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Judge: Jury selection closed to public
Oct 13 2006 11:56PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Jury selection in the triple murder trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III will be closed to the public and news media to ensure the registered sex offender gets a fair trial, a judge ruled Friday.
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Feds sue Philadelphia over voting rights
Oct 13 2006 11:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued the city of Philadelphia, claiming it violated the rights of Spanish-speaking voters.
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SoCal high school erupts in violence
Oct 13 2006 11:47PM (CT)
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) - A fight between two high school students erupted into a riot of 500 people, prompting officers to fire bean bags and rubber pellets to scatter the crowd, police said. No major injuries were reported.
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Military pilot sentenced in Ecstasy case
Oct 13 2006 11:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. military pilot who flew a U.S. Air Force jet from New York to Germany to pick up 200,000 pills of Ecstasy was sentenced Friday to 17 1/2 years in prison.
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Protesters at school for deaf arrested
Oct 13 2006 11:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - At least two dozen people were arrested Friday night as students continued to block the entrance to the nation's only liberal arts university for the deaf and hearing-impaired in a protest over its incoming president.
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Arrest made in Ariz. reservation rapes
Oct 13 2006 11:12PM (CT)
FORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. (AP) - Federal officials arrested a man Friday who they believe was posing as a police officer and raping young girls on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
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Buffalo hit with early snowstorm; 3 die
Oct 13 2006 10:41PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The Buffalo area lay all but paralyzed Friday after a record-breaking early snowstorm whited-out the brilliant colors of fall, burying pumpkins and apples and catching this city world-famous for its wintry weather flat-flooted.
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4 dead, 2 missing in pipeline blast
Oct 13 2006 10:37PM (CT)
CYPREMORT POINT, La. (AP) - The body of a fourth barge worker was found Friday as the search continued for two people still missing after a natural gas pipeline exploded off the Louisiana coast.
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2 feet of snow falls on western N.Y.
Oct 13 2006 10:31PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Tree limbs filled with autumn colors lay broken on a carpet of white. Kids got to throw snowballs nearly three weeks before they go trick-or-treating. Boats on Lake Erie were encrusted in ice a day before many people in the area had planned to go picking pumpkins and apples.
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SEC asks for Big Dig documents
Oct 13 2006 10:22PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked state officials overseeing the Big Dig to turn over documents related to safety reviews of the $14.6 billion highway project, including the portion of the tunnel system where a ceiling panel collapsed and killed a woman.
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Missing Vt. student's body recovered
Oct 13 2006 10:13PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The body of a University of Vermont student was found along a rural road Friday, and police said they were questioning a man who lent her his cell phone on the night she vanished nearly a week ago.
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SEAL falls on grenade to save comrades
Oct 13 2006 10:13PM (CT)
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - A Navy SEAL sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout, fellow members of the elite force said.
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U.S. fights to keep surveillance program
Oct 13 2006 10:09PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to throw out a lower court decision that said the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional.
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Hearing set for former Abu Ghraib head
Oct 13 2006 10:02PM (CT)
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - The former head of the interrogation center at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, charged with mistreating detainees and interfering with an investigation, is set appear to at a military hearing, military officials said Friday.
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Judge denies former Ill. gov's appeal
Oct 13 2006 9:54PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge dashed former Gov. George Ryan's hopes of avoiding prison while his corruption case is on appeal, ordering him Friday to start serving his 6 1/2-year sentence in January as scheduled.
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Woman indicted in friend, fetus slaying
Oct 13 2006 9:30PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A prosecutor said Friday his office could decide by year's end whether to seek the death penalty against a woman accused of killing her pregnant friend and the fetus she allegedly cut from the friend's womb.
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Guilty plea in Colo. house bombs case
Oct 13 2006 9:21PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A former air traffic controller accused of planting homemade bombs outside the Colorado homes of four co-workers and a Federal Aviation Administration official pleaded guilty Friday and now could get 20 years in prison.
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Small plane lands on Orlando interstate
Oct 13 2006 9:18PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A small plane that landed on Interstate 4 on Friday, creating a spectacle near downtown Orlando that snarled traffic, was piloted by the Reform Party's candidate for governor, a campaign spokeswoman said.
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Mother in Fla. child abuse case arrested
Oct 13 2006 9:17PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The mother of a 9-year-old boy who police say was kept locked in his bedroom for most of the last three years and monitored by a video camera was arrested Friday on charges of aggravated child abuse, authorities said.
