Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2751 Most Emailed - U.S. en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:08:56 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2751 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather_fay ap/20080821/tropical_weather_fay AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:08:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather_fay"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.3124cb4edb204a07816d6a8dea0c088c.tropical_weather_fay_fljc106.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=DwVye7gGCw7CoG2.z6TjGQ--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="A resident walks knee-deep in floodwaters on his way home, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 in Merritt Island, Fla. For a fourth weary day, Tropical Storm Fay continued its soggy march through Florida Thursday, forcing dozens more residents to flee floodwaters. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - For a fourth weary day, Tropical Storm Fay continued its soggy march through Florida Thursday, forcing dozens more residents to flee floodwaters and even driving alligators and snakes out of their habitats and into streets.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather_fay"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.3124cb4edb204a07816d6a8dea0c088c.tropical_weather_fay_fljc106.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=DwVye7gGCw7CoG2.z6TjGQ--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="A resident walks knee-deep in floodwaters on his way home, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 in Merritt Island, Fla. For a fourth weary day, Tropical Storm Fay continued its soggy march through Florida Thursday, forcing dozens more residents to flee floodwaters. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tennessee_school_shooting ap/20080821/tennessee_school_shooting AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:16:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tennessee_school_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.10ffbfd7cbc845db8e8be5c8e86b75bb.tennessee_school_shooting_tnlh101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=36cPtulSsv1UHeVFa5Gciw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>AP - A student fatally shot a 15-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tennessee_school_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.10ffbfd7cbc845db8e8be5c8e86b75bb.tennessee_school_shooting_tnlh101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=36cPtulSsv1UHeVFa5Gciw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="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)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/bigfoot_claim ap/20080820/bigfoot_claim AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:22:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/bigfoot_claim"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080815/capt.03361195e2c8418db9ef35a37f5a1b84.bigfoot_claim_cabm105.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=8dXucsGsXxzSk5h9HXWPPg--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi holds a photo of what he claims to be the mouth and teeth of a deceased bigfoot or sasquatch creature during a news conference Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)" border="0" /></a>AP - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/bigfoot_claim"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080815/capt.03361195e2c8418db9ef35a37f5a1b84.bigfoot_claim_cabm105.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=8dXucsGsXxzSk5h9HXWPPg--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi holds a photo of what he claims to be the mouth and teeth of a deceased bigfoot or sasquatch creature during a news conference Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/bishop_immigration_raids ap/20080821/bishop_immigration_raids AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:30:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/bishop_immigration_raids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.3f700e557dff4471ab2c48744999dfa6.bishop_immigration_raids_rism102.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=Ja6pBpGLaVBOQgX0JQ9jOA--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, photographed in his office in Providence, R.I, has called on U.S. immigration authorities in a letter to stop arresting illegal immigrants in mass sweeps in Rhode Island, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is calling on U.S. authorities to halt mass immigration raids and says agents who refuse to participate in such raids on moral grounds deserve to be treated as conscientious objectors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/bishop_immigration_raids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.3f700e557dff4471ab2c48744999dfa6.bishop_immigration_raids_rism102.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=Ja6pBpGLaVBOQgX0JQ9jOA--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, photographed in his office in Providence, R.I, has called on U.S. immigration authorities in a letter to stop arresting illegal immigrants in mass sweeps in Rhode Island, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/trapped_in_georgia ap/20080821/trapped_in_georgia AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:56:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/trapped_in_georgia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.e0e7356aa5cc44fab78c8cd14ef22f38.trapped_in_georgia_ny119.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=Vh1_sGqakgcpxZwkZHu7dg--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="In a handout photo released by Congressman Chris Smith's office, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, Joseph Evans; left, of Mount Laurel, N.J., is seen in Tbilisi, Georgia Thursday after being reunited with his daughters; he is holding 3-year old Sophia Evans; and Ashley Evans, 7, is seen at bottom left; with U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey. The two girls were trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Milosch via U.S. Rep. Smith's office)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two little girls from New Jersey were reunited with their father Thursday and could be returning home within a few days after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/trapped_in_georgia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.e0e7356aa5cc44fab78c8cd14ef22f38.trapped_in_georgia_ny119.