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Police officer, gunman killed in Ind.
Apr 24 2007 11:07PM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A man suspected of firing shots at an unoccupied nightclub shot at two police officers Tuesday, killing one, then died when officers returned fire, officials said.
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Washington woman named teacher of year
Apr 24 2007 11:04PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for supplies in a climate where music was seen as just providing a break for students and teachers.
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Diocese's bankruptcy plan approved
Apr 24 2007 10:49PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday confirmed a plan to allow the Catholic Diocese of Spokane to emerge from bankruptcy and pay victims of sex abuse $48 million.
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Contractor wants indictments dismissed
Apr 24 2007 10:46PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Lawyers for a defense contractor accused of bribing a congressman and committing fraud with a top CIA official have asked a judge to dismiss charges.
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Storm piles 16 inches of snow on Colo.
Apr 24 2007 10:44PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A spring storm brought a strange brew of tornadoes, heavy snow, rain and hail to Colorado on Tuesday, damaging buildings and forcing schools and highways to close and stranding buses carrying dozens of schoolchildren.
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Storm piles 16 inches of snow on Colo.
Apr 24 2007 10:44PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A spring storm brought a strange brew of tornadoes, heavy snow, rain and hail to Colorado on Tuesday, damaging buildings and forcing schools and highways to close and stranding buses carrying dozens of schoolchildren.
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Storm piles 16 inches of snow on Colo.
Apr 24 2007 10:44PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A spring storm brought a strange brew of tornadoes, heavy snow, rain and hail to Colorado on Tuesday, damaging buildings and forcing schools and highways to close and stranding buses carrying dozens of schoolchildren.
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Student relished chance to drive author
Apr 24 2007 10:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The journalism student who was chauffeuring David Halberstam when the Pulitzer Prize winner was killed said Tuesday he jumped at the chance to spend time with the writer and is grief-stricken at what happened.
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Student relished chance to drive author
Apr 24 2007 10:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The journalism student who was chauffeuring David Halberstam when the Pulitzer Prize winner was killed said Tuesday he jumped at the chance to spend time with the writer and is grief-stricken at what happened.
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Student relished chance to drive author
Apr 24 2007 10:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The journalism student who was chauffeuring David Halberstam when the Pulitzer Prize winner was killed said Tuesday he jumped at the chance to spend time with the writer and is grief-stricken at what happened.
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Student relished chance to drive author
Apr 24 2007 10:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The journalism student who was chauffeuring David Halberstam when the Pulitzer Prize winner was killed said Tuesday he jumped at the chance to spend time with the writer and is grief-stricken at what happened.
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Ex-Coast Guard cadet appeals conviction
Apr 24 2007 10:29PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - The first student court-martialed in the Coast Guard Academy's history has appealed his conviction on sex and extortion charges, claiming errors were made during last year's trial.
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Body found off Calif. may be boater's
Apr 24 2007 10:19PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - A body that washed ashore Tuesday on Santa Catalina Island was identified as a missing Phoenix man whose sailboat smashed into a mainland jetty and broke up in strong winds last week, authorities said.
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Winners debate possibly rigged awards
Apr 24 2007 10:15PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The possibility that one of the Southwest's most prestigious journalism competitions was rigged in recent years had Katie Award winners debating Tuesday whether to return their prizes.
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Judge: No religion at post office
Apr 24 2007 10:12PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Religion has no place in post offices run by churches and other private contractors, a federal judge has ruled, citing the constitutional separation of church and state.
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Riot breaks out at Indiana prison
Apr 24 2007 10:08PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - About 500 inmates staged a two-hour riot at a medium-security men's prison Tuesday, injuring two staff members and setting fires in a courtyard before officials used tear gas to restore order.
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Riot breaks out at Indiana prison
Apr 24 2007 10:08PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - About 500 inmates staged a two-hour riot at a medium-security men's prison Tuesday, injuring two staff members and setting fires in a courtyard before officials used tear gas to restore order.
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Riot breaks out at Indiana prison
Apr 24 2007 10:08PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - About 500 inmates staged a two-hour riot at a medium-security men's prison Tuesday, injuring two staff members and setting fires in a courtyard before officials used tear gas to restore order.
