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Firefighters fight 60 wildfires in west
Sep 8 2006 11:49PM (CT)
STANLEY, Idaho (AP) - Federal officials on Friday were tracking 60 large, active fires that were burning more than 1 million acres, or more than 1,500 square miles, across the West.
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2 planes clip wings at NYC airport
Sep 8 2006 11:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two planes clipped wings while taxiing to runways at LaGuardia on Friday night, briefly delaying air traffic, authorities said.
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9/11 babies old enough to ask for dad
Sep 8 2006 11:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Four-year-old Gabriel Jacobs inherited his dad's sandy hair, long nose and blue eyes. The day they buried what was left of his father _ a piece of rib, part of a thigh bone, a bit of one arm _ the boy released a balloon into the air, then turned that familiar face skyward to make sure his daddy caught it.
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Khatami blasts wave of 'Islamophobia'
Sep 8 2006 11:00PM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Iran's former president decried a wave of "Islamophobia" that he said is being spread in the United States by fear and hatred of Islam in response to terror perpetrated by Muslims.
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Miami paper fires 3 who took gov't money
Sep 8 2006 10:35PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Ten South Florida journalists, including three with The Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper, received thousands of dollars from the federal government for their work on radio and TV programming aimed at undermining Fidel Castro's communist regime, the Herald reported Friday.
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N.Y. manhunt ends with surrender
Sep 8 2006 10:03PM (CT)
CARROLL, N.Y. (AP) - A fugitive suspected of fatally shooting a New York state trooper and wounding two others while on the run for more than five months surrendered to police who had cornered him in a field just over the Pennsylvania border Friday night.
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La. man indicted in teen shooting deaths
Sep 8 2006 9:54PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A grand jury on Friday indicted a man in the shooting deaths of five New Orleans teenagers, an incident that prompted the state to send in the National Guard and state troopers and put a spotlight on increasing violence in the city.
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Schwarzenegger regrets 'very hot' remark
Sep 8 2006 9:46PM (CT)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying in a closed-door meeting that the mixture of Hispanic and black blood gives Puerto Ricans and Cubans "very hot" personalities.
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9/11 memorial in N.J. has 40 extra names
Sep 8 2006 9:44PM (CT)
BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) - A 100-foot-tall sculpture being unveiled on Monday's fifth anniversary of 9-11 honors thousands of terrorist attack victims, and then some: Carved into the granite base are the names of more than 40 people who weren't killed on Sept. 11 after all.
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Jesuits cite abuse by late Gonzaga chief
Sep 8 2006 9:40PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Former Gonzaga University President John Leary was involved in the sexual abuse of boys and young men in the 1960s, but the priest's actions were covered up by Jesuit officials, the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus said Friday.
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Exec. gets 7 years for congressman bribe
Sep 8 2006 9:35PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A Kentucky businessman who admitted paying more than $400,000 in bribes to a Louisiana congressman was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in prison.
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Colo. county spent $29K on Karr case
Sep 8 2006 9:20PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Boulder County officials spent at least $29,726 in costs related to the arrest, extradition and court appearance of John Mark Karr, the former suspect in the death of JonBenet Ramsey.
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Two charged in alleged Wis. sex assaults
Sep 8 2006 8:47PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Two more people were charged Friday in the case of an 11-year-old girl who authorities say had sex with as many as 20 people as a 16-year-old girl coached her.
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Judge says Katrina cases can't be joined
Sep 8 2006 8:41PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Homeowners suing insurance companies for denying their claims after Hurricane Katrina must file their lawsuits individually, a federal judge ruled.
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Va. Democrat uses Reagan in campaign ad
Sep 8 2006 8:35PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb has a television ad ready to air featuring praise from his late boss Ronald Reagan _ and Nancy Reagan called on him Friday to cancel it.
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Sex offender dies, boy injured in crash
Sep 8 2006 8:30PM (CT)
WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) - A convicted sex offender was killed and a 14-year-old boy injured when a sport utility vehicle the man was driving slammed into an 18-wheeler following a high speed police chase, authorities said Friday.
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Dead animals left in dump truck for days
Sep 8 2006 8:17PM (CT)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - The bodies of more than a dozen dogs, cats and even a hawk were discovered in the back of a Huntington garbage truck, where animal control officials say they'd been left for days.
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Utah court: University cannot ban guns
Sep 8 2006 8:11PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on guns at the University of Utah, saying campus officials cannot adopt a policy that runs counter to state law.
