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Heed Dr. King's words, Atlanta mayor urges
Jan 16 2006 11:45PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - With the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. absent for the first time in nearly four decades, preachers and politicians urged people Monday to continue the slain leader's lifelong pursuit of civil rights and nonviolence.
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McCain marks MLK day, hits GOP gala
Jan 16 2006 11:37PM (CT)
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Sen. John McCain said in a speech Monday that white Americans owe Martin Luther King Jr. more than black Americans because the slain civil rights leader "rescued us from a shame that would have destroyed us."
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Judge refuses to drop charge in Iraq death
Jan 16 2006 11:12PM (CT)
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) - A military judge on Monday rejected a request to dismiss a murder charge against an Army officer accused of suffocating an Iraqi general in 2003.
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Elderly convict's clemency plea rejected
Jan 16 2006 10:58PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a 76-year-old convicted killer who argued that he was too old and feeble to be executed.
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New Orleans mayor says God mad at U.S.
Jan 16 2006 10:57PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
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Gore assails domestic wiretapping program
Jan 16 2006 10:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore called Monday for an independent investigation of President Bush's domestic spying program, contending the president "repeatedly and insistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without court approval.
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Police: Video helped nab beating suspects
Jan 16 2006 10:37PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A judge Monday ordered a psychological examination for one of two teens arrested in the fatal beating of a homeless man and a second beating that was videotaped by a surveillance camera.
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Many on Miss. coast feel overshadowed
Jan 16 2006 10:37PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Nicki Henderson has had plenty of reasons to be angry since Hurricane Katrina destroyed her Biloxi home, but it was a simple news item about dislocated dolphins that really made her blood boil.
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Ohio churches face probe over politics
Jan 16 2006 10:36PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A group of religious leaders have accused two evangelical churches of improperly promoting an Ohio candidate for governor and want the Internal Revenue Service to investigate.
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AP Poll: Blacks likelier to celebrate MLK
Jan 16 2006 10:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Blacks are more likely than whites to commemorate Martin Luther King's birthday, an AP-Ipsos poll found. They're also more inclined to harbor doubts about progress toward his dream of racial equality.
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Poll: Concerns shift from economy to war
Jan 16 2006 10:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Economic worries have decreased over the last six months as the American public has shifted its concern more to the war in Iraq and problems faced by political leaders, AP-Ipsos polling found.
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Return of students enlivens New Orleans
Jan 16 2006 10:18PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With their energy, optimism and free-spending ways, college students could be just what this struggling city needs right now.
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AP NewsBreak: Pastor protests gay rights
Jan 16 2006 9:53PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A pastor on Monday called for a national boycott of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies that support a gay civil rights bill, saying the corporations have underestimated the power of religious consumers.
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Minn. students find 'royal' a sex convict
Jan 16 2006 9:20PM (CT)
OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) - A convicted sex offender who tried to pass himself off as a teenage member of English nobility says he just wanted some respect, until some high school journalists uncovered his past.
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Mo. governor asks AG to act on reservoir
Jan 16 2006 9:17PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's governor asked Monday that charges be brought against an energy company in the collapse of its mountaintop reservoir at a southeast Missouri hydroelectric plant.
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Tanker truck fire blocks major NYC highway
Jan 16 2006 8:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline overturned and caught fire on a major city highway Monday, blocking traffic and interrupting service on a subway line. A tower of dense smoke could be seen for miles.
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Jackson dismisses claim of rift with King
Jan 16 2006 8:44PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday contested the assertion in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that he had a bitter split with the slain civil rights leader.
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Former slave's Md. home bought by state
Jan 16 2006 8:39PM (CT)
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - State officials on Monday accepted the deed to the Maryland home of the former slave who inspired author Harriett Beecher Stowe when she wrote the abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Lawyer taken hostage near City Hall in Ga.
Jan 16 2006 8:37PM (CT)
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) - A lawyer was taken hostage in his office near City Hall on Monday, and police cordoned off part of downtown as they tried to negotiate for the man's release.
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U.N. orders leave for eight in fraud probe
Jan 16 2006 7:52PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations on Monday ordered eight staff members to take paid leave as part of its expanding investigation of fraud and mismanagement in U.N. purchasing for the world body's far-flung peacekeeping operations.
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Ala., Ga. police hunt for 2 jail escapees
Jan 16 2006 7:23PM (CT)
PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) - Police in Alabama and Georgia searched Monday for two murder suspects who fled from an overcrowded jail after overpowering guards, wounding one with a makeshift knife, authorities said.
