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Lawyers claim U. of Colo. hid assault info
Apr 28 2005 11:47PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Lawyers for two women who unsuccessfully sued the University of Colorado over alleged sexual assaults by football players and recruits are seeking documents they claim will show the school hid information about two previous assaults.
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Man convicted in Wis. shooting deaths
Apr 28 2005 11:32PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A man was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting his girlfriend and a German businessman at a suburban hotel last year.
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Wash. teen pleads guilty in stabbing death
Apr 28 2005 11:28PM (CT)
EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) - One of two boys accused in the beating and stabbing death of a 13-year-old learning disabled youth pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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California logging protesters win lawsuit
Apr 28 2005 11:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Law enforcement officers from two northern California counties were found liable Thursday for using excessive force by swabbing pepper spray in the eyes of logging protesters in 1997. A jury awarded eight plaintiffs $1 each.
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Ore. police to withdraw from FBI-led team
Apr 28 2005 10:37PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The City Council on Thursday approved a recommendation to withdraw police officers from an FBI-led anti-terror task force after federal authorities refused to raise the mayor's security clearance to let him keep closer watch over its activities.
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Romney files death penalty bill for Mass.
Apr 28 2005 10:36PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The governor filed a bill Thursday to bring back capital punishment in Massachusetts for such crimes as terrorism, murder involving torture and the killing of law enforcement officers.
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Rescue diver turned cop killer executed
Apr 28 2005 10:35PM (CT)
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - Without saying a word or even glancing at the witnesses to his execution, a one-time rescue diver who was convicted of killing a police officer was put to death Thursday.
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Ex-Georgia Sen. Zell Miller hospitalized
Apr 28 2005 10:19PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Former Sen. Zell Miller fell ill while giving a speech Thursday night and was taken to a hospital emergency room. His wife said he had flu-like symptoms.
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Jury returns death sentence in GI killings
Apr 28 2005 10:06PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.
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Defense witnesses say Marine model officer
Apr 28 2005 9:53PM (CT)
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Marines testifying on behalf of a comrade accused of murdering two Iraqi detainees praised him Thursday as a model leader who showed compassion for Iraqi citizens.
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Hundreds search for missing bride-to-be
Apr 28 2005 9:53PM (CT)
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - A 32-year-old bride-to-be vanished just days before her wedding, and more than 100 volunteers joined police Thursday in an all-out search of her wooded suburban neighborhood.
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Workers charged in driver license scam
Apr 28 2005 9:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of illegal immigrants have obtained driver's licenses in three states, federal authorities said Thursday, highlighting a security hole that the Sept. 11 hijackers exploited.
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Alaskan village grieves whale hunt victims
Apr 28 2005 9:40PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Residents of a remote Eskimo village Thursday grieved the loss of four people whose walrus-skin boat capsized in the Bering Sea during a whale hunt, and waited for calmer seas to head out in boats to look for the missing _ including two children.
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Man who set son on fire dodges life term
Apr 28 2005 9:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man who became notorious for serving only 6 1/2 years for setting his son on fire two decades ago will not be sentenced to life in prison on a handgun charge under California's tough three-strikes law, a judge ruled Thursday.
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U. of Texas renews interest in Los Alamos
Apr 28 2005 9:27PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - University of Texas officials expressed renewed interest Thursday in managing the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, with Lockheed Martin Corp. as a partner.
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Calif. adopts nation's toughest smog law
Apr 28 2005 9:21PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California adopted a new limit on ozone levels Thursday that gives the state the toughest air pollution guidelines in the nation.
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Samantha Runnion slay suspect convicted
Apr 28 2005 9:19PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A jury convicted a factory worker Thursday of kidnapping and murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, an Orange County girl whose 2002 death prompted widespread heartbreak, outrage and stronger efforts to rescue abducted children.
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Kansas anti-abortion bill veto sticks
Apr 28 2005 9:07PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Anti-abortion lawmakers failed Thursday to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a bill imposing additional regulations on clinics that perform abortions.
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Scan shows Nev. radiation didn't hit town
Apr 28 2005 8:00PM (CT)
YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) - Federal environmental officials examining uranium contamination at a closed copper mine near this northern Nevada town say an initial screening of homes and roads in the area has turned up nothing unusual.
