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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) -- Greg Melville's neighbors in Vermont looked at him like he was crazy 2Â½ years ago when he drove what he refers to as his "vegetable vehicle." It's a car that runs on vegetable oil instead of gasoline.

Greg Melville converted a 1985 diesel station wagon to run on vegetable oil when his family needed another car.

Back then, gasoline cost about $2.20 per gallon. Now that the cost of gas is nearly twice that, many Americans are starting to think that converting to a vehicle that runs on vegetable oil isn't such a bad idea.

Melville, who now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, says the decision to convert a 1985 diesel station wagon to run on vegetable oil came about when his wife was in medical school and the couple needed a second vehicle.

"We did some research and found out that the old Mercedes engines were very easy to convert, just because they are practically indestructible," Melville explained.

After he found a good deal online, the couple purchased the car and found a conversion kit from a company in Massachusetts called Grease Car. The Melvilles then took the car and kit to an expert installer in their area and in no time, they were driving around -- with free fuel.

The kit and installation cost about $1,000 each, and Melville says it took about 1Â½ years to recoup that cost.

"We're kind of playing with house money, because we're driving on free gas, and it's paid for itself many times over," he said.

Melville, who is a writer, has driven the gas-free vehicle more than 60,000 miles, including two cross-country trips he's written about in an upcoming book.  Veggie car makes a cross-country road trip Â»

The converted car was outfitted with a 15-gallon tank. Melville says it gets about 20 miles per gallon, the same fuel economy it would have gotten with the original diesel system. But according to a recent editorial he wrote for The New York Times, Melville says his carbon footprint is cut in half while driving the car fueled by vegetable oil.

But all is not golden -- or green, as the case may be -- in this veggie tale.

Melville admits that there are a few downsides to having a vegetable-oil powered vehicle. The process of collecting and filtering the grease can be time-consuming and a bit messy.

He's made arrangements to get most of his waste oil from local restaurants, and each week, his suppliers leave him five-gallon drums that he must pick up. But when he travels long distances, he has to find new restaurants on the road that are willing to give him their used grease.

Once Melville gets the grease, he pours it into a large gas can that's been painted black. The dark color helps absorb the sun's rays, which heat the oil inside. The process helps thin the grease and makes it easier to filter bits of onion rings and other fried foods.  "[It's] not always the cleanest thing. I've spilled it all over me a couple times," Melville said.

Another side effect of using vegetable oil is the smell. The undeniable aroma of french fries and other deep-fried foods wafts up frequently from the exhaust. Depending on a person's palate, the aromatherapy could be a deal-breaker or a fringe benefit.

Still, Melville says he would recommend a vegetable vehicle to anyone -- with the following caution:

"Make sure you have a supplier lined up, because suppliers are becoming harder to find."

Even though many Americans love to eat fried food, there's not enough leftover oil to power all of the cars in the United States. The vegetable-oil powered cars have become so popular, there have been reports of cooking oil thefts from eating establishments across the country and talk of restaurants charging for the leftover oil.

For now, Melville isn't concerned.

"My hope is ... by the time that happens, some other alternative like plug-in hybrids will come along and make these cars obsolete," he said. "Then I won't have to be filling it up with vegetable oil, and I can have a plug-in hybrid and go to a regular gas station and not have to feel guilty or worry about it."

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(CNN) -- "Saturday Night Live" was formed in the crucible of the mid-1970s, when Watergate brought respect for politicians to all-time lows, the counterculture was taking over comedy, and many television viewers were seeking out something fresh and bold.

Fred Armisen played Barack Obama in a talked-about sketch Saturday night on "Saturday Night Live."

It was a powerful combination -- and after 34 years, the combination of "SNL" and politics can still strike sparks among political observers.

The most recent example came this past weekend when Fred Armisen, as President Obama, chided "those on the right" for saying that he was "turning this great country into something that resembles the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany."

Not true, said Armisen as Obama.

"When you look at my record," he said, "it's very clear what I've done so far -- and that is nothing."   Watch the sketch -- and the reaction Â»

The sketch has caused a rumble among the inside-the-Beltway chattering classes and New York news nabobs. Wrote Washington Post blogger Jonathan Capehart, "When your 'friends' start talking about you like this -- and friends with a huge megaphone and a feel for the national mood -- the White House should listen."

