are joining a group
that promotes the right for students with concealed handgun
licenses to bring guns on campus.

Police investigating the death of an 84-year-old woman and the
disappearance of her husband hope this photo can lead them
to the killer.

California officials say the recovery begins in earnest now in the
San Francisco Bay. One Coast Guard official says speed may
have been a factor in the ship crash that spilled nearly 60
thousand gallons of fuel into the bay.

Fast food restaurants are part of the Americans landscape, but
in a community that is inundaated with them, the city council is
trying to change that.

Cargill Inc. says it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of
ground beef that may be contaminated with E.coli bacteria, the
second time in less than a month it has voluntarily recalled beef
that may have been tainted.

NASA has postponed a spacewalk as it scrambles to deal with
two power problems at the international space station.

Two South Carolina universities are in mourning after seven
students died in a beach house fire. Authorities believe the fire
was accidental and may have started on a deck.

As flames subside, Southern California residents wait to see
what is left. In some cases, charred rubble is all that remains.
Authorities are keeping people back as hotspots flare up and
need dousing.

Bank of America, the nation’s second-largest banking group,
said Thurs day that its third quater profit slowed sharply
to 3.7 billion dollars due to….

Bush, who held a press briefing at the White House, also
warned the House of Representatives that it should back off
efforts to vote on a bill declaring the 1915 massacres of
Armenians genocide.

President Bush met with the Dalai Lama Tuesday, despite a
warning from the Chinese that the meeting could damage
relations between teh US and China. The Tibetan spiritual
leader is in the US to receive the Congressional Gold Medal.