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Gay-marriage ban group sues Calif. AG
Aug 2 2005 11:48PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The sponsors of a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage sued California's attorney general Tuesday over the summary the state prepared for the group's signature-gathering petitions.
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Low-cost road changes can reduce crashes
Aug 2 2005 11:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Making low-cost changes to busy roadways in cities, such as adding left-turn signals and extending the length of merger lanes, can reduce the number of crashes, according to a study by the insurance industry.
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2 NY officials back terror check profiling
Aug 2 2005 11:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that police have been wasting time with random checks in efforts to prevent terrorism in the transit system.
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Suits filed by smuggling deaths families
Aug 2 2005 11:26PM (CT)
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) - Relatives of seven people who died in the nation's deadliest immigrant smuggling attempt have sued the maker of a trailer, a trucking company and the driver.
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Monitor to study Chicago hiring practices
Aug 2 2005 11:13PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Responding to claims that Chicago officials violated a court-ordered ban on political patronage hiring, a judge on Tuesday appointed an attorney to monitor city employment and ensure that clout isn't the factor that decides who gets jobs.
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Police charge man in N.M. jail with murder
Aug 2 2005 10:42PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A man being held on rape and kidnapping counts in New Mexico has been charged with the murder of a college student who disappeared more than a year ago, police said Tuesday.
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Board may let Janklow regain law license
Aug 2 2005 10:13PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A former congressman who resigned after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter should regain his license to practice law next February, the state bar's disciplinary board recommended Tuesday.
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Police blamed in N.J. car trunk deaths
Aug 2 2005 10:05PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Police failed to follow proper procedures as they searched for three missing boys later found dead, neglecting a national group's recommendations to immediately look in enclosed spaces such as car trunks, a report released Tuesday said.
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NIH worker accused of anthrax threat
Aug 2 2005 9:46PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A Maryland woman who works at the National Institutes of Health was arrested on charges she threatened Florida tax assessors with anthrax after she lost a claim for tax relief.
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Six Marines from Ohio-based unit killed
Aug 2 2005 9:36PM (CT)
BROOK PARK, Ohio (AP) - Lance Cpl. Jeff Boskovitch was an aspiring police officer who planned to set a wedding date with his girlfriend when he returned home from Iraq this fall.
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U.S. criticizes draft of U.N. reforms
Aug 2 2005 9:22PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States strongly criticized a revised blueprint charting reforms of the United Nations on Tuesday, saying the document is too long, poorly organized and doesn't focus on President Bush's main concerns.
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Former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond dies at 83
Aug 2 2005 9:04PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Jay Hammond, a rugged bush pilot and hunting guide who served two terms as Alaska's governor and helped create the oil-royalty fund that dispenses annual dividend checks to nearly everyone in the state, died Tuesday. He was 83.
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Hawaiian school admissions policy nixed
Aug 2 2005 8:39PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down the exclusive Kamehameha Schools' policy of admitting only Native Hawaiians, saying it amounts to unlawful racial discrimination.
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Fla. first state to send cell Amber Alerts
Aug 2 2005 8:21PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's Amber Alert system is being expanded to cell phone customers, the first program of its kind in the nation, Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday.
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Amtrak train strikes truck in N.C.; 2 dead
Aug 2 2005 8:06PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An Amtrak passenger train struck a dump truck and derailed Tuesday, killing two people, after the truck's driver apparently drove around a lowered crossing gate, police said.
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Cherokee court weighs same-sex marriage
Aug 2 2005 7:46PM (CT)
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - The debate over same-sex marriage shifted Tuesday to a Cherokee Nation courthouse, where justices heard arguments in the case of a lesbian couple who want the tribe to recognize their union.
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Weather Service boosts hurricane forecast
Aug 2 2005 7:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Note to the millions of people living near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: Be prepared to batten down the hatches, it'll be a rougher than normal season for tropical storms.
