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Sheehan urge supporters to take action
Jan 7 2006 11:52PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Activist Cindy Sheehan told supporters at a peace forum Saturday that troops would get out of Iraq if millions of U.S. citizens took the simple step that she did outside President Bush's vacation home last summer.
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Few drawn to illegal immigration protests
Jan 7 2006 11:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Illegal immigration protests organized across the country Saturday drew small numbers, and some were outnumbered and out-shouted by those who support immigrant rights.
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Two charged in slaughter of Va. family
Jan 7 2006 11:13PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Two men arrested Saturday in the killing of a Richmond family are also suspected of slitting the throats of a musician, his wife and their two young daughters six days earlier, police said.
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Runner dies after Disney Half-Marathon
Jan 7 2006 10:50PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A runner who participated in the Walt Disney World Half-Marathon collapsed Saturday after he crossed the finish line, and later died at a hospital, authorities said.
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Wildfires blaze across Oklahoma, Texas
Jan 7 2006 10:34PM (CT)
MEEKER, Okla. (AP) - A fast-moving wildfire burned about 100 acres Saturday, and two volunteer firefighters were injured after they were thrown from the back of fire trucks trying to escape the flames.
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Union links retiree death to 9/11 cleanup
Jan 7 2006 10:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A retired, 34-year-old New York City police detective who spent hundreds of hours searching for Sept. 11 victims at ground zero has died of a respiratory disease related to the cleanup, union officials said.
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Mine survivor flown to W.Va. hospital
Jan 7 2006 9:58PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The critically injured sole survivor of the West Virginia coal mine explosion showed dramatic improvement Saturday and was stable enough that he was flown back to a hospital closer to his home, doctors said.
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Miner's note shows some alive for 10 hours
Jan 7 2006 9:27PM (CT)
PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) - In the darkness of the Sago Mine, one of 12 trapped coal miners scrawled a timeline detailing how he was alive but losing air at least 10 hours after an underground explosion, his daughter said Saturday.
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Officer killed in N.J. plunge remembered
Jan 7 2006 9:12PM (CT)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Incense burned as monks clad in yellow robes performed a Buddhist ceremony Saturday for a police officer killed when his vehicle plunged from an open drawbridge.
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Tandem jumpers die in Hawaii ocean landing
Jan 7 2006 8:39PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A skydiving instructor and a student from Japan died when their tandem parachute missed Oahu's Dillingham Airfield and landed in rough surf 300 yards from shore, authorities said.
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Urban League warns on New Orleans plan
Jan 7 2006 8:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National Urban League and likely other civil rights groups would oppose any New Orleans rebuilding plan that would do away with the neighborhoods most heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the league's president said Saturday.
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Hotel ordered to house Katrina victims
Jan 7 2006 8:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A judge blocked the eviction Saturday of about 100 people from a New Orleans hotel, which had ordered tenants displaced by Hurricane Katrina to move out to make room for new guests.
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Katrina victims angry at recovery pace
Jan 7 2006 4:48PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tangeyon Wall shivers, partly from anger and partly because it's a chilly New Orleans morning and there's no heat in her gutted home.
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Former teacher sentenced for molestation
Jan 7 2006 4:17PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A former English teacher was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two of her middle school students and one of their friends.
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Naval Academy professor accused of remarks
Jan 7 2006 4:16PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A Naval Academy professor who allegedly made sexually offensive remarks to midshipmen has been charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and other offenses.
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Baltimore officers charged in rape case
Jan 7 2006 3:49PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Three city police officers have been indicted on rape charges alleging that one officer had sex with a woman at a police station in exchange for her release and that the other two conspired to let it happen, the state's attorney's office said.
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Slaying of Va. family leaves city reeling
Jan 7 2006 3:23PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Music store manager Jay Leavitt remembers the time he was having a bad day at work until Kathryn Harvey came in, sensed his mood and silently wrapped him in a warm embrace before departing.
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Fire destroys landmark Chicago church
Jan 7 2006 2:39PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The architecture was majestic, the gospel choir was inspiring and services at the Pilgrim Baptist Church were so popular that worshippers in the 1930s and '40s had to show up an hour early to find a seat.
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Church leaders tour areas hit by Katrina
Jan 7 2006 12:56PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The spiritual leader of the world's 200 million Orthodox Christians visited the devastated Lower Ninth Ward and prayed for the victims Hurricane Katrina on Saturday.
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Convicted cyclist seeks probabtion
Jan 7 2006 9:44AM (CT)
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) - An internationally known cyclist who pleaded guilty to molesting an 11-year-old girl is seeking an early release from his probation for good behavior.
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My Lai hero Hugh Thompson Jr. dies at 62
Jan 7 2006 8:06AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62.
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New Orleans agrees to delay demolitions
Jan 7 2006 8:03AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city agreed Friday to wait two more weeks before beginning the wholesale demolition of thousands of storm-damaged homes while a federal judge decides whether to hear a challenge from community activists.
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Illinois man recalls 1947 mine disaster
Jan 7 2006 7:57AM (CT)
CENTRALIA, Ill. (AP) - Notes found in dead miners' pockets. The confusion, hope and then agony of loved ones waiting for word of rescue.
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Help desk offers advice to civil litigants
Jan 7 2006 4:30AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mountains of paperwork and confusing legal terms can be intimidating to the thousands of people who forgo a lawyer and represent themselves in court. But a federal court here is staffing a new help desk with an attorney to assist people involved in civil cases, and experts say it is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
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Hotel program for Katrina victims extended
Jan 7 2006 4:26AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees staying in hotels at government expense may be able to extend their stays beyond a Feb. 7 deadline, federal officials said.
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Suit alleges FBI agent assisted mob hit
Jan 7 2006 4:02AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - No one disputes that Nicholas Grancio died in a gangland-style shooting. But a lawsuit filed by Grancio's wife, Maria, and an investigation by state prosecutors have renewed questions about whether the gangster who ordered his killing in broad daylight more than a decade ago had an unlikely ally: an FBI agent.
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Visa woes imperil Chinese garden in Calif.
Jan 7 2006 3:53AM (CT)
SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) - A plan to build a sprawling, classical Chinese garden at the renowned Huntington Library is in jeopardy because U.S. immigration officials have denied visas to 13 Chinese stonemasons needed to assemble ornate bridges and pavilions.
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Illinois man recalls 1947 mine disaster
Jan 7 2006 3:33AM (CT)
CENTRALIA, Ill. (AP) - Notes found in dead miners' pockets. The confusion, hope and then agony of loved ones waiting for word of rescue. The news this week from West Virginia's Sago Mine was hauntingly familiar for 77-year-old Bill Niepoetter. He lost his father and three other relatives in a coal mine explosion that killed 111 in this southern Illinois town in 1947.
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Wis. governor vetoes abortion-pain bill
Jan 7 2006 12:56AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Jim Doyle on Friday vetoed a bill that would have forced doctors to tell women seeking abortions after their fifth month of pregnancy that their fetuses could suffer pain.
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