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Gators among those fleeing Fay's Florida deluge (AP)

National Guard troops search for residents in the Lamplighter Village neighborhood that need help from the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Fay in Melbourne, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - As if a fourth straight day of rain from Tropical Storm Fay wasn't enough, weary residents are now dealing with quintessentially Floridian fallout: alligators, snakes and other critters driven from their swampy lairs into flooded streets, backyards and doorsteps.


Student killed in shooting at Tenn. school (AP)

Police car stands near entrance to Central High School in Knoxville, Tenn., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 after a student was fatally shot in the school cafeteria. Another student was arrested minutes after the incident, which police say was not random. Their identities were not immediately released. ( AP Photo/Lisa Norman-Hudson)AP - A student fatally shot a 15-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, police said, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor.


Suspect holds authorities at bay in Md. motel (AP)
AP - A burglary suspect wanted in four states was holed up Thursday in a western Maryland motel with a woman police believed was his pregnant girlfriend, and doctors were standing by in case she went into labor, authorities said.
Texas man gets life for child sex club conviction (AP)
AP - A Texas jury has sentenced a 41-year-old auto body shop worker to life in prison after convicting him of grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club.
At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice (AP)

This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right,  is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. (AP Photo/Byrd Polar Research Center)AP - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.


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