<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080709/2008_07_08t105218_450x337_us_storm_bertha.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=G1Xcc6TvkwypHz8XvK1V_A--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Hurricane Bertha is pictured over the Atlantic Ocean in this National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken July 7, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm.</p><br clear="all"/>
AP - A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.
AP - No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding_debris"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.369484a700b74c33b7e5fe3d289f56c5.midwest_flooding_strange_debris_cx104.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=8wr26LC6ecQIP9vCCN_ckA--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="This photo provided by Illinois-based Living Lands and Water shows LL&W crew members Geoff Manis and Mike Coyne-Logan, from left, with volunteers Linda and Dan Powell, from Davenport, Iowa, foreground, working to clean up the debris found along the banks of the Cedar River downriver from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 28, 2008. From riot gear to refrigerators, receding waters from the Midwest flooding are giving up trove of strange debris. (AP Photo/Living Lands and Water, Tammy Becker)" border="0" /></a>AP - Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/missing_mother"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.ab2d53803df6453e9e6b2a9358e528d1.missing_mother_cabm101.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=3knwCd1DS4hpk2d.TyE5MQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A hole is seen on the side of a steep hill off a deer trail between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in Oakland, Calif. Authorities worked Tuesday to identify a body removed reportedly from this location after Hans Reiser, a prominent software programmer who is set to be sentenced for his missing wife's murder, led police to the site, attorneys said. Authorities wouldn't speculate on the identity of the body or disclose details of the search. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)" border="0" /></a>AP - Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the estranged wife he is convicted of killing.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/growing_glaciers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.978d37ce05374b63a301ce3cc81830a5.growing_glaciers_carp101.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9nnVSRmbz_jBZqZcQqOCSQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A truck moves past Mt. Shasta, background, on Highway 97 near Weed, Calif., Thursday, June 19, 2008. The Hotlum glacier, seen on the northeast face of Mt. Shasta, left, is the largest glacier by area in California, and it is getting bigger. The Hotlum glacier is one of seven ice fields that stretch down the volcanic flanks and fills nearly two square miles of valleys and ragged edges of the 14,000 foot high Mt. Shasta.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)" border="0" /></a>AP - Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_re_us/wildfires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080707/capt.e3a65405c9574267a681d0aa08c37c02.wildfires_cams110.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=lN29sB1kpByY7RrjUAxLOQ--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Greg Davis, of the Platte Canyon fire crew, out of Bailey, Colo., takes down hot spots in a wildfire-ravaged forest in Big Sur, Calif., Monday, July 7, 2008. Firefighters continue to fight the Basin Complex Fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Big Sur Monday as temperatures are expected to rise. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Firefighters pushed back a blaze threatening this small coastal community just enough to allow hundreds of people to check on their homes Tuesday as a separate fire 300 miles north forced residents of other towns to evacuate.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_he_me/med_autism_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.ae00d1696d8346508937247b8e463d42.autism_research_cx402.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=k1Ev_MFh2VFSzvmbvbUclA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="Eight-year-old Charlie Blakey, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, says a prayer before eating dinner with his family at their home on Oak Park, Ill., on April 23, 2008. Charlie's mother Christina, has been using an alternative treatment, chelation, along with a variety of other therapies to treat her son. A proposed federal study of chelation in autistic children has been put on hold because of safety concerns. Chelation helps the body excrete heavy metals and is approved to treat lead poisoning in children. Charlie eats a special diet, swallows chelation pills and has had 40 sessions in a hyperbaric chamber. All have been helpful, according to his mom. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)" border="0" /></a>AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_re_us/helms_funeral"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.a8676c5e92e4482aae93a5b181a9c7e3.helms_funeral_ncgb120.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=_Nh98PM5vQgKdAEMSd6smw--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="Mourners gather to watch as family members depart for a private burial following funeral services for former Sen. Jesse Helms at Hayes-Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Helms, who represented North Carolina in the Senate from 1973 to 2003, died Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/wiesel_accosted"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080619/capt.d40003cfba29479e85b49a3424b375a1.correction_jordan_mideast_amm104.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=iKYUygcMuKXG11kUWqi89g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, Peace, 1986, addresses the audience at the final session at the meeting of 29 Nobel prize winners gathered in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, where the Nobel Laureates discussed issues such as the global food crisis, economic development and education Thursday June 19, 2008. ( AP Photo/Mohammad abu Ghosh)" border="0" /></a>AP - Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel told jurors Tuesday that he was shocked to learn the man accused of accosting him was linked to a movement that denies millions of Jews were killed during World War II.