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Man killed in standoff at Colo. hospital
Mar 17 2008 11:59PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A man in a wheelchair at a hospital who claimed his oxygen tank had a detonator was fatally shot by police after a four-hour standoff Monday.
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Robot gets eyes, tools in spacewalk
Mar 17 2008 11:53PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts stepped outside Monday night and gave the space station's new robot some eyes and a set of tools.
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Robot gets eyes, tools in spacewalk
Mar 17 2008 11:53PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts stepped outside Monday night and gave the space station's new robot some eyes and a set of tools.
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I-95 in Philadelphia to close for days
Mar 17 2008 11:35PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Part of a major northeast corridor will be closed for at least two days in Philadelphia because of a 4-foot crack in a concrete support pillar.
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Report: New NY governor admits affair
Mar 17 2008 10:43PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Just hours after he received a standing ovation from lawmakers chanting his name, New York's newly sworn governor was answering questions about straying from his own marriage.
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Report: New NY governor admits affair
Mar 17 2008 10:43PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Just hours after he received a standing ovation from lawmakers chanting his name, New York's newly sworn governor was answering questions about straying from his own marriage.
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Report: New NY governor admits affair
Mar 17 2008 10:43PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Just hours after he received a standing ovation from lawmakers chanting his name, New York's newly sworn governor was answering questions about straying from his own marriage.
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Hundreds hound shelter for seized dogs
Mar 17 2008 10:09PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A frenzy of tiny-dog lovers has descended on an animal shelter that rescued hundreds of Chihuahuas from a filthy rural Arizona home, with some potential owners getting into shoving matches and others calling from around the globe.
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Report: NY governor admits to affairs
Mar 17 2008 10:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gov. David Paterson, who took over the state's top job Monday after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, has admitted he and his wife Michelle had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago, a newspaper reported.
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Calif. moth-spraying contract questioned
Mar 17 2008 10:08PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California officials said Monday that they had canceled a no-bid contract to promote the safety of aerial spraying for an invasive moth, acting after an Associated Press report about the deal.
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Man says ricin belonged to his brother
Mar 17 2008 10:06PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The man at the center of a ricin scare at a Las Vegas motel says he never had any intention of hurting anyone with the deadly biological agent, his brother told The Associated Press.
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Head of Russian church offshoot dies
Mar 17 2008 9:33PM (CT)
JORDANVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Metropolitan Laurus, who played a key role in healing an 80-year schism between the Russian Orthodox Church and an offshoot set up abroad following the Bolshevik Revolution, has died. He was 80.
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Head of Russian church offshoot dies
Mar 17 2008 9:33PM (CT)
JORDANVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Metropolitan Laurus, who played a key role in healing an 80-year schism between the Russian Orthodox Church and an offshoot set up abroad following the Bolshevik Revolution, has died. He was 80.
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NYC cranes present constant safety risk
Mar 17 2008 9:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - They are part of New York's skyline: hundreds of spindly construction cranes like the one that toppled over the weekend, pulverizing parts of a city block below and killing seven people. As the machines work furiously amid a supercharged building boom, experts say it's always a risk.
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NYC cranes present constant safety risk
Mar 17 2008 9:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - They are part of New York's skyline: hundreds of spindly construction cranes like the one that toppled over the weekend, pulverizing parts of a city block below and killing seven people. As the machines work furiously amid a supercharged building boom, experts say it's always a risk.
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NYC cranes present constant safety risk
Mar 17 2008 9:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - They are part of New York's skyline: hundreds of spindly construction cranes like the one that toppled over the weekend, pulverizing parts of a city block below and killing seven people. As the machines work furiously amid a supercharged building boom, experts say it's always a risk.
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8 may hold $276 million Powerball ticket
Mar 17 2008 9:00PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Eight women who believe they hold a Powerball ticket worth $276.3 million are public servants who reported to work as usual Monday, but at least one of their husbands has already quit his job.