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Riot breaks out at Indiana prison
Apr 24 2007 10:08PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - About 500 inmates staged a two-hour riot at a medium-security men's prison Tuesday, injuring two staff members and setting fires in a courtyard before officials used tear gas to restore order.
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Man admits feeding puppy to snake
Apr 24 2007 9:57PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A man who admitted feeding a puppy to a pet boa constrictor failed to show up for sentencing Tuesday.
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4 plead not guilty to terrorism charges
Apr 24 2007 9:47PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Four men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that they plotted to recruit and train terrorists to attack U.S. and allied troops overseas.
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Khalilzad says Mideast top U.N. priority
Apr 24 2007 9:46PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Zalmay Khalilzad, the new U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said Tuesday the future of the Middle East is "the defining challenge of our time," just as Europe's security problems challenged the world for much of the 20th century.
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Trial opens for crime-fighting mayor
Apr 24 2007 9:32PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mayor Frank Melton and two police bodyguards used sticks and sledgehammers to destroy a duplex the mayor considered a "crack house," witnesses testified Tuesday on the opening day of the trial.
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Trial opens for crime-fighting mayor
Apr 24 2007 9:32PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mayor Frank Melton and two police bodyguards used sticks and sledgehammers to destroy a duplex the mayor considered a "crack house," witnesses testified Tuesday on the opening day of the trial.
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Trial opens for crime-fighting mayor
Apr 24 2007 9:32PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mayor Frank Melton and two police bodyguards used sticks and sledgehammers to destroy a duplex the mayor considered a "crack house," witnesses testified Tuesday on the opening day of the trial.
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Police: No motive yet in Tech shootings
Apr 24 2007 9:26PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - More than a week after Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people during an early morning rampage at Virginia Tech, investigators have yet to find a motive, despite examining his computers, e-mail and cell phone records.
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Police: No motive yet in Tech shootings
Apr 24 2007 9:26PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - More than a week after Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people during an early morning rampage at Virginia Tech, investigators have yet to find a motive, despite examining his computers, e-mail and cell phone records.
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Ga. keeps nervous eye on wildfire
Apr 24 2007 9:17PM (CT)
WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - A wildfire fueled by dense, dry trees and brush spread rapidly through a swamp Tuesday, and firefighters tried to contain it before it could spread to nearby homes.
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Ga. keeps nervous eye on wildfire
Apr 24 2007 9:17PM (CT)
WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - A wildfire fueled by dense, dry trees and brush spread rapidly through a swamp Tuesday, and firefighters tried to contain it before it could spread to nearby homes.
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Ga. keeps nervous eye on wildfire
Apr 24 2007 9:17PM (CT)
WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - A wildfire fueled by dense, dry trees and brush spread rapidly through a swamp Tuesday, and firefighters tried to contain it before it could spread to nearby homes.
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Fla. woman dies after camel sits on her
Apr 24 2007 8:46PM (CT)
WEWAHITCHKA, Fla. (AP) - An owner of an exotic animal farm has died after being kicked and then sat on by a camel. Cathie Ake and the 4-year-old camel were being filmed by a local television station on Sunday when the camel kicked her and then sat down during a break in filming.
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Bus violence rattles Minn. riders
Apr 24 2007 8:45PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Commuters in the Twin Cities have been rattled by a series of attacks on buses in recent weeks, including two killings, and police have stepped up patrols of mass transit to safeguard worried passengers. Transit officials insist the three violent crimes since early March were isolated problems.
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Bus violence rattles Minn. riders
Apr 24 2007 8:45PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Commuters in the Twin Cities have been rattled by a series of attacks on buses in recent weeks, including two killings, and police have stepped up patrols of mass transit to safeguard worried passengers. Transit officials insist the three violent crimes since early March were isolated problems.
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Bus violence rattles Minn. riders
Apr 24 2007 8:45PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Commuters in the Twin Cities have been rattled by a series of attacks on buses in recent weeks, including two killings, and police have stepped up patrols of mass transit to safeguard worried passengers. Transit officials insist the three violent crimes since early March were isolated problems.