"Humor with some truth in it is always dangerous. Make no mistake, a drumbeat of belittlement can damage a president," added CNN political contributor Ed Rollins in a column.

The White House had no comment when asked about the sketch by CNN.

"SNL" cast members weren't available for interviews, an NBC representative said. "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels also turned down an interview request but has said the show doesn't take sides.

"I think 'SNL's' role is, the moment they're in power, we're the opposition," he told CNN's Alina Cho last year. "We're not partisan. We're not, you know, we're not putting on anything that we don't believe is funny."  Video gallery: "SNL" takes on presidents through the years Â»

The recent sketch is indicative of the end of Obama's honeymoon, Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson says, but he doesn't want to read more into it than that.

"Comedy is about going after the people in power," he said.

The president has also taken recent shots from "The Daily Show" and "Real Time with Bill Maher." "What this says is that the comedy-industrial complex has turned its sights on the reigning president of the United States," he said.

But, he added, "I wouldn't put this into the meme category," referring to concepts that travel so quickly they take on a life of their own, such as Tina Fey's Sarah Palin sketches from last year. "The [Obama] sketch wasn't that funny."

Indeed, the show's overall impact is often mixed, observes Slate columnist and Rutgers media studies professor David Greenberg. It can "capture or intensify" a storyline that's being passed through the news media, but the show is more a barometer that can change with events.

"It's not incapable of influencing things," he said, noting the show's slash-and-burn '70s satire and Fey's Palin parody. "But since the early '80s, those moments are pretty rare. ... You'll see good impersonations but not the underlying critique you had with, say, Dan Aykroyd as [Richard] Nixon."

Besides, he added, the Obama sketch may have titillated the politico-media crowd, but he wonders whether its impact went any wider.

"I'm a political junkie," he said, "and this is the first I've heard of it."

Indeed, the ratings for the episode were a far cry from last year's Palin-fest -- from a 7.3 rating for the same week in 2008, to 4.7 -- and the Armisen sketch didn't get the frenzied online dispersion the Palin sketches did. iReport.com: 'SNL' won't hurt Obama

However, Obama should be concerned about one thing, observes Thompson.

In general, "SNL" mocked previous presidents' personal characteristics, such as Clinton's outsized appetites or George W. Bush's struggles with spoken English. With Obama -- who lacks the same kind of easily caricatured traits, Thompson says -- the show went after his record.

"In some ways," Thompson said, "he's vulnerable to more serious damage."

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(CNN) -- All but one of the families who lost relatives in Baghdad's Nusoor Square killings have agreed to settle their claims against the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, one of the survivors said Sunday.

Hassan Salman, who was wounded in the 2007 shootings, told CNN that 16 of the 17 families of the dead agreed to $100,000 lawsuit settlements from Xe, as Blackwater now calls itself. Those wounded were offered between $20,000 and $50,000 apiece, Salman said.

Blackwater guards protecting a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire in Nusoor Square, in western Baghdad, in October 2007, killing 17 people and wounding more than two dozen.

Blackwater denied any wrongdoing, arguing its contractors used necessary force to protect a State Department convoy that had come under fire from insurgents.

Iraq called the killings unprovoked and an act of "premeditated murder." The incident led the Iraqi government to slap limits on security contractors hired by Xe and other firms operating in the country.

Xe announced it was settling the lawsuit last week to allow the company, which is also under new management, to move ahead "free of the costs and distraction of ongoing litigation."

One of the guards who took part in the shooting pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge in a U.S. court 2008. Five others were charged with manslaughter, but those cases were dismissed in late December when a federal judge found prosecutors wrongly used the men's own statements against them.

CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Tiny diamonds found in the soil are "strong evidence" a comet exploded on or above North America nearly 13,000 years ago, leading to the extinction of dozens of mammal species, according to a study.

Diamonds found in North American soil suggest a comet led to the extinction of dozens of mammal species.

The scientific report also suggests the cataclysm also reduced the population of the earliest people to inhabit the region and triggered a 1,300-year-long cold spell that stretched around the world.

The heat generated by the extraterrestrial impact likely melted much of a glacier that once covered the Great Lakes region, sending a massive flood down the Mississippi River, the study said.

