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Miners' names can be withheld in probe
Aug 25 2006 11:48PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Federal regulators can withhold the names of miners who asked the United Mine Workers of America to represent them in the investigation of the Sago Mine explosion, a judge ruled.
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25 hurt in Delaware chemical release
Aug 25 2006 11:45PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A chemical released into the air from an industrial plant Friday sent 10 people to the hospital, closed some roads and forced an unknown number of evacuations, state police said.
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Nev. candidate wants special election
Aug 25 2006 11:44PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A defeated U.S. House candidate said Friday she would seek to toss out the results the Republican primary, citing errors in the voting process, in hopes of getting another shot at the nomination.
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4 sentenced in $7.4M airport robbery
Aug 25 2006 11:43PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Four people were sentenced to prison Friday for their roles in one of the biggest heists in Florida history _ a brazen daylight armed robbery of $7.4 million in cash from a warehouse near Miami International Airport.
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Jetliner helps fight Wash. wildfires
Aug 25 2006 11:34PM (CT)
COLFAX, Wash. (AP) - Thousands of firefighters battling large wildfires in eastern Washington got an extra boost from a DC-10 jetliner capable of dropping as much as eight times more fire retardant than usual air tankers.
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Doctor pleads not guilty in lipo death
Aug 25 2006 10:57PM (CT)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) - A Brazilian doctor and his wife accused of manslaughter in the death of a 24-year-old woman during liposuction surgery pleaded not guilty Friday.
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Jury finds labor camp owners guilty
Aug 25 2006 10:54PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The owners of two labor camps were found guilty Friday of luring drug addicts and homeless people into indentured servitude by forcing them to work off debts from the purchase of crack cocaine, cigarettes and beer.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto now in Caribbean
Aug 25 2006 10:51PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto formed Friday over the Caribbean as it moved toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and could develop into the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Blaze damages historic buildings in Ind.
Aug 25 2006 10:42PM (CT)
MADISON, Ind. (AP) - A pre-dawn fire that destroyed a century-old Elks Lodge and the former city hall Friday was doused by firefighters before it spread deeper into one of the nation's largest historic landmark districts.
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Talks end with striking teachers in Ind.
Aug 25 2006 10:32PM (CT)
GARY, Ind. (AP) - School officials broke off contract talks with striking teachers Friday, saying the weeklong work stoppage was illegal.
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Violent video games ban in La. blocked
Aug 25 2006 10:29PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A state law that would ban sales of violent video games to minors violates free speech rights and cannot be enforced, a judge ruled.
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DA to decide whether to charge bishop
Aug 25 2006 10:26PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - Sonoma County investigators said they have enough evidence to pursue criminal charges against a bishop who waited several days before reporting allegations of child sexual abuse by a fellow priest.
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No charges dropped in Ga. court shooting
Aug 25 2006 10:24PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Friday refused to throw out kidnapping and carjacking charges against a man accused of killing a judge and three other people in a shooting rampage that began at the Atlanta courthouse.
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Dynamite found in luggage aboard flight
Aug 25 2006 10:15PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A stick of dynamite was found in a college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina, one of seven security incidents Friday that caused U.S. flights to be diverted, evacuated, searched or delayed.
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13 plagues reported in U.S
Aug 25 2006 10:00PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Thirteen cases of plague including two deaths have been reported in the western United States this year, the highest number of cases in 12 years, health officials said Friday.
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NY state senator charged with fraud
Aug 25 2006 9:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York state senator was charged with defrauding a nonprofit organization to pay for baseball tickets, college tuition and other personal expenses, according to a federal indictment.
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Karr court appearance set for Monday
Aug 25 2006 9:43PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - John Mark Karr waited in a private jail cell Friday for a court appearance next week in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, while his attorney sought to protect any DNA samples taken from his client and a document with Karr's handwriting.
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Sailor faces trial on espionage charges
Aug 25 2006 9:35PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A sailor accused of taking a Navy laptop loaded with classified information and peddling its contents to a foreign government will face a court-martial, the Navy said Friday.
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La. mall shooting leaves 2 dead
Aug 25 2006 9:12PM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A man shot and killed a Victoria's Secret employee in a mall Friday evening, and an off-duty police officer fatally shot him in the parking lot as he tried to escape, officials said.
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Schwarzenegger settles groping lawsuit
Aug 25 2006 9:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger settled a libel lawsuit Friday with a former late-night British TV personality who claimed she was groped by the Hollywood actor during a 2000 interview and later defamed by his aides during his 2003 campaign for governor.
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U.S. border governors urge reform
Aug 25 2006 8:52PM (CT)
AUSTIN (AP) - The governors of four border states signed a letter Friday urging Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform before the end of the year.
