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Toxic train derailment in Texas
Sep 19 2006 11:47PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - A train derailed and spilled a hazardous liquid Tuesday night, prompting about half the population of Crawford to temporarily evacuate, officials said.
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Astronauts inspect shuttle heat shield
Sep 19 2006 11:42PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Astronauts started giving the space shuttle Atlantis a thorough once-over Wednesday to see if the heat shield was damaged when a mystery object floated off the orbiter.
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Deal reached in LA homeless camping case
Sep 19 2006 11:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The city and the American Civil Liberties Union have reached a compromise to settle a lawsuit that has blocked police from arresting homeless people who camp on public sidewalks.
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Wash. state seeks toxic-spill fine
Sep 19 2006 11:38PM (CT)
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - Washington state on Tuesday requested that the Energy Department pay a fine for leaking a highly toxic and potentially cancer-causing agent into the ground at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
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New York safest big city in 2005
Sep 19 2006 11:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York was the safest of the nation's 10 largest cities in 2005, with about one crime reported for every 37 residents, according to an Associated Press analysis of FBI statistics.
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Abducted newborn found; Woman arrested
Sep 19 2006 11:31PM (CT)
UNION, Mo. (AP) - A newborn abducted after her mother was slashed was found alive Tuesday in excellent condition, and a woman who had recently miscarried was arrested, officials said.
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Cantor gets probation in assault case
Sep 19 2006 11:19PM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The former cantor of a prominent New York synagogue was placed on probation in connection with accusations of sexual assaults on a young boy during the 1990s in Lower Merion Township.
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Patrick wins Mass. Democratic primary
Sep 19 2006 11:04PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Deval Patrick, a Democrat making his first run for elective office and a bid to become the state's first black governor, beat two opponents in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary to win a place in November's general election.
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Former Ind. Teamsters boss arrested
Sep 19 2006 10:57PM (CT)
ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - A former state Teamsters boss was among more than two dozen people arrested in a raid on a suspected multi-county video gambling operation, authorities said.
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NY state police union criticizes manhunt
Sep 19 2006 10:41PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state police union demanded an independent investigation Tuesday into the search for a fugitive suspected of killing a trooper and wounding two others during more than five months on the lam.
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Man alleging priest abuse sues cardinals
Sep 19 2006 10:34PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 25-year-old Mexican man who says he was raped by a priest filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Roman Catholic church officials in Los Angeles and Mexico, claiming they conspired to hide evidence to protect the priest.
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Annan calls for unity in emotional adieu
Sep 19 2006 10:32PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed for nations to unite against human rights abuses, religious divisions, brutal conflicts and an unjust world economy in an emotional farewell on Tuesday. But his remarks were overshadowed by a military coup in Thailand and the Iranian president's fiery defense of his country's nuclear program.
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2 new Southern California fires erupt
Sep 19 2006 10:17PM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - Two wildfires erupted Tuesday in the forests of Southern California as a moist ocean breeze helped slow a huge blaze that has burned for more than two weeks near the coast.
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Strange things can happen at U.N. debate
Sep 19 2006 10:03PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - There was the much-discussed handshake that never happened, the presentation of the coca leaf, and the case of the lonely beige chair that took center stage.
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Gordon weakens as it nears Azores
Sep 19 2006 9:59PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Gordon weakened Tuesday as it raced toward the sparsely populated Azores, which were under a hurricane warning, while a downgraded Hurricane Helene was expected to stay out at sea, forecasters said.
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Legislator speaks out on teen's death
Sep 19 2006 9:53PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania legislator on Tuesday denied any involvement in the shooting death of a 14-year-old neighbor whose body was found next to the senator's gun this summer.
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New Jersey senator denies federal report
Sep 19 2006 9:51PM (CT)
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - A powerful New Jersey politician accused of being paid for a job that required no work at a scandal-ridden state university denied the report from a federal monitor who had investigated the school's finances.
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Plane wanders into restricted airspace
Sep 19 2006 9:47PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Two U.S. Air Force fighter jets forced a small plane out of restricted airspace during President Bush's visit to the United Nations in New York on Tuesday morning, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado.
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2 arrested in 1979 Mich. murder
Sep 19 2006 9:30PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Two suspects in the 1979 slaying of a college student in Michigan have been arrested in West Virginia, and an arrest warrant has been issued for a third suspect in Pennsylvania.
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Officials: Students shared a lancet
Sep 19 2006 9:09PM (CT)
SALINA, Kan. (AP) - A high school science teacher was suspended for allowing students to use the same instrument to draw blood from their fingers as part of a class project, district officials said Tuesday.
