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Son charged with murdering Iowa family
Oct 15 2006 11:32PM (CT)
BONAPARTE, Iowa (AP) - A 22-year-old man has been charged with murdering his parents and three teenage sisters at their home in southeastern Iowa, authorities said Sunday.
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100s evacuated amid Hawaii aftershocks
Oct 15 2006 11:24PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A strong earthquake shook Hawaii early Sunday, jolting residents out of bed and causing a landslide that blocked a major highway. Hundreds of hotel guests and hospital patients were evacuated, and aftershocks kept the state on edge.
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UVM senior remembered in solemn ceremony
Oct 15 2006 10:45PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - About 900 people, solemn and shaken, packed a brick chapel Sunday to lay flowers and sing songs in remembrance of a University of Vermont student found dead last week.
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AIDS activist Jeff Getty dead at 49
Oct 15 2006 10:22PM (CT)
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) - Jeff Getty, a prominent AIDS activist who in 1995 received the first bone-marrow transplant from a baboon to treat the disease, has died. He was 49.
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Candidate's spouse addresses accusations
Oct 15 2006 10:00PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The husband of Republican state attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro denies he had an affair last year, but he says he did seek the company of other women because he doesn't get enough attention from his wife, New York magazine reports.
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Gorbachev: Nukes could keep spreading
Oct 15 2006 9:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Sunday the five original nuclear powers haven't done enough to eliminate nuclear weapons and prevent other nations from acquiring them.
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Gay marriage foes rally in Boston
Oct 15 2006 9:21PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Conservative religious and political leaders rallied Sunday in opposition of gay marriage, arguing that their rights to religious expression are being threatened.
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Report: Oshkosh Truck buying JLG
Oct 15 2006 8:37PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Oshkosh Truck Corp., which manufactures a wide range of military and nonmilitary vehicles, plans to acquire JLG Industries Inc., a maker of aerial work platforms, booms and related devices, in a deal worth about $3 billion, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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UnitedHealth chief McGuire to step down
Oct 15 2006 8:22PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The stock options scandal claimed its biggest corporate chief yet on Sunday, with UnitedHealth Group Inc. saying Chairman and CEO William McGuire would step down because an outside report found that his option grants "were likely backdated."
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Duke players talk on '60 Minutes'
Oct 15 2006 7:53PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The three members of Duke University's lacrosse team charged with rape say they had expected DNA testing would clear them of a crime they insist they did not commit.
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Proposer of Jefferson DNA test dies
Oct 15 2006 6:54PM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Winifred Bennett, the amateur historian who suggested that DNA tests might determine whether Thomas Jefferson fathered children by his slave Sally Hemings, died Oct. 7. She was 71.
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CBGB hosts last concert before eviction
Oct 15 2006 6:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - CBGB was to host its final concert Sunday night after a 33-year residence in downtown New York as the iconic, grungy bastion of punk.
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Heirs defy history of blacks losing land
Oct 15 2006 6:03PM (CT)
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - The land is beautiful, and valuable: 21 acres on Hilton Head Island, along a creek with vistas of sunsets and docks where shrimp boats tie up.
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Fla. sheriff killed in bus race crash
Oct 15 2006 5:15PM (CT)
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Florida sheriff was killed on his 47th birthday during an accident at a charity school bus race, the Florida Highway Patrol said Sunday.
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Stranded Egyptian freighter leaves S.C.
Oct 15 2006 5:13PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - An Egyptian freighter kept in port for more than three months because of legal problems has been allowed to leave Charleston Harbor.
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Cruise ships return to New Orleans
Oct 15 2006 4:21PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Christian Baehr set out Sunday on his first long trip since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and he did it on the first cruise ship to make a regularly scheduled stop in the Crescent City since the storm.
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Indiana residents laud new saint
Oct 15 2006 4:09PM (CT)
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - The 19th-century founder of a women's college in Indiana has been inspiring people in these parts for years, though Mother Theodore Guerin became a saint only on Sunday.
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Agency told to aid mentally ill inmates
Oct 15 2006 3:46PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A judge threatened the state Department of Children and Families with thousands of dollars a day in fines if it does not begin taking in mentally ill jail inmates, as required by law.
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Lawyer to radicals may face prison term
Oct 15 2006 2:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - She's already a grandmother of 14, a cancer survivor and a former civil rights lawyer who took on radical clients others considered toxic.
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Jury selection to open in Idaho slayings
Oct 15 2006 12:58PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Police believe it was the children in their swimsuits that caught the attention of pedophile Joseph Edward Duncan III, triggering a spree of savage murder, kidnapping and child rape.
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Fed probers say refinery short on safety
Oct 15 2006 12:07PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - BP PLC did not have safety procedures in place which could have prevented a July 2005 fire that broke out at its Texas City refinery because workers installed the wrong type of pipe, federal investigators said Sunday.
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Feds: Deny claim about Siegelman jury
Oct 15 2006 12:00PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to deny a motion for a new trial by former Gov. Don Siegelman and ex-HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, saying defense attorneys failed to present any evidence of jury misconduct.
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Winter spinach demand worries farmers
Oct 15 2006 11:44AM (CT)
EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) - Spinach grower Jack Vessey sees dollar signs as the little green leaves of his winter crop sprout from the rich, desert soil of the Imperial Valley.
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Principal may be charged in cat killings
Oct 15 2006 10:02AM (CT)
INDUS, Minn. (AP) - A school principal has resigned and could face felony firearm charges after he shot and killed two orphaned kittens on school property last month.
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Relative: Slain Fla. family had no foes
Oct 15 2006 6:15AM (CT)
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) - Yessica Guerrero Escobedo and Jose Luis Escobedo were high school sweethearts, a relative said, who fell in love and married. Recently, they packed up their two children and left their Texas home, headed for Florida in search of a new life.
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Fake coins create stir on LA's Skid Row
Oct 15 2006 4:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It looked like the "deal of the century," police said, a couple of guys down on their luck on Skid Row, selling valuable old silver coins for $20 apiece.
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Church removes bust of accused priest
Oct 15 2006 2:49AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A bust of the Rev. Louis Toma, an icon at the East Boston church where he served for 50 years, has been removed by the Boston Archdiocese at the request of parishioners who said the late cleric sexually abused children.
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Thief gets 5 years for stealing maps
Oct 15 2006 1:55AM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A man who admitted stealing rare and valuable old maps from libraries has been sentenced to five years in a Connecticut prison.
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TSA screener faces theft charge
Oct 15 2006 1:24AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A screener with the Transportation Security Administration was arrested after a passenger reported that she took money from the passenger's wallet.
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TSA screener faces theft charge
Oct 15 2006 1:20AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A screener with the Transportation Security Administration was arrested after a passenger reported that she took money from the passenger's wallet.
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