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La. voters consolidate levee boards
Sep 30 2006 11:39PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana voters on Saturday approved consolidating the New Orleans area's levee boards, the generations-old agencies whose politically appointed members were criticized after Hurricane Katrina for failing to maintain the area's levees and floodwalls.
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5 found dead in South Carolina home
Sep 30 2006 10:56PM (CT)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Five people were found dead in a home Saturday, and all appeared to have been shot, police said. Investigators were talking to a suspect.
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'Very light jets' certified by FAA
Sep 30 2006 10:20PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A fleet of very light jets that could redefine how Americans travel has been fully certified by the Federal Aviation Administration, clearing the aircraft for delivery to customers, the company announced Saturday.
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Fla. deputy shoots self showing off gun
Sep 30 2006 10:15PM (CT)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - A sheriff's deputy showing a handgun to friends at his birthday party accidentally shot himself in the face, killing himself, authorities said Saturday.
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Isaac becomes hurricane in Atlantic
Sep 30 2006 10:10PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Isaac strengthened into the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season Saturday, and its winds could reach Canada early next week, forecasters said.
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Autopsy: 110 rounds shot at Fla. suspect
Sep 30 2006 10:01PM (CT)
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy, according to an autopsy and records released by the sheriff's office Saturday.
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Charges amended in church abuse case
Sep 30 2006 9:18PM (CT)
PINEVILLE, Mo. (AP) - The child-sex charges against two of five church leaders accused of abusing young girls from their congregations have been replaced with fewer charges because a statute of limitations has expired.
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Immigration activist defying ruling
Sep 30 2006 8:47PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An immigration activist who took refuge in a church after the government ordered her deported to Mexico said Saturday she will remain holed up there, even though a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on her behalf.
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Colo. town mourns teen killed in siege
Sep 30 2006 8:31PM (CT)
BAILEY, Colo. (AP) - In a mountain meadow not far where she was shot by a gunman who invaded her school, those who knew Emily Keyes _ and many who didn't _ came together on a bright, breezy fall Saturday to remember the teen and hear a message of forgiveness and hope.
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Calif. electoral vote bill vetoed
Sep 30 2006 8:25PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill Saturday that would have given California's electoral votes in presidential elections to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who captured the state.
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Friend: Marine had plan to disappear
Sep 30 2006 8:08PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Marine who went missing in the Colorado mountains had a plan to avoid returning to duty and had hoped to be presumed dead so he could collect insurance money from his brother, the beneficiary, his girlfriend said.
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Official in S.C.: Sterilize bad parents
Sep 30 2006 8:00PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can't properly care for their kids should be sterilized.
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Wis. town grapples with principal death
Sep 30 2006 7:31PM (CT)
CAZENOVIA, Wis. (AP) - A student charged in the shooting death of his school principal was a normal teenager but often bragged about getting into trouble, a neighbor said Saturday as this tiny farm town struggled to come to terms with the attack.
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Famous restaurant returns to New Orleans
Sep 30 2006 7:27PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - On Sunday morning, another slice of life is scheduled to slide back into place as New Orleans slowly regains its cultural balance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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Court: Don't reveal abuse victims' names
Sep 30 2006 6:24PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Attorneys do not have to give prosecutors the names of people who say they were sexually abused by priests in northern Kentucky until a full hearing on the issue, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled.
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Democrats see chance in Foley's district
Sep 30 2006 6:13PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Democratic candidate Tim Mahoney seized the opportunity created by scandal and criticized GOP leaders Saturday for not fully investigating Rep. Mark Foley when his raunchy communications with a teenage boy came to light about a year ago.
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Jurors acquit Vigil on 23 of 24 counts
Sep 30 2006 5:44PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A former state treasurer was convicted Saturday of one count of attempted extortion and acquitted of 23 remaining counts of extortion and racketeering in his public corruption trial.
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Agency lagging on border maintenance
Sep 30 2006 5:37PM (CT)
HOULTON, Maine (AP) - The United States wants to better secure its border with Canada, but it might have trouble finding it in some areas, an official with the agency that maintains the border said.
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Judge won't dismiss charges against Karr
Sep 30 2006 5:01PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - A judge on Friday refused to dismiss child pornography charges against John Mark Karr, the former suspect in the killing of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, after prosecutors admitted losing key evidence.
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At Farm Aid, lessons precede rock
Sep 30 2006 4:40PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - John Mellencamp never figured Farm Aid would still be needed now, 21 years after its debut as one of many moments of musicians trying to do good in the 1980s.
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Wal-Mart sales up in September
Sep 30 2006 4:17PM (CT)
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Saturday that its September sales were up 1.8 percent from the same period a year ago.
