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Arnold Rosenfeld, news editor, dies at 72
Jul 1 2005 11:48PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Arnold S. Rosenfeld, former editor-in-chief of Cox Newspapers and editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, died Friday. He was 72.
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TV thief finds freedom frustrating
Jul 1 2005 10:56PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Ga. (AP) - As hard as it was to spend 35 years in prison for stealing a black-and-white television, Junior Allen has found freedom frustrating, too. Despite extensive prison records in North Carolina, where he has spent more than half his life as inmate No. 0004604, Allen has been unable to establish his identity in rural Georgia, where he now lives with his sister, or in Alabama, where he was born 65 years ago to sharecropper parents.
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Bill Clinton poses Social Security remedy
Jul 1 2005 10:46PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Legalizing more immigrants would help bolster the Social Security system, former President Bill Clinton told the nation's largest Hispanic-rights organization Friday.
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Soldier gets military honors, 62 years on
Jul 1 2005 10:43PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A soldier was given full military honors on Friday, more than 62 years after he died in the Pacific during World War II and two decades after his family finally learned where he was buried.
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Shark bites tourist's ankle in Florida
Jul 1 2005 10:33PM (CT)
BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) - A shark bit an Austrian tourist on the ankle Friday while he stood in chest-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, the state's third shark attack in a week.
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Police seek slay confession radio caller
Jul 1 2005 10:32PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Police issued an arrest warrant for a man who allegedly called a nationally syndicated radio talk show from a Texas state mental hospital and confessed to a 1994 homicide.
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Calif. AG urges court on gay marriage
Jul 1 2005 10:18PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's attorney general on Friday urged the state Supreme Court to decide whether gay marriage is permitted under the state constitution.
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Record travel expected for July 4 holiday
Jul 1 2005 10:05PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Despite higher fuel prices, Americans by the tens of millions will hit the roads, ride the rails and take to the skies for the Fourth of July in what is expected to be the busiest three-day travel weekend in U.S. history.
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Colorado professor spoofs detractors
Jul 1 2005 9:54PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - In a swipe at his critics, embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill said Friday he has filed a formal complaint against himself, demanding that school officials investigate a claim he failed to acknowledge research help from graduate students.
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Time turns over documents to prosecutor
Jul 1 2005 9:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Time magazine and New York Times reporters, held in contempt for refusing to name sources, tried Friday to stay out of jail by arguing for home detention instead after Time Inc. surrendered its reporter's notes to a prosecutor.
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Judge allows BTK killer contact with media
Jul 1 2005 9:33PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The so-called BTK serial killer will be allowed to receive letters from the media and talk to a woman who is writing a book about his life's story while in prison, a judge ruled Friday.
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Seventh-day Adventist leader re-elected
Jul 1 2005 9:30PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 70-year-old leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was re-elected president Friday at the group's worldwide conference. Jan Paulsen was selected by a nominating committee of 196 delegates.
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Teen wins one-year delay in deportation
Jul 1 2005 9:19PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 19-year-old who undertook a national publicity campaign to fight her deportation to Costa Rica won the right Friday to remain in the United States for an additional year.
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Suspect in NYC hate crime charged in 2001
Jul 1 2005 9:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The white teenager jailed without bail after a baseball bat attack on a black man was also prosecuted in a bias incident outside a Sikh temple on Sept. 11, 2001, and was put on probation for a 2002 stabbing.
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Kissinger regrets 1971 comments on India
Jul 1 2005 8:32PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who derided India and its Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in a private conversation with President Nixon in 1971, expressed regret in an interview aired Friday and insisted the comments be viewed in the context of the Cold War.
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Firefighters struggle against Ariz. blaze
Jul 1 2005 8:27PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Firefighters used a combination of air power and intentional fires on Friday to try to block the progress of a mammoth wildfire that has been creeping toward a central Arizona community.
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Army town stunned by Afghanistan deaths
Jul 1 2005 8:26PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - In the four years that Hunter Army Airfield has been deploying troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, John Judy has tattooed dozens of soldiers with crosses and banners in memory of fallen comrades.