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Pa. city OKs illegal immigration overhaul
Sep 8 2006 7:36PM (CT)
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) - The City Council gave tentative approval Friday to an overhaul of an anti-illegal-immigration law considered to be one of the nation's toughest, hoping to put the measure on sounder legal footing.
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Jilted bride turns wedding into charity
Sep 8 2006 7:04PM (CT)
VERGENNES, Vt. (AP) - A woman who learned six weeks before her wedding that her fiance was cheating on her is turning her would-be reception into a charity benefit.
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Water main break closes Gateway Arch
Sep 8 2006 6:53PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Gateway Arch and the museum inside the structure were closed indefinitely Friday while workers repaired a water main break.
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Kidnapping suspect escapes Ala. prison
Sep 8 2006 6:51PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A man charged in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer who was grabbed at gunpoint outside her downtown loft has escaped from prison, possibly with help, authorities said Friday.
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U.N. adopts counterterrorism strategy
Sep 8 2006 6:43PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly adopted a long-awaited strategy to combat terrorism on Friday, though many nations lamented that it does not include a definition or say anything about states that commit terrorist acts.
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EPA, NYC blamed for 9/11 health problems
Sep 8 2006 6:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - City and federal officials came under withering criticism Friday from lawmakers who charged that ground zero workers were not protected as they clambered over a smoking pile of toxic debris _ and have not been properly cared for since.
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Detroit teachers ordered back to work
Sep 8 2006 6:27PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A judge on Friday ordered Detroit Public Schools teachers back to work after the district and the teachers union could not reach a tentative labor agreement despite nearly continuous negotiations.
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Alaska man found dead, trapped by mower
Sep 8 2006 5:59PM (CT)
TALKEETNA, Alaska (AP) - The owner of a remote Alaska lodge died of exposure after his lawnmower overturned and trapped him, authorities said Friday.
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Professor put on leave over 9-11 claim
Sep 8 2006 5:33PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - A professor who has suggested the World Trade Center was brought down by explosives has been placed on paid leave by Brigham Young University while the Mormon church-owned school investigates his claims.
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New Orleans radio host accused of murder
Sep 8 2006 4:36PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - To friends and listeners, radio talk show host Vince Marinello was "Vinnie" _ a racetrack regular straight out of "Guys and Dolls," a New Orleans native with an almost Brooklynesque accent, a guy who liked to imply he had mob ties.
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Nurse strangles intruder with bare hands
Sep 8 2006 4:27PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A nurse returning from work discovered an intruder armed with a hammer in her home and strangled him with her bare hands, police said.
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Gymnast claims sex abuse by former coach
Sep 8 2006 4:24PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A teenage girl claims in a lawsuit that a former coach at an elite gymnastics academy sexually assaulted her and encouraged her to use cocaine to lose weight.
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Florida casino win announced, renounced
Sep 8 2006 4:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The name of the game is the Swipe and Win progressive jackpot, but to Freddy Howard it feels more like the win and swipe.
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Diabetic man dies after arrest attempt
Sep 8 2006 2:50PM (CT)
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - A 39-year-old man died Friday at a hospital, two weeks after his family says he was beaten by police who mistook his diabetic seizure for drunkenness.
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Jail for Va. man who gave China secrets
Sep 8 2006 2:43PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A former Pentagon intelligence analyst who disclosed classified information to Chinese spies was sentenced Friday to three months in jail.
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Al-Qaida core has degraded since 2001
Sep 8 2006 2:29PM (CT)
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Jamal Ahmidan had been in and out of trouble for years in Spain and his native Morocco. He served time as a hashish and Ecstasy dealer and gained a reputation for settling scores with a gun.
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Experts: 9/11 won't be the last attack
Sep 8 2006 2:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The threat of terrorism against the United States remains chillingly lethal five years after 9/11, and officials predict another massive attack is not a matter of if _ but when.
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Police chief whose wife posed nude quits
Sep 8 2006 2:12PM (CT)
SNYDER, Okla. (AP) - The police chief, the mayor and a councilman in this small town resigned Friday amid an uproar over nude photos of the chief's 300-pound, tattooed wife that she posted on a Web site.
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Poll gives Hillary Clinton huge lead
Sep 8 2006 2:07PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Four days before New York's primary, Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot Spitzer maintain huge leads over their rivals for their party's nominations as she seeks re-election and he tries to become governor, a statewide poll showed Friday.
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Ex-Montana Gov. Thomas Judge dies at 71
Sep 8 2006 1:41PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Former Gov. Thomas L. Judge, who in two terms in the 1970s oversaw creation of many of Montana's environmental laws, died Friday, his family said. He was 71.
