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The White House is pushing back against claims from a new tell-all book that staff kept an extravagant, Hollywood-created Halloween Party under wraps due to fear it would create imaging problems.

Talk about a wild night near Seguin. A cow came flying out of its trailer, sent DPS and police scrambling, and left two police cars going up in flames. "It was almost hard to believe," said Detective Sergeant Maureen Watson. She has been in law enforcement for 15 years, and says she "never had a day like this. I mean the best way to characterize this it, is it's bizarre. It's really really strange." It's strange because it started out with a truck towing cattle, and ended in fire. Watson told News 4 WOAI, "We believe the gate of the...

Magnitude 5.0 - OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 2005 June 19 09:27:19 UTC Preliminary Earthquake Report U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center World Data Center for Seismology, Denver A moderate earthquake occurred at 09:27:19 (UTC) on Sunday, June 19, 2005. The magnitude 5.0 event has been located OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 5.0 Date-Time Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 09:27:19 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 1:27:19 AM = local time at epicenter Location 40.320°N, 126.538°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location...

Street racer ploughs into crowdBy Josh Massoud and Gemma Jones February 07, 2005 Busted ... police subdue a suspect. Picture: Bill Hearne An angry mob of drag racers turned on police after an illegal street racer careered into a crowd of spectators in Sydney last night. Up to 30 people lay injured on the road and footpath as punches were thrown and officers shoved. Dozens of police raced to the scene in South Strathfield to help bring the 50-strong crowd under control. One of the first officers to arrive at the scene radioed for urgent back up, telling the radio...

<p>WASHINGTON — CBS arranged for a confidential source to talk with Joe Lockhart, a top aide to John Kerry, after the source provided the network with the now-disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard.</p> <p>John Kerry aide Joe Lockhart chatted with a former Texas National Guard officer, whose number CBS provided.</p>