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Calif. worker wounds 3, kills himself
Mar 5 2007 11:48PM (CT)
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (AP) - A disgruntled employee shot and seriously wounded three co-workers at a menu printing plant Monday, then killed himself before a SWAT team entered the building, authorities said.
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Wife: Wounded Russian expert not robbed
Mar 5 2007 11:42PM (CT)
ADELPHI, Md. (AP) - The wife of an expert on Russian intelligence who was shot last week challenged reports Monday that her husband had been robbed.
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Police: Man confesses in wife's death
Mar 5 2007 11:20PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man captured after a night on the run in the snowy wilderness confessed to killing his wife in the couple's home while their children were there and later dismembering her, authorities said Monday.
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Police: Man confesses in wife's death
Mar 5 2007 11:20PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man captured after a night on the run in the snowy wilderness confessed to killing his wife in the couple's home while their children were there and later dismembering her, authorities said Monday.
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Police: Man confesses in wife's death
Mar 5 2007 11:20PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man captured after a night on the run in the snowy wilderness confessed to killing his wife in the couple's home while their children were there and later dismembering her, authorities said Monday.
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Pilot crashes into in-laws' house
Mar 5 2007 11:18PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A pilot took his 8-year-old daughter up in a small plane Monday and crashed it into his former mother-in-law's house in southern Indiana, killing himself and the girl, authorities said.
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LA officer charged in use of force
Mar 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prosecutors charged a city police officer Monday with unlawful use of force, alleging he choked and punched a handcuffed teen in a partially videotaped attack at a police station.
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Man convicted in S&M abuse case in NYC
Mar 5 2007 11:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man was convicted Monday of sexually abusing a woman he photographed for his sadomasochism Web site, but was cleared of a charge that the site was obscene.
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S.C. woman, 75, charged in 1977 killing
Mar 5 2007 10:57PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A 75-year-old woman is accused of killing her father-in-law nearly three decades ago, and the case against her is moving to a grand jury, a judge ruled Monday.
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FBI probing teen's death at Md. school
Mar 5 2007 10:46PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Medical examiners have ruled a death at a residential juvenile treatment school a homicide, and the FBI has opened a civil-rights investigation, authorities said Monday.
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Women sue sperm bank over lost embryos
Mar 5 2007 10:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two New Jersey women who hoped to have a child together have sued a sperm bank for $3 million, claiming the frozen storage facility lost their embryos.
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Police: Man plotted to behead NYPD chief
Mar 5 2007 10:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man was arrested Monday for trying to hire a contract killer to behead the city's police commissioner in revenge for the police shooting that left a young groom dead on his wedding day, authorities said.
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$1M bail for SF mayor's alleged stalker
Mar 5 2007 10:19PM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A man accused of stalking San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was ordered held on $1 million bail Monday following his arraignment on unrelated charges.
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Dad, 2 kids dead in Mass. car blaze
Mar 5 2007 10:14PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A man and his two young children were found dead outside his girlfriend's workplace Monday after he set his car on fire, authorities said.
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Nurse goes on trial in suitcase slaying
Mar 5 2007 10:00PM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A nurse charged with shooting her husband, hacking his body to pieces and stuffing his remains in suitcases meticulously planned the killing, a prosecutor said Monday.
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Nurse goes on trial in suitcase slaying
Mar 5 2007 10:00PM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A nurse charged with shooting her husband, hacking his body to pieces and stuffing his remains in suitcases meticulously planned the killing, a prosecutor said Monday.
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Guard killed in New Orleans FEMA park
Mar 5 2007 9:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to rack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said. The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex.
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Guard killed in New Orleans FEMA park
Mar 5 2007 9:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to rack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said. The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex.
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Guard killed in New Orleans FEMA park
Mar 5 2007 9:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to rack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said. The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex.
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Trial opens for suspected Mo. killer
Mar 5 2007 9:55PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - DNA evidence links a former trash company supervisor to a series of murdered women whose strangled, shoeless bodies were found in secluded spots around the city, a prosecutor said Monday as the man's trial began.
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Funerals held for Ala. tornado victims
Mar 5 2007 9:53PM (CT)
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (AP) - Bandaged and bruised teenagers wiped at tears Monday as a southeast Alabama community began burying the eight students killed when a tornado tore apart their high school.
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Witness IDs slain girl's prints on box
Mar 5 2007 9:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - DNA evidence from a stained mattress and fingerprints from a pizza box link 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford to the man accused of abducting and killing her, forensics experts testified Monday.
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Witness IDs slain girl's prints on box
Mar 5 2007 9:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - DNA evidence from a stained mattress and fingerprints from a pizza box link 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford to the man accused of abducting and killing her, forensics experts testified Monday.
