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Former Selma Mayor Joe Smitherman dies
Sep 11 2005 11:19PM (CT)
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Former Selma Mayor Joe Smitherman, who held office for decades during the turbulent civil rights era, died Sunday. He was 75.
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Lights fall to floor during fashion show
Sep 11 2005 11:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A bank of lights fell to the floor during the finale of a fashion show Sunday, injuring a handful of editors who were in the front row. No one appeared to be seriously hurt.
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Hurricane Ophelia taunts coastal Carolinas
Sep 11 2005 10:53PM (CT)
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Hurricane Ophelia sat nearly stationary off the coast of the Carolinas on Sunday, taunting coastal residents made wary by the destruction that Katrina caused along the Gulf Coast.
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Hopelessness begins to lift in New Orleans
Sep 11 2005 10:40PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Workers here were picking up trash Sunday, a small miracle under the circumstances. The airport opened to cargo traffic. A bullhorn-wielding volunteer led relief workers in a chorus of "Amazing Grace."
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Dalai Lama urges victims for compassion
Sep 11 2005 10:06PM (CT)
HAILEY, Idaho (AP) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, urged victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina on Sunday to turn their tragedies into something that makes them stronger.
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Democrats rip Bush hurricane response
Sep 11 2005 9:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Louisiana's senior senator on Sunday escalated the Democrats' rhetoric against the Bush administration's hurricane response, accusing the White House of a "full court press" to blame state and local officials for the initial sluggish rescue effort.
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U.S. marks 9/11 with solemn remembrance
Sep 11 2005 9:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Weeping relatives marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack Sunday with prayers, solemn remembrances and heartfelt messages to their dead brothers and sisters at the site where the World Trade Center collapsed in a nightmarish cloud of dust and debris four years ago.
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Rescued dogs airlifted from Gulf Coast
Sep 11 2005 9:32PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The first major airlift of dogs from the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast left Louisiana on Sunday, carrying about 80 pets to new temporary homes in California.
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Arlington hosts somber 9/11 remembrances
Sep 11 2005 9:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Under a sky as cloudless blue as four years ago, throngs of people on Sunday sang "God Bless America" outside the Pentagon and marched in remembrance of the terrorist attacks and in tribute to troops fighting abroad.
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Soldier on leave from Iraq killed
Sep 11 2005 9:02PM (CT)
CENTRAL CITY, Pa. (AP) - A soldier home on leave from Iraq was electrocuted after stopping to help a motorist who hit a utility pole, state police said.
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Governor defends Louisiana's 'exit plan'
Sep 11 2005 8:59PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Louisiana had a "well thought-out exit plan" in the days before Hurricane Katrina, and many more lives would have been lost without it, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Sunday.
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Analysis: U.S. showing vulnerability
Sep 11 2005 8:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rarely in U.N. history has the United States, the organization's chief sponsor and host, looked as awkward or vulnerable to foreign eyes as it does now.
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Times-Picayune publishing despite Katrina
Sep 11 2005 7:46PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - It's hard to get a copy of hurricane editions of The Times-Picayune, which was chased out of New Orleans by flooding two weeks ago. Even the editors complain that they can't get their own newspaper in the temporary newsroom at an office complex in Baton Rouge, 75 miles from New Orleans.
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Relief workers make strides in New Orleans
Sep 11 2005 6:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Workers here were picking up trash Sunday, a small miracle under the circumstances. The airport opened to cargo traffic. A bullhorn-wielding volunteer led relief workers in a chorus of "Amazing Grace."
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Muslim groups help hurricane victims
Sep 11 2005 5:35PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - About 2,000 Muslim volunteers helped victims of Hurricane Katrina at the city's downtown convention center Sunday, the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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L.A., Australia threatened on terror tape
Sep 11 2005 5:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A tape delivered to ABC News in Pakistan this weekend features a masked man making terrorist threats against Los Angeles and Australia.
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Flight 93 heroes mourned in Pennsylvania
Sep 11 2005 5:20PM (CT)
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Volunteers on Sunday slowly read the names of each of the 40 passengers and crew aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 as peals from two bells marked the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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'Ragin' Cajun' general spurs Katrina aid
Sep 11 2005 5:09PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - To troops, he's the "Ragin' Cajun," an affable but demanding general barking orders to resuscitate a drowning city. To his country, he's an icon of leadership in a land hungry for a leader after a hurricane exposed the nation's vulnerability to disasters.
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Heating oil prices expected to surge
Sep 11 2005 3:41PM (CT)
AUBURN, Maine (AP) - Richard F. Smith tried to prepare for high heating oil prices: He applied for home heating assistance, he's ready to seal off three unused rooms, and he has insulated his cellar and electrical outlets.
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Coast Guard sees security duties expand
Sep 11 2005 3:01PM (CT)
ABOARD JAYHAWK 6028 (AP) - Petty Officer Wayne Weschrek thought he'd long ago put the dangerous stuff behind him. Yet here he was, aboard a Coast Guard helicopter hovering at 50 feet.
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Katrina may lead to Miss. casino debate
Sep 11 2005 1:18PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - State leaders expect Hurricane Katrina's devastation to Gulf Coast casinos to prompt a volatile debate: Whether to allow casinos on land rather than over water, where the threat of monster storms is a constant gamble.
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Katrina exodus could change political mix
Sep 11 2005 1:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Population shifts caused by the exodus of hurricane victims from the Gulf Coast could have ripple effects for years to come in Louisiana political races and perhaps beyond.
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N.Y. boy charged with murdering mother
Sep 11 2005 7:31AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Police charged a 15-year-old boy with second-degree murder in the death of his mother, whose body parts were found last month in a suitcase in a canal.
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Lawyer is fired after talking about Rove
Sep 11 2005 6:12AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A lawyer with the Texas secretary of state was fired after she spoke to a reporter about presidential adviser Karl Rove's eligibility to vote in the state.
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Souvenirs from Ambassador Hotel auctioned
Sep 11 2005 1:54AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from a hotel where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 were auctioned off Saturday as officials prepared to demolish most of the building to make room for new schools.
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Black college enrollment falls in Florida
Sep 11 2005 1:52AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - New figures show fewer black students are attending Florida universities, providing ammunition for critics of Gov. Jeb Bush's 5-year-old policy that excludes race in admissions decisions.
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Jet makes emergency landing in St. Louis
Sep 11 2005 1:50AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Northwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing Saturday because of mechanical trouble with an engine and the landing gear.
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Trial begins in case of hunters' shootings
Sep 11 2005 1:49AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) - A deer hunter went on a rampage last fall, killing six hunters and wounding two others, after he felt insulted, a prosecutor told jurors Saturday. The defense said Chai Soua Vang felt physically threatened by a group of white hunters who tormented him with racial slurs.
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Signs of life appearing in New Orleans
Sep 11 2005 1:46AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A woman waters her mint plants outside her house. A man rides his bicycle on a levee. A newspaper truck lumbers down the road, the passenger handing out papers. In this battered, flooded city, a few signs of normalcy have flickered defiantly in recent days.
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Aviation pioneer Jack Real dies at 90
Sep 11 2005 1:35AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Aviation pioneer Jack Real, who helped develop the Apache helicopter and authored a book on his friendship with reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, has died. He was 90.
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Biloxi port eases back into business
Sep 11 2005 1:18AM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The harbor showed signs of life Saturday as the Coast Guard allowed limited commercial traffic for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.
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