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Calif. won't send more troops to border
Jun 23 2006 11:33PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week rejected a request from the Bush administration to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the governor's office confirmed Friday.
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Firefighters continue fighting Ariz. blaze
Jun 23 2006 11:26PM (CT)
SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - The head of the team fighting a roughly 4,000-acre northern Arizona wildfire reassured evacuees Friday about the safety of their homes in a scenic canyon but said the battle continued.
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Eminent domain battle ends in Conn. city
Jun 23 2006 11:23PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Two homeowners who had refused to leave their riverfront homes to make way for private development have reached a tentative agreement with the city of New London, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Friday.
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Morehouse College to inherit King papers
Jun 23 2006 11:21PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A collection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s handwritten documents and books won't be sold at auction and instead will be given to his alma mater, officials said Friday.
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Suspect in Nevada shooting surrenders
Jun 23 2006 11:10PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A former pawn shop owner wanted in the slaying of his estranged wife and the sniper shooting of a judge surrendered to authorities at a Mexican hotel after nearly two weeks on the run.
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FBI says suspects sought to form own army
Jun 23 2006 11:06PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Seven men accused of trying to blow up the Sears Tower with help from al-Qaida never actually made contact with the terrorist network and were instead caught in an FBI sting involving an informant who posed as an al-Qaida operative, authorities said Friday.
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Court bars info request on NSA wiretapping
Jun 23 2006 11:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday declined to force the government to turn over information on the National Security Agency's wiretapping program to a man charged in a terrorism case.
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Calif. mayor won't resign despite charges
Jun 23 2006 10:45PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Mayor Ron Gonzales on Friday rejected calls to resign in the wake of an indictment accusing him of pressuring a city trash contractor into using the Teamsters union at a recycling plant.
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Mormon Church leader marks 96th birthday
Jun 23 2006 10:22PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, celebrated his 96th birthday Friday with a groundbreaking ceremony for a Brigham Young University building that will bear his name.
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E. Pierce Marshall dies unexpectedly at 67
Jun 23 2006 9:54PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith over his father's oil fortune, has died, his spokesman said Friday. He was 67.
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Gore 'not planning' 2008 White House run
Jun 23 2006 9:51PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore got the same question at a hometown book signing Friday that he gets all over the world when pitching his documentary and book on global warming. Will he run for president in 2008?
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Calif. office holders get 18 pct. raise
Jun 23 2006 9:24PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An independent commission voted Friday to give statewide office holders in California an 18 percent raise, boosting pay for the governor's office to the highest in the nation with a salary of more than $200,000 a year.
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Schwarzenegger denies Bush troop request
Jun 23 2006 8:50PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week rejected a request from the Bush administration to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the governor's office confirmed Friday.
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Mondale backs pre-emptive missile strike
Jun 23 2006 8:32PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former Vice President Walter Mondale said Friday he supports a pre-emptive U.S. strike against a North Korean missile, saying the U.S. should tell North Korea to dismantle the missile or "we are going to take it out."
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Audit: Ohio U. cyber security low priority
Jun 23 2006 8:12PM (CT)
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio University's Computer Services department was running seven-figure surpluses and spending on generous benefits for employees while it was failing to make adequate investments in firewalls and other computer security measures, according to an outside consultant's report.
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Light plane crash in Maine kills four
Jun 23 2006 7:58PM (CT)
NEWRY, Maine (AP) - The crash of a light plane on a remote mountainside in western Maine killed the pilot and three high school students who were taking an introductory flight lesson, authorities said.
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U.S. grants license to N.M. uranium plant
Jun 23 2006 7:05PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its first license for a major commercial nuclear facility in 30 years Friday, allowing an international consortium to build what would be the nation's first private fuel source for commercial nuclear power plants.
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Idaho WWII prison camp controversy flares
Jun 23 2006 7:03PM (CT)
HUNT, Idaho (AP) - The National Park Service wants Congress to remove the word "internment" from the name of a national park commemorating a World War II prison camp for Japanese-Americans.
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WTC officials face admission-fee friction
Jun 23 2006 6:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - After wrestling with the costs and design of the Sept. 11 memorial, planners face another dilemma _ whether to charge admission to the museum honoring those who died at the World Trade Center.
