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Army private pleads guilty in Ky. shooting
Apr 19 2006 11:31PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - An Army private accused of shooting at fellow soldiers during morning exercise pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted murder during a court-martial at Fort Campbell.
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6 in family slain in Pa. mourned in NYC
Apr 19 2006 11:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six people slain in rural Pennsylvania were memorialized Wednesday evening in New York City, where the family lived for decades before trading in urban streets for what was supposed to be a quieter life in the country.
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Fake policeman gets life without parole
Apr 19 2006 11:06PM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - A man convicted of fatally shooting a banker while posing as a police officer during a phony traffic stop was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole. Reginald Gousse, 32, was convicted last month in the January 2005 slaying.
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UC to open $15 million center to help poor
Apr 19 2006 11:01PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The University of California, Berkeley, is opening a center to work at solving world poverty, campus officials said Wednesday.
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Governor embraces L.A. mayor's school plan
Apr 19 2006 10:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday embraced Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's school takeover plan, giving the mayor a highly visible ally in his drive to gain control of the troubled regional school system.
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48th Brigade troops pouring in from Iraq
Apr 19 2006 10:50PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The first of thousands of citizen-soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade returning after a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq were back in Georgia Wednesday night.
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New proposal on table for WTC developer
Apr 19 2006 10:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - After weeks of public bickering over how to rebuild ground zero, the World Trade Center site's owner on Wednesday offered its developer a new deal that sets aside millions of dollars for a Sept. 11 memorial.
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Students protest at Fla. governor's office
Apr 19 2006 10:31PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush arrived at his office Wednesday and found it besieged by college students protesting the state's response to the beating of a teenage boy at a boot camp. The boy later died.
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Tennessee Senate votes to oust member
Apr 19 2006 10:24PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Republican-controlled Senate voted on Wednesday to unseat one of its Democratic members, agreeing that her 13-vote win was tainted by questionable ballots from felons and dead voters.
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Midwest snowstorm leaves 4 dead, power out
Apr 19 2006 10:24PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A powerful spring storm swept through the northwestern Plains on Wednesday, dumping up to 2 feet of snow that closed major highways, cut power to hundreds and was blamed for at least four deaths.
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Students march in Colo., back immigrants
Apr 19 2006 10:11PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Waving U.S. and Mexican flags, hundreds of high school students descended on the Colorado Capitol Wednesday for a rally in support of illegal immigrants.
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AP: 6 Branch Davidians to leave custody
Apr 19 2006 10:11PM (CT)
WACO, Texas (AP) - Thirteen years after the Branch Davidians' armed standoff with federal agents ended in an inferno that killed nearly 80 people, six sect members who were sent to prison are about to be released from custody.
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3 Ryan jurors didn't mention past cases
Apr 19 2006 10:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Four of the jurors who convicted former Gov. George Ryan on corruption charges failed to mention their past involvement in court cases, documents unsealed Wednesday show.
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Young air cadets sickened on cargo flight
Apr 19 2006 10:09PM (CT)
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - About a dozen young Civil Air Patrol cadets who fell ill during a bumpy orientation flight on a military cargo plane were taken to hospitals as a precaution Wednesday.
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Victims' kin testify for Moussaoui's life
Apr 19 2006 10:00PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Half a dozen relatives of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks testified for terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday. One woman told jurors weighing whether to execute him that her family does not want to "get caught in a whirlpool of sadness and anger."
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Minutemen to Bush: Build fence or we will
Apr 19 2006 9:46PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will.
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Bosnian emigre admits lying to immigration
Apr 19 2006 9:34PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A Bosnian immigrant said in federal court Wednesday that he lied to U.S. immigration officers in 2000, when he said he had no involvment in the war in Bosnia in the mid-1990s.
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Wash. woman found alive in Calif. landfill
Apr 19 2006 9:25PM (CT)
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) - A Kennewick woman was pulled alive from a northern California landfill after she reportedly was carjacked and kidnapped while driving to work.
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Workplace gunman may have killed another
Apr 19 2006 9:20PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A catering-service employee who shot to death three women _ including two of his bosses _ and then committed suicide may also have killed a fourth woman, police said Wednesday.
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Suspicious device found at Atlanta airport
Apr 19 2006 9:19PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Officials shut down all security checkpoints at the nation's busiest airport for about two hours after a "suspicious image" was detected in a screening machine.
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New Orleans police to return seized guns
Apr 19 2006 8:23PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Under pressure from the National Rifle Association, police this week began returning guns confiscated after Hurricane Katrina.
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Oklahoma marks bombing's 11th anniversary
Apr 19 2006 8:18PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - In a moving roll call, loved ones of the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing read their names during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
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Crewman missing from U.S. research ship
Apr 19 2006 5:36PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A crewman was missing from an American research ship near Antarctica, and the vessel and a Chilean plane were searching for him Wednesday.
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China to train U.S. teachers in Chinese
Apr 19 2006 5:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Calling Chinese "an important tool for the rest of the world," China's education minister announced a plan Wednesday to help train hundreds of U.S. educators in the language.
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NYC tram travelers stayed calm amid rescue
Apr 19 2006 5:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Stranded in cable cars hundreds of feet above the East River, the passengers kept calm by telling jokes and playing cell phone ringtones. All the while, police scrambled to get them down, at one point hoisting baby formula, diapers and snacks into a car containing two babies.
