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Retardant drops slow advance of Ariz. fire
Jun 7 2006 11:38PM (CT)
MAYER, Ariz. (AP) - Fire crews and heavy aircraft dropping retardant significantly slowed the progress Wednesday of a wildfire that forced the evacuation of a rural Arizona community.
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Retardant drops slow advance of Ariz. fire
Jun 7 2006 11:38PM (CT)
MAYER, Ariz. (AP) - Fire crews and heavy aircraft dropping retardant significantly slowed the progress Wednesday of a wildfire that forced the evacuation of a rural Arizona community.
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Los Angeles' urban gardeners struggling
Jun 7 2006 11:34PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It began as a utopian dream: an oasis-like garden where people could grow their own food in the center of a gritty urban neighborhood.
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Lawyer slams poss. usage of old testimony
Jun 7 2006 11:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Statements a South Korean businessman made during a 1970s bribery scandal might be used at his upcoming trial on charges he accepted millions of dollars to help Iraq in the United Nations oil-for-food program, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Rescuers in Alaska fail to find humpback
Jun 7 2006 10:54PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Rescuers were unable to find a young humpback whale on Wednesday who had been tangled in the lines and buoys of a crab pot in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
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Ex-FBI agent takes guilty plea in spy case
Jun 7 2006 10:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former FBI agent pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge in connection with a Chinese spying investigation.
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Sequoia National Forest fire plan pulled
Jun 7 2006 10:19PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service withdrew a fire protection plan for Sequoia National Forest that allowed commercial logging, nearly a year after a judge ruled the blueprint violated federal law.
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Va. wins appeal to execute inmate
Jun 7 2006 10:17PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court's decision to temporarily halt the execution of a triple killer a day before he was scheduled to die.
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Officer, suspect killed in Texas standoff
Jun 7 2006 10:16PM (CT)
TYLER, Texas (AP) - A man shot and killed a constable and injured a deputy responding to a domestic disturbance call Wednesday before officers killed him, authorities said.
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Man confesses to killing student in S.C.
Jun 7 2006 10:08PM (CT)
PICKENS, S.C. (AP) - A registered sex offender confessed to killing a Clemson University student and to sexual assaults in Alabama and Tennessee, authorities said Wednesday.
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Group: Prisons should focus more on rehab
Jun 7 2006 10:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - While prison populations are growing astronomically, money for rehabilitation is not keeping pace, fueling violence behind bars, a private group says.
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Plane crashes into Nev. home, killing two
Jun 7 2006 9:55PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A small plane crashed into a house Wednesday shortly after takeoff, killing both people on board and sending 30-foot flames and heavy smoke into the air.
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2 charged in China military secrets case
Jun 7 2006 9:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two family members were charged Wednesday in a federal case against a Chinese-American engineer accused of trying to send sensitive information about Navy warships to China.
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Gay rights advocates revel ban defeat
Jun 7 2006 9:04PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay marriage supporters expressed relief Wednesday at the Senate's rejection of a gay marriage ban and warned conservatives that the issue won't influence November elections.
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Gonzalez backers press suit after 6 years
Jun 7 2006 8:29PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Six years after the government raid to seize Elian Gonzalez and return him to his father, supporters of the Cuban boy continue to press their claims that federal agents used excessive force in seizing him.
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Trial delayed in R.I. nightclub fire case
Jun 7 2006 8:10PM (CT)
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - The trial for one of the owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire killed 100 people was postponed Wednesday until September.
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Nixon urged to step aside in investigation
Jun 7 2006 7:41PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The state environmental director said Wednesday an independent prosecutor should take over the investigation of a reservoir collapse because the attorney general may have a conflict of interest involving the facility's operator.
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Shoff speaks at Aryan Brotherhood trial
Jun 7 2006 7:37PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Within the nation's most secure federal prison, a special section was created in 1998 for six former members of the Aryan Brotherhood who were helping the government try to crack the notorious gang, a prison official testified Wednesday.