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Grand jury indicts former Ill. teacher
Jun 23 2006 6:32PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A grand jury indicted a former teacher accused of attacking a teenager and leaving her clinging to life in a park.
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4 Darby miners subpoenaed in state probe
Jun 23 2006 5:23PM (CT)
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - State officials investigating an explosion that killed five coal miners have subpoenaed four of the victims' co-workers, including two who refused to undergo further questioning as part of a federal investigation.
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Death penalty sought in severed-head case
Jun 23 2006 5:14PM (CT)
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - Idaho prosecutors said Friday they will seek the death penalty for Alofa Time, the Nampa man accused of beheading his wife, then killing a Boise woman and her 4-year-old daughter in a botched suicide-by-car accident attempt.
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Ga.'s tough sex-offender law set to launch
Jun 23 2006 4:50PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Lori Collins searched lonely stretches of country roads and scoured industrial lots for a place she could live as a registered sex offender. After weeks of looking, she finally found a house 35 miles east of Atlanta.
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Md. policeman gets 139 years in drug scam
Jun 23 2006 4:43PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A former police officer was sentenced to 139 years in prison Friday for robbing drug dealers and selling the drugs himself.
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Md. lawmakers override electric cost hike
Jun 23 2006 4:38PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland legislators overrode Gov. Robert Ehrlich's veto and passed a bill Friday protecting Baltimore-area electricity customers from an immediate 72 percent rate increase.
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Court upholds auto recall guidelines
Jun 23 2006 4:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously upheld guidelines from the government's highway safety agency allowing automakers to limit some vehicle recalls by region.
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Air packs at Kentucky mine not fully used
Jun 23 2006 3:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Oxygen devices recovered from the Darby mine accident in Kentucky were not used to their full capacity _ just as at the Sago mine accident in West Virginia _ raising questions about the devices and miners' training.
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SWIFT tracks global financial transactions
Jun 23 2006 3:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. Treasury Department's disclosure that it has been subpoenaing international financial records as part of its anti-terrorism program has put the spotlight on a little-known institution that plays a big role in global finance. Here are some questions and answers about it.
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2 Nat'l Guardsmen probed in Iraqi's death
Jun 23 2006 3:21PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Two Pennsylvania National Guardsmen are being investigated in connection with the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian earlier this year and have not returned to the United States with the rest of their unit, a Guard spokesman said Friday.
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Study: Americans' social contacts slipping
Jun 23 2006 3:19PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Nearly one in every four Americans has no close confidant, according to a study that found that the average person's circle of close friends has shrunk considerably in the last two decades.
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Once again, Sears Tower target of plot
Jun 23 2006 2:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - It's the tallest skyscraper in North America, the most recognizable building on the Chicago skyline and the destination of thousands of office workers each day.
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Mich. governor nixes riding without helmet
Jun 23 2006 2:29PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan's governor vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed adult motorcyclists to ride without helmets, saying the social and economic costs would simply be too high.
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U.S. judge won't delay Colo. smoking ban
Jun 23 2006 1:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A federal judge refused Friday to block a statewide smoking ban from taking effect July 1 despite pleas from bar owners that it will irreparably hurt their businesses.
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Police suspect Texas tot abducted
Jun 23 2006 1:44PM (CT)
IRVING, Texas (AP) - Authorities fear that a 2-year-old boy who disappeared while playing at a park was abducted, police said.
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Cherokee tribes hold joint council meeting
Jun 23 2006 1:06PM (CT)
CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) - Cherokee runners carried flaming torches down a mountainside at dawn Friday to the tribe's historic homeland and a reunion with members who fled the Smoky Mountains nearly two centuries ago.
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2 men nabbed in Mich. in bad heroin probe
Jun 23 2006 12:30PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Two men were arrested in what law enforcement officials are calling a breakthrough in their investigation into a lethal form of heroin blamed for more than 100 deaths in the Detroit area.
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Bar owners ask judge to delay smoking ban
Jun 23 2006 12:29PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Colorado bar owners asked a federal judge Friday to block a statewide smoking ban from taking effect next week while they press their lawsuit seeking to overturn the measure.
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Pentagon: Vaccines may have killed soldier
Jun 23 2006 12:11PM (CT)
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A Fort Bragg paratrooper's death may have been caused by vaccinations he received for smallpox and influenza, the Pentagon said.