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Man gets 11 years in transgender death
Aug 25 2006 8:51PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - A 23-year-old man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of a transgender teen was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday.
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Ky. Gov. Fletcher allowed legal fund
Aug 25 2006 8:44PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Ernie Fletcher, mired in a yearlong hiring probe, may create a fund to accept donations to help pay his legal fees from criminal charges that were dismissed, an ethics panel said Friday.
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Hurricane Center chief set to retire
Aug 25 2006 8:40PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Max Mayfield, who oversaw the nation's tropical storm forecasters and guided millions of Americans last year through the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record, said Friday he will retire as director of the National Hurricane Center.
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Scrushy ordered to repay $47M in bonuses
Aug 25 2006 8:39PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Fired HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy must repay $47.8 million in bonuses he wrongly received during a massive financial fraud at the rehabilitation and medical services chain, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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Professor says he collaborated with Cuba
Aug 25 2006 8:28PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A psychology professor accused of being a Cuban agent admitted Friday that he was a "collaborator" with Cuba's intelligence service, communicating with officials using a short-wave radio, sophisticated encryption techniques and a code name, "David."
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Calif. father in terror case released
Aug 25 2006 8:26PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An ice cream vendor who pleaded guilty in a terrorism probe that focused on whether his son attended an al-Qaida training camp was released from federal custody Friday.
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Slain Iraq hostages' families sue Syria
Aug 25 2006 7:56PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Survivors of two civilian contractors taken hostage and beheaded in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Syria, which they claim supported the group who murdered him.
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Women suing CU get boost
Aug 25 2006 7:52PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Sixteen women's and civil rights groups filed court papers Friday bolstering an effort to revive a lawsuit by two women who said they were sexually assaulted by University of Colorado football players or recruits.
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Court overturns Md. early voting
Aug 25 2006 7:03PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A state court rejected a law Friday that would have allowed voters to cast ballots for five days before an election.
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Fire burns at Jackson's Neverland Ranch
Aug 25 2006 6:57PM (CT)
LOS OLIVOS, Calif. (AP) - A wildfire burned about 40 acres of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on Friday, coming within a quarter-mile of the main residence, officials said.
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La. high court upholds insurance laws
Aug 25 2006 6:39PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday upheld two new state laws giving policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Shuttle launch forecast worsens slightly
Aug 25 2006 6:30PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The weather forecast for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis worsened slightly Friday, with storms expected in the area hours before Sunday's launch.
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Vt. shooting suspect pleads not guilty
Aug 25 2006 6:06PM (CT)
ESSEX, Vt. (AP) - A man accused of killing two people and wounding two others in a shooting rampage that began at his ex-girlfriend's home and continued at an elementary school pleaded not guilty Friday, while a prosecutor said the suspect confessed to the crimes.
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Deadly twisters, hail hit Upper Plains
Aug 25 2006 5:58PM (CT)
NICOLLET, Minn. (AP) - Lumber from obliterated buildings was scattered among corn stalks, concrete foundations were exposed where houses once stood and silos were crushed like empty aluminum cans after deadly storms swept across the northern Plains with twisters and large hail.
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No cameras at Duke lacrosse hearings
Aug 25 2006 5:36PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - The judge overseeing the rape trial of three Duke University lacrosse players plans to bar cameras and other electronic media from pretrial hearings, a court official said Friday.
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9/11 health woes reach far beyond NYC
Aug 25 2006 4:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ground zero worker Jimmy Willis' lung problems got so bad in the years after Sept. 11 that he finally left New York, hoping the dry air of Nevada would blow away the after-effects of toxic World Trade Center dust.
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Northeast thieves' target: Weather vanes
Aug 25 2006 4:21PM (CT)
WATERVILLE, Vt. (AP) - With its tidy brick farmhouse and adjacent red barn, Old Homestead Farm looks more like a New England postcard than a crime scene. But it's one of the latest victims in a bizarre string of thefts.
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Former President Ford gets angioplasty
Aug 25 2006 4:07PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former President Ford underwent his second heart procedure in a week at the Mayo Clinic when stents were placed into two of his coronary arteries to increase blood flow, his spokeswoman said Friday.
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West Nile cases could reach 3-year high
Aug 25 2006 4:04PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The nation's summer heat wave has spurred a jump in West Nile virus cases, and this will probably be the worst season for the mosquito-borne disease in three years, health experts said this week.
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Man settles lawsuit over lottery ticket
Aug 25 2006 3:01PM (CT)
BLACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) - A man who retrieved a $1 million lottery ticket from the trash reached a settlement with the family of the man who claimed he accidentally threw it away.
