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Police, bomb dog search Colo. school
May 10 2007 11:58PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Police searched a high school room by room Thursday after a cook reported seeing two suspicious men in the building around dawn, both wearing camouflage and one in a ski mask.
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Police, bomb dog search Colo. school
May 10 2007 11:58PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Police searched a high school room by room Thursday after a cook reported seeing two suspicious men in the building around dawn, both wearing camouflage and one in a ski mask.
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Police, bomb dog search Colo. school
May 10 2007 11:58PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Police searched a high school room by room Thursday after a cook reported seeing two suspicious men in the building around dawn, both wearing camouflage and one in a ski mask.
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28 accused in marriage-citizenship scam
May 10 2007 11:37PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - More than two dozen men and women are accused of arranging or participating in marriages with Bulgarians to help the foreigners evade U.S. immigration laws, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
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Mo. towns try to hold back flood waters
May 10 2007 11:35PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Floodwaters rose still higher across northwest and central Missouri Thursday, leading nervous residents to remove valuables from their homes and fill sandbags to protect river communities.
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Mo. towns try to hold back flood waters
May 10 2007 11:35PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Floodwaters rose still higher across northwest and central Missouri Thursday, leading nervous residents to remove valuables from their homes and fill sandbags to protect river communities.
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Mo. towns try to hold back flood waters
May 10 2007 11:35PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Floodwaters rose still higher across northwest and central Missouri Thursday, leading nervous residents to remove valuables from their homes and fill sandbags to protect river communities.
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Second Ga. wildfire threatens tiny city
May 10 2007 11:17PM (CT)
FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) - A second wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp has burned more than 100,000 acres, rivaling in just five days the vast record-setting fire that has scorched southeast Georgia for more than three weeks, firefighters said Thursday.
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Second Ga. wildfire threatens tiny city
May 10 2007 11:17PM (CT)
FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) - A second wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp has burned more than 100,000 acres, rivaling in just five days the vast record-setting fire that has scorched southeast Georgia for more than three weeks, firefighters said Thursday.
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Wildfire threatens Calif. resort city
May 10 2007 11:15PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - A wind-driven wildfire threatened Santa Catalina Island's main city Thursday, and residents and visitors were urged to leave the resort isle more than 20 miles off Southern California.
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Wildfire threatens Calif. resort city
May 10 2007 11:15PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - A wind-driven wildfire threatened Santa Catalina Island's main city Thursday, and residents and visitors were urged to leave the resort isle more than 20 miles off Southern California.
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1 teen killed in Chicago bus shooting
May 10 2007 11:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A gunman boarded a Chicago Transit Authority bus on the city's South Side on Thursday afternoon and opened fire, killing one teenager and wounding four others, authorities said.
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Witness says Spector was not himself
May 10 2007 10:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A friend of Phil Spector testified Thursday that the music producer "was not his usual self" during a dinner date hours before actress Lana Clarkson's death at his mansion.
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Witness says Spector was not himself
May 10 2007 10:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A friend of Phil Spector testified Thursday that the music producer "was not his usual self" during a dinner date hours before actress Lana Clarkson's death at his mansion.
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Witness says Spector was not himself
May 10 2007 10:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A friend of Phil Spector testified Thursday that the music producer "was not his usual self" during a dinner date hours before actress Lana Clarkson's death at his mansion.
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Murder verdict upheld despite DNA trick
May 10 2007 10:51PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Police didn't violate any privacy laws when they posed as lawyers to get a man's DNA sample from an envelope he licked, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the man's murder conviction.
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Guitar innovator Les Paul returns home
May 10 2007 10:46PM (CT)
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - Guitar legend Les Paul enthralled a hometown crowd Thursday night at a concert that raised more than $100,000 for an exhibit on his life.
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Man guilty in Chicago restaurant murders
May 10 2007 10:26PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A man was found guilty Thursday in the execution-style murders of seven people at a Chicago restaurant 14 years ago in what authorities say was a robbery that netted less than $2,000.
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First of 9 Kan. tornado victims buried
May 10 2007 10:22PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - The cleanup and recovery stopped briefly Thursday as the first funeral procession for one of the nine residents killed during a massive tornado made its way to a cemetery.
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First of 9 Kan. tornado victims buried
May 10 2007 10:22PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - The cleanup and recovery stopped briefly Thursday as the first funeral procession for one of the nine residents killed during a massive tornado made its way to a cemetery.
