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LAPD accused of unprovoked attack at vigil
Aug 26 2005 11:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa promised an investigation Friday into claims that a Nation of Islam minister was beaten by Los Angeles police during a vigil for a shooting victim.
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Judge halts release of NYC search papers
Aug 26 2005 11:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge blocked the release of information about random bag searches in New York City subways, saying officials may be able to prove that the success of the program depends on its secrecy.
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Judge calls school racial policy illegal
Aug 26 2005 11:20PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A federal judge on Friday ordered a suburban school district to allow a biracial kindergartner to transfer to a new school, rejecting a claim that doing so would upset the district's racial balance.
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Katrina threatens Fla. with encore visit
Aug 26 2005 11:15PM (CT)
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Utility crews scrambled to restore power to more than 1 million customers Friday as Hurricane Katrina, blamed for seven deaths and miles of flooded streets in South Florida, threatened the state with an encore visit.
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Police: Wis. teen drank before fatal crash
Aug 26 2005 11:03PM (CT)
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) - Police say a 16-year-old had been drinking before his car slammed into another vehicle, setting off a five-car crash that killed the teen, two friends and an elderly couple.
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California courts adopt simpler jury guide
Aug 26 2005 10:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The policy making arm of California's court system approved an overhaul of the state's jury instructions Friday, hoping to ease the confusion that often clouds jurors' understanding of criminal laws.
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R.I. fire defendants want charges tossed
Aug 26 2005 10:56PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The owners of a nightclub where 100 people died in a fast-moving fire in 2003 asked a judge Friday to throw out manslaughter charges against them.
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Report: KPMG to pay $456M, accept monitor
Aug 26 2005 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Accounting firm KPMG will avoid an indictment for selling potentially illegal tax shelters by accepting an outside monitor and paying a $456 million fine, The New York Times reported on its Web site Friday.
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Coal barges adrift on Mississippi River
Aug 26 2005 10:27PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - A vessel pushing barges of coal on the Mississippi River briefly ran aground Friday and lost control of 22 of them, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
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Distribution of BTK items delayed
Aug 26 2005 10:21PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The personal writings, sketches and other items of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader will remain with sheriff's deputies until the court decides who should have them, a judge ruled Friday.
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Wildfire burns rural homes in Oregon
Aug 26 2005 10:21PM (CT)
SELMA, Ore. (AP) - A fast-moving wildfire burned five rural homes and forced the evacuation of at least 30 more near an area that had been struck by another wildfire just three years earlier.
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Judge sides with Pa. in base closings suit
Aug 26 2005 10:17PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - In a blow to the Pentagon's plan to shake up National Guard units, a judge ruled Friday that the Defense Department does not have the authority to dissolve a Pennsylvania Air National Guard division without the governor's approval.
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AP poll: Military kin likelier to back war
Aug 26 2005 10:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People with friends or relatives serving in Iraq are more likely than others to have a positive view of a generally unpopular war, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
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Hoax leaves Ill. student paper embarrassed
Aug 26 2005 10:07PM (CT)
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Kodee Kennings' story was pure gold. For nearly two years, the motherless 8-year-old spoke and wrote movingly of her struggle to deal with her soldier father being shipped off to fight in Iraq, and Southern Illinois University's student newspaper chronicled her thoughts in its pages.
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Charges dropped against 'Raging Grannies'
Aug 26 2005 10:00PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Charges have been dropped against the "Raging Grannies," five women accused of trespassing after they tried to enlist at a military recruitment center to protest the war in Iraq, a city prosecutor said.
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Air Force security specialist indicted
Aug 26 2005 9:56PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An Air Force computer security specialist has been indicted on a federal charge of producing child pornography.
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Chicago mayor questioned in investigation
Aug 26 2005 9:53PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard Daley answered questions Friday from representatives of the U.S. attorney about the city's hiring and promotion policies and certain city programs, the mayor's press office said.
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N.M., Mexican governors to bulldoze town
Aug 26 2005 9:35PM (CT)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - The governors of New Mexico and its southern neighbor, the Mexican state of Chihuahua, agreed Friday to bulldoze or board up abandoned buildings in a sparsely populated border town that is a haven for would-be immigrants and smugglers.
