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Patricia Kennedy Lawford dies at 82
Sep 17 2006 11:56PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of actor Peter Lawford, died at her New York home of complications of pneumonia on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. She was 82.
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Firefighters lose ground against blaze
Sep 17 2006 11:42PM (CT)
OJAI, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters lost ground Sunday against a large blaze in a national forest as gusty winds fanned the flames, shutting down highways and prompting officials to urge evacuations.
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Worldwide protests of Darfur violence
Sep 17 2006 11:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - People rallied in cities across the world Sunday to protest the violence in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, and urge world leaders to intervene to resolve the conflict.
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Number of E. coli cases rises to 109
Sep 17 2006 11:21PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The number of people sickened by an E. coli outbreak traced to tainted spinach rose to 109 on Sunday, as federal officials announced more brands recalling their products.
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Warner to send videos through YouTube
Sep 17 2006 11:05PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry's migration to the Internet.
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Report: Few inspections since L.A. quake
Sep 17 2006 10:55PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than 80 percent of the city's steel-framed high rise buildings have not been inspected for possible damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and officials said they fear the extent of any problems may not be known until the next big quake hits.
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Car speeds off lift bridge, killing 2
Sep 17 2006 10:41PM (CT)
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) - A car with failed brakes plunged off an opened lift bridge Sunday and into a river, killing two women, authorities said.
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Tewa linguist Esther Martinez dies at 94
Sep 17 2006 10:35PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Esther Martinez, a Tewa storyteller and linguist who worked to preserve her native tongue, was killed in a traffic accident on her way home from accepting the nation's highest honor for folk artists, her grandson said Sunday. She was 94.
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5 Duquesne basketball players shot
Sep 17 2006 10:29PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Five Duquesne basketball players were shot on campus early Sunday, leaving at least one critically injured, after some of them tried to calm a man who apparently had been disruptive at a dance, officials said.
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Athletes swim leg of elephant's feat
Sep 17 2006 10:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two dozen athletes have followed in the massive footsteps of an escaped circus elephant by putting on their trunks and retracing the bizarre swim it took more than 100 years ago.
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Helene becomes Category 3 hurricane
Sep 17 2006 10:25PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Helene strengthened Sunday into a Category 3 storm in the open Atlantic, becoming the second major hurricane of the 2006 season, forecasters said.
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Vatican raps married African archbishop
Sep 17 2006 10:15PM (CT)
SADDLE BROOK, N.J. (AP) - An African archbishop who scandalized the Roman Catholic Church when he was married by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon said Sunday that a top Vatican official has demanded he repent or his authority to celebrate Mass and perform other duties will be suspended.
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Man charged after text message escape
Sep 17 2006 9:51PM (CT)
LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) - A man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and keeping her in an underground bunker was charged Sunday with raping the teen, Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill said.
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Human error blamed for 2 preemie deaths
Sep 17 2006 9:11PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two premature infants died after receiving adult doses of a blood thinner, a hospital said Sunday, blaming the incident on human error.
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Abducted baby's mom leaves Mo. hospital
Sep 17 2006 9:11PM (CT)
ST. CLAIR, Mo. (AP) - A mother whose throat was slashed and newborn baby kidnapped was released from the hospital Sunday as authorities said they found a knife on property near her home.
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5 believed dead in Kansas house fire
Sep 17 2006 9:08PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Fire engulfed a house early Sunday, killing a 66-year-old man and a toddler and leaving rescuers searching for the remains of three children, authorities said.
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32 mayors discuss global warming
Sep 17 2006 8:53PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Mayors from 32 U.S cities were urged Saturday to be leaders in slowing global warming by taking steps in their communities.
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Report: Ex-aide blasts McGreevey book
Sep 17 2006 8:43PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The former aide that James McGreevey says he had an affair with denies stories in the ex-governor's tell-all book that they had sex, saying he felt sexually harassed on several occasions, according to newspaper reports.
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Separated twins released from hospital
Sep 17 2006 7:49PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Twin 4-year-old girls who were born fused at the mid-torso were released from a hospital Sunday, six weeks after separation surgery.
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Record low turnout in N.Y. GOP primary
Sep 17 2006 7:44PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Voter turnout for last week's Republican primary to choose a challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was just 5.6 percent, the lowest level ever recorded, election officials said.
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Separated twins released from hospital
Sep 17 2006 7:33PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Twin 4-year-old girls who were born fused at the mid-torso were released from a hospital Sunday, six weeks after separation surgery.
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Worldwide protests violence in Darfur
Sep 17 2006 7:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities across the world Sunday to protest the violence in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, and urge world leaders to intervene to resolve the conflict.
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Girl dies, homes damaged in Minn. storm
Sep 17 2006 5:56PM (CT)
ROGERS, Minn. (AP) - A tornado swept through this Minnesota town, killing a 10-year-old girl, damaging hundreds of homes and scattering debris across the city, officials said Sunday.
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Senate candidates spar over terror plan
Sep 17 2006 4:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb said Sunday that President Bush's terror-detainee legislation would weaken the Geneva Conventions and potentially subject captured U.S. soldiers to torture.
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Archbishop Tutu: Teens must change world
Sep 17 2006 4:31PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu looked across a sea of cheering teenagers from around the globe Sunday, saying they not only can change the world, but they must.
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Report: Big Dig designers wanted 4 bolts
Sep 17 2006 3:09PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Big Dig project managers persuaded the designer of the Interstate 90 connector tunnel ceiling to reduce by half the number of bolts supporting each ceiling hanger, The Boston Sunday Globe reported.
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Tenn. prisoner set for electrocution
Sep 17 2006 1:24PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - If confessed murderer Daryl Keith Holton gets his way, on Tuesday he will become the first prisoner to die in Tennessee's electric chair in 46 years.
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Campaign stunts add spice to elections
Sep 17 2006 12:52PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Otis Hensley had to duck to avoid tree branches as he rode a 12-foot-tall Fiberglas bull around the state Capitol.
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'Veggie U' teaches kids healthy eating
Sep 17 2006 12:17PM (CT)
MILAN, Ohio (AP) - Bobby Jones hopped off his John Deere tractor and herded a dozen children over to a row of cherry tomato plants.
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Race for U.N. chief an inexact procedure
Sep 17 2006 11:42AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The 15 ambassadors took their seats around the U.N. Security Council's horseshoe table and filled in their ballot sheets with choices on the somewhat inexact scale of one to three _ "encourage," "discourage," "no opinion."
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Hip ailment can cause limping in kids
Sep 17 2006 11:04AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Ryan Miller was a healthy 4-year-old when he woke up one day in his San Francisco-area home and inexplicably started limping.
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Half of Freedom Tower to be rented out
Sep 17 2006 6:26AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal and state officials have agreed to rent half of the Freedom Tower when it opens in about five years at the World Trade Center site _ sealing one part of an elaborate deal that would, if finalized, divide control of what to build there.
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Women to fly GIs home before Iraq duty
Sep 17 2006 5:11AM (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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Ann Richards to lie in state Sunday
Sep 17 2006 3:17AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former President Clinton delivered poignant and at times funny recollections of former Gov. Ann Richards, a woman he called "spontaneous, unedited, earthy, hilarious."
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Mom: Teen accused in school plot bullied
Sep 17 2006 2:27AM (CT)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - The mother of a teenager arrested in a foiled Columbine-style plot to bomb and shoot students at a high school said the boys were victims of bullying and harassment at school.
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Philippines president honors war vets
Sep 17 2006 1:07AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo dedicated a plaque here in memory of Filipino and American soldiers who died fighting side-by-side in wars of the Pacific.
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