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Pier 1 CEO to step down next year
Sep 30 2006 3:34PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The chairman and chief executive of Pier 1 Imports Inc., Marvin Girouard, will retire from the struggling home-furnishing retailer and its board early next year, the company announced Saturday.
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Protesters face off at Ky. GI's funeral
Sep 30 2006 3:16PM (CT)
LONDON, Ky. (AP) - Demonstrators squared off Saturday outside a funeral home where a service was being held for a solider, the first such scene in Kentucky since a judge suspended a state law that required a 300-foot buffer zone for protests at military funerals.
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Defense rests in bus explosion trial
Sep 30 2006 2:44PM (CT)
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - The defense rested Saturday in the trial of a bus company and its owner, accused of mismanaging the fleet before an explosion last year that killed 23 passengers during the Hurricane Rita evacuation.
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MacDill guards cleared in gate crashing
Sep 30 2006 2:39PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - MacDill Air Force Base security personnel did not forcibly stop a stolen car from racing through an entry gate because they didn't believe the vehicle presented a significant threat, officials have concluded.
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Colleges coveting home-schooled students
Sep 30 2006 12:41PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Bombarded by choices at a college job fair, Sara Kianmehr quickly found her match: Columbia College, a small, private school that didn't mind that her transcripts came from her parents.
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Teen sentenced in deer decoy prank
Sep 30 2006 12:31PM (CT)
KENTON, Ohio (AP) - A third teen accused of putting a deer decoy on a country road as a prank, causing a crash that seriously injured two people, has been sentenced to 60 days in a juvenile detention center.
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Famed steamboat sails on post-Katrina
Sep 30 2006 10:56AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mark Twain's writings often centered on a fascination with Mississippi River steamboats, which is the reason British tourist Nicola Collins recently took a voyage on the Natchez, one of only five true steam-powered sternwheelers operating in North America.
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Ohio documents hours before execution
Sep 30 2006 10:53AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - John Hicks is trying to reach his mother, but a recording says her phone isn't taking calls right now.
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Dentist suspended after patient's death
Sep 30 2006 8:30AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - State regulators have suspended the license of a dentist whose 5-year-old patient fell into a coma in his office and later died.
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Nev. official's husband charged in death
Sep 30 2006 7:13AM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The husband of the late state Controller Kathy Augustine was arrested in Virginia on Friday and charged with killing her with an injection of a paralyzing drug.
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Coast Guard cutter gets new captain
Sep 30 2006 5:39AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The Coast Guard has appointed a new captain to command the cutter Healy following the deaths of two crew members during a dive in the Arctic Ocean.
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Mystery 'no' vote overhangs U.N. race
Sep 30 2006 5:11AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister has become the only candidate with a good chance of winning the race to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, but a mystery "no" vote has thrown his victory into question.
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Ex-Nazi guard's citizenship revoked
Sep 30 2006 3:53AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has lived in western Pennsylvania for more than 40 years had his American citizenship revoked by a federal judge. His attorneys plan to appeal.
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Polygamy perception still dogs Mormons
Sep 30 2006 2:42AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Wilford Woodruff dropped to his knees in prayer. It was September 1890 and the government was threatening to seize church property and prosecute Mormons unless they stopped plural marriage.
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Sliwa seeks justice, finds condolences
Sep 30 2006 2:25AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's not easy to feel sorry for Curtis Sliwa. He's loud and opinionated. He's a publicity hound, an admitted past prevaricator. He co-hosts a morning radio show and earns a ton of money. To top it all off, he never appears without a red beret on his head. But sympathy abounded for the founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime group after his 14-year fight to prove that John A. Gotti ordered his near-fatal shooting ended with a strange legal twist.
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Victims' kin furious at R.I. sentencing
Sep 30 2006 2:13AM (CT)
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - One woman has blown out birthday candles for her father. Another gave birth beside a photo of her husband. A third still catches herself reaching for the phone to call her dad. The families of the 100 people killed in a nightclub fire three years ago said apologies from the club's owners at their sentencing hearing did not begin to cover their grief.
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Natural gas blast kills man in Kansas
Sep 30 2006 1:00AM (CT)
MOUND VALLEY, Kan. (AP) - A construction crew ruptured a natural gas line on Friday, leading to an explosion that killed an employee and forced evacuations, authorities said.
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Fla. police officer faces drug charges
Sep 30 2006 12:52AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A Miami-Dade County police officer faces drug charges after an undercover investigation found that he sold about 13 pounds of cocaine while wearing his uniform, prosecutors said.
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