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As many U.S. cities and states arrest illegal aliens in raids and toughen laws against them, a Connecticut city is offering to validate them under a new, first-in-the-nation ID-card program.
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NORFOLK (AP) — A converted oil tanker commissioned to serve the medical needs of the Navy is bound for the Caribbean and Central and South America, where the crew will provide medical care to 85,000 patients in 12 countries.
Through all attempts to cover his tracks secretive lingo, coded Internet chatter, a move from Pennsylvania to Texas Thomas Weigner was intently pursued by a vigilant group of animal-loving sleuths.

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. -- Larry Smack — Chief Medi- cine Cat— looks pleased, maybe just a bit anxious. The weatherman has called for a 20 percent chance of rain, but right now it's a beautiful spring morning on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and the 14th Annual Pow-Wow of the Assateague Peoples of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia is about to begin.