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Man arrested in threat on GOP official
Apr 24 2007 8:42PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man accused of threatening a Nevada Republican Party official with a rifle was arrested Tuesday in a vehicle in which police found swords, knives, a shotgun, shells and a flare gun, authorities said.
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Defense in Tenn. corruption trial rests
Apr 24 2007 8:41PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The defense rested Tuesday in the trial of a former Tennessee state senator charged with corruption after calling just three witnesses.
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9 Fort Bragg paratroopers killed in Iraq
Apr 24 2007 8:35PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Army officials on Tuesday continued the solemn process of contacting the families of nine paratroopers killed in a suicide truck bombing in Iraq, the single deadliest attack for the storied 82nd Airborne Division in nearly 40 years.
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9 Fort Bragg paratroopers killed in Iraq
Apr 24 2007 8:35PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Army officials on Tuesday continued the solemn process of contacting the families of nine paratroopers killed in a suicide truck bombing in Iraq, the single deadliest attack for the storied 82nd Airborne Division in nearly 40 years.
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9 Fort Bragg paratroopers killed in Iraq
Apr 24 2007 8:35PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Army officials on Tuesday continued the solemn process of contacting the families of nine paratroopers killed in a suicide truck bombing in Iraq, the single deadliest attack for the storied 82nd Airborne Division in nearly 40 years.
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5 rescued after more than 2 days in cave
Apr 24 2007 8:24PM (CT)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Lost for two days in a seven-mile-long cave in West Virginia, five friends were bruised, shivering and had run out of food and water. Three prayed for help, then heard a faint voice.
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Cops: USC students hold off gunman
Apr 24 2007 8:10PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Students wrested a gun away from a University of Southern California student who had been asked to leave an off-campus party after threatening a young woman, police said Tuesday.
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Alaska mom on trial in sons' deaths
Apr 24 2007 7:22PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A woman who shot her three teenage sons should be acquitted of murder because she is insane, even by Alaska's particularly strict standard, her lawyer told the judge who will decide her fate.
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'Beautiful' VT shooting victim mourned
Apr 24 2007 7:19PM (CT)
LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) - Daniel O'Neil's life was short but filled with passions: for the Beatles, the Boston Red Sox and engineering, for his family and for the friends with whom he'd play music and Frisbee.
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'Beautiful' VT shooting victim mourned
Apr 24 2007 7:19PM (CT)
LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) - Daniel O'Neil's life was short but filled with passions: for the Beatles, the Boston Red Sox and engineering, for his family and for the friends with whom he'd play music and Frisbee.
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Ex-chief sentenced in Ark. corruption
Apr 24 2007 7:09PM (CT)
CABOT, Ark. (AP) - A former small-town police chief and his wife were sentenced to long prison terms Tuesday for running a criminal organization dealing in drugs and jewelry.
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Civilian-death report faults command
Apr 24 2007 6:57PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - High-ranking Marines, including a two-star general, failed to adequately scrutinize the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, despite an obvious need for further investigation, according to an Army probe.
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Testimony: Skakel figure changed story
Apr 24 2007 6:49PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A man who implicated two friends in a murder that sent Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to prison backed off a bit from his account when a state investigator questioned him, according to testimony Tuesday.
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Gingrich's Va. Tech remarks questioned
Apr 24 2007 6:44PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Ted Besen bristles when politicians suggest that armed classmates could have stopped Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho.
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Corzine gets prayers, scoldings
Apr 24 2007 6:21PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's hospitalized governor has been getting more than the usual wishes for a speedy recovery from his highway crash. He's been getting lectures, too: Slow down, and buckle up!
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NY civil rights lawyer is disbarred
Apr 24 2007 5:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights lawyer convicted of helping an imprisoned terrorist sheik communicate with his disciples was disbarred Tuesday.
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Lottery winner succumbs to cancer
Apr 24 2007 5:26PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A man who won $1 million in the lottery shortly after finding out he had terminal cancer has died.
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Primate center gets $10M grant
Apr 24 2007 5:24PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A primate research center has been awarded a $10 million federal grant to compare how mental abilities decline in aging humans, chimpanzees and rhesus macaques.
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Ala. legislators OK slavery apologies
Apr 24 2007 5:19PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The state House and Senate approved separate resolutions apologizing for slavery Tuesday _ one day after Confederate Memorial Day, an official state holiday.