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Judge: Gotti mob rants can't be evidence
Jul 1 2005 7:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury will not hear profane portions of jailhouse rants about the mob by the son of John Gotti at his trial next month, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Mad cow scare may affect July 4 cookouts
Jul 1 2005 7:42PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - There will be no ribs or steaks on the grill this Fourth of July weekend at the Brown house. Worried by the latest confirmed homegrown case of mad cow disease in the United States, the Browns plan to cook up some chicken.
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Ex-R.I. mayor wants conviction reviewed
Jul 1 2005 7:38PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Former Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to review his racketeering conspiracy conviction, his lawyer said.
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Villaraigosa sworn in as L.A. mayor
Jul 1 2005 7:20PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Antonio Villaraigosa formally took the oath of office Friday as the city's 41st mayor, promising to bring a new era of prosperity and unity to a city troubled by gang crime, choking traffic and failing schools.
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Shellfishermen in Mass. return to work
Jul 1 2005 6:51PM (CT)
CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) - Shellfishermen headed back to the flats off several Massachusetts towns Friday after a toxic red tide receded and the state reopened shellfish beds for the first time in five weeks.
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Minnesota's government shuts down
Jul 1 2005 6:05PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - More than 9,000 state employees were told to stay home Friday and drivers found highway rest stops closed at the start of the busy Fourth of July weekend as a budget stalemate led to the first government shutdown in Minnesota history.
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Army nixes black chaplain's 1894 discharge
Jul 1 2005 5:10PM (CT)
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) - The Army on Friday formally overturned the 1894 dishonorable discharge of its first black chaplain, presenting his great-grandchildren with a tightly folded American flag during a ceremony.
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Grain elevator explodes, burns in Ohio
Jul 1 2005 4:19PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - An explosion Friday at a grain elevator started a large fire with billowing clouds of smoke, requiring authorities to close an interstate at rush hour. No injuries had been reported
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Infamous Nevada brothel back in business
Jul 1 2005 4:09PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The Mustang Ranch, the best-known little whorehouse in the West, is back in business at a new location. The gaudy pink stucco buildings and the working girls are there. The only thing missing is the name.
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Greyhound bus overturns on Calif. highway
Jul 1 2005 4:06PM (CT)
DUNNIGAN, Calif. (AP) - A Greyhound bus carrying 34 passengers clipped a car and rolled onto its side on Friday, disrupting holiday traffic on the state's major north-south corridor. No one was killed.
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Ariz. court rules against Iraq letter suit
Jul 1 2005 4:02PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that a newspaper cannot be sued for printing a letter that suggested Americans respond to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq by going to the nearest mosque and killing the first five Muslims they see.
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Record travel expected for July 4 holiday
Jul 1 2005 2:22PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - An estimated 40.3 million Americans are hitting the road, rails and skies over this holiday weekend. The AAA says this will be the busiest three-day weekend of travel ever in the U.S., up from the previous record of an estimated 39.4 million last Fourth of July weekend.
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Parents guilty for hiding pot in diaper
Jul 1 2005 2:21PM (CT)
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - A woman accused of smuggling marijuana to her jailed fiance in their baby's diaper pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor possession charge Friday.
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Feds hope convictions curb vote-buying
Jul 1 2005 1:55PM (CT)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - As last November's election drew near, the boss of this city's Democratic Party talked casually about buying votes for the party's candidates for a few bucks each.
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Bloodstained dollar bill leads to charges
Jul 1 2005 1:33PM (CT)
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) - DNA recovered from a bloodstained dollar bill led to murder and robbery charges against a prison inmate in the slaying of a convenience store clerk 21 years ago.
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Hettena named AP San Diego correspondent
Jul 1 2005 12:55PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Seth Hettena, an Associated Press newsman since 1997, has been promoted to correspondent in charge of the San Diego bureau.