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Former Ukraine leader ordered to prison
Aug 25 2006 2:55PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion.
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Immigration hearings poorly attended
Aug 25 2006 2:03PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - With immigration reform legislation stalled indefinitely, the congressional hearings on the issue that attracted overflow crowds around the Fourth of July have now fizzled with disinterest leading into Labor Day.
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New Orleans awaits billions in fed aid
Aug 25 2006 1:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - First came the floodwaters, then the paperwork. Billions of promised federal dollars to fix New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure have gone largely untapped a year after Hurricane Katrina. City officials complain that a snarl of red tape, restrictions and unexpectedly high costs have kept hundreds of public buildings in disrepair, streets pocked with potholes and most parks too dirty for children to play.
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2 Jets Diverted for Security Reasons
Aug 25 2006 1:42PM (CT)
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - An American Airlines flight from England to Chicago was forced to land here Friday for security reasons, and a U.S. Airways jet was diverted to Oklahoma City after a federal air marshal subdued a passenger who was involved in an incident with a flight attendant, officials said.
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Coors beer exec pleads guilty to DWI
Aug 25 2006 1:36PM (CT)
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Beer executive Pete Coors pleaded guilty Friday to driving while impaired, a lesser charge than the DUI count filed against him after his May arrest, and was sentenced to 24 hours of community service.
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Dad laments daughter shot ghost hunting
Aug 25 2006 1:00PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The father of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the head while ghost hunting with friends said Friday that the group had been out for harmless fun.
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State Dept. official faces bribe charge
Aug 25 2006 12:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A State Department official accepted free flights to Las Vegas with exotic dancers, expensive meals, hotel rooms in New York and other bribes to speed up the visa process for a jewelry company, federal prosecutors said Friday.
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Jet diverted to Maine on security risk
Aug 25 2006 12:37PM (CT)
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A trans-Atlantic flight from Manchester, England, was diverted to the Bangor International Airport on Friday, officials said.
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Report: New Orleans ready for recovery
Aug 25 2006 12:26PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans is making a comeback from Hurricane Katrina's floods, but its progress could be impeded by a lack of affordable housing and other challenges, a demographer said in a report presented Friday.
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Ex-teacher sentenced in terror aid case
Aug 25 2006 12:07PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former third-grade teacher at a Muslim school was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for providing support to a Pakistani terrorist organization.
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Deputies cleared in lottery shooting
Aug 25 2006 9:07AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Two sheriff's deputies were cleared of wrongdoing for shooting a lottery-jackpot winner who they said refused to drop his gun when they confronted him last spring.
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Religion in the news
Aug 25 2006 6:04AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - As a moderate Episcopalian in the conservative Diocese of Dallas, Dixie Hutchinson doesn't find her strength in numbers.
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Despite ban, gambling abounds in Hawaii
Aug 25 2006 6:00AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - An ocean away from the nearest casino, bingo parlor or horse track, Hawaii residents still find ways to place bets and play games of chance. And despite a ban, gambling addiction here is as widespread as other states.
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Army reviewing casualty reports
Aug 25 2006 5:42AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Army is reviewing casualty reports on American soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere since 2001, a response to complaints that it has not always given families accurate information.
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Attacks on homeless up, activists say
Aug 25 2006 5:36AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tara Cole, who had been living on the streets of Nashville for more than three years, spent her last night alive sleeping on a boat ramp along the Cumberland River. She was killed in the early hours of Aug. 11, when two males pushed her into the river, according to witnesses. Other homeless people couldn't save her.
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Teens delay fair fun to make hero packs
Aug 25 2006 3:48AM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - The opening of the New York State Fair would have to wait. For 15-year-old Amanda Jones, there were more important matters to attend to on Thursday. She was among a dozen 4-H members stuffing writing supplies, disposable cameras and others gifts into "hero packs" for children whose parents will soon be deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq with Reserve or National Guard units.
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Dems campaign on GOP's Katrina blunders
Aug 25 2006 2:32AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Katrina convulsed the nation with its massive destruction. Now Democrats believe it could wreak havoc again in a tide of voter resentment that could sweep Republicans from power.
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Officer wants trial for war objector
Aug 25 2006 2:18AM (CT)
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - An Army officer is recommending that a lieutenant who refused to serve in Iraq because he believes the war is illegal face trial, a Fort Lewis spokesman said.
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10 hurt when SUV plows into N.Y. market
Aug 25 2006 12:07AM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - An SUV driven by an 89-year-old man plowed into pedestrians and vendors at an open-air public market Thursday, injuring 10 people.
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