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22 dead in Mo., Okla., Ga. after new round of storms (AP)

Craig Lant picks through the rubble of his parents businesses on Sunday morning, May 11, 2008 in Seneca, Mo. Craig's father, Bill Lant owned Lant's Feed Store and his mother, Jane, owned Lant's Bridal Garden located north of Seneca, Mo. Both businesses were destroyed by a tornado that swept through southwest Missouri late Saturday afternoon killing 12 people. (AP Photo/Mike Gullett)AP - Stunned survivors picked through the little that was left of their communities Sunday after tornadoes tore across the Plains and South, killing at least 22 people in three states and leaving behind a trail of destruction and stories of loss.


Brush fires force home evacuations in Florida (AP)

Los Angeles City Fire fighter Skier Allan looks over a wall at the site of a fire at a South Los Angeles commercial building where one worker was injured Monday, May 5, 2008. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Ron Myers says a man slipped and fell Monday while working with flammable liquids, and the spill ignited a raging fire in the cabinet business. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 100 homes in central Florida on Saturday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.


President calls Jenna's wedding 'spectacular' (AP)

President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, pose with their daughters Jenna Bush, 26, right, and Barbara Bush, left, pose for photos prior to Jenna's marriage to Henry Hager at the Bush family's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Barbara was her twin sister's maid of honor. (AP Photo/The White House/Shealah Craighead)AP - President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but on Sunday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.


Medical helicopter crash in Wis. kills doctor, nurse, pilot (AP)

Debra H. Amesqua, left, chief of the Madison (Wis.) Fire Department, Mark Hanson, director of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Med Flight Services, Donna Katen-Bahensky, CEO of UW Hospital and Clinics and Margaret Van Bree, right, COO of UW Hospital and Clinics pause during a news conference Sunday, May 11, 2008, in Madison, Wis. where it was announced that a medical helicopter returning from La Crosse, Wis., crashed killing a surgeon, a nurse and the pilot. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - A medical helicopter dropped off a patient and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday.


AP IMPACT: Number of disabled veterans rising (AP)

In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, wounded soldiers involved in physical therapy wait for President Bush to visit a physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Lines of U.S. troops are limping away from the military with damaged bodies and minds, a surging increase in disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come ? even as the total of America's vets from all wars has begun to shrink.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come ? even as the total population of America's vets shrinks.


Families will make case for vaccine link to autism (AP)
AP - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court.

Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear (AP)
AP - Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business ? if you run a bike shop.

Scientists probe recent coyote attacks in California (AP)
AP - The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park ? but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the wild animal.

College prof no walkover for Franken in Minn. Senate run (AP)
AP - On the Senate campaign trail, Al Franken frequently invokes the name of his friend, the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, as a major inspiration.

2008 valedictorian is different kind of 'Morehouse Man' (AP)
AP - From his first day at Morehouse College ? the country's only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men ? Joshua Packwood has been a standout.

Confusing ballot designs still plague elections (AP)

**FILE PHOTO** A Votomatic machine from Palm Beach County, Fla., which introduced America to 'butterfly ballots' and various kinds of 'chads', from pregnant to dimpled to hanging, is part of an exhibit on voting that opened Friday, July 16, 2004, at the National Museum of American History. (AP Photo/Adele Starr)AP - The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon ? pregnant, hanging and otherwise.


Ex-Ill. sergeant accused of rape to go on trial (AP)
AP - Four times between the winters of 2002 and 2005, a blue-eyed man wearing a ski mask and dark clothes crept quietly into the bedrooms of women in Bloomington, Ill., and raped them.

Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary (AP)

Cindi Mason, director of the International Mother's Day Shrine, poses at the shrine in Grafton, W. Va., on April 22, 2008. The shrine is the former Andrew's Methodist Church where the first Mother's Day service was held 100 years ago. Former Grafton resident Anna Jarvis started the holiday. (AP Photo/James J. Lee)AP - On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.


Emily, Jacob again top list of most popular baby names (AP)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., holds a baby while greeting students at the Oregon Twilight track meet held at University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., Friday, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Emily again topped the list of most popular baby girl names last year, registering as No. 1 for the 12th straight time. Jacob led among names for boys for the ninth year in a row.


Jenna Bush picks 'You Are So Beautiful' for dance with Dad (AP)

A band member with Tyrone Smith Revue takes a photo as their bus passes through downtown Crawford, Texas, on the way to the wedding of Jenna Bush and Henry Hager, Saturday, May 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Jenna Bush picked "You Are So Beautiful," the ballad made famous by Joe Cocker, for the father-daughter dance with President Bush at her wedding reception Saturday night in Texas, the band leader said.


Nursery programs allow imprisoned moms, newborns to bond (AP)

Melissa Lankey, 31, of Columbus, Ind., kisses her son Kevin Cadin Michael DuLong, 3 weeks, in the Wee Ones Nursery unit at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis, Monday, April 28, 2008. Lankey sang to her three-week-old son ? not in a bedroom, but behind bars at the Indiana Women's Prison, where a new program allows some inmates to keep their newborns in their cells for up to 18 months. The program became the sixth in the nation in a growing trend among state prison systems. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Three-week-old Kevin fussed in mother Melissa Lankey's arms until she started singing softly to him, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." The newborn began dozing within seconds.


5 bodies, including 3 children, found in northeast Houston (AP)

Houston police Sgt. John Chomiak walks outside a home in rural northeast Houston where five bodies were found Saturday, May 10, 2008. Police were still trying to determine what happened to the five people, including three young children. Although a .22 caliber rifle was found in the lap of an adult male, whose body was found on the porch, police declined to speculate on whether this might have been a murder-suicide, saying it was still early in their investigation. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)AP - The bodies of five people, including three young children, were found Saturday afternoon on a sprawling property with several structures in northeast Houston, police said.


AP Exclusive: Ex-manager says OJ Simpson confessed (AP)

In this June 21, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson holds up his hands before the jury after putting on a pair of gloves similar to the infamous bloody gloves during his double-murder trial in Los Angeles. A sports memorabilia dealer who profited off O.J. Simpson alleges the football star confessed to murdering his ex-wife and says in a new book that he helped him outwit prosecutors with the gloves. 'How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse,' hits stores Monday, May 12, 2008.  (AP Photo/Vince Bucci,File Pool)AP - A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted.


Lawyer says young Philly jet-setter nearing plea in ID case (AP)

In this undated file photo released by the Philadelphia Police Department, shown are Jocelyn Kirsch, right, and Edward Anderton.  A lawyer for a woman charged with stealing people's credit to travel the world in style says Kirsch, the former Drexel University student is nearing a federal plea deal. Kirsch and Anderton are due in Philadelphia court on Monday May 12, 2008 for a preliminary hearing. But defense lawyer Ronald Greenblatt says they won't appear because the case will be moved to federal court. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department, File)AP - A former college student accused of stealing people's credit to travel the world with her Ivy League boyfriend is nearing a federal plea deal, her lawyer said.


First-class stamp prices rise 1 penny to 42 cents Monday (AP)
AP - The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.

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