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Police: `Noose tightening' on fugitive
Sep 4 2006 11:30PM (CT)
FREDONIA, N.Y. (AP) - A state police official said Monday that "the noose is tightening" in the manhunt for an escaped inmate accused of a deadly police ambush, and warned hunters to stay out of the woods where the fugitive may be hiding.
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Discovery Channel plans Irwin tributes
Sep 4 2006 10:35PM (CT)
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Discovery Communications, the television network where Steve Irwin became a star as the "Crocodile Hunter," plans several tributes to Irwin.
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Tropical depression brewing in Atlantic
Sep 4 2006 9:52PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tropical depression brewing over the open Atlantic was nearing tropical storm strength Monday night, forecasters said.
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Arena project divides Brooklyn residents
Sep 4 2006 8:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A state senator stood up and endorsed a development project that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets. He was shouted down by a woman who opposes the plan.
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Montana wildfire still spreading
Sep 4 2006 6:58PM (CT)
BIG TIMBER, Mont. (AP) - An enormous wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people continued to spread Monday, though winds didn't kick up as much as firefighters had feared, a Forest Service official said.
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Remnants of Hurricane John reach U.S.
Sep 4 2006 6:31PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Heavy rain flooded roads in the Southwest on Monday as the rapidly weakening remnants of Hurricane John spread across the border from Mexico, where up to 20 inches had fallen on parts of the Baja Peninsula.
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Rallies for immigrants in several cities
Sep 4 2006 6:23PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In far smaller numbers than they did this spring, supporters of illegal immigrants marched in several U.S. cities Monday, calling for them to be given the chance to live and work freely in the United States.
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WWII hero Gabaldon dies
Sep 4 2006 6:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old Marine private single-handedly persuaded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the World War II battle for Saipan, has died. He was 80.
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Trade Center towers featured in exhibit
Sep 4 2006 5:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Several blocks south of the site where the World Trade Center once stood, a new exhibit gives visitors a brief impression of what it was like to stand close to the fluted walls of the twin towers and gaze upward.
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Deadly blaze likely caused by candles
Sep 4 2006 5:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Candles used for light in an apartment without electricity probably caused a fire that killed six children inside, a fire department official said Monday as fire investigators continued sifting through debris.
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Bazooka recipe open to foreign gum maker
Sep 4 2006 3:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a bid to resolve a sticky mess, a judge has decided that an Argentine company can continue making its sweet-tasting Bazooka gum even though its relationship with The Topps Co. that made the brand famous has long since soured.
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Airport work creates unexpected dangers
Sep 4 2006 2:06PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Dan Silverthorn had just touched down when his single-engine Beech C23 jolted violently and careered off the runway on its belly in a shower of sparks.
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Survey finds no surge of Hispanic voters
Sep 4 2006 1:21PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Immigration protests that drew hundreds of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators to the nation's streets last spring promised a potent political legacy _ a surge of new Hispanic voters.
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Couric takes over 'CBS Evening News'
Sep 4 2006 12:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - With a rebuilt newsroom behind her and new theme music from an Academy Award-winning composer, Katie Couric is set to make the most talked-about debut of the fall television season Tuesday on the "CBS Evening News."
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Fatal R.I. club fire trial set to open
Sep 4 2006 12:36PM (CT)
WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - The man whose fireworks display set off a 2003 blaze that killed 100 concertgoers is sitting in prison, but for many victims' relatives, the first of the two most important trials in the case is only now about to begin.
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Nude teens test limits in Vt. town
Sep 4 2006 11:20AM (CT)
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - Public nudity isn't new to this bastion of bohemia, but it usually bares itself in more subtle places than the downtown parking lot.
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2 workers shot to death at S.C. eatery
Sep 4 2006 10:26AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Two fast-food workers were found shot to death after their restaurant failed to open on time, and a fellow employee was arrested Monday and charged with murder and armed robbery.
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Mich. voters split on affirmative action
Sep 4 2006 8:14AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A ballot measure that would scrap many of Michigan's affirmative action programs is running about even in a new poll published Monday, with 41 percent of likely voters saying they would approve it and 43 percent opposed.
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Circus teachers share a nomadic life
Sep 4 2006 5:43AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Just about every week, Maureen Breslin unpacks two portable wooden chests on wheels and stocks her temporary classroom with school supplies. Her teaching career has led her on a winding path across the United States, taking her to a different city _ and a different classroom _ almost every week. Her students: traveling child performers in "The Greatest Show on Earth."
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Scientists map canyon below Atlantic
Sep 4 2006 3:42AM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - Although just 100 miles off the New Jersey-New York coast, the features of the Hudson Canyon have been largely hidden beneath hundreds of feet of water.
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Texas mayor wants slaughter plant closed
Sep 4 2006 2:52AM (CT)
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) - A mile from one of three horse slaughter plants in the United States, the stale smell of offal and blood wafted under Mayor Paula Bacon's nose.
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