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US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II.
Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage (AP)
September 6, 2010AP - A former Army soldier demanding behavioral treatment at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded the gunman to surrender peacefully.
NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.
Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
USS Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle.
Montana plane crash revives 'lap child' debate (AP)
September 6, 2010AP - Federal transportation safety officials are using the deadly crash of an overloaded plane in Montana to revive a long-standing debate about whether small children should be allowed to travel on the laps of adults.
Greeting card giant Hallmark heads for 2nd century (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online.
Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use (AP)
September 6, 2010AP - Colleges around the country are buying up large chunks of land without always having a clear idea of how it will be used.
Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3 (AP)
September 6, 2010AP - A small airplane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood on Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said.
Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Mexican authorities opened shelters and warned people to watch out for mudslides Monday as Tropical Storm Hermine approached the northeastern border with Texas, the second major storm to hit the area this season.
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