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Runaway Bride breaches etiquette
Oct 13 2006 9:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Now she wants the shower gifts back, too? Experts in wedding protocol are tut-tutting _ albeit sympathetically _ over the latest turn in the case of the Runaway Bride, a story rife with breaches of etiquette.
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Ex-Tenn. senator gets 5 years for bribes
Oct 13 2006 9:09PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A former state senator was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison for taking bribes in an FBI corruption sting dubbed Operation Tennessee Waltz.
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Experts analyze Lidle's fatal U-turn
Oct 13 2006 8:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Aviation experts said Friday that inexperience, the tight airspace over the city, mechanical failure, hazy weather or a gust of wind through New York's concrete canyons could explain why Cory Lidle's plane failed to execute a U-turn and slammed into the side of a high-rise.
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Police find 4 bodies along Fla. highway
Oct 13 2006 8:44PM (CT)
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - Police on Friday found what appeared to be a family of four gunned down overnight along an isolated stretch of highway: a woman clutching two children in a forlorn effort to protect them, with a man's body nearby.
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Navy officer tapped to head L.A. schools
Oct 13 2006 8:34PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The board of education picked a Navy official with little classroom experience to become superintendent of the nation's second-largest school district, ignoring Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's request to be involved in the selection.
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Comair, attendants reach tentative deal
Oct 13 2006 8:18PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Comair, the subsidiary of Delta Air Lines Inc., and the union representing its 970 flight attendants said Friday the two sides have reached a tentative agreement on concessions.
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Duke lacrosse players speak out
Oct 13 2006 8:03PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Angry they have been charged with a rape they say they didn't commit, three members of Duke University's lacrosse team say in an upcoming television interview that the accusations have hurt their lives and those of their families for good _ even if they end up being cleared.
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Comair sues over plane crash
Oct 13 2006 7:39PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Comair sued the federal government and the Lexington airport Friday over the deadly crash of a commuter plane that mistakenly took off from a too-short runway. Forty-nine people were killed in the accident Aug. 27.
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Ill. political adviser misses court date
Oct 13 2006 6:16PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A fundraiser and political confidant of Gov. Rod Blagojevich failed to appear in court on fraud charges Friday, and prosecutors questioned whether he intends to return from an overseas trip.
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2 ex-hospital execs convicted in R.I.
Oct 13 2006 6:02PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two former hospital executives were convicted Friday of hiring a state senator to act as a secret lobbyist to advance their legislative interests at the Statehouse.
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Ad likens measure to Sept. 11, Katrina
Oct 13 2006 5:32PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Opponents of a ballot proposal that would ban some affirmative action programs in Michigan are running a statewide radio ad that warns the measure is as dangerous as the Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters.
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2nd bizarre accident strikes NYC woman
Oct 13 2006 4:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A woman whose apartment was burned in the high-rise crash of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's plane was the victim of another frightening, bizarre and high-profile Manhattan accident years earlier, when a lamppost knocked over by a parade float seriously injured her.
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Heiress Astor's son removed as guardian
Oct 13 2006 2:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Philanthropist Brooke Astor's son has been permanently removed as guardian of her multimillion-dollar estate, according to a settlement announced in court Friday.
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Kan. lawmaker charged in 'roach' scuffle
Oct 13 2006 2:06PM (CT)
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - A legislator was charged with scuffling with the cockroach-costumed president of an anti-abortion group at a gubernatorial debate last month.
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Fla. Dems attack election day notices
Oct 13 2006 2:00PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Florida Democrats asked a state court Friday to block Election Day notices at polling places that would inform voters in Rep. Mark Foley's district that his GOP replacement on the ballot will receive his votes.
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Charges upgraded in Fla. homeless attack
Oct 13 2006 1:49PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Charges against four teenagers in an attack on a homeless man were upgraded Friday to attempted murder because of what prosecutors called "extreme callousness and recklessness."
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Texas school tells classes to fight back
Oct 13 2006 1:42PM (CT)
BURLESON, Texas (AP) - Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got _ books, pencils, legs and arms.
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New Orleans infested with wildlife
Oct 13 2006 1:39PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Alligators have been dragged from abandoned swimming pools. Foxes had to be removed from the airport. Coyotes are stalking rabbits and nutria (a sort of countrified rat) in city streets. And armadillos are undermining air conditioning units.