According to the report, the cold waves of glacial runoff into the Gulf of Mexico shifted Atlantic Ocean currents, changing climate patterns throughout the world in a cooling period known as the Younger Dryas.

"A rare swarm" of comets rained over North America about 12,900 years ago, sparking fires that produced choking, leading "to the extinction of a large range of animals, including mammoths, across North America," the report said.

The study was conducted by a group of eight archaeologists and geologists from the universities of Oregon and California, Northern Arizona University, Oklahoma University and DePaul University. Their findings were published Friday in the journal Science. iReport.com: Have you ever seen a comet? Show us

The prehistoric humans known to have inhabited the continent at the time of the event -- hunters and gatherers dubbed the Clovis culture -- suffered a major decline in population in the aftermath, the scientists said.

The scientists studied layers of sediment dated to 12,900 years ago at six North American locations, including one directly on top of a Clovis site in Murray Springs, Arizona. Each layer was rich in nanodiamonds, which are produced under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts, the report said.

"The nanodiamonds that we found at all six locations exist only in sediments associated with the Younger Dryas Boundary layers, not above it or below it," said University of Oregon archaeologist Douglas Kennett. "These discoveries provide strong evidence for a cosmic impact event at approximately 12,900 years ago that would have had enormous environmental consequences for plants, animals and humans across North America."

The other sites studied were in Bull Creek, Oklahoma; Gainey, Michigan and Topper, South Carolina, as well as Lake Hind, Manitoba; and Chobot, in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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BENTON HARBOR, Michigan (CNN) -- Former President Bush said that if Laura Bush hadn't been his wife, he isn't sure he could have counted on her vote.

Laura Bush's "patience and her enthusiasm ... made our marriage a really good marriage," President Bush said.

"I can promise you that her life dream when she was growing up was not to be first lady of the United States," he told a Michigan audience in one of his first major domestic speeches since leaving the White House.

"Frankly, I am not so sure that if we hadn't married, she'd have voted for me," he joked of his wife, who was raised in a Democratic family.

The high-tension atmosphere of the presidency strengthened his marriage, Bush said.

"There's a lot of pressure in the White House, as I'm sure you can imagine. Pressure sometimes can make a marriage stronger or weaker. In my case because of her patience and her enthusiasm, it made our marriage a really good marriage," Bush said.

The pressure of the presidency, he said, weighs most on family members.

"It's much harder to be the son of the president than to be the president. And it's much harder to be the father of the president than to be the president," he said in a reference to his dad, former President George H.W. Bush.

"And I used to have to admonish him not pay attention to what they were writing on the editorial pages about his son. I had gone through the same agony myself. And so I am confident that the end of the presidency is a great relief because of our strong love."

Something else Bush called a great relief: having a vice president, Dick Cheney, who had no plans to run for the top spot.

"I was pleased to have someone serve as my vice president who was not running for president, because someone who is running for president, at times, will try to distance themselves," Bush said.

"If things got tough, [he] could be one of the first persons off the ship, and that would be really unpleasant in the White House."

Bush said he wasn't surprised to lose public support for some of the main elements of his national security agenda.

"I was frustrated because the stakes were so high in some of the decisions that I had to make. I wasn't surprised that people would forget the feeling of how they felt after September 11. I was grateful that people were moving beyond September 11. As a president, you don't want your nation to be so worried about an attack that people don't go about their lives. ... The psychology of the nation concerned me. Which then made it harder to get people to listen to you, to some of the decisions I made."

The fact that Americans tuned out media coverage of the risk of terrorism wasn't surprising to him either, he said; he ignored most news coverage himself.

"The truth of the matter is, I never watched the nightly news, because it was predictable, I thought. Nor did I ever pay attention to the editorial pages, good editorials or bad," he said. "I knew what was in the news. When you're president, you can get so obsessed with this stuff that I felt it would cloud your vision.

"The truth of the matter is, there is so much attention paid to you, I thought it was important even in the toughest moments to be upbeat and not to be so worried about myself that I couldn't convey a sense of confidence."

He mused on the transition to a far calmer existence after the presidency.

"People ask, what is it like? Well, I have never stopped at a traffic light for eight years," he said.

