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Mayor of New Orleans announces layoffs
Oct 4 2005 11:49PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the city is laying off as many as 3,000 employees _ or about half its workforce _ because of the financial damage inflicted on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
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Former Wyoming Gov. Hathaway dies at 81
Oct 4 2005 10:48PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Former Gov. Stan Hathaway, who spearheaded creation of a trust fund to harness Wyoming's mineral wealth and established the state's first environmental restraints on mineral development, died Tuesday evening. He was 81.
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Firefighters battle Calif. fires, wind
Oct 4 2005 10:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Firefighters were on high alert Tuesday as winds gusting up to 50 mph threatened to flare up hot spots from three Southern California wildfires.
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NYC unveils hurricane evacuation plan
Oct 4 2005 9:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's coming, with skyscraper-rattling winds and a 30-foot storm surge that threatens to submerge Wall Street, flood the subways and turn Coney Island into a water park. And when it arrives, more than 3 million New Yorkers _ more than six times the population of New Orleans _ could be forced to evacuate by the first major hurricane to hit the city since 1938.
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Alleged cocaine smuggling kingpin arrested
Oct 4 2005 9:47PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A Mexican citizen alleged to be the leader of a smuggling ring that brought about 9,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States has been arrested, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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Inspector convicted of letting in drugs
Oct 4 2005 9:37PM (CT)
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A senior U.S. Customs inspector pleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering and conspiring to smuggle drugs from Mexico, federal prosecutors said.
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Outdated weight charts eyed in boat fatal
Oct 4 2005 9:27PM (CT)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - Just days before a tour boat capsized in the Adirondack Mountains, killing 20 elderly people, the Coast Guard began rethinking its passenger-weight calculations to take into account Americans' expanding waistlines.
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Arrests made in Ga. Hispanic killings
Oct 4 2005 9:26PM (CT)
MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) - Two men were arrested Tuesday in connection with a string of brutal attacks in south Georgia that targeted immigrant farm workers, authorities said.
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Fire ruins Lewis and Clark replica fort
Oct 4 2005 9:26PM (CT)
WARRENTON, Ore. (AP) - A 50-year-old replica of the fort where the Lewis and Clark expedition spent the soggy winter of 1805-1806 was destroyed by a suspicious fire, authorities said Tuesday.
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Mother in custody fight for unborn child
Oct 4 2005 9:24PM (CT)
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Expectant mother Melissa WolfHawk worries about losing her baby boy to the county child welfare agency, which has threatened to seek custody after his birth to protect him from his father, a convicted sex offender.
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Calif. gov. OKs Viagra ban for offenders
Oct 4 2005 9:23PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California taxpayers will no longer help pay the cost of impotency drugs for registered sex offenders under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Agencies agree on Hanford canyon cleanup
Oct 4 2005 8:08PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - State and federal officials announced Tuesday a plan to clean up a highly contaminated World War II-era chemical plant at Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation.
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Reputed mobster pleads guilty to charges
Oct 4 2005 8:06PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The man who investigators say was Connecticut's highest-ranking Mafia member faces up to 6 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy on Tuesday.
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Grandmother to reunite with lost girl
Oct 4 2005 6:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl found wandering a street after her mother vanished plans to travel from Bolivia to reunite with the girl, the Bolivian consul general said Tuesday.
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Nine charged with stealing Katrina funds
Oct 4 2005 6:42PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Nine people were charged with bilking the Red Cross of at least $25,000 donated for Hurricane Katrina victims, the FBI said Tuesday.
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Suspect says vision spurred altar-toppling
Oct 4 2005 6:32PM (CT)
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - A couple accused with two others of overturning the altar at a Roman Catholic church during Sunday worship acted on a vision from God and the belief the new pope is the antichrist, according to interviews published Tuesday in The Decatur Daily.
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Judge rules publisher must turn over data
Oct 4 2005 6:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge ruled Tuesday in a First Amendment case that publisher McGraw-Hill must surrender data to government regulators about possible price manipulation in the natural gas market.
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Katrina pets among animals at blessing
Oct 4 2005 6:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - There were some special guests at the National Cathedral on Tuesday night for the annual blessing of the animals.
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Halloween bucket that caught fire pulled
Oct 4 2005 5:31PM (CT)
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) - A regional supermarket chain has pulled a halloween decoration from its shelves after one of the decorations burst into flames on a family's dining room table.
