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Fewer hours can lower teen crash rates
Jun 21 2006 11:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Limiting the hours teens can drive and the number of people riding with them can reduce crash rates among young motorists by 20 percent, according to a study of drivers in Canada and Oregon.
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2 indicted brokers generous to Voinovich
Jun 21 2006 11:08PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - U.S. Sen. George Voinovich said he would donate to charity thousands of dollars in campaign donations from two brokers charged with bribing a state official for lucrative business.
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Man sentenced in girlfriend lover killing
Jun 21 2006 11:00PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A man who noticed a hickey on his girlfriend's neck and then killed her lover was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison.
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Crews fight to save homes from Ariz. blaze
Jun 21 2006 10:54PM (CT)
SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - Firefighters struggled Wednesday to stop a wildfire from jumping a highway in scenic Oak Creek Canyon and roaring into an area of evacuated homes and resorts.
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Pentagon held info in 2 soldiers' deaths
Jun 21 2006 10:51PM (CT)
TRACY, Calif. (AP) - The Pentagon waited nine months after completing an investigation into the deaths of two U.S. soldiers before notifying relatives the men were killed by Iraqi troops, the military acknowledged Wednesday.
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Woman finds bodies of 4 kin in Ohio home
Jun 21 2006 10:45PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A woman discovered the bodies of her adult daughter and three grandchildren Wednesday inside a home, and police were planning to interview a man arrested on separate charges.
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Presbyterian Church amends investment plan
Jun 21 2006 10:38PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) national assembly on Wednesday revised a 2-year-old policy on Mideast investments that had provoked protest from grass roots churchgoers and Jewish groups.
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New lab tests lead to rape arrest
Jun 21 2006 10:27PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A suspect has been arrested in a rape case that, because of faulty DNA evidence from Houston's troubled crime lab, sent an innocent man to prison for more than four years, authorities said Wednesday.
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N.Y. to sue Exxon Mobil over oil spill
Jun 21 2006 10:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. faces another lawsuit over a massive underground oil spill in Brooklyn that is still seeping sticky goo into a city waterway, decades after the leak was first noticed.
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Lawyers: Gotti lives rich, claims poverty
Jun 21 2006 10:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors accuse John "Junior" Gotti and his family of living lavishly with a swimming pool, a horse barn and a staff of gardeners, drivers and housekeepers, while Gotti claims he is going broke.
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2 people killed in Fla. prison shooting
Jun 21 2006 10:01PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A furious gun battle erupted inside a federal prison Wednesday when a guard opened fire on FBI agents who had come to arrest him and several others on charges of having sex with female inmates in exchange for money and contraband. Two people were killed and another was wounded.
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Mayor reaches compromise on L.A. schools
Jun 21 2006 9:50PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reached a compromise Wednesday with lawmakers and teachers unions that would give him some authority over his city's schools without handing him the outright control he had sought.
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Pa. Senate moves toward gay marriage ban
Jun 21 2006 9:49PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Lawmakers took another step Wednesday toward putting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot in Pennsylvania.
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Michigan man convicted of murdering wife
Jun 21 2006 9:30PM (CT)
BEULAH, Mich. (AP) - A jury convicted a man Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, whose bloodied body was found in a lake at a northern Michigan resort after she asked him for a divorce.
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Judges reject city's appeal to keep cross
Jun 21 2006 9:21PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A federal court on Wednesday rejected a last-ditch appeal by the city to keep a giant cross standing on municipal property after a 17-year legal tussle.
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Plea deal weighed in Mo. sextuplet hoax
Jun 21 2006 9:05PM (CT)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - Prosecutors said Wednesday they are working on a possible plea agreement with a couple accused of faking the birth of sextuplets to tap the generosity of neighbors.
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Chicago gang targeted in heroin deaths
Jun 21 2006 8:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged more than three dozen members of a Chicago street gang with running a drug ring that sold crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and the potentially lethal prescription painkiller fentanyl.
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New witness testifies in cadet rape trial
Jun 21 2006 8:17PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A witness testified Wednesday that a Coast Guard Academy cadet charged with rape forcibly performed oral sex on her, providing the most damaging testimony in the trial so far.
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Episcopal delegates to adopt resolution
Jun 21 2006 8:17PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Episcopal delegates asked church leaders Wednesday to "exercise restraint" when considering openly gay candidates for bishop, a vote that ended days of painful debate but fell far short of demands to preserve Anglican unity by banning gay bishops.
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New Orleans plans juvenile curfew
Jun 21 2006 8:16PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - City officials are hurrying to resurrect a nighttime curfew to keep children off the streets, after five teenagers were killed last weekend.