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5 nations share school chess title
Apr 28 2005 6:28PM (CT)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The first world school chess championships ended Thursday with top prizes split among five nations, while a 7-year-old Texan came in second.
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Bill to put Indiana on DST falls short
Apr 28 2005 6:17PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A bill to mandate daylight-saving time across Indiana failed to win final legislative approval Thursday despite a push by Gov. Mitch Daniels, who says the change would eliminate confusion and attract business.
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Defense: Mocking voices led man to buy gun
Apr 28 2005 6:13PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The man on trial in a series of highway shootings heard mocking voices from the television for years, leading him to drop lumber and bags of concrete mix off overpasses and then to buy a gun, his attorney told jurors Thursday.
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Court clears way for Detroit casinos
Apr 28 2005 5:59PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The three casinos in the city can move ahead with plans to build hotels and other permanent facilities after a federal appeals court Thursday lifted legal obstacles that had blocked the projects for three years.
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Defibrillator cables recalled
Apr 28 2005 5:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Laerdal Medical Corp. is recalling more than 3,000 defibrillator adapter cables, sold nationwide since 1996, after receiving reports that broken wires in the cables prevented delivery of shocks to patients.
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Municipalities race to fix parking meters
Apr 28 2005 5:33PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Chuck Pascal was just fighting a $5 parking ticket. But when he beat the ticket by discovering the parking meter had not been certified as accurate by state inspectors, he sent a shudder through many other Pennsylvania towns and cities.
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Government to pay refugee denied asylum
Apr 28 2005 5:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. government agreed to pay $87,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by a Kenyan refugee who was denied political asylum in the United States.
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Boy, little sister found stabbed to death
Apr 28 2005 5:28PM (CT)
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) - A 9-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister were found stabbed to death in their home, and authorities were questioning the parents Thursday after finding several knives they believe were the murder weapons, police said.
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Man pleads guilty to Md. arson spree
Apr 28 2005 5:24PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - One of five men charged in an arson spree at a suburban Washington housing development pleaded guilty Thursday to taking part in what prosecutors said was a crime aimed at black families moving into the neighborhood.
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Ind. governor signs law for ID at polls
Apr 28 2005 5:22PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a law requiring most voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting a ballot, a law stricter than all but a handful of states.
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Wiretaps in U.S. jump 19 percent in 2004
Apr 28 2005 5:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of court-authorized wiretaps jumped 19 percent last year as investigators pursued drug and other cases against increasingly tech-savvy suspects. Every surveillance request made by authorities was granted.
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Labor group tries to address dissent
Apr 28 2005 4:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The AFL-CIO proposed spending more money on union organizing Thursday, trying to pre-empt a plan pushed by Teamsters President James P. Hoffa and other labor leaders.
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Arrests announced in Fla. license scheme
Apr 28 2005 4:34PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - More than 50 people _ including three state driver's license examiners _ were arrested on criminal and immigration charges stemming from an alleged scheme to sell commercial driver's licenses, officials said Thursday.
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Sulfites prompt recall of bellflower root
Apr 28 2005 3:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Maryland company is recalling dried bellflower root because the package labels failed to disclose the product may contain sulfites, which can be deadly to people allergic to them.
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Arms control group pushes for cutbacks
Apr 28 2005 3:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The private Arms Control Association urged the Bush administration on Thursday to abandon efforts to explore development of new types of nuclear weapons.
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Man who drove car into students convicted
Apr 28 2005 3:12PM (CT)
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) - A 66-year-old man with a prosthetic leg was convicted of negligent driving Thursday for plowing his car into a crowd outside an elementary school and injuring 12 people.
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White supremacist runs for school board
Apr 28 2005 3:09PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - First came the leaflets. Left on front porches around the college town of Bozeman last summer, they called for a white homeland and espoused a need to protect the white race.
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Chronic drunk driver to be re-sentenced
Apr 28 2005 2:10PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a sentence of probation given to a man with 11 drunken driving convictions, saying the punishment was too lenient.
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Soldier who fought assignment discharged
Apr 28 2005 1:43PM (CT)
POTSDAM, N.Y. (AP) - The Army honorably discharged a Reserve officer who had gone to court to challenge his assignment to Iraq, saying he had properly resigned more than a year earlier.
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Man who killed cop gets death sentence
Apr 28 2005 1:31PM (CT)
COLUSA, Calif. (AP) - A former Army Ranger who said he shot a police officer to death to make a political statement was sentenced to die for the ambush slaying.
