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By DAN ELLIOTT and P. SOLOMON BANDA 2010-09-08T01:19:51Z BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- David Myers knew it was time to leave when he looked out into the forest and spotted bright red flames towering skyward. Then came a blinding cloud of smoke and a deafening roar as the fire ripped through the wilderness....

By MITCH STACY 2010-09-08T01:03:37Z GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere....

By RALPH D. RUSSO 2010-09-08T01:02:19Z More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country. Boise State gained seven first-place votes and closed in on No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Ohio State as the top three teams in the first regular season Associated Press football poll held their spots from the preseason....

By BARBARA SURK 2010-09-08T01:02:07Z BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing Saddam Hussein's image....

By JENNIFER DOBNER 2010-09-08T01:02:06Z SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday refused to sign a waiver that would have allowed his extradition to Texas, where he faces bigamy, aggravated sexual assault and assault charges over alleged incidents with underage girls at a church ranch....

By WILL WEISSERT 2010-09-08T01:02:02Z HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war....

By ANTONIO VILLEGAS and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ 2010-09-08T01:02:01Z VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) -- Weeks of torrential rains have unleashed flooding in huge swaths of southern Mexico, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes....

By DEEPTI HAJELA 2010-09-08T01:02:01Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit....

By ANITA SNOW 2010-09-08T01:01:50Z UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July - more than double the number previously reported - and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens....

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 2010-09-08T01:01:39Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are scratching to survive in races all across the country. Disgruntled voters, a sluggish economy and vanishing enthusiasm for President Barack Obama have put 75 seats or more - the vast majority held by Democrats - at risk of changing hands....

A group of gunmen attacked a Cereso prison transport van freeing a prisoner and killing two guards this morning in Juárez, officials said.

El Paso International officials said bad weather in eastern Texas is causing some delays in flights and at least one cancellation.

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas—Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.

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Tonight: Low 68°F.---- Wed: Partly Cloudy & High 89°F / Low 70°F.---- Thu: Scattered T-Storms & High 90°F / Low 68°F.---- Fri & Beyond.... For more details?