"The neighborhood we live in is nice. You know, Laura bought this house sight unseen. At least she saw. I didn't. It was like a faith-based initiative."

Bush will take the stage Friday night with former President Clinton in Toronto, Ontario, for what's being termed a "conversation."

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question: What did Bush say his wife wouldn't have done if they hadn't married?

answer: voted for me,"

text: voted for me,"

question: What did Bush say?

answer: "I can promise you that her life dream when she was growing up was not to be first lady of the United States,"

text: "I can promise you that her life dream when she was growing up was not to be first lady of the United States,"

question: Who says"I am not so sure that if we hadn't married, she'd have voted for me"?

answer: Former President Bush

text: Former President Bush

question: What was Bush not surprised about?

answer: to lose public support for some of the main elements of his national security agenda.

text: to lose public support for some of the main elements of his national security agenda.

question: What did Bush discuss in his first major speech after leaving the White House?

answer: really good marriage,"

text: really good marriage,"

question: Where did Bush gave speech?

answer: Toronto, Ontario,

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(CNN)  -- Loretta Chaisson Lewis, 28, was the first to die. She was reported missing on May 17, 2005. Three days later, fishermen found her body floating in a canal off Highway 26 in Jennings, Louisiana.

Victims, clockwise: Laconia Brown, 23, Whitnei Dubois, 26, Brittney Gary, 17 and Necole Guillory, 26.

Her father, Thomas Lewis, recently posted a plea on a Web site established in September by the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office to draw attention to the killing of his daughter and the deaths of seven other women in the area. Police say the slayings may be linked.

"We love and miss her," the father's message said. "She was a loving mother, wife and daughter. If you have any information about her death, please let someone know."

There have been eight killings in four years in a small town that averages one homicide a year.

The victims' bodies were dumped on the outskirts of Jennings -- population 10,546 -- west of Lafayette, Louisiana. Townspeople are perplexed. They're asking themselves, "Is there a serial killer among us?"

That seems likely, authorities say.

"Based on an analysis of the investigation thus far, we believe the homicides may be linked to a common offender," Sheriff Ricky Edwards said in a recent news release.

The victims ranged in age from 17 to 30 and had similar lifestyles. They were drug abusers who in some cases resorted to prostitution, "trading sex for drugs," Edwards said. The throats of two of the victims were slit and the others died "from some sort of asphyxiation, according to the coroner's office," he said.

The bodies of all but two of the victims were either nude or partially nude, the sheriff said, but the coroner's office has not determined whether any were sexually assaulted.

One month after Lewis' death, the body of Ernestine Patterson, 30, was found in a drainage canal.

Two young women were killed in 2007, Kristen Lopez, 21, and Whitnei Dubois, 26.

Mike Dubois, Whitnei's brother, criticized the slow pace of the investigation.

"How can there not be anything?" he asked. "I want justice, not just for my family, but for the families of all the girls. We live in fear that someone else is going to get killed."

But Edwards said his department and investigators from the neighboring parishes of Acadia and Calcasieu, the state attorney general's office, the Louisiana State Police and the FBI are doing everything they can.

"This investigation is intense," he said. "We are following up on all leads. I assure you that we are working tirelessly to solve these murders."

In 2008, the bodies of three women were found: Laconia "Muggy" Brown, 23; Brittney Gary, the youngest victim at age 17; and Crystal Shay Zeno, 24.

Zeno's mother, Sarah Benoit, posted this message on the Sheriff Department's Web site:

"How beautiful you are. Your smile is forever a reminder of how special you are. It has almost been a year, but it seems like yesterday that you were taken from us. If anyone has any information on my daughter's death, please come forward. Without closure, not knowing who could have done this is very frightening. I pray every day that God will give the task force what they need to solve these cases."

In the most recent case, the body of Necole Guillory, 26, was found in Acadia Parish, off Interstate 10, in August.  Edwards believes this represented a change in the killer's modus operandi. The bodies of all the previous victims were left on the side of smaller, rural roads.

"It's likely whoever's responsible changed behavior because of increased attention in the public and the media," he said.

Investigators think the offender has significant ties to Jefferson Davis Parish and is known to its residents, because he has demonstrated a strong familiarity with the area, Edwards said.

