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Queen Mary 2 returns to Fla. port
Jan 17 2006 11:54PM (CT)
PORT EVERGLADES, Fla. (AP) - More than 2,500 passengers had their vacations aboard the Queen Mary 2 delayed Tuesday after the ship had a problem with one of its propulsion motors and had to return to port, Cunard Lines said.
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Legislature orders audit of UC compensation
Jan 17 2006 11:48PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state auditor will examine compensation practices at the University of California that allowed the system to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses and perks without public input.
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Lawyer: Method that killed general got OK
Jan 17 2006 11:40PM (CT)
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - An Army officer charged with murder in the suffocation death of an Iraqi general was using an interrogation technique approved by his commander and was under intense pressure to extract information, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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Pioneer in solid-fuel rock technology dies
Jan 17 2006 11:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Col. Edward N. Hall, who as director of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program helped develop the country's solid-fuel rocket technology, putting the U.S. decades ahead of other superpowers, has died. He was 91.
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Texas firefighter gives birth, takes exam
Jan 17 2006 11:05PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A firefighter took a promotion exam just 12 hours after giving birth because of a state law requiring all promotion candidates to be tested at once.
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Bremer: WMD focus overshadowed insurgency
Jan 17 2006 10:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. intelligence focus on Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction may have contributed to the Bush administration's failure to anticipate the insurgency that followed the U.S. invasion, former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer said Tuesday.
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Ruling ends Alaska's wolf control program
Jan 17 2006 10:50PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska's wolf control program, under which hundreds of the animals have been killed, is illegal because the state did not follow its own rules in establishing it, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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Groups sue to stop domestic spying program
Jan 17 2006 10:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday in federal court that seek to end President Bush's electronic eavesdropping program, saying it is illegal and exceeds his constitutional powers.
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Witness in Okla. City bombing to be freed
Jan 17 2006 10:43PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Michael Fortier, the prosecution's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trials, is scheduled to be released from federal prison Friday, victims' relatives said.
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Florida hotel owner sues ex-Studio 54 boss
Jan 17 2006 10:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Miami Beach company filed a $15 million lawsuit on Tuesday charging that former Studio 54 boss Ian Schrager stole money and business from a hotel he managed for it and funneled that to a nearby hotel he owned.
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Colo. sex-change doctor dies dies at 82
Jan 17 2006 10:05PM (CT)
TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) - Dr. Stanley Biber, a small-town physician who said he performed more than 4,500 sex-change operations, has died, a funeral home owner said Tuesday. He was 82.
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Authorities recover explosives on Ohio bus
Jan 17 2006 10:02PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Hamilton County authorities say three devices found on a public transit bus were homemade explosives that could have caused serious injury or even death.
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Calif. school scraps 'intelligent design'
Jan 17 2006 9:41PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Under legal pressure, a rural school district Tuesday canceled an elective philosophy course on "intelligent design" and agreed never to promote the topic in class again.
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Mine blast survivor moved out of ICU
Jan 17 2006 9:10PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The sole survivor of the Sago mine disaster was moved out of the intensive care unit at Ruby Memorial Hospital on Tuesday as his condition continued to improve.
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Third teen charged with murder in Fla.
Jan 17 2006 9:09PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A third teenager was charged with murder Tuesday in a string of beatings of homeless men last week.
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Newscaster testifies in N.M. murder trial
Jan 17 2006 8:53PM (CT)
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - Newscaster Sam Donaldson, the first witness in the trial of a teenager charged with murdering his family on the journalist's ranch, on Tuesday recounted his discovery of the crime scene.
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Hurricane Center releases Wilma report
Jan 17 2006 8:44PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Wilma hit densely populated south Florida at Category 2 strength, and the storm was stronger than estimated when it struck Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday in its final report on the hurricane.
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Within 7 months, 3 Sept. 11 workers die
Jan 17 2006 8:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - James Zadroga spent 16 hours a day toiling in the World Trade Center ruins for a month, breathing in debris-choked air. Timothy Keller said he coughed up bits of gravel from his lungs after the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Felix Hernandez spent days at the site helping to search for victims.
