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Former Kenner Police Chief Nick Congemi Sr. has been named chief of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Police Department. The announcement was made today at a 10:30 a.m. news conference at the Causeway Commission's office in Metairie.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain will meet with the Dalai Lama at a private Aspen home tomorrow afternoon. News of the meeting first surfaced in Internet reports this morning and have since been confirmed by the McCain campaign.

Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks to Watch are: Planet Resource Recovery, Inc., Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), Intuitive Surgical Inc. and Wachovia Corp. (NYSE: WB).

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Convicted pedophile gets 7.5 years Saanich News • Jul-23-2008 A convicted pedophile looked very calm as he was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday.

Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: TechPrecision Corporation, Xerox company, Ecolab Inc and BMC Software.

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BERLIN (AP) -- Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago....

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air Force said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency's campaign security job....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged mental harm."...

PHOENIX (AP) -- A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby....

MIAMI (AP) -- The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- If you haven't heard of "Twilight," ask a teenager. The best-selling young-adult book isn't bound for the big screen until December, but fan frenzy for the film practically took over Comic-Con on Thursday....

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) -- Peyton Manning's voice resonated through the Colts training camp Thursday - from 90 miles away. The NFL's two-time MVP spent reporting day at home in Indianapolis, his valuable left knee immobilized after having surgery to remove an infected bursa sac....

The 10-fold expansion of a system to help threatened Iraqi employees obtain U.S. visas and ultimately citizenship comes after criticism over delays.

Many Europeans see Barack Obama’s candidacy as a sign of hope for a more flexible, less ideological America. Governments and politicians are not so sure.

The State Commission on Public Integrity brought no charges against the former governor but left open the possibility of action if more evidence emerges.

In Srebrenica, locals said they had little faith in a legal process undertaken by the United Nations tribunal 13 years after the hunt for Radovan Karadzic began.

If you think the housing bailout bill will benefit only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.

Some customers like the company’s responses to online criticism; others see an eerie version of“Big Brother.�

The city’s newspaper is rating restaurants for the first time since Hurricane Katrina shut down all of them.

An Israeli defense committee has approved the construction of 22 homes in a barely populated West Bank settlement, a move that angered Palestinians.

A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the center of New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico following the worst oil spill in the area in nearly a decade.

Britain’s ruling Labor Party lost a parliamentary seat in one of its traditional strongholds, a stinging electoral setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed.

The city’s newspaper is rating restaurants for the first time since Hurricane Katrina shut down all of them.

A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the center of New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico following the worst oil spill in the area in nearly a decade.

Many Europeans see Barack Obama’s candidacy as a sign of hope for a more flexible, less ideological America. Governments and politicians are not so sure.

The findings of an investigative committee suggest that questionable financial dealings identified at local Shrine temples may also plague the national organization.

The researchers hope the finding will be a step in developing reliable forecasts of geomagnetic storms.

A study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.

GlobalGiving, the online system through which garden-variety donors can give money to support international charitable projects, is going green.

California ordered the 2,000 big ships calling on its ports every year to switch to low-sulfur fuel whenever they were within 24 miles of the coast.

Democrats failed to force the Bush administration to tap the National Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices as Republicans stuck to their demands for a vote on an expansion of offshore drilling.

Documents reveal that when C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding and other techniques, they were required to keep records of each method used, its duration and the names of everyone present.

Roger L. Dillon, who masterminded what is believed to be one of the largest thefts in Ohio history, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Senator Barack Obama introduced himself as a leader who could summon other nations to join the United States in confronting the world’s next challenges.

John McCain is not having a spectacular week: he has spent as much time reacting to his opponent as pushing his own agenda.

The best of the pieces in this book about unequal opportunity in America are something quite different from journalism. They are small absurdist gems.

Former lawmakers were named to four of the six seats on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, a new independent panel that will review ethics complaints against House members.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it intended to ban the use of the pesticide carbofuran, citing its harmful effects on children and the environment.

Three members of a ballistic missile crew at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month.

The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins.

A company that hired a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke this spring after laboring in a Central Valley vineyard received the highest fine ever issued to a California farming operation.

Dr. Foster was a pathologist who helped establish genetically the long-alleged liaison between Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress Sally Hemings.

Mr. Bentley was the Dallas police detective who snapped the handcuffs on Lee Harvey Oswald 80 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

With his wife, Genevieve, Mr. Craig founded Jenny Craig Inc., the chain of weight-loss centers, which would eventually open more than 600 centers in four countries.

Dr. Wade helped put cities on the map as an academic subject and advised Democratic candidates including Adlai Stevenson, Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern.

Ms. Friede was the book editor who sent“Jonathan Livingston Seagull� on its nonstop flight to publishing glory in 1970

The ultimate reassurance about the national economy: If debt stopped Americans from consuming, the pain would go global.

The C.I.A. and its partner in Islamabad, the I.S.I., are trapped in a very complicated marriage.

At the American Enterprise Institute and elsewhere, policy cooks are trying to whip up new solutions for conservatives disaffected with the Republican Party.

Does The New Yorker’s cover really qualify as satire?

An American cartoon has Chinese moviegoers asking some tough questions.

Market chatter is one thing, malign rumor that distorts the market quite another.

Getting real about fuel efficiency; the disadvantages of an elite education; the latest doping controversy to ensnare the Tour de France; postcards are popular again.