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AIM leader Vernon Bellecourt dies at 75
Oct 13 2007 11:58PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Vernon Bellecourt, a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement who fought against the use of American Indian nicknames for sports teams, died Saturday his brother said. He was 75.
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Man wanted for child rape back in U.S.
Oct 13 2007 11:18PM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A fugitive wanted in Tennessee on multiple counts of child rape and exploitation was captured Saturday near Matamoros, Mexico, and jailed in southern Texas.
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Press group cites Venezuelan 'pressure'
Oct 13 2007 10:28PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A group representing news media from across the Americas accused the Venezuelan government Saturday of pressuring hotels not to host the organization's annual meeting next year _ an allegation officials in the South American country quickly dismissed.
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Craig named to Idaho Hall of Fame
Oct 13 2007 10:25PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Sen. Larry Craig was named Saturday night to the Idaho Hall of Fame, marking the Republican lawmaker's first ceremonial appearance back in his home state since his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting became public in August.
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Fiery Calif. pileup kills at least 2
Oct 13 2007 10:11PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A late-night crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel quickly turned into a fiery, chain-reaction pileup that mangled several trucks, killed at least two people and shut down the key north-south route as the wreckage burned into Saturday.
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Fiery Calif. pileup kills at least 2
Oct 13 2007 10:11PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A late-night crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel quickly turned into a fiery, chain-reaction pileup that mangled several trucks, killed at least two people and shut down the key north-south route as the wreckage burned into Saturday.
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Fiery Calif. pileup kills at least 2
Oct 13 2007 10:11PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A late-night crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel quickly turned into a fiery, chain-reaction pileup that mangled several trucks, killed at least two people and shut down the key north-south route as the wreckage burned into Saturday.
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Fiery Calif. pileup kills at least 2
Oct 13 2007 10:11PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A late-night crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel quickly turned into a fiery, chain-reaction pileup that mangled several trucks, killed at least two people and shut down the key north-south route as the wreckage burned into Saturday.
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Co-defendant in Simpson case to plea
Oct 13 2007 9:33PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Accused of being one of five men who joined O.J. Simpson in a hotel-room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers, Charles Cashmore will plead guilty to a reduced charge and testify that guns were involved in the theft of sports collectibles.
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Federal review looms in boot camp death
Oct 13 2007 9:31PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Seven former juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse had barely processed an all-white jury's decision to acquit them in a black teenager's death before federal authorities announced they would review the case.
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Federal review looms in boot camp death
Oct 13 2007 9:31PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Seven former juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse had barely processed an all-white jury's decision to acquit them in a black teenager's death before federal authorities announced they would review the case.
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Federal review looms in boot camp death
Oct 13 2007 9:31PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Seven former juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse had barely processed an all-white jury's decision to acquit them in a black teenager's death before federal authorities announced they would review the case.
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Myanmar refugees strain aid groups
Oct 13 2007 7:53PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The modest apartment where Van Tin Lian Zathang, his wife, Biak, and their two daughters live sits in a tidy, sprawling complex of brick town houses that other refugees from Myanmar also call home.
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Myanmar refugees strain aid groups
Oct 13 2007 7:53PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The modest apartment where Van Tin Lian Zathang, his wife, Biak, and their two daughters live sits in a tidy, sprawling complex of brick town houses that other refugees from Myanmar also call home.
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Myanmar refugees strain aid groups
Oct 13 2007 7:53PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The modest apartment where Van Tin Lian Zathang, his wife, Biak, and their two daughters live sits in a tidy, sprawling complex of brick town houses that other refugees from Myanmar also call home.
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Myanmar refugees strain aid groups
Oct 13 2007 7:53PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The modest apartment where Van Tin Lian Zathang, his wife, Biak, and their two daughters live sits in a tidy, sprawling complex of brick town houses that other refugees from Myanmar also call home.
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Blackwater chief: FBI probe 'welcome'
Oct 13 2007 7:35PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The chief executive of Blackwater USA, whose guards are accused of killing 17 Iraqis in Baghdad last month, says he welcomes the FBI investigation into the shooting and supports the prosecution of any bad acts.
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Former Duke lacrosse coach sues school
Oct 13 2007 7:03PM (CT)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - The former Duke University men's lacrosse coach who resigned last year amid allegations that three of his players raped a stripper has sued the university.
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Advocates fight Segway ban at Fla. parks
Oct 13 2007 3:41PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Advocates for the disabled want two theme parks to lift a ban on Segways, saying the scooters give people who can't walk a degree of freedom not afforded by wheelchairs.
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Kennedy leaves hospital after surgery
Oct 13 2007 2:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was released from the Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday, a day after surgery to clear a blockage in a major neck artery.
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Teachers fund backs job-specific housing
Oct 13 2007 1:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Elementary school teacher Ramona Roman has a master's degree and earns $70,000 a year, but she's barely making it in New York City.
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Virginia GOP picks convention next year
Oct 13 2007 1:06PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Republicans will hold a convention rather than a primary next year to choose their candidate to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. John W. Warner.
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Praise, ire for tycoon's town renovation
Oct 13 2007 12:43PM (CT)
AURORA, N.Y. (AP) - On the eastern shores of Cayuga Lake lies a tiny village of enchanting beauty and charm. Early settlers called it the village of constant dawn and it evokes that feeling today _ historic, lakeside mansions dusted in a kind of timeless glow, a red-brick inn with gleaming white porches, ivy-clad buildings rising from the stately lawns of Wells College.
