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Chemical leak forces evacuations in N.C.
Oct 5 2006 11:49PM (CT)
APEX, N.C. (AP) - Authorities asked about 16,000 residents to evacuate this Raleigh suburb early Friday after a hazardous material fire at an industrial plant. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
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Man seeks dismissal of double homicide
Oct 5 2006 11:39PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Lawyers for a British man accused of killing his wife and infant daughter asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the charges, saying prosecutors have used unreliable DNA evidence to link him to the slayings.
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NYPD corruption witness ordered released
Oct 5 2006 11:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge told the state parole board Thursday to free a former city police officer who was a key witness at corruption hearings in the 1970s and has been in prison 31 years.
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Survey: New Orleans under 190,000 people
Oct 5 2006 11:24PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Fewer than 190,000 people are living in New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina, according to a door-to-door survey released Thursday.
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Houston man suspected in 7 killings
Oct 5 2006 11:23PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston man is charged or suspected in at least seven homicides in 11 weeks stemming from what authorities describe as a war between entrenched Houston drug dealers and their newly arrived rivals from New Orleans.
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Long Island girl grabbed, taped up
Oct 5 2006 11:14PM (CT)
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (AP) - A 10-year-old girl riding her bicycle was snatched by a man on Thursday, stuffed into a car, bound with tape and driven around before being dumped on a street, police said.
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Mom charged in pedophile slaying case
Oct 5 2006 11:13PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The mother of a slain boy was charged with reckless endangerment Thursday because she had allowed the suspected killer and convicted sex offender to care for her 11-year-old son, prosecutors said.
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Students return to Colorado school
Oct 5 2006 10:57PM (CT)
BAILEY, Colo. (AP) - Students streamed back to their reopened high school on Thursday, a week after a gunman took six girls hostage in a classroom, sexually assaulted them and then killed one.
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Close calls on Louisville runways
Oct 5 2006 10:31PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Planes at the Louisville airport came close to colliding on runways twice in two weeks because of aircraft straying into areas they shouldn't have gone, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Appeals court blocks Ariz. voter ID law
Oct 5 2006 10:16PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal appellate court has blocked the enforcement of an Arizona law that requires voters to show identification before casting a ballot and submit proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
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Judge dismisses Karr's kid porn charges
Oct 5 2006 10:12PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - The former suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing left jail Thursday after a judge dismissed child pornography charges against him, saying prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial.
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Amish bury schoolhouse shooting victims
Oct 5 2006 10:12PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - Scores of horse-drawn buggies from across the Pennsylvania countryside clip-clopped past the home of the schoolhouse gunman to a wind-swept, hilltop graveyard Thursday as the Amish buried four of the girls killed in their classroom.
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Gay marriage dealt defeat in California
Oct 5 2006 10:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A state appeals court upheld California's ban on gay marriage Thursday, a critical defeat for a movement hungry for a win after similar losses in two other states.
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Prison for NY archdiocese buyers
Oct 5 2006 10:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former top purchasing agent for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York was sentenced to more than six years in prison Thursday for his role in a $2 million kickback conspiracy.
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Grieving Wis. students return to class
Oct 5 2006 10:03PM (CT)
CAZENOVIA, Wis. (AP) - Students at a school where the principal was fatally shot by a teen gunman last week returned to classes Thursday, clad in T-shirts that called the leader a superhero.
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Thousands nationwide protest Bush
Oct 5 2006 10:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape along a three-block stretch in front of the White House on Thursday as part of a nationwide day of protest against the president.
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Nuke meltdown may have caused cancers
Oct 5 2006 9:59PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory may have caused hundreds of cases of cancer in the community, and chemicals threaten to contaminate ground and water, according to a report released Thursday.
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ABC mistakenly releases ID in page probe
Oct 5 2006 9:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - ABC News' fleeting, inadvertent publishing of a computer screen name enabled a blogger to track down and make public the identity of a former congressional page who traded salacious messages with former Rep. Mark Foley.
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Feds find Sago Mine air packs deficient
Oct 5 2006 9:57PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The brand of air pack used by miners during the Sago Mine disaster is prone to have damaged air hoses and can make it difficult for miners to breathe, according to a federal report obtained by The Associated Press.
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Bush, Clinton receive 2006 Liberty Medal
Oct 5 2006 9:53PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who put politics aside to help raise more than $1 billion for disaster relief efforts, received the 2006 Liberty Medal on Thursday night.