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Ohio storms blamed for deaths, injuries
Jun 23 2006 11:54AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Two days of severe storms injured dozens of people in Ohio and killed at least two, a teenage boy who was camping when a tree crashed into his tent and a firefighter who tried to rescue two teenagers from rising floodwaters.
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Teen: I'll marry man I met on MySpace.com
Jun 23 2006 11:35AM (CT)
GILFORD, Mich. (AP) - A teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on MySpace.com said Friday she intends to marry him.
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Ex-naval intelligence officer sentenced
Jun 23 2006 11:04AM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former naval intelligence officer was sentenced Friday to life in prison for kidnapping resulting in the death of his ex-wife, whose body has never been found.
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Judge allows DNA testing in 1979 slaying
Jun 23 2006 11:01AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A judge on Friday granted a death row inmate's request for DNA testing on clothes worn when the victim was slain in 1979.
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Bishop said to delay reporting sex abuse
Jun 23 2006 10:46AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A priest who admitted sexually abusing a 12-year-old altar boy fled to Mexico after his bishop failed to immediately report the confession to authorities, a law enforcement official said.
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Md. governor vetoes utility relief plan
Jun 23 2006 9:33AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Robert Ehrlich vetoed an electricity-rate relief plan designed to spare customers the brunt of a 72 percent increase next month.
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NYC to add more hybrid taxis to streets
Jun 23 2006 9:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city soon will have more cabs running on alternative fuel. The number of hybrid-electric taxis and taxis powered by compressed natural gas is increasing more than tenfold to 281 after the city's first major auction for permits to operate them.
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Boat speed limit proposed to save whales
Jun 23 2006 8:53AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal agency wants to set a speed limit for boats along stretches of the East Coast to help protect endangered whales from deadly collisions.
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Judge drops some charges vs. firefighters
Jun 23 2006 8:13AM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A judge has dismissed some of the charges against two firefighters accused of pouring gasoline down a firehouse drain before an explosion a few blocks away badly burned two people.
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3 guards held without bail in Fla. scandal
Jun 23 2006 7:38AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Three prison guards indicted in a sex-for-contraband scandal that led to a deadly gunfight between another guard and federal agents were ordered held without bail, while two others were released until an August trial.
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2 men charged in Feb. attack on reporter
Jun 23 2006 4:31AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Police have charged two young men in an assault and attempted robbery that critically injured a writer for The (Baltimore) Sun in February.
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Ga. drug suspect who faked death arrested
Jun 23 2006 3:36AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Much of Kevin Klarell Washington's family believed he was dead after his brother-in-law made a 911 call from a shrimp boat in September, saying Washington had fallen overboard.
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Red Cross gets surge in Katrina volunteers
Jun 23 2006 2:59AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Less than a month after signing up as a Red Cross volunteer in Georgia, 67-year-old Al Lucas went to a Louisiana shelter filled with hundreds who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.
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Portland, Ore., installs new police chief
Jun 23 2006 2:15AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The city named a 20-year department veteran to lead the police department Thursday, six days after the former chief was demoted following a scandal involving a relationship with a desk clerk.
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San Diego will appeal cross ruling
Jun 23 2006 2:13AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The city plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to keep a giant cross standing on municipal property, the city attorney said Thursday.
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Calif. ring allegedly staged auto crashes
Jun 23 2006 1:41AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Twenty-three people have been arrested in what authorities claim is a ring that staged more than 125 auto collisions and scammed about $4 million from insurers and drivers.
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Plane crash in Maine kills 4
Jun 23 2006 1:35AM (CT)
NEWRY, Maine (AP) - A light plane carrying a pilot and three passengers on an introductory flying lesson crashed Thursday on a remote western Maine mountainside, killing everyone aboard.
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Convicted child molester gets new trial
Jun 23 2006 1:20AM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A man convicted of molesting five children at a daycare center and sent to prison two decades ago was granted a new trial and could be freed on bail.
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Sandstorm causes pileup in Texas; 1 dead
Jun 23 2006 1:11AM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A sandstorm blinded drivers on a Texas Panhandle highway Thursday evening, causing a series of accidents that left one dead and 12 injured, authorities said.
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2 senators seek answers on murdered troops
Jun 23 2006 1:09AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two Democratic senators said Thursday they would press the Pentagon for answers in the case of two California National Guardsmen killed by Iraqi officers they were training.
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