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Fashion designer Oleg Cassini dies at 92
Mar 17 2006 11:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Oleg Cassini, the designer who created the dresses that helped make Jacqueline Kennedy the most glamorous first lady in history, died Friday. He was 92.
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Death toll in Hawaii dam break rises to 3
Mar 17 2006 11:42PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Search-and-rescue teams found a third body on the island of Kauai Friday, three days after a privately owned dam burst and released a violent torrent of tree-snapping water and debris.
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Mo. drama teacher resigns over play flap
Mar 17 2006 11:31PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A central Missouri high school drama teacher whose spring play was canceled after complaints about tawdry content in one of her previous productions will resign rather than face a possible firing.
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Driver, passenger charged in fatal crash
Mar 17 2006 11:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A passenger in a car that plowed into a group of students and killed a teacher was charged with second-degree murder Friday.
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Schwarzenegger asks for levee assistance
Mar 17 2006 10:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff pledged Friday that the government would help California patch its fragile levee system.
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Judge accepts compromise Moussaoui deal
Mar 17 2006 10:46PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Prosecutors seeking to execute al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui partially revived their case Friday after a judge reversed course and agreed to admit some evidence about aviation security.
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CIA contractor freed from jail, re-arrested
Mar 17 2006 10:45PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former CIA contractor charged with beating an Afghan man who later died was released from jail Friday to help prepare his defense and was promptly arrested on charges of assaulting his former girlfriend.
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Ex-con charged in S.C. 'dungeon' rapes
Mar 17 2006 10:42PM (CT)
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A convicted rapist charged with abducting two teenage girls and assaulting them in a hidden underground room behind his home was captured Friday about a mile away, authorities said.
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Gerry Adams detained at D.C. airport
Mar 17 2006 10:36PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party in Northern Ireland, was detained at a Washington airport on Friday after attending a St. Patrick's Day event at the White House, according to a congressman.
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Rain falls on charred Texas Panhandle
Mar 17 2006 10:10PM (CT)
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) - Rain and sleet fell over much of the charred Texas Panhandle on Friday as crews put out hot spots from wildfires that have consumed 840,000 acres and killed at least 11 people since Sunday.
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Developer offers new ground zero proposal
Mar 17 2006 10:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hoping to bring state officials back to talks on the future of ground zero, World Trade Center site developer Larry Silverstein offered a new proposal Friday to address complaints that he had demanded too much in exchange for giving up some of his rebuilding rights.
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Ariz. to pay schools over English lessons
Mar 17 2006 10:08PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge ordered Friday that public schools receive $21 million in fines paid by the state for missing a deadline to revamp programs for students learning the English language.
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Remark about gays shadows St. Pat's parade
Mar 17 2006 9:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Protesters joined bagpipers, marching bands and thousands of flag-waving spectators at the St. Patrick's Day parade Friday after the parade's chairman compared gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.
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Woman crashes truck into clinic, killing 3
Mar 17 2006 9:38PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A pickup truck plowed through a plate-glass window at a medical clinic Friday, killing three people and injuring eight, authorities said.
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Doctor: Boot camp teen likely suffocated
Mar 17 2006 9:35PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A teen who died after guards punched and kicked him at a boot camp likely was suffocated during the confrontation and was brain dead when he was brought to a hospital, a pathologist told lawmakers Friday.
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Republican Rep. Boehlert of N.Y. to retire
Mar 17 2006 9:24PM (CT)
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - Republican Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, announced plans to retire Friday after nearly 24 years in Congress.
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States win suit to stop new EPA standards
Mar 17 2006 8:55PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A federal appeals court Friday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from easing clean air rules on aging power plants, refineries and factories, one of the regulatory changes that had been among the top environmental priorities of the White House.
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'Choose Life' plates allowed in Tenn.
Mar 17 2006 8:20PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court Friday allowed Tennessee to offer anti-abortion license plates bearing the message "Choose Life."
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Alaska oil spill went undetected for days
Mar 17 2006 7:59PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - For five days or more, crude oil oozed from a pipeline through a corrosion hole about the size of a pencil eraser, silently spreading underneath the snow in what would become the biggest spill ever on Alaska's North Slope.
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Police: Soap in juice made churchgoers sick
Mar 17 2006 6:10PM (CT)
DARIEN, Conn. (AP) - Grape juice that sickened churchgoers during a communion service last month was tainted with dishwashing soap, police said Friday.
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Lawyers: Coaching was to aid 9/11 airlines
Mar 17 2006 6:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for two airlines being sued by 9/11 victims prompted a federal attorney to coach witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial so the government's case against the al-Qaida conspirator would not undercut their defense, victims' lawyers allege.
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Colo. lawmakers pass indoor smoking ban
Mar 17 2006 5:09PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The House gave final approval to a statewide smoking ban Friday and sent the bill to Gov. Bill Owens, who said he will sign it.
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Conn. police: Juice tainted with soap
Mar 17 2006 4:58PM (CT)
DARIEN, Conn. (AP) - Grape juice that sickened churchgoers at a baptist church last month was tainted with dishwashing soap and authorities have identified a "person of interest" in the case, police said Friday.
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Vatican defrocks Boston monsignor, priests
Mar 17 2006 4:56PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A former vice chancellor of the Boston Archdiocese and six other priests accused of molesting children have been defrocked by the Vatican, church officials announced Friday.
