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WASHINGTON – The House approved $2 million Wednesday for salmon fishermen suffering from a sharply curtailed fishing season because the government is more tightly limiting their catch. The money is a fraction of the $81 million West Coast lawmakers want. But frustrated over the Bush administration’s failure to declare a …

NEW YORK – Two days after arriving at ground zero to clear debris from the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center, David Miller could feel the physical effects. “I was practically blind, I was coughing, I had blisters all up and down my arms,” the National Guardsman said Sunday …

ROANOKE, Va. – Jurors who awarded $2 million to a couple whose 4-year-old son was run over and killed by a riding lawn mower said they wanted to send a message to the industry. Justin Simmons was killed in April 2004 in Daleville, north of Roanoke, when a mower operated …