Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice and her
Polish counterpart signed a deal
Wednesday to build a U.S. missile
defense base in Poland, an agreement
that prompted an infuriated Russia
to warn of a possible attack against
the former Soviet satellite.
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Rice signs missile
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August 18, 2008
Hundreds evacuated
near the Grand Canyon after flooding
Working through
the challenge of darkness, rescue
helicopters continued through Sunday
night to evacuate hundreds of
residents and campers stranded by
the flooding caused by a breached
dam near the Grand Canyon.
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August 14, 2008
Arkansas
Democratic chairman dies after shooting
A man barged
into the Arkansas Democratic
headquarters Wednesday and fatally
shot the state party chairman before
speeding off in his pickup. Police
later shot and killed the suspect
after a 30-mile chase.
Police identified the suspect as Timothy Dale Johnson, 50, of Searcy, about 50 miles northeast of Little Rock. They didn't know a motive. However, moments after the shooting, Johnson pointed a handgun at a worker at the nearby Arkansas Baptist headquarters. An official there said he told the worker, "I lost my job." Read more