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First of 9 Kan. tornado victims buried
May 10 2007 10:22PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - The cleanup and recovery stopped briefly Thursday as the first funeral procession for one of the nine residents killed during a massive tornado made its way to a cemetery.
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Engineer guilty in military secrets case
May 10 2007 10:05PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Jurors convicted a Chinese-born engineer Thursday of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.
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Engineer guilty in military secrets case
May 10 2007 10:05PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Jurors convicted a Chinese-born engineer Thursday of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.
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Engineer guilty in military secrets case
May 10 2007 10:05PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Jurors convicted a Chinese-born engineer Thursday of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.
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USS Constitution commander removed
May 10 2007 8:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The commander of the USS Constitution was relieved of duty because of a "loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command," a Navy spokesman said Thursday.
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Girls Gone Wild founder faces tax charge
May 10 2007 7:38PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the multimillionaire founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire should be sent to Nevada to face charges there once he finishes serving a jail sentence in Florida.
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Lawmaker to trial in teen's death case
May 10 2007 7:23PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A state senator will stand trial on perjury and weapons charges stemming from the death of a 14-year-old neighbor who shot himself in the head with the senator's handgun.
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Lawmaker to trial in teen's death case
May 10 2007 7:23PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A state senator will stand trial on perjury and weapons charges stemming from the death of a 14-year-old neighbor who shot himself in the head with the senator's handgun.
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Lawmaker to trial in teen's death case
May 10 2007 7:23PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A state senator will stand trial on perjury and weapons charges stemming from the death of a 14-year-old neighbor who shot himself in the head with the senator's handgun.
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Lawmaker to trial in teen's death case
May 10 2007 7:23PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A state senator will stand trial on perjury and weapons charges stemming from the death of a 14-year-old neighbor who shot himself in the head with the senator's handgun.
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Kansas settles lawsuit over BTK video
May 10 2007 7:22PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The state reached a $30,000 settlement in a case against two Massachusetts psychologists hired by the state to interview BTK serial killer Dennis Rader before his sentencing, Attorney General Paul Morrison said Thursday.
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Govs worry about depleted National Guard
May 10 2007 6:41PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - With repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan leaving state National Guards without nearly half of their required equipment, some governors are loudly questioning whether they will be able to handle the next hurricane, wildfire or terrorist attack at home.
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Va. Tech review panel holds 1st meeting
May 10 2007 5:58PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The panel studying the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech held its first public meeting Thursday, with Gov. Timothy M. Kaine asking for details about the gunman, how the events unfolded, and how the state and other agencies responded.
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Final Fla. officer guilty in FBI probe
May 10 2007 5:46PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The last of four police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to helping protect what they thought was a mob shipment of heroin during an undercover FBI probe.
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Teacher's husband indicted in teen death
May 10 2007 5:44PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A grand jury indicted a man accused of killing his wife's teenage lover on a murder charge, but not the first-degree count prosecutors had sought, according to court documents released Thursday.
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New Orleans' state-run schools score low
May 10 2007 5:37PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - About two-thirds of students in New Orleans high schools that were taken over by the state after Hurricane Katrina flunked the state graduation exam, according to figures released Thursday.
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Informants scrutinized in Fort Dix case
May 10 2007 5:20PM (CT)
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) - He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Informants scrutinized in Fort Dix case
May 10 2007 5:20PM (CT)
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) - He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Jehovah's Witnesses settle abuse cases
May 10 2007 5:14PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A victims' rights group released documents Thursday that showed the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to act on abuse allegations.
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General testifies in Haditha deaths case
May 10 2007 5:10PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine general testified Thursday that he initially saw no reason to investigate the killing of women and children by troops in the Iraqi town of Haditha, and said he didn't learn about allegations that civilians were intentionally targeted until three months later.
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Corps of Engineers defends pump contract
May 10 2007 4:55PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers, criticized for how it handled the bidding for post-Hurricane drainage pumps that proved to be defective, is defending its use of the winning bidder's own language _ down to the typos _ in laying out the specifications.
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Accused impersonator freed in rape case
May 10 2007 4:30PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A woman who had sex with her boyfriend's brother in her darkened room late one night claimed she was raped, saying the man tricked her into the act by impersonating her boyfriend.
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Woman who killed abusive husband freed
May 10 2007 4:25PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A woman left prison after nearly 21 years Thursday, the second Missouri woman in a week to be freed from a life sentence given for the death of an abusive husband.
