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Father: Son planned to wed stabbing victim
May 19 2006 11:35PM (CT)
AYNOR, S.C. (AP) - The father of a man charged with fatally stabbing a high school student in front of teachers and classmates said Friday his son had talked of marrying the victim.
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Feds seize armor-plated car bought in Iraq
May 19 2006 11:12PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Federal agents seized a Mercedes-Benz from an Army reservist who said the armor-plated, bulletproof luxury car probably belonged to Saddam Hussein.
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Man charged in Philly officer's slaying
May 19 2006 11:10PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 23-year-old man was charged with murder Friday in the slaying of the first city police officer to be killed in the line of duty in a decade. The charges against Solomon Montgomery were filed a day after he was shot outside a house where police were waiting to question him in the officer's death, authorities said.
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Judge: Release Chicago torture report
May 19 2006 10:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A report from a four-year, multimillion-dollar investigation into allegations that Chicago police tortured black suspects should be released to the public, a judge ruled Friday.
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Calif. superintendent appeals exit exam
May 19 2006 10:47PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state attorney general's office appealed Friday to the state Supreme Court to immediately halt a judge's decision to suspend the high school exit exam.
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Va. shooter's family offers condolences
May 19 2006 10:44PM (CT)
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - The parents of the teenage gunman who killed two law officers in a police station ambush made a plea for improvements to Virginia's mental health services Friday as police searched their home for a second time.
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Russian Orthodox sect rejoins Moscow base
May 19 2006 10:14PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia said Friday it would move toward reconciling with the Moscow-based parent church from which it split after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
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FBI told in 1976 of possible Hoffa site
May 19 2006 9:50PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The informant described as spurring the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains on property now known as Hidden Dreams Farm is an ailing prison inmate who, according to his former lawyer, first told the FBI about the location 30 years ago.
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Runaway bride's wedding reportedly off
May 19 2006 9:49PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The runaway bride who generated a media storm with her phony tale of abduction and the fiance who took her back have broken up for good, the man's friends and family told People Magazine.
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Number of deaths from Katrina rises
May 19 2006 9:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana raised its Hurricane Katrina death toll by 281 Friday to 1,577 after including more out-of-state evacuees whose deaths were deemed related to the storm or its grueling aftermath.
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Judge blocks Ky. schools graduation prayer
May 19 2006 9:19PM (CT)
RUSSELL SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked a southern Kentucky high school from including prayers in its graduation ceremony, prompting students to begin reciting the Lord's Prayer during the opening remarks.
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Pilot, enlisted man admit picking up drugs
May 19 2006 9:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A military pilot and an enlisted man pleaded guilty Friday to charges they returned from an overseas mission with 300,000 pills of Ecstasy worth millions of dollars.
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L.A. police probe homeless men's deaths
May 19 2006 8:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two women took out millions of dollars in life insurance on two homeless men who later died in mysterious hit-and-run crashes, and investigators want to know whether the women were behind the wheel.
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4 indicted for 1998 Vail ski resort fires
May 19 2006 8:07PM (CT)
VAIL, Colo. (AP) - Four alleged environmental extremists have been indicted in a 1998 firebombing at the Vail ski resort that caused $12 million in damage _ one of the most devastating ecoterrorism attacks in U.S. history.
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Border reopens after agents kill driver
May 19 2006 7:47PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Mexican government called for an investigation Friday into a shooting by two federal agents that left one person dead at the world's busiest border crossing. A union representing the Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting defended the officer's conduct.
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Judge reaffirms Moussaoui evidence ruling
May 19 2006 6:22PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday reaffirmed her ruling that gives some families of Sept. 11 victims access to evidence in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial as part of two civil lawsuits that have been filed.
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Police search Md. school after gun spotted
May 19 2006 6:08PM (CT)
LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) - Officers in riot gear searched four locked-down schools Friday after a student and his grandmother reported seeing someone put a handgun in a backpack and approach the building.
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Witness says gun tied to sniper shootings
May 19 2006 5:41PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A federal ballistics expert testified Friday that most of the bullets used in the 2002 Washington-area sniper shootings were fired by the rifle found in the back of John Allen Muhammad's car.
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Bruce Merrifield, Nobel Prize winner, dies
May 19 2006 4:56PM (CT)
CRESSKILL, N.J. (AP) - Bruce Merrifield, whose greatly accelerated process for making proteins helped develop an array of medications and earned him the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. He was 84.
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Still reeling, Gulf readies for new storms
May 19 2006 4:35PM (CT)
WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) - Missionaries and students on spring break have worked in shifts to put a roof over Brenda Anderson's head before hurricane season begins June 1.
