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Florida Braces For Hurricane Charley

Kelly Hayes - Aug 12, 2004 / 4:17 pm | Story: 3361

Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida have been ordered to leave their homes as Hurricane Charley churns toward the Florida coast. Now a Category 2 hurricane, Charley is packing winds of close to 170 km/h. It's expected to strengthen and make landfall along Florida's west coast on Friday. Officials ordered as many as 800,000 people from Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys to leave coastal and low-lying areas as the storm approaches.
Explosions rocked the holy city of Najaf Thursday as thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers attacked about 1,000 militants supporting radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Three people have died of bird flu in Vietnam, state television reported on Thursday.
A jailed rapist's lottery windfall has the British government looking for ways to keep felons from reaping such rewards while behind bars. Iorworth Hoare, who is serving a life term for the most recent of a series of attacks on women, won the equivalent of about $17 million in Britain's national lottery.
California's Supreme Court nullified more than 4,000 same-sex marriages on Thursday, ruling that San Francisco exceeded its powers by issuing the licences this year.
New Jersey's governor, who is married with two children, announced his resignation, admitting that he had an extramarital affair with another man.