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Flooding, heavy snow plague Midwest
Mar 21 2008 11:52PM (CT)
DUTCHTOWN, Mo. (AP) - Flood-weary residents in Missouri, Arkansas and Ohio fought to save their homes Friday after heavy rainstorms pushed swollen rivers out of their banks, and a fresh snowstorm blew through parts of the Upper Midwest, canceling flights and some Good Friday services.
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4 found safe, pulled from Tenn. cave
Mar 21 2008 9:50PM (CT)
TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) - Rescuers found four cavers cold and wet but otherwise safe on Friday after they didn't return as planned from an overnight spelunking trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Tahoe panel: Make fire prevention focus
Mar 21 2008 8:16PM (CT)
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - A special panel created after last summer's Lake Tahoe wildfire warned Friday that another catastrophic blaze is imminent and recommended dozens of steps to stop it, from banning wood shingles to spending more than $100 million to improve the area's water system.
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City's water verified as bacteria source
Mar 21 2008 8:13PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - It could be three more weeks before residents of a southern Colorado town can drink water straight from the tap after dozens of cases of salmonella poisoning were linked to municipal water, putting seven people in the hospital.
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NY sex scandals have couples talking
Mar 21 2008 7:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Every so often, says Marla Felcher, something happens that makes her realize again that she made a great choice of husband, lo these 29 years ago. One of those moments was the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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NY sex scandals have couples talking
Mar 21 2008 7:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Every so often, says Marla Felcher, something happens that makes her realize again that she made a great choice of husband, lo these 29 years ago. One of those moments was the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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NY sex scandals have couples talking
Mar 21 2008 7:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Every so often, says Marla Felcher, something happens that makes her realize again that she made a great choice of husband, lo these 29 years ago. One of those moments was the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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And the winner is _ Oh, no. the Tribune!
Mar 21 2008 7:40PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Judges from the Chicago Sun-Times thought the video deserved top honors in its contest poking fun at rival Tribune Co. for considering selling the naming rights to beloved Wrigley Field _ home of the Cubs.
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Proposal would expand Security Council
Mar 21 2008 7:33PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An interim proposal to tackle the divisive issue of Security Council reform would expand the U.N.'s most powerful body from 15 to 22 members but leave it up to the 192 U.N. member states to decide which countries should fill them.
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Obese relative may have crushed toddler
Mar 21 2008 7:28PM (CT)
LA JOYA, Texas (AP) - A 2-year-old boy who died with a fractured skull may have been accidentally crushed by a morbidly obese relative, authorities say.
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Conviction in San Diego dismemberment
Mar 21 2008 7:26PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A bookstore employee was convicted Friday of killing of a transient whose dismembered body parts were found scattered around San Diego County.
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2nd man charged in NJ missing mom case
Mar 21 2008 7:25PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A man has been charged with tampering with evidence in the case of a woman presumed killed by the married man she had been seeing, authorities said Friday.
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Student volunteers make a break for N.O.
Mar 21 2008 7:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The spring break snapshots coming out of the Big Easy aren't of tabletop dancing and beer-drinking contests. No, the photos making it onto student blogs and personal Web pages this spring show hard hats and hammers.
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Fundraiser on trial heard giving orders
Mar 21 2008 6:38PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors played a recording Friday at the federal fraud trial of a prominent political fundraiser in which he gives orders to a member of a state board they say he secretly ran.
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Mexican police chief requests US asylum
Mar 21 2008 6:26PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The police chief of a Mexican border town racked by smuggling-related violence fled to the U.S. seeking asylum after his deputies abandoned him, federal officials said Friday.
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Torture death shocks Ill. town
Mar 21 2008 6:15PM (CT)
ALTON, Ill. (AP) - Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.
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Ex-USF prof again refuses to testify
Mar 21 2008 6:08PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former university professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid terrorists has refused for a third time to testify before a grand jury investigating Muslim charities and businesses in northern Virginia.
