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World leaders OK document at U.N. summit
Sep 16 2005 11:16PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - History's largest gathering of world leaders fell far short Friday of completing the major changes U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought to fight poverty, terrorism and human rights abuses _ but the leaders took a first step.
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Prosecutors appeal Patriot Act gag ruling
Sep 16 2005 10:57PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Arguing that a terrorism investigation could be jeopardized, federal prosecutors on Friday appealed a judge's decision to lift a gag order on librarians who received an FBI demand for records about library patrons under the Patriot Act.
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Grandmother accused of looting released
Sep 16 2005 10:45PM (CT)
GRETNA, La. (AP) - A 73-year-old woman who was jailed for more than two weeks after authorities accused her of looting was released Friday evening.
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Judge blocks new anti-abortion law in Mo.
Sep 16 2005 10:44PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new state law further restricting abortions, saying it would have forced an end to the procedure in part of Missouri.
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Ind. time zone fight creates new problems
Sep 16 2005 10:42PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's decision this year to observe daylight-saving time statewide was supposed to end 30 years of clock-changing confusion. Instead, it sparked a battle that could create a state time zone system as puzzling as a Rubik's Cube.
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2 hikers attacked by Yellowstone grizzly
Sep 16 2005 10:40PM (CT)
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - A grizzly bear attacked two hikers in Yellowstone National Park, but the men escaped serious injury, the National Park Service said Thursday.
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Student arrested after pilot uniform found
Sep 16 2005 10:39PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A university student from Egypt was ordered held without bond after prosecutors said they found a pilot's uniform, chart of Memphis International Airport and a DVD titled "How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act" in his apartment.
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Hmong man found guilty in hunter deaths
Sep 16 2005 10:10PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) - A jury on Friday convicted an immigrant truck driver of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of six deer hunters during a confrontation over trespassing, rejecting his claims that he fired in self-defense.
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Curfew could cramp New Orleans' style
Sep 16 2005 10:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The nearly 200,000 residents returning to some of New Orleans' neighborhoods beginning next week will face military checkpoints, a lack of clean tap water and a dusk-to-dawn curfew that could keep the good times from rolling for a while.
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Son of Florida Gov. Bush arrested
Sep 16 2005 10:01PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said.
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Miss. governor urges talks on insurance
Sep 16 2005 9:53PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Republican Gov. Haley Barbour said Friday he preferred to negotiate with insurance companies to help homeowners who lacked flood insurance rebuild their property, saying a lawsuit could push the companies out of Mississippi.
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Police chief denies race role in blockade
Sep 16 2005 9:10PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The police chief in a New Orleans suburb is defending himself against accusations of racism for ordering the blockade of a bridge and turning back desperate hurricane refugees.
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Ill. governor denies wrongdoing
Sep 16 2005 8:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted Friday that he is not connected to corruption at a teachers pension fund and that he does not tolerate misconduct by anyone who works for him.
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N.M. treasurer, ex-treasurer arrested
Sep 16 2005 6:55PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's state treasurer and his predecessor were charged Friday with racketeering, accused of taking about $700,000 in kickbacks from investment advisers.
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U.N. to get back sensitive documents
Sep 16 2005 5:44PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations will get back thousands of pages of sensitive documents that an investigator took when he quit the U.N. oil-for-food inquiry _ but only after Congress completes its own examinations of the humanitarian program, officials said.
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Md. man accused in 'jihad network' probe
Sep 16 2005 5:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Maryland man was charged with conspiracy to help a terrorist organization, part of an investigation of the "Virginia jihad network" that has so far resulted in 10 convictions, U.S. law enforcement officials said Friday.
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Colo. man investigated for gator tale
Sep 16 2005 5:13PM (CT)
ALAMOSA, Colo. (AP) - Police are investigating a Colorado man who has acknowledged calling media outlets to report that a 7-foot alligator had been captured from a Los Angeles lake _ a report that turned out to be wrong.
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Cattleman acquitted in neighbor's murder
Sep 16 2005 4:06PM (CT)
BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) - A cattleman was acquitted of murder Friday after telling jurors he was defending himself from a neighbor who came after him with a stick in the climax of a 19-year feud.
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Feds to retry Miss. lawyer, ex-judges
Sep 16 2005 3:47PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Federal prosecutors will retry an attorney and two former judges on bribery charges, officials said Friday.
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Romney stands by mosque comments
Sep 16 2005 3:43PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Muslim groups and civil libertarians demanded an apology from Gov. Mitt Romney on Friday for his comments about wiretapping mosques and monitoring foreign students. But the governor refused, saying he was only advocating for improved homeland security.
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Poll: Public feeling fuel prices' effects
Sep 16 2005 3:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Diane Utecht of Wisconsin plans to close off most of her house this winter to reduce her heating bill. Elaine Hobbs' husband recently canceled a trip from their home in Rochester, N.Y., to Baltimore to see his daughter on her birthday because gas prices were too high.
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Corruption a worry as Katrina aid flows
Sep 16 2005 3:29PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The sudden flow of billions of dollars in hurricane relief aid into New Orleans has raised fears that some of it is going to be lost to graft and sticky fingers in a state with a long and rich history of corruption.
