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Settlement reached in suit over lobsters
Apr 18 2006 11:35PM (CT)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Lobstermen have reached a settlement with the final chemical company targeted by a lawsuit that claimed a pesticide may have contributed to a steep decline in the lobster population, they announced Tuesday.
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Another coyote spotted in NYC park
Apr 18 2006 11:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Weeks after a coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, one of the canines was spotted on a golf course in another city park Tuesday.
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2 NYC cable cars with dozens get stuck
Apr 18 2006 11:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Dozens of people in two cable cars were left hanging hundreds of feet above the East River for hours on Tuesday when the system lost power because of a mechanical problem.
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L.A. mayor wants control of schools
Apr 18 2006 11:13PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stepping up his campaign to take control of the troubled regional school system, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called on the Legislature Tuesday to largely strip power from the Los Angeles Unified School District and shift much of it to his office.
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Moussaoui's mental health debated in court
Apr 18 2006 10:52PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The defense portrayed Zacarias Moussaoui as a delusional psychotic Tuesday who reversed tactics and strategy constantly, while a prosecutor pointed out how well the confessed Sept. 11 conspirator has controlled his behavior under the stress of being on trial for his life.
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Landmark R.I. bridge demolished
Apr 18 2006 10:47PM (CT)
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - The landmark Jamestown Bridge, for decades a crucial link across Narragansett Bay for motorists headed to Newport, was demolished Tuesday morning.
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Boston police shoot driver who fled stop
Apr 18 2006 10:43PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Police shot a man who fled a traffic stop in a stolen sport utility vehicle and smashed into several cars downtown, including one containing four police officers, authorities said.
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Wildfire season could be the worst ever
Apr 18 2006 10:41PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - This year's wildfire season could be one of the worst ever, with 2.15 million acres already burned nationwide this spring _ more than five times the average, fire officials said Tuesday.
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Man executed in Okla. for triple murder
Apr 18 2006 10:40PM (CT)
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - A man convicted of killing three people 10 years ago in retaliation for an earlier attack on himself was put to death Wednesday night.
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Two NYC cable cars with dozens get stuck
Apr 18 2006 10:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two cable cars carrying dozens of people were left hanging over a river for hours on Tuesday when the cable system lost power because of a mechanical problem, and police prepared to mount a daring rescue.
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Hundreds protest Wis. officers' acquittal
Apr 18 2006 10:09PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Milwaukee chanting "No justice, no peace" Tuesday after three white former police officers were acquitted in the beating of a biracial man.
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Ex-U.S. attorney indicted for tax fraud
Apr 18 2006 10:05PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former U.S. attorney who later headed the North Carolina Republican Party and was a state judge was arrested Tuesday after being indicted in a tax fraud conspiracy, federal prosecutors said.
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Lawyer: Developer's wife just 'venting'
Apr 18 2006 9:55PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - The estranged wife of a millionaire developer found slain this month in his home fantasized in an e-mail last year about "pummeling him to death," but her lawyer said Tuesday she was only venting her frustrations over her husband's extensive legal and other troubles.
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4 dead in ex-worker's Mo. shooting spree
Apr 18 2006 9:20PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man killed the mother of his child Tuesday, then went to the catering company where he once worked and fatally shot two women and himself, police said.
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Investigators close arsenic probe in Maine
Apr 18 2006 9:05PM (CT)
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Nearly three years after parishioners drank arsenic-laced coffee at a church in northern Maine, detectives said they have decided that the only person to be implicated acted alone.
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Giuliani to help Ga. hopeful's fundraising
Apr 18 2006 8:44PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Just days after a religious conservative questioned Rudolph Giuliani's views, ex-Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed said the former New York City mayor will headline a fundraiser for him next month.
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AP: 'No Child' law raises segregation fear
Apr 18 2006 8:28PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Wedged in a poor, gritty immigrant neighborhood, Henry C. Dwight Elementary School harks back to an earlier era of learning. Its ceilings are high, there is a fireplace in the library and students wear uniforms as they dart between classrooms.
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Businessman pleads guilty in Iraq scheme
Apr 18 2006 8:18PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - With millions of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction contracts to be had, Philip H. Bloom offered up money, cars, premium airline seats, jewelry, alcohol, even sexual favors from women at his villa in Baghdad.
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Judge imposes gag order in girl's slaying
Apr 18 2006 8:17PM (CT)
PURCELL, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma judge issued a gag order Tuesday to stop what defense attorneys called inflammatory statements about the gruesome slaying of a 10-year-old girl, who prosecutors say was killed by a neighbor who wanted to eat human flesh.
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Heat, power demand force Texas blackouts
Apr 18 2006 8:07PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Faced with the prospect of another day of record heat, the state's power suppliers urged Texans to cut down on their electricity use in the hopes of avoiding more rolling blackouts.
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Judge rules for Kan. abortion rights group
Apr 18 2006 7:13PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - In a victory for an abortion rights group, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that abortion clinic doctors and other professionals are not required under Kansas law to report underage sex between consenting youths.
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Judge rules university owns research data
Apr 18 2006 6:46PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A judge has ruled in favor of a university that sued a prominent researcher after he tried to take a vast collection of lab specimens with him when he moved to another institution.
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Rumsfeld won't be called in prison case
Apr 18 2006 6:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A military judge Tuesday allowed defense lawyers to call a general to testify at a court martial in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but the judge barred the defense from summoning Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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Arthur Hertzberg, outspoken rabbi, dies
Apr 18 2006 6:04PM (CT)
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a leading Jewish scholar and civil rights advocate known for his provocative, often contrarian views, has died. He was 84.