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Patrol: Trooper in fatal crash was drunk
Oct 13 2006 1:32PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A highway patrolman was legally drunk when his cruiser crashed into another vehicle last month, killing him, another trooper and the other driver, officials said Friday.
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FEMA paints stove knobs for safety
Oct 13 2006 1:21PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Trying to prevent deadly explosions, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent contractors to more than 100,000 government-issue trailers on the Gulf Coast to paint stove knobs a distinctive red.
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FAA reviews New York flight path
Oct 13 2006 1:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal aviation officials said they will review the rules that allow small aircraft into Manhattan's crowded airspace after a plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle slammed into a skyscraper.
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W.Va. to fix errors on veterans memorial
Oct 13 2006 12:48PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A panel approved a plan to correct nearly 150 names on the state's veterans memorial and add almost 900 more that were never included on the black granite panels.
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Arapahoe Basin opens U.S. ski season
Oct 13 2006 12:30PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Arapahoe Basin let skiers and snowboarders carve turns in man-made snow on a ski run and terrain park Friday, winning the public relations battle to open the nation's ski season.
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Secret charges, plea in Ga. Hamas case
Oct 13 2006 11:33AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The imam of a north Georgia mosque pleaded guilty to providing material support to the militant group Hamas in a case in which the agreement, charges and even the plea hearing were handled in secret.
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Officer suspended over graphic Web site
Oct 13 2006 11:00AM (CT)
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - A police officer whose Web page on MySpace.com included images of dismembered women has been indefinitely suspended, authorities said.
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Sept. 11 theorist backs Univ. Wisconsin
Oct 13 2006 10:34AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist raised $8,427 for the University of Wisconsin to make up for money that local officials cut from one of its programs in a protest over a UW lecturer with similar views.
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Groups question nuke plant terror risk
Oct 13 2006 9:14AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Environmental groups opposed to expanding a nuclear power plant accused federal regulators of failing to publicly address whether the project would increase the risk of terrorism.
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FAA reviews New York flight path
Oct 13 2006 8:11AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal officials on Friday were winding down their onsite investigation of the crash of New York Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle's plane into a skyscraper and said they were reviewing rules that allow small aircraft to fly in Manhattan's crowded airspace.
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Mine roof collapse kills Ala. inspector
Oct 13 2006 7:34AM (CT)
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (AP) - Rocks falling from a coal mine roof struck and killed a worker inspecting an isolated section of a large, underground mine, officials said.
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2 feet of snow falls on western N.Y.
Oct 13 2006 5:39AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A rare early October snowstorm left parts of western New York blanketed with 2 feet of snow Friday morning, prompting widespread blackouts, closing schools and halting traffic.
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Buffalo marks 'snowiest' October day
Oct 13 2006 4:30AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Having just set a record for the "snowiest" October day, the city braced for more Friday as the season's first snowfall closed schools and left 155,000 customers without electricity.
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Teen charged with beating homeless man
Oct 13 2006 3:20AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A fourth teenager has been arrested in the beating of a homeless man in a park last month, authorities said.
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NYC flight path comes under scrutiny
Oct 13 2006 3:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A day after the fiery plane crash that killed Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, politicians expressed alarm that, five years after Sept. 11, small aircraft are still allowed to fly right up next to the New York skyline.
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Beefcake calendar helps wounded veterans
Oct 13 2006 2:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A group of Marines and ex-Marines who fought in Iraq _ including two wounded there _ is featured in a beefcake calendar being sold to help wounded veterans.
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Surf City rivalry gets gnarly
Oct 13 2006 2:43AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two Santa Cruz beachwear shop owners are going to court in an attempt to wipe out the city of Huntington Beach's trademark to the nickname "Surf City USA."
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Indiana Nun to be proclaimed a saint
Oct 13 2006 2:40AM (CT)
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana nun once banished from her congregation by a bishop will be proclaimed a saint on Sunday, providing a model of virtuous life to America's Roman Catholics _ even if they find themselves at odds with church leaders.
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Air patrols tighten security over cities
Oct 13 2006 1:20AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Moments after the single-engine plane slammed into the New York City high-rise, military and other federal officials were on a conference call assessing the situation. Minutes later, fighter aircraft were circling at least a half-dozen cities, prepared to shoot down airborne intruders.
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