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McGreevey hopes book brings acceptance
Sep 19 2006 8:37PM (CT)
PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey said he has no desire to return to politics since he left office two years ago amid a sex scandal but hopes his new tell-all book leads to public acceptance of his homosexuality.
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Calif. woman admits Nazi link
Sep 19 2006 8:36PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An 83-year-old woman who admitted she had served as a guard at a concentration camp during World War II was deported to Germany, federal officials said Tuesday.
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3 dead in shooting at ballfield in Tenn.
Sep 19 2006 8:34PM (CT)
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - A long-running child custody dispute erupted in gunfire after a 10-year-old boy's baseball game, leaving three of his grandparents dead and his father wounded, officials said Tuesday.
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Prosecutors offer plea deal to Karr
Sep 19 2006 8:34PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - One-time JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr was offered a plea deal Tuesday on child pornography charges that would free him on probation.
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Sheriff: Race a factor in kidnap case
Sep 19 2006 8:31PM (CT)
SALEM, N.H. (AP) - A Maine couple accused of tying up their 19-year-old daughter, throwing her in their car and driving her out of state to get an abortion were upset because the baby's father is black, a Maine sheriff said Tuesday.
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Mother of man in kidnap case arrested
Sep 19 2006 8:31PM (CT)
CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) - The mother of a man accused of abducting and assaulting a 14-year-old girl who eventually was able to send a text message for help was charged Tuesday with helping her son elude authorities and survive in underground bunkers, a sheriff said.
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Ill. man jailed for decapitating cat
Sep 19 2006 8:16PM (CT)
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A man who admitted in court to tearing off the head of a kitten after a fight with his girlfriend has been sentenced to two years in prison.
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Woman dragged behind vehicle near Denver
Sep 19 2006 8:12PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A woman was tied to a vehicle with a rope and dragged through suburban streets in a gruesome crime that left a trail of blood more than a mile long, police said.
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Ex-Black Panther argues for new trial
Sep 19 2006 7:56PM (CT)
ANGOLA, La. (AP) - A former Black Panther convicted of killing a Louisiana prison guard in the 1970s deserves a new murder trial because prosecutors withheld key evidence that could have won him an acquittal, his lawyer argued in a prison courtroom on Tuesday.
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NYC changes rules for Macy's parade
Sep 19 2006 7:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city said Tuesday it plans to tighten safety procedures for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade after two spectators were injured last year by a giant balloon that got caught on a street lamp.
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Sen. fumes over Jewish debate question
Sep 19 2006 7:44PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A day after being asked in a debate about his immigrant mother's heritage, Sen. George Allen fired back in a written statement Tuesday confirming his Jewish ancestry.
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California farmers plow spinach under
Sep 19 2006 7:04PM (CT)
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) - Farmers in the self-proclaimed "Salad Bowl to the World" started plowing their spinach crops under and laying off workers as government inspectors examined fields and packing houses Tuesday for the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak.
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Man pleads guilty in Virginia slayings
Sep 19 2006 6:48PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A man accused of suffocating a family of three during a violent rampage entered into a last-minute plea agreement Tuesday that will spare him the death penalty.
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3 charged in Duquesne shootings
Sep 19 2006 6:38PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police charged two men Tuesday with shooting five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance, and they accused a 19-year-old sophomore of helping get the men and their friends into the dance despite knowing some were armed.
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Hospital offers to pay infants' families
Sep 19 2006 6:23PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A hospital where two premature infants died after being given an overdose of a blood thinner has offered to financially compensate their families, the hospital CEO said Tuesday.
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Coups are in decline as agents of change
Sep 19 2006 6:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the 1960s, military coups d'etat were frequent, as countries in Africa and Asia threw off their colonial yokes. They remained in fashion until the 1990s, as power struggles played out in postcolonial nations and the Eastern bloc resisted Soviet rule.
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Former gymnastics coach gets 15 years
Sep 19 2006 6:01PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A former coach at an elite gymnastics academy was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
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Victims file lawsuit in N.Y. bus crash
Sep 19 2006 5:40PM (CT)
WESTPORT, N.Y. (AP) - Fifteen victims of last month's deadly bus crash in northern New York have sued Greyhound Lines Inc., claiming the driver fell asleep before the New York-to-Montreal bus flipped in the highway median and killed five, including him.
