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An umbrella group linked to al-Qaida in Iraq claimed Monday that it had kidnapped two American soldiers reported missing south of Baghdad, where 8,000 Iraqi and U.S. troops were conducting a massive search. The group, called the Mujahedeen Shura Council, also claimed it had kidnapped four Russian diplomats and killed a fifth in Baghdad on June 3. The Mujahedeen Shura Council is a grouping of several insurgent forces, including al-Qaida in Iraq. Former insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi helped create the council in January, apparently to give an Iraqi face to his movement, made up mainly of foreign fighters.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13380881/Torrential rainfall shut down highways in the Houston area Monday and caused widespread flooding in southwest Louisiana, where more than 100 patients had to be evacuated from a nursing home. National Guard troops, trucks and helicopters - along with swift-water teams - were being sent to help rescue people from flood-washed Houston.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13418885/Videotape shows a 10-year-old boy being repeatedly punched by two others on a school bus while the driver continued her route without stopping, the child's father said Monday. The videotape from a camera on the bus shows two boys taunting and teasing Chester Gala on their way home from New Baltimore Middle School, 30 miles north of Detroit, earlier this month. The tape was shown Monday on NBC's "Today."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=t&refer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_School_Bus_Beating.html'Star Trek' Fans, Deprived of a Show, Recreate the Franchise on Digital Video.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/arts/television/18trek.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1150736430-Gn+j1DvxWD/OP0dlzytGugScreech from "Saved by the Bell" is hoping T-shirts will help him save his house. Dustin Diamond, who played Screech, is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise 250-thousand dollars so he doesn't lose his home which is under a foreclosure order. Say what?
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=37160That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A Manchester man faces charges after taking an unattended street sweeper out for a joy ride. The sweeper was being used in a downtown Manchester parking garage on Saturday and the operator had left the machine temporarily. That's when police say Michael Moran, 26, hopped on and started it up. Moran traveled several blocks before he was caught by people chasing him. Police have charged him with taking the sweeper without the owner's permission and drunken driving.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JOY_RIDE?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.htmlAh, so now we can add street sweepers to the list of things that do not mix well with alcohol.
-- Carey Fox
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North Korea has finished loading fuel into a long-range ballistic missile, a Bush administration official said Monday as signs continued that the reclusive communist state will soon test a weapon that could reach the United States.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13361343/The prosecutor asked for the death penalty for Saddam Hussein and two of his co-defendants, saying in closing arguments Monday that the former Iraqi leader and his regime committed crimes against humanity in a "revenge" attack on Shiite civilians in the 1980s.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13411271/War on Schoolgirls. Unable to win on the battlefield, the Taliban are fighting to prevent half the country's children from getting an education.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13392086/site/newsweek/A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes and businesses spread to 3,000 acres early Monday in and around northern Arizona's scenic Oak Creek Canyon.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13414006/Mike Slabaugh doesn't have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins. Growing up, they watched helplessly as a rare hereditary stomach cancer killed their grandmother and some of their parents, aunts and uncles. All the cousins chose the life-changing operation. Doctors say they're the largest family to have preventive surgery to protect themselves from hereditary stomach cancer. "We're not only surviving, we're thriving," said Slabaugh 16 months after his operation at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto. It does mean a challenging life of eating very little, very often. Advances in genetic testing are increasingly giving families with bad genes a chance to see the future, sometimes with the hope of pre-emptive action. People have had stomachs, breasts, ovaries, colons or thyroid glands removed when genetic tests showed they carried a defective gene that gave them a high risk of cancer.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13302109/Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be cited for not wearing a helmet and not having a motorcycle license after an accident last week left him with a concussion, broken jaw and nose.
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