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Gay groups reach out to straight allies
Oct 13 2007 12:22PM (CT)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - The setting was intimate, the hors d'oeuvres simple and the hostess barefoot, but the house party Gabby Seagrave and LaDonna Silva held for a dozen friends and co-workers was hardly a spontaneous affair.
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Bridge collapse survivors seek more help
Oct 13 2007 12:07PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - As the estimated cost of recovering from an interstate bridge collapse surges past $400 million, survivors of the deadly disaster just wish they could get a few thousand dollars here and there to make ends meet.
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Lawsuits possible from Va. Tech shooting
Oct 13 2007 9:53AM (CT)
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - As the sixth-month anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre approaches, a lawyer representing 20 people killed or injured in the April shootings has began notifying the town and the state about possible lawsuits.
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Texas cops in standoff with accused man
Oct 13 2007 8:05AM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Police were in a standoff Friday with a man accused of killing his estranged wife and two stepchildren and then dropping off his blood-covered but unharmed 3-year-old daughter at a church, police said. Someone at the church in nearby Arlington called police after seeing the child and hearing the man say he had committed a crime at his house, Fort Worth Police Lt. Dan Draper said.
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Raids begin in Anna Nicole Smith probe
Oct 13 2007 6:49AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith raided six locations Friday, including the offices and residences of two doctors, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.
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Man accused of slaying wife, 2 children
Oct 13 2007 5:40AM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - A man accused of killing his estranged wife and two stepchildren fatally shot himself Friday as he drove into a lake after a nearly seven-hour standoff, police said.
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Mom charged with buying Pa. teen weapons
Oct 13 2007 5:36AM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A troubled teenager accused of plotting a school attack built up a stash of weapons with the help of his mother, authorities said Friday. Michele Cossey, 46, was arrested Friday on charges of illegally buying her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope.
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Mom charged with buying Pa. teen weapons
Oct 13 2007 5:36AM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A troubled teenager accused of plotting a school attack built up a stash of weapons with the help of his mother, authorities said Friday. Michele Cossey, 46, was arrested Friday on charges of illegally buying her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope.
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Mom charged with buying Pa. teen weapons
Oct 13 2007 5:36AM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A troubled teenager accused of plotting a school attack built up a stash of weapons with the help of his mother, authorities said Friday. Michele Cossey, 46, was arrested Friday on charges of illegally buying her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope.
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Mom charged with buying Pa. teen weapons
Oct 13 2007 5:36AM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A troubled teenager accused of plotting a school attack built up a stash of weapons with the help of his mother, authorities said Friday. Michele Cossey, 46, was arrested Friday on charges of illegally buying her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope.
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Mom charged with buying Pa. teen weapons
Oct 13 2007 5:36AM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A troubled teenager accused of plotting a school attack built up a stash of weapons with the help of his mother, authorities said Friday. Michele Cossey, 46, was arrested Friday on charges of illegally buying her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope.
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Iranian-American back from Tehran prison
Oct 13 2007 4:25AM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - An Iranian-American peace activist who spent four months in a Tehran prison has returned home after posting bond with Iranian authorities, his son said.
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5 trucks on fire on I-5 in Calif.
Oct 13 2007 3:09AM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - Five big rigs were in flames inside a tunnel after a 15-truck pileup on the rain-slicked Golden State Freeway in northern Los Angeles County that left 10 people injured and one missing, authorities said.
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Mistrial for former TSU president
Oct 13 2007 3:04AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Jurors in the trial of former Texas Southern University president Priscilla Slade said they could not decide if she misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes, resulting in a mistrial.
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Mistrial for former TSU president
Oct 13 2007 3:04AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Jurors in the trial of former Texas Southern University president Priscilla Slade said they could not decide if she misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes, resulting in a mistrial.
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Mistrial for former TSU president
Oct 13 2007 3:04AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Jurors in the trial of former Texas Southern University president Priscilla Slade said they could not decide if she misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes, resulting in a mistrial.
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Mistrial for former TSU president
Oct 13 2007 3:04AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Jurors in the trial of former Texas Southern University president Priscilla Slade said they could not decide if she misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes, resulting in a mistrial.
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Mistrial for former TSU president
Oct 13 2007 3:04AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Jurors in the trial of former Texas Southern University president Priscilla Slade said they could not decide if she misspent school funds to lavishly decorate her homes, resulting in a mistrial.
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Defense builds in pregnant woman's death
Oct 13 2007 2:16AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The mother of a woman who cut a baby from the womb of an acquaintance she killed testified that she caught her then-husband having sex with her daughter in 1984.
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Gore, scientists vindicated by Nobel
Oct 13 2007 2:12AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast.
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Gore, scientists vindicated by Nobel
Oct 13 2007 2:12AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast.
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Gore, scientists vindicated by Nobel
Oct 13 2007 2:12AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast.
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Gore, scientists vindicated by Nobel
Oct 13 2007 2:12AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast.
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Gore, scientists vindicated by Nobel
Oct 13 2007 2:12AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast.
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Gore, scientists vindicated by Nobel
Oct 13 2007 2:12AM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast.
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2 dead, 9 injured in Wis. bus accident
Oct 13 2007 12:00AM (CT)
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) - A school bus carrying a high school soccer team slammed into a sports utility vehicle in southern Wisconsin on Friday evening, leaving two Chicago area residents dead and nine students injured.
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