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More ... Bush looks offshore for remedy to high oil prices By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ For a quarter-century, drilling for oil and gas off nearly all the American coastline has been banned in part to protect tourism and to lessen the chances of beach-blackening spills. Then gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon this summer. More ... Border agents find booby trap in remote desert By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press Writer EL PASO (AP) - U.S. Border Patrol agents have discovered a booby trap of thin wires stretched along a patrol road in a remote stretch of desert in southern New Mexico that could injure or kill border patrol officers. Saturday's discovery is the second wire trap found at the U.S.-Mexico border th... More ... Confederate group offers statue to Civil War Center By STEVE SZKOTAK Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Southern heritage group that opposed a statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the American Civil War Center is offering to donate a $100,000 statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis for the same site. More ... |
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