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Plane crashes on Ind. street; 2 killed
Mar 9 2007 11:53PM (CT)
MUNSTER, Ind. (AP) - A small plane crashed on a city street Friday evening in suburban Chicago, killing two people who were on the plane, authorities said.
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Baseball team bus crash claims 7th life
Mar 9 2007 11:37PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A college baseball player pulled from the wreckage of his team's charter bus died of his injuries Friday, raising the death toll from last week's crash to seven.
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Baseball team bus crash claims 7th life
Mar 9 2007 11:37PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A college baseball player pulled from the wreckage of his team's charter bus died of his injuries Friday, raising the death toll from last week's crash to seven.
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Baseball team bus crash claims 7th life
Mar 9 2007 11:37PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A college baseball player pulled from the wreckage of his team's charter bus died of his injuries Friday, raising the death toll from last week's crash to seven.
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New ethics policies in Ohio
Mar 9 2007 11:13PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland is toughening the ethics controls he established in the wake of the wide-ranging scandal overseen by his Republican predecessor.
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4 killed in Hawaii helicopter crash
Mar 9 2007 10:50PM (CT)
PRINCEVILLE, Hawaii (AP) - The three passengers killed when their tour helicopter crashed on Kauai and the three survivors were from Arkansas, California and New York, authorities said Friday.
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Iranian-American to be Bev. Hills mayor
Mar 9 2007 10:43PM (CT)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - An Iranian-born politician won re-election to the city council Friday, putting him in line to become the first Persian-born mayor of a community that for decades has been a hub for exiles of Iran's 1979 revolution.
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Longer salmon season proposed in West
Mar 9 2007 10:11PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A record run of chinook salmon is expected for California's Klamath River basin this year, prompting a federal fishery panel on Friday to suggest that restrictions on the West Coast salmon fishing fleet be eased for the 2007 season.
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Houston teachers asked to return bonuses
Mar 9 2007 10:09PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The school district that runs the nation's largest merit pay program gave oversized bonuses to nearly 100 teachers and is asking them to give it back. The president of Houston's largest teachers' union is telling members not to return the overpayments, which range from $62.50 to $2,790.
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Texas AG office didn't pursue abuse case
Mar 9 2007 9:56PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A state assistant attorney general received a report a year ago that graphically detailed the sexual abuse of inmates at a youth prison but declined to pursue the case because of jurisdictional concerns, according to e-mails obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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Appeals court overturns D.C. gun ban
Mar 9 2007 9:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.
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Appeals court overturns D.C. gun ban
Mar 9 2007 9:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.
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Appeals court overturns D.C. gun ban
Mar 9 2007 9:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.
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Appeals court overturns D.C. gun ban
Mar 9 2007 9:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.
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3 Chinese dead in 9-vehicle Ohio crash
Mar 9 2007 8:51PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) - An out-of-control sport utility vehicle went airborne and landed on a car, killing three Chinese college students in the sedan, authorities said Friday.
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Thallium confirmed in U.S. women
Mar 9 2007 8:50PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.
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Thallium confirmed in U.S. women
Mar 9 2007 8:50PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.
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Swastika stickers left at Idaho mosque
Mar 9 2007 8:49PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A few swastika-emblazoned stickers have been left on a mosque and another building in town, prompting a police investigation, officials said.
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Stalker followed school shooting victim
Mar 9 2007 8:49PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A 17-year-old who survived being shot four times by an ex-boyfriend who then killed himself had transferred to the school where she was wounded to get away from him, a relative said Friday.
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Suspected 'D.C. Madam' pleads not guilty
Mar 9 2007 8:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former escort service owner who has threatened to sell a list of 15,000 phone numbers from her client list to help her defense pleaded not guilty Friday to racketeering.
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Immigration agents raid Ariz. company
Mar 9 2007 8:48PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal authorities arrested a construction company's president and several employees Friday on allegations they hired illegal workers and used lookouts to avoid immigration agents.
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Immigration agents raid Ariz. company
Mar 9 2007 8:48PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal authorities arrested a construction company's president and several employees Friday on allegations they hired illegal workers and used lookouts to avoid immigration agents.
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Tape of Padilla interrogation is missing
Mar 9 2007 8:48PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A videotape showing Pentagon officials' final interrogation of al-Qaida suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other recordings and evidence in the case.
