Hurricane Bill gathers strength out in Atlantic PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season gathered force far out to sea Monday, while two weaker storm systems drenched the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Panhandle with rain. A-Rod says cousin injected him with substance TAMPA, Fla. - Alex Rodriguez answered one big question Tuesday, admitting his cousin repeatedly injected him with a substance from the Dominican Republic. The New York Yankees star blamed his 2003 positive test on being young and naive. "I knew we weren't taking Tic Tacs," said Rodriguez, who was joined at the head table by Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi. Powerful Gustav rips across Cuba, 300,000 evacuate HAVANA - Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
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