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Schwarzenegger vetoes gay marriage bill
Sep 29 2005 11:52PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif, (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger followed through Thursday on his promise to veto a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, leaving the issue up to voters or judges who will likely face the volatile issue in the next year.
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Initial Texas death toll from Rita at 100
Sep 29 2005 10:57PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The death toll from Hurricane Rita's assault on Texas has risen to about 100, but most of the victims died before the hurricane struck, either while preparing for the storm or fleeing from it, authorities said Thursday.
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Police catch suspect in hospital shooting
Sep 29 2005 10:51PM (CT)
LANGHORNE, Pa. (AP) - A man taken to a suburban hospital for a sobriety test Thursday night grabbed a police officer's gun, opened fire and killed one officer, authorities said. Another officer and medical technician were wounded.
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Hyundai to build its first European plant
Sep 29 2005 10:40PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday it plans to build its first European auto manufacturing plant in the Czech Republic to increase its presence in the European market.
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Rodney King arrested for alleged threats
Sep 29 2005 10:11PM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police led to deadly riots in 1992, was arrested after he allegedly threatened his daughter and ex-girlfriend, police said.
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Hundreds evacuate as Calif. fire threatens
Sep 29 2005 10:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A wind-whipped 16,000-acre wildfire raced across hills and canyons along the city's northwestern edge Thursday, threatening homes and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate.
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Probe of New Orleans police conduct begins
Sep 29 2005 9:57PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The police department said Thursday it is investigating a dozen officers in connection with looting during the lawlessness that engulfed the city after Hurricane Katrina.
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Doctor says he won't aid deaths on parole
Sep 29 2005 9:54PM (CT)
LAPEER, Mich. (AP) - If released from prison, former doctor Jack Kevorkian says he'll still campaign to legalize assisted suicide but won't resume helping people to die that way.
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Man pleads guilty in plane bomb threat
Sep 29 2005 9:49PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who admitted scribbling a bomb threat on a gum wrapper and leaving it aboard a Southwest Airlines plane pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of interfering with an airline flight crew, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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Va. deputy pulls over officers, gets heat
Sep 29 2005 9:02PM (CT)
STAUNTON, Va. (AP) - A deputy pulled over a convoy of New Jersey law enforcement officers traveling home from a Hurricane Katrina relief effort, sparking complaints from a New Jersey sheriff for the "grief" they received.
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Utah police: Van was going 95-100 mph
Sep 29 2005 8:48PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah State University van that rolled on a northern Utah highway killing eight students and an instructor was traveling at 95 to 100 mph, the Highway Patrol said Thursday.
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Judge orders release of Abu Ghraib photos
Sep 29 2005 8:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge Thursday ordered the release of dozens more pictures of prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib, rejecting government arguments that the images would provoke terrorists and incite violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Honore says La. coast comeback years away
Sep 29 2005 8:33PM (CT)
CAMERON, La. (AP) - The coastline of southwestern Louisiana will take years to restore after Hurricane Rita unearthed graves, ripped apart levees and infected farmland with saltwater, the commander of the military relief effort said Thursday.
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Intelligent design advocates fight back
Sep 29 2005 8:32PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A group of Nobel Prize winners should have done more homework before criticizing proposed science standards in Kansas, advocates of the guidelines said in a letter Thursday.
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Grand jury indicts two N.Y. mosque leaders
Sep 29 2005 8:32PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A federal grand jury has issued new indictments against two mosque leaders in upstate New York who are charged with conspiring to support terrorists, prosecutors said Thursday.
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Murder convict released in Mafia cops case
Sep 29 2005 8:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Barry Gibbs was a forgotten man convicted of a forgotten crime he said he never committed: the 1986 slaying of a prostitute in Brooklyn.
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N.M. governor can't name interim treasurer
Sep 29 2005 8:22PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by New Mexico's governor to allow the indicted state treasurer to temporarily step down with pay and have a gubernatorial appointee run the office.
