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NYC cops: Baby abandonment tale was hoax
Mar 1 2008 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A cabdriver who dropped off a baby at a firehouse, claiming someone had left her in his car, was arrested Saturday and charged with making up the tale to help an overwhelmed family abandon the child.
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NYC cops: Baby abandonment tale was hoax
Mar 1 2008 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A cabdriver who dropped off a baby at a firehouse, claiming someone had left her in his car, was arrested Saturday and charged with making up the tale to help an overwhelmed family abandon the child.
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NYC cops: Baby abandonment tale was hoax
Mar 1 2008 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A cabdriver who dropped off a baby at a firehouse, claiming someone had left her in his car, was arrested Saturday and charged with making up the tale to help an overwhelmed family abandon the child.
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Experimental planes collide in Florida
Mar 1 2008 11:47PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An experimental plane that may have been having trouble landing struck another that was taxiing at an airfield Saturday, setting both on fire and killing two people, authorities said. Two people were critically injured.
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Experimental planes collide in Florida
Mar 1 2008 11:47PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An experimental plane that may have been having trouble landing struck another that was taxiing at an airfield Saturday, setting both on fire and killing two people, authorities said. Two people were critically injured.
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Experimental planes collide in Florida
Mar 1 2008 11:47PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An experimental plane that may have been having trouble landing struck another that was taxiing at an airfield Saturday, setting both on fire and killing two people, authorities said. Two people were critically injured.
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Family killed in Texas; 4 youths held
Mar 1 2008 11:31PM (CT)
ALBA, Texas (AP) - A mother and two children were killed in a predawn attack at their remote East Texas ranch, which burned to the ground, and four young people who knew the family will be charged with murder, authorities said.
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Johnnie Carr funeral: 'She was our mama'
Mar 1 2008 11:29PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The number of people who knew Johnnie Carr as "Mama" is too high to count, even though she had only three children, said those who remembered the civil rights icon at her funeral Saturday.
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Utah home search planned in ricin case
Mar 1 2008 11:22PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A motel patron hospitalized after the potent poison ricin was mysteriously found in his room "barely got by in life," according to a woman who knew him when he lived at a Utah home that agents hoped to search Saturday.
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US case vs. businessman called strong
Mar 1 2008 10:14PM (CT)
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The initial account of the 1981 shooting seemed to pass muster with Los Angeles detectives: A Japanese couple on vacation in California were shot during a downtown robbery by an unknown assailant.
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US case vs. businessman called strong
Mar 1 2008 10:14PM (CT)
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The initial account of the 1981 shooting seemed to pass muster with Los Angeles detectives: A Japanese couple on vacation in California were shot during a downtown robbery by an unknown assailant.
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US case vs. businessman called strong
Mar 1 2008 10:14PM (CT)
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The initial account of the 1981 shooting seemed to pass muster with Los Angeles detectives: A Japanese couple on vacation in California were shot during a downtown robbery by an unknown assailant.
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US case vs. businessman called strong
Mar 1 2008 10:14PM (CT)
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The initial account of the 1981 shooting seemed to pass muster with Los Angeles detectives: A Japanese couple on vacation in California were shot during a downtown robbery by an unknown assailant.
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Ship built with WTC steel christened
Mar 1 2008 10:02PM (CT)
AVONDALE, La. (AP) - The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, was christened Saturday as a source of strength and inspiration for the nation.
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Ship built with WTC steel christened
Mar 1 2008 10:02PM (CT)
AVONDALE, La. (AP) - The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, was christened Saturday as a source of strength and inspiration for the nation.
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Ill. abortion notification law blocked
Mar 1 2008 8:15PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A state law requiring parental notification before a minor can get an abortion will remain on hold, a federal judge ruled, the latest in decades of complex legal wrangling.
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Navy sonar ban in Southern Calif. upheld
Mar 1 2008 6:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Navy must abide by limits on its sonar training off the Southern California coast because the exercises could harm dozens of species of whales and dolphins, a federal appeals court ruled.
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Rapper 'shocked' by daughter's killing
Mar 1 2008 5:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The rap star Juvenile is "shocked and devastated" by the shooting death of his young daughter, the girl's mother and another child, his manager said Saturday.
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Rapper 'shocked' by daughter's killing
Mar 1 2008 5:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The rap star Juvenile is "shocked and devastated" by the shooting death of his young daughter, the girl's mother and another child, his manager said Saturday.
