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Play Video AP Worker dead in Disney World monorail collision ORLANDO, Fla. Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World , killing one train's operator, emergency officials said.

But religious authorities in Muslim but secular Turkey are not amused by the twist on the popular reality game show format and the Religious Affairs Directorate is refusing to provide an imam for the show.

If you ask Mark Pastore of La Frieda Meats , a Manhattan-based meat purveyor, you should never prepare your steak well-done. That's like squeezing all the goodness out of the animal .

AP In this Saturday, June 6, 2009 photo, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin listens during a tour of the Seward House 39 mins ago WASILLA, Alaska Alaska Gov.

Greater Vision Ministries Pastor Rick Ethridge, is making room for more fans. "Something simple but it means a whole lot to someone in need," said Ethridge.

Clearing congestion from city streets is one goal of building a bypass around Paragould.

He was 50. Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning.

Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because we've heard from so many people who want to know more about PETA's position on "Flygate," we've decided to explore the question of "to bee or not to bee" in a bit more depth.

As we all know, human beings often don't think before they act. We don't condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn't the Buddha and shouldn't be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It's the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of "uninvited guests."

We have lots of other items on our agenda, as you can imagine, and PETA's focus will remain on our core issues—promoting alternatives to eating animals, opposing fur and products made from animal skin, opposing laboratories that torment animals, and fighting the abuse of animals in circus training camps as well as other overt abuses that fall within our mission statement, which states that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.

We support compassion for all animals, even the most curious, smallest, and least sympathetic ones. We hope that everyone will take inspiration from Nobel Peace Prize–winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who believed that even insects were deserving of compassion and who would stop to move a worm from hot pavement to cool earth. Aware of the problems and responsibilities that go along with an expanded ethical code, Schweitzer said that we each must "live daily from judgment to judgment, deciding each case as it arises, as wisely and mercifully as we can."

We can't stop all suffering, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't stop any. Our wish is for all people to act wisely and mercifully toward animals.

Arkansas State Police and Paragould Police say the suspect in a weekend rape is now on life support after trying to take his life.

Paragould jumped out to a 4-0 lead on just one hit in the third inning and took it from there, dispatching Mountain Home Hopper Environmental Services 9-6 Tuesday in American Legion Zone 2 play at Cooper Park.

Paragould Police continue to investigate a report of a man abducting a woman and raping her early Sunday morning.

The high court agreed to hear an Obama administration appeal seeking to reinstate a 2006 law providing for the continued detention of "sexually dangerous" convicted federal inmates who have served their prison terms.

"The decades-long effort to protect our children from the harmful effects of tobacco has emerged victorious," Obama said at a signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden .

Few people have destroyed the world more than Roland Emmerich . In his mega-hit " Independence Day ," aliens laid waste to pretty much every metropolitan center on the planet, and in his eco-thriller " The Day After Tomorrow ," much of the northern hemisphere finds itself buried under ice.

AP This undated photo provided Friday, June 19, 2009 by family friend Carole Lynch shows Colby Curtin.

The soldiers of the Arkansas Army National Guard's 875th Engineer Battalion have been advised to prepare for a possible mobilization in support of operations overseas.

"We can not sit down and wait to act when, and if, an alert is actually published," Maj.

Reuters A photographer takes pictures of Russia's Maria Sharapova as she poses at a Liberty boutique promoting Thu Jun 18, 12:00 pm ET LONDON Former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova presented a prototype dress to reporters that is designed to light up when the wearer's mobile telephone rings .

The company said the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that might be related to the ingestion of raw cookie dough .