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Music festival plans to raise money for Thibodaux fire department

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A new country music event has been set to help raise money for the Thibodaux Volunteer Fire Department. The Flames on the Bayou Music Festival is scheduled for 1 p.m. Oct....

FILE - In this Thursday, March 15, 2012 file photo provided by Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner salutes as he prepares to board a capsule carried by a balloon during the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, N.M. On Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 over New Mexico, Baumgartner will attempt to jump higher and faster in a free fall than anyone ever before and become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier. (AP Photo/Red Bull Stratos, Joerg Mitter)

Florida skydiver aims to break sound barrier in free fall of 23 miles

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — His blood could boil. His lungs could overinflate. The vessels in his brain could burst. His eyes could hemorrhage. And, yes, he could break his neck while jumping from...

Deadline nears on judge’s Pennsylvania voter ID law ruling, could affect election

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A court-imposed Tuesday deadline is looming for a judge to decide whether Pennsylvania’s tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification can remain intact,...

In this 2009 photo provided by the California State Parks, the California State Mining and Mineral Museum is shown in Mariposa, Calif. Authorities say thieves made off with an estimated $2 million in gold and precious gems during the armed robbery of a state mineral and mining museum Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 in the Central Valley. (AP Photo/California State Parks, John Palmer)

$2 million in precious gems, gold stolen from California museum

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) — California investigators searched Monday for thieves who made off with an estimated $2 million in precious gems and gold from a Central Valley museum during a brazen daytime...

Officials offer rare peek of ancient frescoes in restoration project

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

During a visit on Monday, a restorer in blue rubber gloves stood on a metal scaffold and took s a small paint brush to the dark clothing of a Byzantine Madonna on the walk of the church experts refer to...

North Korean peninsula a spark away from setting off a nuclear war

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, saying its “hostile” policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war. Vice...

A group of protestors holds placards as a large crowd followed retired judge Ian Farlam and his team as they inspected the area where the bodies of mine workers were found after the shootings at Lonmin's platinum mine in Marikana near Rustenburg, South Africa, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Farlam, is conducting an inquiry into the shootings at the platinum mine. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa starts investigating mine violence that led to several killed

By The Associated Press October 1, 2012

MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — A judicial panel on Monday investigated the rocky site where South African police killed 34 striking miners in August. Crime experts showed the commission of inquiry...

In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 photo provided by Advanced Arm Dynamics, amateur rodeo roper Barry Landry, right, works with his new bionic hand and listens to prosthetist Ron Dodson, in Irving, Texas. Landry doesn’t know yet if the new hand will let him return to left-handed calf-roping, but says it can already do something the previous model couldn’t: hold a plate without tipping up. (AP Photo/Advanced Arm Dynamics, Bob Stovall)

Amateur Lafayette rodeo roper utilizes bionic hand after accident

By The Associated Press September 30, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Barry Landry taught himself to rope cattle right-handed after a factory machine crushed his left hand. The amateur rodeo cowboy couldn’t dismount and tie up calves fast enough...

Police: Teacher charged with making bomb threats in Ouachita Parish

By The Associated Press September 30, 2012

MONROE (AP) — A teacher at a private school has been arrested on suspicion of calling in a bomb threat at three private schools in Ouachita Parish, according to sheriff’s deputies. The News-Star...

3.4 magnitude earthquake rattles Dallas suburb, no serious damages

By The Associated Press September 30, 2012

DALLAS (AP) — An earthquake followed by an aftershock rattled a suburb west of Dallas overnight, cracking some walls and knocking down pictures, but authorities reported no serious damage and the...

Bonnie and Clyde guns sell for $504K at New Hampshire auction

By The Associated Press September 30, 2012

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Two guns once in the possession of notorious gangsters Bonnie and Clyde when they were killed in a hail of gunfire sold at a New Hampshire auction Sunday for more than half a...

FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 19, 2011 photo, headstones marking the graves of pets are spread throughout the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, N.Y., the first burial ground for animals named to the National Register of Historic Places. The 116-year-old Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, final home to some 75,000 animals and a few hundred humans, is being designated for its "social history and landscape architecture." (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Pet cemetery in N.Y. added to the National Register of Historic Places

By The Associated Press September 30, 2012

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Another cemetery has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, but this one’s a little different. It has dogs and cats and iguanas and a lion cub. The...