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Author to appear with suspended girls
Mar 9 2007 8:40PM (CT)
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. (AP) - The author of a well-known feminist play has agreed to speak at a school district where three girls were suspended after they used the word "vagina" while reciting the play.
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Chertoff defends new computer project
Mar 9 2007 8:37PM (CT)
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - A new Homeland Security program aims to analyze existing, legally collected computer data, not gather new personal information on U.S. citizens, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday in defending the program from congressional critics.
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Data on border soldiers stolen
Mar 9 2007 8:26PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on nearly 1,300 California National Guard troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently been stolen.
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Ex-boyfriend arrested in office shooting
Mar 9 2007 8:20PM (CT)
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A gunman chased his ex-girlfriend through her office Friday, shooting at her over the cubicles and critically wounding her before fleeing, then turning himself in, authorities said.
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Funerals planned for Bronx fire victims
Mar 9 2007 7:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two shattered fathers who lost eight children to the city's deadliest fire in nearly 20 years reunited in grief Friday to plan funerals as members of the Mali immigrant community rallied to their aid.
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NASA: Dinged-up fuel tank can be fixed
Mar 9 2007 6:58PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A preliminary inspection of space shuttle Atlantis's hail-damaged fuel tank shows it can be repaired in Florida, keeping it on track for a launch as soon as late April, a NASA spokeswoman said Friday.
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Kroger: No refusing morning-after pill
Mar 9 2007 6:55PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Kroger Co. said Friday it was reiterating its drug policies to all of its pharmacists after a Georgia woman claimed she was denied the so-called "morning after" pill at one of the company's stores.
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S.C. judge orders church sex abuse probe
Mar 9 2007 6:18PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, S.C. (AP) - A judge ordered an investigation Friday into whether there are unreported cases of sexual abuse involving the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston.
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Jan. pipe bomb note: 'Bang you're dead'
Mar 9 2007 6:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Two dud pipe bombs mailed to companies in Chicago and Kansas City included threatening letters with phrases such as "Bang you're dead" and "Tic-toc," postal inspectors said Friday.
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No body, but trial OK'd in wife's death
Mar 9 2007 6:10PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Authorities have enough evidence to try a software developer on charges he killed his wife even though her body has not been found, a judge ruled Friday.
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Girl, 4, dies after drive-by shooting
Mar 9 2007 5:59PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Two 4-year-old girls were shot in the head, one fatally, in what police believe was a gang-related attack on a group of people outside a home, authorities said Friday.
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Wisc. settles veterans nursing home suit
Mar 9 2007 5:52PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The state's largest nursing home for veterans paid $87,500 to settle a lawsuit claiming poor nursing care led to a patient's death in 2004.
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Dam break averted in Maryland
Mar 9 2007 5:50PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Md. (AP) - Workers in this mountain town believed Friday they had averted the threat of a dam break by powering up two giant pumps to lower the reservoir.
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Katrina case judge decries legal `mess'
Mar 9 2007 5:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Prosecutors investigating a police shooting that occurred days after Hurricane Katrina created a "mess" by compelling three officers to testify before the grand jury that later indicted them, a judge presiding over the case said Friday.
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Harvey Milk sculpture planned for SF
Mar 9 2007 5:37PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A bronze bust of the first openly gay man to hold a prominent elected office in the United States is going up in City Hall, more than 28 years after he was assassinated.
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USS Monitor Center opens in Virginia
Mar 9 2007 5:15PM (CT)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Exactly 145 years after the USS Monitor faced the Confederate ship CSS Virginia in the first clash of ironclads, a $30 million center dedicated to the Union vessel opened Friday.
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WWII code-breaking building to be razed
Mar 9 2007 5:11PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A building the military used as a top-secret code-breaking lab during World War II will be demolished, the University of Dayton announced Friday.
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Ky. ready to raise speed limit to 70 mph
Mar 9 2007 5:03PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Friday to raise Kentucky's speed limit to 70 mph on rural interstate highways and most parkways, though the measure still needs approval from the governor and others.
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Book on women's sex 'hookups' draws fire
Mar 9 2007 4:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - During a class discussion on adolescence, a high school teacher recently asked her students whether they go on dates. We don't "date," the 12th graders reported. We "hook up."