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Funerals held for 6 people killed in Ind.
Jun 7 2006 6:39PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A priest urged mourners at a funeral Mass on Wednesday to seek comfort, not revenge, for three generations of a family shot to death during a robbery.
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Casino sues lottery winner over bad checks
Jun 7 2006 6:06PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Caesars casino is suing the winner of a $315 million lottery jackpot, claiming he bounced checks worth $1.5 million trying to cover gambling losses.
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Gang members kill teen in Houston park
Jun 7 2006 6:03PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - About two dozen gang members armed with baseball bats and tire irons attacked a 14-year-old in a city park, and a teenage girl in the group stabbed him to death, police said.
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U.N. speech irks American officials
Jun 7 2006 6:01PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States strongly criticized the No. 2 United Nations official on Wednesday for a speech he gave that accused the U.S. government of leaving Americans in the dark about the world body's good works.
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Sanford likely to veto S.C. grant process
Jun 7 2006 5:49PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Gov. Mark Sanford doesn't find anything funny about the Hillarity Festival _ one of numerous local events that are getting money under a grant program set up by state lawmakers.
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Ex-Ohio official pleads guilty to charges
Jun 7 2006 5:43PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A former top official at the Ohio workers' compensation fund pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking kickbacks from brokers and others who wanted to handle the fund's investments.
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Jerry Sutton enters SBC presidential race
Jun 7 2006 5:34PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A key member of the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative leadership has made a late entry into the SBC's presidential race as the nation's largest Protestant denomination prepares to meet next week in Greensboro.
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2 emergency dispatchers charged in Mich.
Jun 7 2006 5:29PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Two 911 operators who authorities say wrongly assumed it was a prank when a 5-year-old boy called to report that his mother had collapsed have been charged with neglect of duty.
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Panel discusses evolution of N-word in NYC
Jun 7 2006 5:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When Ozzie Wiggan first moved to a new high school in suburban New York, the black teenager would sometimes get into fights with white classmates over their casual use of the N-word. But the 17-year-old soon came to the sad realization that hip-hop culture had made it popular _ if not acceptable _ for people of all races to use the epithet, often in a way they considered harmless.
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FEMA scrutinizes debris removal company
Jun 7 2006 4:22PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - A company suspected of overbilling for the removal of Hurricane Katrina-damaged trees charged excessive fees for similar work after a storm eight years ago, according to a federal audit.
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FBI sought satellite photos after bombing
Jun 7 2006 4:06PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In the months after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI tried to buy satellite photos from a Russian company to track Timothy McVeigh's movements before the attack, a newly released FBI teletype shows.
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Saudi man charged with plane bomb threat
Jun 7 2006 4:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A Saudi man who authorities say was upset about being denied a job as an Arabic interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq was charged with threatening to blow up a Delta Air Lines flight.
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Group's plan causes tension in Kan. town
Jun 7 2006 3:32PM (CT)
SMITH CENTER, Kan. (AP) - Supporters of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi see his Transcendental Meditation movement as fostering world harmony. But in this farm town in the heart of the heartland, the movement's plans to build its "World Capital of Peace" here are creating more tension than tranquility.
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Fla. crash kills woman, infant daughter
Jun 7 2006 3:00PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A minivan packed with children ran a stop sign and was hit by a sport utility vehicle, killing the van's driver and her 2-month-old daughter and severely injuring nine other passengers, police said Wednesday.
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Ga. fears water shortages at reservoirs
Jun 7 2006 1:55PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia claims the federal government is draining too much water from major reservoirs along the Chattahoochee River to protect endangered species in Florida, and it fears the use will cause water shortages this year, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Health status of Ill. politician unknown
Jun 7 2006 1:48PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - In Chicago's Cook County, where the dead have been known to vote, the county's chief executive is a stroke victim who hasn't been publicly seen or heard from in nearly three months.
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Ex-FBI agent Frank Spencer dies at 87
Jun 7 2006 1:43PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An FBI agent who helped investigate the 1963 Ku Klux Klan church bombing that became a rallying point for the civil rights movement has died. He was 87.
