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Census: Immigration helps big metros grow
Apr 4 2007 11:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Without immigrants pouring into the nation's big metro areas, places such as New York, Los Angeles and Boston would be shrinking as native-born Americans move farther out.
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U.N. to send mission to Kosovo
Apr 4 2007 11:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council is expected to send a mission to Kosovo and Serbia later this month for a firsthand assessment of the situation on the ground before tackling the future status of the contested territory, the council president said Wednesday.
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American Taliban seeks reduced sentence
Apr 4 2007 10:42PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The lawyer and parents of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Wednesday to commute his 20-year prison term, citing the case of an Australian man who was sentenced to less than a year for aiding terrorism.
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Convicted pastor denied leadership post
Apr 4 2007 10:42PM (CT)
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The former head of a national organization of black Baptist churches, who spent four years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group, lost his bid Wednesday to lead the group's Florida chapter.
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Woman indicted in deadly Chicago fire
Apr 4 2007 10:25PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman who told police a deadly apartment building blaze began when she tried to light a dollar bill to warm her feet was indicted Wednesday on murder and arson charges.
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Immigration probe targets Ill. company
Apr 4 2007 10:18PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Executives at a cleaning company were arrested Wednesday on federal charges that they hired illegal immigrants and helped them steal the identities of U.S. citizens.
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VA patient has wrong testicle removed
Apr 4 2007 10:06PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.
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Mo. dog found in Mont. 4 years later
Apr 4 2007 9:56PM (CT)
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) - A Boston terrier named Mickey that disappeared four years ago from his suburban Kansas City backyard was found in Montana and reunited with his owners this week.
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Gina Glocksen voted off 'American Idol'
Apr 4 2007 9:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gina Glocksen, who had her share of good and bad "American Idol" moments, kissed the show goodbye Wednesday, becoming the latest casualty in viewer voting.
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Report: Evidence lost in Ireland blasts
Apr 4 2007 9:13PM (CT)
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Missing police files and lost evidence thwarted an inquiry into car bombings that claimed 33 lives on one day in 1974 _ the deadliest terrorist strike in Irish history, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Students protest upcoming Cheney speech
Apr 4 2007 9:11PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - More than 200 demonstrators held a quiet rally Wednesday at Brigham Young University to protest Vice President Dick Cheney's upcoming commencement speech, while his supporters staged a counter-protest.
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Students protest upcoming Cheney speech
Apr 4 2007 9:11PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - More than 200 demonstrators held a quiet rally Wednesday at Brigham Young University to protest Vice President Dick Cheney's upcoming commencement speech, while his supporters staged a counter-protest.
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Students protest upcoming Cheney speech
Apr 4 2007 9:11PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - More than 200 demonstrators held a quiet rally Wednesday at Brigham Young University to protest Vice President Dick Cheney's upcoming commencement speech, while his supporters staged a counter-protest.
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Sept. 11 firefighter's remains ID'd
Apr 4 2007 9:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Sept. 11 victim recently identified through advanced DNA technology was a firefighter whose remains were recovered from the World Trade Center site in 2001, the fire department said.
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Intern admits thefts from U.S. archives
Apr 4 2007 9:09PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay.
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Intern admits thefts from U.S. archives
Apr 4 2007 9:09PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay.
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Intern admits thefts from U.S. archives
Apr 4 2007 9:09PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay.
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Researcher adds to Alger Hiss debate
Apr 4 2007 9:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Russian researcher, delving anew into once-secret Soviet files from the Cold War, says she has found no evidence that Alger Hiss spied or that Soviet intelligence had any particular interest in him.
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U.N.: Displaced rising in Darfur region
Apr 4 2007 9:08PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday the number of displaced persons in Sudan's Darfur region and neighboring countries has risen dramatically and urgent political action was needed to bring peace to the region.
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S.C. ultrasound bill causes questions
Apr 4 2007 9:05PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Requiring doctors to show women seeking an abortion an ultrasound image of their fetus could be declared unconstitutional if it is interpreted as forcing an unwilling patient, the state attorney general told legislators Wednesday in a letter.
