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FEMA approves quake help for Hawaii
Oct 23 2006 11:46PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved relief and recovery assistance for Hawaii residents who were victims of last week's magnitude 6.7 earthquake, Gov. Linda Lingle said Monday.
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Milwaukee police beating accuser sues
Oct 23 2006 11:26PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A biracial man who accused a group of current and former police officers of beating him outside a house party two years ago sued the officers and the city of Milwaukee in federal court Monday, alleging that his civil rights were violated.
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Man sentenced in fake drugs scheme
Oct 23 2006 11:20PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Florida man was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison Monday for his role in a conspiracy to sell millions of dollars' worth of counterfeit and illegally imported prescription drugs, including the popular cholesterol drug Lipitor.
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Conn. beef recalled for possible E. coli
Oct 23 2006 11:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Connecticut company is recalling about 1,680 pounds of ground beef products because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, the government said Monday.
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Officials wanted more searching at WTC
Oct 23 2006 11:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As the city agency overseeing the removal of the World Trade Center rubble was wrapping up its work in 2002, several officials handling the painstaking recovery of human remains warned that things were moving too fast.
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Accident at Pa. coal mine kills 1
Oct 23 2006 11:04PM (CT)
TREMONT, Pa. (AP) - An explosion in a coal mine killed a miner Monday, but five others escaped, authorities said. The blast happened 2,300 feet underground at the R&D Coal Co. anthracite mine in Schuylkill County, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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Dozens flooded out of homes in Texas
Oct 23 2006 10:28PM (CT)
VIDOR, Texas (AP) - Flooding forced dozens of people from their homes Monday, including some residents who have been living in government trailers since Hurricane Rita struck southeast Texas last year.
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Tenn. won't fight stay for death inmate
Oct 23 2006 10:11PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee attorney general's office said Monday it would not challenge the stay of execution for an inmate who was to be the state's first person to die by electric chair in 46 years.
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Masons struggle with racial separation
Oct 23 2006 10:04PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Masons, the storied fraternal order whose members have included Mozart, George Washington and John Wayne, has become entwined across the Deep South with the remnants of another tradition in these parts: strict segregation.
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Many follow U.S. example on detainees
Oct 23 2006 9:54PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday.
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Man accused of lying about child's death
Oct 23 2006 9:43PM (CT)
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) - A man who wanted time off from work told his co-workers a made-up story that his 2-year-old daughter had died, then pocketed more than $1,300 in donations from them, authorities said.
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Elevator overloaded before accident
Oct 23 2006 8:47PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Twenty-four people had crowded onto a dormitory elevator before it pinned and killed an Ohio State University freshman, exceeding its weight capacity by as much as 1,100 pounds, a fire official said Monday.
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Family recognizes man with amnesia on TV
Oct 23 2006 8:46PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A man with amnesia who had been searching for his identity for more than a month was finally recognized by family and friends in Washington state when he appeared on a television news report asking for help.
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Sailor kills Marine after lie about rape
Oct 23 2006 8:45PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A sailor pleaded guilty Monday to abducting and killing a Marine corporal he thought had been involved in a gang rape. The rape turned out to be a lie, but the truth surfaced too late.
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Fla. priest surrenders to police
Oct 23 2006 8:45PM (CT)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The second of two Florida priests charged with spending church money on gambling trips, rare coins and a girlfriend has surrendered to authorities, his attorney said Monday.
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1 of 6 Texas prison escapees surrenders
Oct 23 2006 8:44PM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - One of the five illegal immigrants who escaped from a privately run South Texas jail along with a former police officer surrendered to federal agents at a border checkpoint, officials said Monday.
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Man awarded damages in BTK-related case
Oct 23 2006 8:44PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A jury ordered a Wichita television station and its news director to pay a man $1.1 million for naming him two years ago as a possible suspect in the BTK serial killings.
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No charges in Billy the Kid exhumation
Oct 23 2006 8:43PM (CT)
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - Prosecutors won't seek charges against two men who exhumed the remains of a man who claimed to be the outlaw Billy the Kid.