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Feds to appeal ruling in AIPAC case
Mar 21 2008 6:03PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Yet another delay is expected in the trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing U.S. secrets after prosecutors told a judge Friday they plan to appeal a critical ruling on how classified information will be introduced at trial.
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SoCal area jittery after 911-call death
Mar 21 2008 5:16PM (CT)
WEST COVINA, Calif. (AP) - Residents of an upscale community were on edge Friday as detectives sought whoever shot a neighbor to death in her gated, high-security mansion as she called 911.
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Naked man dies after Taser jolt in Fla.
Mar 21 2008 4:56PM (CT)
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Authorities in South Florida say a man who was found naked on the street and violently resisted arrest died after officers stunned him with a Taser.
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Ohio fire that killed 4 is ruled arson
Mar 21 2008 4:23PM (CT)
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) - A house fire that killed a 22-year-old woman and her three young children was arson, the state fire marshal's office said Friday.
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Pilot in SF oil spill pleads not guilty
Mar 21 2008 4:14PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The pilot of a container ship that spilled thousands of gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay last November pleaded not guilty on Friday to breaking two federal environmental laws.
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Head injuries from ray killed boater
Mar 21 2008 3:58PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal's poisonous barb, a medical examiner said Friday.
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Head injuries from ray killed boater
Mar 21 2008 3:58PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal's poisonous barb, a medical examiner said Friday.
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Woman's suit against seminary dismissed
Mar 21 2008 3:53PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Leaders of a prominent Southern Baptist seminary who believe women are biblically forbidden from teaching men were within their rights when they told a female professor to leave, a federal judge has ruled.
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Girl, 6, dies from swimming pool injury
Mar 21 2008 3:31PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A 6-year-old girl whose intestines were partially sucked out by a swimming pool drain, leading to tougher safety legislation, has died, her family's attorney said Friday.
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New governor backs NYC traffic fees
Mar 21 2008 3:25PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's new governor provided critical support Friday for a plan by New York City's mayor to reduce traffic by charging motorists fees in part of Manhattan.
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Rain gives Southeast break from drought
Mar 21 2008 3:15PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Climate experts say drought conditions across the Southeast have improved dramatically with the help of recent rains, but the region is not in the clear yet.
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Lawyer Scruggs' son guilty in Miss.
Mar 21 2008 2:30PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The last defendant in the bribery case that brought down powerful plaintiffs' attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs _ his son _ pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with federal prosecutors that could keep him out of prison.
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Tense mayoral race follows Mo. shooting
Mar 21 2008 1:31PM (CT)
KIRKWOOD, Mo. (AP) - Six weeks after a deadly shooting rampage rife with racial overtones in Kirkwood's City Council chambers, the issue of race has spilled over into the contest for mayor of this St. Louis suburb and produced a uniquely tense campaign.
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No red flags in Spitzer expense reports
Mar 21 2008 1:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ever since the prostitution scandal shoved Gov. Eliot Spitzer out the door, people have wondered: Did he spend taxpayer dollars or campaign money to subsidize trysts?
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Cops' charges dent Ind. city's image
Mar 21 2008 1:02PM (CT)
GARY, Ind. (AP) - Veteran officer Thomas Houston didn't mince words when he took over as police chief in this violence-plagued city, promising to "implode" the department and make big changes, even if it went against public sentiment.
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Cops' charges dent Ind. city's image
Mar 21 2008 1:02PM (CT)
GARY, Ind. (AP) - Veteran officer Thomas Houston didn't mince words when he took over as police chief in this violence-plagued city, promising to "implode" the department and make big changes, even if it went against public sentiment.
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Cops' charges dent Ind. city's image
Mar 21 2008 1:02PM (CT)
GARY, Ind. (AP) - Veteran officer Thomas Houston didn't mince words when he took over as police chief in this violence-plagued city, promising to "implode" the department and make big changes, even if it went against public sentiment.
