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Powell: 'U.S. is not doing bad at all'
Oct 19 2005 11:53PM (CT)
AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday the United States is "not doing bad at all" diplomatically, despite anti-American sentiment over the war in Iraq.
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Search on for 3 kids in San Francisco Bay
Oct 19 2005 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rescuers searched Wednesday night for the bodies of three young children who were reportedly tossed into San Francisco Bay near a popular waterfront attraction, authorities said.
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FBI says body, weapon found in Indiana
Oct 19 2005 11:18PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A body and a handgun were found Wednesday in Indiana, near where a van was abandoned by a suburban Cincinnati man who is a suspect in three shooting deaths, the FBI said.
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Second brother sentenced in N.C. shooting
Oct 19 2005 11:00PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - One of two brothers involved in the shooting deaths of two men at a North Carolina State University football game was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 17 years in prison.
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Two children dead, 11 hurt in Calif. crash
Oct 19 2005 10:41PM (CT)
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A speeding car struck a parked car Wednesday, and both vehicles caromed onto a sidewalk near an elementary school, killing a young brother and sister and injuring 11 other people, police said.
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Weakened Mass. dam stabilized; rain looms
Oct 19 2005 10:37PM (CT)
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Water pressing against a battered wooden dam continued to recede Wednesday, and officials planned to pump more out, in hopes of doing repairs before an expected second weekend of heavy rain.
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Powerball lottery jackpot hits high, $340M
Oct 19 2005 10:34PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Ticket buyers played their kids' birthdays, their wedding anniversaries, even a set of numbers taken straight from the TV show "Lost," in hopes of winning $340 million Wednesday in the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
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Fla. braces for an intense Hurricane Wilma
Oct 19 2005 10:20PM (CT)
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - In what has become an all-too-familiar drill, Floridians boarded up windows, gassed up their cars and bought storm supplies Wednesday. But this time they were looking at one of the most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic.
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Airlines sign deals for water safeguards
Oct 19 2005 9:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twenty-four airlines have signed agreements with the government subjecting the carriers to fines of up to $27,500 if they fail to adopt tougher safeguards for monitoring and disinfecting the drinking water served to passengers.
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Surfer attacked by shark in California
Oct 19 2005 9:04PM (CT)
BODEGA BAY, Calif. (AP) - A surfer received a bad gash Wednesday when a 14-foot shark bit her leg in the waters off northern California and pulled her underwater, authorities said.
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W.Va. Baptists reject proposal to split
Oct 19 2005 8:58PM (CT)
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Baptists voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to split from the American Baptist Churches-USA over its stance on homosexuality.
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Schwarzenegger endorses Ohio redistricting
Oct 19 2005 8:45PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday endorsed an Ohio ballot measure that is similar to a redistricting proposal on California's Nov. 8 special election ballot.
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N.Y. judge tosses bouncer slay conviction
Oct 19 2005 8:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge on Wednesday threw out the murder conviction of the second of two men who spent more than 14 years in prison for the shooting death of a bouncer at a Manhattan nightclub.
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Feds OK Fla. plan to move Medicaid clients
Oct 19 2005 8:42PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida received federal approval Wednesday for a pilot program that would shift thousands of Medicaid recipients into managed care.
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Woman pleads no contest in 7 Toledo deaths
Oct 19 2005 8:39PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A woman pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter Wednesday in the deaths of seven children who died in a fire started by one of them while the woman was briefly absent from the house.
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Math scores improve; reading results mixed
Oct 19 2005 8:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Black and Hispanic students are narrowing the achievement gap with whites in reading and math, but overall the nation's progress is small or slipping.
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Missing N.J. boy found under deck, alive
Oct 19 2005 8:08PM (CT)
SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) - A 10-year-old boy who apparently ran away from his Middlesex County home on Monday, triggering a massive search, was found alive and in good condition Wednesday evening underneath the deck of a house not far away, authorities said.
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Missing N.J. boy found under deck, alive
Oct 19 2005 8:06PM (CT)
SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) - A 10-year-old boy who apparently ran away from his Middlesex County home on Monday, triggering a massive search, was found alive Wednesday evening underneath the deck of a house not far away.