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Comair takes partial blame for Ky. crash
Apr 4 2007 8:59PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Comair admitted to federal investigators that its pilots were partly responsible for an airplane crash that killed 49 people, but also says better systems for alerting airlines to taxiway changes might have prevented it.
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Police say woman, 30, posed as teen boy
Apr 4 2007 8:45PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The "boyfriend" of a 14-year-old girl who lived with her and her family for more than a year was actually a 30-year-old woman, police said.
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Ky. man opens fire, kills 1, injures 3
Apr 4 2007 8:17PM (CT)
LOT, Ky. (AP) - A man armed with a rifle shot his way into a southeastern Kentucky home Wednesday, killing one and injuring three others, authorities said.
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Guilty plea in New York terror case
Apr 4 2007 8:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A martial arts expert pleaded guilty Wednesday to pledging to help al-Qaida by teaching his fighting skills, the third of four defendants and the second this week to admit guilt in the case.
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New Orleans weighs evacuation plans
Apr 4 2007 8:01PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With hurricane season less than two months away and memories of Katrina less than two years old, city leaders are still trying to sort out how they will evacuate residents this year if another storm approaches.
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Court: Pentagon can fund Scout jamboree
Apr 4 2007 8:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal appellate court ruled Wednesday that the Pentagon can continue its financial support of the decades-old National Boy Scout Jamboree, which the Defense Department sees as a useful recruiting and training tool.
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'Christmas Story' director dies in crash
Apr 4 2007 7:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Film director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.
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'Christmas Story' director dies in crash
Apr 4 2007 7:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Film director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.
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N.M. spaceport is up in the air
Apr 4 2007 7:46PM (CT)
UPHAM, N.M. (AP) - Billionaire Richard Branson looks at a bleak and featureless expanse of the New Mexico desert and sees the perfect spot on which to build the future _ a $198 million launch complex that would blast paying tourists into space.
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Man who burned son gets 25-to-life term
Apr 4 2007 7:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man who severely burned his 6-year-old son in a custody dispute more than two decades ago was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on a weapons charge Wednesday under California's "three strikes" law.
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Doctor: Fake firefighter tried suicide
Apr 4 2007 7:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A writer accused of posing as a city firefighter and sexually abusing a woman told a psychiatrist that he tried to hang himself in jail, the doctor testified Wednesday.
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2 plead not guilty in puppy thefts
Apr 4 2007 7:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two men accused of stealing four Yorkshire terriers at gunpoint during a home robbery last month pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
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Officer struck after Gators' win dies
Apr 4 2007 6:55PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A police officer who was struck by a car after the Florida Gators' championship died Wednesday, authorities said.
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Band-Aid Bandit trial begins in Fla.
Apr 4 2007 6:41PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A defense lawyer wanted one thing clear at the start of the Band-Aid Bandit bank robbery trial Wednesday: The mole doesn't make the man.
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Equestrian charged with ramming cop car
Apr 4 2007 6:41PM (CT)
SYLVANIA, Ala. (AP) - A woman used a horse to ram a police car during a midnight ride through town and was charged with driving under the influence, police said.
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FEMA chief promises readiness for 2007
Apr 4 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency returned Wednesday to the scene of the agency's much-ridiculed performance after Hurricane Katrina and promised that it has transformed into a premier disaster response engine.
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FEMA chief promises readiness for 2007
Apr 4 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency returned Wednesday to the scene of the agency's much-ridiculed performance after Hurricane Katrina and promised that it has transformed into a premier disaster response engine.
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FEMA chief promises readiness for 2007
Apr 4 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency returned Wednesday to the scene of the agency's much-ridiculed performance after Hurricane Katrina and promised that it has transformed into a premier disaster response engine.
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No charges in 3rd Chicago video fight
Apr 4 2007 6:06PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - No charges will be filed in a bar fight between an off-duty Chicago police officer and another officer from Washington, D.C., the third such videotaped case to surface in recent weeks, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Teen guilty of seeking hit on ex's fetus
Apr 4 2007 5:54PM (CT)
COLVILLE, Wash. (AP) - An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-girlfriend's nearly full-term fetus and was sentenced to more than six years in prison.