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Exec pleads guilty to Chicago payoffs
Sep 16 2005 2:19PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former landscaping company executive admitted paying off a city official with gifts _ including a trip to a Wisconsin resort and a computer for her child _ in return for $1.3 million worth of contracts at the city's new Millennium Park.
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Tenn. AG rejects call for election probe
Sep 16 2005 1:54PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee attorney general rejected a request from Republicans on Friday to investigate a Democratic candidate's 12-vote victory for a state Senate seat vacated by John Ford.
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2 terror suspects ordered kept in solitary
Sep 16 2005 1:38PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Two men awaiting trial on charges of recruiting soldiers for worldwide radical Islamic holy war were ordered Friday to remain in solitary confinement after prosecutors said they could continue spreading Muslim extremism if allowed into the regular jail population.
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Explosion at Tenn. high school injures 15
Sep 16 2005 1:27PM (CT)
CORNERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A water heater exploded in a school cafeteria Friday, critically injuring one worker and sending at least 13 students and a faculty member to a hospital.
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Gun sales surge in La. following storm
Sep 16 2005 1:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People in Louisiana rushed to purchase guns in the chaotic days of looting and lawlessness following Hurricane Katrina, according to law enforcement officials still trying to track down thousands of other weapons that were lost or stolen.
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Fight brewing in Oregon over spending caps
Sep 16 2005 1:16PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon is becoming the next battleground in a spreading fight between anti-tax activists who want to cap government spending and their opponents, who say such a move would put schools and important social services at risk.
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Inaccurate work order blamed for LA outage
Sep 16 2005 12:43PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An inaccurate work order led to the power outage that shut down elevators, traffic lights and ATMs across much of the city earlier this week, the Department of Water and Power said.
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Drug evidence allowed in kidnapping case
Sep 16 2005 12:31PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors pursuing a drug case against a man later accused of kidnapping and killing an 11-year-old girl can use paraphernalia found in his car as evidence, a judge ruled.
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Administrator accused of buying own books
Sep 16 2005 12:27PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former education official was accused in a lawsuit of using his post to secretly buy almost 46,000 textbooks and other teaching aids he himself had written, bringing him nearly $1 million in royalties.
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Chrysler recalling Jeep Grand Cherokees
Sep 16 2005 12:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group said Friday it would recall more than 100,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicles because water contamination of the transmission fluid could lead to fires under the hood.
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Columnist fired for misleading sources
Sep 16 2005 11:45AM (CT)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - A student journalist accused of misleading those she interviewed for an inflammatory column about racial profiling of Arabs has been fired, the editor said.
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NYC voters sue to block costly runoff
Sep 16 2005 10:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two Democratic lawyers sued Friday to stop the city from conducting an expensive runoff election in their party's mayoral primary, arguing that the race is uncontested because the second-place finisher agreed to drop out.
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New Orleans cops soldier on despite losses
Sep 16 2005 10:54AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police are used to long hours and big events. They handle the million-plus crowd at Mardi Gras and are unfazed by Super Bowls, Sugar Bowls, Final Fours, political conventions and the everyday throng of tourists _ many of whom come to New Orleans and immediately cast caution aside.
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Fugitive surrenders on 1993 Vegas charges
Sep 16 2005 9:07AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - After more than a decade on the run, a woman accused in a multimillion-dollar armored car heist on the Las Vegas Strip has surrendered to federal authorities.
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Katrina may affect U.S. aid abroad
Sep 16 2005 8:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The top U.S. aid official cautioned that the cost of Hurricane Katrina could come at the expense of some overseas assistance.
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Poll: 43 pct. of evacuees want to go home
Sep 16 2005 8:15AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer than half of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in shelters in the Houston area want to go home again, according to a poll by The Washington Post and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Mom in caged kids case complained of spouse
Sep 16 2005 6:31AM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - The adoptive mother of a group of children who were confined in cages at night accused her husband four years ago of being a danger to the family.
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Katrina called most destructive U.S. storm
Sep 16 2005 6:29AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Katrina has become the most destructive such storm ever to strike the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.
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Tests find high mercury levels in fish
Sep 16 2005 6:28AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Store-bought swordfish contained mercury levels above the legal limit in a study released Thursday by environmental groups.
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Man must support his two in vitro children
Sep 16 2005 6:18AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A married man who conceived two children with his mistress through in vitro fertilization is the legal father of both and must pay child support, the state Supreme Court has ruled, overturning an appellate court decision that the man was merely a sperm donor.
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World still split over U.N. Council reform
Sep 16 2005 5:39AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The 35-page final document that world leaders were set to adopt at the end of a U.N. summit devotes just one paragraph to the issue that consumed the 191 U.N. member states for months but proved so divisive that it had to be shelved: expanding the powerful Security Council.
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Schwarzenegger may declare re-election bid
Sep 16 2005 5:07AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two Democrats have started their runs for governor and a few liberal film luminaries are rumored as candidates in next year's race _ but the Hollywood star already in the office has yet to declare his intentions.
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Katrina victims getting international aid
Sep 16 2005 2:05AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - The Little Rock Air Force Base has become the U.S. clearinghouse for an extraordinary international outpouring of relief supplies for Hurricane Katrina's victims.
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