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Aide to former Ill. governor takes stand
Sep 29 2005 8:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The political strategist who helped engineer former Gov. George Ryan's rise to power took the witness stand Thursday and in testimony laced with wisecracks began telling a jury how Ryan doled out state contracts, leases and favors to the well-connected.
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Air controller loses job after near-miss
Sep 29 2005 7:52PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A veteran air traffic controller was stripped of tower duty at McCarran International Airport while authorities investigated how two commercial airliners nearly collided on a runway, officials said Thursday.
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Bus business warned before Rita explosion
Sep 29 2005 7:52PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The company whose bus caught fire last week, killing 23 nursing-home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita, was the subject of complaints by three people in 2002 who said its vehicles reeked of fuel and were in disrepair, according to state records.
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Elian Gonzalez calls Castro 'friend'
Sep 29 2005 7:51PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle five years ago, calls Cuban President Fidel Castro his friend but also says he hopes someday to see his Miami family again.
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Former Clinton aide tapped for UNC
Sep 29 2005 7:47PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Erskine Bowles, the former chief of staff to President Clinton, is expected to become the next president of the University of North Carolina system, university officials said Thursday.
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Report: NASA wasted millions on own planes
Sep 29 2005 7:23PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA wasted millions of dollars over a two-year period by shunning commercial airline flights and instead using its own planes for routine travel, according to a government report provided to The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Officials warn of New Orleans health risks
Sep 29 2005 5:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials acknowledged great uncertainties remain about the health risks from contamination left by Hurricane Katrina but said Thursday the decision on whether people should return to New Orleans is a local one.
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Survey: 6 in 10 military women harassed
Sep 29 2005 5:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Six in 10 women who have served in the National Guard and Reserves say they were sexually harassed or assaulted, but less than one-quarter reported it and many who did were encouraged to drop their complaints, a government survey says.
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Four guards charged with beating inmate
Sep 29 2005 4:41PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Four guards at a privately run jail have been indicted on reckless homicide charges accusing them of beating a female inmate to death.
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Poll: Americans doubt exporting democracy
Sep 29 2005 3:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The American public has doubts about whether the Bush administration policy of promoting democracy internationally will make the world a safer place.
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MADD fights drunk driving for 25 years
Sep 29 2005 3:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When a grieving mother started a grass-roots organization in 1980, alcohol mixed with driving was killing more than 70 people a day but receiving little national attention.
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Merchants, residents return to New Orleans
Sep 29 2005 3:26PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Streams of cars filled with business owners started to make their way back into newly reopened sections of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday, some vowing to rebuild their city, some pulling out.
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Jewish group rips S. Baptist convention
Sep 29 2005 3:18PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A leading Jewish organization is condemning the Southern Baptist Convention for using a group of "messianic" Jews _ people who have already converted to Christianity _ in its evangelism.
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Human error blamed in U.S. chopper crash
Sep 29 2005 3:05PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A helicopter crash in Iraq in January that killed 30 Marines and a sailor _ the deadliest air tragedy in more than two years of combat _ resulted from human error, not mechanical failure or hostile fire, according to a Marine investigation.
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Contractors in short supply in New Orleans
Sep 29 2005 2:55PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Roberta Stewart picks through the muck layering the first floor of her home, her bare legs splattered in mud, her eyes surveying the putrid mess from behind a gas mask. Now that Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters have ebbed, she asks, who will help her rebuild?
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Katrina T-shirts amid rubble
Sep 29 2005 2:26PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Some proclaim the wearer a "Certified Hurricane Veteran." Others state, "I survived the big one _ Hurricane Katrina."
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Amtrak train derails in Missouri
Sep 29 2005 2:02PM (CT)
BLACKWELL, Mo. (AP) - An Amtrak train carrying 103 people derailed in eastern Missouri after apparently striking boulders on the tracks from a rockslide, officials said Thursday. About 20 people sustained minor injuries.