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FEMA backs off trailer evictions plan
Jun 21 2006 8:16PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is checking whether thousands of families in Mississippi and Louisiana are eligible for the government-issued trailers they're living in, but officials have stepped back from evicting hundreds of the families.
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Mother defends son charged in Iraq death
Jun 21 2006 7:16PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina soldier charged in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees denies wrongdoing and is confident he will be cleared, his mother said Wednesday.
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Kin arrested in Ark. mayor's stabbing
Jun 21 2006 6:55PM (CT)
McNEIL, Ark. (AP) - Authorities investigating the stabbing death of an 83-year-old small-town mayor have arrested his granddaughter and her boyfriend on murder charges, officials said.
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Garment workers lobbyist Dubrow dies
Jun 21 2006 6:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Evelyn Dubrow, an advocate for labor rights and women's rights for more than half a century, died Tuesday night. She was 95.
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Judge: Woman in Smart kidnap to take meds
Jun 21 2006 5:18PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The woman charged in the 2002 abduction of then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart can be forcibly medicated in an attempt to restore her competency for trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Klan caption appears on Vegas grad photo
Jun 21 2006 5:03PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Graduates and their families were stunned to see the words "Ku Klux Klan" scroll across the bottom of a jumbo video screen during a commencement ceremony, and police were investigating whether the display was intentional.
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Grisham en Espanol? No mas for Ga. Library
Jun 21 2006 4:54PM (CT)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The library system in this suburban Atlanta county says no mas _ it won't buy any more thrillers, romance novels or other works of adult fiction in Spanish.
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Mich. man convicted in wife's death
Jun 21 2006 4:51PM (CT)
BEULAH, Mich. (AP) - A jury convicted a man Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, whose bloodied body was found in a Michigan lake after she asked him for a divorce.
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Judge: 'Railroad Killer' to be executed
Jun 21 2006 4:49PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A judge ruled Wednesday that serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, who gained notoriety as the "Railroad Killer" linked to at least 15 murders across the country, is mentally competent to be executed next week for the 1998 rape-slaying of a Texas doctor.
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Amtrak had warnings of NE repair backlog
Jun 21 2006 4:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Electrical problems are piling up for Amtrak along its showcase Northeast Corridor routes, the latest delaying thousands of New York and New Jersey commuters on Wednesday.
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Judge tosses rape case after lawyer tardy
Jun 21 2006 4:21PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A prosecutor trying to stop a rape trial was more than 45 minutes late for court and the judge threw out the case because of the tardiness, prompting the victim's mother and defense attorney to cry foul.
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Pa. farmhand to stand trial on charges
Jun 21 2006 2:57PM (CT)
WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) - A farmhand charged with strangling a 12-year-old girl told police in a recorded statement that he panicked after the girl threatened to tell her parents that he molested her.
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ACLU sues Fla. schools over Cuba book ban
Jun 21 2006 2:36PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to stop the Miami-Dade County school district from removing a series of children's books from its libraries, including a volume about Cuba which depicts smiling kids in communist uniforms.
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Man sent to hospital in suicide party plan
Jun 21 2006 2:21PM (CT)
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) - A man who tried to organize a Valentine's Day mass suicide has been sentenced to up to 20 years in a state mental hospital.
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3 workers injured in NYC subway yard crash
Jun 21 2006 2:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A subway train slammed into a bumper block in a maintenance yard Wednesday, injuring three workers, NYC Transit said. No passengers were aboard at the time.
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Grad to plead guilty in N.C. campus crash
Jun 21 2006 2:07PM (CT)
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) - A University of North Carolina graduate charged with running down students on a campus plaza to avenge the deaths of Muslims told a judge Wednesday he plans to plead guilty.
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56 people arrested in drug ring crackdown
Jun 21 2006 2:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. and Colombian authorities have arrested 56 people they say came from all levels of a heroin-smuggling operation, from its leaders in South America to the drug dealers on New York streets.
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Wash. foster parents want to form union
Jun 21 2006 1:15PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Daniele Baxter, who has opened her home to more than 700 abused and neglected children over the past two decades, carries a business card that lists her occupation as "professional parent." The full-time foster parent hopes to become a genuine card-carrying union member as well.
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Hiring scandals shine light on some states
Jun 21 2006 1:02PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - To the victor go the political spoils _ and then the investigations start. Illinois' governor, a Democrat who ran as a reformer and whose predecessor was convicted of graft, now finds his own administration's hiring practices under investigation.
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Atlanta child killings probe put on hold
Jun 21 2006 11:33AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Police have put an investigation on hold of five murders in the Atlanta child killings case because they have no new leads, authorities said Wednesday.