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Law enforcement group issues Taser guide
Oct 19 2005 7:58PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A national law enforcement organization recommended Wednesday that police use Taser stun guns only on people who actively resist officers and for only five seconds at a time.
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Body found believed to be WWII airman
Oct 19 2005 7:56PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Two climbers on a Sierra Nevada glacier discovered an ice-encased body believed to be that of an airman whose plane crashed in 1942.
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Leaders of Pa. school field trip find body
Oct 19 2005 7:55PM (CT)
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. (AP) - Adults leading a seventh-grade field trip on the Appalachian Trail stumbled upon the body of a fugitive who had fatally shot himself, authorities said.
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Wilma sets barometric pressure record
Oct 19 2005 7:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Wilma doesn't stop making history: It is the strongest, most intense Atlantic hurricane in terms of barometric pressure and the most rapidly strengthening on record.
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Cargo plane contracted by FedEx crashes
Oct 19 2005 7:41PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - A FedEx-contracted cargo plane lost power after taking off from Austin and crash landed, coming to rest upside down on a house, authorities said.
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Son of Guatemala's ex-tax chief detained
Oct 19 2005 7:19PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man accused along with his formerly high-ranking father of embezzling millions of dollars from the Guatemala government has been detained in California for entering the country illegally, officials said Wednesday.
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Attorney prepares for slain wife's funeral
Oct 19 2005 7:11PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The sight was almost familiar, recalling the crime scene photos of murders that defense attorney Daniel Horowitz has seen so often. This time, it was his own wife.
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Judge orders Idaho prosecutor to copy tapes
Oct 19 2005 7:06PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered a reluctant prosecutor to supply to defense attorneys copies of graphic videos found in a Jeep used by a suspected killer.
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Va. man accused in Bush plot slams Saudis
Oct 19 2005 6:39PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A man accused of joining al-Qaida angrily testified Wednesday that he was whipped and tortured by Saudi interrogators who he said refused his requests to contact the U.S. Embassy.
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Wal-Mart heiress returns USC diploma
Oct 19 2005 6:27PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Elizabeth Paige Laurie's name was on a sports arena when a former University of Southern California roommate alleged the Wal-Mart heiress paid her $20,000 to do her homework. Now it isn't even on a USC diploma.
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Ex-funeral director charged in corpse abuse
Oct 19 2005 6:18PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - An ex-funeral director was charged Wednesday with abusing the corpses of 19 babies whose remains were found in the garage of his former home.
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Once-powerful Md. state senator indicted
Oct 19 2005 5:39PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A once-powerful former state senator was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of influence-peddling in exchange for free contracting work on a new house and other favors.
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N.M. man charged with libel against police
Oct 19 2005 4:54PM (CT)
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - A man was fined $114 and ordered to perform community service after a rare conviction for criminal libel stemming from a traffic stop that led to a melee with police.
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U.N. employee to file retaliation claims
Oct 19 2005 4:39PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A United Nations employee whose sexual harassment claims led former refugee chief Ruud Lubbers to resign now alleges that she was the target of retaliation, and plans to sue him and Secretary-General Kofi Annan, she said Wednesday.
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Man sentenced for role in agents' deaths
Oct 19 2005 4:33PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A Taiwanese man was sentenced Wednesday to 61 years to life in prison for his role in the 1988 murders of two federal agents and the wounding of a third during an undercover drug buy.
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Man allegedly linked to Md. tip deported
Oct 19 2005 4:32PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A man detained after his name came up in a tip about a purported bomb plot against Baltimore highway tunnels will be deported for immigration violations along with three other men who were picked up at the same time, a federal official said Wednesday.
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Congress probes mixed signals in NYC scare
Oct 19 2005 4:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two federal anti-terrorism employees have had their security clearances yanked in an investigation into whether they sent e-mails that tipped off friends and family about possible attacks on the New York City subway system, officials said Tuesday.
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First black U. of Ala. graduate remembered
Oct 19 2005 4:12PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - More than 500 mourners gave Vivian Malone Jones one last standing ovation at her funeral Wednesday, honoring the quiet courage of a civil rights icon who was the first black
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Iraqis in U.S. tracking Saddam trial
Oct 19 2005 3:09PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Inside the hodgepodge of hair salons, shops and markets on the city's west side, talk about Saddam Hussein's trial often reaches the same conclusion. "We need this guy dead soon," Hassan Zwen said while working at a travel agency owned by his brother. Like many Iraqi expatriates across the United States, Zwen woke up early Wednesday to watch the trial on television.
