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Divorce, unwed parenting costing taxpayers
Apr 14 2008 11:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by four groups advocating more government action to bolster marriages.
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Mothers of some children forced to leave
Apr 14 2008 11:29PM (CT)
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.
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Threats close 3 colleges, 4 more schools
Apr 14 2008 11:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A message scrawled in a university bathroom _ "Be prepared to die on 4/14" _ left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.
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Threats close 3 colleges, 4 more schools
Apr 14 2008 11:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A message scrawled in a university bathroom _ "Be prepared to die on 4/14" _ left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.
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Threats close 3 colleges, 4 more schools
Apr 14 2008 11:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A message scrawled in a university bathroom _ "Be prepared to die on 4/14" _ left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.
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Threats close 3 colleges, 4 more schools
Apr 14 2008 11:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A message scrawled in a university bathroom _ "Be prepared to die on 4/14" _ left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.
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Threats close 3 colleges, 4 more schools
Apr 14 2008 11:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A message scrawled in a university bathroom _ "Be prepared to die on 4/14" _ left not just the college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.
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Hundreds protest Dalai Lama in Seattle
Apr 14 2008 10:36PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - In a showing of pro-Chinese support, hundreds of demonstrators protested outside a college arena Monday as the Dalai Lama spoke to students on solving problems through dialogue.
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Hundreds protest Dalai Lama in Seattle
Apr 14 2008 10:36PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - In a showing of pro-Chinese support, hundreds of demonstrators protested outside a college arena Monday as the Dalai Lama spoke to students on solving problems through dialogue.
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Hundreds protest Dalai Lama in Seattle
Apr 14 2008 10:36PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - In a showing of pro-Chinese support, hundreds of demonstrators protested outside a college arena Monday as the Dalai Lama spoke to students on solving problems through dialogue.
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Seattle Jewish shooting trial under way
Apr 14 2008 10:25PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The man accused of opening fire at the Seattle Jewish Federation two years ago, killing one woman and wounding five, was not insane but had a deliberate plan to make a blood-soaked political point, prosecutors said Monday as his trial opened.
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Seattle Jewish shooting trial under way
Apr 14 2008 10:25PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The man accused of opening fire at the Seattle Jewish Federation two years ago, killing one woman and wounding five, was not insane but had a deliberate plan to make a blood-soaked political point, prosecutors said Monday as his trial opened.
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Seattle Jewish shooting trial under way
Apr 14 2008 10:25PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The man accused of opening fire at the Seattle Jewish Federation two years ago, killing one woman and wounding five, was not insane but had a deliberate plan to make a blood-soaked political point, prosecutors said Monday as his trial opened.
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Media outlets sue N.C. gov. over e-mails
Apr 14 2008 10:01PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Media organizations from across North Carolina sued Gov. Mike Easley on Monday, accusing his administration of violating the state's public records law through the "systematic deletion, destruction or concealment" of e-mail messages.
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Closing arguments at 50-shot NYPD trial
Apr 14 2008 9:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The surviving victims of a police shooting that left a groom-to-be dead were portrayed as lying thugs and the three officers as trigger-happy cowboys in closing arguments Monday.
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Closing arguments at 50-shot NYPD trial
Apr 14 2008 9:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The surviving victims of a police shooting that left a groom-to-be dead were portrayed as lying thugs and the three officers as trigger-happy cowboys in closing arguments Monday.
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Agent apologizes for disrupting campaign
Apr 14 2008 9:10PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A federal agent cleared of misusing a restricted criminal database apologized for disrupting Bob Beauprez's gubernatorial campaign and defended his action as public service rather than political activism, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
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Kilauea offers rare view of glowing vent
Apr 14 2008 9:03PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Visitors to Kilauea's summit have a rare chance to see a red, orange, and yellow glow emanate from a vent at Halemaumau Crater, traditionally considered to be the home of Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess. Kilauea has been erupting continuously on the Big Island since 1983 and frequently offers views of lava oozing to the surface and flowing into the sea.
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Kilauea offers rare view of glowing vent
Apr 14 2008 9:03PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Visitors to Kilauea's summit have a rare chance to see a red, orange, and yellow glow emanate from a vent at Halemaumau Crater, traditionally considered to be the home of Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess. Kilauea has been erupting continuously on the Big Island since 1983 and frequently offers views of lava oozing to the surface and flowing into the sea.
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Jury gets case in LA hit-and-run deaths
Apr 14 2008 9:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury began deliberations Monday in the murder-for-profit case against two elderly women a prosecutor described as greedy killers who preyed on those in need and, instead of help, "gave them a noose."