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=Vh1_sGqakgcpxZwkZHu7dg--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="photo" title="In a handout photo released by Congressman Chris Smith's office, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, Joseph Evans; left, of Mount Laurel, N.J., is seen in Tbilisi, Georgia Thursday after being reunited with his daughters; he is holding 3-year old Sophia Evans; and Ashley Evans, 7, is seen at bottom left; with U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey. The two girls were trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Milosch via U.S. Rep. Smith's office)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/pilot_watch_list ap/20080820/pilot_watch_list AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:46:20 GMT AP - A commercial airline pilot and convert to Islam who says his name is on the U.S. government's secret terrorist watch list has fought back, filing a federal lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department and various other federal agencies. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/thriving_amish ap/20080820/thriving_amish AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:07:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/thriving_amish"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.8f2cc96a9e5647f98a967f6527136fcd.addition_thriving_amish_kyer102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=hJ3.CN7rJ9ebIZ_RZbt3vg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="* ADDS KENTUCKY POPULATION FIGURES ** A group of Amish women and children pass the opening of an underpass as they make their way home along a winding road near English, Ky., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years. Kentucky's Amish population jumped 200 percent, from 2,835 to 8,505, over the past 16 years..(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/thriving_amish"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.8f2cc96a9e5647f98a967f6527136fcd.addition_thriving_amish_kyer102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=hJ3.CN7rJ9ebIZ_RZbt3vg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="* ADDS KENTUCKY POPULATION FIGURES ** A group of Amish women and children pass the opening of an underpass as they make their way home along a winding road near English, Ky., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years. Kentucky's Amish population jumped 200 percent, from 2,835 to 8,505, over the past 16 years..(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/us_nm/fat_cells_dc nm/20080820/fat_cells_dc Reuters Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:07:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/us_nm/fat_cells_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t155323_450x293_us_fat_cells.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=HiYEXqRvr3xnr.a38J1Vlg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A woman walks along a boardwalk in New York September 4, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A new understanding of the origins of brown fat cells -- the "good" kind of fat that burns energy and keeps us warm -- may lead to new treatments for obesity, two research teams reported on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/us_nm/fat_cells_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t155323_450x293_us_fat_cells.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=HiYEXqRvr3xnr.a38J1Vlg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman walks along a boardwalk in New York September 4, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/muscular_dystrophy_drug_lawsuit ap/20080820/muscular_dystrophy_drug_lawsuit AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:59:24 GMT AP - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/canyon_flood_impact ap/20080821/canyon_flood_impact AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:00:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/canyon_flood_impact"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080818/capt.d1d5d6ca00664893a49cd23bb4066885.grand_canyon_flooding_azmy105.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=K40bGM3ZMT.xhMESxBitrg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A Hualapai tribal police officer checks names of tourist who were making their way out of the Grand Canyon coming from Supai, Ariz. Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 in Peach Springs, Ariz. Flooding along the western end of the Grand Canyon after heavy weekend rains caused flooding near Havasu Falls, a side canyon of the Grand Canyon. (AP Photo/Matt York)" border="0" /></a>AP - It may be four weeks until tourists can return to stare as towering waterfalls cascade into blue-green pools near an American Indian village in a canyon miles west of Grand Canyon National Park headquarters.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/canyon_flood_impact"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080818/capt.d1d5d6ca00664893a49cd23bb4066885.grand_canyon_flooding_azmy105.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=K40bGM3ZMT.xhMESxBitrg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Hualapai tribal police officer checks names of tourist who were making their way out of the Grand Canyon coming from Supai, Ariz. Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 in Peach Springs, Ariz. Flooding along the western end of the Grand Canyon after heavy weekend rains caused flooding near Havasu Falls, a side canyon of the Grand Canyon. (AP Photo/Matt York)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/missing_florida_girl ap/20080821/missing_florida_girl AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/missing_florida_girl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.ed269c922f6b419fbb58b3203f12d0c0.missing_florida_girl_flrm103.