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TB patient faces felony charges in Ariz.
Mar 24 2008 11:35PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A man with a virulent form of tuberculosis who once was confined to a hospital jail ward for failing to wear a mask in public has been indicted on felony charges.
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Business jet door falls off; no one hurt
Mar 24 2008 10:59PM (CT)
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Aviation officials say the main passenger door fell off a twin-jet business plane as it was taking off from a Colorado airport.
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Missing Ohio student found in Ecuador
Mar 24 2008 10:47PM (CT)
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) - A college student from Ohio who disappeared while hiking at a national park in Ecuador has been found safe.
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Settlement proposed to Va. Tech families
Mar 24 2008 10:43PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre would receive $100,000 each under a settlement the state is proposing to prevent lawsuits, according to a victim's relative who received a copy of the proposal.
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Pilot's gun fires on US Airways flight
Mar 24 2008 10:08PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane went off as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities said Monday.
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NY Gov. Paterson says he used cocaine
Mar 24 2008 10:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York's new governor, who disclosed last week that he and his wife both committed adultery several years ago, said Monday that he used cocaine in his 20s and smoked marijuana when he was younger.
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Tribal whalers reject plea deal in Wash.
Mar 24 2008 9:57PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Five tribal members charged with killing a gray whale during a rogue hunt off Washington state rejected a plea deal Monday after federal prosecutors said they might seek to curtail the men's hunting rights.
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Indicted Iowa bank exec's family killed
Mar 24 2008 9:52PM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A woman and her four children were found dead in their home Monday morning, and police later found a sixth body in a burning, wrecked van owned by her husband _ a former bank executive who had been charged with embezzlement.
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Answers elusive in Alaska ship sinking
Mar 24 2008 9:42PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Coast Guard scanned the icy Bering Sea on Monday for a fisherman who may have been dropped from a rescue basket after the vessel he was on sank, killing four people and leaving survivors bobbing across a mile of ocean.
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Answers elusive in Alaska ship sinking
Mar 24 2008 9:42PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Coast Guard scanned the icy Bering Sea on Monday for a fisherman who may have been dropped from a rescue basket after the vessel he was on sank, killing four people and leaving survivors bobbing across a mile of ocean.
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CA probes early release of SLA figure
Mar 24 2008 9:33PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California corrections department on Monday began investigating how former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson was released from prison at least a year early.
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Tap-water salmonella inquiry narrows
Mar 24 2008 9:03PM (CT)
ALAMOSA, Colo. (AP) - Officials said Monday they have ruled out wastewater contamination, disgruntled workers and terrorism as sources of salmonella bacteria in drinking water that have sickened more than 200 people.
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Videotape shows Ranger lying to police
Mar 24 2008 8:49PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - An Army Ranger charged with killing his roommate, a colleague, gave investigators three versions of the man's death in an hourslong videotaped interview played for jurors Monday, but he maintained his innocence throughout.
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NY Gov. Paterson says he used cocaine
Mar 24 2008 8:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gov. David Paterson said Monday he used cocaine in his 20s and smoked marijuana when he was younger. In reference to cocaine, Paterson, 53, said in a television interview that he "tried it a couple of times" when he was "about 22 or 23."
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Detroit mayor charged with perjury
Mar 24 2008 8:12PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday _ and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth _ after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.
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Detroit mayor charged with perjury
Mar 24 2008 8:12PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday _ and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth _ after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.
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Detroit mayor charged with perjury
Mar 24 2008 8:12PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday _ and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling the truth _ after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide.
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Feds are sued over endangered species
Mar 24 2008 7:39PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Environmentalists are suing the federal government, claiming promises to whittle down a backlog of plants and animals being considered for endangered species protection amount to "smoke and mirrors."
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Officer reprimanded in soldier's death
Mar 24 2008 6:36PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A former Army training group leader who narrowly avoided a court-martial has been given a letter of reprimand over allegations he lied about when he last spoke to a soldier who died during a Fort Hood training exercise, his attorney said Monday.
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Rivers keep rising in Arkansas, Missouri
Mar 24 2008 5:53PM (CT)
DES ARC, Ark. (AP) - Muddy water rose to the middle of front doors Monday as a historic flood crest flowed southward on the White River through communities in the state's eastern prairie.
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Rivers keep rising in Arkansas, Missouri
Mar 24 2008 5:53PM (CT)
DES ARC, Ark. (AP) - Muddy water rose to the middle of front doors Monday as a historic flood crest flowed southward on the White River through communities in the state's eastern prairie.
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Rivers keep rising in Arkansas, Missouri
Mar 24 2008 5:53PM (CT)
DES ARC, Ark. (AP) - Muddy water rose to the middle of front doors Monday as a historic flood crest flowed southward on the White River through communities in the state's eastern prairie.
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Rivers keep rising in Arkansas, Missouri
Mar 24 2008 5:53PM (CT)
DES ARC, Ark. (AP) - Muddy water rose to the middle of front doors Monday as a historic flood crest flowed southward on the White River through communities in the state's eastern prairie.
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4 bodies found in Charlotte apartment
Mar 24 2008 5:43PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Police found the bodies of three men and a woman Monday who had been shot to death at an apartment in a complex plagued by drug and gang activity.
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Georgia 'Barbie Bandits' are sentenced
Mar 24 2008 5:33PM (CT)
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - The "Barbie bandits" who went on a shopping spree after they were videotaped wearing sunglasses and laughing during an $11,000 bank heist were sentenced Monday, one to jail and another to probation.
