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Church fire suspects decline to post bond
Mar 19 2006 11:30PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Three college students accused in a string of rural Alabama church fires will not seek release on bond on the federal charges, their attorneys said.
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Heavy rain in North Texas floods roads
Mar 19 2006 11:08PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - More than 5 inches of rain fell Sunday in parts of North Texas, causing high-rising floodwaters that killed at least one person and forced several rescues, officials said.
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Civil rights pioneer delivers last sermon
Mar 19 2006 10:57PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight against segregation, retired from the ministry Sunday, delivering his final sermon as pastor of the church he founded 40 years ago.
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Sri Lankan ordered freed from border jail
Mar 19 2006 7:31PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - After more than four years in a U.S. detention center, Ahilan Nadarajah will soon gain the freedom he sought when he fled Sri Lanka and the government forces there that he says repeatedly jailed and tortured him.
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Pirate radio interferes with Miami pilots
Mar 19 2006 7:17PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Airline pilots departing from Miami International Airport are getting an earful of something unexpected: Hip-hop tunes from a pirate radio station that sometimes interfere with their communications with the control tower.
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Killer nurse may be able to donate kidney
Mar 19 2006 5:34PM (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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Man who attacked Rosa Parks offers apology
Mar 19 2006 5:33PM (CT)
MUNISING, Mich. (AP) - A man who beat civil rights icon Rosa Parks and took $53 from her during a break-in at her Detroit home in 1994 says he dreams of redemption.
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Louisiana faces an exodus from the coast
Mar 19 2006 5:29PM (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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Some Katrina victims struggle with guilt
Mar 19 2006 5:25PM (CT)
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (AP) - It is impossible to imagine, here in the tranquil resort towns tucked among the Rocky Mountains and topped by a gentle meringue of snow, that nature could be the sinister force that caused Hurricane Katrina.
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States look to reduce dropout rates
Mar 19 2006 5:22PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Stephan Howell got in a lot of fights in high school and was suspended so often he couldn't get credit for some of his classes. By his senior year, he was told he would have to stay an extra year and a half if he wanted to graduate.
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Calif. city bans smoking in public places
Mar 19 2006 5:21PM (CT)
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) - No more smoking in the park. Lighting up on the sidewalk could bring a fine. Dining on the restaurant patio? Don't bother asking for matches.
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Yates remarries before ex-wife's retrial
Mar 19 2006 1:04PM (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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Iraq leaves veteran in personal fog of war
Mar 19 2006 9:43AM (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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Hawaiian island braces for more heavy rain
Mar 19 2006 4:52AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaiian officials carefully monitored high-risk reservoirs for another possible break as forecasters predicted several more days of heavy rain for an island where a dam burst last week, killing up to seven people.
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