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Missing ex-FBI agent's family worried
Apr 4 2007 5:11PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Relatives of a former FBI agent who has been missing in Iran for three weeks said Wednesday they are worried and doing everything possible to find him. U.S. officials, meanwhile, downplayed the disappearance as routine.
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More charges filed against L.A. designer
Apr 4 2007 4:33PM (CT)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - A celebrity fashion designer accused of sexually assaulting as many as a dozen women and girls pleaded not guilty Wednesday, hours after prosecutors filed 13 new charges.
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Male elephant kills female in Israel zoo
Apr 4 2007 4:27PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A seven-ton bull elephant charged and killed a female elephant half his weight as visitors to an Israeli nature park looked on in horror.
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3 at Yale charged in burning of flag
Apr 4 2007 4:21PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Three Yale University students, including one who translated for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and testified at a former CIA contractor's trial, have been charged in the burning of an American flag on a porch.
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Pa. teen blames clock mix-up for arrest
Apr 4 2007 3:56PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A high school student says he was wrongly accused of calling in a bomb threat in part because school officials hadn't adjusted their clocks for daylight-saving time.
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Mother arrested after kids panhandled
Apr 4 2007 3:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police say an unemployed suburban mother of five found a quick way to make ends meet: turning her children into panhandlers.
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N.H. House passes civil union bill
Apr 4 2007 3:02PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire moved closer Wednesday to joining neighboring Vermont and a handful of other states in approving civil unions for same-sex couples.
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Christians retrace Jesus' steps
Apr 4 2007 2:41PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Thousands of pilgrims retraced Jesus' footsteps Wednesday as they celebrated Holy Week at the sites where Christians mark his crucifixion, death and resurrection.
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Christians retrace Jesus' steps
Apr 4 2007 2:41PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Thousands of pilgrims retraced Jesus' footsteps Wednesday as they celebrated Holy Week at the sites where Christians mark his crucifixion, death and resurrection.
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$17K found under old NJ slot machines
Apr 4 2007 2:09PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - It's the casino equivalent of reaching under your couch cushions and finding a buck or so in loose change.
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1 doctor prescribed Playmate's drugs
Apr 4 2007 1:49PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - One doctor authorized all 11 prescription medications found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room the day the Playboy Playmate died of a drug overdose, according to documents released by the medical examiner's office Wednesday.
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Derailment dumps blue cheese
Apr 4 2007 1:47PM (CT)
MECCA, Calif. (AP) - A train derailment in the Southern California desert spilled gallons of blue cheese dressing into a canal leading to the Salton Sea.
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Deaths at LA veterans facility probed
Apr 4 2007 1:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal and local officials are investigating the recent deaths of five men who were being cared for in residential rehabilitation programs or emergency housing by the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.
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Boys contaminate W.Va. town with mercury
Apr 4 2007 1:18PM (CT)
CLENDENIN, W.Va. (AP) - A group of boys playing with mercury swiped from a dental office created an environmental headache for one small town after tracking it into their school, homes and church and up the steps of the public library.
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3 killed as small plane crashes in Md.
Apr 4 2007 1:14PM (CT)
TRAPPE, Md. (AP) - A small plane crashed in a field on Maryland's Eastern Shore on Wednesday, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.
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Severe storms rake Tenn., Ky., Ark.
Apr 4 2007 1:05PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Violent thunderstorms battered a three-state region with hail as big as softballs and wind that damaged several homes and caused power outages.
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Weekly paper runs mug shots
Apr 4 2007 12:43PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - America loves a good mug shot. The more frizzed, frazzled and frantic, the better.
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Ex-sailor plea: Not guilty of terrorism
Apr 4 2007 11:53AM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A former Navy sailor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges alleging he supported terrorism by disclosing secret information about the locations of Navy ships and ways to attack them.
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Feds pay for Mich. barn in Hoffa search
Apr 4 2007 11:43AM (CT)
MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The Justice Department paid $225,000 to hire excavators and replace a barn last summer in the unsuccessful search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains, records show.
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Woman pleads not guilty to baby kidnap
Apr 4 2007 10:50AM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A 21-year-old woman accused of slipping into a hospital maternity ward in hospital scrubs and abducting a newborn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a kidnapping charge.