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Witness IDs slain girl's prints on box
Mar 5 2007 9:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - DNA evidence from a stained mattress and fingerprints from a pizza box link 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford to the man accused of abducting and killing her, forensics experts testified Monday.
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Sharpton traces S.C. family roots
Mar 5 2007 9:49PM (CT)
EDGEFIELD, S.C. (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton traveled Monday to Strom Thurmond's birthplace to visit the grave of a Thurmond relative who held one of Sharpton's ancestors as a slave.
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Obesity surgery triples among U.S. teens
Mar 5 2007 7:45PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The number of U.S. children having obesity surgery has tripled in recent years, surging at a pace that could mean more than 1,000 such operations this year, new research suggests.
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Village Voice names new editor
Mar 5 2007 7:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Village Voice named a new editor in chief Monday, the weekly newspaper's fifth in a little more than a year.
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Mom says Georgia 'girl bandit' is sorry
Mar 5 2007 7:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The mother of an 18-year-old arrested in a bank theft scheme said Monday that her daughter isn't a bandit, she just fell in with the wrong crowd and made a bad choice.
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Mom says Georgia 'girl bandit' is sorry
Mar 5 2007 7:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The mother of an 18-year-old arrested in a bank theft scheme said Monday that her daughter isn't a bandit, she just fell in with the wrong crowd and made a bad choice.
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Judge tosses confession in Lunde case
Mar 5 2007 4:39PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A confession made in custody by the sex offender accused in the 2005 slaying of Sarah Michelle Lunde can't be used against him at trial because investigators didn't give him proper access to an attorney, a judge ruled Monday.
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Grand jury hears cops in shooting case
Mar 5 2007 4:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two of five police officers involved in the 50-shot fusillade that killed an unarmed man on his wedding day appeared before a grand jury Monday.
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NAACP determined to focus on activism
Mar 5 2007 4:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Bruce S. Gordon quit as NAACP president after clashing with the board over the group's modern-day mission, a move that highlights a stubborn problem for activists: how to do civil rights work in an era decades after the movement's peak.
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Housing charities face hometown disaster
Mar 5 2007 4:31PM (CT)
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - Habitat for Humanity International has built homes all over the world. But now it has some work to do in its own backyard: A twister cut a devastating path through the organization's hometown last week.
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Washington memorializes humor columnist
Mar 5 2007 4:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Political and media insiders joined family and friends Monday to share a last public laugh and remember the antics of humor columnist Art Buchwald.
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Mass. peace center up for sale
Mar 5 2007 3:29PM (CT)
SHERBORN, Mass. (AP) - Donations to a multifaith retreat center have fallen off since it sheltered a National Guard deserter, and the facility is up for sale, the founder said.
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7 injured in SoCal transit bus crash
Mar 5 2007 3:11PM (CT)
POMONA, Calif. (AP) - A transit bus and a pickup truck collided Monday, injuring seven people, one critically, authorities said.
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Ex-senator, VP candidate Eagleton dies
Mar 5 2007 3:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as George McGovern's vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday. He was 77.
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Ex-senator, VP candidate Eagleton dies
Mar 5 2007 3:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as George McGovern's vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday. He was 77.
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Ex-senator, VP candidate Eagleton dies
Mar 5 2007 3:02PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as George McGovern's vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday. He was 77.
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Leaders want terror insurance extended
Mar 5 2007 2:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - At a hearing Monday just blocks from the World Trade Center site, the mayor and other New York politicians and real estate developers urged Congress to continue a law that provides insurance against terrorism.
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Police try to ID torso in beached bag
Mar 5 2007 2:49PM (CT)
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) - The headless torso of a large woman with a tiny tattoo was found in a suitcase that washed ashore on a suburban beach on Long Island Sound.
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War protesters arrested at Wash. port
Mar 5 2007 2:40PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port.
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War protesters arrested at Wash. port
Mar 5 2007 2:40PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port.
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War protesters arrested at Wash. port
Mar 5 2007 2:40PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port.
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Former transit worker charged with theft
Mar 5 2007 2:10PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A retired transit authority electrician allegedly stole more than $40,000 in coins and tokens and stashed them in plastic containers in his basement, authorities said Monday.
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Mental evaluation ordered in UNC attack
Mar 5 2007 2:08PM (CT)
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) - A man accused of driving an SUV into a crowded plaza at the University of North Carolina, injuring nine people, was sent for a mental evaluation Monday after an outburst in court.