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Victim found by relaying sirens' loudness
May 19 2006 3:57PM (CT)
SOUTHEAST, N.Y. (AP) - A woman whose car flipped into a 30-foot embankment in a remote area helped emergency workers locate her and her passengers by telling the 911 dispatcher when sirens were getting closer or farther away.
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University warns students of deer attacks
May 19 2006 3:22PM (CT)
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Tammy Emery used to think of deer as sweet and adorable, like Bambi. An encounter with a hard-charging doe changed that. The 31-year-old secretary was among at least seven people threatened or injured by female deer last year on Southern Illinois University's campus _ attacks that have prompted the school to wage a safety campaign during this spring's fawning season.
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Search for missing boat captain suspended
May 19 2006 3:02PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) - The 75-year-old captain of a capsized charter boat stayed in the water with a struggling passenger for hours before suffering an apparent heart attack and disappearing underwater, authorities said.
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New Orleans levees still not good enough
May 19 2006 2:52PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In just eight months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has done years of work on the Katrina-battered ramparts around New Orleans.
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Ex-head of small Mo. phone co. gets prison
May 19 2006 2:17PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - In a government fraud case prosecutors linked to the mob, a judge on Friday sentenced the former president of a small rural Missouri telephone company to 15 months in prison for defrauding two federal program of $8.9 million.
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Va. town council seeks removal of mayor
May 19 2006 1:55PM (CT)
APPALACHIA, Va. (AP) - The town council voted to seek removal of the mayor, who is charged with rigging his election two years ago, including a scheme to buy votes with beer and cigarettes.
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New York mall shooter gets 32-year maximum
May 19 2006 1:54PM (CT)
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) - A man who peppered a busy shopping mall with semiautomatic weapon fire, wounding two people, was sentenced Friday to the maximum 32 years in prison.
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Man's eviction sought prior to killings
May 19 2006 1:53PM (CT)
SWANTON, Ohio (AP) - Days before a man attacked his wife and killed their children, the woman had asked authorities what was needed to remove him from the home, her family said.
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Immigrant smugglers avoid prosecution
May 19 2006 1:44PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The vast majority of people caught smuggling immigrants across the border near San Diego are never prosecuted for the offense, demoralizing the agents making the arrests, according to an internal Border Patrol document obtained by The Associated Press.
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Travelers seek hurricane safe-haven
May 19 2006 1:38PM (CT)
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) - Lee Bareford and Jill Manint have made plans for a picture-perfect wedding _ exchanging vows with sand under their feet and the ocean as the backdrop.
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Northeast ripe, not ready for hurricane
May 19 2006 1:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Big Easy and the Big Apple are so far apart _ geographically, culturally, economically _ that as New Yorkers watched the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina unfold, most simply assumed their city could never fall prey to such a calamity.
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LAPD launches community Web log
May 19 2006 12:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Welcome to the blogosphere, chief. And "good luck with your cesspool of crime, disease and victimhood."
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Elderly man dies weeks after killing wife
May 19 2006 12:23PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - An elderly man who killed his invalid wife last month because his own health was failing and he couldn't bear to send her to a nursing home has died of cancer, his daughter said.
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Judge extends Ky. grand jury investigation
May 19 2006 10:56AM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A judge said Friday he would extend the term of a special grand jury that indicted Gov. Ernie Fletcher last week on misdemeanor charges of illegal hiring practices.
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High winds result in one death in Ky.
May 19 2006 10:05AM (CT)
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Violent storms blew through Kentucky overnight, splintering buildings and slamming a tree onto an SUV hard enough to kill its owner and leave ruts in the blacktop.
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Mom drops fight for soldier son's remains
May 19 2006 8:14AM (CT)
FREEDOM, Calif. (AP) - A mother's fight to have her soldier son's body disinterred from an Oklahoma cemetery and reburied near her home in California ended this week with a lost court appeal.
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Ex-Fla. cop gets 26 years for manslaughter
May 19 2006 4:33AM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A former police sergeant convicted of manslaughter in the 2002 shooting death of an unarmed man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison.
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Papers shed light on billionaire's divorce
May 19 2006 4:05AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An appeals court ordered documents from billionaire Ron Burkle's divorce proceedings unsealed after the state's highest court struck down a law that allowed people to shield financial records in divorce cases from public view.
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Woman's family sues salon over her death
May 19 2006 3:37AM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Kimberly Kay Jackson loved getting pedicures each month, especially with bright pink nail polish, although as a paraplegic she couldn't feel the massages and bubbling water on her feet.
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California Air Guard launches PR strike
May 19 2006 2:30AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - California's Air National Guard pilots stand on high alert 24-7, ready to launch their fighters against a cruise missile attack or hijacked airliner. These days, they are also launching a public-relations offensive to save their base.
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