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5 shot in Newark, N.J.; 3 dead
Sep 2 2006 11:48PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Three people were shot to death and two others were wounded Saturday in what authorities say was a targeted attack at an apartment.
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Former Texas first lady Connally dies
Sep 2 2006 10:49PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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Soldiers who lost limbs learn to surf
Sep 2 2006 10:19PM (CT)
PISMO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - As a child of 1970s California, Derek McGinnis felt that riding waves was like a birthright, and losing his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq wasn't going to stop him from surfing again.
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Wildfire evacuations eased in Montana
Sep 2 2006 10:18PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Mont. (AP) - Some evacuation requests were lifted Saturday near a wildfire that has burned 26 homes and 20 other structures after the blaze didn't grow significantly overnight.
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5 dead in boat crash in Oklahoma
Sep 2 2006 10:14PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Two jet boats collided on Lake Texoma, killing five people and injuring another, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
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Family mourns Katrina wheelchair victim
Sep 2 2006 10:00PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The family of a woman who died slumped in her wheelchair outside one of the city's crowded hurricane shelters gathered Saturday to celebrate her life, and publicly vow to vindicate her death.
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Ernesto dampens East Coast's holiday
Sep 2 2006 9:56PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto put a sloppy wet damper on the last big tourism weekend of the summer for many people, making a mess of some oceanfront hotels and leaving beaches and boardwalks less crowded than usual.
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Man dies trying to rescue dog from basin
Sep 2 2006 9:50PM (CT)
TELFORD, Pa. (AP) - A man who tried to rescue his dog from a flooded retention basin was sucked into a drainage pipe Saturday and died, police said.
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Police: Dad kills sons, self on campus
Sep 2 2006 9:38PM (CT)
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - A father and his two sons died Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide at a university, authorities said.
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Mitofsky, exit poll pioneer, dies at 71
Sep 2 2006 9:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Warren Mitofsky, a survey researcher who pioneered the use of exit polls to cover elections and helped develop the sampling method used in most modern telephone polling, has died.
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Polygamist sect survives in isolation
Sep 2 2006 9:20PM (CT)
HILDALE, Utah (AP) - Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
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Bush protesters moving operation to D.C.
Sep 2 2006 9:14PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - About 100 war protesters ended a monthlong vigil near President Bush's ranch with a rally on their campsite Saturday, and planned to move the demonstration close to the White House.
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Police: N.C. man fatally beaten by mob
Sep 2 2006 8:24PM (CT)
MARSHVILLE, N.C. (AP) - An angry mob fatally beat a man whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the disappearance of their friend, shortly before police arrested and charged another person in the crime.
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Zoo plans glass enclosure for gorilla
Sep 2 2006 8:16PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Zoo officials plan to build a glass-walled enclosure to display Little Joe, a gorilla who escaped three years ago and mauled a 2-year-old girl.
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Tiger cubs go public at National Zoo
Sep 2 2006 8:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Zoo introduced three Sumatran tiger cubs to the public Saturday, more than three months after they were born.
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Pittsburgh mayor's body to lie in state
Sep 2 2006 8:04PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - City workers on Saturday prepared for the body of Mayor Bob O'Connor to lie in state, a day after the city leader died from a rare form of brain cancer at age 61.
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Many small mistakes may have doomed jet
Sep 2 2006 6:42PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - What is known is that a string of mistakes preceded the deadly crash of Comair Flight 5191, but what is less clear is which one was the crucial turning point.
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Court halts fines for newspaper for now
Sep 2 2006 6:17PM (CT)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - The state Supreme Court temporarily suspended a $1,000-per-day fine against a newspaper company for refusing to turn over two reporters' computers to the state attorney general.
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People in the News
Sep 2 2006 6:09PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kim Basinger has been ordered to appear in court to explain why she should not be held in contempt for allegedly disobeying a judge's orders concerning ex-husband Alec Baldwin's visitation time with their daughter.
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Police chief defends JonBenet inquiry
Sep 2 2006 5:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Boulder police chief has defended his department's investigation of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey in several published reports, saying more than 160 suspects were investigated and $2 million spent.
