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2 miners missing in Md. wall collapse
Apr 17 2007 11:36PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Rescue crews were working Tuesday to reach two coal miners believed buried beneath 75 feet of rock and dirt from a collapsed wall of an open pit in the western Maryland mountains, an emergency management official said.
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Doctor says preacher's wife claims abuse
Apr 17 2007 11:27PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - A preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband told a psychologist that he often threatened her with a shotgun and forced her to have sex, the psychologist testified Tuesday.
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Doctor says preacher's wife claims abuse
Apr 17 2007 11:27PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - A preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband told a psychologist that he often threatened her with a shotgun and forced her to have sex, the psychologist testified Tuesday.
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Doctor says preacher's wife claims abuse
Apr 17 2007 11:27PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - A preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband told a psychologist that he often threatened her with a shotgun and forced her to have sex, the psychologist testified Tuesday.
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Cleanup begins after deadly nor'easter
Apr 17 2007 11:25PM (CT)
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) - As the floodwaters receded Tuesday homeowners picked through ruined belongings and priceless keepsakes trying to determine what they'd lost.
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Cleanup begins after deadly nor'easter
Apr 17 2007 11:25PM (CT)
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) - As the floodwaters receded Tuesday homeowners picked through ruined belongings and priceless keepsakes trying to determine what they'd lost.
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Cleanup begins after deadly nor'easter
Apr 17 2007 11:25PM (CT)
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) - As the floodwaters receded Tuesday homeowners picked through ruined belongings and priceless keepsakes trying to determine what they'd lost.
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N.J. gov.'s SUV went 91 mph before crash
Apr 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The sport utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, the superintendent of state police said Tuesday.
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N.J. gov.'s SUV went 91 mph before crash
Apr 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The sport utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, the superintendent of state police said Tuesday.
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N.J. gov.'s SUV went 91 mph before crash
Apr 17 2007 11:24PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The sport utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, the superintendent of state police said Tuesday.
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Va. Tech gunman writings raised concerns
Apr 17 2007 11:22PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note raging against women and rich kids.
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Va. Tech gunman writings raised concerns
Apr 17 2007 11:22PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note raging against women and rich kids.
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Va. Tech gunman writings raised concerns
Apr 17 2007 11:22PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note raging against women and rich kids.
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Gay rights bills pass Oregon House
Apr 17 2007 11:07PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Same-sex couples would receive the same benefits as married couples, and gays and lesbians would be protected against discrimination under bills approved Tuesday by the Oregon House.
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Threats rattle schools in 10 states
Apr 17 2007 11:03PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities, high schools and middle schools in at least 10 states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people.
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Driver charged in crash that killed 8
Apr 17 2007 10:59PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The driver of a sport utility vehicle that rolled and killed eight of 13 passengers was charged Tuesday with transporting illegal immigrants resulting in death.
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Mayor leads gay marriage ban protest
Apr 17 2007 10:53PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The mayor and half the city council denounced Wisconsin's new ban on gay marriage Tuesday by adding a strongly worded statement to their oath of office.
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Smugglers suspected in freeway shootout
Apr 17 2007 10:52PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - People in two trucks exchanged gunfire along a freeway Tuesday, killing a man and injuring several others in what police say might have been a shootout among rival immigrant smuggling gangs.
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Ill. lawmakers mock sex change bill
Apr 17 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - State lawmakers mocked sex changes while debating a bill that would have made it easier to get a new birth certificate after switching genders in another country.
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Town allows Gore to install solar panels
Apr 17 2007 10:14PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore's upscale neighborhood granted the environmental activist approval Tuesday to install 33 solar panels on the roof of his mansion.
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Nation's colleges mourn Va. Tech victims
Apr 17 2007 10:01PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A student rang a hand-held bell 33 times Tuesday inside the soaring and silent chapel of tiny Muhlenberg College, hundreds of miles away from where the tragedy unfolded at Virginia Tech.
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Mich. men accused of spying for Iraq
Apr 17 2007 9:48PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Two Michigan men spied for the Iraqi government before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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Murder charge dropped against 1 Marine
Apr 17 2007 9:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Marines Corps said Tuesday it had dropped all charges against a sergeant and that he will testify at the trials of fellow Marines accused of killing 24 civilians in Haditha, the deadliest criminal case to arise from the Iraq war.
