Levees hold but waters rise in Dolly's rains (AP)

A man pedals his bicycle down a flooded street in Brownsville, Texas as Hurricane Dolly hits the area on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds.



House committee probes medically unfit truckers (AP)

In this May 9, 1999 file photo, emergency workers remove the body of one of the victims of a bus wreck in New Orleans. A chartered bus carrying members of a casino club on a Mother's Day gambling excursion crashed killing 22 people.  The National transportation Safety Board said the bus driver suffered life-threatening kidney and heart conditions but held a valid license and medical certificate.  Members of Congress are exploring safety recommendations aimed at keeping medically unfit commercial truck drivers off highways. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has called officials of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to a Thursday hearing to explain why the agency hasn't fully implemented recommendations made nearly seven years ago.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)AP - It's so easy to fabricate the medical certificates required to operate commercial trucks on the nation's highways that there's almost no incentive for truckers to obtain a legitimate document, according to a congressional study.



Obama in Europe in effort to burnish foreign cache (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, greets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Thursday, July 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin Thursday, kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.



Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law (AP)

AP - The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.
AP IMPACT: Fatal MRAP accidents prompt warnings (AP)

In this June 19, 2008 file photo, U.S. soldiers inspect a damaged mine-resistant, ambush-protected  vehicle (MRAP) following a roadside bomb explosion targeting an American patrol in Baghdad Thursday, June 19, 2008.  Two fatal MRAP rollovers and dozens of other accidents over the past eight months have heightened concerns among Pentagon leaders about how the MRAPs are operated, according to military documents and Associated Press research. .(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)AP - The towering trucks that give U.S. troops the best protection against roadside bombs and enemy bullets also make them vulnerable to routine hazards like sharp turns, rutted roads and rickety bridges.





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