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Key adviser to Ky. gov. latest to leave
Sep 29 2005 1:45PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Ernie Fletcher's office announced Thursday that one of his closest advisers and defenders is resigning, a move that further roils an administration under fire over alleged political hirings.
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Post office tests hold-for-pickup service
Sep 29 2005 1:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Postal Service is testing a new delivery option in which large or valuable items would be held at local post offices for pickup rather than left at people's homes.
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Asian political influence grows in U.S.
Sep 29 2005 12:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg quietly slipped away from City Hall one morning last week to meet with York Chan, the powerful community leader known as the "mayor of Chinatown." A day earlier, Chan sat down with Fernando Ferrer, the Democrat challenging Bloomberg in November.
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Mardi Gras chiefs: Show will go on in 2006
Sep 29 2005 12:55PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Inside a sprawling riverside warehouse, the giant figures of Elvis, Yoda and Chuckie look ready to roll. But The Mummy, the Wicked Witch and Dracula will need some repair work.
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Merchants, residents return to New Orleans
Sep 29 2005 12:52PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Streams of cars filled with business owners started to make their way back into newly reopened sections of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday, some vowing to rebuild their city, some pulling out.
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Oregon Court overturns sex-show laws
Sep 29 2005 12:49PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Thursday a state law against live sex shows and a local ordinance that says nude dancers must stay at least 4 feet away from patrons.
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Man held in killing of two in Napa Valley
Sep 29 2005 11:55AM (CT)
NAPA, Calif. (AP) - A 26-year-old man was arrested on murder charges in the stabbing deaths of a former beauty queen and her roommate last year, police said.
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Conditions primitive in Texas after Rita
Sep 29 2005 11:53AM (CT)
WOODVILLE, Texas (AP) - Five days after Hurricane Rita came ashore, conditions remained primitive in parts of Texas, where some residents were taking baths and brushing their teeth using water from the Neches River and others were sleeping in tents.
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Judge orders release of Abu Ghraib photos
Sep 29 2005 11:43AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Saying the United States "does not surrender to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image.
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Mich. school evacuated again on illnesses
Sep 29 2005 11:38AM (CT)
SALINE, Mich. (AP) - Saline High School was evacuated for the second time in three days Thursday after some students reported feeling ill, officials said.
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Religion news in brief
Sep 29 2005 11:04AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Six conservative Episcopal parishes have filed a federal lawsuit claiming their civil rights were violated by the local bishop, the church's national leader and others in a dispute that stemmed from the election of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop.
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Jeb Bush calls for immigration changes
Sep 29 2005 10:49AM (CT)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush urged the federal government to change its visa and immigration policies Thursday, saying the country needs to avoid stifling international travel and commerce.
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Civil rights lawyer Baker Motley dies
Sep 29 2005 10:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When she was 15, Constance Baker Motley was turned away from a public beach because she was black. It was only then _ even though her mother was active in the NAACP _ that the teenager really became interested in civil rights.
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Judge upholds lawsuit by two Muslim men
Sep 29 2005 9:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has rejected former Attorney General John Ashcroft's attempt to block a lawsuit by claiming that the threat of terrorism exempts the government from following peacetime regulations.
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Red Cross criticized, urged to share cash
Sep 29 2005 7:31AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As its hurricane relief donations near the $1 billion mark, more than double all other charities combined, the American Red Cross is encountering sharp criticism of its efforts and mounting pressure to share funds with smaller groups.
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Museum dropped from WTC site for now
Sep 29 2005 7:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Bowing to pressure from Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom center from the space reserved for it near the planned World Trade Center memorial, saying the museum project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy."
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Baltimore mayor campaigning for governor
Sep 29 2005 12:03AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Mayor Martin O'Malley formally began his campaign for governor Wednesday, pledging in an address to hundreds of supporters gathered in a city park "to get Maryland moving again."
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