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Ship's pilot charged in SF Bay oil spill
Mar 17 2008 8:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The pilot of a ship that spilled thousands of gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay last November was charged by federal prosecutors Monday with criminal negligence and breaking environmental laws.
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4 years for use of software to steal IDs
Mar 17 2008 7:40PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A man was sentenced to more than four years in prison Monday in what prosecutors said was the first federal case against someone using file-sharing software to steal identities.
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Deputy in Till investigation dies at 93
Mar 17 2008 7:33PM (CT)
GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - John Ed Cothran, a former sheriff's deputy who investigated the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, which galvanized the civil rights movement, has died of heart failure. He was 93.
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N.J. cop, suspect struggle; both shot
Mar 17 2008 7:26PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A naked stabbing suspect got into a struggle with a police officer Monday, leading a colleague to open fire and kill the suspect.
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Naked man allegedly goes on rampage
Mar 17 2008 7:21PM (CT)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A hotel and store in Lancaster County are assessing the damage after a naked man ran amok and allegedly did thousands of dollars worth of damage to two businesses.
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NYC parade impresses even the Irish
Mar 17 2008 7:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tourist Joan Morgan paid the ultimate compliment to revelers in the St. Patrick's Day parade Monday.
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NYC parade impresses even the Irish
Mar 17 2008 7:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tourist Joan Morgan paid the ultimate compliment to revelers in the St. Patrick's Day parade Monday.
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NYC parade impresses even the Irish
Mar 17 2008 7:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tourist Joan Morgan paid the ultimate compliment to revelers in the St. Patrick's Day parade Monday.
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NYC parade impresses even the Irish
Mar 17 2008 7:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tourist Joan Morgan paid the ultimate compliment to revelers in the St. Patrick's Day parade Monday.
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Atlanta assesses tornado's effects
Mar 17 2008 5:44PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Workers struggled to their offices Monday through debris and snarled traffic days after a tornado struck downtown, but no long-term effects on the city's lucrative convention and tourism industry were anticipated.
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Atlanta assesses tornado's effects
Mar 17 2008 5:44PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Workers struggled to their offices Monday through debris and snarled traffic days after a tornado struck downtown, but no long-term effects on the city's lucrative convention and tourism industry were anticipated.
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Atlanta assesses tornado's effects
Mar 17 2008 5:44PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Workers struggled to their offices Monday through debris and snarled traffic days after a tornado struck downtown, but no long-term effects on the city's lucrative convention and tourism industry were anticipated.
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Is my account safe from credit crisis?
Mar 17 2008 5:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The credit crisis has done more damage on Park Avenue than on Main Street, but the near-collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns raises the question of whether Wall Street's troubles could spread to commercial banks and ordinary depositors.
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Jury to get case against Pa. pathologist
Mar 17 2008 5:02PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Jurors were set to begin deliberating whether celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht should be convicted of using public employees, resources and equipment to benefit his multimillion-dollar private practice.
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At auction, UFO home didn't take off
Mar 17 2008 4:40PM (CT)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The sale price for a Chattanooga, Tenn., house shaped like a flying saucer is nothing to phone home about.
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Toll from NYC crane collapse hits 7
Mar 17 2008 3:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The last of seven bodies was pulled from the rubble Monday at the site of a crane collapse that obliterated a town house and severely damaged other buildings.
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Toll from NYC crane collapse hits 7
Mar 17 2008 3:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The last of seven bodies was pulled from the rubble Monday at the site of a crane collapse that obliterated a town house and severely damaged other buildings.
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Toll from NYC crane collapse hits 7
Mar 17 2008 3:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The last of seven bodies was pulled from the rubble Monday at the site of a crane collapse that obliterated a town house and severely damaged other buildings.
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Gay ex-gov claims threesome tryst
Mar 17 2008 3:51PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - He says yes. She says no. He says yes. Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey said Monday he and his wife and a male aide engaged in sexual threesomes, contradicting a denial issued hours earlier by his estranged wife.