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Bride-to-be's parents 'puzzled' by case
Oct 5 2006 9:28PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A couple accused of kidnapping their 21-year-old daughter to prevent her from getting married are "puzzled and scared" by the case, an attorney said Thursday.
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Bomb threat closes Va. school district
Oct 5 2006 9:13PM (CT)
CULPEPER, Va. (AP) - A bomb threat shut down an entire school district Thursday, canceling classes for more than 7,200 students in eight public schools, as well as hundreds more in area religious schools and child care centers.
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Court hears antidepressant murder case
Oct 5 2006 8:58PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A 12-year-old boy's confession to police that he killed his grandparents and set their house on fire was influenced by his age and an antidepressant, an attorney told the South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday.
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Father sues sex offender in Idaho deaths
Oct 5 2006 8:24PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A sex offender accused of killing three members of an Idaho family so he could molest two children has been sued by the children's father.
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Streaming video records sea lion lives
Oct 5 2006 7:49PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - You could call it steamy video instead of streaming video: On an island in the Gulf of Alaska, cameras are providing video images and sounds of some of the most intimate moments of endangered Steller sea lions.
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Navy corpsman to testify against Marines
Oct 5 2006 7:41PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - During two tours of duty in Iraq, Navy corpsman Melson J. Bacos experienced fire fights with insurgents, soldiers dying in his arms, thoughts of whether he'd live another day, he said.
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Friend details Marine's disappearance
Oct 5 2006 7:36PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Marine staged his own disappearance because he feared harm at the hands of members of his own unit, some of whom face murder charges in the death of an Iraqi civilian, a friend who acknowledges aiding in the ruse said in his first public comments on the case.
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N.M. candidate's spokeswoman beaten
Oct 5 2006 7:30PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The spokeswoman for Republican gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl's campaign was seriously injured Thursday after being severely beaten in a bank parking lot, officials said.
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Feds investigate spinach plants
Oct 5 2006 7:05PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In opening a criminal investigation into two produce companies involved in the contaminated spinach outbreak, federal agents are following a script first written a decade ago to hold companies responsible for mass food poisoning.
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Second spinach death confirmed in Idaho
Oct 5 2006 6:56PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach, health officials said Thursday.
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Bloomberg to lead 9/11 memorial board
Oct 5 2006 6:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The foundation in charge of raising money for a Sept. 11 memorial on Thursday gave control of the struggling effort to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an early critic of the most expensive memorial in U.S. history.
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Amish reluctantly accept donations
Oct 5 2006 6:11PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The deadly attack in a one-room Amish schoolhouse has fueled an outpouring of sympathy and offers of financial assistance for the community that generally rejects help from outsiders.
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Wis. police to plead guilty in beating
Oct 5 2006 6:04PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A suspended police officer and a former officer agreed Thursday to plead guilty to federal civil rights charges in the 2004 beating of a biracial man that inflamed racial tensions in the city, prosecutors said.
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Hundreds mourn slain Wisconsin principal
Oct 5 2006 5:48PM (CT)
CAZENOVIA, Wis. (AP) - Hundreds of people packed the hot, sticky gymnasium Wednesday to say farewell to the principal shot outside his office last week as he tried to protect his school from a student gunman.
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Poll: Pentecostals widening influence
Oct 5 2006 5:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A new 10-nation survey of Pentecostal and charismatic Christians, considered the fastest-growing stream of Christianity worldwide, shows they are deeply influencing the Roman Catholic and mainstream Protestant churches and are poised to make a big impact on global affairs.
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WTC steel cross moves to nearby church
Oct 5 2006 5:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A cross-shaped steel beam that survived the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attack to become a symbol of hope amid the ruins was moved Thursday from ground zero to a nearby church, accompanied by a procession of victims' families, clergy and construction workers.
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Texas nurse gets life in 10 drug deaths
Oct 5 2006 5:07PM (CT)
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on charges that she killed 10 hospital patients with drug injections because she found them too demanding.
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Court upholds California marriage laws
Oct 5 2006 4:12PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's marriage laws do not violate the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
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Brother, sister sentenced in Nev. attack
Oct 5 2006 3:52PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman was sentenced to 47 years to life in prison Thursday for a knife attack that killed one little girl and left another paralyzed outside a casino in 2003.
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Victims say Foley should name abuser
Oct 5 2006 3:38PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former Rep. Mark Foley's refusal to identify the clergyman he says molested him as a boy is reckless and could put other children at risk, say victims' advocates and a former priest who knows the ex-congressman.