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Prosecutor: Tenn. slay suspect left notes
Aug 26 2005 9:22PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A woman accused of fatally shooting a corrections officer while helping her husband escape from a Tennessee courthouse left writings in her jail cell that detail the crime, a prosecutor said.
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Clinton family enjoying Kauai vacation
Aug 26 2005 9:11PM (CT)
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton spent a family vacation on Kauai with their daughter Chelsea doing what most tourists do on Hawaii's Garden Isle, as well as what most won't ever get to do _ golfing with a movie star.
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Muhammad lawyer: Force feeding not needed
Aug 26 2005 8:29PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - An attorney for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad said Friday he thinks the concerns that led to Muhammad's hunger strike can be worked out and force feeding won't be necessary.
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AP: Skakel trial bid implicates others
Aug 26 2005 8:12PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, convicted three years ago of bludgeoning his neighbor to death with a golf club in 1975, will seek a new trial based on a claim by a cousin of basketball star Kobe Bryant that implicates two other people in the girl's murder.
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Family missing during hurricane found safe
Aug 26 2005 8:05PM (CT)
EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. (AP) - A family that had gone sailing as Hurricane Katrina approached the Florida coast was spotted on a mangrove island Friday, waving their arms for help as a helicopter flew overhead.
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Spokane mayor seeks to block computer info
Aug 26 2005 7:50PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Lawyers for Mayor Jim West, the subject of a recall petition drive over a City Hall sex scandal, have asked a court to block the release of copies of potentially embarrassing contents of computer hard drives.
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Sensor glitch caused Calif. power shutdown
Aug 26 2005 7:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A major transmission line feeding electricity to millions of Southern California customers shut itself off because of a faulty sensor, triggering scattered blackouts in the middle of a heat wave, officials said Friday.
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Judge: Spokane diocese to pay victims
Aug 26 2005 7:36PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that all the parish churches, parochial schools and other property of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane can be liquidated to pay victims of clergy sexual abuse.
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High Court: Disbar pot-sharing Ala. lawyer
Aug 26 2005 6:49PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A Birmingham attorney, who was caught on videotape smoking and sharing marijuana with teenagers, should be disbarred, according to a ruling Friday by the Alabama Supreme Court.
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Charges may be dropped in Pa. laptop case
Aug 26 2005 6:38PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Most of the 13 students accused of tinkering with their school-issued laptop computers to download programs and spy on administrators are being offered deals in which the felony charges would be dropped, lawyers and a family member say.
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Woman arrested in slay suspect flight
Aug 26 2005 6:31PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A friend of a University of Texas student accused of killing and mutilating a woman was charged Friday with helping him elude authorities by fleeing to Mexico.
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Civil Rights Walk of Fame inducts 11
Aug 26 2005 6:18PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Ted Turner, Henry Aaron and the later former Mayor Maynard Jackson Jr. were among 11 people inducted to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame on Friday.
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Judge denies Chicago request in porch suit
Aug 26 2005 6:16PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge on Friday refused to drop the city from a wrongful death lawsuit involving a porch collapse that killed 13 people in 2003.
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Three siblings found dead in Okla. house
Aug 26 2005 6:14PM (CT)
FORT COBB, Okla. (AP) - The bodies of three children were discovered in their family's burned-out house Friday, and their father was in custody as a suspect in their deaths, authorities said.
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Rev. Billy Graham breaks ground for museum
Aug 26 2005 6:02PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - With self-deprecating jokes and a heartfelt call to never be "ashamed of the gospel," the Rev. Billy Graham helped break ground Friday on a library and museum aimed at telling his story long after he is gone.
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Samples of writing from SIU hoax story
Aug 26 2005 5:26PM (CT)
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Many readers of the Southern Illinois University newspaper were swept up by the fictional story of 8-year-old Kodee Kennings, whose soldier father was supposedly fighting in Iraq. Some of her alleged writings as published in The Daily Egpytian, including misspellings:
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King to stay at hospital another month
Aug 26 2005 3:09PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Coretta Scott King will remain hospitalized for at least another month to undergo rehabilitation for a stroke and mild heart attack, her doctor said Friday.
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Man who caused train wreck may get death
Aug 26 2005 3:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man accused of causing a collision of two commuter trains that killed 11 people and injured nearly 200.