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_he_me/med_prostate_cancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080618/i/r1651359679.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=57tqR5S4n6m9G8GtNen09g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Prostate cancer cells are seen in a handout photo from the National Cancer Institute. REUTERS/NCI/Handout" border="0" /></a>AP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/embracing_the_fence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.b2e4fcabd62d48eba261701dda2632ad.del_rio_fence_gfx960.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=I9FvDg8NoM4DD6y1uIQ3HA--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="Map locates Del Rio, Texas; 1c x 2 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 73 mm" border="0" /></a>AP - This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/hospital_ward_death"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.c3b3b0a52b3041bbbd4b0e27e1267faa.hospital_ward_death_ny129.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=rmXM86ycQvwV_5Zp2vAeOw--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="This combination of 6 still photos taken from a video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union shows the progression of events in the early morning hours of Thursday, June 19, 2008 in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot, and gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her. (AP Photo/New York Civil Liberties Union)" border="0" /></a>AP - The daughter of a woman who died unnoticed on the floor of a hospital psychiatric unit called Tuesday for criminal prosecution of the workers who did nothing to help her.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/teacher_bible"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.dad76546521c4a119668c7d25c5409e1.teacher_bible_co101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DPWv.yXlb3QMGkt4YuGriA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In this undated file photo released by Mount Vernon, Ohio, City Schools as a part of independent investigation report, a Mount Vernon student with a branded cross on his arm is shown. A public school teacher taught creationism in his science class and used a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms, according to a report by independent investigators. Mount Vernon Middle School teacher John Freshwater was insubordinate in failing to remove a Bible and other religious materials from his classroom and continued to preach his Christian beliefs despite complaints by other teachers and administrators, the report also said. (AP Photo/Mount Vernon City Schools)" border="0" /></a>AP - Demonstrations on the town square show how divided people are over the school board's decision to fire a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students' arms.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/governor_s_daughter_ethics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080708/capt.1a4678efac454360bc249d9eea72c63b.governors_daughter_chw202.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=AcKeXB.EAEzCcF00uwlEIg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This photo, supplied by West Virginia University, shows veteran educator C. Peter Magrath, the former president of three universities and a national higher education group, who was named interim president of West Virginia University on Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Magrath, shown meeting faculty and students in Morgantown, W.Va, will succeed President Mike Garrison, who is stepping down Sept. 1 over a master's degree scandal involving the governor's daughter. (AP Photo/West Virginia University)" border="0" /></a>AP - The West Virginia Ethics Commission is looking into a degree scandal involving the governor's daughter and West Virginia University.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/border_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080708/2008_07_07t203000_450x293_us_crime_usa_gangs.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=sEF8Oy2ZshZaT2_NyVnjJg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="An ATF agent holds an AK47 rifle that was confiscated by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) as he and other agents demonstrate the firepower of weapons commonly used by criminals along the U.S.-Mexico border at the Ben Avery Shooting Range in Phoenix, Arizona, March 10, 2008. (Rick Scuteri/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - A man suspected of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Vermont-Quebec line has been arrested in Canada, an agency spokesman said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_us/colombia_us_hostages"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080707/capt.a35aca85721b4229a7d671eaf1b29e04.colombia_us_hostages_txda101.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=CYlGA9xNgzuVniYijTj4rQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Rescued Colombia US hostage Marc D. Gonsalves, left, stands on stage with unidentified members of his family at a 'Yellow Ribbon Ceremony' during which each of the returnees, including Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, was able to speak briefly to the press, Monday July 7, 2008, at Fort Sam Houston's Brooke Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)" border="0" /></a>AP - Among the smiles and hugs shared by three American hostages freed last week from rebels in Colombia and their families, one of the men on Monday angrily denounced their captors as "terrorists with a capital 'T.'"</p><br clear="all"/>
AP - The Bush administration didn't pursue hundreds of potential water pollution cases after a 2006 Supreme Court decision that restricted the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate seasonal streams and wetlands.