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Zoo staff discovers panda cub is a male
Aug 2 2005 7:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Zoo's giant panda cub still doesn't have a name, but at least caretakers now know its sex. Not that the zoo had a preference.
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Stepfather charged in 'Precious Doe' case
Aug 2 2005 7:29PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Harrell Johnson, the stepfather of a girl whose decapitated body was know only as "Precious Doe" for more than four years, has been indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Academy general off promotions list
Aug 2 2005 7:08PM (CT)
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - The Senate has put off an Air Force proposal to promote the No. 2 officer at the Air Force Academy, a born-again Christian who has been criticized for proselytizing in memos and speeches.
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Easing of Northwest logging rules blocked
Aug 2 2005 7:01PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A federal judge struck down a move by the Bush administration to ease logging restrictions in the Northwest, saying the government failed to consider the effect on rare plants and animals.
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Toronto crash is first for Airbus' A340
Aug 2 2005 6:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Air France jetliner that burst into flames while landing in Toronto is the first A340 plane to crash since the craft was introduced by manufacturer Airbus more than a decade ago.
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Molester posing as teen mentor gets prison
Aug 2 2005 6:31PM (CT)
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - A defendant whose crimes prompted efforts to add juvenile sex offenders to state registration lists was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison.
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Prosecutors end Wis. hotel shooting probe
Aug 2 2005 5:48PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Prosecutors ended their investigation Tuesday into a shooting at a church service without determining the exact reason why the gunman carried out a vendetta against the pastor and his family, killing seven people and then himself.
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Iraq war vet arrested in Las Vegas slay
Aug 2 2005 5:39PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - An Iraq veteran carrying an assault rifle on his way to buy beer killed a woman and wounded a man in a Las Vegas alley, authorities said.
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Bolton presents credentials at U.N.
Aug 2 2005 4:46PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - John Bolton presented his credentials Tuesday as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a job which will challenge him to work with diplomats from 190 nations in a place he has called irrelevant.
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Probe into fatal Wis. hotel shooting ends
Aug 2 2005 3:25PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Prosecutors ended their investigation Tuesday into a shooting at a church service without determining the exact reason why the gunman carried out a vendetta against the pastor and his family, killing seven people and then himself.
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Deadly crash spotlights classic-car safety
Aug 2 2005 2:52PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - At a time when thousands of Americans were standing in bread lines, the luxury automobile of the day, the Duesenberg, sold for more than $15,000. The car _ miles ahead of the typical $500 family car of the day _ weighed more than three tons and was bigger than a modern Suburban.
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New tactics urged for keeping kids safe
Aug 2 2005 2:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Against a backdrop of highly publicized child abductions, some experts are urging parents to abandon the time-honored warning of "Don't talk to strangers" and instead work creatively with their children on a variety of skills for being safe but not scared.
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Death penalty upheld in slain student case
Aug 2 2005 2:20PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Federal prosecutors can proceed with seeking the death penalty for a convicted sex offender charged with kidnapping college student Dru Sjodin, a judge ruled.
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Cop shot 26 years ago comes out of hiding
Aug 2 2005 2:09PM (CT)
FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - A former police officer who fled town after he was shot in the face 26 years ago returned to confront officials about concealing a 2003 police report about his attack.
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Reporter charged in Internet sex sting
Aug 2 2005 2:06PM (CT)
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - A newspaper reporter has been charged with trying to arrange a sexual encounter via the Internet with an undercover police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl.
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Reporter Miller enters fifth week in jail
Aug 2 2005 1:42PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - When August arrives in the nation's capital, Washingtonians stay inside to avoid the steamy heat. After almost a month in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller says she would like nothing better than to get outdoors.
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Wash. fire grows to more than 1,000 acres
Aug 2 2005 1:04PM (CT)
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) - A wildfire threatening about 140 homes had grown to more than 1,000 acres Tuesday near Lake Wenatchee in central Washington, fire officials said.
