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Mo. jury convicts man in editor slaying
Oct 21 2005 11:42PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A jury convicted a man Friday of second-degree murder for killing a newspaper editor to get money for a post-Halloween night of underage drinking.
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Man in stolen car shot by border patrol
Oct 21 2005 11:31PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Border patrol agents shot and killed a man near the Canadian border Friday after he reached for object later determined to be a stun gun, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said.
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Ex-Taiwan leader warns U.S. about China
Oct 21 2005 11:29PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui urged the United States and other democratic nations Friday to be on alert as China grows in economic strength and not to tolerate its aggression.
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Philly councilman says he wasn't suicidal
Oct 21 2005 11:25PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A city councilman under the pressure of a federal investigation went up to the City Hall observation deck to "clear his mind," not to kill himself as authorities feared, his spokesman said Friday.
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Teen charged as adult in Calif. killing
Oct 21 2005 11:25PM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A 16-year-old neighbor accused of killing the wife of a prominent defense attorney was charged as an adult Friday with murder and ordered held in lieu $1 million bail.
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Residents begin to leave Florida Keys
Oct 21 2005 10:53PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Residents began fleeing the Florida Keys and parts of the mainland Friday as Hurricane Wilma plodded toward Florida, its slower-than-expected path prolonging the anxious wait for a fierce storm that could hit the state Monday.
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Authorities seize sex offender's newborn
Oct 21 2005 10:01PM (CT)
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Child-welfare authorities seized a newborn from a hospital Friday and placed the baby in a foster home because his father is a convicted sex offender.
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Shark survivor: It was just like 'Jaws'
Oct 21 2005 9:25PM (CT)
BODEGA BAY, Calif. (AP) - The water was eerily glassy and calm. Then a shark at least 17 feet long attacked from behind, leaving a young surfer desperately trying to defend herself.
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Pa. mother convicted in daughter's torture
Oct 21 2005 9:14PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A mother was convicted Friday on charges alleging she beat her 7-year-old daughter with a dog chain and keys, burned her wrists on a stove, poured bleach on her and forced cat food and salt down her throat.
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U.N. suspends catering company subsidiary
Oct 21 2005 8:46PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In a widening scandal over contracts, the United Nations announced Friday that it has suspended a subsidiary of the world's largest catering company as a U.N. supplier until the outcome of an investigation into alleged contract irregularities.
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Panda cub not thrilled about latest shot
Oct 21 2005 8:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - No one likes getting jabbed with a needle, not even a panda cub. And Tai Shan made his displeasure clear Friday during his ninth medical exam.
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Mother pleads innocent to killing sons
Oct 21 2005 8:40PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The woman seen dropping her young sons into San Francisco Bay pleaded innocent Friday to three counts of murder.
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Jury recommends death for Fla. cop killer
Oct 21 2005 8:08PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A jury recommended the death sentence Friday for a man who said he shot a retired policeman because he believed the University of Alabama "A" on the victim's baseball cap signified he was the Antichrist.
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Arrests likely in Katrina patient deaths
Oct 21 2005 8:08PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - More arrests are likely as authorities investigate at least 140 patient deaths at nursing homes and hospitals during and after Hurricane Katrina, including allegations that some patients may have been euthanized, the Louisiana attorney general's office said Friday.
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Court rules Kan. can't single out gay sex
Oct 21 2005 8:06PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law that punished underage sex more severely if it involved homosexual acts, saying "moral disapproval" of such conduct is not enough to justify the different treatment.
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Trees of New Orleans: down but not out
Oct 21 2005 7:54PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The sun shines brighter in this upended New Orleans fall season. It bathes an unexpectedly leafless, wintry landscape in harsh light, even as the temperature outside still says summer.
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La. wants Ill. mud for devastated marshes
Oct 21 2005 7:54PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mud from the Illinois River may soon be transported south to Louisiana to fill in wetlands tattered and punctured by Hurricane Katrina.
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Man who wanted bin Laden bounty sentenced
Oct 21 2005 7:43PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A man who tried to take a stun gun, ammunition and other items on a plane to Syria _ and claimed he was trying to collect a $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden _ was sentenced Friday to time served and a year of supervised release.
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Laci's life insurance money going to mom
Oct 21 2005 7:37PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that proceeds from a $250,000 life insurance policy Scott Peterson took out on his wife, Laci, will go to her mother instead.
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Texan, Swiss execs charged in oil probe
Oct 21 2005 7:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Texas oil mogul and two Swiss business executives were charged Friday with paying millions in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime in the latest indictment to come out of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.
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Judge nixes crash details from Ryan trial
Oct 21 2005 6:39PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge Friday refused to let the jury at George Ryan's corruption trial hear grisly details about a highway accident that killed six children and prompted the investigation that eventually ensnared the former governor.