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Calif. woman convicted of scissor killing
Oct 19 2005 2:43PM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A woman has been convicted of killing her husband by duct-taping him to an office chair, bludgeoning him in the head and stabbing him in the eye with scissors.
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Beer deliverymen's strike tests loyalties
Oct 19 2005 2:19PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - It just wasn't Bill Deida's night. Seated at his usual barstool and wearing a red St. Louis Cardinals shirt, Deida watched the home team lose a playoff game to the Houston Astros. Worse, his mug was filled with Miller Lite.
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Beer deliverymen's strike tests loyalties
Oct 19 2005 2:19PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - It just wasn't Bill Deida's night. Seated at his usual barstool and wearing a red St. Louis Cardinals shirt, Deida watched the home team lose a playoff game to the Houston Astros. Worse, his mug was filled with Miller Lite.
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New Orleans mayor drops casino idea
Oct 19 2005 2:08PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin said Wednesday he is abandoning his proposal to create a downtown casino district as a way of revitalizing the city's shattered economy, bitterly complaining of resistance from politicians around the state.
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Misconduct reports dog New Orleans police
Oct 19 2005 1:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Desertions, allegations of looting and theft, and the videotaped beating of a retired teacher have contributed to a growing sense that the New Orleans Police Department is reverting to its dirty-cop past at the very moment the city is desperately trying to persuade residents to come back to the Big Easy.
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Cop: Dying baby looked like famine victim
Oct 19 2005 1:41PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A dying 6-month-old baby who had been on a raw food diet looked like a starving famine victim usually seen in a poverty-stricken foreign country, a police officer testified on Tuesday in the manslaughter and child neglect trial of the infant's parents.
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Katrina death toll now at 1,281
Oct 19 2005 12:34PM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Four more bodies have been found in debris from Hurricane Katrina, pushing Mississippi's death toll to 228, a Gulf Coast coroner reported.
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Storms dump record rain in Las Vegas
Oct 19 2005 11:27AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two days of rain broke Las Vegas' record for the entire month of October, overwhelming flood channels, swamping roadways and knocking out power.
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Calif. ruling expands workers' comp
Oct 19 2005 11:01AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Illegal immigrants injured on the job are entitled to workers' compensation benefits despite their legal status, a state appeals court ruled.
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New Orleans heartened by beignets' return
Oct 19 2005 10:33AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Beignets are back in New Orleans, signaling another step in the emotional and economic recovery of a city devastated by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding.
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Wis. man wanted in triple slaying captured
Oct 19 2005 10:12AM (CT)
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - A fugitive wanted in the fatal shooting of three men in a Wisconsin pub and featured on "America's Most Wanted" was arrested at a construction site where he worked, authorities said.
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Toyota recalling some Scion tC models
Oct 19 2005 9:59AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling some models of the Scion tC amid reports that a glass wind deflector, located near the moonroof, may shatter when struck by road debris.
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Inmates take in cats displaced by Katrina
Oct 19 2005 8:47AM (CT)
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) - Prison is a refuge for about two dozen cats displaced by Hurricane Katrina, a place filled with women happy to be able to soothe away their trauma and fear.
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Mexican consulate questions bus probe
Oct 19 2005 4:40AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The Mexican government is questioning the methods investigators used in charging the driver of the bus that caught fire while carrying elderly patients fleeing Hurricane Rita.
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Appeals court allows Hatfill to sue Times
Oct 19 2005 3:59AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed a former Army scientist to proceed with a libel lawsuit against The New York Times that claims one of the paper's columnists unfairly linked him to the 2001 anthrax killings.
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Court favors Sen. Clinton in Calif. case
Oct 19 2005 12:21AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lower court must reconsider whether to remove Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from a civil suit over a lavish 2000 Hollywood fundraising gala, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Body of woman found in Pa. landfill
Oct 19 2005 12:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A body discovered in a Pennsylvania landfill was identified as the mother of a 4-year-old girl found wandering the streets barefoot last month, police said.
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