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Alaska hunter survives grizzly attack
Apr 17 2007 9:28PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A hunter kneeling over the carcass of a young grizzly bear he had just killed was mauled by a larger grizzly that charged him from its den.
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Parents of dismembered woman testify
Apr 17 2007 9:12PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Several jurors and audience members wept Tuesday as the parents of a slain woman testified at the death penalty phase of the trial for a woman facing life in prison or capital punishment.
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Media blanketing shooting story
Apr 17 2007 9:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Television offered a sounding board Tuesday as people struggled to make sense _ if they ever could _ of why a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
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S.C. rape suspect brags about dungeon
Apr 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) - A convicted sex offender bragged to the court Tuesday about building a dungeon-like space beneath his home, where prosecutors said he bound two teen girls with duct tape, raped them and left the pair to die.
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U.N., AU announce Darfur peace plan
Apr 17 2007 8:33PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations and African Union announced a two-pronged plan to bring peace to conflict-wracked Darfur, pledging Tuesday to move "expeditiously" to deploy 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers while intensifying efforts to achieve a political settlement.
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Va. Tech photo gives hint of hope
Apr 17 2007 8:23PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image hinted at the horror that unfolded: a Virginia Tech student, sprawled and bloody, in the arms of others who struggled to carry him to safety.
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Pat-downs at Tampa stadium appealed
Apr 17 2007 8:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The Tampa Sports Authority called pat-down searches at Tampa Bay Buccaneers football games an essential layer of security in an age of terrorism and urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to reinstate them.
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Suitcase slaying case to go to jury
Apr 17 2007 8:04PM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A nurse accused of killing her husband and discarding his dismembered body in Chesapeake Bay carefully planned his death, but she became unglued after carrying it out, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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LA mayor struggles with big agenda
Apr 17 2007 7:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - His thousand-watt smile turned into a thousand-mile stare when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa learned that Los Angeles lost its chance to host the 2016 Olympics. The episode could be a metaphor for an administration endeavoring to fulfill its promise.
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LA mayor struggles with big agenda
Apr 17 2007 7:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - His thousand-watt smile turned into a thousand-mile stare when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa learned that Los Angeles lost its chance to host the 2016 Olympics. The episode could be a metaphor for an administration endeavoring to fulfill its promise.
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A look at some Virginia Tech victims
Apr 17 2007 7:47PM (CT)
CENTREVILLE, Va. (AP) - Reema Samaha was a dancer, whether it was the classical ballet she studied as a child, the belly dance moves she used for a high school talent show or the spinning she did around the living room with her mother.
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Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies for cousin
Apr 17 2007 7:36PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took center stage Tuesday as his convicted cousin sought a new trial for a 1975 murder, describing how he did his own sleuthing when he learned of an account implicating two other men.
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Large Chicago foster care agency closing
Apr 17 2007 7:28PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Catholic Charities is closing one of the state's largest foster care programs in less than three months, leaving the state and other agencies to quickly absorb its Chicago area caseload of more than 900 children.
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Student gunman bought weapons in Roanoke
Apr 17 2007 7:27PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui walked into a Roanoke gun shop five weeks ago, put down a credit card and walked out with a Glock 19 handgun and a box of ammunition. He paid $571.
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$300 million raised for WTC memorial
Apr 17 2007 6:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Private donations to build the Sept. 11 memorial have jumped to over $300 million, more than half of it raised in the six months since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took over fundraising.
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6 indicted in juvenile offender's death
Apr 17 2007 6:51PM (CT)
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) - Six former staff members at a school for juvenile offenders waited 41 minutes before calling 911 about an unresponsive 17-year-old student who died, prosecutors said Tuesday in announcing an indictment against the workers.
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Court: Gov't can't hold Cuban militant
Apr 17 2007 6:46PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An appeals court on Tuesday denied the U.S. government's latest bid to keep anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles jailed until his May trial on immigration fraud charges.
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Details of Virginia Tech campus rampage
Apr 17 2007 6:31PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, VA. (AP) - Janitor Gene Cole was cleaning bathrooms on the first floor of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall when a colleague told him there had been a shooting on campus.
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Soldier demands treatment in standoff
Apr 17 2007 6:26PM (CT)
HERINGTON, Kan. (AP) - An Iraq war veteran demanded treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder as he held police in a standoff outside his home for several hours, then surrendered and was taken to a hospital, police said.
