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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Bittersweet graduation at Virginia Tech
May 12 2007 11:39PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout: jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university's Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
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Anti-illegal-immigrant law OK'd in Texas
May 12 2007 10:54PM (CT)
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) - Voters in this Dallas suburb became the first in the nation Saturday to prohibit landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants.
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Crews still battling Calif. island blaze
May 12 2007 10:43PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather aided firefighters Saturday as they battled to surround a 4,200-acre wildfire in the rugged, unpopulated interior of Santa Catalina Island while a nearby resort town, no longer threatened, returned to life.
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Crews still battling Calif. island blaze
May 12 2007 10:43PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather aided firefighters Saturday as they battled to surround a 4,200-acre wildfire in the rugged, unpopulated interior of Santa Catalina Island while a nearby resort town, no longer threatened, returned to life.
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Crews still battling Calif. island blaze
May 12 2007 10:43PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather aided firefighters Saturday as they battled to surround a 4,200-acre wildfire in the rugged, unpopulated interior of Santa Catalina Island while a nearby resort town, no longer threatened, returned to life.
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Critics bash 'warrior culture' of LAPD
May 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Police Department's violent response at the end of an immigrant demonstration is the latest incident highlighting what critics describe as the force's "warrior culture."
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Critics bash 'warrior culture' of LAPD
May 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Police Department's violent response at the end of an immigrant demonstration is the latest incident highlighting what critics describe as the force's "warrior culture."
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Critics bash 'warrior culture' of LAPD
May 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Police Department's violent response at the end of an immigrant demonstration is the latest incident highlighting what critics describe as the force's "warrior culture."
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Critics bash 'warrior culture' of LAPD
May 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Police Department's violent response at the end of an immigrant demonstration is the latest incident highlighting what critics describe as the force's "warrior culture."
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Skydiving plane crash in Montana kills 5
May 12 2007 10:16PM (CT)
MARION, Mont. (AP) - A plane crash killed a pilot and four members of a group of skydivers Saturday in northwestern Montana, leaving no survivors, authorities said.
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Skydiving plane crash in Montana kills 5
May 12 2007 10:16PM (CT)
MARION, Mont. (AP) - A plane crash killed a pilot and four members of a group of skydivers Saturday in northwestern Montana, leaving no survivors, authorities said.
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10 arrested in K.C. prostitution raids
May 12 2007 9:24PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Authorities charged five more people Saturday with bringing women from China to the Kansas City area for prostitution after a series of raids at businesses billed as massage parlors.
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Ski champ Bode Miller's cousin kills cop
May 12 2007 9:05PM (CT)
FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) - A cousin of skiing star Bode Miller fatally shot and ran over a police officer, then was killed by a passer-by who grabbed the officer's gun.
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Man who admitted killing son set free
May 12 2007 8:32PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A man who admitted killing his son 17 years ago was sentenced to probation in exchange for saying where the toddler's body was buried _ even though the remains were not found during a lengthy search.
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Border Patrol says agency erred on fence
May 12 2007 8:14PM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A top Border Patrol official told Rio Grande Valley leaders and residents Saturday that the agency erred in secretly drawing a map of planned border fencing and would be more forthcoming about the plans.
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Flooding threat eases along Missouri
May 12 2007 8:14PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri River neared its highest point in the state's capital city Saturday after a week of flooding towns upstream, but hydrologists said it wasn't nearly as bad as feared.
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Marine: Haditha deaths didn't need probe
May 12 2007 7:58PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine major who inspected the Iraqi homes where Marines killed 24 people testified Saturday that the gore left even 10 days after the gruesome sweep stamped searing images in his mind.
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Blue Angels stage 1st show since crash
May 12 2007 7:49PM (CT)
SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AP) - After 21 years as a U.S. Navy pilot, his career boasting nearly 900 aircraft carrier landings and air combat during the first Gulf War, tragedy comes as no surprise to Cmdr. Kevin Mannix.
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Blue Angels stage 1st show since crash
May 12 2007 7:49PM (CT)
SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AP) - After 21 years as a U.S. Navy pilot, his career boasting nearly 900 aircraft carrier landings and air combat during the first Gulf War, tragedy comes as no surprise to Cmdr. Kevin Mannix.
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Blue Angels stage 1st show since crash
May 12 2007 7:49PM (CT)
SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AP) - After 21 years as a U.S. Navy pilot, his career boasting nearly 900 aircraft carrier landings and air combat during the first Gulf War, tragedy comes as no surprise to Cmdr. Kevin Mannix.
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Boat to retrace voyage from Jamestown
May 12 2007 6:57PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - A group of modern-day John Smiths rowed away Saturday in a small, open boat from the site of the first permanent English settlement in America, which Smith helped found 400 years ago this weekend.
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Boat to retrace voyage from Jamestown
May 12 2007 6:57PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - A group of modern-day John Smiths rowed away Saturday in a small, open boat from the site of the first permanent English settlement in America, which Smith helped found 400 years ago this weekend.
