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Passengers sickened on Mexican cruise
Feb 25 2008 11:58PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A highly contagious virus sickened more than 100 passengers on a Holland America cruise ship that returned to San Diego Monday from a 10-day trip to Mexico.
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Big waves pound Calif coast, man missing
Feb 25 2008 11:28PM (CT)
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) - Towering waves pounded the California coast Monday as authorities searched for a young man swept into the ocean the previous evening.
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Man dies after shark attack off Florida
Feb 25 2008 11:20PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An Austrian tourist died Monday after being bitten by a shark while diving near the Bahamas in waters that had been baited with bloody fish parts to attract the predators.
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Ashcroft to testify on monitor contracts
Feb 25 2008 11:05PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has agreed to appear at a federal hearing looking into no-bid contracts he and others received to monitor out-of-court corporate settlements.
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Lone survivor holds key to slaying of 5
Feb 25 2008 10:49PM (CT)
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) - Investigators interviewed a wounded 14-year-old boy Monday and then returned to the scene where five members of his family were fatally shot in what police have said was an apparent murder-suicide carried out by the teen's stepfather.
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Worker's body found in Wis. quarry pond
Feb 25 2008 9:52PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Wis. (AP) - Divers found the body of a backhoe operator whose machine fell through the ice Monday, leaving the cab under water in a quarry pond.
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Minn. girl turns 10 at brothers' funeral
Feb 25 2008 9:11PM (CT)
COTTONWOOD, Minn. (AP) - A girl whose twin brother and older brother were among four children killed in a bus crash turned 10 at their funeral Monday, with 1,400 mourners in a school gym pausing to sing "Happy Birthday" to her.
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Minn. girl turns 10 at brothers' funeral
Feb 25 2008 9:11PM (CT)
COTTONWOOD, Minn. (AP) - A girl whose twin brother and older brother were among four children killed in a bus crash turned 10 at their funeral Monday, with 1,400 mourners in a school gym pausing to sing "Happy Birthday" to her.
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Trial begins in Haitian 'slave' case
Feb 25 2008 9:05PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A family accused of keeping a Haitian teen as a slave and abusing her are the victims of an opportunist looking to get residency in this country, defense attorneys said Monday in opening statements.
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1st day of classes after NIU shooting
Feb 25 2008 8:58PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - Students carried backpacks stuffed with books, headed in and out of class, grabbed something to eat and plopped down in the library just like always.
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1st day of classes after NIU shooting
Feb 25 2008 8:58PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - Students carried backpacks stuffed with books, headed in and out of class, grabbed something to eat and plopped down in the library just like always.
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Ga. couple claims $275M lottery jackpot
Feb 25 2008 8:27PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An iron worker and his wife said their days of living paycheck-to-paycheck were behind them after presenting the winning ticket Monday for a $275 million Mega Millions jackpot.
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Ga. couple claims $275M lottery jackpot
Feb 25 2008 8:27PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An iron worker and his wife said their days of living paycheck-to-paycheck were behind them after presenting the winning ticket Monday for a $275 million Mega Millions jackpot.
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Convicted ex-cop pleads for his life
Feb 25 2008 8:26PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A former police officer sobbed and apologized for killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child as he appealed Monday to the jury that convicted him to spare his life.
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Convicted ex-cop pleads for his life
Feb 25 2008 8:26PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A former police officer sobbed and apologized for killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child as he appealed Monday to the jury that convicted him to spare his life.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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NYPD trio stands trial in groom's death
Feb 25 2008 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three undercover police detectives on trial in the death of an unarmed man killed in a hail of gunfire on his wedding day were reckless and trigger happy, prosecutors argued Monday.
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Airline defends conduct in woman's death
Feb 25 2008 7:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - American Airlines defended its staff as professional and its equipment as sound Monday after a swift review of a passenger's in-flight death, despite her family's claims that the crew ignored her pleas until it was too late.
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NY mom held in deaths of 3 children
Feb 25 2008 7:20PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Three young children found dead in their apartment appeared to have been drowned or poisoned, and one had her throat cut, police said Monday.
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Healthier Farrakhan still Nation's head
Feb 25 2008 7:11PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A year after delivering what the Nation of Islam deemed its ailing leader's final public address, Minister Louis Farrakhan has regained control of the movement and his place in its spotlight, a top aide said.
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Healthier Farrakhan still Nation's head
Feb 25 2008 7:11PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A year after delivering what the Nation of Islam deemed its ailing leader's final public address, Minister Louis Farrakhan has regained control of the movement and his place in its spotlight, a top aide said.
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$33M to family of 1992 bombing victim
Feb 25 2008 6:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iran must pay more than $33 million to the family of a U.S.-born Israeli diplomat killed in a 1992 terrorist attack, a federal judge said Monday.
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Ex-Ala. gov. wants special prosecutor
Feb 25 2008 6:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for imprisoned former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on Monday called for a special prosecutor after a key government witness claimed that he was forced to write out his testimony to get his story straight.
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2 mothers plead no contest in fatal fire
Feb 25 2008 6:14PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Two mothers pleaded no contest Monday to involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of five of their children in a house fire that began while the women were out at a bar.
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Terror trial starts for ex-Navy sailor
Feb 25 2008 6:09PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The trial of a former Navy sailor on terrorism charges opened Monday with British investigators describing how they found details about the vulnerability of the sailor's Navy battle group in the London home of an alleged terrorism supporter.
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Ex-Philly news anchor's charges reduced
Feb 25 2008 5:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former Philadelphia TV news anchor accused of hitting a New York police officer left court a free woman Monday after a judge said she will dismiss newly reduced charges if the defendant behaves for six months.
