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New Orleans air found not overly polluted
Sep 14 2005 11:52PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The putrid air rising from New Orleans' slowly receding floodwaters was found Wednesday not to be overly polluted, encouraging news for a mayor weighing the reopening of the French Quarter and other dry parts of the city.
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Ophelia lashes N.C. with winds, rains
Sep 14 2005 11:50PM (CT)
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (AP) - Hurricane Ophelia lashed the North Carolina coast with high winds and heavy rains Wednesday, beginning an anticipated two-day assault that threatened serious flooding and an 11-foot storm surge.
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La. governor takes blame for response
Sep 14 2005 11:09PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Echoing the words of President Bush a day earlier, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco took responsibility Wednesday for failures and missteps in the immediate response to Hurricane Katrina and pledged a united effort to rebuild areas ravaged by the storm.
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Mass. lawmakers reject gay marriage ban
Sep 14 2005 10:56PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Legislature rejected a proposed change to the state constitution Wednesday aimed at banning gay marriage, a striking reversal that preserves the state's status as the only place in the nation where same-sex couples can wed.
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Poll: Rebuilding New Orleans high priority
Sep 14 2005 10:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans say rebuilding New Orleans is more important to them than cutting taxes or changing Social Security, a poll found. Cutting taxes and changing Social Security were both priorities of the Bush administration before the storm.
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Town officials who sold cannon lose vote
Sep 14 2005 10:27PM (CT)
KENDALL, N.Y. (AP) - The town board's hush-hush sale of a Civil War cannon to a private collector in Pennsylvania has backfired at the polls.
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Texas county bans parking near Bush ranch
Sep 14 2005 10:11PM (CT)
WACO, Texas (AP) - Two weeks after Cindy Sheehan left her anti-war campsite by the road leading to President Bush's ranch, county commissioners have banned parking along 23 miles of roads in the area.
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Annan seeks to restore U.N. credibility
Sep 14 2005 10:01PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - After a year of mounting criticism, Secretary-General Kofi Annan defended the United Nations on Wednesday and urged global leaders to restore the organization's credibility by adopting broad reforms needed for the world to act together to tackle poverty, terrorism and conflict.
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Grandma fired for missing work to babysit
Sep 14 2005 9:58PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - When forced to decide between caring for her 18-month-old granddaughter whose parents were stranded in New Orleans or leaving the girl with strangers so she could show up for her assembly line job, Barbara Roberts chose to be a grandma. And for that, she was fired.
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Judge declares Mich. abortion law illegal
Sep 14 2005 9:57PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge has declared unconstitutional a Michigan law that supporters said would ban a late-term abortion procedure.
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Judge: School pledge is unconstitutional
Sep 14 2005 9:55PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional Wednesday, a decision that could put the divisive issue on track for another round of Supreme Court arguments.
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Woman executed for Texas family slayings
Sep 14 2005 9:52PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Frances Newton was executed Wednesday for the fatal shootings of her husband and two children 18 years ago, becoming the third woman, and first black woman, to be put to death in the state since executions resumed in 1982.
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Screening said lax in disabled adoptions
Sep 14 2005 9:43PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - The case of 11 adopted children who were living in one home, some sleeping in cages, highlights the risk of easing up on screening for special needs children who can be difficult to place, adoption experts say.
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Pakistan, Sharon shake hands at U.N.
Sep 14 2005 9:41PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shook hands at a reception just before the start of the United Nations summit Wednesday.
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Miss. to offer evacuees room on ship
Sep 14 2005 8:55PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour, frustrated by delays in finding housing for hurricane survivors, said Wednesday that Mississippi officials would offer some evacuees room aboard a small cruise ship moored off the Gulf coast.
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Chicago calls for troops to leave Iraq
Sep 14 2005 8:51PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago on Wednesday became the nation's largest city to urge the Bush administration to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq at once.
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Bulb malfunction sends 18 to hospital
Sep 14 2005 8:42PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) - A malfunctioning light bulb in a school gym exposed more than 100 people to short-wave radiation for an hour, sending 18 to the hospital with severe sunburns and swollen eyes.