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Seminary leader: Men should rush gunmen
Apr 24 2007 5:15PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The head of a Southern Baptist seminary told male students they should charge an attacker if confronted with a situation like last week's Virginia Tech shootings.
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NASA manager asks workers to reach out
Apr 24 2007 5:02PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The manager of NASA's space shuttle program is urging his workers to reach out to one another and create a support system to prevent tragedies such as last week's murder-suicide at the Johnson Space Center.
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Campus remembers Va. Tech professor
Apr 24 2007 4:56PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - An Acadian flag draped the wooden casket of Virginia Tech French teacher Jocelyn Couture-Nowak on Tuesday as pallbearers carried it through a campus garden before hundreds of students, teachers and relatives.
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Campus remembers Va. Tech professor
Apr 24 2007 4:56PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - An Acadian flag draped the wooden casket of Virginia Tech French teacher Jocelyn Couture-Nowak on Tuesday as pallbearers carried it through a campus garden before hundreds of students, teachers and relatives.
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Campus remembers Va. Tech professor
Apr 24 2007 4:56PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - An Acadian flag draped the wooden casket of Virginia Tech French teacher Jocelyn Couture-Nowak on Tuesday as pallbearers carried it through a campus garden before hundreds of students, teachers and relatives.
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Tax evaders sentenced, remain in home
Apr 24 2007 4:44PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A couple convicted of tax evasion for concealing $1.9 million in income was sentenced to prison Tuesday, but they refused to attend the hearing and have vowed not to leave their fortress-like mansion.
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Ill. residents return home after leak
Apr 24 2007 4:44PM (CT)
SEWARD, Ill. (AP) - Several hundred residents returned home Tuesday after a chemical leak at an agriculture plant sickened at least 10 people and prompted evacuations in three small northern Illinois towns, authorities said.
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Ex-prison head gets 8 years in scandal
Apr 24 2007 3:56PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The former head of Florida's prison system was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Tuesday for taking thousands of dollars in kickbacks from a contractor.
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Challenger of lethal injection executed
Apr 24 2007 3:51PM (CT)
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A man who decided in his final days to challenge Ohio's lethal injection method was executed Tuesday for his ex-wife's shooting death 13 years ago.
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Shootings cast long shadow over campuses
Apr 24 2007 3:01PM (CT)
KENT, Ohio (AP) - The bullet scars are faintly visible on the University of Texas clock tower that served as a sniper's nest more than 40 years ago. Kent State University students still field questions from strangers about the four people slain there by National Guard troops in 1970.
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Rescuers often can't find 911 callers
Apr 24 2007 2:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report by a public safety group throws into question the ability of police and firefighters to locate people through their cell phones when they dial 911 in an emergency.
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Mayor: 'Full scale riot' at Ind. prison
Apr 24 2007 2:20PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - A disturbance among prisoners broke out Tuesday at the New Castle Correctional Facility, and pictures taken from television helicopters showed at least two fires burning in the courtyard.
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China extends panda cub's stay in D.C.
Apr 24 2007 1:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo's popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.
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China extends panda cub's stay in D.C.
Apr 24 2007 1:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo's popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.
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China extends panda cub's stay in D.C.
Apr 24 2007 1:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo's popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.
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2 officers shot, 1 killed in Ind.
Apr 24 2007 1:40PM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A police officer was killed and another wounded early Tuesday in a shootout with a gunman near a motel, authorities said.
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Immigration groups split on boycott
Apr 24 2007 1:12PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Last year, popular Spanish-language disc jockey Eduardo "Piolin" Sotelo was hailed for helping to persuade hundreds of thousands of people to join protests demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants.
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Official: Koreans not guilty in rampage
Apr 24 2007 11:58AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to Seoul urged South Koreans on Tuesday to set aside their culture of collective guilt and not feel responsibility for the slaying of 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech.
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Author David Halberstam killed in crash
Apr 24 2007 11:54AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - David Halberstam, the journalist whose acclaimed books included a towering study of the Vietnam War and a poignant portrait of aging baseball stars, died while heading to an interview for a new work.