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NYC DA: Immigration agent demanded sex
Mar 21 2008 1:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal immigration official who was recorded demanding sex from a young Colombian woman in exchange for a green card was arrested on corruption charges, prosecutors said Friday.
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Ex-SLA member freed from Calif. prison
Mar 21 2008 12:17PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - After serving six years in prison for trying to bomb police cars in the 1970s, former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson has been released on parole and reunited with the family she hid with for years.
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Officer in NY shooting: I had no choice
Mar 21 2008 10:07AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A detective accused in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day testified he shouted "Police! Don't move!" and believed the man's friend was reaching for a weapon before officers began firing.
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Asylum's renaming insults advocates
Mar 21 2008 9:21AM (CT)
WESTON, W.Va. (AP) - It's an intriguing and provocative name that translates to Web hits, phone calls and tour tickets: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
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Asylum's renaming insults advocates
Mar 21 2008 9:21AM (CT)
WESTON, W.Va. (AP) - It's an intriguing and provocative name that translates to Web hits, phone calls and tour tickets: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
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Judge departs for Iraq, charges dropped
Mar 21 2008 9:12AM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Charges that a New Hampshire man assaulted a teenager by whipping him with a belt have been thrown out because the judge had to leave the trial to serve in Iraq.
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Sex offender runs for mayor of suburb
Mar 21 2008 8:51AM (CT)
WILMER, Texas (AP) - A registered sex offender collared in an Internet sting four years ago is running for mayor of a small Dallas suburb.
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Inspector arrested in NYC crane collapse
Mar 21 2008 4:35AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Inspectors began rechecking dozens of construction cranes after one of their colleagues was accused of lying about examining a crane that collapsed 11 days later, killing seven people.
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Inspector arrested in NYC crane collapse
Mar 21 2008 4:35AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Inspectors began rechecking dozens of construction cranes after one of their colleagues was accused of lying about examining a crane that collapsed 11 days later, killing seven people.
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Report: Rodents caused Nev. canal flood
Mar 21 2008 3:53AM (CT)
FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) - Burrowing rodents caused a century-old irrigation canal to fail and flood a rural Nevada town in January, a team of scientific experts concluded in a report for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation made public Thursday night.
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NY man pleads guilty to parents' murders
Mar 21 2008 3:42AM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - A man has admitted killing both of his parents because they were kicking him out of his mother's Long Island home.
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Fossett remembered at Colo. service
Mar 21 2008 1:34AM (CT)
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) - Family, friends and admirers of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett gathered Thursday to remember him as an energetic, upbeat and generous man.
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Gay ex-gov wins round in divorce court
Mar 21 2008 12:53AM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. Jim McGreevey didn't plan to torment his wife while they were married, a judge in their divorce case ruled Thursday, while allowing her to continue with a claim of marriage fraud.
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Gay ex-gov wins round in divorce court
Mar 21 2008 12:53AM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. Jim McGreevey didn't plan to torment his wife while they were married, a judge in their divorce case ruled Thursday, while allowing her to continue with a claim of marriage fraud.
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Gay ex-gov wins round in divorce court
Mar 21 2008 12:53AM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. Jim McGreevey didn't plan to torment his wife while they were married, a judge in their divorce case ruled Thursday, while allowing her to continue with a claim of marriage fraud.
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Feds OK gas terminal between L.I., Conn.
Mar 21 2008 12:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal energy regulators on Thursday approved a $700 million liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound, a facility opposed by the state of Connecticut and other critics who say it would damage the environment and be vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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Statehouses often look like frat houses
Mar 21 2008 12:26AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Of all the wisecracks heard in the marble halls of New York's Capitol after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall in a call-girl scandal, one jest enlightened as much as it stung: Spitzer's got to be the only guy in Albany who PAYS for sex.
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Statehouses often look like frat houses
Mar 21 2008 12:26AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Of all the wisecracks heard in the marble halls of New York's Capitol after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall in a call-girl scandal, one jest enlightened as much as it stung: Spitzer's got to be the only guy in Albany who PAYS for sex.
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