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USS New Orleans commissioned in La.
Mar 10 2007 11:03PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With the boom of cannons, the Navy commissioned the USS New Orleans before thousands of onlookers Saturday, marking the first time since at least World War II a Navy ship has been built and commissioned in its namesake city.
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USS New Orleans commissioned in La.
Mar 10 2007 11:03PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With the boom of cannons, the Navy commissioned the USS New Orleans before thousands of onlookers Saturday, marking the first time since at least World War II a Navy ship has been built and commissioned in its namesake city.
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USS New Orleans commissioned in La.
Mar 10 2007 11:03PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With the boom of cannons, the Navy commissioned the USS New Orleans before thousands of onlookers Saturday, marking the first time since at least World War II a Navy ship has been built and commissioned in its namesake city.
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Bush administration opposes border mine
Mar 10 2007 10:55PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The Bush administration is challenging a coal mine proposed in British Columbia, saying it poses an environmental threat that could extend south of the border.
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Attack on NYC woman, 101, caught on tape
Mar 10 2007 10:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
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Attack on NYC woman, 101, caught on tape
Mar 10 2007 10:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
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Attack on NYC woman, 101, caught on tape
Mar 10 2007 10:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
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W.Va. teachers union plans 1-day walkout
Mar 10 2007 10:07PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The state's largest teachers union plans a one-day walkout to protest the 3.5 percent teacher pay raise approved by the Legislature, union President Charlie DeLauder said Saturday.
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7 arrested at Mo. neo-Nazi march
Mar 10 2007 9:54PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A neo-Nazi march Saturday attracted hundreds of spectators and counter-protestors, and police used pepper spray to control the crowd. Seven spectators were arrested.
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Eagleton has last word at own service
Mar 10 2007 9:37PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Former Sen. Thomas Eagleton had the last word at his own funeral Saturday, urging his friends and family in a farewell letter to "go forth in love and peace _ be kind to dogs _ and vote Democratic."
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Girl, 7, is 10th Bronx fire fatality
Mar 10 2007 9:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 7-year-old girl lost her two-day battle for life, becoming the 10th victim of a devastating Bronx fire that also killed all her siblings and her mother.
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Man killed by off-duty NYPD officer
Mar 10 2007 7:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An off-duty police officer trying to protect a wounded colleague shot and killed a gun-toting patron at a Brooklyn nightclub early Saturday, police said.
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Woman settles in Fla. newborn jail death
Mar 10 2007 6:13PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A woman who sued over the death of her baby, born over a jail cell toilet even though she complained of labor pains for nearly 12 hours, has received a $350,000 settlement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
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Ill. fire kills 4; other fires reported
Mar 10 2007 5:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An apartment building fire killed three men and a woman Saturday on the city's North Side, and two other suspicious fires were reported nearby around the same time, authorities said.
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Sheriff says killer's claims not proved
Mar 10 2007 5:23PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Authorities say they have been unable to verify a prison inmate's claims that he killed as many as 49 people in more than a half-dozen states, but they still think there's some truth in his accounts.
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Ga. barrier a site of previous wrecks
Mar 10 2007 4:30PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
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Police: Calif. aide kills wife, self
Mar 10 2007 3:41PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A part-time aide to a state assemblyman shot his wife to death and then killed himself, authorities said Saturday.
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Man pleads guilty in Walter Reed scheme
Mar 10 2007 3:39PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A man has pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a kickback scheme involving contracts at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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More arrests in airport drug smuggling
Mar 10 2007 3:31PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Two more men were arrested in connection with a drug-smuggling ring that bypassed airport security to send guns and narcotics to Puerto Rico, according to court documents.
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Man pleads guilty in New York hate crime
Mar 10 2007 3:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A second man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime for the racially motivated beatings of two Asian teens who were attacked last August.
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Man convicted in notorious Web porn case
Mar 10 2007 3:10PM (CT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A man accused at a congressional hearing of molesting a teenage boy has been convicted of charges including enticing a child to engage in sexually abusive activity.
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Calif. pot clinics proliferate
Mar 10 2007 2:45PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche Carrera convertible to his medical marijuana clinic.
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Pa. immigrant crackdown heads to trial
Mar 10 2007 2:37PM (CT)
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - Jose and Rosa Lechuga operated a successful grocery store for a decade in this northeastern Pennsylvania city, but they say a local crackdown on illegal immigrants killed their business.
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New climate report: More bad news
Mar 10 2007 2:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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Anna Nicole is a continuing case study
Mar 10 2007 2:09PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith was a high school dropout, but she's been a fixture at law schools for years and now, more than ever, she has something to teach aspiring lawyers.
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Anna Nicole is a continuing case study
Mar 10 2007 2:09PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith was a high school dropout, but she's been a fixture at law schools for years and now, more than ever, she has something to teach aspiring lawyers.
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New York man guilty in baby's death
Mar 10 2007 1:44PM (CT)
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - A man faces 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of his 4-month-old son last year.
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Howard University president under fire
Mar 10 2007 11:50AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A faculty leader at Howard University is calling for the ouster of President H. Patrick Swygert, accusing him of putting one of the most prestigious historically black schools in financial jeopardy.
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Suspect hopped off to 'Springer' show
Mar 10 2007 11:27AM (CT)
RACINE, Wis. (AP) - An accused child molester cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, then took a limousine to Chicago to appear on "The Jerry Springer Show," authorities said.
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Exhibit shows Port Royal's gentler side
Mar 10 2007 9:30AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Jamaica's Port Royal was a bustling town known as the "wickedest city on Earth" more than three centuries ago, until an earthquake and tsunami largely destroyed it.
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Colo. teens held after mother found dead
Mar 10 2007 7:15AM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) - For nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Linda Damm's body lay in the trunk of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card to "do teenage stuff," police say.
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Colo. teens held after mother found dead
Mar 10 2007 7:15AM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) - For nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Linda Damm's body lay in the trunk of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card to "do teenage stuff," police say.
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Colo. teens held after mother found dead
Mar 10 2007 7:15AM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) - For nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Linda Damm's body lay in the trunk of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card to "do teenage stuff," police say.
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Baseball team bus crash claims 7th life
Mar 10 2007 6:46AM (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 10 2007 6:46AM (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 10 2007 6:46AM (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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Stolen diamond found in prison bathroom
Mar 10 2007 5:54AM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago.
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Ex-boyfriend arrested in office shooting
Mar 10 2007 4:53AM (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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Relations with U.S. top N. Korea's goals
Mar 10 2007 4:30AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - One month, North Korea vows to "mercilessly destroy" the United States, should it invade. The next month, it dispatches diplomats to America for historic talks on disarmament and establishing diplomatic ties.
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