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=TJ_H4xBXZitUWKT7jqC9uA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="Casey Anthonymother of missing toddler Caylee, is escorted from the Orange County Florida jail by her attorney Jose Baez,right, after posting a $500,000 bond in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)" border="0" /></a>AP - The mother of a missing toddler was released from jail on $500,000 bail Thursday and returned to her parents' home, where authorities will monitor her with an electronic ankle device.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/missing_florida_girl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.ed269c922f6b419fbb58b3203f12d0c0.missing_florida_girl_flrm103.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=TJ_H4xBXZitUWKT7jqC9uA--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="photo" title="Casey Anthonymother of missing toddler Caylee, is escorted from the Orange County Florida jail by her attorney Jose Baez,right, after posting a $500,000 bond in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/voting_machines ap/20080821/voting_machines AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/voting_machines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.82136dcde1344f0c9ede2b0e8430373b.election_junk__ny108.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=12KV3aJpZScqGrT2Z3cIkA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo, a message is posted on a Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machine in San Francisco. Beginning last year, states including California, Ohio and Florida abruptly ordered election officials to mothball their electronic machines. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - The maker of the most widely used touch-screen voting machine in Ohio has acknowledged the machines have a programming error that led to votes being dropped in the March primary.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/voting_machines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.82136dcde1344f0c9ede2b0e8430373b.election_junk__ny108.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=12KV3aJpZScqGrT2Z3cIkA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo, a message is posted on a Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machine in San Francisco. Beginning last year, states including California, Ohio and Florida abruptly ordered election officials to mothball their electronic machines. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080818/ap_on_re_us/west_texas_oil_boom ap/20080818/west_texas_oil_boom AP Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:16:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080818/ap_on_re_us/west_texas_oil_boom"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080818/capt.90830f60e6034c43851d33893947f78c.texas_oil_gfx540.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=Ghcpjt2wGwUdwm86n1ltWg--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="Graphic shows a selection of Permian Basin cities in West Texas and the annual sales taxes;" border="0" /></a>AP - Around the country, Americans are tightening their belts, scrapping vacation plans, eating more dinners at home, getting rid of their SUVs and watching "For Sale" signs linger on front lawns. But in oil-and-gas rich West Texas, folks are living large — again.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080818/ap_on_re_us/west_texas_oil_boom"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080818/capt.90830f60e6034c43851d33893947f78c.texas_oil_gfx540.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=Ghcpjt2wGwUdwm86n1ltWg--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="photo" title="Graphic shows a selection of Permian Basin cities in West Texas and the annual sales taxes;" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/us_nm/usa_schools_punishment_dc nm/20080820/usa_schools_punishment_dc Reuters Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:53:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/us_nm/usa_schools_punishment_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t011024_450x306_us_usa_schools_punishment.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=E3Wk1ZVJKrPuFIEAvu9sqA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Teacher Darcy McKinnon teaches math to her seventh grade class at Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans February 22, 2006. (Lee Celano/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More than 200,000 children were hit as punishment in U.S. schools last year and in the South more blacks than whites are struck, two human rights groups said in a report released on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/us_nm/usa_schools_punishment_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t011024_450x306_us_usa_schools_punishment.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=E3Wk1ZVJKrPuFIEAvu9sqA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Teacher Darcy McKinnon teaches math to her seventh grade class at Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans February 22, 2006. (Lee Celano/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/beach_bluff_collapse ap/20080821/beach_bluff_collapse AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:28:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/beach_bluff_collapse"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.c38a364e6e6043b39706dfecbdf24670.beach_bluff_collapse_cadp104.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=MR2QaCFg8XOuSi6C_ZEYVg--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="California State Park lifeguard Ed Vodrazka, left, and San Diego Fire's Maurice Luque, center, return a backpack dug from the rubble to a relative, right, of a man killed in a bluff collapse at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)" border="0" /></a>AP - A tourist from Nevada was killed Wednesday when a stretch of oceanside bluff at the Torrey Pines State Beach collapses, authorities said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/beach_bluff_collapse"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.c38a364e6e6043b39706dfecbdf24670.beach_bluff_collapse_cadp104.