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Wife gets 16 years for killing husband
Feb 23 2007 11:59PM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A woman who fatally stabbed her millionaire psychotherapist husband, whom she met as a 14-year-old girl in treatment, was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life in prison for murder.
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Air Force officer denies rape in video
Feb 23 2007 11:52PM (CT)
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - An Air Force officer admitted in a videotaped interview that he had sex with one of the four men he is accused of raping, but said the man initiated the encounter and threatened to out him if he refused.
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Wrong number means drug deal goes awry
Feb 23 2007 11:30PM (CT)
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) - A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to state trooper instead of a dealer, police said.
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ACLU: US can't bar terrorism supporters
Feb 23 2007 11:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism.
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4 Hells Angels sentenced in Las Vegas
Feb 23 2007 11:18PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Four Hells Angels motorcycle club members were sentenced to prison terms Friday for their roles in a deadly brawl with rival biker gang members at a southern Nevada casino in 2002.
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Body found in Denver home after standoff
Feb 23 2007 11:17PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A man who barricaded himself in a home for eight hours after apparently pointing a gun at a woman was found dead Friday when police used tear gas to force their way inside.
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Principal accused of crack buy in school
Feb 23 2007 11:11PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A middle school principal bought $20 worth of crack in his office Thursday while students were on campus, authorities said.
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Army's Iraq war objector charged again
Feb 23 2007 11:07PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The Army refiled charges Friday against a lieutenant who refused to serve in Iraq, about two weeks after his first court-martial was declared a mistrial.
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Calif. company recalls cantaloupes
Feb 23 2007 10:26PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A wholesale produce importer on Friday recalled several thousand cartons of cantaloupes after some tested positive for salmonella.
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Wis. professor gets heat for comments
Feb 23 2007 10:19PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A University of Wisconsin law professor is getting criticism for comments made during a lecture that students say were offensive, including "Hmong men have no talent other than to kill."
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Acquittal in toy robot bomb killing
Feb 23 2007 9:40PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An engineer was acquitted Friday of taking part in a plot to mail a toy robot dog with a pipe bomb hidden inside that killed a college student, prosecutors said.
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"Frontline" to get Murrow award
Feb 23 2007 9:28PM (CT)
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - The PBS show "Frontline" and two of its producers will receive Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism, Washington State University announced Friday.
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First Wendy's restaurant to close
Feb 23 2007 8:42PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Wendy's International Inc. said Friday that sagging sales will force it to close the restaurant where the nation's third-largest hamburger chain began in 1969.
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Colorado high school bans energy drink
Feb 23 2007 8:14PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A high school banned a caffeine-packed energy drink and 7-Eleven pulled it from Colorado stores after some students said it made them sick and shaky and caused their hearts to race.
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Pa. nixes donations for 'marrying mayor'
Feb 23 2007 8:08PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - An official who promoted himself as the "marrying mayor" broke the law by accepting tens of thousands of dollars for performing weddings, a state ethics panel said in a ruling released Friday.
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Md. National Guard bumps chief recruiter
Feb 23 2007 7:54PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The Maryland Army National Guard's chief recruiter was relieved of his command after an investigation found that two people known to be unqualified were enlisted, the Guard said Friday.
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Minor quake shakes Bay Area
Feb 23 2007 7:53PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A minor earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
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Security scanner can see through clothes
Feb 23 2007 7:52PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The Phoenix airport on Friday became the first in the United States to test new X-ray technology that can see through people's clothes and show the body's contours with blush-inducing clarity.
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Texas families seek to block gov's order
Feb 23 2007 7:51PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A group of families has sued in an attempt to block Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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FBI may reopen cold cases
Feb 23 2007 7:50PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The FBI is considering reopening dozens of cold cases involving slayings suspected of being racially motivated in the South during the 1950s and '60s.
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Fla. teen makes escape after abduction
Feb 23 2007 7:39PM (CT)
PARRISH, Fla. (AP) - A 13-year-old boy abducted at gunpoint from a school bus stop Friday morning made a "miraculous" escape hours later, authorities said. The gunman was still being sought.
