In the News; May 23, 2008

It's tornado season and the people in Colorado can tell you all about it. A massive tornado tore into the northern Colorado town of Windsor killing one person and damaging many homes and businesses.

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Is there no end? The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight says that home prices fell 3.1 percent in the first quarter compared with last year. This home-price index is considered by many to be the most comprehensive reading of the U.S. market. They said that this is the sharpest decline in its 17-year history. Analysts say housing has yet to bottom out.
Rapidly falling home prices in California, Florida and Nevada skewed the national results.
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A mother from Jacksonville, Fl was sentenced to 20 years in prison for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her home. The teen weighed 49 pounds when child welfare workers found him in 2005 in what appeared to be a cage. Two other adopted children, both testified they were kept in similar cages.
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John McCain appears cancer-free. The three-time melanoma survivor , has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press.
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The beach at Caladesi Island State Park in Florida has been named the best beach according to the 2008 ranking for an annual list made by a Florida International University professor dubbed "Dr. Beach,".