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Yates remarries before ex-wife's retrial
Mar 18 2006 11:55PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Rusty Yates remarried Saturday in the church where the funeral for his five children was held and less than two days before his ex-wife's murder retrial was to begin.
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Louisiana faces an exodus from the coast
Mar 18 2006 11:48PM (CT)
LAFITTE, La. (AP) - Once the salt water is in your veins, Louisiana's coastal folk say, it's hard to give up the lifestyle of moonlit shrimping trips, the town "fais do-do" dances and afternoons spent on the bayous angling for catfish. But since last year's catastrophic hurricanes, this swampy land defined by Cajuns, cypress and tupelo gum forests, bayou-side saloons and, more recently, subdivisions may have become too vulnerable for that lifestyle to continue.
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Woman to wed 'Boys Don't Cry' killer
Mar 18 2006 11:25PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A Chicago woman has been granted a marriage license to marry one of the killers portrayed in the movie "Boys Don't Cry."
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Grenade blast cripples Iraq vet's memory
Mar 18 2006 10:16PM (CT)
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) - His 3-year-old son Nicholas' first steps, the first time Liam, his newborn, smiled _ Staff Sgt. Douglas Piper lived to see them. Then his scarred memory erased even those precious moments.
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Rapist charged in S.C. assaults denied bond
Mar 18 2006 8:55PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A local magistrate denied bond Saturday for a convicted rapist charged with abducting two teenage girls and assaulting them in an underground room behind his home.
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New Orleans mayoral hopefuls stump in Ga.
Mar 18 2006 8:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Saturday his city has made progress in rebuilding since Hurricane Katrina, while other mayoral hopefuls questioned the advances and stressed that their hometown's pre-existing troubles need to be confronted.
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ACLU, L.A. agree on Skid Row cleanup plan
Mar 18 2006 5:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Civil rights leaders, business interests and the city have a new plan for cleaning up Skid Row that involves a crackdown on crime without sweeping homeless people off the streets.
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Killer nurse may be able to donate kidney
Mar 18 2006 5:05PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A judge has agreed to allow New Jersey's worst serial killer to donate a kidney, but the donor and his doctors have to meet conditions.
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Private plane crashes off course in W.Va
Mar 18 2006 4:35PM (CT)
WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) - A private plane crashed near a rural home in West Virginia after straying hundreds of miles off course as National Guard fighter crews tried unsuccessfully to contact the pilot.
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Four more arrested in videotaped beatings
Mar 18 2006 3:34PM (CT)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Four more people have been arrested in connection with multiple assaults and robberies by a neighborhood gang that videotaped its crimes.
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Kansas City parade marred by violence
Mar 18 2006 3:27PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Shots were fired and a family was attacked in a parking lot during Kansas City's St. Patrick's Day Parade, two years after similar violence prompted police to beef up parade security.
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Five hurt after gunfire at S.C. frat party
Mar 18 2006 3:12PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A gunman opened fire at a fraternity party in a banquet hall across the street from the South Carolina Capitol early Saturday, wounding five people.
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Many Naval Academy charges dismissed
Mar 18 2006 3:03PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Sexual assault charges against students at the Naval Academy are routinely dismissed without trial, an analysis of Navy documents found.
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Calif. Denny's chain sees another shooting
Mar 18 2006 2:54PM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A gunman opened fire at a Denny's restaurant, killing one man and seriously wounding another, police said. It was the third fatal shooting in as many days at a Denny's in Southern California.
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New Orleans officers cleared of looting
Mar 18 2006 2:54PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Four New Orleans police officers have been cleared of allegations that they looted a Wal-Mart store after Hurricane Katrina, but each was suspended 10 days for not stopping civilians from ransacking the store, the Police Department said.
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Prostitutes help police search for killer
Mar 18 2006 2:36PM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Prostitutes on some of Daytona's roughest streets have started memorizing license plate numbers and talking with investigators as rumors spread of a serial killer in their midst.
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Sailor's son killed at home on naval base
Mar 18 2006 2:28PM (CT)
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - The 8-year-old son of an active-duty sailor was stabbed to death in a house on a Great Lakes Navy base, and a man who police say was inside the home with a knife was charged with murder.
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Moussaoui trial set to move forward
Mar 18 2006 2:19PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The death-penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is back on track after a judge reversed course and agreed to admit some evidence about aviation security.
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Fashion designer Oleg Cassini dies at 92
Mar 18 2006 12:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Oleg Cassini, who designed the dresses that helped make Jacqueline Kennedy the most glamorous first lady in history, died Friday. He was 92.
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Home searched in missing caseworker probe
Mar 18 2006 10:45AM (CT)
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) - Authorities investigating the killing of a Child Protective Services worker searched a home owned by a former sheriff's captain and impounded a car.
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Activists: Shootings deaths up in N.J
Mar 18 2006 10:24AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, but shooting deaths in its major cities still surged last year.
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Mo. drama teacher resigns in play flap
Mar 18 2006 9:24AM (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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Times admits incorrectly ID'ing hooded man
Mar 18 2006 7:10AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times acknowledged in Saturday's editions that it incorrectly identified an Iraqi man in a front-page story as the hooded figure shown in a photograph from Abu Ghraib prison that became an icon of abuse by American captors.
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Man convicted of illegal exporting
Mar 18 2006 6:08AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Pakistani who spent five years in prison for selling missile parts to Iran in the 1980s has been convicted of illegally exporting military aircraft parts to Belgium, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Woman crashes truck into clinic, killing 3
Mar 18 2006 5:53AM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - In an instant, stunned witnesses watched as a pickup truck plowed through a plate glass window into the waiting room of a medical clinic at a strip mall, triggering screams inside and sending debris everywhere. Three people were killed in Friday's crash, including the receptionist and a mother and her teenage son.
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Singer-banjo player Narvin Kimball dies
Mar 18 2006 4:10AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Narvin Kimball, the last founding member of the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band who was known for his vocal stylings and banjo playing, has died. He was 97.
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Threats part of CPS workers' daily lives
Mar 18 2006 3:52AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - In six years with the state's Child Protective Services, social worker Holly Jones has been cursed, chased by dogs and run out of homes by angry parents.
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States win suit to stop new EPA standards
Mar 18 2006 3:40AM (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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Death toll in Hawaii dam break rises to 3
Mar 18 2006 2:32AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Three days after a privately owned dam burst and released a violent torrent of water on the island of Kauai, search-and-rescue teams found the body of the disaster's third victim in a stream bed.
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Rifle range gets the boot from Mont. park
Mar 18 2006 2:31AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Erosion by wind and water is a big part of the story at Makoshika State Park, a place of badlands and dinosaur fossils, bobcats and bluebirds. Now some people who enjoy firing guns at a range there fear erosion of what they have come to view as an entitlement.
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Gerry Adams detained at D.C. airport
Mar 18 2006 1:51AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party in Northern Ireland, was detained at a Washington airport Friday after attending a St. Patrick's Day event at the White House, according to a congressman.
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Yates' attorneys ask judge to delay trial
Mar 18 2006 12:22AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates' defense attorneys again asked a judge to delay her capital murder retrial for the 2001 bathtub drowning deaths of her children, which is scheduled to begin next week.
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