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Engineers warned BP about pipelines
Aug 26 2006 10:59PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - An engineering firm raised a red flag more than four years ago about BP PLC's monitoring of its Alaska oil pipelines, documents show.
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N.D. town short squad cars after chase
Aug 26 2006 10:27PM (CT)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - The city is short on squad cars after a man led police on a destructive chase and crashed his van into 10 cruisers, officials said.
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Evacuations ordered in Wash. for fires
Aug 26 2006 10:24PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Tourists and cabin owners were ordered to evacuate Saturday from the perimeter of a wildfire in southeast Washington state. Many of the evacuated tourists had gathered to take pictures of a DC-10 airplane that could carry as much as 12,000 gallons of fire retardant on one run _ eight times as much as anything else.
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Confusion reigns over Karr's legal team
Aug 26 2006 10:03PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Confusion over John Mark Karr's legal representation continued Saturday as a Colorado attorney denied reports that she will help two California lawyers defend the suspect in the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.
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Fla. zoo fires handler over tiger escape
Aug 26 2006 9:03PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A zoo has fired an animal handler after a rare tiger had to be fatally shot when it escaped from its unlatched holding cell.
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Engineers worried on New Orleans levees
Aug 26 2006 8:44PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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Activist's remark starts FBI probe
Aug 26 2006 8:39PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jim Bensman thought his suggestion during a public hearing was harmless enough: Instead of building a channel so migratory fish could go around a dam on the Mississippi River, just get rid of the dam.
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Residents allowed home after Del. spill
Aug 26 2006 8:23PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Residents living near a railroad tanker car that released a hazardous chemical, sickening 23 people, were allowed to return home Saturday night, officials said.
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Hundreds jeer neo-Nazis at Wis. rally
Aug 26 2006 7:50PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Hundreds of people jeered and taunted a group of neo-Nazis who rallied against immigration policy and the Iraq war Saturday on the steps of the state Capitol.
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Sisters blew whistle on Katrina claims
Aug 26 2006 7:36PM (CT)
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Who are the moles? The question was like a parlor game for employees of State Farm Insurance Co. after Hurricane Katrina, one they nervously played during coffee breaks or in the parking lot after work.
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Hearings delayed for Marines in Calif.
Aug 26 2006 7:35PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - Pretrial hearings for two Marines accused of kidnapping and murder have been delayed, a military official said Saturday.
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Crews right keeled-over cargo ship
Aug 26 2006 7:24PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Crews have righted a ship loaded with new cars and SUVs that had keeled over onto its side a month ago in the north Pacific Ocean.
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Immigrant supporters protest in Texas
Aug 26 2006 7:24PM (CT)
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) - Clutching American flags and signs that read "America was formed by immigrants," more than 300 protesters on Saturday denounced a city proposal that would prohibit landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants.
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R.I. candidate regrets anti-gay columns
Aug 26 2006 7:16PM (CT)
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - U.S. Senate candidate Stephen Laffey said he regrets that he wrote columns denigrating gays when he was a college student.
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Sudan accuses Pulitzer winner of spying
Aug 26 2006 7:02PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune was charged in a Sudanese court Saturday with espionage and other crimes.
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New storm worries La. after Katrina
Aug 26 2006 6:54PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, some residents prepared Saturday to evacuate amid forecasts of another hurricane entering the Gulf of Mexico.
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Sen. Obama returns to family village
Aug 26 2006 6:43PM (CT)
KOGELO, Kenya (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama pushed through surging crowds and hurtled down roads lined with screaming fans Saturday before settling into the calm of a quiet meal with his grandmother in the Kenyan hamlet where his father grew up and is buried.
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1 dead, 5 hurt in NYC shooting spree
Aug 26 2006 5:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A gunman on a cocaine-and-booze binge killed one man and wounded two others in a series of drive-by shootings in Queens, officials said Saturday.
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Volunteers seek to reach Texas dropouts
Aug 26 2006 5:20PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Andres Torres, 18, is working to support his infant twin girls. Claudia Zavala, 15, gave birth on Friday. Diocelina Garcia, 18, is seven months pregnant.
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NASA delays space shuttle launch
Aug 26 2006 4:35PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA officials decided Saturday to delay the launch of space shuttle Atlantis by 24 hours to give engineers more time to determine whether one of the most powerful lightning strikes ever at a Kennedy Space Center launch pad caused any problems.