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Boston Archdiocese audit shows $46M in red
Apr 19 2006 4:17PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The scandal-battered Boston Archdiocese released a two-year audit Wednesday that showed it running a $46.3-million deficit. Cardinal Sean O'Malley warned the shortfall is threatening Roman Catholic work in the community.
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Widow, 84, wins $10M at Atlantic City
Apr 19 2006 3:38PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. After a night playing the slot machines, the retired waitress widow was about to call it quits Tuesday when she hit a $10 million jackpot _ the biggest in the history of casino gambling in Atlantic City.
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Rethinking sex offender laws a tough sell
Apr 19 2006 2:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The killings of two men listed on Maine's Internet sex offender registry may offer a grim lesson about the consequences of such registry laws, but defense lawyers and crime researchers question whether a thoughtful national debate on the subject is possible.
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Jailed extremist to plead to other crimes
Apr 19 2006 2:14PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - An anti-abortion extremist already behind bars for sending hundreds of letters with fake anthrax to women's clinics has agreed to plead guilty to carjacking, robbery and other offenses.
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Police acquittals enrage some in Milwaukee
Apr 19 2006 1:57PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The acquittal of three white former police officers in the beating of a biracial man has angry Milwaukee residents likening the verdict to the historic injustices in the South and demanding federal prosecutors step in.
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Some fear immigration protest backlash
Apr 19 2006 1:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Organizers of the movement that has led hundreds of thousands of immigrants onto the nation's streets are split over whether to press ahead with the next big protest _ a May 1 national work stoppage and student boycott.
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NYC tries luring teachers with subsidies
Apr 19 2006 1:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City plans to use housing subsidies of nearly $15,000 to recruit much-needed math, science and special education teachers to some of its toughest schools.
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Outage hits Calif. air traffic control
Apr 19 2006 1:23PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - An air traffic control center for Southern California airports lost power Wednesday but a backup generating system kicked in and no airplanes were affected, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Little progress in Atlanta investigation
Apr 19 2006 12:15PM (CT)
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Nearly a year after reopening the investigation into five of the Atlanta child killings of the 1970s and '80s, police appear to have little to show publicly besides some detective seminar bills, hotel receipts and vouchers for a trip to Florida.
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IRS won't penalize Ohioans for wrong hours
Apr 19 2006 11:44AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - About 400 taxpayers who mailed their returns late because of incorrect information in a newspaper will not be penalized by the federal government, an Internal Revenue Service spokesman said.
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Fla. school official sorry for gay remark
Apr 19 2006 11:43AM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Palm Beach County's school board chairman has apologized for referring to gays and lesbians as a "protected species."
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Ex-college president won't be charged
Apr 19 2006 11:11AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) - The former president of Maryville University will not face any charges after an investigation into a woman's allegations that he raped her, a prosecutor says.
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Montgomery apologizes to Rosa Parks
Apr 19 2006 11:07AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The City Coucil has a message for late civil rights icon Rosa Parks and other blacks who were mistreated in Montgomery during the 1950s: We're sorry.
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AP: 'No Child' law raises segregation fear
Apr 19 2006 9:52AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Betty Sternberg is in charge of two school systems. One, scattered throughout the state, is rich and white. The other, isolated in seven large towns, is poor and minority.
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Judge says Ten Commandments can stay
Apr 19 2006 9:22AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A Ten Commandments monument that has stood on the courthouse lawn for almost 50 years does not promote religion and can remain in place, a federal judge ruled.
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Police rescue NYC cable car passengers
Apr 19 2006 8:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A normally five-minute cable car ride turned into a nearly 12-hour ordeal for dozens of people who had be rescued early Wednesday after two cars lost power over the East River.
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Arrest made in taped beating in Las Vegas
Apr 19 2006 8:41AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - One teenager was arrested Tuesday, and police said they were looking for others involved in a videotaped mob beating of a Las Vegas Strip resort employee during the weekend.
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Mich. teen pleads guilty in shooting
Apr 19 2006 7:30AM (CT)
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - A teenager pleaded guilty to shooting a fellow student at Saginaw High School and is expected to be sentenced to at least 12 years in prison.
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Pa. ex-mayor guilty of taking kickbacks
Apr 19 2006 6:31AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A former suburban mayor was convicted by a federal jury of taking a $10,000 kickback, two years after voters in his borough stripped him of power and stopped electing mayors completely.
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Nurse accused of molesting comatose girl
Apr 19 2006 6:15AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A male nurse at a children's hospital charged with molesting a 4-year-old comatose girl wrote in his journal that he "easily and often" fell in love with kids, a prosecutor said.
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Early editions of Book of Mormon found
Apr 19 2006 4:45AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Four early editions of the Book of Mormon stolen in two separate thefts have been recovered, police said.
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Maine police close arsenic investigation
Apr 19 2006 3:28AM (CT)
NEW SWEDEN, Maine (AP) - Nearly three years ago, someone slipped arsenic into coffee at a church in northern Maine, killing one parishioner and sickening 15 others. Days later, a church member took responsibility in a suicide note.
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Sex offenders fearful for their safety
Apr 19 2006 3:21AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Convicted sex offenders often expect to be harassed and ostracized for their actions. Until now, many didn't expect to be attacked.
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Conjoined twins prepare to be separated
Apr 19 2006 2:58AM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - At the Mayo Clinic, everybody is rooting for Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen, conjoined twins who will soon be separated.
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Deputies charged in N.C. inmate's death
Apr 19 2006 12:55AM (CT)
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Two sheriff's deputies were charged with second-degree murder in the death of an inmate during a struggle over a mop handle, authorities said.
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