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Deported immigrants' kids face dilemma
Apr 4 2007 9:35AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Twelve-year-old Adrian Ramirez huddled with his two sisters on a bench and tried to find the words to describe his feelings about their mother's pending deportation to Mexico.
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Bittersweet return for sub that lost 2
Apr 4 2007 9:06AM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The widow of a sailor swept from the deck of his submarine off the coast of England greeted her husband's crew members with gold commemorative coins to mark their bittersweet homecoming.
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2 bald eagles hatch on Catalina Island
Apr 4 2007 9:02AM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - Two bald eagles have hatched in the wild on Santa Catalina Island for the first time since chemical contamination there wiped out the majestic birds decades ago, conservation officials said.
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Auto industry objects to Calif. rules
Apr 4 2007 8:52AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The auto industry hopes a recent Supreme Court ruling will help it block California's plans to set the nation's first standards to cut tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles.
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Auto industry objects to Calif. rules
Apr 4 2007 8:52AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The auto industry hopes a recent Supreme Court ruling will help it block California's plans to set the nation's first standards to cut tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles.
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Auto industry objects to Calif. rules
Apr 4 2007 8:52AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The auto industry hopes a recent Supreme Court ruling will help it block California's plans to set the nation's first standards to cut tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Woman dies in shooting at CNN building
Apr 4 2007 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gunfire inside the CNN Center sent a lunchtime crowd scurrying for cover as a hotel employee was shot dead in a domestic dispute and her former boyfriend was wounded by security.
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Md. mom finds 2 kids dead in woods
Apr 4 2007 7:58AM (CT)
BARNESVILLE, Md. (AP) - A mother found the bodies of her two young children and their father in a wooded area after the man called her threatening to harm them, police said.
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Rescuers pluck man, pet bird from tree
Apr 4 2007 7:50AM (CT)
PORTER, Texas (AP) - It took a Coast Guard helicopter to rescue a man and his pet cockatoo from the heights of a pine tree after he got stuck trying retrieve the $2,000 bird.
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Deal with prosecutor gets blogger freed
Apr 4 2007 7:43AM (CT)
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) - A video blogger, who spent a record 226 days behind bars for refusing to turn over his footage of a chaotic 2005 street protest, walked out of prison after cutting a deal with prosecutors.
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Italian named to oversee papal rites
Apr 4 2007 7:43AM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday named Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to be the church's new camerlengo, the prelate who takes care of matters dealing with a papal death and runs the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected.
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Accused spy for Saddam Hussein on trial
Apr 4 2007 7:13AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The trial of an alleged "sleeper agent" for Saddam Hussein's intelligence service began Tuesday with a federal prosecutor accusing him of spying on Iraqi dissidents in the United States.
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Pet food scare inspires homemade chow
Apr 4 2007 6:58AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Some dog and cat owners frightened by a contamination scare are forsaking the pet-food aisle and grinding up meat in their own kitchens instead.
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Psych evaluation ordered for Supernaw
Apr 4 2007 5:19AM (CT)
BRYAN, Texas (AP) - Troubled country singer Doug Supernaw was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he told a judge he was the subject of a police conspiracy.
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James Brown's partner files motion
Apr 4 2007 5:14AM (CT)
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - The woman who claims to be James Brown's fourth wife has selected a special guardian she wants appointed for her son, the first step toward determining the child's paternity.
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Survey: Foreign policy worries Americans
Apr 4 2007 2:10AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are expressing growing nervousness about their country's foreign policy, according to a survey, with about two-thirds saying relations with the rest of the world are on the wrong track.
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Las Vegas mayor easily wins re-election
Apr 4 2007 12:39AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Mayor Oscar Goodman easily won a third term Tuesday, sailing ahead of a lineup of little-known challengers in a primary with low voter turnout.
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Voters in N.M. decide on spaceport tax
Apr 4 2007 12:30AM (CT)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Residents of a southern New Mexico county were divided Tuesday on a tax that would help pay for a commercial spaceport that could one day turn the area into a hub for space tourism.
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