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Judge tosses Iowa murder conviction
Sep 2 2006 4:50PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge has ordered authorities to either retry or release a man who was convicted of murdering his brother, sister-in-law and their two children in 1975.
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Hunt widens for cop shootings suspect
Sep 2 2006 4:35PM (CT)
CASSADAGA, N.Y. (AP) - State police warned Saturday that a fugitive suspected of shooting three state troopers, two of them in an ambush, is a threat not just to law enforcement but to anyone who might get in his way.
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Ford CEO: Company must change to profit
Sep 2 2006 4:35PM (CT)
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Ford Motor Co., the nation's No. 2 automaker, must change the way it does business in order to make a turnaround, the company's head said in an e-mail to employees.
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Atlanta reflects on racist past
Sep 2 2006 2:52PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - When he was a boy, Farrow Allen Jr. heard stories about the Atlanta race riot of 1906 from his mother, whose father was hustled out of town to safety at the height of the four-day melee in which 10,000 blacks and whites clashed in the streets.
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Victim chases thief, gives him money
Sep 2 2006 12:14PM (CT)
SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) - A 75-year-old woman ran after a man who stole her purse, got it back and gave him a tongue-lashing _ and $3.
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Trucker held in mixed-up victims crash
Sep 2 2006 12:12PM (CT)
MARION, Ind. (AP) - The sun had just set on a cool April day, when truck driver Robert F. Spencer phoned his sister in Michigan. He was in Indiana, and, as authorities would later discover, had been driving his rig for hours longer than federal law allows.
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Teen mails paper taped murder confession
Sep 2 2006 12:07PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man obsessed with the 1999 Columbine school attack made a videotape showing his father's bloody corpse and describing plans to attack his former high school, then mailed it to a newspaper which posted excerpts on its Web site.
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Pittsburgh mayor dies of cancer at 61
Sep 2 2006 12:04PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Mayor Bob O'Connor, who learned he had a rare form of brain cancer only seven months into his term, died Friday night, his spokesman said. He was 61.
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Funerals for Kentucky jet victims begin
Sep 2 2006 11:58AM (CT)
STANFORD, Ky. (AP) - Clark and Bobbie Sue Benton were supposed to be vacationing in the Caribbean. Instead, they were buried in this south-central Kentucky town, five days after they were killed when Comair Flight 5191 crashed.
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U.S. intercepter missile hits target
Sep 2 2006 11:56AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An interceptor missile destroyed a mock warhead in space over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, a key test of the U.S. missile defense system that prompted North Korea to accuse America of threatening war.
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Aniston settles suit over topless photos
Sep 2 2006 11:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jennifer Aniston and a photographer have settled a lawsuit regarding topless photos shot of the actress late last year.
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Shuttle crew returns to Fla.
Sep 2 2006 10:32AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Four days after evacuating the Kennedy Space Center with Tropical Storm Ernesto approaching, the space shuttle Atlantis' six crew members flew back to Florida on Saturday to prepare for a launch on Wednesday.
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Ellen DeGeneres walks away from crash
Sep 2 2006 7:30AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ellen DeGeneres walked away from a three-vehicle collision caused by a suspected drunken driver, police said.
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Ruling reinstates tribal housing lawsuit
Sep 2 2006 2:36AM (CT)
BROWNING, Mont. (AP) - Candice LaMott calls the house she inherited from her mother "poison." There's black mold under the sink, holes in the walls and a foundation made of chemically treated wood, conditions she believes are responsible for illness in her family and even her mother's death.
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Museum moves exhibits before renovation
Sep 2 2006 2:14AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Oscar the Grouch probably won't be happy about his next home: a cold, dark box that is far from "Sesame Street" and his beloved trash can.
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Shields: Cruise apology was 'heartfelt'
Sep 2 2006 1:06AM (CT)
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Brooke Shields says Tom Cruise has apologized for publicly criticizing her use of antidepressants after the birth of her first daughter.
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