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Hurricane Dennis blows through Ala., Fla.
Jul 10 2005 11:49PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Dennis roared quickly through the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast Sunday with a 120-mph bluster of blinding squalls and crashing waves, but shellshocked residents emerged to find far less damage than when Ivan took nearly the same path 10 months ago.
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Colo. grandmom arrested in toddler's death
Jul 10 2005 11:48PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Authorities arrested a Colorado grandmother Sunday after her 2-year-old granddaughter died inside a car on a day when the temperature climbed to nearly 100 degrees.
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NAACP chair renews attack on conservatives
Jul 10 2005 10:26PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Renewing his attack on conservatives and the Bush administration Sunday, NAACP chairman Julian Bond accused national leaders of rolling back past civil rights gains, crippling efforts to battle racism and undermining democracy.
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Colo. woman arrested in toddler's death
Jul 10 2005 10:06PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Authorities arrested a Colorado grandmother Sunday after her 2-year-old granddaughter died inside a car on a day when the temperature climbed to nearly 100 degrees.
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Wildfire forces evacuation in Colorado
Jul 10 2005 10:04PM (CT)
BEULAH, Colo. (AP) - Authorities urged about 1,000 people to evacuate their homes Sunday ahead of a fast-moving wildfire fueled by tinder-dry brush in southern Colorado.
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2 freight trains collide in Miss.; 1 dead
Jul 10 2005 10:03PM (CT)
BENTONIA, Miss. (AP) - Two freight trains collided and partially derailed Sunday, killing at least one crew member and leaving rescue crews searching for three others presumed dead in the wreckage.
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Vignettes from Hurricane Dennis
Jul 10 2005 9:53PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Dennis blew through town on Sunday, but New York Nick's still planned to serve up to 50 guests for dinner.
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Fla. learns from Ivan, brace for Dennis
Jul 10 2005 9:27PM (CT)
SHALIMAR, Fla. (AP) - As Hurricane Ivan approached last year, some businesses stayed open and many people didn't start to evacuate _ if they left at all _ until the last minute.
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2 London bombing victims treated in N.C.
Jul 10 2005 8:32PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Two Tennessee sisters injured in last week's London bombings returned to the United States Sunday for further treatment at Duke University Medical Center, the medical center said.
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Ill. official changed agency overtime rule
Jul 10 2005 7:06PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A state official on leave amid an investigation into a half-million-dollar contract awarded to his brother-in-law also recently changed an agency overtime rule in a way that benefits his new wife.
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Two planes collide in Del.; pilot killed
Jul 10 2005 7:03PM (CT)
LEWES, Del. (AP) - Two small planes practicing for an air show collided Sunday above Delaware Bay, killing at least one of the pilots, state police said.
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Two men charged in Ill. student's death
Jul 10 2005 6:34PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A college student was beaten to death with his own bicycle lock during a fight near campus, and two men were charged with first-degree murder, police said Sunday.
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Remains identified as missing Idaho boy
Jul 10 2005 6:04PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Human remains discovered at a remote western Montana campsite were identified Sunday as Dylan Groene, the 9-year-old boy who disappeared nearly two months ago from the scene of three grisly slayings.
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Group seeks tougher laws against priests
Jul 10 2005 6:00PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Catholic lay reform group Voice of the Faithful approved a draft resolution Sunday calling for tougher laws against abusive priests and the bishops who have protected them.
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Freed prison writer files for bankruptcy
Jul 10 2005 4:40PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Freed prison journalist Wilbert Rideau has filed for bankruptcy, saying he can't pay the more than $126,000 in court costs from a trial that resulted in his release after 44 years behind bars.
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NAACP delegates warn gains are eroding
Jul 10 2005 4:07PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Civil rights advocates on Sunday called the blurring lines between religion and politics a threat to equal opportunity, and said conservative judges and lawmakers are threatening progressives' gains nationwide.
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Mom searches I-80 for kids' grave sites
Jul 10 2005 2:52PM (CT)
ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 80 (AP) - Squinting in the midday sun, Teri Knight scans the curtains of green fields that border this highway in search of clues that could lead her to a terrible place: the grave site of her murdered children.
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2 killed serving eviction on Fla. tenants
Jul 10 2005 5:11AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A landlord was seriously injured and two of her relatives fatally shot when they tried to serve an eviction notice to some tenants, officials said.
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Consulate blast still shrouded in mystery
Jul 10 2005 5:01AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two months after an explosion blew out a window near the British consulate in midtown Manhattan, authorities have no clear motive or suspects.
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Tenn. police nab suspect in church fires
Jul 10 2005 4:53AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police on Saturday arrested a suspect believed to have set fires that burned two black churches in Tennessee, but investigators said they had no reason to believe the blazes were a hate crime.
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NYC man among missing after London blasts
Jul 10 2005 4:51AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Bronx man who moved abroad after the 2001 terrorist attacks was among those missing in London after the transit bombings there, his friends and relatives said.
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Calif. diocese to settle sex abuse suits
Jul 10 2005 12:16AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle a dozen lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a once-popular priest.
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