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Author David Halberstam killed in crash
Apr 24 2007 11:54AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - David Halberstam, the journalist whose acclaimed books included a towering study of the Vietnam War and a poignant portrait of aging baseball stars, died while heading to an interview for a new work.
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Author David Halberstam killed in crash
Apr 24 2007 11:54AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - David Halberstam, the journalist whose acclaimed books included a towering study of the Vietnam War and a poignant portrait of aging baseball stars, died while heading to an interview for a new work.
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Author David Halberstam killed in crash
Apr 24 2007 11:54AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - David Halberstam, the journalist whose acclaimed books included a towering study of the Vietnam War and a poignant portrait of aging baseball stars, died while heading to an interview for a new work.
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9/11 pilot's brother runs for Congress
Apr 24 2007 10:44AM (CT)
DRACUT, Mass. (AP) - The brother of a pilot whose hijacked airplane was flown into the World Trade Center in 2001 announced Tuesday he is running for Congress.
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Grenade in Tx school scare was inactive
Apr 24 2007 10:37AM (CT)
SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) - An elementary school was evacuated for more than an hour Tuesday morning after a fourth-grader showed up with a hand grenade, authorities said.
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40,000 pounds of cocaine seized at sea
Apr 24 2007 10:21AM (CT)
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - The Coast Guard began unloading more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine seized from three ships off the Central American coast, much of it from a single bust considered the largest in U.S. maritime history.
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40,000 pounds of cocaine seized at sea
Apr 24 2007 10:21AM (CT)
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - The Coast Guard began unloading more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine seized from three ships off the Central American coast, much of it from a single bust considered the largest in U.S. maritime history.
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40,000 pounds of cocaine seized at sea
Apr 24 2007 10:21AM (CT)
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - The Coast Guard began unloading more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine seized from three ships off the Central American coast, much of it from a single bust considered the largest in U.S. maritime history.
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Philly's mayoral primary still a tossup
Apr 24 2007 10:17AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The to-do list for the next mayor is a daunting one: slow a surging homicide rate and change the pay-to-play culture in City Hall.
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Heir of powerful banking family dies
Apr 24 2007 9:29AM (CT)
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - John R. Drexel III, the head of a powerful Philadelphia banking family and a socialite, has died. He was 87.
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Japan retains appetite for U.S. pork
Apr 24 2007 7:57AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - As U.S. beef exports to Japan remain in flux, pork exports continue at a steady clip despite producers' fears that new import standards could give Japan an excuse to reject pork shipments.
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Jurors: Sex offender didn't rape teens
Apr 24 2007 7:55AM (CT)
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) - Hands swollen from where they had ripped off their duct tape bonds, two teen girls told police a harrowing tale last year: A man they knew had kidnapped them and raped them in an underground bunker near their mobile home.
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Lawsuits against Va. Tech face hurdles
Apr 24 2007 3:29AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Five years before the massacre at Virginia Tech, a deeply disturbed student went on a murderous rampage at the Appalachian School of Law, killing three and wounding three others.
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Ex-UN chief hopes massacre sparks treaty
Apr 24 2007 3:25AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The former U.N. human rights chief hopes that last week's massacre at Virginia Tech will generate U.S. support for a global treaty to control the international small arms trade.
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Virginia Tech shooting cited in mistrial
Apr 24 2007 12:49AM (CT)
CHINO, Calif. (AP) - A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a Korean-American man accused of pulling a gun on two golfers, saying the Virginia Tech massacre could affect the man's rights to a fair trial.
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Philly struggles with rising murder rate
Apr 24 2007 12:21AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have trumped brotherly love and the murder rate is on pace to be the highest in a decade. Philadelphia has seen more than one killing a day this year, totaling 127 as of Monday afternoon.
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Philly struggles with rising murder rate
Apr 24 2007 12:21AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have trumped brotherly love and the murder rate is on pace to be the highest in a decade. Philadelphia has seen more than one killing a day this year, totaling 127 as of Monday afternoon.
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Philly struggles with rising murder rate
Apr 24 2007 12:21AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have trumped brotherly love and the murder rate is on pace to be the highest in a decade. Philadelphia has seen more than one killing a day this year, totaling 127 as of Monday afternoon.
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