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Little Rock schools freed from court
Feb 23 2007 7:32PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A judge in one of the nation's longest-running school desegregation cases released the Little Rock district from federal supervision Friday, nearly 50 years after President Eisenhower sent in troops to escort nine black students into all-white Central High.
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Alleged Ind. soda thief jailed 17 months
Feb 23 2007 7:31PM (CT)
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - Officials are at a loss to explain how they allowed a homeless, mentally ill man accused of stealing a soda to languish in jail for 17 months.
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Pa. lawmaker's son takes Fifth at probe
Feb 23 2007 7:12PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Physical evidence suggests that a teenager shot to death with a state senator's gun killed himself, an attorney conducting an inquest in the case said Friday.
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Amtrak blames outage on computer flaw
Feb 23 2007 7:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A computer glitch caused a power failure last year that shut down the Washington-to-New York City rail corridor for two hours during the morning rush, Amtrak said Friday.
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R.I. gov orders 4-day furlough
Feb 23 2007 6:30PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - To close a $350 million gap in the state budget, Gov. Don Carcieri is telling state employees to stay home.
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Rats invade NYC restaurant
Feb 23 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers are used to seeing rats where they catch their trains _ not where they buy their burritos.
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Rats invade NYC restaurant
Feb 23 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers are used to seeing rats where they catch their trains _ not where they buy their burritos.
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Rats invade NYC restaurant
Feb 23 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers are used to seeing rats where they catch their trains _ not where they buy their burritos.
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Audit: Fla. voting machines didn't err
Feb 23 2007 6:08PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - An audit of touch-screen voting machines at the center of a dispute in a congressional election found no evidence of malfunction, the Florida secretary of state said Friday.
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U.N. chief meets with Waldheim
Feb 23 2007 5:21PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met Friday with a scandal-stung predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, and his spokeswoman described the visit as "private and personal" while sidestepping questions about the appropriateness of the meeting.
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Sheriff: Mich. driver shot at tailgater
Feb 23 2007 5:21PM (CT)
HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A woman who told authorities she was fed up with tailgaters pulled out a gun and shot at the tires of a pickup that got too close, police said.
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Chippendales won't face charges
Feb 23 2007 4:26PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A troupe of Chippendales dancers won't face criminal charges for the "pelvic thrusts" that got them thrown in jail for a night.
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Va. man charged with dead-pet dumping
Feb 23 2007 4:23PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - A man working for a pet crematorium was charged with dumping the bodies of dozens of dead dogs, cats and other animals in the woods.
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Parent suit on gay marriage talk tossed
Feb 23 2007 3:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who wanted to keep their young children from learning about gay marriage in school.
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Parent suit on gay marriage talk tossed
Feb 23 2007 3:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who wanted to keep their young children from learning about gay marriage in school.
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Lawyers: Solider did not plan attack
Feb 23 2007 3:35PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Lawyers for an Army soldier accused in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killings of her family told a judge Friday he was not involved in planning the attack with the other soldiers charged in the case.
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Declaration of Independence for $2.48
Feb 23 2007 2:53PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price.
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Beaver seen in NYC; first in centuries
Feb 23 2007 2:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents haven't been spotted here for as many as 200 years _ until this week.
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NASA has plan for unstable astronauts
Feb 23 2007 2:04PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?
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4 Fla. officers accused of helping 'mob'
Feb 23 2007 1:46PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Four veteran police officers were accused in federal court of taking thousands of dollars to protect what they thought were mob shipments of drugs, stolen art and jewelry.
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Tip leads police to stolen human kidney
Feb 23 2007 1:25PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A human kidney stolen from an exhibit of preserved bodies and organs was recovered after two months, thanks to an anonymous tip, police said.
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NYPD tip leads to Montenegro arrest
Feb 23 2007 1:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York Police Detective James Osorio was struck by the details of two cases mentioned at a training session he attended at FBI headquarters last year. The dismemberment killings of two women in Albania, he noted, echoed the 1990 beating and dismemberment of a Bronx widow. Osorio's observation has now led to the arrest of a man in Montenegro who is a suspect in similar slayings throughout Europe, officials said.