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Appellate court backs Mormon public plaza
Oct 4 2005 4:27PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal appellate court has upheld a deal between city and church leaders that gave the Mormon church control over a downtown plaza.
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Sixth immigrant farmworker dies in Ga.
Oct 4 2005 3:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - A sixth immigrant farmworker died Tuesday of wounds suffered at the hands of a robbery gang that went on a rampage with guns and baseball bats last week at four Georgia trailer parks.
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Ind. plant explosion critically burns one
Oct 4 2005 2:37PM (CT)
MARION, Ind. (AP) - Construction workers mistakenly cut a live wire at a former television picture-tube plant, sparking an explosion Tuesday that critically burned a worker and injured four others, police said.
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Autopsy: Missing Ind. nurse was strangled
Oct 4 2005 2:05PM (CT)
RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) - A nurse who disappeared in 1999 was strangled during a struggle with her attacker, an autopsy found after her killer confessed and her body was unearthed.
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Gay community still divided over 'outing'
Oct 4 2005 1:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Though decried by many gay-rights leaders, "outing" _ the practice of exposing secretly gay public figures _ is expanding into new terrain as Internet bloggers target congressional staffers, political strategists, even black clergy whose sermons and speeches contain anti-gay rhetoric.
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Court grants new trial to convicted killer
Oct 4 2005 1:42PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An appeals court has ordered a new trial for a woman convicted of killing her 4-month-old son by giving him a pacifier coated with the powerful narcotic OxyContin.
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Big Easy universities work on reopening
Oct 4 2005 12:50PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, professors and students from the city's universities took academic refuge in other schools _ some as far away as the University of Haifa in Israel.
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N.Y. boating laws under closer scrutiny
Oct 4 2005 11:58AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The laws governing boating in New York and elsewhere are coming under closer scrutiny after the capsizing of a tour boat killed 20.
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Graham sees 'revival' for New Orleans
Oct 4 2005 11:49AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Evangelist Franklin Graham said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina could lead to a spiritual rebirth of a sinful New Orleans.
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O'Connor named chancellor at Va. college
Oct 4 2005 11:24AM (CT)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - The College of William and Mary has named retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor its new chancellor, a largely advisory post that has been held by other notables in the past.
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Evacuees mark Rosh Hashana in Texas, La.
Oct 4 2005 9:38AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A Rosh Hashana service here for Jewish evacuees from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast felt more like a reunion _ many had not seen each other since they were driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina.
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Fla. tourists warned on deadly force law
Oct 4 2005 9:33AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Clark Ramm sees shades of the Wild West in Florida's new law giving greater legal protections to people who shoot or use other deadly force when threatened or attacked.
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Disabled Chicagoans sue over curb ramps
Oct 4 2005 7:11AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Curb ramps on Chicago streets are often in disrepair, too steep or missing entirely, making it hard for people in wheelchairs to get around, a lawsuit against the city claims.
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Lionel Tate charged with criminal mischief
Oct 4 2005 6:13AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A teenager who once killed a 6-year-old playmate has been charged with criminal mischief after a sheriff's deputy said he broke the glass in his cell door.
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Alabama doubling number of state troopers
Oct 4 2005 5:29AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama soon will more than double the number of state troopers that have the authority to arrest illegal immigrants.
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Caltech president resigning
Oct 4 2005 5:28AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has led the California Institute of Technology for nearly eight years is stepping down to concentrate on AIDS research and teaching.
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Ads urge tourists to visit Alaska 'B4UDIE'
Oct 4 2005 5:17AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A new billboard campaign is reminding would-be tourists that someday it really could be too late to visit the northern frontier.
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Local governments need cash after storms
Oct 4 2005 5:12AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - With no income or tax base, St. Bernard Parish can pay its workers for another month before its coffers run dry and those trying to reconstruct water, sewage and other services are laid off.
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Merriam-Webster dictionary updated
Oct 4 2005 3:30AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Go ahead, treat yourself. Check out the latest "chick flick," get a "bikini wax" or enjoy an ice cream _ but be careful about "brain freeze."
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Albuquerque to vote on minimum wage
Oct 4 2005 3:18AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - John Sanchez barely scrapes together a living. His minimum wage work at a fast-food restaurant is supplemented by helping his cousin with an occasional tiling job.
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Katrina victims unwelcome in some towns
Oct 4 2005 3:13AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - When Fresno's mayor decided to travel to Louisiana and invite 400 hurricane evacuees to relocate in California's rural Central Valley, other local officials begged him to reconsider.
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