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S.C. deputy charged with fatal shooting
Jan 4 2006 11:54PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina sheriff's deputy on Wednesday was charged with fatally shooting a man while attempting to serve him an arrest warrant for grand larceny.
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Military vehicles crash, kill two in Calif.
Jan 4 2006 11:50PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two military vehicles carrying Marines to the Miramar air base tumbled 100 feet off a San Diego freeway Wednesday night, killing two people and injuring as many as 20 others, the California Highway Patrol said.
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Officials say miners retreated after blast
Jan 4 2006 11:45PM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - With their escape routes blocked by heavy smoke, most of the 13 miners caught in an explosion did what they were trained to do: They retreated deeper into the mine and hung a curtain-like barrier to keep out toxic gases while they waited for rescuers to find them, officials said Wednesday.
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Miners' families, friends want answers
Jan 4 2006 11:25PM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - High on a tree-shaded hill beside the Sago Baptist Church, the moss-covered inscription on a weathered tombstone reads: "Sometime we will understand."
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Hospitalized miner saw danger in job
Jan 4 2006 11:25PM (CT)
SIMPSON, W.Va. (AP) - The youngest of the miners, the sole survivor of the mining disaster is a quiet religious man who risked the dangers of working underground _ even though he is a licensed electrician _ to earn more money for his family.
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Okla. pastor arrested on lewdness charge
Jan 4 2006 11:14PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A pastor who has spoken out against homosexuality was arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside a hotel, authorities said.
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Some say media erred in mine coverage
Jan 4 2006 10:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - "12 Alive." "MIRACLE IN THE MINE." "They're Alive!" Those were just a few of the newspaper headlines that greeted Americans on their doorsteps Wednesday morning. Joyful, dramatic _ and of course, flat-out wrong.
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Calif. husband, wife leave sons home alone
Jan 4 2006 10:52PM (CT)
MANTECA, Calif. (AP) - A husband and wife who found a dog sitter for their new puppies, but left their 9-year-old son home to care for his younger autistic brother while they celebrated the new year in Las Vegas, were arrested Wednesday, police said.
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Fla. woman accused of aiding escaped inmate
Jan 4 2006 10:45PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A woman accused of providing food, money and clothing to a serial rape suspect after his escape from jail has been arrested, police said Wednesday.
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N.Y. governor's speech looks beyond state
Jan 4 2006 10:07PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. George Pataki, considering a possible run for president in 2008, used his final State of the State address Wednesday to push for tax cuts, business incentives and more use of renewable energy sources such as wind power and ethanol.
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Families of 9/11 victims can view remains
Jan 4 2006 10:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Family members of Sept. 11 victims will be able to enter a private room in the World Trade Center memorial and look through a window at a chamber storing more than 9,000 pieces of unidentified human remains, development officials said.
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Report criticizes Houston crime lab, again
Jan 4 2006 9:37PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - An independent review of the Houston police crime lab has found serious problems with DNA and blood-evidence analysis in dozens of criminal cases from 1987 to 2002, including three death penalty cases.
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Wildfire smoke cloaks Ark.'s Bathhouse Row
Jan 4 2006 9:33PM (CT)
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) - Smoke from a 110-acre wildfire shrouded a mountain overlooking Hot Springs' famed Bathhouse Row on Wednesday while firefighters fought to keep the fire from spreading into the city's historic district.
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Wife's location in cruise case detailed
Jan 4 2006 9:32PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A woman whose husband disappeared during their honeymoon cruise last summer was found sleeping in a corridor far from the couple's cabin the night he vanished, the cruise line said Wednesday.
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S.D. woman admits putting baby in landfill
Jan 4 2006 9:30PM (CT)
ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) - Saying she was afraid of how her boyfriend would react, a woman admitted Wednesday to throwing away her newborn, whose body was found in a garbage bag at a Nebraska landfill.
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Fires mostly contained, but threat remains
Jan 4 2006 9:29PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A wildfire that scorched about 50,000 acres in western Texas was nearly contained Wednesday as firefighters across the state monitored flare-ups amid slightly lighter winds and cooler temperatures.