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Bacteria ruled out as riverboat culprit
Oct 23 2006 8:06PM (CT)
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - A virus probably caused at least 36 people to suffer flu-like symptoms last week while taking a riverboat cruise down the Ohio River, a health official said Monday.
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Ala. officer killed; 1 wounded
Oct 23 2006 6:46PM (CT)
FAIRFIELD, Ala. (AP) - A police officer was fatally shot in a Birmingham suburb on Monday and a backup officer was wounded, sparking a manhunt and prompting school lockdowns, authorities said.
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W.Va. man held in 2 relatives' deaths
Oct 23 2006 6:24PM (CT)
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A state corrections officer is suspected of beating his wife and stepdaughter to death shortly before he apparently jumped off a bridge in a suicide attempt, state police said.
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Tenn. deaths linked to crime spree
Oct 23 2006 5:26PM (CT)
CUMBERLAND GAP, Tenn. (AP) - A man who committed suicide this month after a deadly crime spree that trailed from Virginia to Florida has been linked to the killing of two liquor store employees in Tennessee, authorities said.
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Family slain along Fla. highway buried
Oct 23 2006 5:16PM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A mariachi group played funeral songs Monday as mourners buried a family of four who were gunned down along a Florida highway after pulling to the side of the road.
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Man gets life term for 1979 slaying
Oct 23 2006 4:48PM (CT)
LADYSMITH, Wis. (AP) - A man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for fatally shooting a college student 27 years ago in a plot that prosecutors said was masterminded by his brother, a district attorney.
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Conan episode to air in `skelevision'
Oct 23 2006 4:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Watching Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" on Halloween may be a scary proposition _ the entire episode will be in "skelevision."
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Mass. commuter train hits truck; 19 hurt
Oct 23 2006 4:13PM (CT)
FRANKLIN, Mass. (AP) - A commuter train heading into Boston struck a flatbed truck that had bottomed out on a railroad crossing, injuring 19 people Monday morning, authorities said.
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Smith doesn't meet Birkhead's lawyer
Oct 23 2006 4:06PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith didn't appear Monday for a meeting in the Bahamas requested by the lawyer for an ex-boyfriend who claims he is the father of her 6-week-old daughter.
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Government defends 1998 anti-porn law
Oct 23 2006 3:55PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Eight years after Congress passed a law aimed at protecting children from online pornography, free speech advocates and Web site publishers argued in federal court Monday that the never-enforced measure is fatally flawed.
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Judge: Times must reveal anthrax sources
Oct 23 2006 3:46PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge ordered The New York Times to disclose a columnist's confidential sources as part of a libel lawsuit filed over the newspaper's coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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LAPD response slower with 3-day week
Oct 23 2006 2:46PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officers have been slower at responding to emergency calls since the Los Angeles Police Department adopted the three-day work week for a majority of the rank-and-file five years ago, a new city study says.
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Ind. woman leaves $2.9M to help lonely
Oct 23 2006 2:41PM (CT)
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - A woman who considered loneliness a curse left $2.9 million to several agencies that serve the elderly, including $725,000 each to a day center and a Meals on Wheels program.
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Coca-Cola boosts civil rights museum
Oct 23 2006 2:34PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Coca-Cola Co. announced Monday it is donating $10 million worth of prime downtown land to the city to develop a civil rights museum in the hometown of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Two arrested for protest at NOAA office
Oct 23 2006 2:25PM (CT)
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Two environmentalists spent about four hours Monday perched on a ledge over an entrance to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration building to protest what they said is the agency's suppression of information on global warming.
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Police: Father pulls gun on youth coach
Oct 23 2006 2:21PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A father pulled a gun on a youth football coach because his son wasn't getting enough playing time, police said.
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Idaho hunter survives 5 days in woods
Oct 23 2006 1:47PM (CT)
STANLEY, Idaho (AP) - A wrong turn changed an overnight trip into nearly a week of shivering and hunger in the snowy Sawtooth Mountains for a hunter who finally made it to safety on his own.