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Judge seeks more evidence in Padilla case
Jun 21 2006 10:49AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge ordered prosecutors to turn over more evidence to back up allegations that Jose Padilla and two co-defendants conspired to kill, injure or kidnap people overseas as part of a global Islamic terrorist network.
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Waco OKs resolution condemning lynchings
Jun 21 2006 10:46AM (CT)
WACO, Texas (AP) - The Waco City Council approved a resolution condemning lynchings that were carried out there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the "mob mentality" that led to them.
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Tourist stabbed in NYC offers forgiveness
Jun 21 2006 10:37AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A tourist who was one of four people stabbed during a 13-hour rampage in the city says he forgives the man who nearly killed him.
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Man pleads not guilty in minivan plunge
Jun 21 2006 9:10AM (CT)
STONY POINT, N.Y. (AP) - An architect accused of helping his wife commit suicide by stepping aside as she drove the family minivan off a 300-foot cliff with their two daughters inside has pleaded not guilty.
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Panel: Street gangs moving into suburbs
Jun 21 2006 9:03AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago street gangs are increasingly moving into the suburbs, driven by the demolition of housing projects that once hid their illegal activities and by the perception that police in smaller communities lack the experience to deal with them, a city crime commission found.
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Man sentenced for transmitting porn images
Jun 21 2006 8:52AM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sending pornographic images to a sheriff's investigator posing as a teenage boy has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison.
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Families, friends remember slain soldiers
Jun 21 2006 8:14AM (CT)
MADRAS, Ore. (AP) - Pfc. Thomas Tucker thrived on adrenaline, whether he was working construction in Oregon or manning checkpoints in Iraq. His fellow soldier, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca was a quiet Texan, proud to serve in the military, who wanted to work for the U.S. Border Patrol.
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Report: 'Red flags' missed in Iraq probe
Jun 21 2006 7:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An investigation into the killing of 24 Iraqis by U.S. Marines concludes that senior military personnel in Iraq did not follow up on potential inaccuracies in early accounts of the deaths, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
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Court: Judge erred in sex offender case
Jun 21 2006 5:42AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An appeals court has ruled that a federal judge erred in requiring a sex offender to undergo a periodic test that measures his response to erotic images.
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Group: Sierra Club invests in state races
Jun 21 2006 5:29AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Sierra Club plans to shift millions in campaign cash from Congressional races to state and local campaigns this fall, a sign from the nation's oldest and largest environmental group that Washington is becoming less relevant to its cause.
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Ohio police testing fetus for DNA
Jun 21 2006 5:28AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Authorities are testing the DNA of a 14-year-old's aborted fetus, hoping for evidence that might help convict the man who the girl says raped and impregnated her.
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LAPD: Evidence links women to hit and run
Jun 21 2006 5:27AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police say they have new evidence linking two elderly women to the death of a homeless man on whom they had taken out an insurance policy.
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Houston crime lab set to resume DNA tests
Jun 21 2006 5:24AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The DNA division of the Houston Police Department's crime lab, closed for more than three years because of concerns over flawed testing, is set to reopen, city officials said.
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Report: Man face trouble over donation
Jun 21 2006 5:08AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A Denver businessman and elder with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) who promised to donate a record $150 million to the church owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to creditors and has had his assets frozen, according to public records reviewed by The Denver Post.
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Group to erect Flight 93 monument in Pa.
Jun 21 2006 5:03AM (CT)
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) - A flight attendants group said it plans to erect a 16-ton granite monument honoring crew members of United Airlines Flight 93 who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Juvenile center restrictions draw fire
Jun 21 2006 4:23AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When the school day ends at Cook County's temporary juvenile detention center, hundreds of students must leave essential education tools behind: their textbooks.
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Episcopalians reject ban on gay bishops
Jun 21 2006 4:16AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - In the final hours of a national church meeting, the top Episcopal leader is trying to preserve world Anglican unity after Episcopal delegates rejected an Anglican demand that they stop electing openly gay bishops for now.
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Freed ex-lifer settles conviction suit
Jun 21 2006 2:26AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A man who served 28 years in prison on a murder conviction but was released after questions were raised about evidence in the case has settled a federal wrongful-conviction lawsuit with the state.
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National Guard Arrives in New Orleans
Jun 21 2006 1:30AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nine months after they rode to the rescue in the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, National Guardsmen carrying M-16s returned to the city Tuesday to reinforce a depleted police department and battle a surge in violence.
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Fastest growing cities are suburban
Jun 21 2006 12:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elk Grove, Calif., wasn't even incorporated six years ago, and now it's the fastest-growing city in America.
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