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Touch screens approved for NYC taxis
May 10 2007 4:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a plan Thursday to install touch-screen monitors in all 13,000 city cabs that will allow riders to pay by credit card, check on news stories, map out where the cab is going and find information about eateries and bars.
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Touch screens approved for NYC taxis
May 10 2007 4:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a plan Thursday to install touch-screen monitors in all 13,000 city cabs that will allow riders to pay by credit card, check on news stories, map out where the cab is going and find information about eateries and bars.
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Touch screens approved for NYC taxis
May 10 2007 4:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a plan Thursday to install touch-screen monitors in all 13,000 city cabs that will allow riders to pay by credit card, check on news stories, map out where the cab is going and find information about eateries and bars.
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Reporters subpoenaed in Fla. execution
May 10 2007 4:06PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A veteran Associated Press reporter and three other journalists who covered a botched execution were subpoenaed to testify in another inmate's challenge to Florida's lethal injection practices.
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Fire chars a fifth of LA's Griffith Park
May 10 2007 3:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One-fifth of the city's sprawling Griffith Park was a fire-charred landscape Thursday as firefighters extinguished that last remaining hotspots from a wildfire that had threatened its landmark observatory and zoo.
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Fire chars a fifth of LA's Griffith Park
May 10 2007 3:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One-fifth of the city's sprawling Griffith Park was a fire-charred landscape Thursday as firefighters extinguished that last remaining hotspots from a wildfire that had threatened its landmark observatory and zoo.
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Fire chars a fifth of LA's Griffith Park
May 10 2007 3:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One-fifth of the city's sprawling Griffith Park was a fire-charred landscape Thursday as firefighters extinguished that last remaining hotspots from a wildfire that had threatened its landmark observatory and zoo.
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Fire chars a fifth of LA's Griffith Park
May 10 2007 3:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One-fifth of the city's sprawling Griffith Park was a fire-charred landscape Thursday as firefighters extinguished that last remaining hotspots from a wildfire that had threatened its landmark observatory and zoo.
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Woman who posed as boy pleads guilty
May 10 2007 2:30PM (CT)
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A woman who posed as a homeless orphaned boy, befriended a teenage girl and was taken into her family's home has pleaded guilty to child molestation.
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Booze vote in nuke-storing Texas county
May 10 2007 2:29PM (CT)
ANDREWS, Texas (AP) - A West Texas county where jobs hinge on radioactive waste could soon open the doors to another volatile substance: alcohol.
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Bond denied to UGA student in threats
May 10 2007 1:55PM (CT)
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - A judge denied bond Thursday for a University of Georgia graduate student who frightened classmates and a professor with his talk about guns and was armed when police came to take him for a mental evaluation.
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Buzzards, planes, 'body farm' don't mix
May 10 2007 1:41PM (CT)
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) - Texas State University's plan to build the nation's largest "body farm" of cadavers is on hold over concerns that buzzards could endanger nearby planes.
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Ex-trooper surrenders in 1965 Ala. death
May 10 2007 1:09PM (CT)
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A former state trooper surrendered Thursday on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest, a killing that led to the "Bloody Sunday" march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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Ex-trooper surrenders in 1965 Ala. death
May 10 2007 1:09PM (CT)
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A former state trooper surrendered Thursday on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest, a killing that led to the "Bloody Sunday" march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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Ex-trooper surrenders in 1965 Ala. death
May 10 2007 1:09PM (CT)
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A former state trooper surrendered Thursday on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest, a killing that led to the "Bloody Sunday" march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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Lethal injection father defends creation
May 10 2007 1:05PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - Thirty years ago, Oklahoma Medical Examiner Dr. A. Jay Chapman marched into the Oklahoma Statehouse and dictated the formula for a cocktail of three drugs to a lawmaker looking for a more humane way to execute the condemned.
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Former FBI agent center of global saga
May 10 2007 12:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former FBI agent who vanished in Iran two months ago was apparently investigating a cigarette-smuggling operation, according to a hunted assassin who says he was with the American on the day he disappeared.
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Gen. Abizaid to give Va. Tech speech
May 10 2007 12:07PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The speaker for Virginia Tech's bittersweet commencement on Friday said he only hopes his words can help the university heal after last month's massacre.
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Golfer found in pond had heart problem
May 10 2007 12:07PM (CT)
CAMILLUS, N.Y. (AP) - A 65-year-old golfer apparently suffered a heart attack and drowned while trying to retrieve a ball from a country club pond, according to a medical examiner.
