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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union has named a new executive director. Mike Dick will begin his duties as the union's executive director on Aug. 1. Dick has served as an associate director of the union for six years.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Nearly all the wildfires sparked by a lightning storm in California last month have been contained. State fire officials say 98% of the more than 2,000 fires ignited June 21 have been surrounded or extinguished. Only 27 are still burning.

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) - Some residents of flooded areas of South Texas are using backhoes to dig their own drainage canals, and clear water off their property. But the water is simply flowing into the neighbors' yards, and tempers among longtime neighbors are becoming strained.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Democrats have told Debra Bartoshevich she can forget about being a delegate to the national convention next month. Bartoshevich was elected by party activists as a pledged delegate for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California is joining the health crusade against artery-clogging trans fats. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Friday that will prohibit restaurants and other "food facilities" from using oil, margarine and shortening containing trans fats.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The two young daughters of a woman slain in North Carolina will remain with her parents in Canada but visit their father at least twice in coming months.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chief executive of Iraq contractor KBR has told Senator Bob Casey that the number of Americans who died from accidental electrocutions in Iraq may be higher than the 13 previously disclosed by the military.

NEW YORK (AP) - The number of households facing foreclosure more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago. California-based RealtyTrac says nearly 740,000 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice during the quarter.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is narrowing its warning to hot pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalapenos now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak - clearing the U.S. crop.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A Marine has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of a Camp Pendleton comrade who prosecutors say was killed in a dispute over stolen drug money.

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More than one month after the floods of 2008, questions still remain over what it will cost to rebuild. In fact, that may not be known for another two months or more.

North Liberty (KWWL) - RAGBRAI is resting for a 5th night in its trek across Iowa. Thursay morning, riders rode 76 miles from Tama-Toledo to North Liberty.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The Imperial Sugar Company faces stiff penalties for violations at two plants. Federal officials say Imperial Sugar should be fined more than $8.7 million for the violations at the plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion last February killed 13 people.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - An official at a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania says police shot and killed a man who had threatened the station.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Officially, it wasn't about impeaching President Bush. But that didn't matter to Bush critics who filled a committee room for a House hearing today.

PHOENIX (AP) - Phoenix police say a man suspected of shooting three people had lost a fistfight to 1 of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since.

NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press says its board of directors gave final approval yesterday to a revised rate structure that will lower by at least $14 million the fees paid by its newspaper members.

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) - "You don't want to wade in this water." That's what Texas' top health official says of the flooding left by Hurricane Dolly in the Rio Grande Valley.