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Suit says HUD chief tied funds to favor
Mar 1 2008 4:48PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A seemingly ho-hum rules dispute between Philadelphia's public housing agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has led to accusations of favoritism and corruption against a member of President Bush's Cabinet.
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Retired black police seek pension parity
Mar 1 2008 4:13PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A "whites only" sign was still hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park police force. He soon learned it wasn't the only thing off limits to Georgia's new black recruits.
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Retired black police seek pension parity
Mar 1 2008 4:13PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A "whites only" sign was still hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park police force. He soon learned it wasn't the only thing off limits to Georgia's new black recruits.
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NYC's famed Plaza Hotel reopens
Mar 1 2008 4:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists alike flocked to The Plaza Hotel on Saturday for the landmark's reopening after a three-year, $400 million renovation.
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NYC's famed Plaza Hotel reopens
Mar 1 2008 4:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists alike flocked to The Plaza Hotel on Saturday for the landmark's reopening after a three-year, $400 million renovation.
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Kid improves after chlorine exposure
Mar 1 2008 3:37PM (CT)
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - A kindergartner hospitalized in critical condition after being exposed to a high level of chlorine at a swimming pool was upgraded to fair condition Saturday, a hospital official said.
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Experts: Whale died of heart failure
Mar 1 2008 3:12PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Preliminary results of a necropsy show that a pygmy sperm whale found stranded off the Florida Keys died of heart failure, marine mammal experts said.
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Mom accused in slayings had been helped
Mar 1 2008 1:49PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A social services agency, the police department and the courts had been involved. And so had schools, day-care providers and nonprofit agencies.
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Mom accused in slayings had been helped
Mar 1 2008 1:49PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A social services agency, the police department and the courts had been involved. And so had schools, day-care providers and nonprofit agencies.
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Mom accused in slayings had been helped
Mar 1 2008 1:49PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A social services agency, the police department and the courts had been involved. And so had schools, day-care providers and nonprofit agencies.
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Wounded Ohio officer dies at hospital
Mar 1 2008 10:05AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A police officer who was shot investigating a group of men drinking beer inside an abandoned garage died hours later at a hospital, authorities said Saturday.
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Plans to raze NIU shooting site debated
Mar 1 2008 8:11AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Kevin Smith wants to forget about the Valentine's Day shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University, but the memories are hard to shake.
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Red Cross admits wildfire lodging errors
Mar 1 2008 6:10AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The American Red Cross acknowledged that it lacks safeguards against paying for unused hotel rooms during natural disasters, a gap that may have cost it tens of thousands of dollars during Southern California's wildfires last year.
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Student arrested after Calif. lockdown
Mar 1 2008 5:25AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A high school student was in custody Saturday after a daylong school lockdown caused by witness accounts of a gun in his hand, authorities said.
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Student arrested after Calif. lockdown
Mar 1 2008 5:25AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A high school student was in custody Saturday after a daylong school lockdown caused by witness accounts of a gun in his hand, authorities said.
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Student arrested after Calif. lockdown
Mar 1 2008 5:25AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A high school student was in custody Saturday after a daylong school lockdown caused by witness accounts of a gun in his hand, authorities said.
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Calif. sprouts may have salmonella
Mar 1 2008 5:03AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Two California companies are recalling alfalfa sprouts sold across the West because tests detected salmonella, which can be fatal.
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Ala. students recall tornado a year ago
Mar 1 2008 4:36AM (CT)
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) - At Enterprise High School, time is measured by the tornado that slammed into the school a year ago Saturday, killing eight students when a hallway collapsed.
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Troubles lead ex-TV anchor to suicide
Mar 1 2008 4:15AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - To classmates at Beaver Area High School in the hills of western Pennsylvania, Suzanne Pagella was a celebrity.
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Human error cited in Fla. power failure
Mar 1 2008 1:53AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A power failure that plunged large parts of Florida into the dark this week was caused primarily by human error, the state's largest electric company said Friday.
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Ex-Socialist International official dies
Mar 1 2008 1:25AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Hans Janitschek, an Austrian journalist who spent years as a U.N. consultant and also served as secretary general of the Socialist International organization, died suddenly at U.N. headquarters. He was 73.
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Woman pleads in boy's torture in Wis.
Mar 1 2008 12:54AM (CT)
PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) - A woman accused of helping her gang of scam artists torture a boy nearly to death could spend dozens of years in prison after pleading no contest Friday to abuse.
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