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Family begs attacker to return Mo. baby
Sep 16 2006 11:43PM (CT)
UNION, Mo. (AP) - A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child.
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Teen rescued after sending text message
Sep 16 2006 10:44PM (CT)
LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) - A text message sent by a kidnapped 14-year-old to her mother led to her rescue Saturday, when police found her in a hand-dug, booby-trapped bunker.
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San Francisco Opera loses music director
Sep 16 2006 10:41PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco Opera will not extend the tenure of music director Donald Runnicles when his contract expires in 2009.
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Painted elephant causes stir in L.A.
Sep 16 2006 10:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A city agency that allowed a spray-painted elephant to appear at an art exhibit is now saying it will not issue permits for such events in the future.
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Women to fly GIs home before Iraq duty
Sep 16 2006 10:32PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Amanda Tyrell thought she wouldn't see her husband for a year and a half when he left in July for training and then military service in Iraq. But she'll get to see him one more time Sunday before he eventually departs to Iraq. She and other wives raised money to pay to fly some 74 Vermont National Guard members home for a visit.
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Hurricane Helene forms in open Atlantic
Sep 16 2006 10:20PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Helene formed Saturday in the open Atlantic, while a weakened Hurricane Gordon drifted slowly, also hundreds of miles from land, forecasters said.
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Md. Rep. fires staffer over race comment
Sep 16 2006 10:16PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Rep. Benjamin Cardin has fired a campaign staffer who posted racially charged comments against his opponent on the Internet, the congressman's campaign said Saturday.
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Shoppers adapt to spinach recall
Sep 16 2006 10:08PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Shoppers changed their buying habits Saturday as spinach was pulled from grocery store shelves because of the outbreak of E. coli bacteria that had killed one person and sickened more than 100 others.
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Paper: Scientists get fewer CDC bonuses
Sep 16 2006 10:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who get bonuses most frequently are not scientists, but instead are accountants, budget analysts, computer experts and other administrative managers, according to a published report Sunday.
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Tearful Clinton shares Richards memories
Sep 16 2006 9:56PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former President Clinton tearfully escorted a flag-draped casket Saturday carrying former Gov. Ann Richards into the state Capitol, where she will spend the next two days lying in state before her funeral and burial.
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Big turnout for S.D. Vietnam memorial
Sep 16 2006 9:54PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota owes its Vietnam War veterans a belated thanks for their service and sacrifice, Gov. Mike Rounds said Saturday at a ceremony attended by an estimated 32,000 people in this capital city of 14,000.
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Dalai Lama urges teens to practice peace
Sep 16 2006 9:42PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Dalai Lama urged thousands of teenagers at a world peace conference Saturday to keep open hearts, practice peace in their daily lives and accept people from all countries as neighbors and collaborators, not rivals.
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3rd arrest made in Columbine-style plot
Sep 16 2006 9:33PM (CT)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Police have arrested a third person in a foiled Columbine-style plan to bomb and shoot students at a high school, investigators said Saturday.
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Guard to stay in New Orleans through '06
Sep 16 2006 9:31PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - National Guard troops and state police will patrol the city through December, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday at a summit of law enforcement officials and crime experts called to address a spate of killings marring the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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Wind complicates Calif. fire fighting
Sep 16 2006 9:00PM (CT)
CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters battled high winds and low humidity Saturday as they tried to keep a fire that has already scorched nearly 48 square miles of dry brush and timber from jumping a major highway and threatening homes.
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Stars show at 'All the King's Men' debut
Sep 16 2006 8:37PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of screaming fans on Saturday greeted stars Sean Penn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet at the city's debut of "All the King's Men," much of which was filmed here just months before Hurricane Katrina struck.
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Earthbound Farm scrutinized over spinach
Sep 16 2006 8:01PM (CT)
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. (AP) - Earthbound Farm, the country's largest grower of organic produce, is facing unwelcome scrutiny after federal officials linked a nationwide E. coli outbreak to its bagged spinach.
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HP spokesman among targeted during probe
Sep 16 2006 7:18PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Hewlett-Packard Co. officials said Saturday that the company improperly accessed phone records of a corporate spokesman during its investigation into unauthorized leaks to the press.