Of the victims, the sheriff said, "All of these young ladies had substance abuse problems and would go anywhere to fulfill their addictions." But he said he stopped referring to their "high-risk lifestyle" after the family of one of the victims expressed outrage and accused his department of not caring about the women.

"Jennings and Jefferson Davis Parish is hurting and grieving the deaths of eight women since 2005," the sheriff said. "The investigative team continues to pray for Loretta, Ernestine, Kristen, Whitnei, [Laconia] 'Muggy,' [Crystal] Shay, Brittney, and Necole and your families."

He encouraged anyone with information to visit the site, www.jeffdaviscrimes.net, or contact the task force at 337-824-6662.

In the meantime, the families continue to wait for news.

Benoit, Zeno's mother, has distributed more than 1,200 fliers in the community urging everyone to attend an October 17 prayer vigil at Lake Arthur.

"It's called Community United in Prayer," she said. "Everyone is invited to pray for the victims and their families. It's a healing for our community."

"We try to shoulder each other up," said Dubois, Whitnei's brother. "It's not the time to be quiet. It's time to say 'enough is enough.' "

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text: Loretta

text: Chaisson

text: Lewis

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text: the

text: first

text: to

text: die

text: She

text: was

text: reported

text: missing

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text: May

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text: days

text: later

text: fishermen

text: found

text: her

text: body

text: floating

text: in

text: a

text: canal

text: off

text: Highway

text: in

text: Jennings

text: Louisiana

text: Victims

text: clockwise

text: Laconia

text: Brown

text: Whitnei

text: Dubois

text: Brittney

text: Gary

text: and

text: Necole

text: Guillory

text: Her

text: father

text: Thomas

text: Lewis

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text: a

text: plea

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text: Web

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text: love

text: and

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text: the

text: father

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text: message

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text: She

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text: a

text: loving

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text: and

text: daughter

text: If

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text: have

text: any

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text: victims

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text: Kristen

text: Lopez

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text: Whitnei

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text: slow

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text: the

text: investigation

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text: department

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text: bodies

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text: Crystal

text: Shay

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text: Benoit

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text: message

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text: the

text: Sheriff

text: Department

text: 's

text: Web

text: site

text: How

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text: are

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text: smile

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text: year

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text: anyone

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text: information

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text: daughter

text: 's

text: death

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text: closure

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text: knowing

text: who

text: could

text: have

text: done

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text: task

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text: most

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text: body

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text: Necole

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text: in

text: Acadia

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text: a

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text: killer

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text: modus

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text: public

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text: the

text: media

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text: offender

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text: ties

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text: Jefferson

text: Davis

text: Parish

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text: a

text: strong

text: familiarity

text: with

text: the

text: area

text: Edwards

text: said

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text: the

text: victims

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text: sheriff

text: said

text: All

text: of

text: these

text: young

text: ladies

text: had

text: substance

text: abuse

text: problems

text: and

text: would

text: go

text: anywhere

text: to

text: fulfill

text: their

text: addictions

text: But

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text: said

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text: stopped

text: referring

text: to

text: their

text: high

text: risk

text: lifestyle

text: after

text: the

text: family

text: of

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: victims

text: expressed

text: outrage

text: and

text: accused

text: his

text: department

text: of

text: not

text: caring

text: about

text: the

text: women

text: Jennings

text: and

text: Jefferson

text: Davis

text: Parish

text: is

text: hurting

text: and

text: grieving

text: the

text: deaths

text: of

text: eight

text: women