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Alabama candidate campaigns on cleavage
Oct 23 2006 1:08PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Loretta Nall, the Libertarian Party's write-in candidate for governor of Alabama, is campaigning on her cleavage and hoping that voters will eventually focus on her platform.
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Lawyer wants longer visits for Hinckley
Oct 23 2006 12:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential assailant John Hinckley's four-day visits away from a mental hospital every six weeks should be expanded, his lawyer said Monday, declaring "there is just no need" to supervise the man who shot Ronald Reagan.
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Parents plead not guilty to kidnapping
Oct 23 2006 12:35PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The parents of a pregnant 19-year-old pleaded not guilty Monday to kidnapping, assault and terrorizing in what prosecutors say was an attempt to force her to have an abortion.
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State worker as chauffeur violated law
Oct 23 2006 12:26PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's comptroller violated state law by failing to pay nearly $83,000 for using a state employee as a chauffeur for his ailing wife, the state Ethics Commission ruled Monday.
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State worker as chauffeur violated law
Oct 23 2006 12:26PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's comptroller violated state law by failing to pay nearly $83,000 for using a state employee as a chauffeur for his ailing wife, the state Ethics Commission ruled Monday.
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Jury selection starts in dorm fire trial
Oct 23 2006 12:09PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Nearly seven years after a dorm fire killed three freshmen at Seton Hall University, the trial of two former college roommates charged with murder and arson in the blaze began Monday with jury selection.
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Pat Tillman's brother calls war illegal
Oct 23 2006 12:00PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The brother of NFL player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan, has written a scathing indictment of the war in Iraq, calling it "an illegal invasion."
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Crews work to restore Pa. rail traffic
Oct 23 2006 10:50AM (CT)
NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. (AP) - Rail traffic temporarily resumed Monday on a bridge where several tanker cars had derailed and burned for two days.
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Opponent denies calling Clinton ugly
Oct 23 2006 10:23AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Clinton's Republican challenger on Monday flatly denied telling a reporter that Clinton was unattractive when she was younger and suggesting she had had "millions of dollars" of "work."
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Killer of Virginia family gets death
Oct 23 2006 9:36AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A judge sentenced the convicted killer of a Richmond family to death Monday for his role in a bloody crime spree that left four other people dead.
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Explosion kills 1 at Connecticut party
Oct 23 2006 6:37AM (CT)
NEW MILFORD, Conn. (AP) - Investigators were trying to determine who tossed a beer keg into a burning barrel at a party, causing a deadly explosion that sent metal shards slicing through a crowd of people.
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LAPD seeks to clean up infamous Skid Row
Oct 23 2006 5:55AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The early morning light reveals a no loitering sign and a half-dozen people sleeping beneath it in tents on the Skid Row sidewalk.
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Amish school shooting survivor has baby
Oct 23 2006 5:18AM (CT)
PARADISE, Pa. (AP) - A pregnant woman who survived the shooting at an Amish school earlier this month has given birth and named the baby after one of the girls who was killed.
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Calif. candidate brushes uproar aside
Oct 23 2006 4:42AM (CT)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - A Republican congressional candidate whose campaign is being investigated for sending intimidating letters to Hispanic voters lashed out at his Democratic rival, saying she was fueling the uproar over the mailings.
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'Father Knows Best' star Jane Wyatt dies
Oct 23 2006 3:46AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - To the millions watching the 1950s TV show "Father Knows Best," actress Jane Wyatt was the wholesome stay-at-home mom who, the series' title notwithstanding, could be counted on every week to solve crises on the homefront.
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Accordions are cool in one N.D. town
Oct 23 2006 2:36AM (CT)
WISHEK, N.D. (AP) - A few miles off the Lawrence Welk Highway is a community where the sound of "O Du Lieber Augustin" is as common as anything by Britney Spears, Jay-Z or Garth Brooks. Wishek calls itself the "Sauerkraut Capital of the World" and German is almost as common as English. High school music teacher Janet Wolff isn't afraid to teach the accordion.
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Driver retried in Texas smuggling deaths
Oct 23 2006 2:34AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A truck driver accused of being responsible for the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt could again face the death penalty.
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