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Missing baby found, alleged abductor held
Jun 5 2006 11:43PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A missing 5-day-old baby was found Monday evening, and police arrested a woman suspected of abducting the child more than a day earlier after she had posed as a nurse in medical scrubs.
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Lawyers: Teacher supported terror group
Jun 5 2006 11:36PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A third-grade teacher at a Muslim school in Maryland traveled to Pakistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks, trained with a terrorist organization there and later served as chauffeur for one of that group's leaders during his U.S. travels, prosecutors said.
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Documents may change young Lincoln image
Jun 5 2006 11:34PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Historians might have to rethink the image of Abraham Lincoln as a carefree, cash-strapped young adult who only later developed the character traits that helped him become one of the nation's most celebrated statesman.
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SUVs more likely to back over children
Jun 5 2006 10:57PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Children are up to 2 1/2 times more likely to be backed over by a minivan, SUV or truck than by a car, according to a study released Monday by the University of Utah.
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Egyptian pleads guilty to fraud
Jun 5 2006 10:53PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - An Egyptian who authorities believed may have been planning an attack, but was not charged with terrorism, pleaded guilty Monday to fraud.
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Boy in Fla. custody after being left behind
Jun 5 2006 10:48PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 6-year-old boy who was accidentally left behind by his family after they celebrated his birthday at a restaurant will temporarily remain in state custody, a judge ruled Monday.
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Conn. city leaders OK riverfront evictions
Jun 5 2006 10:21PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - City officials voted Monday night to evict residents who refused to leave their riverfront homes, signaling that the end may be near in an eminent domain dispute that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Mayors urge passage of immigration reform
Jun 5 2006 10:03PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Mayors from more than 200 U.S. cities urged President Bush and Congress on Monday to pass comprehensive immigration reform, including a guest worker program, but they could not agree on a proposal to build a 300-mile fence along the border.
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Pilot questioned in airspace violation
Jun 5 2006 9:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A small plane was intercepted by two F-16 jets after it flew into restricted airspace Monday evening, authorities said.
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Gang fears keep student from graduation
Jun 5 2006 9:55PM (CT)
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The senior class president of Truman High School has been barred from attending Friday's graduation ceremony because of fears that he will be shot by a gang, school officials said Monday.
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Women plead not guilty in hit-run case
Jun 5 2006 9:41PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two women pleaded not guilty Monday to federal mail fraud and related charges alleging that they befriended two transient men and then illegally collected $2.3 million from insurance policies after their hit-and-run deaths.
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Ariz. legislators resuscitate colleague
Jun 5 2006 9:37PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A legislator collapsed and stopped breathing Monday on the floor of the Arizona House but was resuscitated by colleagues before being taken him to a hospital.
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Miami ambush shooting leaves 3 men dead
Jun 5 2006 9:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Masked gunmen ambushed a van Monday, killing three men and wounding another, authorities said. Several gunmen in two cars surrounded the van, shot the victims and escaped in their vehicles in central Miami, police spokesman Lt. Bill Schwartz said.
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Documents: Ind. shooting victim drew gun
Jun 5 2006 9:04PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The slayings of seven family members unfolded when one victim returned home and drew a weapon as two gunmen were ransacking the house to find a safe they believed contained cash and cocaine, according to documents filed by prosecutors Monday.
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Girl in court for alleged abduction of tot
Jun 5 2006 8:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 13-year-old girl accused of abducting a 3-year-old boy from his father's tattoo parlor and keeping him for more than a day appeared in family court Monday and was handed over to juvenile-justice authorities.
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Giuliani blasts NYC anti-terror fund cuts
Jun 5 2006 8:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Monday blamed poor decision-making and "a certain level of incompetence" for the Department of Homeland Security's decision to slash the city's anti-terrorism funding.
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N.C. OKs bill to ban video poker machines
Jun 5 2006 8:16PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's legislature on Monday approved a bill to ban video poker machines by next summer, a decision stalled for years as lawmakers disagreed whether losing industry jobs was worth a prohibition.