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Jury gets case in LA hit-and-run deaths
Apr 14 2008 9:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury began deliberations Monday in the murder-for-profit case against two elderly women a prosecutor described as greedy killers who preyed on those in need and, instead of help, "gave them a noose."
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Court will hear wrongful conviction case
Apr 14 2008 8:25PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a man who served 24 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned can sue two former prosecutors for allegedly violating his civil rights.
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Report: Unsecured TSA uniforms at O'Hare
Apr 14 2008 7:19PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Uniforms belonging to U.S. Transportation Security Administration officers were left in the open at an O'Hare International Airport checkpoint last month, as was a cash box, officials said Monday.
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College police compare notes at summit
Apr 14 2008 6:46PM (CT)
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) - Police on campuses across the country have spent the year since the Virginia Tech shootings trying to figure out how to keep such attacks from happening and how to respond when they do.
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NYC window worker dies in 9-story fall
Apr 14 2008 6:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man installing windows at a building under construction died Monday when he fell nine stories, apparently after a nylon safety strap failed, city officials said.
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UN chief: Food crisis is now emergency
Apr 14 2008 6:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A rapidly escalating global food crisis has reached emergency proportions and threatens to wipe out seven years of progress in the fight against poverty, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday.
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Fatal shooting reported near SC college
Apr 14 2008 5:37PM (CT)
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) - Coastal Carolina University officials have canceled classes and are advising students to stay indoors because of a fatal shooting near campus in South Carolina.
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Hells Angel sentenced in 1993 NY killing
Apr 14 2008 4:42PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A Hells Angel was sentenced Monday to a mandatory life term for blowing up a federal drug informant with a car bomb nearly 15 years ago near the Canadian border.
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Council silences embattled Detroit mayor
Apr 14 2008 4:36PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The City Council rebuffed embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's attempts to propose a budget on Monday, the latest sign of increasingly frosty relations between the mayor and city leaders.
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Boxer Gene Tunney's widow dies at 100
Apr 14 2008 4:20PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Polly Lauder Tunney, the Carnegie Steel Co. heiress whose marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney made international headlines in 1928, has died, her family said. She was 100.
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Woman's remains headed to El Salvador
Apr 14 2008 4:16PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - The remains of a Salvadoran immigrant who was found slain after her husband killed their four children and himself have been released for burial in her home country, the Salvadoran consul general said Monday.
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Ex-mob boss pleads guilty in new deal
Apr 14 2008 4:09PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A former New England mob boss pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday in a plea deal that could get him released from prison in nine months.
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Court won't hear young killer's appeal
Apr 14 2008 3:59PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a 30-year prison sentence for a teen who was 12 when he killed his grandparents in their South Carolina home.
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Pregnancy bible gets a Web-world update
Apr 14 2008 3:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - That woman on the cover of America's best-known pregnancy advice book doesn't have a name _ she's only a sketch, after all. But countless women have come to know this expectant mom over the years, with her dowdy clothes and nondescript haircut, staring placidly into space from the safety of a rocking chair.
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Pregnancy bible gets a Web-world update
Apr 14 2008 3:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - That woman on the cover of America's best-known pregnancy advice book doesn't have a name _ she's only a sketch, after all. But countless women have come to know this expectant mom over the years, with her dowdy clothes and nondescript haircut, staring placidly into space from the safety of a rocking chair.
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Clerk throws cans of tobacco at robber
Apr 14 2008 3:19PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A cigarette store cashier has snuffed out a robbery. Police said a masked man flashed a knife at the Cigarette Outlet on Friday and forced one employee to the floor, then demanded money from another worker, Ruth Wright.
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Final plea in human smuggling deaths
Apr 14 2008 2:57PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The last of 14 people indicted in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt pleaded guilty Monday, federal prosecutors said.
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Pope introduces himself to US this week
Apr 14 2008 2:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A theologian recalls the then-cardinal's deep understanding of Protestantism. A former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican was impressed by his interest in all things American.
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Ky., Kansas OK help for military kids
Apr 14 2008 2:40PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas and Kentucky are the first states to approve a compact that will make it easier for children of military families to change schools if enough other states sign on.
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Death penalty for child rape is fought
Apr 14 2008 2:04PM (CT)
SLIDELL, La. (AP) - When the news broke last month that a janitor had been arrested and accused of raping boys in the bathroom at an elementary school, the issue of justice and retribution became the talk around dinner tables and baseball fields.
