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Miller beer holds 150th anniversary bash
Aug 20 2005 11:53PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - When it's Miller Time, Miller Brewing knows how to party. The nation's second-largest and oldest major brewer threw a 150th birthday bash Saturday with more than 100 descendants of the Miller family attending.
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War backers set up camp near Bush ranch
Aug 20 2005 11:43PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - A patriotic camp with a "God Bless Our President!" banner sprung up downtown Saturday, countering the anti-war demonstration started by a fallen soldier's mother two weeks ago near President Bush's ranch.
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Slain Pa. woman's ex-boyfriend arrested
Aug 20 2005 11:41PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police discovered the remains of a missing pregnant woman and quickly arrested the father of her unborn child Saturday, ending an exhaustive, monthlong search.
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2 Northwest jets suffer mishaps in Detroit
Aug 20 2005 11:10PM (CT)
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - Four tires blew out on a Northwest Airlines jet as it landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Saturday, the first day of a mechanics strike at the airline. A second Northwest jet made an emergency landing at Detroit's Metro Airport a few hours later after flight attendants reported smoke in the cabin.
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Two war protesters injured during march
Aug 20 2005 11:02PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Two women protesting the war in Iraq were taken to a hospital Saturday after police broke up an unauthorized march involving about five dozen people on a busy one-way street near an Army recruiting station.
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Man sentenced to 30 years in son's death
Aug 20 2005 10:55PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A man who told friends he didn't want his 3-year-old son to become a sissy was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing the boy by slamming his head into a kitchen wall just weeks after the child's return home from foster care.
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Jury: Parents share blame in son's attack
Aug 20 2005 10:54PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The parents of a teenager who stabbed a 13-year-old girl must bear most of the responsibility, jurors decided as they awarded $10 million to the injured victim and her family.
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Ohio holds last of Marine funerals
Aug 20 2005 10:48PM (CT)
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) - As the 2-month-old son he never met quietly mouthed a pacifier, Marine Sgt. David Kreuter was remembered Saturday as a fun-loving adventurer, passionate about both the military and his family.
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N.M. man pleads not guilty to killing four
Aug 20 2005 10:26PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A man accused of killing two men at a motorcycle shop, then gunning down two police officers a few hours later, pleaded not guilty Saturday to murder and armed robbery.
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San Francisco shuns retired USS Iowa
Aug 20 2005 10:21PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military accidents.
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Northwest jet blows 4 tires in Detroit
Aug 20 2005 6:11PM (CT)
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - Four tires blew out on a Northwest Airlines jet while it was landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Saturday, the first day of a mechanics strike at the airline.
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Oldest active-duty Navy SEAL retires
Aug 20 2005 3:52PM (CT)
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - The oldest Navy SEAL in uniform has retired at age 60 after a career that included a tour in Vietnam, 24 years in the reserves and a return to active duty to help reorganize the reserves.
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Casualties on rise for Ga.'s 3rd Infantry
Aug 20 2005 2:29PM (CT)
FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) - Ray Gilstrap wiped away tears as he stood beside the tree planted in his nephew's honor, the latest in a living memorial to soldiers killed in Iraq that has more than doubled since the Army's 3rd Infantry Division began its second tour this year.
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Grant protects Revolutionary War relics
Aug 20 2005 1:38PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The major general was so well known that even his abbreviated signature _ "B. Arnold" _ was sufficient on a pass to ensure anyone safe passage.
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Concern grows over prison Islam converts
Aug 20 2005 1:19PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Recent arrests have focused attention on a potential terrorism danger that federal officials have been warning about _ that inmates in state prison systems are particularly susceptible to radical Islamist ideology.
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1 killed as 18 tornadoes tear into Wis.
Aug 20 2005 12:57PM (CT)
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) - Emerging from her basement, Connie Janisch saw destruction all around her. One of more than a dozen tornadoes to hit the state Thursday night had ripped through the neighborhood, destroying homes and dumping remnants of three other roofs in her yard. Then she considered what could have been.
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Ill. GOP dreams of Edgar riding to rescue
Aug 20 2005 12:26PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Jim Edgar said no to running for office in 1998. He said it again in 2001. And in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Yet many Republicans are once again hoping the former governor will ride to the party's rescue by coming out of retirement to take on Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich next year.
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Police wonder if BTK committed more crimes
Aug 20 2005 6:29AM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - As Dennis Rader begins serving his sentence, questions remain whether there are other unsolved murders he could have committed to which he never confessed _ perhaps after the death penalty was reinstated in Kansas in 1994.
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Gonzo journalist's sendoff set for Sat.
Aug 20 2005 5:39AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Firework shells carrying the sealed ashes of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson arrived in an armored truck at his mountain home as final preparations were being made for his star-studded farewell.
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8-year-old boy dies at football practice
Aug 20 2005 1:07AM (CT)
BESSEMER CITY, N.C. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy collapsed and stopped breathing while doing exercises at the start of football practice Friday evening, and was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital.
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Correctional officers indicted in death
Aug 20 2005 12:43AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Three correctional officers were indicted on second-degree murder charges in the beating death of an inmate at a troubled jail widely criticized for inhumane conditions, prosecutors announced Friday.
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Calif. prison locked down in wake of riot
Aug 20 2005 12:42AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Inmates at the state prison in Calipatria remained locked in their cells Friday as authorities investigated a deadly riot that erupted in an exercise yard and spread to two buildings.
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Four bodies found in California backyard
Aug 20 2005 12:38AM (CT)
SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) - Police responding to a 911 call found the bodies of a woman and her two daughters stuffed inside a backyard freezer and the woman's husband lying dead nearby, a shotgun at his side.
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2 ex-GIs cleared of Iraq mistreatment
Aug 20 2005 12:35AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Two army reservists discharged last year over allegations they mistreated Iraqi prisoners have been cleared by an Army review board and can rejoin the military, their attorney said Friday.
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