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Kin observe anniversary of Reagan's death
Jun 5 2006 7:45PM (CT)
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Two years after Ronald Reagan's death, former first lady Nancy Reagan visited the hilltop gravesite of the nation's 40th president and gently tapped his tombstone.
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Judge promises life in prison for ex-cops
Jun 5 2006 7:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge told two decorated former detectives Monday that they will get life in prison for moonlighting as hitmen for the mob.
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Utah Guard unit patrols U.S.-Mexico border
Jun 5 2006 6:35PM (CT)
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (AP) - Military bulldozers, road graders and other heavy equipment rumbled along the Mexican border early Monday as more than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to get to work under President Bush's crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Judge dismisses inmate double-bunking suit
Jun 5 2006 6:27PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the state prison system's practice of putting two inmates in cells designed for one, saying the double-bunking does not violate the U.S. Constitution.
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Miners said to give conflicting testimony
Jun 5 2006 6:06PM (CT)
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Some witnesses who worked at a coal mine where an explosion killed five men have given conflicting testimony about safety measures taken underground, a member of the investigating panel said Monday.
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Court upholds Denver assault weapons ban
Jun 5 2006 5:47PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Monday upheld Denver's ban on assault weapons, despite arguments that state weapons laws should trump city ordinances.
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Marine's father sues funeral protesters
Jun 5 2006 5:44PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from a fundamentalist Kansas church filed an invasion-of-privacy suit against the demonstrators Monday.
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Drug czar announces bad heroin supply bust
Jun 5 2006 5:40PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - U.S. agents, working in cooperation with the Mexican government, have closed down a lab in Mexico that might be the main source of a powerful painkiller that has killed at least 100 heroin users in eight states, the federal drug czar said Monday.
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La. Senate sends abortion ban to gov.
Jun 5 2006 5:22PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Kathleen Blanco was expected to sign a strict abortion ban into law after the Senate gave the measure final legislative approval Monday.
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Countries track citizens along Gulf Coast
Jun 5 2006 4:31PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Ryan Kittle and his wife were on the porch of their hurricane-flooded Mississippi home last September when they saw a van draped with the Union Jack make its way through the downed trees.
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6 employees hurt at ADM complex in Ill.
Jun 5 2006 4:25PM (CT)
MOUNT AUBURN, Ill. (AP) - Six workers were hurt, at least one seriously, when a crane toppled as they were putting up a grain bin at an Archer Daniels Midland Co. complex here Monday, authorities said.
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Ohio man convicted of rape after 2 trials
Jun 5 2006 4:15PM (CT)
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A man was sentenced Monday to a 20-year prison term for impregnating his teenage stepdaughter with a syringe eight years ago.
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Mass. tunnel is dedicated to Tip O'Neill
Jun 5 2006 4:13PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Hundreds of friends and colleagues of the late House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. gathered Monday to dedicate a Big Dig tunnel in the Massachusetts Democrat's name.
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150-acre fire in Fla. destroys 4 homes
Jun 5 2006 3:55PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A homeowner burning brush started a 150-acre blaze in the dry Florida Panhandle that led to evacuations and destroyed four homes, forestry officials said Monday.
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Padilla lawyer wants key evidence tossed
Jun 5 2006 3:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A lawyer for alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is asking a judge to throw out key evidence, saying the warrant for his arrest was based on statements from one source who claims he was tortured and another who was heavily medicated.
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Doctor, 2 sons remembered at Ill. funeral
Jun 5 2006 1:57PM (CT)
ALTON, Ill. (AP) - Friends and family gathered Monday to remember a doctor and the two sons he threw from a 15th-floor hotel balcony before he jumped to his death.
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Girl killed, 2 kids hurt in Mo. shooting
Jun 5 2006 1:56PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A gunman fired into a crowded car, killing a 2-year-old girl and wounding two other children whose family had fled New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, police said.