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Greyhound bus crash injures 24 in Miss.
Apr 28 2005 1:30PM (CT)
MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) - A Greyhound bus crashed into a tractor-trailer near the Mississippi Gulf Coast early Thursday, injuring about two dozen people, police said.
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Civil rights review sought in detention
Apr 28 2005 1:18PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal prosecutor asked the Justice Department to check for possible civil rights violations by an Army reservist who held seven undocumented immigrants at gunpoint at a rural rest stop last month.
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Jerry Brown enters world of blogging
Apr 28 2005 12:31PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Mayor Jerry Brown, two-time governor, three-time presidential candidate and longtime spiritual scholar, has gone where relatively few politicians dare: The one-on-one, warts-and-all world of the personal Web log.
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Newspaper apologizes for mistaken mob ID
Apr 28 2005 12:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Tribune apologized Thursday for publishing a photo caption that misidentified a man as a high-ranking mobster, a day after a second man sued the newspaper over a picture wrongly identifying him as a mobster.
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J.C. Penney recalls 229,000 infant suits
Apr 28 2005 12:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - J.C. Penney Co. Inc. is recalling 228,818 one-piece infant outfits because decorative patches on them can come off and pose a choking hazard.
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Georgia erases 'Jim Crow' laws
Apr 28 2005 11:59AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a set of bills Thursday that erased the last vestiges of Georgia's segregation-era "Jim Crow" laws.
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Religion news in brief
Apr 28 2005 11:01AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The head of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, has taken fellow U.S. bishops to task for asking Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the world Anglican leader, to intervene in their denomination's ongoing dispute over homosexuality.
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Kansas town shocked boy may have shot dad
Apr 28 2005 9:40AM (CT)
HUMBOLDT, Kan. (AP) - When Carolyn Moore answered the light knock on her front door Sunday night, she was greeted by a boy wearing only burgundy underwear and holding a shotgun.
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Missing jogger case now called criminal
Apr 28 2005 9:40AM (CT)
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - The case of a woman who disappeared just days before she is to be married is now considered a criminal investigation, authorities said Thursday.
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Calif. gov. eases redistricting deadline
Apr 28 2005 8:35AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has softened a key demand of his reform agenda _ that state legislative and congressional districts be redrawn by next year.
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Tenet regrets WMD 'slam dunk' comment
Apr 28 2005 8:12AM (CT)
KUTZTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Former CIA Director George Tenet said he regretted assuring President Bush in 2002 that he had "slam dunk" evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Army officer acquitted of raping soldier
Apr 28 2005 6:18AM (CT)
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (AP) - An Army officer was acquitted of raping a female counterpart in her barracks room when a judge ruled that their night of dancing led to consensual sex.
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Man convicted of trying to sell missiles
Apr 28 2005 5:57AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For nearly two years, Hemant Lakhani has maintained he was the victim of government entrapment as prosecutors sought to paint him as an aspiring international arms dealer and terrorist sympathizer.
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Tribe's lawyer argues Yucca Mountain case
Apr 28 2005 5:47AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A lawyer for an American Indian tribe that wants to stop a national nuclear waste dump from being built on ancestral lands told a federal judge that workers might have provided false information to win the project's approval.
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Body of Calif. teen killed in crash found
Apr 28 2005 5:33AM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - The parents of a teenager killed in a car crash found their son's body 13 hours after authorities towed away the car and left the scene.
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Sentencing of Algerian terrorist delayed
Apr 28 2005 5:11AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Dozens of police secured the courthouse. An FBI agent flew in from Washington, D.C., to testify. A retired Customs agent drove from North Dakota to watch.
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Indian church leader sues Utah officials
Apr 28 2005 4:56AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The leader of an American Indian church is suing county officials who unsuccessfully prosecuted him for using peyote during religious ceremonies.
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Town debates plans for liquefied gas
Apr 28 2005 4:51AM (CT)
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - Residents here are asking themselves whether they want a liquefied natural gas terminal built across the bay from their peaceful river town. They aren't alone in wrestling with that question.
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Poll: Schwarzenegger approval rating down
Apr 28 2005 3:30AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - For the first time since taking office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a job approval rating of less than 50 percent, according to a new poll of likely voters.
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