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Trailer parks planned for Katrina victims
Oct 8 2005 11:41PM (CT)
BAKER, La. (AP) - The government's head of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts made a surprise visit to a newly built trailer park Saturday and said hundreds of similar makeshift towns are planned to house residents displaced by the storm.
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Amtrak returns to Big Easy after Katrina
Oct 8 2005 11:27PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Amtrak resumed passenger rail service to New Orleans on Saturday, bringing mass ground transportation back to the city for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.
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Subtropical depression dissipating
Oct 8 2005 10:40PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A subtropical depression that formed in the open Atlantic was dissipating late Saturday, prompting forecasters to cancel a tropical storm watch issued for Bermuda.
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Records sought in NYC abandoned girl case
Oct 8 2005 10:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The medical examiner sought fingerprint and dental records Saturday to determine if a body recovered from a Pennsylvania landfill was a Bolivian immigrant allegedly killed by her boyfriend two weeks ago.
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Bennett defends remarks on black abortions
Oct 8 2005 10:07PM (CT)
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Former Education Secretary William Bennett on Saturday blamed the news media for distorting his remarks about aborting black babies, saying he had intended to make "a bad argument in order to put it down."
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Officials probe NYC subway terror threat
Oct 8 2005 9:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers shrugged off fears of exploding baby carriages and went about their weekend routines Saturday as authorities debated whether a reported subway terror plot was a legitimate threat or an overblown hoax. "It's kind of like you're used to it by now," said Erica Ouda, 19, as she boarded a 4 train in lower Manhattan. "There's always a threat."
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Clinton inducted into Women's Hall of Fame
Oct 8 2005 9:02PM (CT)
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.
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Flight lands at Dulles after smoke report
Oct 8 2005 8:45PM (CT)
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - An airliner en route from New York City to Miami made a precautionary landing at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday night after smoke was reported aboard, an airport spokesman said.
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Guard: Hostile fire caused copter crash
Oct 8 2005 8:18PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Military investigators have determined that a helicopter crash that killed five Army National Guardsmen in Afghanistan last month was the result of hostile fire, not an accident.
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McCain to campaign for Calif. initiatives
Oct 8 2005 6:39PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - To help promote his "year of reform" ballot initiatives, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned to one of the best known political reformers on the national stage _ Arizona Sen. John McCain.
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Man eats 19 grilled cheeses in 10 minutes
Oct 8 2005 5:52PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Ed "Cookie" Jarvis of Long Island, N.Y., clearly won the grilled cheese-eating championship at the Arkansas State Fair on Saturday, stuffing down 19 sandwiches in the 10-minute contest.
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Gay leaders seek to bridge racial divide
Oct 8 2005 3:18PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Each year, Dyana Mason kicks off the summer with two road trips: one to Washington's black gay pride celebration in May and a second to its predominantly white June counterpart, Capital Pride.
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Three missing after Kan. apartment fire
Oct 8 2005 8:13AM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Fire destroyed a Kansas apartment building Friday, sending 19 people to the hospital and forcing some tenants to jump to safety from the second and third floors. Three people were missing after the blaze at the Boardwalk Apartments.
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4.2-magnitude quake hits central Calif.
Oct 8 2005 8:10AM (CT)
CAMBRIA, Calif. (AP) - An earthquake shook central California early Saturday about five miles northeast of San Simeon, home to Hearst Castle.
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Girl, 9, pleads guilty to stabbing friend
Oct 8 2005 8:07AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 9-year-old girl pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Friday, admitting she fatally stabbed her 11-year-old playmate after a tug-of-war over a rubber ball went sour.
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Alaska town says bridge is not boondoggle
Oct 8 2005 8:03AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Let others sneer at Southeast Alaska's so-called "bridge to nowhere." Leaders in Ketchikan, the small port town on the receiving end of the project, call it a bridge to the future.
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Nagin hopes casinos will attract tourists
Oct 8 2005 5:41AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor C. Ray Nagin hopes to attract tourists and their cash back to his ravaged city with an "out-of-the-box" plan to install Las Vegas-style gambling in the city's biggest hotels.
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Va. gubernatorial candidates in dead heat
Oct 8 2005 5:20AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, locked in a statistical dead heat, will go head-to-head Sunday night in their final debate.
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Mo. town rallies around illegal immigrant
Oct 8 2005 2:34AM (CT)
MARSHALL, Mo. (AP) - From the Little League fields to the Habitat for Humanity boardroom, everyone in this central Missouri town seemed to know Manuel "Paco" Lopez.
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Surveyors map Katrina's storm surge
Oct 8 2005 2:12AM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A small piece of duct tape stuck 9 1/2 feet above the ground marks the spot on a gutted brick house where Hurricane Katrina's storm surge gushed a month earlier.
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Bus company in fatal fire shut down
Oct 8 2005 12:18AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Federal officials on Friday ordered the immediate shutdown of a company that operated a bus involved in a fire last month that killed 23 elderly hurricane evacuees along a Texas highway.
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Capsized boat group said bigger than usual
Oct 8 2005 12:16AM (CT)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - The captain of a boat that capsized last weekend, killing 20 elderly tourists on a fall foliage tour, said Friday he had a larger group on board than usual.
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Engineers: New cause of New Orleans flood
Oct 8 2005 12:07AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Much of the city flooded not because water rushed over the tops of levees, but because two of the storm barriers that ring New Orleans actually shifted and then collapsed, a team of independent engineers said Friday.
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