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Clinton slams Bush, White House in Harlem
Jan 16 2006 7:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Sen. Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted the Bush administration as "one of the worst" in U.S. history and compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched.
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Atlanta's charismatic ex-mayor faces probe
Jan 16 2006 6:51PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Former Mayor Bill Campbell, who presided over Atlanta during its most prosperous period in recent history, a span that included the 1996 Olympics, is returning to defend himself and his administration in a federal corruption trial.
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Interviews expected to start in mine blast
Jan 16 2006 5:11PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Federal and state investigators looking into the Sago Mine disaster plan to begin privately interviewing miners, coal company officials and inspectors on Tuesday.
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Texas plane mechanic sucked into engine
Jan 16 2006 4:37PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A mechanic was sucked into a jet engine and killed Monday while passengers were boarding the plane, officials said.
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Tanker truck fire blocks major NYC highway
Jan 16 2006 3:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A tanker truck hauling diesel fuel overturned and caught fire on a major city highway Monday, blocking traffic and interrupting subway service. A tower of dense smoke could be seen for miles.
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Maine elderly ride program flourishes
Jan 16 2006 1:23PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Margaret Emmons had not driven in more than 20 years. So when her husband died last fall, she had no use for their 1997 Ford Taurus.
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Drought-stricken Okla. thirsts for relief
Jan 16 2006 1:20PM (CT)
CANADIAN, Okla. (AP) - Bill Lawson's thirsty pastures crunch underfoot, just like the dried mud in the dead and dying farm ponds that stopped sustaining his cattle weeks ago. His herd follows his pickup truck, lowing for feed because the wheat they usually graze on failed to come up. Fields that should be 6-inch-high seas of shamrock green sit yellowed and dusty, feeding only the black crows that swoop down to steal the unsprouted seed.
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Archdiocese, bishop fight over abuse cases
Jan 16 2006 1:10PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit has criticized as hypocritical an auxiliary bishop's support of giving clergy abuse victims more time to sue.
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Planes make emergency landings in Pa., Ga.
Jan 16 2006 12:40PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A US Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing on one engine at Philadelphia International Airport, authorities said.
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Fla. student shot by police memorialized
Jan 16 2006 12:17PM (CT)
LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) - A 15-year-old student mortally wounded by police in a school bathroom while brandishing a pellet gun was remembered as an emotionally troubled but friendly teen.
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Ice wine is called 'Nectar of the gods'
Jan 16 2006 11:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's called ice wine _ dubbed "the nectar of the gods" for its rare, sweet intensity, and high price. It's so rare that in upstate New York, winemaker Art Hunt had to wait three years for the current harvest.
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Memorial celebrates faith of fallen miners
Jan 16 2006 10:35AM (CT)
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) - Every time Jackie Weaver boarded a mine car for his ride into the earth, he scrawled a message in the coal dust with his finger: Jesus Saves. Jim Bennett, his colleague in the Sago Mine, was so devout that the message on his answering machine ends with the question, "Do you know the Lord as your savior?"
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Police: 2 N.Y. men die outside in cold
Jan 16 2006 10:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two men believed to be homeless were found dead in a snow-covered vacant lot as the temperature fell, police said Monday.
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Alabama remembers black soldier's defiance
Jan 16 2006 6:12AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Five years before Rosa Parks launched a bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, a uniformed black soldier balked at an order to board a bus through a back door and paid with his life.
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Seattle storm water intensifies pollution
Jan 16 2006 4:24AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - So it's been raining for weeks. Where does all that water go? The rain falls on fields, golf courses and lawns, on forests and industrial sites. It mixes with oil, pesticides and other nasty substances before finding its way into area lakes and streams _ many of them salmon-bearing _ and eventually into Puget Sound.
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Even in NYC, race relations take work
Jan 16 2006 3:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As an active member of his Brooklyn community, Roy Hastick takes plenty of inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream of racial peace. Hastick, originally from Grenada, carries that vision today _ but it's more complicated now than 40 years ago, when it was a case of black and white.
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Ohio State student injured in chimp attack
Jan 16 2006 2:51AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A chimpanzee attacked a student at an Ohio State University animal research facility, and the woman sustained minor injuries, officials said.
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D.C. hotel marks 20th anniv. of reopening
Jan 16 2006 2:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Through several incarnations, what is now the Willard InterContinental Washington has served as host to powerbrokers and presidents during its more than 150-year past.
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Shots ring out during New Orleans parade
Jan 16 2006 12:16AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A parade intended to show unity and support for the city's rebuilding was instead marred by violence Sunday when shots rang out, wounding three people as the event drew to a close.
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