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Ohio pair accused of caging kids indicted
Feb 14 2006 11:42PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio couple accused of forcing some of their 11 adopted children to sleep in cages were indicted Tuesday for child endangerment, authorities said.
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Guard charged in jail break in Chicago
Feb 14 2006 11:23PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A jail guard charged with helping six inmates escape over the weekend allegedly told investigators he did it to influence the upcoming sheriff's election, an official said Tuesday.
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Wis. man settles wrongful conviction suit
Feb 14 2006 11:05PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit settled his lawsuit against authorities for $400,000, which he likely will use to defend himself against a recent murder charge, his attorney said.
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Jury selection begins in terror trial
Feb 14 2006 10:40PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Jury selection started Tuesday for the trial of an ice cream vendor and his son who are charged in a federal terrorism investigation.
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Gay Episcopal bishop enters alcohol rehab
Feb 14 2006 10:40PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, is being treated for alcoholism, a step that surprised friends and colleagues but seemed unlikely to threaten his position in the church.
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Husband: Wife wanted to give baby to God
Feb 14 2006 10:37PM (CT)
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A woman accused of killing her infant daughter by cutting off the girl's arms had said a few days earlier that she wanted to "give the baby to God," her husband testified Tuesday.
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Judge: Calif. must change execution drugs
Feb 14 2006 10:09PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that California must change its lethal injection method for an execution next week, saying the current mix of drugs may constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
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Rock the Vote tries to regroup
Feb 14 2006 9:43PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rock the Vote is turning 16 this year, but the birthday for the organization that has used Madonna, R.E.M. and other music stars to get millions of young people involved in politics is shaping up to be anything but sweet.
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Victim in gay bar attack files complaint
Feb 14 2006 9:30PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - One of the men attacked in a gay bar by a hatchet-wielding teenager filed a complaint with the state alleging paramedics gave him substandard treatment because he is gay.
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Peace activist protests in New Orleans
Feb 14 2006 9:29PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan staged a protest at one of the city's shuttered housing projects Tuesday, a day after 12,000 families left homeless by last year's hurricanes were forced to leave their federally funded hotel rooms.
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Mass. Wal-Mart must stock emergency pill
Feb 14 2006 9:28PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The state pharmacy board ordered Wal-Mart on Tuesday to stock emergency contraception pills at its stores in Massachusetts.
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Fla. killer asks judge to spare his life
Feb 14 2006 9:26PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - A weeping Joseph Smith apologized Tuesday for the abduction, rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia two years ago, telling a judge he had taken large amounts of cocaine and heroin that day in hopes of killing himself.
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Moussaoui once again barred from court
Feb 14 2006 9:24PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui again disrupted his sentencing trial with insults and epithets Tuesday and was barred from the courtroom while a jury is selected to decide whether he is put to death or imprisoned for life.
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Moussaoui once again barred from court
Feb 14 2006 9:24PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui again disrupted his sentencing trial with insults and epithets Tuesday and was barred from the courtroom while a jury is selected to decide whether he is put to death or imprisoned for life.
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Prosecutors deny spy issue tie to Va. case
Feb 14 2006 8:37PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Prosecutors said Tuesday they had no reason to believe the government's warrantless eavesdropping program tainted the case of a Virginia man convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush.
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Attorneys spar over Cuban agents' trial
Feb 14 2006 8:33PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred Tuesday over whether five Cuban intelligence agents could have received a fair trial in Miami at the same time the community was focused on the politically charged case of young Elian Gonzalez.
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Author testifies in Illinois governor case
Feb 14 2006 6:49PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The nun whose best seller "Dead Man Walking" marked her as a leading opponent of capital punishment took the stand at George Ryan's conspiracy trial Tuesday and described the former Illinois governor as "a man of honesty and integrity."
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Remains ID'd of four missing in Vietnam
Feb 14 2006 6:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The remains of four U.S. servicemen missing in action since the Vietnam War have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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Ohio board votes out evolution lesson plan
Feb 14 2006 5:27PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio school board voted Tuesday to eliminate a passage in the state's science standards that critics said opened the door to the teaching of intelligent design.
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Feds license nuke dump on Utah reservation
Feb 14 2006 3:22PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Federal regulators have issued a license for a nuclear waste dump on an American Indian reservation in Utah's western desert, but legal obstacles could keep the project tied up for months.