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Charge dropped in washing machine death
Aug 26 2005 2:45PM (CT)
MARION, Va. (AP) - A judge dismissed a manslaughter charge against a teenager whose 5-year-old half-sister died after he put her in a coin-operated laundry machine that then began running.
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Millennium bomber's sentence faces appeal
Aug 26 2005 2:08PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Federal prosecutors said Friday they will appeal the 22-year prison sentence imposed on Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium.
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Mich. county uses black boxes for drivers
Aug 26 2005 1:34PM (CT)
NOVI, Mich. (AP) - A judge in Oakland County is using black box technology to keep an eye on drivers who repeatedly run afoul of the law. The boxes have been installed in the vehicles of 14 defendants since 52-1 District Court Judge Brian MacKenzie created the program last year.
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Dead student's parents sue sorority
Aug 26 2005 1:28PM (CT)
PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - The parents of a Plymouth State University student killed in an alleged hazing-related traffic crash are expanding a lawsuit to charge some of her sorority sisters with conspiracy.
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Calif. lawmakers want emergency declared
Aug 26 2005 12:09PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A group of Republican lawmakers on Thursday said they will introduce legislation giving Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the power to make California the third state to declare an emergency along its border with Mexico.
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Taft at ethics talks where free golf noted
Aug 26 2005 12:09PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Bob Taft made opening remarks at mandatory ethics seminars for state employees in 2003 and earlier this year where a memo on free golf that led to his recent conviction was either discussed or referred to in handouts.
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12-year-old tells of escape from shark
Aug 26 2005 9:58AM (CT)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A 12-year-old boy who nearly lost his foot to a shark sat in a wheelchair at a hospital Friday and recalled how he hit the animal's nose and lifted it into the air to get its clenched teeth from his ankle.
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South Dakotans cheer vote to save base
Aug 26 2005 9:55AM (CT)
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Two dozen people leaped to their feet, cheered and applauded early Friday morning when a federal commission voted to save Ellsworth Air Force Base from closure.
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Kegs an endangered species in Muncie, Ind.
Aug 26 2005 9:42AM (CT)
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Beer drinkers in this college town will have to settle for bottles or cans, as more than a dozen liquor stores have quit selling kegs.
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Cindy Sheehan planning anti-war bus tour
Aug 26 2005 6:28AM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - A fallen soldier's mother said Thursday that the anti-war vigil she started nearly three weeks ago near President Bush's ranch won't end when she and other protesters pack up their camp next week.
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Gas station workers face angry customers
Aug 26 2005 6:17AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - It's a scene gas station workers say is becoming increasingly common and frightening: Customers angry over gas prices nearing $3 a gallon storm in and decide to take it out on the employees.
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Skinny firefighter slithers to the rescue
Aug 26 2005 6:14AM (CT)
WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP) - At 6-foot-1 and 160 pounds, Jim Pfeiffer is used to being called skinny. But Pfeiffer's beanpole status came in handy Monday, when the 25-year-old firefighter slipped into a narrow crevasse to rescue a toddler trapped 9 feet underground.
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N.M. police probe homicide at Wal-Mart
Aug 26 2005 6:11AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - One man was killed and a woman was injured Thursday during an apparent domestic dispute inside a Wal-Mart on the city's southeast side, the second time in less than a week that one of the retail giant's Western stores has been the scene of deadly violence.
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Religion in the news
Aug 26 2005 5:38AM (CT)
MAGNOLIA, Texas (AP) - The framing and the walls were already up when Jill Williams and her husband discovered a home they liked in a suburban area north of Houston.
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Man surrenders in Ala. gas-theft death
Aug 26 2005 5:21AM (CT)
FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) - A man surrendered to police Thursday in the death of a gas station owner who tried to stop a $52 gasoline theft by grabbing onto a moving vehicle, but was run over and killed.
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Memorial service held for pregnant woman
Aug 26 2005 12:02AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A slaying victim whose case drew national attention was remembered at a memorial service Thursday as a "vivacious and forgiving spirit" who touched the hearts of those who knew her.
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Senator: Nat'l Guard in more surveillance
Aug 26 2005 12:02AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California National Guard, already under investigation for allegedly spying on a Mother's Day peace rally, engaged in other surveillance activities involving citizens, a state senator said Thursday, citing a confidential Army report.
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