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The City of Miami says it plans to give $150,000 to a civilian patrol group known as the Peacemakers, to be run by the Progressive Land Development International, an organization that shares a mailing address with the Nation of Islam in Miami. ... While the Peacemakers say they are not officially affiliated with the Nation of Islam, the group is headed by Rasul Muhammad, a prominent Nation of Islam member and the son of former leader Elijah Muhammad, and its corporate offices are at the group's Miami mosque

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 09:18 P.M. Pacific Rossi inches toward victory in governor's race By Ralph Thomas and Keith Ervin Seattle Times staff reporters OLYMPIA — Republican Dino Rossi today inched closer to becoming Washington's next governor after another tally of absentee ballots increased his lead over Democratic Attorney General Christine Gregoire. But with an estimated 85,000 ballots still left to count — including a big stack of provisional ballots in King County — Gregoire could still retake the lead. While elections officials continue to tally the votes, the state's political parties are going to great lengths to get their...

Nov. 6 (UPI) -- "I hope to have God on my side. But I must have Kentucky," Abraham Lincoln said at the start of the Civil War. President George W. Bush now believes he has both. The Republican Party's decisive gubernatorial election victories in Mississippi and Kentucky Tuesday underlined the uphill struggle facing the pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls led by former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont and retired Gen. Wesley Clark. The president's support is looking dangerously soft in the polls. A Zogby America poll published this week gave his approval rating of "excellent" or "good" at only 48...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - A 48-year-old man was rescued from the brink of Niagara Falls after spending two hours on a cliff, knee-deep in icy water. "Hold me! Don't let me go!" he cried out to rescuers during his ordeal Wednesday. The man, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital suffering from severe hypothermia, and was in stable condition Thursday. The man jumped or fell off Goat Island, sliding down an icy slope on the small island on the American side of the falls. He ended up 20 feet from shore and five feet from the...