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Body washes up near 'CSI' set
Sep 16 2006 6:48PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A man's body floated up near where a crew was filming a scene for the crime show "CSI: Miami," authorities said.
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Annan reverses course on disclosure form
Sep 16 2006 6:20PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan reversed course Saturday and decided to fill out a newly minted U.N. financial disclosure form, just two days after his refusal became public.
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Ford's plan fails to wow Wall Street
Sep 16 2006 4:23PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - When General Motors Corp. announced a radical plan to cut its huge unionized work force with early retirement and buyout offers last March, its stock went up 1 cent.
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Ford's plan fails to wow Wall Street
Sep 16 2006 4:17PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - When General Motors Corp. announced a radical plan to cut its huge unionized work force with early retirement and buyout offers last March, its stock went up 1 cent.
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IRS investigating liberal Calif. church
Sep 16 2006 2:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service has ordered a prominent liberal church to turn over documents and e-mails it produced during the 2004 election year that contain references to political candidates.
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Police: Strangled 'intruder' a hit man
Sep 16 2006 2:07PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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Las Cruces cops warn of shooting threat
Sep 16 2006 2:06PM (CT)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Police warned Las Cruces residents that they've received two letters threatening random shootings if city leaders fail to hand over a "substantial" ransom.
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Murder verdict sought in fatal car wreck
Sep 16 2006 12:52PM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - His blood-alcohol level was sky high, prosecutors say, when Martin Heidgen climbed into his pickup, drove the wrong way down a highway and plowed into a wedding limousine.
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6-car pileup kills 4 on Texas highway
Sep 16 2006 11:33AM (CT)
BRYAN, Texas (AP) - Six vehicles piled up and two of them caught fire after a tractor-trailer rig jackknifed, killing four people, authorities said.
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Man wanted in boy's slaying found dead
Sep 16 2006 9:47AM (CT)
GALENA, Ill. (AP) - The body of a man wanted in the slaying of his 8-year-old adopted son was found early Saturday on a farm in western Illinois, ending a three-state manhunt, police said.
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Astronauts allowed extra hour of sleep
Sep 16 2006 9:09AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The crew of space shuttle Atlantis got to sleep in Saturday and take a half day off after three arduous and successful spacewalks and a jam-packed week in orbit.
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Charges dropped in Wis. necrophilia case
Sep 16 2006 6:24AM (CT)
LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) - A judge on Friday dismissed charges of attempted sexual assault against three men accused of trying to dig up a woman's body to have sex with the corpse, noting that Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia.
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Priests hear victims' tales of abuse
Sep 16 2006 3:13AM (CT)
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (AP) - Monsignor David Benz listened in anguish as a woman described how a parish priest sexually abused her two sons with the same hands he used to consecrate the body and blood of Christ. The woman's tale came in a meeting called by Cardinal Justin Rigali, who summoned hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese to hear from the victims of clergy sex abuse.
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No verdict in Aryan Brotherhood trial
Sep 16 2006 2:51AM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - For six months, two notorious Aryan Brotherhood kingpins sat before a jury that held the power to sentence them to death. The jury had convicted Barry "The Baron" Mills and Tyler "The Hulk" Bingham of murder, racketeering and conspiracy in July. But when it came time to impose a sentence they could not reach a verdict. Jurors said Friday they were deadlocked and Mills and Bingham will now serve life in prison.
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British school opens in Manhattan
Sep 16 2006 2:45AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The British are coming, the British are coming _ to a new school in Manhattan. About 50 grade-school students arrived this week for classes at the British International School of New York, the city's only school centered on Britain's national curriculum.
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Fort Lewis war objector faces new charge
Sep 16 2006 12:34AM (CT)
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - The Army added another charge against a lieutenant who refused to serve in Iraq because he believes the war is illegal, but did not say if the case will proceed to a court martial.
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School bus flips in Mississippi
Sep 16 2006 12:07AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A bus carrying 26 members of a high school band flipped Friday night en route to a football game in northern Mississippi, sending several students to area hospitals, officials and witnesses said.
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