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Teen: Planned Parenthood mum on my abuse
May 10 2007 12:01PM (CT)
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) - A teenager who was impregnated by her father claims in a lawsuit that she reported his sexual abuse to Planned Parenthood but that the agency didn't tell authorities.
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New York mobster, 90, is arrested again
May 10 2007 11:33AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 90-year-old Colombo crime family leader who rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra and other celebrities during his heyday was arrested for associating with known mobsters, his fifth parole violation in 25 years, the FBI said.
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U.N. envoys seek input on climate change
May 10 2007 11:30AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Three U.N. special envoys will be soliciting the views of world leaders on tackling climate change to help Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prepare for a June meeting of major industrialized nations and decide whether to hold a high-level U.N. event on global warming in September.
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Boy, 10, guilty of beating homeless man
May 10 2007 11:18AM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 10-year-old boy was convicted Thursday in the beating of a homeless Army veteran that left the man so severely injured he required reconstructive surgery.
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Coach accused of student sex assaults
May 10 2007 11:06AM (CT)
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - A high school wrestling coach was charged with sexually assaulting two students on campus, authorities said Thursday.
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Religion news in brief
May 10 2007 11:03AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The head of the Evangelical Theological Society has returned to the Roman Catholic Church and, as a result, has stepped down from his post with the evangelical group.
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Religion today
May 10 2007 11:03AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A woman of quiet faith on most days, Lucille Mills transforms each Sunday into the Rev. CeCee _ a foot-stompin' minister who can match hallelujah's with the best Southern preachers.
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Feds probe life of Vegas bombing victim
May 10 2007 10:47AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Family members of a man killed in an explosion on the Las Vegas Strip were planning to bring his body back to Mexico while investigators looked into his background for clues.
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2 kids charged in Ga. wildfires
May 10 2007 10:44AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Two boys were arrested and charged with starting fires in drought-stricken south Georgia, which has been battling widespread wildfires for weeks, officials announced Thursday.
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Navy lawyer to stand trial next week
May 10 2007 9:15AM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A Navy lawyer will go on trial next week on charges of passing classified information about Guantanamo Bay detainees to an unauthorized person, the Navy announced Thursday.
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GPS used to reach transplant recipient
May 10 2007 8:58AM (CT)
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) - It took global-positioning technology for police to track down a 10-year-old boy and get him to a hospital in time for a life-saving heart transplant.
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New format for missing kids' photos
May 10 2007 8:46AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Those little cards with black-and-white pictures of missing children are being replaced by larger, color images.
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Churches provide immigrants sanctuary
May 10 2007 6:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An effort being billed as a new sanctuary movement for immigrants is loosely based on a 1980s movement in which churches harbored Central American refugees fleeing wars in their home countries.
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Churches provide immigrants sanctuary
May 10 2007 6:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An effort being billed as a new sanctuary movement for immigrants is loosely based on a 1980s movement in which churches harbored Central American refugees fleeing wars in their home countries.
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Churches provide immigrants sanctuary
May 10 2007 6:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An effort being billed as a new sanctuary movement for immigrants is loosely based on a 1980s movement in which churches harbored Central American refugees fleeing wars in their home countries.
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D.C. loosens rules for older drivers
May 10 2007 6:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the more than three decades that Giuseppe Morra has been navigating the streets of Washington, he has had just one minor accident, and it's been years since he has gotten a ticket.
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D.C. loosens rules for older drivers
May 10 2007 6:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the more than three decades that Giuseppe Morra has been navigating the streets of Washington, he has had just one minor accident, and it's been years since he has gotten a ticket.
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Montana lawmakers squabble over surplus
May 10 2007 4:24AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Most state legislatures would love to have an extra $1 billion to spend. But in Montana, it has led to a historic political meltdown.
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Extreme weather, fires befall nation
May 10 2007 3:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nature's fury made life miserable from one end of the nation to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts and the Canadian border and by major flooding in the Midwest.
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Extreme weather, fires befall nation
May 10 2007 3:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nature's fury made life miserable from one end of the nation to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts and the Canadian border and by major flooding in the Midwest.
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Extreme weather, fires befall nation
May 10 2007 3:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nature's fury made life miserable from one end of the nation to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts and the Canadian border and by major flooding in the Midwest.
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Cable likely carried lightning into mine
May 10 2007 3:17AM (CT)
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) - Now that the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has determined lightning likely caused the Sago Mine explosion that killed 12 coal miners last year, the agency is shifting its focus to preventing another methane blast.
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