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New drug helps heart failure symptoms
Mar 25 2007 9:53PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An experimental drug is the first to substantially and safely improve shortness of breath and other symptoms in people hospitalized with severe heart failure, an epidemic that is growing as baby boomers age, doctors reported Sunday.
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New drug helps heart failure symptoms
Mar 25 2007 9:53PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An experimental drug is the first to substantially and safely improve shortness of breath and other symptoms in people hospitalized with severe heart failure, an epidemic that is growing as baby boomers age, doctors reported Sunday.
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Neighbors react to alleged slay-grilling
Mar 25 2007 9:35PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment.
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Tyrannosaurus skull sells in New York
Mar 25 2007 9:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a shaggy-coated mammoth from the Ice Age sold for a combined $372,000 at a natural history auction Sunday, auction officials said.
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Last Mustang Ranch building destroyed
Mar 25 2007 8:34PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The last remaining building on the grounds where the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel once stood went up in flames Sunday.
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2 found alive after fall off cruise ship
Mar 25 2007 7:26PM (CT)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, but both were rescued after a four-hour search and appeared to be in good condition, a cruise line spokeswoman said.
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Attorney in Duke lacrosse case dies
Mar 25 2007 6:34PM (CT)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Kirk Osborn, a lead defense attorney in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case, died early Sunday, a fellow defense attorney in the case said. He was 64.
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Off-duty cops accused in bar attack
Mar 25 2007 6:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities are investigating claims that six off-duty Chicago police officers were captured on video assaulting four men in a bar, the second report of police involved in an assault to surface in a week.
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Mourners remember dismembered Mich. wife
Mar 25 2007 2:55PM (CT)
ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) - Mourners arrived in a steady stream Sunday to remember a woman who police say was strangled and dismembered by her husband at their home in a Detroit suburb.
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Fla. school hired felons for campus jobs
Mar 25 2007 2:28PM (CT)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind allowed felons to work on campus construction jobs during the past two years, according to interviews and documents.
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'Good fat' diet helps heart patients
Mar 25 2007 2:24PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Mediterranean-style diet high in olive oil and other "healthy" fats is just as good as the classic American Heart Association low-fat diet for the 8 million Americans who have suffered a heart attack and want to prevent a repeat, new research suggests.
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Thief swipes minivan with kids inside
Mar 25 2007 2:20PM (CT)
SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A thief drove off in a minivan that was left running with three children sleeping inside, but the vehicle was found minutes later with all three unharmed and still asleep, authorities said.
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Fla. official defends firing manager
Mar 25 2007 1:43PM (CT)
LARGO, Fla. (AP) - One of the five commissioners who voted to fire a city manager who is seeking a sex-change operation said his management style, not lifestyle, led to the dismissal.
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'No Child' test demands taxing system
Mar 25 2007 1:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - To motivate juniors on last April's assessment exams, Springfield High School offered coveted lockers, parking spaces near the door and free prom tickets as incentives for good scores.
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Teen killed at same spot as friend
Mar 25 2007 1:09PM (CT)
WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A teenager was killed by a hit-and-run driver at the same spot where his 14-year-old friend had died in a car crash just hours earlier.
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Pizza boxes carry wanted posters
Mar 25 2007 11:06AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms _ wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support.
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Cheney: House is undermining the troops
Mar 25 2007 5:28AM (CT)
MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.
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Cheney: House is undermining the troops
Mar 25 2007 5:28AM (CT)
MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.
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Cheney: House is undermining the troops
Mar 25 2007 5:28AM (CT)
MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.
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Wash. state to test 'enhanced' licenses
Mar 25 2007 3:27AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - High-security driver's licenses aimed at letting U.S. citizens return from Canada without a passport could be adopted elsewhere if Washington state's experiment works, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.
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Wash. state to test 'enhanced' licenses
Mar 25 2007 3:27AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - High-security driver's licenses aimed at letting U.S. citizens return from Canada without a passport could be adopted elsewhere if Washington state's experiment works, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.
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N.M. towns clean up after twisters
Mar 25 2007 1:23AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - When she awoke Saturday, Andrea McLaren found that a stretch of the eastern New Mexico city she calls home had been obliterated by a tornado that flattened houses, snapped telephone poles and even heaved a trailer through a bowling alley.
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Report: NYPD watched RNC-bound activists
Mar 25 2007 1:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Undercover NYPD officers traveled around the U.S. and even to Europe to observe activists who planned to protest at the 2004 Republican National Convention _ including hundreds who showed no sign of illegal intent, a newspaper reported.
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Mich. man sentenced for alleged sex pact
Mar 25 2007 12:51AM (CT)
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - A man who pleaded no contest to entering into a sex pact with his girlfriend and her 15-year-old daughter and to having had sex with a 12-year-old relative was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.
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