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Group claims Iraq media deaths not probed
Sep 14 2005 8:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A journalists' group said Wednesday that the U.S. military hasn't fully investigated the killing of members of the media by American troops in Iraq.
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Architect offers changes to 9/11 memorial
Sep 14 2005 7:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The architect of the memorial to a plane downed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, said Wednesday he would work to satisfy critics who complained that it honors terrorists with its crescent-shaped design.
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Plan to blow up Rudolph truck upsets some
Sep 14 2005 7:45PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The government wants to blow up the truck Eric Rudolph was driving when he bombed an Alabama abortion clinic, a plan that has upset some of Rudolph's victims.
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Can U.N. meet high ideals of its founding?
Sep 14 2005 7:42PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - This week's summit marking the 60-year anniversary of the United Nations exposed a problem that's only gotten worse as the world body has aged and expanded to 191 members: Narrow national interests often stall U.N. reform and prevent action in times of crisis.
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Woman executed for Texas family slayings
Sep 14 2005 6:47PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Frances Newton was executed Wednesday for the fatal shootings of her husband and two children 18 years ago, becoming the third woman, and first black woman, to be put to death in the state since executions resumed in 1982.
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AP Intervew: Sudan warns on hunger crisis
Sep 14 2005 6:37PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sudan's foreign minister said Wednesday that the West is ignoring a new hunger crisis in eastern Sudan, complaining that he expected no action until it becomes a full-blown conflict with people dying and refugees fleeing.
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Ky. governor fires nine in administration
Sep 14 2005 6:36PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Ernie Fletcher on Wednesday fired nine members of his administration in a scandal over hiring practices and apologized to people hurt by hiring errors.
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U.N. summit turns NYC into gridlock city
Sep 14 2005 6:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - While world leaders were gridlocked on charting a new course for the United Nations, New Yorkers faced a different kind of jam Wednesday: a traffic nightmare from what was billed as the largest gathering of its kind.
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Developing nations call for more aid
Sep 14 2005 6:19PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Leaders of developing nations called Wednesday for more foreign aid and freer trade to help poor countries develop, warning at a U.N. summit that chronic poverty could fuel regional conflict.
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New Orleans air found not overly polluted
Sep 14 2005 6:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The putrid air rising from New Orleans' slowly receding floodwaters was found Wednesday not to be overly polluted, encouraging news for a mayor weighing the reopening of the French Quarter and other dry parts of the city.
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Lawsuits, charges sure to follow Katrina
Sep 14 2005 5:33PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The arrest of two nursing-home owners in the deaths of 34 elderly patients could be just the beginning of an effort by prosecutors and plaintiffs' attorneys to assign blame and hold accountable those responsible for some of the lives lost in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.
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Two commit suicide, 55 other evacuees die
Sep 14 2005 5:30PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - At least two of the Katrina refugees scattered around the country have committed suicide, and 55 others have died as well, most of them sick and elderly people whose conditions may have been worsened by their stress, authorities said Wednesday.
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National maritime union leaders indicted
Sep 14 2005 4:40PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The president of a national union of merchant fleet officers, his brother and two other officials were indicted on federal charges of election-rigging, embezzlement and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Fla. couple gets 15 years in abuse case
Sep 14 2005 4:34PM (CT)
INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) - A couple accused of starving and torturing five of their seven adopted children, including yanking out toenails with pliers, pleaded no contest to aggravated child abuse Wednesday.
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World leaders sign nuke terrorism treaty
Sep 14 2005 4:01PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - World leaders began signing a global treaty Wednesday making it a crime to possess radioactive material or weapons with the intention of committing a terrorist act or to damage a nuclear facility.
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Major quake could be worse than Katrina
Sep 14 2005 3:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - As many as 18,000 people dead. More than $250 billion in damages. Hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. That's not the latest estimate of Hurricane Katrina's toll on the Gulf Coast. That's a worst-case scenario if a major earthquake were to hit Los Angeles.
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Katrina threatens to wipe out shrimpers
Sep 14 2005 2:42PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Hanh Luong has no home and no cash. The only thing he has left, and his only hope for the future, is the Santa Maria, a battered 98-foot fishing boat he worked years to buy.