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Police say no threat at campus
Feb 25 2008 4:43PM (CT)
STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) - Police searched the campus of Stony Brook University after a report of a man with a gun Monday, but later said there was no threat.
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Oakland school turns out pot club pros
Feb 25 2008 4:09PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - You know you're in a different kind of college when a teaching assistant sets five marijuana plants down in the middle of a lab and no one blinks a bloodshot eye.
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Oakland school turns out pot club pros
Feb 25 2008 4:09PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - You know you're in a different kind of college when a teaching assistant sets five marijuana plants down in the middle of a lab and no one blinks a bloodshot eye.
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Supreme Court to hear Exxon spill case
Feb 25 2008 4:06PM (CT)
CORDOVA, Alaska (AP) - For many in this coastal town, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides.
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Supreme Court to hear Exxon spill case
Feb 25 2008 4:06PM (CT)
CORDOVA, Alaska (AP) - For many in this coastal town, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides.
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Supreme Court to hear Exxon spill case
Feb 25 2008 4:06PM (CT)
CORDOVA, Alaska (AP) - For many in this coastal town, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides.
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Boy Scouts plan 100th anniversary
Feb 25 2008 4:04PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America, about to turn 100, have turned to one of their own as part of a marketing campaign to celebrate the anniversary and try to reverse a membership slide.
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Boy Scouts plan 100th anniversary
Feb 25 2008 4:04PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America, about to turn 100, have turned to one of their own as part of a marketing campaign to celebrate the anniversary and try to reverse a membership slide.
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Temple U. beating called a hate crime
Feb 25 2008 2:49PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police issued arrest warrants Monday for four Temple University students charged with beating a man outside the former location of a Jewish fraternity, and categorized the attack as a hate crime.
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High-speed trains duel for support
Feb 25 2008 2:39PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - It's been hailed as the future of mass transit and ridiculed as a big gamble on little more than an amusement park ride. Which is a pretty clever insult, considering the project in question is a magnetically levitating train that would speed tourists from Las Vegas to Disneyland.
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Ex-Newark mayor's corruption trial nears
Feb 25 2008 2:35PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For 20 years, Sharpe James wielded immense power as mayor of New Jersey's largest city, a political boss who eventually held a dual role as a state senator.
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$1.3M going to Neb. mall victims
Feb 25 2008 2:23PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A volunteer committee created to oversee the nearly $1.3 million donated to help victims of the Omaha mall shooting has approved a plan for distributing the money to the families.
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Ex-mayor wants sex convictions tossed
Feb 25 2008 2:08PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A former mayor has launched a fifth attempt to have his federal convictions for sexually abusing two girls thrown out, this time arguing that his lawyer did a terrible job.
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Ga. school system to go single-sex
Feb 25 2008 2:02PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, Ga. (AP) - Nearly four decades after this rural Georgia county stopped segregating its schools by race, it wants to divide students again _ this time by sex.
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Syria sees no chance for peace in 2008
Feb 25 2008 12:33PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Syria's ambassador to the United States says there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year. He also is brushing aside the recent peace summit in Annapolis as "an exercise in public relations."
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Lawyer: Japan should avoid slay case
Feb 25 2008 9:00AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The lawyer for a Japanese businessman arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting his wife here in 1981 said Monday he would formally urge the Japanese government not to cooperate with American investigators.
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Lawyer: Japan should avoid slay case
Feb 25 2008 9:00AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The lawyer for a Japanese businessman arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting his wife here in 1981 said Monday he would formally urge the Japanese government not to cooperate with American investigators.
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2 planes clip wings at Dulles Airport
Feb 25 2008 8:28AM (CT)
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - Investigators are trying to determine why two United Airlines jet airplanes touched wings at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
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Museum showcases American signs
Feb 25 2008 8:15AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - An old brick building just north of downtown Cincinnati gives little hint outside of the treasury of nostalgic icons within its walls.
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Midwestern governors pick new leaders
Feb 25 2008 5:55AM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Members of the Midwestern Governors Association have elected South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as their new leaders.
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Governors hope for federal cash
Feb 25 2008 4:28AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors are debating priorities if Congress takes up a second stimulus package, with some state leaders pushing for federal money to repair roads, water systems and bridges.
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Blunt Iowa senator pursues ministries
Feb 25 2008 4:02AM (CT)
ANKENY, Iowa (AP) - He's been in Washington for more than 30 years, but U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley describes himself as a farmer.
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NIU mourn 5 slain at campus memorial
Feb 25 2008 12:52AM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The outpouring of aid and sympathy after a deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University should remind those struggling with the tragedy that they are not islands and not alone, the school's president said at a memorial service Sunday.
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NIU mourn 5 slain at campus memorial
Feb 25 2008 12:52AM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The outpouring of aid and sympathy after a deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University should remind those struggling with the tragedy that they are not islands and not alone, the school's president said at a memorial service Sunday.
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NIU mourn 5 slain at campus memorial
Feb 25 2008 12:52AM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The outpouring of aid and sympathy after a deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University should remind those struggling with the tragedy that they are not islands and not alone, the school's president said at a memorial service Sunday.
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NIU mourn 5 slain at campus memorial
Feb 25 2008 12:52AM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The outpouring of aid and sympathy after a deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University should remind those struggling with the tragedy that they are not islands and not alone, the school's president said at a memorial service Sunday.
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NIU mourn 5 slain at campus memorial
Feb 25 2008 12:52AM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The outpouring of aid and sympathy after a deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University should remind those struggling with the tragedy that they are not islands and not alone, the school's president said at a memorial service Sunday.
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