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Judge rules against terror suspect
Sep 8 2006 1:38PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge rejected an attempt by terror suspect Jose Padilla to keep a jury from hearing statements he made to the FBI shortly before his 2002 arrest.
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Ky. air controller remains anonymous
Sep 8 2006 1:21PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Nearly two weeks since the Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, the air traffic controller on duty at the time has not returned to work, and those who know him are revealing next to nothing _ not even his name.
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Businesses maneuver to buck smoking bans
Sep 8 2006 1:04PM (CT)
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) - A year after Georgia forced restaurants to extinguish their smoking sections, the sign outside Chuck and Kay Fordham's diner defiantly invites customers to "Bring Your Butts On In."
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2 missing boys found dead in N.C. river
Sep 8 2006 12:54PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Searchers found the bodies of two young brothers in the Dan River on Friday, three days after the boys disappeared from their grandparents' home near the storm-swollen stream.
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Remains still being found at WTC site
Sep 8 2006 12:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ralph Geidel cannot remember a time when he wasn't obsessed with finding things that had been lost or discarded _ forgotten marbles on the playground, old coins, false teeth and silver jewelry at the beach. And he was good at it.
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Plant, owner cited for hazardous waste
Sep 8 2006 12:08PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A titanium maker and its owner were charged with illegally storing more than 11 tons of corrosive hazardous waste, creating a mess that a prosecutor compared to a horror movie scene.
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ABC: 9/11 program criticism 'premature'
Sep 8 2006 11:31AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - ABC defended a miniseries on the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks after Clinton administration officials said it distorts history so drastically that it should be corrected or shelved.
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Florence to veer from U.S. to Bermuda
Sep 8 2006 10:44AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Florence, chugging through the open Atlantic, was expected to strengthen and veer toward Bermuda and away from the East Coast, forecasters said Friday.
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NYC still a terror target, police warn
Sep 8 2006 8:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Five years after the attack on the World Trade Center, Islamic extremists _ including members of Hezbollah _ still view the city as a prime target for another terrorist strike, police say.
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NASA attempts fix before Atlantis launch
Sep 8 2006 7:49AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A fuel sensor that has given NASA headaches in the past acted up Friday morning as space shuttle Atlantis' crew prepared for liftoff.
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9/11 artifacts await place in history
Sep 8 2006 6:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - There are no bodies here _ just rusting chunks of steel twisted like ribbons, crushed cars and burned-out elevator motors. Off a service road at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a hangar that once housed Tower Air is now a gigantic graveyard for what's left of the twin towers.
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Web site offers Pearl Harbor accounts
Sep 8 2006 5:03AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Ansil L. Saunders speaks carefully into the camera, describing the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he stood on the deck of a ship at the entry to Pearl Harbor.
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Phoenix suspect linked to 2 assaults
Sep 8 2006 4:48AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Three suspects have been arrested in crime sprees once thought to be the work of only two serial predators in the Phoenix area _ but even with the suspects in custody, police say one or more killers may remain on the streets.
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Company settles Katrina workers' suit
Sep 8 2006 3:56AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A construction company specializing in disaster recovery settled a lawsuit with migrant workers who were denied overtime even though they often worked long hours cleaning up wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina.
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States must find welfare recipients jobs
Sep 8 2006 2:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Welfare officials in Pennsylvania, California, Michigan have their work cut out for them when new rules take effect next month: find jobs for tens of thousands of people on welfare or risk losing millions in federal money.
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Katrina dampens interest in La. colleges
Sep 8 2006 1:50AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Elizabeth Brothers is 17 and looking for her dream college. Her search took her to devastated New Orleans. To college recruiters, the aspiring military officer from Midlothian, Va., was a welcome sight. Without a steady flow of students coming to poke around, New Orleans' long academic tradition could dim to a memory. Some of the city's premier colleges rely largely on tuition from out-of-state students.
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Manson follower Van Houten denied parole
Sep 8 2006 1:26AM (CT)
FRONTERA, Calif. (AP) - Leslie Van Houten, the former Charles Manson follower convicted of taking part in a murderous rampage that terrorized Los Angeles 37 years ago, was denied parole Thursday for a 16th time.
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Sheriff says Marine disappearance staged
Sep 8 2006 1:05AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Authorities who spent five days searching for a Marine after a friend reported him lost in a hiking accident have arrested the friend and said Thursday they believe the disappearance was staged, so the serviceman could avoid returning to duty.
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