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Flat tire leads to W.Va. suspect's arrest
Jun 7 2006 12:01PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A man suspected of shooting five people in a West Virginia home was in custody Wednesday after his car tire went flat on a Pennsylvania interstate and a state trooper stopped to help.
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Dental records confirm mistaken ID
Jun 7 2006 11:43AM (CT)
GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) - Dental records have confirmed that a body exhumed from a cemetery was that of Laura VanRyn, who was mistakenly identified as a college classmate after both were involved in a traffic accident, an investigator said Wednesday.
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Calif. teen held in alleged school plot
Jun 7 2006 11:23AM (CT)
FILLMORE, Calif. (AP) - A 15-year-old high school student was in custody after telling classmates he planned to shoot students on the date 6-6-6 before killing himself, authorities said.
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Rabid kitten halts some PetSmart adoptions
Jun 7 2006 10:45AM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A kitten adopted at a PetSmart Inc. store was ill with rabies, prompting the pet-supplies chain to suspend animal adoptions in the mid-Atlantic.
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DNA links Ga. man to Conn. killings
Jun 7 2006 10:19AM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - New DNA testing has linked a Georgia man to the killings of four Connecticut women in the early 1990s, and investigators believe he may have been involved in up to six other slayings here.
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Macy's removes gay pride display
Jun 7 2006 9:24AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Macy's department store has removed a window display marking Boston's gay pride week after a group that opposes gay marriage complained it was offensive.
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FBI investigating Ill. mayor for bribery
Jun 7 2006 7:16AM (CT)
NILES, Ill. (AP) - The FBI is investigating allegations that the longtime mayor of this northern Chicago suburb took bribes from an insurance agency in exchange for pressuring village businesses to buy policies, court records show.
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Details reported in L.A. wiretap case
Jun 7 2006 6:25AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prosecutors claim a private investigator accused of wiretapping Hollywood celebrities had an illegal background check conducted on a law enforcement official who was investigating one of his clients in a fake passport scheme.
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S.D. couple wins Powerball lottery
Jun 7 2006 6:23AM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Beating 1-in-146 million odds, Bill Nguyen and his wife, Tina, stepped forward Tuesday with the winning ticket for a nearly $117 million Powerball lottery jackpot.
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Texas funeral home worker faces sanction
Jun 7 2006 6:13AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A former funeral home worker who pleaded no contest to hiding a baby's body in the pants of a man's corpse slated for cremation _ apparently to avoid paying an extra $50 fee _ faces the permanent loss of her funeral director's license.
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Illegal workers face hardship in Big Easy
Jun 7 2006 5:49AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - They are the backbone of post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction: Workers who converge at dawn and wait to be picked up for 14-hour shifts of hauling debris, ripping out drywall and nailing walls.
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Daughter of surgeon gets liver transplant
Jun 7 2006 3:43AM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Early morning telephone calls to transplant surgeon Bhargav Mistry's home are not uncommon, but one last week about a donor organ was special: A liver had been found for his ailing 11-year-old daughter, Karishma.
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LAPD: Calif. school shooting gang-related
Jun 7 2006 3:16AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 17-year-old fatally shot in his high school's parking lot was killed in a fight for his brother's diamond necklace, his family said.
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Farmers' goods showcased in restaurant
Jun 7 2006 2:55AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When several North Dakota farmers asked a consulting firm to help them figure out how to make more money on their products, they got a simple answer: Open an upscale restaurant.
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Ky. mine cited less than week after blast
Jun 7 2006 12:56AM (CT)
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) - Federal officials cited an eastern Kentucky mine less than a week after five miners died in a blast there, though the violations were not believed to have led to the explosion.
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2 women file suits alleging abuse by nun
Jun 7 2006 12:14AM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Two women who claim they were sexually abused by a Roman Catholic nun filed lawsuits Tuesday alleging a religious order failed to protect them.
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