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=MR2QaCFg8XOuSi6C_ZEYVg--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="photo" title="California State Park lifeguard Ed Vodrazka, left, and San Diego Fire's Maurice Luque, center, return a backpack dug from the rubble to a relative, right, of a man killed in a bluff collapse at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/chicago_new_dynasties ap/20080821/chicago_new_dynasties AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:03:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/chicago_new_dynasties"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.a84564783dda454a9005025bdf837891.chicago_nepotism_race_cx404.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=0zr6v0jsroFwe42hBzwBig--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="This Jan. 8, 2003 file photo shows Illinois Sen. Emil Jones, D-Chicago, left, smiling after being sworn in as Illinois Senate President while his son Emil Jones III, right, watches at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. On Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, Jones announced that he would not seek re-election and made it clear prefers that his son, Emil Jones III, to take his seat. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - In a city where the mayor holds the same job his father once did, politics can seem little different from the years of the legendary Democratic Machine. But the faces of political privilege — long dominated by white ethnic groups — have changed as powerful black politicians use their clout to build new dynasties.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/chicago_new_dynasties"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.a84564783dda454a9005025bdf837891.chicago_nepotism_race_cx404.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=0zr6v0jsroFwe42hBzwBig--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="photo" title="This Jan. 8, 2003 file photo shows Illinois Sen. Emil Jones, D-Chicago, left, smiling after being sworn in as Illinois Senate President while his son Emil Jones III, right, watches at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. On Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, Jones announced that he would not seek re-election and made it clear prefers that his son, Emil Jones III, to take his seat. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/us_nm/tobacco_media_dc nm/20080821/tobacco_media_dc Reuters Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:26:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/us_nm/tobacco_media_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080821/2008_08_21t134528_450x299_us_tobacco_media.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Gs6lv2lWbK9pEypskekmfQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A model smokes backstage before the start of the Jenni Kayne fall fashion show during New York Fashion Week February 7, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/us_nm/tobacco_media_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080821/2008_08_21t134528_450x299_us_tobacco_media.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Gs6lv2lWbK9pEypskekmfQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A model smokes backstage before the start of the Jenni Kayne fall fashion show during New York Fashion Week February 7, 2007. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/birthday_robbery ap/20080821/birthday_robbery AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:01:07 GMT AP - Police in Wisconsin say a woman celebrated her birthday by helping her teenage son rob two gas stations. Officers in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield say the 37-year-old woman acted as the getaway driver while her 17-year-old son robbed the stations at gunpoint. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/tests_cash_rewards ap/20080821/tests_cash_rewards AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:42 GMT AP - A privately funded initiative that pays students in some New York City high schools up to $1,000 for passing Advanced Placement tests is not making the grade, critics say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/study_abroad_china ap/20080821/study_abroad_china AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:59:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/study_abroad_china"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.4ce2ec2ca16e4ad089e9dd68595c1a5e.china_study_abroad_cajc103.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=lJpPR5nNGKKHaQvBygROsA--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="Melissa Sconyers, who studied abroad in China, is photographed in front of the Chinese flag in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. China is hoping that American college students watching the Summer Olympics will want to travel there, providing a bump similar to what Australia and Greece enjoyed in 2000 and 2004. China is the seventh most popular destination for U.S. students, according to the Institute of International Education. But it's growing so quickly that, if trends continue, it will soon pass countries like Britain, Spain and Italy and become the most popular. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP — China is hoping that American college students watching the Summer Olympics will want to travel there, providing a bump similar to what Australia and Greece enjoyed in 2000 and 2004.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_re_us/study_abroad_china"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.4ce2ec2ca16e4ad089e9dd68595c1a5e.china_study_abroad_cajc103.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=lJpPR5nNGKKHaQvBygROsA--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="photo" title="Melissa Sconyers, who studied abroad in China, is photographed in front of the Chinese flag in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. China is hoping that American college students watching the Summer Olympics will want to travel there, providing a bump similar to what Australia and Greece enjoyed in 2000 and 2004. China is the seventh most popular destination for U.S. students, according to the Institute of International Education. But it's growing so quickly that, if trends continue, it will soon pass countries like Britain, Spain and Italy and become the most popular. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)