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Ex-Rep. Chenoweth-Hage dies in car crash
Oct 2 2006 11:49PM (CT)
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a Republican who held "endangered salmon bakes" and once accused federal agents of using black helicopter gunships, died Monday in a car crash, her daughter said. She was 68.
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Man storms Amish school, kills 3, self
Oct 2 2006 11:22PM (CT)
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) - A milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours, and then opened fire on a dozen girls, killing three people before committing suicide.
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Ohio schools closed after buses damaged
Oct 2 2006 10:45PM (CT)
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) - Police questioned two fifth-grade boys after the city's school district canceled classes Monday because vandals trashed the city's school bus fleet twice during the weekend.
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Prosecutors: Threat notes mentioned Bush
Oct 2 2006 10:44PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An engineer at a nuclear power plant has been charged with sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to a country club where President Bush is scheduled to appear Tuesday for a Republican campaign event.
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Indiana nun's remains to be moved
Oct 2 2006 10:41PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind., (AP) - The remains of 19th-century Roman Catholic nun, who Pope Benedict XVI plans to canonize this month, will be moved to a temporary shrine above ground just outside Terre Haute from grave in the floor of a nearby church.
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Feds: U.S. woman led terror group
Oct 2 2006 10:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran was a top official for a heavily armed, Iraq-based terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the Iranian regime, federal prosecutors said in court documents obtained Monday.
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Murderer gets 10 years for bite attack
Oct 2 2006 10:39PM (CT)
GREAT FALLS (AP) - A man convicted of killing a Blaine County sheriff's deputy was sentenced Monday to another 10 years in prison for biting off parts of another man's nose, ear and finger.
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U.S. to deport Victoria Sellers
Oct 2 2006 10:30PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Victoria Sellers, daughter of the late actor Peter Sellers, was arrested Monday in Hollywood on immigration violations and will be deported to Britain, federal authorities said.
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Cool weather helps Calif. firefighters
Oct 2 2006 10:02PM (CT)
OJAI, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters battling a giant wildfire that had scorched more than 250 square miles of brush and timber fully contained the blaze late Monday, nearly a month after it began.
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Mass. begins insurance program for poor
Oct 2 2006 9:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts began signing up its poorest residents for low-cost health insurance Monday, the first step in the state's goal to be the first to require all citizens to have health insurance.
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Pa. gunman showed few signs of trouble
Oct 2 2006 9:21PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Pa (AP) - The gunman who stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday was an ordinary man and a devoted father and showed few signs of trouble in the days before the attack, according to several people who knew him.
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Judge keeps Karr pornography case sealed
Oct 2 2006 9:14PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - A judge refused to unseal police documents in the child pornography case against former JonBenet Ramsey slaying suspect John Mark Karr, whose attorneys are fighting to have the misdemeanor charges tossed out.
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U.S. says woman in shelter terror chief
Oct 2 2006 9:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Iranian widow who became a naturalized U.S. citizen 10 years ago was a top official for a heavily armed, Iraq-based terrorist organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of Iran's government, the U.S. government alleges in court documents.
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30 photos by death row inmate released
Oct 2 2006 9:04PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities investigating a double murderer who implied to a jury that he'd killed others have released 30 additional photos he took of men and women.
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Trucker admits role in deaths of 4 women
Oct 2 2006 9:01PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A truck driver on trial in the deaths of two women pleaded guilty Monday to killing them and two others, officials said.
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Texas jury weighs bus safety case
Oct 2 2006 8:58PM (CT)
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Jurors began deliberations Monday in the trial of a bus company and its owner who are accused of mismanaging the fleet before an explosion last year that killed 23 passengers during the Hurricane Rita evacuation.
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School chief in trouble over mock film
Oct 2 2006 8:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A suburban school superintendent says he was only trying to be funny when he took videotaped interviews with his new teachers, spliced in his own gag questions and made the faculty members look like killers, strippers and drug users.
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Wis. shooting suspect appears in court
Oct 2 2006 8:54PM (CT)
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) - A 15-year-old accused of killing his high school principal was ordered held on $750,000 bail Monday, while the governor said schools may need more money for security plans.
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Florida GOP names replacement candidate
Oct 2 2006 8:45PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley sought treatment for alcoholism and "other behavioral problems" as Republicans on Monday picked a new candidate to salvage the seat Foley abandoned after disclosure of lurid online messages he exchanged with teenage boys.
