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Capital punishment at crossroads in US
Oct 20 2007 11:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades.
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Jindal wins Louisiana governor's race
Oct 20 2007 11:26PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal won the Louisiana governor's race Saturday, becoming the nation's youngest governor and the first non-white to hold the state's post since Reconstruction.
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Former POWS struggle with torture debate
Oct 20 2007 10:48PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Marion Oltman spent the last eight months of World War II in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, and tears still fill his eyes when he recalls those desperate days.
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Putting the green back in Greensburg
Oct 20 2007 9:34PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A tornado leveled Jerrold Hoffman's town of Udall more than 50 years ago, killing 77 people and leaving little behind for the survivors. So after a twister swept through Greensburg this year, wreaking similar destruction, he decided he would at least try to help the town get its scenery back.
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Putting the green back in Greensburg
Oct 20 2007 9:34PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A tornado leveled Jerrold Hoffman's town of Udall more than 50 years ago, killing 77 people and leaving little behind for the survivors. So after a twister swept through Greensburg this year, wreaking similar destruction, he decided he would at least try to help the town get its scenery back.
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Woman survives 19 hours in sea off Maui
Oct 20 2007 9:33PM (CT)
UKUMEHAME, Hawaii (AP) - A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.
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Bridge jump injures W.Va. parachutist
Oct 20 2007 9:28PM (CT)
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) - A man who apparently got a one-day jump on a festival celebrating a famous West Virginia bridge was injured after parachuting from a different span.
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Pa. man's abuse excuse riles judge
Oct 20 2007 9:19PM (CT)
EASTON, Pa. (AP) - A man who admitted he beat his girlfriend's 2-year-old son offered an excuse that angered a judge: He said he's not a morning person.
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Georgia seeks water disaster declaration
Oct 20 2007 9:18PM (CT)
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) - With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area.
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Police: Handlers tortured immigrants
Oct 20 2007 7:44PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Police raided a drop house for illegal immigrants and discovered several, including a pregnant woman, whose handlers had beaten and tortured them, authorities said.
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Hispanic group pulls conference from KC
Oct 20 2007 6:24PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A national Hispanic civil rights organization said Saturday it is pulling its 2009 convention from Kansas City because a member of a group opposed to illegal immigration was appointed to the city's park board.
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Prison playing cards lead to tip, arrest
Oct 20 2007 5:23PM (CT)
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A prison card game dealt police the tip they needed to arrest a man in a killing that occurred nearly three years ago, authorities said Saturday.
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Former Calif. gang member gets 126 years
Oct 20 2007 4:06PM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A former gang member convicted in a jewelry heist that resembled robberies he described in his memoir has been sentenced to 126 years in prison.
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Iraq vet waives hearing on murder charge
Oct 20 2007 3:39PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - An Army sergeant accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian has waived his right to a pretrial investigation hearing, the Army says.
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Loopholes hide some misconduct records
Oct 20 2007 11:26AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - More than 300 California educators had their teaching licenses revoked or suspended because of sex-related offenses from 2001 through 2005.
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Courts-martial for 2 in Haditha deaths
Oct 20 2007 6:39AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The highest-ranking U.S. serviceman to face court-martial involving combat since Vietnam was ordered to trial Friday for failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis, including women and children, in Haditha two years ago.
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Courts-martial for 2 in Haditha deaths
Oct 20 2007 6:39AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The highest-ranking U.S. serviceman to face court-martial involving combat since Vietnam was ordered to trial Friday for failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis, including women and children, in Haditha two years ago.
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Fugitive has support of longtime friends
Oct 20 2007 6:38AM (CT)
PULASKI, Tenn. (AP) - Few in this small Tennessee town can believe the woman they knew as Linda McElroy was capable of murder. Her neighbors and friends learned this week that she was really fugitive Linda Darby _ who was convicted of killing her husband but escaped 35 years ago from a life sentence at an Indiana prison.
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Fugitive has support of longtime friends
Oct 20 2007 6:38AM (CT)
PULASKI, Tenn. (AP) - Few in this small Tennessee town can believe the woman they knew as Linda McElroy was capable of murder. Her neighbors and friends learned this week that she was really fugitive Linda Darby _ who was convicted of killing her husband but escaped 35 years ago from a life sentence at an Indiana prison.
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6 die in storms in Midwest, Wash. state
Oct 20 2007 5:05AM (CT)
WILLIAMSTON, Mich. (AP) - A couple spending their first night in a new house were among at least six people killed as unusually severe October storms destroyed homes, downed trees and knocked out power in several states, authorities said Friday.
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6 die in storms in Midwest, Wash. state
Oct 20 2007 5:05AM (CT)
WILLIAMSTON, Mich. (AP) - A couple spending their first night in a new house were among at least six people killed as unusually severe October storms destroyed homes, downed trees and knocked out power in several states, authorities said Friday.