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NYC transit union takes contract on revote
Apr 18 2006 5:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Bus and subway workers who shut down the nation's largest transit system with a three-day strike in December voted Tuesday to accept the same contract they had previously rejected.
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Mich. prisons release 41 felons early
Apr 18 2006 5:12PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan prison officials have found 41 recent cases of felons accused of violating their paroles mistakenly being released because they didn't get a hearing within 45 days of their arrest, officials said Tuesday.
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Baptist missions chief quits after inquiry
Apr 18 2006 4:15PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The head of a Southern Baptist Convention missions board has resigned in the wake of an internal investigation into financial dealings that cleared him of wrongdoing but criticized his management style.
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Ga. law lets black officers get pensions
Apr 18 2006 4:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. Sonny Perdue signed legislation Tuesday granting compensation to black Georgia police officers who were barred under a Jim Crow-era law from taking part in a state pension fund.
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After Katrina, poor tenants fight eviction
Apr 18 2006 3:37PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - When the Watersmark apartment complex advertised its "grand reopening" five months after Hurricane Katrina, the announcement stunned tenants living there in storm-damaged apartments.
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Ex-convict arraigned in N.Y. nun's death
Apr 18 2006 3:32PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A recently released convict was charged Tuesday with murdering a Roman Catholic nun who had taken him in at the halfway house she ran for former prison inmates.
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Police doubt wife's lover-in-closet story
Apr 18 2006 3:30PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Investigators believe a woman lied to police when she told them her husband was killed in a confrontation after he found her lover living in a closet in their home.
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Ala. wants 2-year colleges for shelters
Apr 18 2006 1:31PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Alabama officials said Tuesday they intend to run their own network of hurricane shelters starting this year, using facilities at community colleges to house as many as 25,000 people at a time rather than relying on the Red Cross.
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Tobacco settlement talks break down
Apr 18 2006 1:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Talks between the states and the tobacco industry have broken down over money owed this year under the 1998 landmark settlement agreement, according to No. 2 cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
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Tests can't confirm bear is girl's killer
Apr 18 2006 11:27AM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Preliminary forensic results were not able to confirm if a captured black bear was responsible for killing a 6-year-old girl and injuring her mother and brother, officials said Tuesday.
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San Francisco marks earthquake centennial
Apr 18 2006 11:06AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sirens wailed through the city before dawn Tuesday as residents marked the moment 100 years earlier when the Great Quake shattered the city, killing thousands as it leveled buildings and touched off fires that burned for days.
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Records show terror case witness was paid
Apr 18 2006 10:28AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Federal investigators obtained information about a suspected terrorist plot from a witness who was paid for his work, according to court documents.
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Ariz. gov. vetoes criminal immigrant bill
Apr 18 2006 10:08AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have criminalized the presence of illegal immigrants in Arizona, citing opposition from police agencies that want immigration arrests to remain the responsibility of the federal government.
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Knives, whips, gun found in suspect's home
Apr 18 2006 9:40AM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Investigators seized weapons including a handgun, knives and whips from the home of a man accused of killing three women and attacking two others, according to unsealed search warrants.
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Businessman pleads not guilty in LA crash
Apr 18 2006 6:45AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The mystery behind the high-speed crash of a rare Ferrari on a coastal highway took another strange turn as prosecutors filed embezzlement, grand theft, drunken driving and weapons charges against a Swedish businessman.
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Ala. lawmakers back pardon for Rosa Parks
Apr 18 2006 6:24AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature gave final approval to a bill that sets up a process to pardon civil rights icon Rosa Parks and hundreds of others arrested for violating segregation-era laws.
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More remains found at World Trade Center
Apr 18 2006 6:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An additional 150 tiny bone fragments have been recovered from the rooftop of a skyscraper near the World Trade Center site, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said.
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Maine killings raise vigilantism fears
Apr 18 2006 3:43AM (CT)
CORINTH, Maine (AP) - The Maine Department of Public Safety has no plans to change the state's Web-based sex offender registry despite the killings of two sex offenders whose addresses were apparently obtained online.
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Dad meets daughter after 13-year search
Apr 18 2006 3:25AM (CT)
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Through the haze of 13 long, restless years, Carl Dodd still could discern something familiar in the face of the young woman standing before him.
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Hawaiian parents seek right to placenta
Apr 18 2006 3:14AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - As the birth of his third child drew closer last fall, Kalehua Krug and his wife, Kihapai, knew they needed the cooperation of their doctor to perform an important Native Hawaiian birth ritual.
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College professor wins Pulitzer for poetry
Apr 18 2006 3:13AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - For three years, Claudia Emerson took her handwritten letters reflecting on her failed marriage of 19 years and her blossoming relationship with her second husband and taped them to the walls of her home and office.
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Times-Picayune, Sun Herald win Pulitzer
Apr 18 2006 3:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The staffs of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of south Mississippi captured Pulitzer Prizes for public service on Monday for chronicling the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina despite life-changing damage to their own homes and workplaces.
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Police probe crime spree in D.C., Md.
Apr 18 2006 2:58AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fast-acting thieves with powerful weapons have police in the District of Columbia and an adjoining Maryland county sharing notes in a rash of quick-hitting robberies and carjackings they believe are connected.
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Wildfire near Colorado Springs contained
Apr 18 2006 1:38AM (CT)
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) - Fed by gusty winds, a grass fire grew to about 1,800 acres Monday, forcing the evacuation of about 100 people in southern Colorado and closing a major highway. It was contained late Monday.
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Mo. teens charged in school shooting plot
Apr 18 2006 12:15AM (CT)
PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) - Two suburban Kansas City teenagers were charged Monday with threatening to carry out a school shooting to mark the anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School, officials said.
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