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2 charged in Duquesne player shootings
Sep 19 2006 5:33PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police charged two men Tuesday with shooting five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance, and they accused a 19-year-old sophomore of helping six men into the dance despite knowing some were armed.
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Judge throws out Ga. photo-voter ID law
Sep 19 2006 5:32PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional the latest version of a new Georgia law requiring voters to show photo ID.
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Press aide pleads no contest in sex case
Sep 19 2006 5:16PM (CT)
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - A former press aide for the federal Homeland Security Department pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges that he had sexually explicit online conversations with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
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FBI raids Mo. Islamic leader's home
Sep 19 2006 4:37PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - FBI agents searched the home of a prominent Islamic community leader and Iraq war critic, a bureau spokesman said, declining to reveal any reasons for the search.
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Manhunt closes schools in Ky. county
Sep 19 2006 4:28PM (CT)
INEZ, Ky. (AP) - A hunt for a man suspected of fatally shooting two people and wounding another forced the closure of schools in one county on Tuesday, authorities said.
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3 Texas brothers shipping out for Iraq
Sep 19 2006 3:26PM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - When brothers Michael, Allen and Reginald Mouton of the Army's Ironhorse Brigade got their orders for Iraq, they could have asked the military to split them up. But they say they never even considered asking. They will ship out for the Middle East next month, an extremely rare instance of three brothers from the same unit being sent to the same base in a combat zone.
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Doctor accused of stealing cadaver hand
Sep 19 2006 2:30PM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A doctor has pleaded not guilty to stealing a hand from a New Jersey medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer, authorities said.
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N.Y. school official sentenced for theft
Sep 19 2006 2:08PM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - One of two administrators behind the theft of as much as $11 million from a school district was sentenced Tuesday to up to 9 years in prison.
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FBI: New York safest big city in 2005
Sep 19 2006 2:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York remained the safest of the nation's 10 largest cities in 2005, with about one crime reported for every 37 people, according to FBI statistics.
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Yale creates center on anti-Semitism
Sep 19 2006 1:54PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale announced the creation Tuesday of the first university-based center in North America dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism.
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Harvard's endowment up to $29.2 billion
Sep 19 2006 12:31PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University said Tuesday its endowment rose by 16.7 percent to $29.2 billion in its latest fiscal year, extending its longtime growth despite recent changes in management.
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Book compiles doodlings of presidents
Sep 19 2006 12:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As a president, Herbert Hoover ranks near the bottom in the hearts of most historians, condemned as the dull-minded bureaucrat who looked on while the nation sank into the Great Depression.
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Group says Iraq needs to prove itself
Sep 19 2006 12:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. experts studying what to do next in Iraq said Tuesday that the Baghdad government must prove it deserves continued support.
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N.C. court upholds novelist's conviction
Sep 19 2006 11:38AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The State Court of Appeals refused Tuesday to overturn the murder conviction of novelist Michael Peterson, who was found guilty of bludgeoning his wife to death in their home in 2001.
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Al Gore urges action on 'climate crisis'
Sep 19 2006 4:33AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore stepped up his call for immediate action to halt global warming, urging politicians on both sides of the aisle to "have the courage to do better."
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More details in Alistair Cooke death
Sep 19 2006 3:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - After "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke died, errors in the medical records accompanying his body fell through the cracks, one by one.
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Slain boy honored with Miss. center
Sep 19 2006 2:54AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The brutal slaying of Emmett Till has not been forgotten more than half a century since his death helped expose the harshness of segregation and energized the civil rights movement.
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E. coli in salad greens has many sources
Sep 19 2006 1:42AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - On its way to supermarket shelves, bagged spinach passes from field to packing plant to store, with several opportunities along the journey for it to become contaminated with deadly E. coli bacteria.
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Actor Mickey Hargitay dies at 80
Sep 19 2006 1:03AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mickey Hargitay, the actor and world champion bodybuilder who was married to 1950s sex siren Jayne Mansfield and whose daughter is Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay, has died. He was 80.
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Nelson cited for marijuana possession
Sep 19 2006 12:21AM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of illegal mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said.
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Imclone patent ruled to belong to others
Sep 19 2006 12:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a blow to ImClone Systems Inc. and a triumph for a prominent Israeli research institution, a judge ruled Monday that three scientists from Israel are the true inventors of a process used in the delivery of the blockbuster cancer drug, Erbitux.
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Foundation to award 25 'genius grants'
Sep 19 2006 12:00AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A doctor treating children with genetic diseases in Pennsylvania's Amish country, a New England turtle expert and a former child math prodigy from Australia are among the 25 winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."
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