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Feds says Chicago carpenter helped Nazis
Aug 2 2005 10:04AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An aging Chicago carpenter should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship because he was a member of a police unit that helped the Nazis round up Ukrainian Jews for forced labor and death camps during World War II, federal attorneys argue.
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Bail revoked for suspect in student death
Aug 2 2005 9:59AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge revoked bail for a man accused in the beating death of a University of Illinois-Chicago student, days after his co-defendant failed to show up for a court appearance.
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Prisons raise patrols for inmate suicides
Aug 2 2005 8:46AM (CT)
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Troubled in love, prison inmate Garry Owens wrote a suicide note with a suicide-resistant pen, then asphyxiated himself with a bedsheet laced through his jail cell window.
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Bill Clinton hires new spokesman
Aug 2 2005 8:43AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton has hired a new spokesman, a veteran of the Howard Dean 2004 presidential campaign and New York City's 2012 Olympics bid.
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Georgia National Guard unit loses 8 troops
Aug 2 2005 8:27AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Joni Bennett had just left the home of a family mourning one of four Georgia National Guardsmen killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq when her cell phone rang with more grim news of shocking symmetry. Four more deployed members of the 48th Infantry Brigade had died in a similar explosion Saturday, six days after the Georgia Guard suffered its first combat casualties since World War II.
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Letter details Harvard board resignation
Aug 2 2005 8:21AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - In his newly released resignation letter, a member of Harvard's top governing board said he was angered both by the university president's comments about women and by his being given a 3 percent salary raise.
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DNA test frees man nearly 2 decades later
Aug 2 2005 8:14AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - During his nearly two decades in prison on a rape conviction, Thomas A. Doswell was denied parole four times because he refused to accept responsibility for the crime. But DNA evidence has finally proved what he's been saying all along: He didn't do it.
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Schwarzenegger contract raises question
Aug 2 2005 6:13AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Should public officials be allowed to hold down jobs on the side? Following the disclosure that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a multimillion-dollar contract with bodybuilding magazines, some lawmakers and clean-government activists are talking about making California the first state to prohibit legislators and statewide officeholders from earning outside income.
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Many Pa. lawmakers get raise they opposed
Aug 2 2005 6:06AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - At least 20 Pennsylvania lawmakers who voted against a pay raise have accepted the money anyway, according to information released Monday by the Legislature.
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Watchdog group attacks school Bible study
Aug 2 2005 6:04AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A religious watchdog group complained Monday that a Bible study course taught in hundreds of public schools in Texas and across the country promotes a fundamentalist Christian view and violates religious freedom.
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Country club must make gays even offer
Aug 2 2005 6:04AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's highest court ruled Monday that country clubs must offer gay members who register as domestic partners the same discounts given to married ones _ a decision that could apply to other businesses such as insurance companies and mortgage lenders.
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Guardsman in Iraq punished over blog post
Aug 2 2005 6:01AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona National Guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his Internet Web log, an Army official said Monday.
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Alcohol-related deaths on highways fall
Aug 2 2005 6:01AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Traffic deaths declined and fewer people were killed in alcohol-related crashes on U.S. highways for a second straight year, the government said Monday.
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New L.A. mayor spent $5.2M on election
Aug 2 2005 5:40AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Antonio Villaraigosa spent twice as much as his opponent, incumbent James Hahn, in winning the mayoral runoff election in May, campaign finance reports show.
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Some Scouts turning patches into profits
Aug 2 2005 5:17AM (CT)
BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) - Like a street vendor, Kyle Barnson sat along the grass displaying a towel covered in multicolored patches waiting to find the perfect trade.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against JetBlue
Aug 2 2005 5:15AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - JetBlue Airways passengers whose personal information was used without their knowledge in a federally funded study of aviation security didn't show they suffered any harm and aren't entitled to damages, a federal judge says.
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Governor seeks to close juvenile center
Aug 2 2005 4:23AM (CT)
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) - Gov. M. Jodi Rell wants to close a $57 million juvenile detention center that opened only four years ago, saying she can't allow "the failure of the institution to continue."
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