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Cases blocked, ex-agent says in Ryan trial
Jan 4 2006 9:09PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A key aide to former Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a state investigator to back off from two corruption cases, including one involving a car crash that killed six children, the investigator testified Wednesday in Ryan's racketeering and fraud trial.
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Washington D.C. council OKs smoking ban
Jan 4 2006 7:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smoking inside most bars and restaurants in the nation's capital would become illegal under a ban approved Wednesday by the D.C. Council.
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Chicago firefighter ordered reassigned
Jan 4 2006 6:39PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An arbitrator says a white firefighter removed from his unit after he uttered racial slurs over a fire truck microphone should be reassigned.
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Judge rejects gov't claims on detainees
Jan 4 2006 6:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge, ruling on a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press, came a step closer Wednesday to forcing the government to reveal the names of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees by rejecting its contention that identifying them would violate their privacy.
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Tropical Storm Zeta finally weakens
Jan 4 2006 6:21PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Zeta finally started weakening Wednesday after it unexpectedly maintained strength for a day in the open Atlantic.
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Veteran Baltimore Sun columnist resigns
Jan 4 2006 6:10PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Columnist Michael Olesker has resigned from The (Baltimore) Sun amid allegations of plagiarism after an alternative weekly found instances in which he used the work of other journalists without attribution.
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WTC restaurant survivors open new place
Jan 4 2006 5:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The surviving employees of Windows on the World, the 107th-floor restaurant obliterated in the World Trade Center attacks, have something to celebrate after more than four painful years: a new upscale eatery, just a walk from ground zero.
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Suspicious passenger nabbed in San Jose
Jan 4 2006 3:55PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A Frontier Airlines passenger was taken into custody Wednesday on the tarmac at Mineta San Jose International Airport after reportedly making statements about bombs on a flight from Denver, police said.
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Fla. Gov. Bush signs slot machines bill
Jan 4 2006 2:05PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush, long an opponent of gambling, signed into law Wednesday a bill allowing Las Vegas-style slot machines in four Fort Lauderdale area betting sites.
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Burned boy's mother was accused of abuse
Jan 4 2006 1:29PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A woman charged with killing her 3-year-old son on Christmas Day by scalding him with hot water as punishment for soiling his diaper has been investigated at least six times for abuse allegations since 1997, records show.
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Minn. nurse sentenced in flu shot scam
Jan 4 2006 10:40AM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A nurse who staged a flu clinic using diluted vaccine on a college campus was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in federal prison.
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Board rescinds 'intelligent design' policy
Jan 4 2006 10:15AM (CT)
DOVER, Pa. (AP) - Dover's much-maligned school policy of presenting "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution was officially relegated to the history books Tuesday night.
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Parents accused of abuse say they'll change
Jan 4 2006 9:33AM (CT)
WAKEMAN, Ohio (AP) - A couple accused of abusing their 11 adopted special-needs children by making them sleep in cages defended their actions but said they'd be willing to give up the enclosures to get the children back.
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Jubilation turns to anger, outrage
Jan 4 2006 7:23AM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Family members of victims in a fatal mining accident became enraged and lunged at a coal company official early Wednesday after being told that only one of 13 miners had survived a mine explosion, witnesses said.
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Mining, death way of life in coalfields
Jan 4 2006 4:10AM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - It is a fact of life in this part of Appalachia that if you want to make the good money and don't have a college degree, you either have to cut it from the wooded hillsides or gouge it from the earth.
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W.Va. accident similar to Ala. disaster
Jan 4 2006 4:08AM (CT)
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) - David Blevins understands the agony of the relatives of 13 men who were trapped deep inside a West Virginia coal mine after an explosion. Years ago, he felt it himself.
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200 file new claims against archdiocese
Jan 4 2006 3:48AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted here four years ago, Bill Garrity was not among the more than 500 people who sued the archdiocese and settled claims in 2003.
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Katrina aftermath includes puppy boom
Jan 4 2006 3:46AM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Puppies are popping up everywhere amid the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina _ and animal welfare workers on the northern Gulf Coast fear it is only the start of a big boom in dog births.
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Horse crash revives old concerns
Jan 4 2006 3:41AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's difficult to imagine a less hospitable place for horses _ and the risk of taking the big, shy animals onto the city's frenetic streets became apparent in tragic fashion this week.
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