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Remains of 2 US contractors recovered
Mar 24 2008 5:21PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The remains of two U.S. contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago have been recovered, the FBI said Monday, weeks after families of several long-missing men gained hope that they might be found alive.
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Chauffeur: I didn't kill Conn. developer
Mar 24 2008 4:57PM (CT)
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - A chauffeur charged with conspiracy to commit murder said Monday that he did not kill a wealthy developer who had been days away from pleading guilty in a multimillion-dollar fraud case.
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Chauffeur: I didn't kill Conn. developer
Mar 24 2008 4:57PM (CT)
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - A chauffeur charged with conspiracy to commit murder said Monday that he did not kill a wealthy developer who had been days away from pleading guilty in a multimillion-dollar fraud case.
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Lawyer: No charges for Spitzer aide
Mar 24 2008 4:48PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The top aide whom former Gov. Eliot Spitzer blamed and disciplined for a plot to smear his chief Republican nemesis last year won't face criminal charges in the scandal, the ex-aide's attorney said Monday.
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Ala. inmates with HIV barred from work
Mar 24 2008 4:47PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Prison inmate Kathryn Canty seems like a prime candidate for work release: good behavior, less than three years left to serve, and an accounting degree along with vocational training.
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Engineer gets 24 1/2 years in prison
Mar 24 2008 3:30PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A Chinese-born engineer convicted of conspiracy to export U.S. defense technology to China was sentenced Monday to 24 1/2 years in federal prison by a judge who said the defendant betrayed his adopted country.
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VW Beetle-turned-police car turns heads
Mar 24 2008 3:23PM (CT)
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Blount County's newest police cruiser has been turning heads, but whether it could keep up in a high-speed chase seems unlikely.
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More evacuated near Ark. meat plant fire
Mar 24 2008 3:16PM (CT)
BOONEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Authorities fighting a blaze that destroyed a meat plant ordered new evacuations Monday over fears that new fires could erupt amid the smoldering debris.
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Nicaraguan likely UN assembly president
Mar 24 2008 2:56PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A former Nicaraguan foreign minister will likely become the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, U.N. officials said Monday.
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Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Mar 24 2008 2:45PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan's new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
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Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Mar 24 2008 2:45PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan's new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
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Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Mar 24 2008 2:45PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan's new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
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Paperwork flub keeps Mo. girl out of bee
Mar 24 2008 1:49PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 12-year-old girl is being kept out of the Scripps National Spelling Bee because of one word _ "district" _ and not because she got it wrong.
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Judge tells sex offender to put up signs
Mar 24 2008 1:24PM (CT)
HUDSON, Kan. (AP) - Under a judge's order, a man who has admitted molesting a boy has posted signs around his house and a decal on his car proclaiming that he is a sex offender.
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UN chief urges global fight against TB
Mar 24 2008 1:23PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. secretary-general on Monday urged stepped-up action to stop the global tuberculosis epidemic that is killing 4,000 people every day.
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$1M fine proposed for deadly tunnel fire
Mar 24 2008 12:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators on Monday proposed more than $1 million in penalties against the two companies involved in a Colorado fire that killed five workers in October.
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Ex-cop says he's portrayed as 'sinister'
Mar 24 2008 12:52PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - Jobless and with no prospects, Drew Peterson spends his days taking care of his four children: cooking meals, washing clothes, helping with homework. All the while, he does so knowing that most of the world believes he killed his last two wives.
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Ex-cop says he's portrayed as 'sinister'
Mar 24 2008 12:52PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - Jobless and with no prospects, Drew Peterson spends his days taking care of his four children: cooking meals, washing clothes, helping with homework. All the while, he does so knowing that most of the world believes he killed his last two wives.
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Fire contained at LA construction site
Mar 24 2008 12:31PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Firefighters on Monday contained a blaze that ripped through part of a five-story condominium complex under construction in the San Fernando Valley.
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5 killed in Iowa City shooting
Mar 24 2008 12:12PM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A woman and her four children were found dead in their home Monday morning, and police were searching for the woman's husband, authorities said.
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Fire kills N.H. woman, 2 young daughters
Mar 24 2008 8:58AM (CT)
FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) - A fast-spreading fire in a 19th century carriage house killed two sisters and their mother, who had rushed frantically into the building trying to save them.
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Group helps gang members leave crime
Mar 24 2008 4:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - DaJuan Hawkins spent four months in jail for assault and thought he was a "nothing" destined for a life of street crime.
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Group helps gang members leave crime
Mar 24 2008 4:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - DaJuan Hawkins spent four months in jail for assault and thought he was a "nothing" destined for a life of street crime.
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Group helps gang members leave crime
Mar 24 2008 4:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - DaJuan Hawkins spent four months in jail for assault and thought he was a "nothing" destined for a life of street crime.
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Group helps gang members leave crime
Mar 24 2008 4:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - DaJuan Hawkins spent four months in jail for assault and thought he was a "nothing" destined for a life of street crime.
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Group helps gang members leave crime
Mar 24 2008 4:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - DaJuan Hawkins spent four months in jail for assault and thought he was a "nothing" destined for a life of street crime.
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12 firefighters hurt in Calif. blaze
Mar 24 2008 1:03AM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Twelve firefighters were injured Sunday in a blaze that broke out at a commercial building, causing three chemical storage tanks to rupture and forcing the evacuation of 35 businesses, authorities said.
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Report: JPMorgan could up Bear offer
Mar 24 2008 12:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - JPMorgan Chase & Co. was discussing a deal that would increase fivefold its offer for Bear Stearns Cos. to $10 a share, The New York Times reported Monday.
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