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Judge seals sex offender's psyc report
Mar 5 2007 1:29PM (CT)
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - A judge agreed Monday to seal a court-appointed psychologist's evaluation of a 29-year-old sex offender accused of tricking four schools into allowing him on campus as a student.
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Trial starts in S.D. dismemberment death
Mar 5 2007 12:18PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Jury selection started Monday for the trial of a deaf woman accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering another deaf woman, South Dakota's first capital punishment case with a female defendant.
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Relationship gone bad leaves 3 dead
Mar 5 2007 10:57AM (CT)
VINELAND, N.J. (AP) - A man fatally shot his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend in her townhouse bedroom before committing suicide outside, police said.
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Katrina victims evacuate FEMA park
Mar 5 2007 10:44AM (CT)
HAMMOND, La. (AP) - Dozens of families evacuated from a FEMA trailer park that had been plagued by sewage leaks and power outages were in temporary homes Monday, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it had requested work permits to dismantle the site this week.
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Katrina victims evacuate FEMA park
Mar 5 2007 10:44AM (CT)
HAMMOND, La. (AP) - Dozens of families evacuated from a FEMA trailer park that had been plagued by sewage leaks and power outages were in temporary homes Monday, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it had requested work permits to dismantle the site this week.
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Katrina victims evacuate FEMA park
Mar 5 2007 10:44AM (CT)
HAMMOND, La. (AP) - Dozens of families evacuated from a FEMA trailer park that had been plagued by sewage leaks and power outages were in temporary homes Monday, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it had requested work permits to dismantle the site this week.
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Survivors of bus wreck return to Ohio
Mar 5 2007 9:57AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Jon Betts returned home to Ohio wearing the baseball cap his son was wearing when the young man and three Bluffton University teammates died in a bus crash.
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Admitted killer studied in disappearance
Mar 5 2007 9:20AM (CT)
BIG SANDY, Texas (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether an Ohio prison inmate who pleaded guilty to killing three young Dallas-area girls in the 1980s could also be responsible for the disappearance of an East Texas girl.
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Norovirus hits N.J. college campus
Mar 5 2007 8:55AM (CT)
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) - Fairleigh Dickinson University's Florham Park campus was recovering Monday from a norovirus outbreak that sickened more than 100 students last week, school officials said.
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Alleged Mo. serial killer trial to begin
Mar 5 2007 5:47AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Lorenzo Gilyard, a former trash company supervisor, was described by some neighbors as mild-mannered and friendly. Then he was charged with killing 13 women.
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White supremacist gang gains clout
Mar 5 2007 5:43AM (CT)
BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.
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White supremacist gang gains clout
Mar 5 2007 5:43AM (CT)
BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.
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White supremacist gang gains clout
Mar 5 2007 5:43AM (CT)
BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.
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NAACP head resigns after 19 months
Mar 5 2007 5:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When Bruce S. Gordon was appointed president of the NAACP 19 months ago, some observers said it wasn't a good fit. Now the civil rights organization must look for someone new to lead it in the wake of Gordon's sudden resignation.
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College dorms house more than students
Mar 5 2007 4:14AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When John Richardson wanted to avoid a lengthy commute to American University's campus, renting a nearby apartment just wouldn't do.
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Teens tell about on-the-job dangers
Mar 5 2007 3:41AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The first national study to interview teenagers about on-the-job dangers found many violations of federal laws, including sizable numbers performing risky tasks or working too late on school nights.
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Videotape shows men giving pot to kids
Mar 5 2007 3:09AM (CT)
WATAUGA, Texas (AP) - Two teenagers were arrested after police found a video of them showing two children how to smoke marijuana, authorities said.
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Jubilant crowd recreates Selma march
Mar 5 2007 3:05AM (CT)
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march _ and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.
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Jubilant crowd recreates Selma march
Mar 5 2007 3:05AM (CT)
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march _ and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.
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Jubilant crowd recreates Selma march
Mar 5 2007 3:05AM (CT)
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march _ and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.
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California wildfire burns 300 acres
Mar 5 2007 2:21AM (CT)
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - A wildfire burned more than 300 acres Sunday, briefly threatening a handful of Riverside County homes and forcing the partial closure of a freeway before it was fully surrounded, authorities said.
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Texas dad opens fire on 2 young children
Mar 5 2007 2:14AM (CT)
IRVING, Texas (AP) - A man fatally shot his 8-month old daughter and gravely wounded his 3-year-old son before turning the gun on himself, police said.
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Tall ship launched in S.C.
Mar 5 2007 1:25AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - After years of planning and building, the Spirit of South Carolina hit the water Sunday to cheers and horns from a flotilla of rocking boats in Charleston Harbor waiting to welcome her.
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