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Student sentenced in teacher's stabbing
Apr 17 2007 5:44PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A former college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to stabbing a science professor in the neck because she gave him a failing grade in an attack that she said made her more cautious in dealing with students.
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New charges in Missouri boys' abductions
Apr 17 2007 5:09PM (CT)
POTOSI, Mo. (AP) - Seven more charges, including attempted murder, have been filed against a former pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping two boys and holding one of them for four years.
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New tapes allegedly show guard, inmate
Apr 17 2007 4:48PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Surveillance tapes that allegedly show a youth prison guard and a teenage inmate entering a supply closet surfaced nearly two weeks after a grand jury declined to indict him on abuse charges, and authorities are evaluating whether the tapes can make a stronger case.
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IRS gives reprieve to shooting victims
Apr 17 2007 3:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Those affected by the Virginia Tech shootings will get an extra six months to file and pay their federal taxes, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday.
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Technology: our coping mechanism
Apr 17 2007 3:47PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Horrible, real-world happenings are unfolding almost simultaneously in the virtual world, as Virginia Tech students and people from all over the world gather online to grieve and vent.
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U.S. gun control laws criticized abroad
Apr 17 2007 3:35PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The Virginia Tech shootings sparked criticism of U.S. gun control laws around the world Tuesday. Editorials lashed out at the availability of weapons, and the leader of Australia _ one of America's closest allies _ declared that America's gun culture was costing lives.
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UM sued over stadium wheelchair seating
Apr 17 2007 2:33PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A disabled veterans group sued the University of Michigan on Tuesday, saying there aren't enough spaces for wheelchair users at Michigan Stadium, one of the largest football stadiums in the country.
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Suspect in CNN complex shooting indicted
Apr 17 2007 1:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An ex-con who spent four years in prison for a fatal robbery was indicted Tuesday on murder charges in the fatal shooting two weeks ago at the CNN headquarters complex.
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Glider pilot found injured after crash
Apr 17 2007 12:41PM (CT)
FRANKLIN, W.Va. (AP) - A glider pilot who crashed in rough weather was found Tuesday on a remote mountain ridge more than 24 hours later and was taken to a hospital, authorities said.
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2 teens charged in playground acid spill
Apr 17 2007 12:34PM (CT)
ESSEX, Md. (AP) - Two teenagers were charged with breaking into a school and pouring an acidic drain cleaner on playground equipment that later burned a 2-year-old boy on a slide, Baltimore County police said Tuesday.
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Man sent to prison for bilking law firms
Apr 17 2007 11:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Montana man who called himself a private investigator was sentenced to more than 2 years in prison Tuesday for bilking a dozen U.S. law offices, including a firm once used by former AIG chairman Maurice R. Greenberg.
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Pulitzers scattered among news outlets
Apr 17 2007 9:39AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - With no single event dominating front pages in the manner of Hurricane Katrina or Sept. 11, the Pulitzer Prizes were scattered among 13 news organizations on a variety of subjects, and a live jazz recording won in the music category for the first time.
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Mitch Landrieu declines La. governor bid
Apr 17 2007 7:16AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu became the latest Democrat to announce he would not run for governor against the front-runner, Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal.
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Reservist keeps pedaling with new heart
Apr 17 2007 3:57AM (CT)
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - As a professional soldier, John Fairbanks wasn't about to let what he calls "a medical procedure" end his Army career.
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Reservist keeps pedaling with new heart
Apr 17 2007 3:57AM (CT)
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - As a professional soldier, John Fairbanks wasn't about to let what he calls "a medical procedure" end his Army career.
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Reservist keeps pedaling with new heart
Apr 17 2007 3:57AM (CT)
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - As a professional soldier, John Fairbanks wasn't about to let what he calls "a medical procedure" end his Army career.
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Prosecutor: Teen helped uncle kill woman
Apr 17 2007 1:38AM (CT)
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - The nephew of a man convicted of raping and killing a photographer then burning her body "stood ready and willing to assist," a prosecutor said at the outset of the nephew's trial Monday.
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Alleged Iraqi 'sleeper agent' convicted
Apr 17 2007 12:02AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An alleged Iraqi "sleeper agent" sent by Saddam Hussein to spy on dissidents in the United States was convicted Monday of lying about his ties to the former Baghdad regime.
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