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Top N.Y. court axes domestic partner law
Feb 14 2006 3:19PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state's highest court on Tuesday invalidated an anti-discrimination law for domestic partners that the New York City Council had passed by overriding a veto from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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First trial in Tenn. corruption starts
Feb 14 2006 3:17PM (CT)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The first trial in a public corruption sting dubbed the "Tennessee Waltz" started Tuesday, with a federal prosecutor telling jurors secretly recorded tapes would show how a county commissioner took bribes.
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Gas well fire injures six in Pa.
Feb 14 2006 2:54PM (CT)
GRINDSTONE, Pa. (AP) - Fire broke out at a natural gas well Tuesday, injuring six people and leaving at least two in serious condition with burns, officials said.
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Lawyer wants Lionel Tate conviction tossed
Feb 14 2006 2:38PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A lawyer for convicted child killer Lionel Tate wants the original murder indictment against his client dismissed, saying the law allowing children to be tried as adults is unconstitutional.
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Kentucky gov. has gallbladder removed
Feb 14 2006 2:27PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Ernie Fletcher had his gallbladder removed Tuesday and is expected to be back at work next week.
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New Orleans' Tulane hospital reopens
Feb 14 2006 1:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tulane University Hospital, which sustained more than $90 million in damage from Hurricane Katrina, reopened its emergency room, several operating rooms and some beds Tuesday at an exuberant, pep rally-style ceremony.
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Hunter shot by Cheney has heart attack
Feb 14 2006 1:31PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.
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Victim in bar attack claims mistreatment
Feb 14 2006 1:03PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - One of the men attacked in a gay bar by a hatchet-wielding teenager filed a complaint with the state alleging paramedics gave him substandard treatment because he is gay.
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Hutchinson downplays impeachment role
Feb 14 2006 12:33PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - As one of the House managers in the 1999 impeachment case against Bill Clinton, Asa Hutchinson went before the Senate and pleaded with it to turn the president out of office for lying in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Gay couples seek Conn. marriage licenses
Feb 14 2006 12:14PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - As part of a national marriage equality campaign, George Chien and Julio Flores headed to Hartford City Hall to apply for a marriage license. And for the third consecutive Valentine's Day, they were turned away.
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Man arrested in alleged copycat fire
Feb 14 2006 11:39AM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A man described as mentally disturbed was jailed Tuesday on suspicion of setting fire to an abandoned church in what authorities said was a copycat of the recent church arsons in rural Alabama.
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Gotti Jr. begins racketeering retrial
Feb 14 2006 10:59AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The son of late mob boss John Gotti returned to court Tuesday for retrial on racketeering charges that include a violent plot to kidnap Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
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Man allegedly searched 'killing' online
Feb 14 2006 8:07AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Days before his wife and baby daughter were shot to death, Neil Entwistle searched the Internet for ways to kill people, authorities said.
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Storm victims to get money, but no hotels
Feb 14 2006 6:53AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - About 12,000 families made homeless by last year's hurricanes began checking out of their federally funded hotel rooms around the country Monday after a federal judge let FEMA stop paying directly for their stays.
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Groups seeks land near Roosevelt ranch
Feb 14 2006 4:33AM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - More than 30 wildlife and conservation groups, including one that Theodore Roosevelt started more than a century ago, are pressing Congress to approve the purchase of land near where the former president ranched in North Dakota's western Badlands.
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Paraplegic teen gets 21 years in prison
Feb 14 2006 4:25AM (CT)
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) - A paraplegic teenager who crashed into another car at 99 mph in a suicide attempt last year, killing a 3-year-old girl, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison.
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Teen pleads guilty to child abuse charges
Feb 14 2006 2:55AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A teenager who lived with her twin babies and their father in an abandoned house with no electricity or plumbing has pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse resulting in death and agreed to testify against the children's father.
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Report: Journalists' deaths down in 2005
Feb 14 2006 12:53AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of journalists killed last year declined, but the total imprisoned worldwide rose, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday.
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Report: Hackett drops out of Senate race
Feb 14 2006 12:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett, who gained popularity for his staunch criticism of President Bush, has dropped out of the Democratic race for U.S. Senate in Ohio, according to a published report.
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Saudi ambassador comments on bombings
Feb 14 2006 12:11AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Saudi Arabia is in talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States said on Monday.
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