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Mail service returning in hurricane area
Sep 14 2005 2:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Full mail service has resumed in more than 80 percent of the post offices affected by Hurricane Katrina, Postmaster General John Potter said Wednesday.
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Colorado chess teacher, author arrested
Sep 14 2005 2:16PM (CT)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - The author of the "Chess for Juniors" series of books and founder of a club of the same name has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual assault, police said.
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Kids sell lemonade to help Katrina victims
Sep 14 2005 2:06PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - They were only 6 years old when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Yet the events of Sept. 11, 2001, are as vivid in their minds as they are for most Americans.
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No new trial for woman who ran over spouse
Sep 14 2005 1:17PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' highest criminal appeals court on Wednesday refused to consider the case of a woman convicted of killing her cheating husband by hitting him with her car outside a hotel where she found him with his mistress.
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Displaced students stabbed in Boston
Sep 14 2005 1:10PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Two Loyola University students attending classes at Boston College after their school was shut down by Hurricane Katrina were stabbed on a Boston street early Wednesday morning.
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Mass. GOP official resigns after charges
Sep 14 2005 12:45PM (CT)
BOSTON, Mass. (AP) - The vice chairman of the state Republican Party resigned after a federal sting led to money-laundering charges accusing him of offering to "cleanse" drug proceeds for a legal client.
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Head of Gates Foundation program resigns
Sep 14 2005 11:13AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Dr. Richard D. Klausner, the subject of a long-running congressional conflict-of-interest probe into a federal contract with Harvard University, is leaving as head of the Gates Foundation's Global Health program, officials said.
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Accusations traded over L.A. blackout
Sep 14 2005 10:16AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - City officials and union leaders traded accusations over who is to blame for the power outage that shut down elevators, traffic lights and ATMs across much of Los Angeles earlier this week.
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Katrina victims pile up credit card debt
Sep 14 2005 9:53AM (CT)
PLANO, Texas (AP) - Jerry and Deborah Alciatore fled New Orleans with nothing but a couple of overnight bags, an ice chest and their credit cards. The bags emptied quickly, but two weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit, the balance on the credit cards is mounting fast.
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Pa. city battled floods 116 years ago
Sep 14 2005 9:41AM (CT)
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - As it rumbled toward the city, the 35-foot wave of rain-swollen water churned over and onto itself like a giant snowball, swallowing trees, boulders, homes and anything else in its path.
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Colleges open doors for displaced students
Sep 14 2005 8:48AM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Luke Harris' undergraduate career at Tulane University lasted all of five hours. Hurricane Katrina forced him to abandon his belongings and evacuate New Orleans during his first day at the school two weeks ago. He now finds himself at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology _ a school that previously rejected him.
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Air Force test launches unarmed missile
Sep 14 2005 8:31AM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday in the fourth and final test of the year, officials said.
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Kenyan, 85, gets first chance at school
Sep 14 2005 8:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Kimani Ng'ang'a waited more than eight decades for his first day of school. Now the Kenyan villager wants to make sure nobody else has to wait that long.
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Ex-shuttle chief to lead Ark. space center
Sep 14 2005 8:25AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The ex-Marine who directed NASA's shuttle program following the Columbia disaster is returning to Mississippi as director of Stennis Space Center, the space agency said Tuesday.
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Truck spills load of $800,000 in quarters
Sep 14 2005 8:22AM (CT)
HAMMONDVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A truck carrying tons of quarters caught fire Tuesday and spilled most of them on a highway, where workers used heavy equipment, shovels and buckets to scoop up the singed coins.
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Judge ends Seattle ban on new strip clubs
Sep 14 2005 5:49AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The city's 17-year moratorium on new strip clubs is an unconstitutional restraint on free speech and can no longer be enforced, a judge has ruled.
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Handyman testifies in Robert Blake case
Sep 14 2005 2:11AM (CT)
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Robert Blake's slain wife feared someone wanted to kill her, the actor's handyman testified in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the woman's family.
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