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Isaac: Delaying the start of the Republican National Convention to Tuesday, Tropical Storm Isaac approached the Tampa Bay area on Sunday with heavy rain and strong winds, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Isaac likely will bring three inches of rain to the Tampa Bay area, with storm totals of up to 15 inches. The storm is expected to strengthen to a hurricane and make landfall in Louisiana.

Obama, Romney: President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney are running neck and neck as they go into the conventions, The Washington Post reports. Romney is at 47 percent among registered voters and Obama at 46 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Apple: The $1.05 billion verdict Apple Inc. obtained on Friday against Samsung Electronics Co. in their smartphone and tablet trial will stand as the largest patent verdict in history if it isn't reduced in post-trial motions or on appeal, The Recorder reports.

Neil Armstrong: Neil Armstrong, the first person on the moon, died on Saturday, The New York Times reports. "Complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures" caused his death, according to his family. He was 82.

Sandusky: The person known as Victim 1 at Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse trial sued Penn State on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The young man's suit said the university's actions were "a function of [Penn State's] purposeful, deliberate and shameful subordination of the safety of children to its economic self-interests, and to its interest in maintaining and perpetuating its reputation."?

Source: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/08/the-morning-wrap-7.html

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