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300 homes evacuated because of Fla. fire
Mar 17 2006 4:45PM (CT)
SEBRING, Fla. (AP) - A brush fire consumed 500 acres near this central Florida town Friday, forcing the evacuation of an estimated 300 homes.
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Paper's ex-publisher barred from new owner
Mar 17 2006 4:35PM (CT)
POINT REYES STATION, Calif. (AP) - The former publisher of a weekly newspaper has been ordered to stay away from the new publisher, who accuses him of trying to run him over with his car during a fight over editorial direction.
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Texas governor calls school finance talks
Mar 17 2006 4:33PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - With a court's threat to cut off school funds looming, Gov. Rick Perry on Friday called a 30-day special session to revamp the way Texas pays for its public education system.
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Romney takes a trip to the Vatican
Mar 17 2006 3:51PM (CT)
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a possible presidential candidate in 2008, has received a special invitation _ to attend the elevation of Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley to cardinal at the Vatican.
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Man shot dead at Calif. Denny's restaurant
Mar 17 2006 3:48PM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A gunman opened fire early Friday at a Denny's restaurant, killing one man and seriously wounding another, police said. It was the third fatal shooting at the restaurant chain in Southern California this week.
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Man gets life for shooting L.A. lawyer
Mar 17 2006 3:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man who opened fire on a lawyer in a videotaped attack outside a courthouse was sentenced Friday to life in prison plus 25 years.
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Abortion law may affect S.D. tourism
Mar 17 2006 3:20PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The superintendent of Mount Rushmore was surprised at first when people from all over the country started calling up to express their opinion about South Dakota's ban on nearly all abortions.
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Students spend break rebuilding Gulf Coast
Mar 17 2006 2:37PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Some of the college students flocking to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast for spring break are not coming for the beaches, the booze or the all-night debauchery. But they are getting hot and sweaty nonetheless.
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Chicago official guilty of taking payoffs
Mar 17 2006 2:12PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's former city clerk pleaded guilty Friday to taking $48,000 in payoffs in a city program that awarded hauling jobs to trucking companies.
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Orthodox Church launches financial probe
Mar 17 2006 1:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Confronting serious charges of financial mismanagement, the head of the Orthodox Church in America has authorized a full investigation and ousted his chief aide.
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NASA accidents prompt safety concerns
Mar 17 2006 1:13PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Kennedy Space Center employees returned to work Friday with orders to be more careful a day after a stand down was ordered following a spate of recent accidents.
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Man who killed parents denied new trial
Mar 17 2006 12:39PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A man who confessed to murdering his parents nearly 18 years ago but has since recanted and proclaimed his innocence was denied a new trial Friday.
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Fossett claims new flight record
Mar 17 2006 12:37PM (CT)
SALINA, Kan. (AP) - Adventurer Steve Fossett said Friday that he had broken the record for flying farther than anyone departing and landing at the same spot, traveling more than 25,000 miles in three days.
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Two pit bulls maul North Carolina man
Mar 17 2006 11:27AM (CT)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Two blood-covered pit bulls were found near the body of a man who died of multiple bites, authorities said.
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Savannah banks on St. Patrick's weekend
Mar 17 2006 10:24AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Hours before the start of the nation's second-largest St. Patrick's parade, hundreds of people already lined the streets of Savannah, sipping Bloody Marys beneath the live oaks.
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Religion in the news
Mar 17 2006 7:20AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Heads pop through the doorway of Rumee Ahmed's office at Brown University on a regular basis. Students come looking for a friend, a mentor and a teacher.
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Pa. farmer could lose land in tire dispute
Mar 17 2006 7:13AM (CT)
SHIRLEYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Properties owned by a farmer with an estimated 200,000 tires on the land may be sold to pay more than $330,000 that regulators say it will cost to remove the tires, a state court ruled.
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Military jury to decide dog handler case
Mar 17 2006 5:58AM (CT)
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - The fate of an Army dog handler charged with abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison will soon rest with a military jury.
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Patron who distracted gunman saved others
Mar 17 2006 4:27AM (CT)
PISMO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - As a homeless man opened fire in a Denny's restaurant, a patron's decision to try to stop the gunman cost him his life, but allowed others to flee to safety, authorities said Thursday.
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N.C. murderer executed by lethal injection
Mar 17 2006 3:52AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man who fatally shot his then-girlfriend's husband in a plot to collect insurance money was executed by injection early Friday.
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Missing child services worker strangled
Mar 17 2006 3:10AM (CT)
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) - A preliminary autopsy indicates a state social worker whose body was found along a country road was strangled, the county sheriff said Thursday.
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Court says Yates retrial can go forward
Mar 17 2006 3:01AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Rejecting double jeopardy claims, an appeals court cleared the way for Andrea Yates to be retried for the 2001 bathtub drownings of her children beginning next week.
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Educators shed light on northern slavery
Mar 17 2006 2:07AM (CT)
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) - A group of mostly white seventh and eighth graders sleepily sauntered into their school library, soon to get a surprise awakening about a part of their town's history they never knew existed.
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4 die after boat overturns in Atlantic
Mar 17 2006 12:25AM (CT)
OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) - Four volunteer firefighters on a fishing trip died after their small boat overturned in the Atlantic Ocean more than a mile from shore, the Coast Guard said Thursday.
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