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Mass. court allows girl's life support cut
Jan 17 2006 8:39PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - The state's highest court ruled Tuesday that an 11-year-old girl who was allegedly kicked and beaten with a baseball bat could be taken off life support. The move could lead to murder charges against her stepfather.
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Iraqi Baby Noor to return to hospital
Jan 17 2006 7:47PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Baby Noor, the Iraqi infant who underwent surgery for spinal birth defects, will have to return to the hospital so fluid can be drained from her back, officials said Tuesday.
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Clinton eligible to get Ark. law license
Jan 17 2006 7:18PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The five-year suspension of Bill Clinton's Arkansas law license in connection with the Monica Lewinsky affair ends this week, but an aide declined Tuesday to say whether the ex-president is seeking reinstatement.
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Ore. lawmakers await suicide-aid challenge
Jan 17 2006 7:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even as they cheered the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Oregon's assisted-suicide law, supporters said Tuesday they expect the outcome to be challenged in Congress.
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Ruling comforts some patients in Oregon
Jan 17 2006 5:59PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Lung cancer victim Lovelle Svart has not yet acquired the drugs that would enable her to take her own life. But she says it is a comfort to know she will be able to do so when the time comes.
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Disputed study: Rape rare in prisons
Jan 17 2006 5:22PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A bitterly disputed, government-sponsored study has concluded that rape and sexual assault behind bars may be rampant in movies and books but are rare in real life.
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New Orleans mayor apologizes for remark
Jan 17 2006 4:40PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a "chocolate" city once more and asserted that "God was mad at America."
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Reputed mobster lives up to 'clown' tag
Jan 17 2006 3:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The reputed mob boss known as "Joey the Clown" lived up to his nickname Tuesday, making wisecracks in court as he pleaded not guilty to conspiring in the slayings of 18 people.
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Rowers rescued; boat flipped in Atlantic
Jan 17 2006 3:54PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Two rowers competing in an international race were rescued after spending 16 hours clinging to the hull of their capsized boat in the Atlantic Ocean, the Coast Guard said.
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Ga. hostage standoff ends peacefully
Jan 17 2006 3:12PM (CT)
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) - A couple surrendered peacefully Tuesday after holding an attorney hostage in his office for more than 24 hours and telling authorities they were armed with an explosive device, police said.
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Students return to New Orleans colleges
Jan 17 2006 1:03PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Katrina closed several major New Orleans colleges last semester, but the start of classes Tuesday at Tulane, Xavier and Southern Universities marked a welcome return to routine.
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Escaped murder suspects captured in Ga.
Jan 17 2006 11:24AM (CT)
PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) - Two escaped murder suspects from Alabama were apprehended in Georgia on Tuesday, three days after they escaped from jail, authorities said.
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Gonzales rejects Gore's criticism
Jan 17 2006 9:17AM (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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Calif. executes oldest death row inmate
Jan 17 2006 9:00AM (CT)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - California executed its oldest death row inmate early Tuesday, minutes after his 76th birthday, despite arguments that putting to death an elderly, blind and wheelchair-bound man was cruel and unusual punishment.
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Clinton says House run like 'plantation'
Jan 17 2006 8:50AM (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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Court sides with heir to looted Nazi art
Jan 17 2006 3:34AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maria Altmann fondly remembers her family's five precious Gustav Klimt paintings _ as well as the bitter series of events that took them away.
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Idaho treasure hunt goes high-tech
Jan 17 2006 3:16AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - In a game of global positioning called geocaching, the lowly treasure hunt has gone high-tech _ but it can also be a game of risk when terrorism-sensitive authorities find the goods first.
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Couple convicted of cruelty against dogs
Jan 17 2006 3:10AM (CT)
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) - A couple who ran an animal shelter was convicted Monday on 20 counts of cruelty to animals, including abusing dogs sent from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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