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Man who held grudge vs. judge sentenced
Jul 1 2005 12:47PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A man who took a lawyer hostage and threatened to blow up a building last year to press his grudge against a judge was sentenced Friday to the maximum 20 years in prison.
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Pa. high court won't review race riot case
Jul 1 2005 12:33PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a white man convicted in 2002 of murdering a black woman during racial unrest more than 30 years earlier.
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Wis. not tracking welfare-to-work results
Jul 1 2005 11:58AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Eight years after the start of Wisconsin's pioneering welfare-to-work program, state welfare officials are not systematically tracking whether people who have left the program have jobs, housing and other necessities.
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Police: Typo allows suspect to go free
Jul 1 2005 11:53AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A typo proved tragic for Michael Robb. The popular high school tennis coach was driving down a Seattle street when he stopped his car _ possibly to help a young man waving him down. He was killed seconds later by a shotgun blast in what prosecutors say was a racially motivated slaying.
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New England town mourns newlywed soldier
Jul 1 2005 10:52AM (CT)
WASHINGTON, Conn. (AP) - Maj. Steve Reich, a former Team USA baseball player from "a red, white and blue family," meant the world to his small hometown in the rolling hills of northwest Connecticut.
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Boy Scout dies while rafting in N.M.
Jul 1 2005 9:52AM (CT)
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - A 15-year-old Boy Scout on an overnight camping trip died after he was thrown from a raft and swept away by a harsh undertow, authorities said.
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Calif. misses budget deadline
Jul 1 2005 9:02AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California entered its new fiscal year Friday without a budget for the fifth time in a row after a deadlock that centered on whether the state could afford nearly $1 billion for health care and education programs.
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Workers sue company over restroom tapings
Jul 1 2005 6:35AM (CT)
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Nearly 100 employees of a trash collecting company in Phoenix have filed a lawsuit, alleging that people were videotaped while using the restroom.
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Calif. ban on tobacco in prison begins
Jul 1 2005 6:12AM (CT)
FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) - Randel Davis fidgeted in his prison blues, savoring one of his final hand-rolled cigarettes for some time before a ban on tobacco in California prisons kicked in Friday.
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Religion in the news
Jul 1 2005 5:37AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - While serving in Iraq last year, young Marine Sgt. Eric Eggink wrote in gratitude to the Rev. Val Peter, president and chief executive of Girls and Boys Town.
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Jenkins takes over as head of Notre Dame
Jul 1 2005 4:55AM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - John Jenkins had two questions on his mind when he received his philosophy degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1976: "What kind of life would be deeply meaningful? What kind of life would be so important to me that I'd be willing to give my life for it?"
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Parents can sign up kids to not get e-mail
Jul 1 2005 3:28AM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Starting Friday, parents can sign up for what Michigan officials say is the nation's first registry aimed at keeping spammers from sending children inappropriate e-mail. The new law bans sending messages to children related to such things as pornography, illegal or prescription drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, firearms or fireworks. Parents and schools will be able to register children's e-mail addresses.
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Director of 'Nighthawk' dies at 71
Jul 1 2005 2:48AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bruce Malmuth, who directed such films as "Nighthawk" and "Hard to Kill" and had small acting parts in "The Karate Kid" and other films, died at age 71.
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Jackson calls for black-Hispanic coalition
Jul 1 2005 1:25AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Standing at the site of a landmark school integration battle, the Rev. Jesse Jackson locked arms Thursday with leaders of the nation's two largest Hispanic organizations to repeat his call for a new civil rights coalition.
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'Son of Sam' book to be published in Sept.
Jul 1 2005 12:12AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The prison journals of David Berkowitz, the imprisoned "Son of Sam" killer who terrorized New York City in the late 1970s, will be published in book form this September.
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Gov. Bush criticized for Schiavo Probe
Jul 1 2005 12:05AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, Florida voters disagree with Gov. Jeb Bush's request to investigate any possible delay in a 911 call after Terri Schiavo's 1990 collapse, according to a poll released Thursday.
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