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Immigration debate stirs racial tensions
Jun 5 2006 1:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As the fight over immigration reform drags on, an ominous undercurrent to the debate _ racism _ is becoming more pronounced.
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Man pleads guilty in Md arson case
Jun 5 2006 1:10PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - One of the men accused of setting a series of fires at an upscale housing development under construction in the Washington suburbs pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit arson.
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Clinton addresses Princeton seniors
Jun 5 2006 1:04PM (CT)
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Former President Clinton weighed in on the nation's immigration debate Monday and took a lighthearted jab at Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist while addressing Princeton University seniors.
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Fla. high schoolers must choose major
Jun 5 2006 12:53PM (CT)
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - Florida high school students will have to declare majors and minors, just as college students do, under a law signed Monday by Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Police say missing N.Y. toddler found safe
Jun 5 2006 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 3-year-old boy who disappeared from his father's tattoo parlor was found unharmed on a Brooklyn street early Monday with the 13-year-old girl suspected of kidnapping him.
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Terror suspects arrested in U.S. last year
Jun 5 2006 10:55AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Two men believed to be part of a terrorist ring in Canada were arrested last summer while trying to smuggle guns and ammunition from the United States, authorities said.
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Toddler dies in W.Va. fire
Jun 5 2006 10:19AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A child playing with matches in a basement bedroom started a fire early Monday that killed a 2-year-old girl and injured her 4-year-old brother, authorities said.
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Man sought in Ill. slaying kills himself
Jun 5 2006 8:42AM (CT)
BENTON, Ill. (AP) - A man sought for questioning in the slaying of a federal prosecutor's wife fatally shot himself as police closed in, authorities said.
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Pilot lands before dying of heart attack
Jun 5 2006 8:22AM (CT)
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) - A pilot suffering a heart attack made an emergency landing on a highway, saving his three passengers shortly before he died.
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Mourners remember girl in mistaken ID case
Jun 5 2006 8:05AM (CT)
KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) - For more than a month, Laura VanRyn's friends and relatives thought she had survived a van crash that killed five people, and they celebrated the young woman's milestones as she recovered.
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Mayors live it up at Las Vegas meeting
Jun 5 2006 7:51AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - It's convention time, do you know where your mayor is? If you live in a major American city, the answer is probably Las Vegas, this year's host of the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting.
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NYC gun court gets tough on offenders
Jun 5 2006 6:31AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The court case listed as the People vs. Godfrey Hayle looked like an unremarkable one: Police claimed the 44-year-old suspect tried to ditch a 9 mm handgun last year during a drug bust.
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Safavian faces more questions on lobbyist
Jun 5 2006 2:38AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - David Safavian faces a second day of cross-examination by prosecutors about assistance he provided, as a Bush administration official, to Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff.
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Search continues for 3-year-old N.D. girl
Jun 5 2006 2:18AM (CT)
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Police Chief Dan Draovitch had difficulty sleeping the night before he handed in his badge after 38 years in law enforcement. It wasn't his retirement keeping him awake _ but a case he was leaving behind.
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Mom, 4-year-old daughter killed in Tenn.
Jun 5 2006 1:07AM (CT)
CROSSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A prison nurse and her 4-year-old daughter were shot to death at rural church parking lot, while a 6-year-old daughter hid in a truck and witnessed the slayings, officials said Sunday.
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Calif. motorist dies in apparent car chase
Jun 5 2006 1:04AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - A motorist who sped through a cemetery in an apparent road-rage pursuit of a car that cut him off died Sunday after crashing into a mausoleum, police said.
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2 inmates captured after D.C. jail escape
Jun 5 2006 12:57AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Both inmates who escaped from the District of Columbia Jail through a broken window were captured Sunday, officials said.
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1 missing in Arizona boat crash
Jun 5 2006 12:55AM (CT)
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) - A boat carrying 14 teachers from Phoenix collided with another vessel on Lake Havasu, leaving 13 people injured and one missing, officials said.
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