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Storm causes flooding, canceled flights
Apr 15 2007 11:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A nor'easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding overnight.
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Storm causes flooding, canceled flights
Apr 15 2007 11:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A nor'easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding overnight.
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Storm causes flooding, canceled flights
Apr 15 2007 11:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A nor'easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding overnight.
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Storm causes flooding, canceled flights
Apr 15 2007 11:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A nor'easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding overnight.
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Northwest pilot arrested on drug charge
Apr 15 2007 11:40PM (CT)
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) - An off-duty Northwest Airlines pilot was suspected of driving under the influence of cocaine when he headed the wrong way on an interstate to avoid the U.S.-Canada border and led deputies on a chase, authorities said Sunday.
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Pearl honored with Holocaust victims
Apr 15 2007 11:35PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Daniel Pearl was added to the 30,000 names etched on the Holocaust Memorial Wall here on Sunday to honor the American journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002.
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Pearl honored with Holocaust victims
Apr 15 2007 11:35PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Daniel Pearl was added to the 30,000 names etched on the Holocaust Memorial Wall here on Sunday to honor the American journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002.
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Pearl honored with Holocaust victims
Apr 15 2007 11:35PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Daniel Pearl was added to the 30,000 names etched on the Holocaust Memorial Wall here on Sunday to honor the American journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002.
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Pearl honored with Holocaust victims
Apr 15 2007 11:35PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Daniel Pearl was added to the 30,000 names etched on the Holocaust Memorial Wall here on Sunday to honor the American journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002.
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Knowledge unchanged by new news outlets
Apr 15 2007 10:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' knowledge of national and international affairs has changed little in two decades despite the emergence of 24-hour cable news and the Internet as major news sources.
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Oklahoma police arrest murder suspect
Apr 15 2007 10:07PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A murder suspect surrendered to police following a three-hour standoff at an apartment complex that was complicated by a crowd of bystanders who threw rocks at police, authorities said.
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Suspect arrested in fire that killed 5
Apr 15 2007 9:35PM (CT)
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A man was arrested on charges of setting his cousin's house on fire in western Illinois early Sunday and killing her five children, authorities and a relative said.
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Suspect arrested in fire that killed 5
Apr 15 2007 9:35PM (CT)
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A man was arrested on charges of setting his cousin's house on fire in western Illinois early Sunday and killing her five children, authorities and a relative said.
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Suspect arrested in fire that killed 5
Apr 15 2007 9:35PM (CT)
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A man was arrested on charges of setting his cousin's house on fire in western Illinois early Sunday and killing her five children, authorities and a relative said.
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Suspect arrested in fire that killed 5
Apr 15 2007 9:35PM (CT)
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A man was arrested on charges of setting his cousin's house on fire in western Illinois early Sunday and killing her five children, authorities and a relative said.
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Suspect arrested in fire that killed 5
Apr 15 2007 9:35PM (CT)
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A man was arrested on charges of setting his cousin's house on fire in western Illinois early Sunday and killing her five children, authorities and a relative said.
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Report: New Darfur agreement signed
Apr 15 2007 8:51PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Sudan has signed a joint agreement with the United Nations and the African Union that defines their respective roles in Darfur, the official Saudi news agency reported on Sunday.
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Son says Corzine recognized him
Apr 15 2007 8:17PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Jon S. Corzine's son said his father recognized him and responded to visitors Sunday, three days after an SUV crash left him on a ventilator with a dozen broken ribs and a severely fractured leg.
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Son says Corzine recognized him
Apr 15 2007 8:17PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Jon S. Corzine's son said his father recognized him and responded to visitors Sunday, three days after an SUV crash left him on a ventilator with a dozen broken ribs and a severely fractured leg.
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Son says Corzine recognized him
Apr 15 2007 8:17PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Jon S. Corzine's son said his father recognized him and responded to visitors Sunday, three days after an SUV crash left him on a ventilator with a dozen broken ribs and a severely fractured leg.
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Principal proud of student N-word report
Apr 15 2007 7:40PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A high school principal who was placed on administrative leave while district officials scrutinized a student newspaper report on the use of a racial epithet said she would be back in school Monday.
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Small quake strikes Southern California
Apr 15 2007 7:04PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A small earthquake shook a tiny desert town Sunday near the Mexican border, but no injuries or damage were reported, officials said.
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Volunteer rates dip slightly in '06
Apr 15 2007 6:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People in this country have been volunteering at record levels in the years following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but that voluntary service dipped slightly in 2006, a study found.
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Air Force fills out Army ranks in Iraq
Apr 15 2007 6:08PM (CT)
CAMP BULLIS, Texas (AP) - A row of rumbling flatbed trucks and Humvees outfitted with gun turrets lurches toward a mock village of cinderblock buildings where instructors posing as insurgents wait to test the trainees' convoy protection skills.
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Air Force fills out Army ranks in Iraq
Apr 15 2007 6:08PM (CT)
CAMP BULLIS, Texas (AP) - A row of rumbling flatbed trucks and Humvees outfitted with gun turrets lurches toward a mock village of cinderblock buildings where instructors posing as insurgents wait to test the trainees' convoy protection skills.
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10th anniversary of Grand Forks flood
Apr 15 2007 5:08PM (CT)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - Heavy rain and snow still make people nervous along the Red River of the North, which devastated North Dakota's third-largest city 10 years ago and forced thousands to flee in one of the costliest and largest U.S. flood evacuations before Hurricane Katrina.
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Long Island diocese faces sex abuse suit
Apr 15 2007 1:35PM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - The nation's sixth-largest Roman Catholic diocese is headed to trial this week in a $150 million lawsuit accusing church officials of recklessness for employing a youth minister who raped and sodomized teenagers.
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Padilla jury selection opening
Apr 15 2007 1:28PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - It's been nearly five years since then-Attorney General John Ashcroft declared the United States had thwarted an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major city and had arrested a "known terrorist," Jose Padilla.
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Texas students settle free-speech suit
Apr 15 2007 12:55PM (CT)
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - Students who claimed their civil rights were violated when they were issued citations for leaving school to attend immigration protest marches have settled their lawsuit with the city, officials said.
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Gonzales says he has "nothing to hide"
Apr 15 2007 12:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he has done nothing improper in the firings of eight federal prosecutors in testimony prepared for his appearance before a Senate panel widely viewed as a last chance to save his job.
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Taxes and fees on airline tickets
Apr 15 2007 11:44AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Air travel is taxing in more ways than passengers imagine. Besides the long security lines, overbooked flights and lost baggage, passengers are paying a laundry list of taxes and charges often invisible even to the most seasoned traveler.
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AP: Passenger fees fund smaller airports
Apr 15 2007 11:31AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal government has taken billions of dollars from the taxes and fees paid by airline passengers every time they fly and awarded it to small airports used mainly by private pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives.
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Documents: Millions to shuttle survivors
Apr 15 2007 10:51AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - NASA paid $26.6 million to family members of the astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, a newspaper reported Sunday, citing recently released documents.
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Ohio newspaper finds more altered photos
Apr 15 2007 10:30AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A photographer for The Blade who digitally changed a front-page photo of an Ohio baseball team also altered 57 other pictures that were published in the newspaper or on its Web site this year, the newspaper said Sunday.
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WWII flyer remains ID'd after 63 years
Apr 15 2007 7:58AM (CT)
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - The remains of a World War II navigator listed as missing in action for almost 63 years have been identified two years after they were found in Croatia, the brother of the deceased pilot said.
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Wis. U.S. attorney defends prosecution
Apr 15 2007 2:15AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic said he believed his job was safe when he decided to prosecute a former state worker whose conviction was recently overturned.
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