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Mont. voters find their picks permanent
Oct 5 2006 2:56PM (CT)
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - Several absentee voters want their ballots back after voting for a judge whose coarse Internet postings drew recent news coverage. Election officials say forget about it.
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Guard accused of aiding Texas jail break
Oct 5 2006 1:50PM (CT)
LA VILLA, Texas (AP) - A guard at the jail where six inmates broke out last month has been charged with smuggling a cell phone and pliers to one of the fugitives.
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Bag checks to resume on Boston subways
Oct 5 2006 1:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Police will resume inspections of bags on public trains, buses and boats in the greater Boston area for the first time since the city hosted the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Gov. Mitt Romney announced Thursday.
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Absentee forms for seniors OK'd in Mich.
Oct 5 2006 1:07PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A Democratic county clerk sent absentee ballot applications to all registered voters over 60 in her jurisdiction Thursday, after a judge rejected Republicans' arguments that the unrequested mailings were illegal.
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LA settles with wrongly convicted man
Oct 5 2006 12:34PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man who served more than a decade behind bars for three murders he didn't commit will get $720,000 to settle his damage claim against the city.
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Murder charge OK'd in fatal fall in Pa.
Oct 5 2006 12:29PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A man accused of dangling his girlfriend from a 23rd-story window before she fell to her death can be tried for murder, a judge has ruled.
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Top N.D. attorney says GOP calls illegal
Oct 5 2006 12:12PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The Republican National Committee agreed to stop making recorded-voice calls to the homes of North Dakota GOP supporters after the Republican attorney general said the calls were illegal.
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Wis. lawmaker urges arming teachers
Oct 5 2006 12:05PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A state lawmaker, worried about a recent string of deadly school shootings, suggested arming teachers, principals and other school personnel as a safety measure and a deterrent.
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Religion news in brief
Oct 5 2006 11:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has proposed reducing its budget and cutting jobs, while merging several committees to streamline its work.
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Religion today
Oct 5 2006 11:08AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Rev. Richard Land wants to stay above the shoutfest of American politics.
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Parents indicted in teen kidnap case
Oct 5 2006 10:04AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A couple accused of tying up their pregnant daughter and taking her across the state line to try to force her to have an abortion were indicted on charges of kidnapping, assaulting and terrorizing.
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Doctors to separate conjoined N.D. twins
Oct 5 2006 9:54AM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Conjoined twins from North Dakota have undergone their first procedure leading up to the surgery that will separate them.
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Texas standoff ends after 14 hours
Oct 5 2006 7:44AM (CT)
FOREST HILL, Texas (AP) - A nearly 14-hour standoff between police and a man accused of shooting three people and taking a young boy hostage ended at dawn Thursday with the boy safe and the suspect in custody.
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Study: Side air bags lower driver deaths
Oct 5 2006 5:41AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Driver deaths in side-impact collisions dropped by more than half in sport utility vehicles equipped with head-protecting side air bags, insurance industry research shows.
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Science educators happy over Nobel sweep
Oct 5 2006 5:30AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The American sweep of Nobel Prizes in science this year has filled the nation's science educators with pride over what's done well in labs and classrooms _ and angst over what's not.
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Charges filed in HP spying scandal
Oct 5 2006 5:16AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - California's attorney general said Silicon Valley giant Hewlett-Packard Co. had "lost its way" with an ill-fated leak probe as he filed charges against the company's former chairwoman and four others.
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UW-La Crosse stirs debate over tuition
Oct 5 2006 3:50AM (CT)
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - As a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Carmen Wilson likes the idea of sharply raising tuition to hire more professors and recruit more poor and minority students.
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Shadowy object may be lost submarine
Oct 5 2006 3:36AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The underwater sonar images of a black shape against a grainy, monochrome background are the biggest clues in more than 60 years to the fate of Bruce Abele's father and the submarine he commanded during World War II.
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McConaughey commits to football script
Oct 5 2006 12:49AM (CT)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Matthew McConaughey says he immediately committed to a role in the upcoming film "We Are Marshall" after reading the script.
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Ex-teacher sentenced in Fla. sex case
Oct 5 2006 12:22AM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A former teacher was sentenced Wednesday to two years in state prison for having sex with a student.
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Inmate study: Women more abused than men
Oct 5 2006 12:14AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Women inmates in New Jersey's prisons are twice as likely to be raped and nearly six times more likely to be otherwise sexually abused by other inmates than their male counterparts, according to a new federal study.
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