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NYC officer testifies in deadly shooting
Mar 9 2007 4:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A police detective who fired 31 of 50 shots that killed an unarmed groom and injured two of his bachelor party guests testified before a grand jury Friday.
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Bataan 'Angel' nurse Jean Schmidt dies
Mar 9 2007 4:25PM (CT)
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) - Jean Kennedy Schmidt, one of the nurses dubbed the "Angels of Bataan" who were held prisoner in the Philippines during World War II, has died. She was 88.
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Timber counties to lose big dollars
Mar 9 2007 4:20PM (CT)
TALENT, Ore. (AP) - The end of a little-known federal subsidy that funneled millions of dollars to rural counties to compensate them for restrictions on logging is forcing communities in the West to close libraries, reduce police patrols and put off road repairs.
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Justice wants Texas to pay legal bills
Mar 9 2007 3:15PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Texas justice who fended off judicial admonishment over his support for former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers wants the state to cover his $340,000 legal tab.
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Md. cases reviewed after suicide
Mar 9 2007 3:11PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Joseph Kopera was known admiringly as "Dr. K" and Joe "No Compare 'em" Kopera, a veteran police ballistics expert who testified in hundreds of cases over four decades and was respected by prosecutors and defense attorneys alike.
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Agency probes heater's role in NYC fire
Mar 9 2007 3:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal product-safety officials said Friday they were investigating whether there were any design flaws in a portable space heater blamed for a house fire that killed nine people.
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Last of deadly VX rockets destroyed
Mar 9 2007 3:04PM (CT)
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) - A chemical weapons incinerator destroyed the last of nearly 36,000 rockets carrying the deadly nerve agent VX, part of a huge munitions stockpile that dated back to the Cold War.
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Ex-NYPD officer pleads not guilty
Mar 9 2007 2:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former New York City police officer accused of fatally shooting his ex-wife at a park-and-ride lot pleaded not guilty Friday and was ordered held without bail.
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Alleged madam's criminal case comes first
Mar 9 2007 2:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A California woman who once operated an escort service in the Washington area will have to resolve a pending criminal case before she proceeds with a civil lawsuit against federal authorities.
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Rape case spotlights Pentagon policy
Mar 9 2007 1:54PM (CT)
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - As investigators pursued an Air Force officer they suspected of drugging and raping other servicemen, the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy hung over their case.
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Tough problem: High textbook costs
Mar 9 2007 1:50PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Winona State University senior Rick Howden, a business administration major, figures he knows a bad deal when he sees it. A $4,500 tab for his college textbooks by the time he graduates? Bad deal.
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Life sentence for Conn. jogger's killer
Mar 9 2007 1:49PM (CT)
DANIELSON, Conn. (AP) - A man who killed a jogger and hid her body on property owned by the performer who plays Big Bird on "Sesame Street" was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.
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Okla. town halts prairie dog poisoning
Mar 9 2007 12:27PM (CT)
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) - The city agreed to stop poisoning prairie dogs, whose antics have attracted tourists to local park, after outraged residents came to the rodents' defense.
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Big-city murders jumped by 10 percent
Mar 9 2007 12:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The murder rate jumped by more than 10 percent among dozens of large U.S. cities since 2004, a study shows in the latest sign of the end of a national lull in violent crime.
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Miss. mayor back at work after jail time
Mar 9 2007 12:08PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mayor Frank Melton was back on the job Friday after the state Supreme Court ordered his release from jail, where a judge had sent him two days earlier for violating probation.
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Priest charged in theft opposed audit
Mar 9 2007 11:53AM (CT)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A priest accused along with another clergyman of stealing more than $8 million from their church once griped that an audit of parish funds was "a waste" of money that "should be spent more wisely," newly released court documents show.
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No tornado warning in Georgia town
Mar 9 2007 10:56AM (CT)
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - City officials called off plans to activate a warning siren minutes before a powerful tornado plowed through town last week, killing two people, crippling a hospital and causing widespread property damage.
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2 charged with killing family over house
Mar 9 2007 10:45AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A man was indicted on charges of murdering four people because he was angry that his grandmother left her house to her children instead of him.
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Harvard to pay more to doctors who teach
Mar 9 2007 9:45AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard Medical School and three affiliated hospitals will double the pool of money paid to doctors who teach, in hopes of luring them away from patients and research.