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Lost state still has independent streak
Mar 17 2008 3:04PM (CT)
YREKA, Calif. (AP) - In extreme Northern California, far from the bright lights of Hollywood and the foggy charms of San Francisco, is a place unknown to most people: a handful of counties that once sought to make themselves into a separate state called Jefferson.
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Judge orders return of cars to ex-cop
Mar 17 2008 2:35PM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Former police officer Drew Peterson entered a courtroom Monday for the first time since being named a suspect in his wife's disappearance, winning a judge's order that investigators return seized cars and computers to him.
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Miss. GOP to give away Scruggs money
Mar 17 2008 2:16PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Republican Party says it will not keep contributions from high-profile attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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Ga. landfill searched for missing couple
Mar 17 2008 1:39PM (CT)
JESUP, Ga. (AP) - Investigators with cadaver dogs searched a southeast Georgia landfill Monday for a missing couple last seen two weeks at the marina where they lived and worked on Hilton Head Island, S.C.
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Lima officer charged in fatal shooting
Mar 17 2008 1:34PM (CT)
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - A white police officer accused of fatally shooting a black woman as she held her 1-year-old son during a drug raid was charged with two misdemeanors Monday, outraging activists and relatives of the woman who said he should face tougher penalties.
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Cheney meets with leaders in Iraq
Mar 17 2008 12:46PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney, marking five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq with an overnight stay in the war-torn nation, warned on Monday against large drawdowns of American troops that could jeopardize recent security gains.
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Cheney meets with leaders in Iraq
Mar 17 2008 12:46PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney, marking five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq with an overnight stay in the war-torn nation, warned on Monday against large drawdowns of American troops that could jeopardize recent security gains.
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Cheney meets with leaders in Iraq
Mar 17 2008 12:46PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney, marking five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq with an overnight stay in the war-torn nation, warned on Monday against large drawdowns of American troops that could jeopardize recent security gains.
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FBI watchlist data unreliable
Mar 17 2008 11:47AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI gave outdated, incomplete and inaccurate information about terror suspects to be added to the government's watchlist for nearly three years despite steps taken to prevent errors, a Justice Department audit concludes.
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Court accepts crime lab case
Mar 17 2008 10:42AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether prosecutors can use crime lab reports as evidence without having the forensic analyst who prepared them testify at trial.
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Court to take up voting rights suit
Mar 17 2008 9:56AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide a case over the drawing of legislative boundaries that could affect the ability of minorities to elect their candidates of choice.
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Court will decide Wash. shooting case
Mar 17 2008 9:37AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider reinstating the murder conviction of the driver in a gang-related drive-by shooting that horrified residents of the nation's capital in 1994.
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Boy killed in SoCal shooting
Mar 17 2008 9:02AM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Police say an apparent gang shooting in California has left an 11-year-old boy dead and another man wounded.
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Plane crash in rural Va. kills 2
Mar 17 2008 8:54AM (CT)
RURAL RETREAT, Va. (AP) - A small plane whose pilot reported icing problems crashed in a mountainous area moments later, killing the two people on board, officials said.
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Beach rap concert ends in fights
Mar 17 2008 7:54AM (CT)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Police say officers were overwhelmed trying to restore order as a spring break rap concert ended in multiple fights on the beach at Galveston, Texas.
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Trooper indicted on homicide charges
Mar 17 2008 7:52AM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A state trooper has been indicted on reckless homicide charges that accuse him of using excessive speed _ more than 120 mph _ when he swerved into an oncoming car, killing two teenage sisters.
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Lawyer in D.C. gun case doesn't own one
Mar 17 2008 6:14AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert Levy has never owned a handgun and has no burning desire to own one now. He hasn't been a Washington resident since he was a teen in the 1950s.
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Web has unexpected effect on journalism
Mar 17 2008 2:00AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago, a study on the industry released Sunday found.
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