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Virginia's Allen airs 2-minute ad
Oct 2 2006 8:08PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Sen. George Allen attempted to steer his campaign away from accusations of racial insensitivity Monday night with a two-minute, statewide television ad touting the need to focus on "the real issues," such as support for U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Nagin wants minorities used in recovery
Oct 2 2006 7:34PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans' mayor signed an order Monday requiring that large businesses use as many local and minority-owned firms as possible when they seek millions of dollars in tax incentives and grants for Hurricane Katrina recovery.
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Bishops push for higher farm wages
Oct 2 2006 7:30PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined a growing number of religious groups calling on McDonald's Corp. to push for higher wages for workers who pick tomatoes for the fast-food giant.
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Ameren to pay $15M for failed reservoir
Oct 2 2006 6:52PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Ameren Corp. agreed to pay federal regulators a $15 million fine for the reservoir collapse that unleashed more than a billion gallons of water, destroying a state park and injuring a family last year, officials said Monday.
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I-69 extension opponents sue in Indiana
Oct 2 2006 6:46PM (CT)
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Environmentalists and citizen groups sued the federal government and Indiana highway commissioner Monday, alleging that the state rigged the process for choosing a route to extend Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to Evansville.
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Nev. official's widower to face charges
Oct 2 2006 5:33PM (CT)
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - The husband of Nevada's late state controller waived extradition Monday to face first-degree murder charges in her death.
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Getty probe finds excess, but not fraud
Oct 2 2006 5:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charitable funds given to the J. Paul Getty Trust were improperly used to pay the travel expenses of the foundation's former chief executive and buy artwork for retiring board members, the California attorney general said in a report Monday.
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Judge won't nix Siegelman conviction
Oct 2 2006 5:22PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The federal judge who presided over the trial of former Gov. Don Siegelman and ex-HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy refused on Monday to throw out their convictions on government corruption charges.
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Ky. crash survivor improving
Oct 2 2006 4:26PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Doctors on Monday upgraded the condition of the co-pilot who survived the crash of Comair Flight 5191, and a hospital spokeswoman said he may be able to begin rehabilitation soon.
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Annan files financial disclosure form
Oct 2 2006 3:21PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan has submitted a form disclosing his financial records to the U.N. Ethics Office after initially refusing to do so, the United Nations said Monday.
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Ga. sells items seized at airports
Oct 2 2006 2:44PM (CT)
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - June Jones wonders why anyone would try to take a set of steel dental picks aboard an airliner, or, for that matter, who would want to use them after they were seized by airport security screeners.
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Gun reported at North Las Vegas school
Oct 2 2006 2:05PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Four public school campuses were locked down Monday while police searched for a teenager who was spotted at a high school with a gun, authorities said.
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Pioneer diary found in N.J. back in N.D.
Oct 2 2006 2:04PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) - The diary of an area pioneer from New Jersey has been returned to North Dakota, some 20 years after it was found in a bucket of toys.
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Man charged in deaths of wife, 4 kids
Oct 2 2006 12:42PM (CT)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A man was charged Sunday with murdering his wife and her four children in a domestic dispute at their home, authorities said.
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Nev. official's widower to face charges
Oct 2 2006 10:58AM (CT)
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - The husband of Nevada's late state controller waived extradition Monday and will face first-degree murder charges in her death.
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Isaac weakens to tropical storm
Oct 2 2006 10:24AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Isaac weakened to a tropical storm Monday as it raced across the north Atlantic toward Newfoundland, where the Canadian Meteorological Service upgraded a tropical storm watch to a tropical storm warning.
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Men targeted by FBI return to U.S.
Oct 2 2006 4:22AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two American citizens related to a California man who was convicted of supporting terrorists flew home from Pakistan, five months after they were barred from returning to the United States for refusing an FBI interrogation, their attorney said.
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Egyptian students learn immigration law
Oct 2 2006 2:35AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Seventeen students from Egypt arrived in the U.S. in July, bound for a college in Montana where they were to learn about American history and culture.
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Allegations trip up voting rights group
Oct 2 2006 2:13AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An advocacy group that registered more than a million voters two years ago is wrestling with new allegations of voter fraud and sloppy work just weeks before crucial midterm elections.
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Vocational education poised for comeback
Oct 2 2006 2:00AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Oscar Sandoval wanted to learn how to fix cars, but his high school's auto shop became a student health clinic long ago.
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NYC trans fat ban could spark food fight
Oct 2 2006 1:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A city proposal to ban restaurants from selling food containing an unhealthy artificial fat could open a new front in a national fight over the safety of America's food supply, legal experts said.
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