text: since

text: the

text: sheriff

text: said

text: The

text: investigative

text: team

text: continues

text: to

text: pray

text: for

text: Loretta

text: Ernestine

text: Kristen

text: Whitnei

text: Laconia

text: Muggy

text: Crystal

text: Shay

text: Brittney

text: and

text: Necole

text: and

text: your

text: families

text: He

text: encouraged

text: anyone

text: with

text: information

text: to

text: visit

text: the

text: site

text: or

text: contact

text: the

text: task

text: force

text: at

text: In

text: the

text: meantime

text: the

text: families

text: continue

text: to

text: wait

text: for

text: news

text: Benoit

text: Zeno

text: 's

text: mother

text: has

text: distributed

text: more

text: than

text: fliers

text: in

text: the

text: community

text: urging

text: everyone

text: to

text: attend

text: an

text: October

text: prayer

text: vigil

text: at

text: Lake

text: Arthur

text: It

text: 's

text: called

text: Community

text: United

text: in

text: Prayer

text: she

text: said

text: Everyone

text: is

text: invited

text: to

text: pray

text: for

text: the

text: victims

text: and

text: their

text: families

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: healing

text: for

text: our

text: community

text: We

text: try

text: to

text: shoulder

text: each

text: other

text: up

text: said

text: Dubois

text: Whitnei

text: 's

text: brother

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: the

text: time

text: to

text: be

text: quiet

text: It

text: 's

text: time

text: to

text: say

text: enough

text: is

text: enough

question: Which area did the killings occur?

answer: Jennings, Louisiana.

text: Jennings, Louisiana.

question: Who launched the website last month?

answer: Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office

text: Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office

question: How many women have been slain?

answer: eight

text: eight

question: How many women have been slain since 2005?

answer: eight killings in four years

text: eight killings in four years

question: How many women have died?

answer: eight

text: eight

question: Are the slain women the work of a serial killer?

answer: we believe the homicides may be linked to a common offender,"

text: we believe the homicides may be linked to a common offender,"


text:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles firefighters and city crews worked for several hours Tuesday to rescue one of their own: a 22-ton firetruck that was nearly swallowed by a water-logged sinkhole.

Two firefighters crawled out of the truck's windows after it sank Tuesday morning. No one was injured.

The incident happened after four firefighters took the truck to the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Valley Village, where flooding had been reported after a water main break, just before 6 a.m. PT.

After seeing running water in the road, a fire captain instructed the rig's driver to back up and had two firefighters get out of the truck to direct it.

That's when the ground gave way and the front of the truck began quickly sinking. The driver and captain crawled out of the truck's windows to escape. The four firefighters were not injured.

Workers had to simultaneously pull and lift the truck to get it out of the sinkhole. Watch workers pull truck from sinkhole

CNN's Carey Bodenheimer contributed to this report.

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Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will meet Monday with the leader of the country's main opposition party to discuss who will become the nation's next prime minister -- a day after an announcement that Papandreou he will step down amid the country's financial crisis.

Papandreou's planned resignation -- announced by President Karolos Papoulias -- is contingent on the approval of the controversial 130 billion euro bailout deal.

On Sunday, Papandreou met with Antonis Samaras -- the leader of the New Democracy party, Greece's leading opposition party -- and agreed to form a new government.

During Monday's meeting, the two will discuss who will serve in the new government as well as who will be the next prime minister, according to a statement from the president.

New national elections will be held sometime after the bailout is implemented, but no more details nor a timeline of future events were disclosed.

Earlier Sunday, Samaras told reporters that once Papandreou resigns, everything will "take its course" and "everything else is negotiable."

The move appears to close one chapter in Greece's tumultuous political and economic saga, as Papandreou had become a lightning rod for critics for his leadership of the south European nation as it tackles a prolonged financial plight.

It also paves the way for passage of an agreement that Papandreou negotiated October 26 with European leaders. The deal would wipe out 100 billion euros in Greek debt, half of what it owes to private creditors, and includes a promise of 30 billion euros to help the public sector pare its debts -- making the whole package worth a total of 130 billion euros ($178 billion).

But Greece's turmoil is far from over. The bailout -- the second it has received from the European Union and International Monetary Fund -- would be accompanied by additional austerity measures such as slashing government jobs, privatizing some businesses and reducing pensions. It also comes at a time when Greece's economy -- and to some extent the global economy -- is still staggering.

Though Greece ranks 32nd in terms of gross domestic product, experts say it wields a disproportionate influence internationally. Economists worry that a Greek default on its debt could pull down larger European economies -- particularly those of Italy and Spain, as well as struggling Portugal and Ireland.

Eurozone finance ministers are scheduled to meet Monday in Brussels, Belgium.

Within Greece, the bailout's passage would be a significant victory for Papandreou. He has insisted repeatedly in recent weeks that it needs to be approved -- signaling that he'd be willing to resign as prime minister, a job he has held since 2009, as long as that happens.