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Man accused of stealing Corning secrets
Oct 21 2005 6:27PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A former employee of a Corning Inc. glassmaking plant is charged with stealing trade secrets and selling them to a Taiwanese company.
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Advocates denounce toy-store 'adoptions'
Oct 21 2005 6:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A popular toy-marketing campaign, in which girls browse through hospital-style nurseries to choose a lifelike doll to "adopt," has come under fire from prominent adoption advocates who say the program _ featured at scores of stores nationwide _ conveys a harmful notion that adopted children are salable commodities.
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Fla. trailer park residents await Wilma
Oct 21 2005 6:18PM (CT)
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - Some thoughts on hurricanes from the residents of Pine Acres, a trailer park along Florida's southwestern coast that was obliterated by Hurricane Charley 14 months ago _ and now awaits Wilma with dread:
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Suit fuels suspicion of church in Alaska
Oct 21 2005 6:18PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A recent string of lawsuits accusing Roman Catholic priests of molesting children has reinforced suspicions among some critics of the church that remote Alaska was a dumping ground for problem clergy.
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NYPD officer convicted in shooting death
Oct 21 2005 6:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A police officer who shot and killed an unarmed African immigrant after a serpentine chase inside a warehouse was convicted Friday of criminally negligent homicide.
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Teen remains hospitalized after shooting
Oct 21 2005 5:39PM (CT)
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - Security guards used a metal detector to search Saginaw High School students Friday, a day after a sophomore was shot in the chest, allegedly by another 15-year-old who had been in a juvenile detention center with him.
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Student found not guilty in stabbing death
Oct 21 2005 5:03PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A college student who claimed he stabbed and slashed his piano professor more than 200 times because he thought she was a robot intent on killing him has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
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N.Y. high schools play no-fan game
Oct 21 2005 4:33PM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) - Cheered only by their teammates, two rival football teams competed Friday morning in front of two dozen police and an otherwise empty stadium _ a precaution sparked by the schools' worry that violence might occur.
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Work begins on new dam near Mass. city
Oct 21 2005 3:42PM (CT)
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Crews started building a rock dam Friday to replace a decrepit wooden one that nearly collapsed and swamped this town of 50,000 earlier this week.
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N.H. man found alive on sailboat
Oct 21 2005 1:00PM (CT)
EXETER, N.H. (AP) - A 20-year-old man who disappeared with his father on a sailboat trip was found alive in the vessel five days later and 130 miles from shore, but the search for the father was called off.
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Some cities are retiring police horses
Oct 21 2005 12:49PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Looking to save money, the Boise Police Department sent its mounted patrol unit riding off into the sunset last month. The horses were sold off along with all the riding tack.
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Illegal immigrants on bases raise concerns
Oct 21 2005 12:46PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Scores of illegal immigrants working as cooks, laborers, janitors, even foreign-language instructors have been seized at military bases around the country in the past year, raising concerns in some quarters about security and troop safety.
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Rapist has victim write him a check
Oct 21 2005 12:37PM (CT)
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - A rapist was captured after he forced his victim to write him a check and then tried to cash it, police said.
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NYC subway service resumes after fire
Oct 21 2005 11:34AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An apparent electrical fire in a subway storage room produced heavy smoke, forcing the evacuation of a busy Manhattan station and disrupting rush hour service for tens of thousands of commuters, authorities said.
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NYC subway station evacuated due to fire
Oct 21 2005 8:41AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A fire in a subway storage room produced heavy smoke below and above ground and led to the evacuation of the West Fourth Street subway station in Manhattan, a major hub for the Eighth and Sixth avenues lines, authorities said.
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Ore. family might have winning ticket
Oct 21 2005 8:19AM (CT)
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A Medford man says it's a "distinct possibility" that his family holds the winning ticket to the record $340 million Powerball jackpot.
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Ice-encased body thought to be WWII airman
Oct 21 2005 6:25AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - An ice-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed in 1942 was chipped out of a Sierra Nevada glacier and taken to a laboratory for identification, a deputy coroner said Thursday.
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Army deserter recalls abuse in N. Korea
Oct 21 2005 6:19AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A U.S. Army deserter who spent decades in North Korea says his communist keepers abused him and controlled every aspect of his life, down to telling him how often to have sex.
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Man drives through toll with body on car
Oct 21 2005 5:56AM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A 93-year-old driver apparently suffering from dementia fatally struck a pedestrian and drove for three miles with the man's body through his windshield, police said.
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Schwarzenegger asked to meet with Bush
Oct 21 2005 4:06AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rebuffed requests from leading California Democrats that he break from his special election campaign long enough to ask President Bush for more federal money.
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Police: Media could aid search for student
Oct 21 2005 2:18AM (CT)
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - The search for a missing 21-year-old Illinois State University student is attracting national media attention that could yield new leads in the the weeklong disappearance, authorities said.
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