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Army immerses soldiers in weaponry
Aug 26 2006 2:14PM (CT)
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) - In the early months of the war in Iraq, Army Spc. Paul J. Sturino was getting ready for guard duty one day when another soldier accidentally fired a bullet into his neck.
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People in the News
Aug 26 2006 1:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Matt LeBlanc has been sued for defamation by a woman who claims the former "Friends" actor made sexually charged comments about her that were published in the National Enquirer.
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Book: Horse-and-buggy Mennonites thrive
Aug 26 2006 1:47PM (CT)
MARTINDALE, Pa. (AP) - In this bucolic corner of Lancaster County, Allen Hoover can use some modern conveniences approved by his church to help make his machine shop run smoothly: a telephone, a word processor and even a fax machine. But if Hoover needs to travel, driving a car is out of the question. His only options are hopping on a bicycle or hitching a horse to a black buggy.
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Company barred from copying bar exam
Aug 26 2006 1:27PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A test-preparation company must pay nearly $12 million to the organization that creates the national bar exam because it violated copyright rules by using questions from actual tests, a federal judge ruled.
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S.D. inmate in charge of his own fate
Aug 26 2006 1:05PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - As executions approach, loved ones of the condemned inmate and the victim's family anxiously wait and wonder whether a judge or governor will intervene before the appointed hour.
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Colleges seek a balance on drinking
Aug 26 2006 12:59PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Freshman John Kunemund knows that life on campus at Duke University will include being exposed to alcohol _ whether or not he is the one doing the drinking.
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Engineers worry about New Orleans levees
Aug 26 2006 11:55AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday that despite aggressive efforts to repair the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it was unclear whether the it could hold up to a sizable hurricane this year.
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Tutoring promise proving hard to keep
Aug 26 2006 11:37AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sandra Senda wanted a free private tutor for her kids, just like the No Child Left Behind law promised. She had no idea the deal came with a big headache.
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Wal-Mart reports 2.7 sales rise
Aug 26 2006 11:19AM (CT)
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Saturday that August sales at its U.S. stores were up about 2.7 percent from the same four-week period a year ago.
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Security incidents disrupt U.S. flights
Aug 26 2006 10:14AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - U.S. and Argentine authorities were investigating how a stick of dynamite in a college student's checked luggage ended up on a Houston-bound flight, one of seven security incidents that disrupted U.S. flights in a day.
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Tropical storm strengthens in Caribbean
Aug 26 2006 8:24AM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened over the Caribbean Saturday as it headed toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, threatening to become the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Center chief set to retire
Aug 26 2006 8:02AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - When he retires as director of the National Hurricane Center in January, Max Mayfield will have spent 34 years guiding Americans through some of the busiest, most destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons on record.
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Neb. tries to oust trooper linked to KKK
Aug 26 2006 7:08AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Robert Henderson was not fired as a state trooper because he belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and another white supremacist group, authorities said. Instead, he was ousted because he could not uphold public trust while participating in such groups, they said.
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La. high court upholds 2 insurance laws
Aug 26 2006 7:02AM (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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NOAA study defends tsunami center plans
Aug 26 2006 4:26AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A study by a federal agency found there is little risk a destructive tsunami would hit the inside of Pearl Harbor, bolstering the agency's case for moving a tsunami warning center there.
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New Navy nuclear sub debuts in Atlantic
Aug 26 2006 3:54AM (CT)
ABOARD THE U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE TEXAS (AP) - The Navy debuted its newest nuclear-powered submarine Friday in an Atlantic Ocean swing off the Florida coast, the second in the latest fast-attack class that marks a broad departure from the Cold War-era deterrence boats.
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Flooding torments N.D. town's residents
Aug 26 2006 2:44AM (CT)
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) - Hundreds of families displaced. Traumatized children causing problems in schools. Landowners losing everything and sickened from the stress. It sounds like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, but these symptoms are appearing much farther north _ in North Dakota. A popular lake often used for recreation is rising ominously and spreading, drowning homes and lucrative fields of crops.
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Miners' names can be withheld in probe
Aug 26 2006 12:18AM (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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Man gets 3 years for 'botnet' attack
Aug 26 2006 12:10AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A man was sentenced to three years in prison Friday for launching a computer attack that hit tens of thousands of computers, including some belonging to the Department of Defense, a Seattle hospital and a California school district.
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