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Mourners grieve privately for 12 miners
Jan 8 2006 11:17PM (CT)
PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) - The funerals began early _ they had to. There were just so many in West Virginia's coal mining towns this Sunday.
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Man accused of racially motivated shooting
Jan 8 2006 11:16PM (CT)
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) - A 67-year-old accused of shooting a man just because he is black faces trial this week on attempted murder and other charges.
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Plains fires spread to Colorado, Arkansas
Jan 8 2006 11:15PM (CT)
AGUILAR, Colo. (AP) - The wildfire danger that has been menacing the parched southern plains spread to Arkansas and Colorado on Sunday, where wind-whipped blazes destroyed at least nine homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate, authorities said.
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New York Times journalist killed in D.C.
Jan 8 2006 11:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Veteran New York Times journalist David E. Rosenbaum, 63, died Sunday evening from injuries suffered in a street robbery while walking near his home two nights earlier, police said.
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Schwarzenegger hurt in motorcycle mishap
Jan 8 2006 10:46PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger received 15 stitches in his lip Sunday after he and his 12-year-old son were involved in a motorcycle accident near their Los Angeles home, his spokeswoman said.
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Ex-trooper, ex-con face family slay trial
Jan 8 2006 10:38PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A former Indiana trooper accused of killing his wife and two children in the family's garage five years ago will be retried starting Monday in a courtroom nearly 100 miles from where an ex-convict is facing his first trial for the same attack.
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Louisiana man dies trying to save niece
Jan 8 2006 9:57PM (CT)
THORNWELL, La. (AP) - A man who had helped his wife, daughter and a friend escape their burning home, ran back inside for his 6-year-old niece but never made it out, authorities said.
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Man killed after school bus escape bid
Jan 8 2006 9:40PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A fugitive broke through the window of a patrol car and attempted to commandeer a school bus loaded with children before he was fatally shot by a deputy, authorities said.
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American recounts Kilimanjaro rock slide
Jan 8 2006 9:36PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - First came the cracking noise, then a bit of dust from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Paul Cunha's "magnificent morning" on Africa's highest peak was over.
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Rights conference focuses on Katrina
Jan 8 2006 9:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina must be allowed to return and have the chance to profit from the rebuilding effort, NAACP President Bruce Gordon said Sunday.
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Vatican official expected at deposition
Jan 8 2006 8:48PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A high-ranking Vatican official is expected at a deposition Monday where lawyers plan to ask him how the Portland diocese handled priest sex abuse allegations during his tenure there.
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Service held after Chicago church fire
Jan 8 2006 7:33PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The majestic vaulted ceilings, amazing acoustics and ornamental designs are gone. But the voices that once filled the sanctuary at the 115-year-old Pilgrim Baptist Church sang out Sunday, pledging to rebuild after fire destroyed the birthplace of gospel music.
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Conservatives rally ahead of Alito hearing
Jan 8 2006 7:30PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - On the eve of Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, conservatives rallied in defense of religious liberty and in favor of reforming the federal courts.
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Doctors prepare to revive surviving miner
Jan 8 2006 6:08PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Relatives of the young miner who survived the Sago coal mine explosion gathered at a hospital Sunday as doctors prepared to revive him from a medically induced coma.
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Va. police probe suspects for other crimes
Jan 8 2006 3:39PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Investigators are looking into whether two men arrested for the robbery and killings of seven people in their Richmond homes were involved in similar crimes elsewhere, a police spokeswoman said Sunday.
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La. team to study Dutch flood controls
Jan 8 2006 3:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is leading a delegation to the Netherlands on Monday to study the flood control systems protecting a nation much farther below sea-level than New Orleans.
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Sentencing scheduled in NYC ferry crash
Jan 8 2006 2:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - More than two years have passed since John Healy and 10 other passengers died when a Staten Island ferry slammed into a pier, but the passage of time and a criminal case have done nothing to calm his wife's outrage.
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Man accused of killing priest faces trial
Jan 8 2006 1:59PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The question for jurors won't be whether Joseph Druce killed convicted pedophile priest John Geoghan, who was beaten and strangled in his prison cell, but whether he should be held criminally responsible.
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Calif. town remembers deadly mudslide
Jan 8 2006 12:58PM (CT)
LA CONCHITA, Calif. (AP) - This bohemia by the beach, with an eclectic mix of surfers, musicians and lawyers as residents, is a painful reminder of the risks that can be imposed by nature.
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Mining town bears sadness with resolve
Jan 8 2006 12:46PM (CT)
PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) - There is a welcome sign on the winding road leading to this mountain town and it doesn't mention coal. Instead, it proudly tells visitors they are approaching hallowed ground: "Site of the first land battle of the Civil War."
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Muscle cars make comeback at Detroit show
Jan 8 2006 6:36AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Automakers will be flexing some muscle at this year's North American International Auto Show, with a slew of performance cars that harken back to the V-8-charged glory days of the 1960s and early '70s.
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Sheehan urge supporters to take action
Jan 8 2006 5:38AM (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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Oregon sees drop in methamphetamine labs
Jan 8 2006 2:39AM (CT)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - The number of methamphetamine labs found in Oregon dropped by more than half last year, after the state imposed a registry of the over-the-counter cold remedy used to make the illegal drug.
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MLK nephew sets fire to his own apartment
Jan 8 2006 12:38AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Authorities say a nephew of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. set fire to his own apartment in an apparent suicide attempt.
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Runner dies after Disney Half-Marathon
Jan 8 2006 12:14AM (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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