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Lines for evacuation buses grow in New Orleans

People line up at an evacuation point in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, as Hurricane Gustav approaches the Gulf coast. Gustav strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Saturday, and as city officials started evacuation plans, some residents weren't waiting to be told to leave. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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NEW ORLEANS - Lines of people waiting for buses to take them out of the city grew longer Saturday and traffic grew heavier on main highways as Hurricane Gustav strengthened into a dangerous storm on track for the Gulf Coast.

  • Source: Petraeus submitted report on troop cuts AP - Sat Aug 30, 6:25 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a U.S. troop withdrawal and at what pace, a senior military officer close to the process said Friday.

  • Police: DNA links man to slaying of Kutcher's ex AP - Fri Aug 29, 10:05 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES - DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.

  • Artist Robert Indiana poses Thursday, Aug. 29, 2008 at his studio in Vinalhaven, Maine. Indiana, who in the 1960s created the pop icon LOVE, now has created a similar image with HOPE, with proceeds going to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
    Maine artist creates HOPE image decades after LOVE AP - 24 minutes ago

    PORTLAND, Maine - The Maine artist who brought LOVE to the world is doing the same with HOPE.

  • In this undated image rendered from video and provided by Extra, Rielle Hunter is shown during an interview. Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Rielle Hunter, who directed the production of four Web videos. (AP Photo/Extra)
    John Edwards to speak at Hofstra without wife AP - Sat Aug 30, 6:30 AM ET

    RALEIGH, N.C. - In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won't be at his side.

  • A remote-operated robotic bomb defuser picks up a rocket during Iraqi military explosive ordinance training at Lions military camp in Anbar province August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ)
    Demand for military bomb techs at all-time high AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:12 PM ET

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Many things have gone wrong for Navy Senior Chief Tommy Gura while disarming nearly 200 improvised explosive devices in Iraq. He's been shot at and targeted for mortar attacks. His robots have blown up and he's lost communication to call for backup.

  • Hurricane-force winds, heavy rain hit Phoenix area AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:49 PM ET

    PHOENIX - A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, damaging several airliners and collapsing a brand-new college football facility.

  • 2 airliners nearly collide over Atlantic AP - Fri Aug 29, 10:39 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said Friday.

  • Report: NASA studies extending shuttle to 2015 AP - Fri Aug 29, 9:53 PM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.

  • Rain clouds form off Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman Island seen from Westin Casuarina Resort and Spa at sunset as the Gustav storm system approaches, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
    Hurricane Gustav plows through Cayman Islands AP - Sat Aug 30, 1:49 AM ET

    GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Gustav plowed through the Cayman Islands toward Cuba, gathering strength on a journey that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.

  • Men pull a boat out of the water as Hurricane Gustav approaches in Havana, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. Gustav swelled to an increasingly fearsome Category 3 hurricane with winds of 125 mph (205 kph) as it shrieked toward the heartland of Cuba's cigar industry Saturday on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
    Gustav headed for current that fuels big storms AP - Fri Aug 29, 3:57 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It's called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers say Gustav is headed right for it, reminiscent of Katrina.

  • In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, China Arnold sits in a Montgomery County courtroom during a break in jury selection in Dayton, Ohio. A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death, a prosecutor said Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, during closing arguments of the woman's retrial. 'She could have stopped it with one finger, but she didn't,' Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Daniel Brandt said. (AP Photo/Ron Alvey, Pool)
    Ohio jury convicts mom in microwaved-baby case AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:05 PM ET

    DAYTON, Ohio - A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.

  • This is an aerial view of the former home of a couple, who went missing in 1985, where investigators, near the pool, are using ground-penetrating radar, searching for evidence in their disappearance Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, in San Marino, Calif. Newlyweds Jonathan and Linda Sohus, who are presumed dead, lived in the home but vanished in 1985. Nine years later, workers building a pool for the new owners unearthed a man's bones, but they remain unidentified. German Christian Gerhartsreiter, who was known as Christopher Chichester to the couple and in recent years called himself Clark Rockefeller, is accused of kidnapping his daughter on a Boston street last month after losing custody of her in his divorce. His arrest has investigators re-examining the Sohuses' property. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Radar used to search for couple missing since '85 AP - Fri Aug 29, 5:18 PM ET

    SAN MARINO, Calif. - Homicide investigators used ground-penetrating radar Friday to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple were buried in the backyard.

  • Lawyer: Guilty plea coming in Pa. collar-bomb case AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:29 PM ET

    ERIE, Pa. - A defense attorney says his client will plead guilty to conspiracy in a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man.

  • Calif. farmers use guns, poison to safeguard crops AP - Fri Aug 29, 3:15 PM ET

    FRESNO, Calif. - Farmers in "America's Salad Bowl" are turning into hunters — stalking wild pigs, rabbits and deer — to keep E. coli and other harmful bacteria out of their fields.

Crimes and Trials News

  • Private detective Anthony Pellicano is shown in this 1993 file photo. A jury found sleuth Anthony Pellicano, 64, guilty of tapping the phones of Lisa Bonder, Kerkorian's ex-wife, in 2002, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney. Picture taken in 1993. (Sam Mircovich/File/Reuters)
    Detective to stars, attorney guilty of wiretapping Reuters - Fri Aug 29, 6:34 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's bitter child support dispute.

  • Iraqi soldiers take combat position during a search for insurgents south of Baquba on August 1. Tension flared between Baghdad and Iraq's northern Kurdish administration after Iraqi forces ordered Kurdish political parties to vacate their offices in Diyala province.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)
    Acquittal of ex-Marine sparks debate over law AP - Fri Aug 29, 6:15 PM ET

    SAN DIEGO - Some members of the civilian jury that acquitted a former Marine accused of war crimes in Iraq say they weren't qualified to judge actions in combat, and military and legal experts said the case raises serious questions about whether federal prosecutors should even pursue such cases.

  • Appeals Court upholds ruling in Azeri oil case Reuters - Fri Aug 29, 4:32 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday upheld a lower court's dismissal of government charges against a man accused of scheming with others to gain control of the state-run Azerbaijan oil company.

  • Body parts scheme ringleader pleads guilty in Pa. AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:32 PM ET

    PHILADELPHIA - A man who made millions of dollars by plundering hundreds of bodies sent to funeral homes and selling their often-diseased parts and tissues to medical companies pleaded guilty Friday to a raft of charges that could send him to prison for life.

  • Ohio jury convicts mom in microwaved-baby case AP - Fri Aug 29, 4:05 PM ET

    DAYTON, Ohio - A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.