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Strengthening Wilma speeds toward Florida
Oct 23 2005 11:51PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Rain pounded Key West early Monday as Hurricane Wilma accelerated toward storm-weary Florida, threatening residents with 115-mph winds, tornadoes and a surge of seawater that could flood the Keys and the state's southwest coast.
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Study: Most Katrina victims were elderly
Oct 23 2005 10:08PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A majority of people killed by Hurricane Katrina were older residents unable or unwilling to evacuate in the rising floodwaters, according to a study of almost half the bodies recovered in Louisiana.
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Man warned officials about caged children
Oct 23 2005 8:50PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - An insurance agent said he warned child welfare officials that he saw cage-like beds in the home of 11 adopted special-needs children more than a year before authorities intervened.
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In Key West, it's a party before the storm
Oct 23 2005 8:29PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - In other, more conventional places, a frustrated, anxious populace might react differently to tension. But in the face of Hurricane Wilma, many of the people who chose to remain in Key West did what they know best Saturday: They threw a party.
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Eco-tourism site faces threat from Wilma
Oct 23 2005 8:28PM (CT)
EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. (AP) - This town that bills itself the "Stone Crab Capital of the World" never fully recovered from Hurricane Donna's devastation in 1960, when flood damage was so severe that the county government was moved 30 miles north to Naples.
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Study shows upswing in arrests of women
Oct 23 2005 8:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women made up 7 percent of all inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly one in four arrests, the government reported Sunday.
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Texas businessman seeks Haitian presidency
Oct 23 2005 8:12PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Dumarsais Simeus remembers running through the fields barefoot as a child while his parents, illiterate peasant farmers, worked the land in Haiti to feed him and his 11 siblings.
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Report: Abramoff sought help from Reed
Oct 23 2005 7:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jack Abramoff, the GOP lobbyist under investigation by federal authorities for possible fraud, repeatedly sought the help of Bush strategist Ralph Reed to open doors at the White House for his business clients, according to e-mails made public Sunday.
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Times' ombudsman suggests review of Miller
Oct 23 2005 7:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times' ombudsman said the newspaper should review reporter Judith Miller's journalism practices to address "clear issues of trust and credibility" in her role in the CIA leak investigation. Miller's attorney called the newspaper's recent criticism of her "shameless."
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Sarasota dreads trial over child's slaying
Oct 23 2005 7:30PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Like others around the world who saw the televised videotape, residents of this city shuddered when they saw the images of a man taking 11-year-old Carlie Brucia by the arm at the back of a car wash.
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Canoe expedition cleans up La. bayou
Oct 23 2005 7:22PM (CT)
MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) - The dragonflies skimming the tea-colored water and the blackbirds in the marsh grasses looked at home along Cane Bayou and the Lake Pontchartrain shore. But canoeing through the waterways Sunday, it was hard not to notice the truck tires, wine bottles and other urban debris left scattered in the shallow water and along the shoreline by Hurricane Katrina.
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Rice visits Ala. camp for Katrina refugees
Oct 23 2005 6:52PM (CT)
PELHAM, Ala. (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited a camp for Hurricane Katrina refugees on Sunday and said she was reassured that the residents, all housed in recreational vehicles, are well treated.
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United pilot suspended over alcohol smell
Oct 23 2005 6:01PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A United Airlines pilot was removed from the cockpit and questioned by police after security screeners at Miami International Airport reported smelling alcohol, police said.
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Politics eyed for professor leaving Yale
Oct 23 2005 4:58PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - By all accounts, Yale anthropology professor David Graeber is one of the brightest minds in his field. His books are taught worldwide, and the London School of Economics recently asked him to give a lecture reserved for the most promising young anthropologists. But he's about to be unemployed.
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Kansas town prepares for Gorbachev visit
Oct 23 2005 2:23PM (CT)
LINDSBORG, Kan. (AP) - The school band in this small Kansas town is practicing the Russian national anthem. Detectives are conducting security checks. And preparations are being made for a parade _ a chess parade.
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City experience can hurt governor hopefuls
Oct 23 2005 2:14PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - When Mayor Martin O'Malley announced he was running for governor, the Democrat kicked off his campaign in a park overlooking the city's famed renovated harbor, a school band playing pep songs behind him as he talked up his experience in running Maryland's biggest city. But as other big-city mayors can attest, a high-profile urban post can be a political liability as well as an asset.
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Wilma heads for Fla. as Category 2 storm
Oct 23 2005 2:11PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Wilma churned toward Florida on Sunday, picking up speed "like a rocket" as tens of thousands of residents were ordered to flee from vulnerable islands and coastal areas.
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Times endorses Bloomberg for re-election
Oct 23 2005 11:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times enthusiastically endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg for re-election, saying he was on course to be one of the best mayors the city has ever had.
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Student dies in goal-post celebration
Oct 23 2005 7:23AM (CT)
MORRIS, Minn. (AP) - A 20-year-old University of Minnesota-Morris student was killed Saturday when football fans rushed onto the field and pulled down a goal post at the end of the school's homecoming game.
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Ark. animal rescuers charged with cruelty
Oct 23 2005 6:22AM (CT)
GAMALIEL, Ark. (AP) - Two owners of an animal rescue operation were arrested after hundreds of dogs, some rescued from Hurricane Katrina, were found on the couple's property groveling for food among urine and feces, authorities said Saturday.
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Arnold campaign pulls TV ad on initiatives
Oct 23 2005 5:52AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's special election campaign said it was withdrawing a television advertisement that featured the governor appealing to voters to support his slate of ballot initiatives.
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Tropical Storm Alpha forms in Caribbean
Oct 23 2005 1:33AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season and marking the first time forecasters had to turn to the Greek alphabet for names.
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