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Va. man confesses to deadly hit-and-run
Feb 23 2007 12:04PM (CT)
HILLSVILLE, Va. (AP) - A man received a suspended jail sentence after confessing to running down an elderly churchgoer with a car, then leaving the scene more than half a century ago.
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Jet makes emergency landing; 4 treated
Feb 23 2007 11:56AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing because of smoke in the cabin, and four people were treated at a hospital, authorities said.
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Police: Wash. man stole up to 300 cars
Feb 23 2007 11:54AM (CT)
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Authorities said a man stole a pickup, a sedan and a Volkswagen Beetle _ along with perhaps 300 other cars. Not to mention boats and recreational vehicles.
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Boy abducted from Fla. bus stop
Feb 23 2007 11:49AM (CT)
PARRISH, Fla. (AP) - An Amber Alert has been issued for a boy who was abducted this morning from a school bus stop.
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Tests find salmonella in peanut butter
Feb 23 2007 11:36AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ.
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3 killed in N.C. fire; 4-year-old safe
Feb 23 2007 10:46AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A 4-year-old girl was found safe with relatives hours after a fire killed three people in the apartment where she lived, authorities said Friday.
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3 killed in N.C. fire; 4-year-old safe
Feb 23 2007 10:46AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A 4-year-old girl was found safe with relatives hours after a fire killed three people in the apartment where she lived, authorities said Friday.
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5-year sentence in oil-for-food scheme
Feb 23 2007 10:19AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A businessman who was accused in the 1970s of trying to buy influence in Congress in the "Koreagate" scandal was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to influence the United Nations' oil-for-food program.
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R.I. AG's sister weds her partner
Feb 23 2007 9:47AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's attorney general said his opinion this week advising his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts had nothing to do with his sister's wedding to her partner there days earlier.
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Religion in the news
Feb 23 2007 7:05AM (CT)
CEDARTOWN, Ga. (AP) - For three years, a group of deacons from the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church has tried to oust the congregation's pastor. And three times, the church leader has taken the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.
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CIA official known for briefing dies
Feb 23 2007 6:21AM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Richard Lehman, a CIA official who worked with every president from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush and was credited with creating the president's daily intelligence briefing, has died. He was 83.
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Actor facing murder rap: I'm no monster
Feb 23 2007 6:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr., who faces a real-life murder charge in a police officer's death, said he isn't the thug he believes he has been made out to be.
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Lawmaker drops effort to ban spanking
Feb 23 2007 5:47AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A Democratic lawmaker has abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the idea would get whacked even in California's sometimes whimsical Legislature.
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Brooklyn jury given graphic S&M lesson
Feb 23 2007 3:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The graphic color photo, flashed on a large video-screen stationed next to the jury, tested the decorum of a federal courtroom. It showed a nude woman named Rona tethered to a tree trunk in the wilderness. From the witness stand, Rona answered questions about the bondage scene in graphic detail, casually complaining that she was bitten up by mosquitoes.
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New Yorker denies making `Polish joke'
Feb 23 2007 2:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The editor of The New Yorker said Thursday his magazine never intended to offend anyone when it published a cartoon that joked about a Polish name and drunkenness.
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Sempra Energy shows sharp earns drop
Feb 23 2007 12:39AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Sempra Energy, the parent of Southern California's two major gas utilities and an energy trading business, on Thursday posted a 65 percent drop in fourth-quarter profits, hurt by investments in Argentina that soured when that country's economy collapsed five years ago.
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Minister's wife wants evidence excluded
Feb 23 2007 12:04AM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Lawyers for a small-town minister's wife argued Thursday that police illegally searched her family's residence after her husband was found shot to death on a bedroom floor.
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Minister's wife wants evidence excluded
Feb 23 2007 12:04AM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Lawyers for a small-town minister's wife argued Thursday that police illegally searched her family's residence after her husband was found shot to death on a bedroom floor.
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Minister's wife wants evidence excluded
Feb 23 2007 12:04AM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Lawyers for a small-town minister's wife argued Thursday that police illegally searched her family's residence after her husband was found shot to death on a bedroom floor.
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