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Schumer: U.S. cities vulnerable to attacks
Jun 18 2006 11:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A reported plot by al-Qaida terrorists to kill thousands of New Yorkers by spreading cyanide gas in the subway underscores the folly of a Homeland Security Department cutback of funds for major cities, a Democratic lawmaker said Sunday.
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Tornado damage school, 50 homes in Wis.
Jun 18 2006 11:47PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Wis. (AP) - Severe thunderstorms rolled across southern Wisconsin on Sunday, spawning a tornado that ripped the roof off an elementary school, toppled trees and knocked out power.
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Wildfires force evacuations in Arizona
Jun 18 2006 10:55PM (CT)
SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - A fast-moving wildfire burned 3,000 acres in northern Arizona on Sunday, forcing more than 500 homes and businesses to evacuate.
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Some farmers trade tractors for animals
Jun 18 2006 10:26PM (CT)
HOPKINTON, R.I. (AP) - Metal clinks against rocks in the soil as four of Jim Cherenzia's horses pull his harrow through seven acres of hay.
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Arizona guardsmen head to Mexico border
Jun 18 2006 10:02PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - About 50 Arizona National Guard troops were sent to the U.S.-Mexican border Sunday as part of President Bush's plan to assist immigration agents, officials said.
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Small planes collide in Ill.; 1 pilot dead
Jun 18 2006 9:55PM (CT)
PERU, Ill. (AP) - Two small planes collided in mid-air Sunday morning before the start of the Illinois Valley Air Show, killing one of the pilots, authorities said.
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D.C. emergency worker fired over report
Jun 18 2006 9:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An emergency medical technician who responded to a fatal attack on a New York Times reporter has been fired after a report detailed mistakes in the journalist's care.
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Bishop chosen 1st female Episcopal leader
Jun 18 2006 9:06PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman picked to lead an Anglican province Sunday when she was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, a groundbreaking and potentially divisive step that comes three years after the denomination ordained an openly gay bishop.
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Jersey City mayor arrested in bar incident
Jun 18 2006 8:03PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Jersey City's mayor said he was arrested and roughed up by police over the weekend for intervening in an argument outside a beach bar.
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Presbyterians to vote on gay clergy bill
Jun 18 2006 7:01PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), severely split over homosexuality, would maintain its ban on gay clergy but allow some leeway in enforcing it under a proposal headed to a national assembly vote on Tuesday.
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Marine sees daughter's birth via video
Jun 18 2006 6:55PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Marine Cpl. Terrence Lambert will have to wait until his return to Alabama in the fall to hold his first child, but a satellite linkup in Iraq allowed him to witness her birth on Father's Day.
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Teen once falsely accused is charged
Jun 18 2006 5:18PM (CT)
CALUMET PARK, Ill. (AP) - Eight years after he was wrongly accused as the nation's youngest murder suspect that led to a $2 million settlement with the city of Chicago, the teenager is facing a new charge as an adult in a double shooting in a south suburb.
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Immigration sweep brings fear to community
Jun 18 2006 4:28PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half.
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Yellowstone tourist dies in 500-foot fall
Jun 18 2006 4:07PM (CT)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - A woman lost her footing after stepping over a retaining wall to take a photograph and went over a cliff, falling 500 feet to her death in a canyon, park officials said.
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Development inches toward national parks
Jun 18 2006 3:11PM (CT)
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. (AP) - The ice-covered mountaintops are shrouded by fog. A stream gushes against the rocks on a headlong rush to the lake. High above the deserted visitors' parking lot, an elk stares at a lone hiker.
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New national monument a wonder few can see
Jun 18 2006 2:28PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The newest national monument boasts crystalline blue water, unspoiled islands with white sand beaches and vast reefs teeming with marine life.
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Katrina victim found in New Orleans house
Jun 18 2006 2:26PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The body of a man who apparently drowned in the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina was found under furniture in his once-flooded house, the coroner's chief investigator said.
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Immigration costs strain national parks
Jun 18 2006 2:22PM (CT)
ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) - Drug smugglers fleeing Mexican police crossed into this desert park and fatally shot a ranger four years ago, prompting officials to build a 30-mile vehicle barrier.
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Laptop with D.C. workers' data stolen
Jun 18 2006 2:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said.
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Fla. motorcycle fatalities reportedly soar
Jun 18 2006 2:14PM (CT)
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) - Motorcycle fatalities involving riders without helmets have soared in the nearly six years since Gov. Jeb Bush repealed the state's mandatory helmet law, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Insanity remains focus in Yates' 2nd trial
Jun 18 2006 12:57PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates often struggles with deep depression or hallucinations in the weeks around June 20, the date when she drowned her five children in their bathtub in 2001. During that period this year, Yates will be in court for her second murder trial.
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No leads yet in fatal New Orleans shooting
Jun 18 2006 12:50PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Detectives knocked on doors Sunday in a search for anyone with information on the killings of five teenagers gunned down in a blaze of semiautomatic gunfire. Police had no new leads to the killers, said police Capt. John Bryson.
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2 hurt after 500-foot fall off Mount Hood
Jun 18 2006 11:03AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Three climbers near the top of Oregon's highest peak fell 500 feet, injuring two on Saturday morning. The trio were part of a few parties climbing on the 11,240-foot Mount Hood, when something went awry. They fell backward, hitting other climbers below them, officials said.
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Pregnancy boosts endangered rhino project
Jun 18 2006 9:48AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Emi the Sumatran rhino is pregnant again, and that's big news for conservationists from Ohio to Indonesia who are trying to save the critically endangered species.
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Idaho girl becomes superhero for a day
Jun 18 2006 5:57AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Most days, 6-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes and chase an arch-nemesis through Boise on Friday, serving the city as the superhero "Star" with assistance from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho, The Idaho Statesman reported.
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