Flooding receding...Alzheimer's clue...Smart movie watchers



LOUISIANA, Mo. (AP) The upper Mississippi River is expected to largely reach its high point today upstream from St. Louis. Towns further downstream should see that happen tomorrow, though it'll also take longer for waters to recede back to normal levels.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Over 500 fires burning in Northern California have been sparked by lightning this weekend. The biggest one already has burned five-and-a-half square miles near wine country.

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Saudi Arabia says it can produce more oil if the market demands it. But King Abdullah also told delegates at an oil summit today that speculators and other factors are the cause of high prices.

Washington (AP) Researchers have uncovered a new clue to the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Researchers says they were were able to cause symptoms of the memory-robbing form of demetia in rats by injecting them with a particular form of sticky protein found in patients who have the disease. Those symptoms were missing when other types of the protein were injected instead.

LOS ANGELES (AP) "Get Smart," the big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, raked in over 39 million dollars to debut as the number one weekend movie. Mike Myers' widely panned "The Love Guru," took just 14 million dollars, good for a fourth place debut.

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