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Palin resigns as governor, leaves plans secret (AP)

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009. The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans. (AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.




Serial killer has South Carolina residents on edge (AP)

This image originally provided June 28, 2009 by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department shows a sketch of a possible suspect in a series of recent murders in Cherokee County, S.C. Sheriff's deputies searched Friday, July 3, 2009 for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next. (AP Photo/Cherokee County Sheriff's Department via Spartanburg Herald Journal)AP - Terrified residents canceled Fourth of July plans and holed up in their homes Friday as investigators hunted a serial killer believed to have shot four people to death.




Communities bug out over cuts to mosquito control (AP)

Christopher Tomlinson with the Bucks County department of health blows off a mosquito from his arm while he spreads biological larvicide into stagnant water to help control mosquito population at a public golf course in Fairless Hills, Pa., Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.




4 decades later, freedom rider returns to Miss. (AP)

Civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland discusses May 12, 2009 in Jackson, Miss., the events that surrounded her being photographed as she and other Tougaloo College students were being abused by white youth as they tried in 1963 to integrate a Woolworth Department Store lunch counter in Jackson, Miss. The photograph of her and other protestors being covered with condiments, and an earlier booking photograph taken after being arrested as a Freedom Rider have help influence a composition for wind ensemble written by Southern Mississippi music student Corey Carter. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head — a calm and subtle melody that hadn't found its shape. The 19-year-old college student simply needed a hero to visualize before he could finish his composition for wind ensemble.




SC residents mixed over fate of cheating gov (AP)

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford leaves the Governor's Mansion Friday, July 3, 2009 in Columbia, S.C.  A day earlier, his spokesman said Sanford planned to fly to Florida accompanied by state security for the long holiday weekend. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - After a week that offered the world a glimpse into the conflicted mind of philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, his constituents differed Friday on whether he should leave office.




Pachyderms outdo people in cross-species chow bout (AP)

George Shea, left, of Major League Eating presents the first-ever Elephants & Humans six-minute hot dog bun eating competition held with Nathan's Famous in Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., Friday, July 3, 2009. The competition features three Ringling Bros. Asian elephants, from left to right, Susie, 46, Minnie, 48 and Bunny, 42, and three Major League Eaters. The human eaters will compete the next day in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest. (AP Photo/Yanina Manolova)AP - In the fight of pachyderms vs. people — the pachyderms now have the upper trunk.




Job seekers seek solace with fellow faithful (AP)

This June 4, 2009 photo shows Sandra Friedrich, left, of Wenham, Mass. and Debbie Gonzalez of Saugus, Mass. praying during an unemployed support group meeting in Beverly, Mass. The group is one of several church-related unemployment support groups that have formed around the country as the jobless rate reaches heights not seen for decades. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Her fellow job seekers offer knowing groans as Diane Castro recalls the day she was laid off: The fear of being summoned to the front office. The phones in nearby cubicles going off like grenades. Finally, a ring at her desk.




Abortion doc murder suspect advocates via mail (AP)

FILE- This undated booking photo originally released Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by the Sedgwick County Jail shows Scott Roeder, who is suspected in the shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller. The man charged with killing a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks. (AP Photo/Sedgwick County Jail)AP - A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks.




Product pitchman Mays remembered as natural seller (AP)

Pallbearers wearing blue shirts with rolled up sleeves, carry the coffin of the television pitchman, Billy Mays, from the church where the funeral mass was held in Mays' hometown, in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks, Pa., Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - References to television pitchman Bill Mays' trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.




NYC Muslims push to add holidays to school year (AP)

This July 1, 2009 photo shows Moneeb Hassan, 17, posing for a picture in front of  his high school, Benjamin N. Cardozo, in New York. Hassan, 17, is one of thousands of Muslim students in the city who must perform a balancing act between his academic and religious obligations during his holidays. But the nation's largest school district hasn't sanctioned official Muslim holidays.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose both.




Much-needed tax refunds delayed from Ga. to Calif. (AP)

Colin Daymude, who only recently received his state income tax refund after filing electronically six months ago, is pictured at his home in Dacula, Ga., Friday July 3, 2009. Budget cuts and falling revenues have forced many states to delay income tax returns for months, leaving taxpayers longing for millions of dollars of their money. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Colin Daymude was out of work last year after his business failed and eagerly filed his taxes in mid-January, figuring he'd get his refund sooner. He was wrong.




Mom in MySpace case says it was properly dismissed (AP)

FILE - In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo Lori Drew leaves Federal Court after a hearing in Los Angeles.  U.S. District Judge George Wu on Thursday, July 2, 2009, tentatively threw out the convictions of the Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.




States set to ring in Independence Day sans budget (AP)

Citing the Legislatures failure to pass a budget plan, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announces that he is declaring a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, July 1, 2009.  Lawmakers will have 45 days to send him a plan to balance the state's budget which ended the fiscal year with a $24.3 billion deficit.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Several states are facing the prospect of government shutdowns and program cuts as they enter the first weekend of the fiscal year and July Fourth holiday without a budget in place.




Powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home (AP)

Luis Aldama, 17, of Salinas, Calif., holds a portrait of Micheal Jackson near the gates of the late Michael Jackson's former residence, Neverland Ranch, in Los Olivos, Calif., Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service.




IOUs spell uncertainty for Calif. small businesses (AP)

Business consultant Katrina Kennedy is seen working at her home in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, July 2, 2009.  Kennedy, who does contract work for the state of California, is among hundreds of state contractors who could be receiving IOUs instead of money until the state has enough cash to cover all payments. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold. Dairyman Mike O'Kelly is wondering whether he is going to have to let employees go.




SoCal-to-Vegas rail route wins federal designation (AP)
AP - The clogged tourist travel route between Southern California and Las Vegas has been designated a federal high-speed rail corridor, in a move that officials hope would signal increased cooperation between the regions on building speedier train travel.

Judge eyes quick action on Calif. gay marriage ban (AP)

Attorney Theodore Olson, center, speaks as clients Kristin Perry, from left, Sandra Stier, Jeff Farrillo, and Paul Katami listen at a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.




Powerful weapons found in Northwest drug raids (AP)
AP - Federal agents busted a drug-trafficking ring that distributed methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico in Washington state and carried unusually powerful weaponry, injecting a dangerous new factor into drug crime in the region.

Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard (AP)
AP - Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

Firefighters battle big blaze at shuttered SC mill (AP)
AP - A shuttered mill in northwestern South Carolina has caught fire, spewing clouds of dense, black smoke visible for miles.

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