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Chicago campus gets all-clear
Apr 14 2008 1:37PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say students can return to class at Chicago's Malcolm X College after the campus was evacuated because of a threat.
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Va. justices hear coeducation cases
Apr 14 2008 1:30PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The governing board of Randolph Macon Woman's College broke a contract with students when it decided in 2006 to immediately begin enrolling men, a lawyer for a group of female students told the Virginia Supreme Court on Monday.
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Girls charged in attack may be expelled
Apr 14 2008 12:57PM (CT)
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - The city's school superintendent is recommending the board expel two girls accused of brutally attacking a 10-year-old girl on an elementary school playground.
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Shots kill 1 outside party for rap book
Apr 14 2008 12:55PM (CT)
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) - Shots were fired outside a restaurant where a party had been held for the authors of a biography on rap artist and producer Dr. Dre, killing one man and wounding a second.
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AP poll: Mortgage payments worry many
Apr 14 2008 11:56AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - One in seven mortgage holders worry they may soon fail to make their monthly payments and even more fret that their home's value is shrinking, according to a poll showing widespread stress from the nation's housing crisis.
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Chronic NYC subway groper could get life
Apr 14 2008 10:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - About two weeks after he was released from prison, Freddie Johnson was arrested on charges of illegally rubbing up against a woman on a crowded Manhattan subway train.
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Murdoch, Zell appointed to AP board
Apr 14 2008 10:46AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members joining the board of directors of The Associated Press, it was announced Monday at the news cooperative's annual meeting.
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Study: Boomers to flood medical system
Apr 14 2008 9:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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Study: Boomers to flood medical system
Apr 14 2008 9:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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Study: Boomers to flood medical system
Apr 14 2008 9:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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Study: Boomers to flood medical system
Apr 14 2008 9:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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Study: Boomers to flood medical system
Apr 14 2008 9:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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Study: Boomers to flood medical system
Apr 14 2008 9:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
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US woman appeals in 'milkshake murder'
Apr 14 2008 7:45AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - An American woman serving a life sentence in Hong Kong returned to court Monday to appeal her murder conviction for bashing her banker husband to death after spiking his milkshake with a sedative.
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Vt. mother evades rescuers, and 3 die
Apr 14 2008 6:15AM (CT)
WARDSBORO, Vt. (AP) - A woman reported missing with her two daughters waded into a brook carrying one of them and eluded a rescue attempt before mother and child were swept downstream to their deaths, police said. The second child's body was found later.
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Papal visit provokes array of protests
Apr 14 2008 5:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI may not see them or hear them, but aggrieved Roman Catholic activists hope his U.S. visit this week will help them draw attention to issues ranging from the ordination of women and gay rights to sex abuse by priests and the Vatican ban on contraception.
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Papal visit provokes array of protests
Apr 14 2008 5:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI may not see them or hear them, but aggrieved Roman Catholic activists hope his U.S. visit this week will help them draw attention to issues ranging from the ordination of women and gay rights to sex abuse by priests and the Vatican ban on contraception.
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Vessels collide on Mississippi; 18 hurt
Apr 14 2008 5:38AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A boat carrying state prison employees collided with a barge on the swollen Mississippi River upstream from Baton Rouge on Sunday, injuring 18 people.
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1 teen remains jailed in video beating
Apr 14 2008 5:38AM (CT)
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - Only one of the eight teens accused of participating in the videotaped beating of a classmate remained behind bars Sunday, after a seventh bonded out, authorities said.
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Beijing to close factories for Olympics
Apr 14 2008 5:08AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The Beijing city government has announced a sweeping plan to stop construction and close heavy industry to improve air quality ahead of the Olympics.
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Arrests bring solace to Montana town
Apr 14 2008 4:24AM (CT)
FLORENCE, Mont. (AP) - Glen's Cafe hasn't had a night shift in nearly seven years, ever since someone walked into a local hair salon and slashed the throats of three women.
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Arrests bring solace to Montana town
Apr 14 2008 4:24AM (CT)
FLORENCE, Mont. (AP) - Glen's Cafe hasn't had a night shift in nearly seven years, ever since someone walked into a local hair salon and slashed the throats of three women.
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Arrests bring solace to Montana town
Apr 14 2008 4:24AM (CT)
FLORENCE, Mont. (AP) - Glen's Cafe hasn't had a night shift in nearly seven years, ever since someone walked into a local hair salon and slashed the throats of three women.
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