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Calif. retiree runs for office in Sicily
Mar 9 2007 9:20AM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - He has never been to Sicily, but that isn't stopping a retired math professor from running for a city council seat there.
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Religion in the news
Mar 9 2007 6:50AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - The faithful lowered their heads in prayer as the priest celebrated Mass. The only peculiarity about the act of worship was its setting: A garage-like space inside an apartment building, with an altar made of bamboo.
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Iraqi boy gets free surgery in Ohio
Mar 9 2007 5:44AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Iraqi boy underwent surgery to close holes in his heart, an operation doctors performed for free after the boy's mother lost the money to pay for it to militiamen who killed her husband.
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Ind. county leaps ahead 2 hours into DST
Mar 9 2007 5:34AM (CT)
FRANCESVILLE, Ind. (AP) - While most U.S. clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, Pulaski County will do double time when it moves the courthouse clock ahead not one, but two hours for daylight-saving time.
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Ind. county leaps ahead 2 hours into DST
Mar 9 2007 5:34AM (CT)
FRANCESVILLE, Ind. (AP) - While most U.S. clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, Pulaski County will do double time when it moves the courthouse clock ahead not one, but two hours for daylight-saving time.
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Colo. looks to thin elk herd in park
Mar 9 2007 4:02AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Colorado's top wildlife officer would rather not see the burgeoning elk herd in Rocky Mountain National Park thinned by park employees hunting at night with rifles and silencers.
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Lawsuit: Some Mass. inmates at risk
Mar 9 2007 3:57AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal lawsuit filed against the state claims that putting inmates with severe mental illnesses in solitary confinement causes further psychological deterioration and contributes to an increase in suicide attempts.
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Cherry blossoms to peak by festival
Mar 9 2007 3:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - After an unusually warm December rattled the nerves of anyone eagerly anticipating Washington's grand rite of spring, the National Park Service predicted the cherry blossoms will bloom in time for the two-week National Cherry Blossom Festival.
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Ex-U.S. soldier accused of 1984 killing
Mar 9 2007 12:43AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A former U.S. soldier accused of raping and murdering a woman nearly 23 years ago in Germany was arrested Thursday, and the German government was seeking his extradition, the U.S. attorney's office said.
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Gang member-turned-writer held in LA
Mar 9 2007 12:33AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An author who wrote a vivid book about gang life and is considered one of the city's most wanted gang members has been taken into custody, police announced Thursday.
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Mass. protests feds' immigration flights
Mar 9 2007 12:14AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Deval Patrick urged federal authorities Thursday not to move any more factory workers detained in an immigration raid out of state until their children are found and arrangements are made for their care.
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Mass. protests feds' immigration flights
Mar 9 2007 12:14AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Deval Patrick urged federal authorities Thursday not to move any more factory workers detained in an immigration raid out of state until their children are found and arrangements are made for their care.
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Mass. protests feds' immigration flights
Mar 9 2007 12:14AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Deval Patrick urged federal authorities Thursday not to move any more factory workers detained in an immigration raid out of state until their children are found and arrangements are made for their care.
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2 players killed in bus crash remembered
Mar 9 2007 12:09AM (CT)
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - Two Bluffton University baseball players were laid to rest Thursday, nearly a week after their bus plunged from a highway overpass in Atlanta as the team traveled to a tournament.
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2 players killed in bus crash remembered
Mar 9 2007 12:09AM (CT)
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - Two Bluffton University baseball players were laid to rest Thursday, nearly a week after their bus plunged from a highway overpass in Atlanta as the team traveled to a tournament.
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2 players killed in bus crash remembered
Mar 9 2007 12:09AM (CT)
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - Two Bluffton University baseball players were laid to rest Thursday, nearly a week after their bus plunged from a highway overpass in Atlanta as the team traveled to a tournament.
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2 players killed in bus crash remembered
Mar 9 2007 12:09AM (CT)
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - Two Bluffton University baseball players were laid to rest Thursday, nearly a week after their bus plunged from a highway overpass in Atlanta as the team traveled to a tournament.
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2 players killed in bus crash remembered
Mar 9 2007 12:09AM (CT)
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - Two Bluffton University baseball players were laid to rest Thursday, nearly a week after their bus plunged from a highway overpass in Atlanta as the team traveled to a tournament.
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