This Nov. 12, 2009 photo shows peace activists protesting during a anti-war vigil at the Benton County Courthouse in Corvallis, Ore.

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A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war. 1258830788

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More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving

The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. 1258829269
EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. 1258833921
NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare

A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death. 1258825677
Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers

Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown. 1258828675
Report finds wide disparities in gifted education

When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school. 1258823403
AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony

Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced. 1258818782
Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman

The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II.
Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters

Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
Levin: could be more e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect

WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.