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Boat to retrace voyage from Jamestown
May 12 2007 6:57PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - A group of modern-day John Smiths rowed away Saturday in a small, open boat from the site of the first permanent English settlement in America, which Smith helped found 400 years ago this weekend.
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Boat to retrace voyage from Jamestown
May 12 2007 6:57PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) - A group of modern-day John Smiths rowed away Saturday in a small, open boat from the site of the first permanent English settlement in America, which Smith helped found 400 years ago this weekend.
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Holocaust survivor refuses to meet son
May 12 2007 6:51PM (CT)
BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) - The letter brought a bittersweet end to Sol Factor's 17-year search for his mother, a Holocaust survivor who disappeared in the aftermath of World War II:
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Holocaust survivor refuses to meet son
May 12 2007 6:51PM (CT)
BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) - The letter brought a bittersweet end to Sol Factor's 17-year search for his mother, a Holocaust survivor who disappeared in the aftermath of World War II:
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Families of WWI dogfighters meet
May 12 2007 6:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The families of two World War I enemies have been brought together by a small souvenir that a rookie American pilot took from the plane of a famous German ace.
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Rare albino 'gator on display in Tenn.
May 12 2007 5:45PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - This white alligator has it made in the shade. A rare albino alligator on loan to the Knoxville Zoo spent one recent afternoon basking under a heat lamp beside a warm pool with one claw lazily dipped in the water. If outside, her skin would burn in the sun.
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Rare albino 'gator on display in Tenn.
May 12 2007 5:45PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - This white alligator has it made in the shade. A rare albino alligator on loan to the Knoxville Zoo spent one recent afternoon basking under a heat lamp beside a warm pool with one claw lazily dipped in the water. If outside, her skin would burn in the sun.
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On Mother's Day, lessons from 'gramma'
May 12 2007 4:49PM (CT)
COLUSA, Calif. (AP) - Lucille Strohlein closed her eyes, recalling the story: She sat near the hospital bed, whispering to her husband. They were private words _ words of love, of faith, of farewell. She talked to him for hours, recalling their life together.
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Ideas abound for rebuilding Kan. town
May 12 2007 3:24PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - Rebuilding this town after its devastation by a tornado could provide a model for energy efficiency and rural spirit, planners and politicians say.
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Asian slurs end shock jocks' show on CBS
May 12 2007 2:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - One month after CBS Radio fired radio host Don Imus, it has permanently pulled the plug on a pair of suspended New York shock jocks for a prank phone call rife with offensive Asian stereotypes.
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Dix terror arrest hurts N.J. pizzeria
May 12 2007 2:25PM (CT)
COOKSTOWN, N.J. (AP) - The father of one of the six men charged with plotting to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix says the business near the base that he's nurtured for years is all but ruined since his son's arrest.
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Dix terror arrest hurts N.J. pizzeria
May 12 2007 2:25PM (CT)
COOKSTOWN, N.J. (AP) - The father of one of the six men charged with plotting to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix says the business near the base that he's nurtured for years is all but ruined since his son's arrest.
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German dialect studied in Texas
May 12 2007 1:43PM (CT)
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) - When Hans Boas came to the University of Texas from California in 2001 to teach German, he stopped in the Hill Country town of Fredericksburg, which embraces its German roots with a robust Oktoberfest and German-themed restaurants and shops.
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Fatal Del. shooting called justified
May 12 2007 1:28PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Police were justified in using deadly force against a former Marine whom officers were trying to arrest while investigating a motorcycle gang, state prosecutors said.
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Victims in Ohio plane collision ID'd
May 12 2007 11:07AM (CT)
SHARONVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Authorities have released the names of all three people who died when two small aircraft collided, as investigators on Saturday probed the crash.
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Dual-use devices vex export regulators
May 12 2007 11:06AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The shaker machines built by Data Physics Corp. and exported to China can rattle locomotives. Or they can rattle missiles.
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Zimbabwe to head key U.N. commission
May 12 2007 2:31AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Zimbabwe, a country suffering from acute food shortages and rampant inflation, won approval to lead the important U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development despite protests from the U.S., European nations and human rights organizations.
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Woman gets prison for caging grandson
May 12 2007 2:30AM (CT)
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) - A 62-year-old woman was sentenced to three years in prison for locking her grandson inside a dog kennel every night for three years while she went to work as a jail counselor.
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New charges against former CIA official
May 12 2007 12:41AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - New charges have been filed alleging that a former top CIA official pushed a proposed $100 million government contract for his best friend in return for lavish vacations, private jet flights and a lucrative job offer.
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New charges against former CIA official
May 12 2007 12:41AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - New charges have been filed alleging that a former top CIA official pushed a proposed $100 million government contract for his best friend in return for lavish vacations, private jet flights and a lucrative job offer.
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