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Feds return ancient remains to Tlingits
Oct 20 2007 4:42AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old that were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest rightfully belong to the southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes, the federal government said.
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Dolly visits ex-duet partner in hospital
Oct 20 2007 4:09AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Dolly Parton visited former duet partner and longtime Opry performer Porter Wagoner in the hospital and pledged to sing with him again.
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Doctor: Confession shows Mo. woman sane
Oct 20 2007 3:57AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A forensic psychiatrist countered claims that a woman accused of cutting a baby from another woman's womb is criminally insane, saying the fact that she confessed to the crime proves her sanity.
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Insanity plea planned in microwaved baby
Oct 20 2007 3:22AM (CT)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - The 19-year-old man accused of putting his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave, causing burns to her face and hand, was insane at the time of the incident, his lawyer said Friday.
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9/11 ruling puts NYC doctor in spotlight
Oct 20 2007 3:19AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As firefighters and police swarmed the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11, the city's chief medical examiner was right there with them, setting up a makeshift morgue for a casualty toll he knew would be massive.
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9/11 ruling puts NYC doctor in spotlight
Oct 20 2007 3:19AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As firefighters and police swarmed the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11, the city's chief medical examiner was right there with them, setting up a makeshift morgue for a casualty toll he knew would be massive.
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Suspect charged in 4 slayings in Detroit
Oct 20 2007 3:02AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Authorities charged a man with killing a "very close associate" and a woman and her two children in their sleep in a home that neighbors called a hub of drug activity.
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UN reprimands interpreter for mistake
Oct 20 2007 2:51AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An interpreter responsible for an erroneous report that Syria has a nuclear facility has been reprimanded and the United Nations has apologized to Syria's U.N. Mission, a U.N. official said.
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Woman convicted in Fla. couple's slaying
Oct 20 2007 1:30AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A jury convicted a woman of robbing, kidnapping and murdering a retired Florida couple who she helped bury alive in rural Georgia.
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Egyptian can sue over his 9/11 detention
Oct 20 2007 1:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Egyptian student detained after a pilot's aviation radio was found in his hotel room following the Sept. 11 attacks should be allowed to sue an FBI agent over his imprisonment, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Autistic hiker released from hospital
Oct 20 2007 1:26AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - An autistic teen who was lost for four days in the West Virginia wilderness was released from a hospital Friday, a day after his rescue from the rugged, foliage-filled terrain.
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Autistic hiker released from hospital
Oct 20 2007 1:26AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - An autistic teen who was lost for four days in the West Virginia wilderness was released from a hospital Friday, a day after his rescue from the rugged, foliage-filled terrain.
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Fugitive's trial begins in auto crash
Oct 20 2007 1:24AM (CT)
KELSO, Wash. (AP) - A man accused of causing a car wreck that killed three college students fled to Ireland only because he feared for his own safety amid the outcry over the crash, his lawyer told jurors Thursday.
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Fugitive's trial begins in auto crash
Oct 20 2007 1:24AM (CT)
KELSO, Wash. (AP) - A man accused of causing a car wreck that killed three college students fled to Ireland only because he feared for his own safety amid the outcry over the crash, his lawyer told jurors Thursday.
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Fugitive arraigned after return to US
Oct 20 2007 1:22AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man accused of raping his daughter and posting videos of the abuse online was arraigned Friday after returning to the United States from Hong Kong.
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BC police: 6 dead in home near Vancouver
Oct 20 2007 12:57AM (CT)
SURREY, British Columbia (AP) - Workers responding to a reported gas leak found at least six people dead in an apartment in a Vancouver suburb Friday, authorities said.
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Vt. woman wants horse as service animal
Oct 20 2007 12:25AM (CT)
WARREN, Vt. (AP) - The Central Vermont Community Land Trust usually has no objection to a service animal like a seeing-eye dog moving into its apartments. But Patty Cooper's service animal is a horse of a different color: a black and white miniature horse, to be exact.
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Vt. woman wants horse as service animal
Oct 20 2007 12:25AM (CT)
WARREN, Vt. (AP) - The Central Vermont Community Land Trust usually has no objection to a service animal like a seeing-eye dog moving into its apartments. But Patty Cooper's service animal is a horse of a different color: a black and white miniature horse, to be exact.
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Vt. woman wants horse as service animal
Oct 20 2007 12:25AM (CT)
WARREN, Vt. (AP) - The Central Vermont Community Land Trust usually has no objection to a service animal like a seeing-eye dog moving into its apartments. But Patty Cooper's service animal is a horse of a different color: a black and white miniature horse, to be exact.
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