Earlier Sunday, Greece's president met ahead of a Cabinet meeting with all party leaders -- including Papandreou, who heads the socialist PASOK party, and Samaras.

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos is likely to remain in his post as finance minister in a new government, sources told Greek television.

Candidates for the prime minister's job include Petros Moliviatis and Loukas Papaimos, according to Greek television.

The new government will have a life of four months, according to Greek television, citing sources, and elections will take place in early spring.

On Monday -- in addition to a meeting between Papandreou and Samaras -- the Greek president will hold another meeting open to heads of all Greece's political parties.

CNN's Diana Magnay, Jim Boulden and Andrew Carey in Athens and Matthew Chance and Hada Messia in Rome contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- One of the most cosmopolitan cities in Africa, Johannesburg is multicultural and multifaceted. Make the most of your time there with these tips.

The Apartheid Museum is an often disturbing view of South Africa's troubled past.

Apartheid Museum It's a disturbing experience, but a visit to Apartheid Museum is essential if you want to understand the city's troubled past.

On arrival, visitors are randomly allocated a pass labeling them as white or non-white, referencing the apartheid pass laws that obliged black South Africans to carry identity passes at all times.

Harrowing multimedia displays and news footage recreate the brutality of the apartheid era, while nooses hanging from the ceiling represent the political prisoners executed under the system.

Less bleak are the tributes to those who fought against the injustice of that era, paving the way for equality and democracy in today's South Africa. The museum is open between 10 am and 5 pm (GMT +2) Tuesday to Sunday. Admission is R30 ($3.20). For more information visit http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/

Meaty treat The Carnivore is one of the city's more unusual restaurants. A few miles outside Jo' burg proper, on the Muldersdrift Estate, The Carnivore is designed to satisfy your primal meat cravings.

As well as the usual chicken, lamb and beef dishes, this eatery offers an intriguing selection of big game dishes, including crocodile, giraffe and ostrich.

There are veggie options available for those who aren't tempted by the thought of slow-roasted impala, but if you choose the vegetable lasagna you may never find out if crocodile really does take like chicken.

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Day tripping Jo' burg is well positioned for some interesting day trips. Pretoria is just 50km away, but has a very different to feel to Johannesburg, offering more of an insight into Afrikaans history.

The Voortrekker monument and museum, just outside the city, celebrate the pioneer spirit of the Boer and their "Great Trek" from the Cape to the country's interior.

If African wildlife is more your scene, head to The Lion Park, a small nature reserve about 25km north of Johannesburg. It's not the full safari experience, but you will get to see lions, cheetahs, antelopes, zebra and impala, among other local fauna.

What are your tips for Johannesburg? Let us know below.

Get around Too big to explore on foot, Jo' burg is a driver's city. Public transport is generally poor and minibus taxis and the Metro train are crime hotspots.

There are plenty of car-hire outlets in the city but if you'd prefer someone else to do the driving City Tours offer minibuses to destinations including Soweto and The Lion Park. The advantage of a tour is that your guides can offer a local's insight into the city's history and culture.

Crime There's no doubt that progress has been made in reducing crime over the last couple of years, but it remains a problem in many parts of the city.

ATMs are a magnet for criminals. Be sure to only use ATMs in well-lit areas and be wary of people offering to help you use them.

If you're driving, keep the car doors locked at all times and don't open the windows too wide. Keep your wits about you when stopped at traffic lights and when you're getting into and out of the car, and keep your valuables out of sight.

Put bluntly, it is not safe to walk around most of Johannesburg after dark.

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question: What can be sampled at the Carnivore restaurant?

answer: crocodile, giraffe

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question: What offers an insight into the city's troubled past?

answer: Apartheid Museum

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question: What does a visit to Apartheid Museum do?

answer: understand the city's troubled past.

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question: The best way to explore the city, and visit nearby Pretoria is by which mode of transport?

answer: The advantage of a tour is that your guides can offer a local's insight into the

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question: The Carnivore restaurant offers which types of unusual meat?

answer: an intriguing selection of big game dishes, including crocodile, giraffe and ostrich.

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question: Which museum offers an insight into the city's troubled past?

answer: Apartheid

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question: Where do you head for live game?

answer: The Lion Park,

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