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Wis. lawmakers pass long-overdue budget
Oct 23 2007 11:54PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's Legislature approved a two-year, $57.2 billion budget on Tuesday night, ending the year's last state budget impasse in the nation.
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Fewer think US adequately thwarting terror
Oct 23 2007 11:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer people think the U.S. is adequately thwarting terrorists, meeting its objectives in Iraq or achieving other goals overseas, according to a poll that shows a deepening skepticism about the country's foreign policy.
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NY 'Preppie Killer' nabbed in drug sting
Oct 23 2007 10:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The so-called "Preppie Killer," who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park during what he said was rough sex, was in jail Tuesday after police said he repeatedly sold undercover officers cocaine out of his apartment.
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NY 'Preppie Killer' nabbed in drug sting
Oct 23 2007 10:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The so-called "Preppie Killer," who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park during what he said was rough sex, was in jail Tuesday after police said he repeatedly sold undercover officers cocaine out of his apartment.
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NY 'Preppie Killer' nabbed in drug sting
Oct 23 2007 10:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The so-called "Preppie Killer," who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park during what he said was rough sex, was in jail Tuesday after police said he repeatedly sold undercover officers cocaine out of his apartment.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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500,000 flee raging California wildfires
Oct 23 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.
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Police: Fla. paper execs nabbed in sting
Oct 23 2007 9:58PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Three executives for a weekly paper have been arrested on charges they knowingly published advertisements promoting prostitution.
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2 men plead guilty in O.J. Simpson case
Oct 23 2007 9:50PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two co-defendants pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case, agreeing to testify against Simpson and three others in the alleged hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers.
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2 men plead guilty in O.J. Simpson case
Oct 23 2007 9:50PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two co-defendants pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case, agreeing to testify against Simpson and three others in the alleged hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers.
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2 men plead guilty in O.J. Simpson case
Oct 23 2007 9:50PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two co-defendants pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case, agreeing to testify against Simpson and three others in the alleged hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers.
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Victim in Del. university shooting dies
Oct 23 2007 9:38PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware State University student wounded in a campus shooting last month died of her injuries on Tuesday, her family said.
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Mistrial in trial over student death
Oct 23 2007 9:26PM (CT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A judge Tuesday declared a mistrial after a jury could not reach a verdict in the trial of a man accused of raping and suffocating an Eastern Michigan University student.
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Mistrial in trial over student death
Oct 23 2007 9:26PM (CT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A judge Tuesday declared a mistrial after a jury could not reach a verdict in the trial of a man accused of raping and suffocating an Eastern Michigan University student.
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Mistrial in trial over student death
Oct 23 2007 9:26PM (CT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A judge Tuesday declared a mistrial after a jury could not reach a verdict in the trial of a man accused of raping and suffocating an Eastern Michigan University student.
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New commander named at nuke air base
Oct 23 2007 8:29PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - An Air Force colonel was named the new commander at the air base where a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown to a Louisiana base, the military said Tuesday.
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W.Va. woman speaks about torture ordeal
Oct 23 2007 8:29PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. That's why she tagged along with a woman she hardly knew, up a remote southern West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture.
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W.Va. woman speaks about torture ordeal
Oct 23 2007 8:29PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. That's why she tagged along with a woman she hardly knew, up a remote southern West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture.
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Texas judge known for toughness on crime
Oct 23 2007 8:15PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The path to the nation's busiest death chamber winds through a court of last resort where the presiding judge recently refused to keep her office open past 5 p.m. to accept a last-minute appeal from an inmate about to be executed.
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Greek church leader to return home
Oct 23 2007 8:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The leader of Greece's Orthodox Church will return home for chemotherapy to treat a cancer that spread from his liver to his abdominal cavity, his doctor said Tuesday.
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Greek church leader to return home
Oct 23 2007 8:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The leader of Greece's Orthodox Church will return home for chemotherapy to treat a cancer that spread from his liver to his abdominal cavity, his doctor said Tuesday.
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Greek church leader to return home
Oct 23 2007 8:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The leader of Greece's Orthodox Church will return home for chemotherapy to treat a cancer that spread from his liver to his abdominal cavity, his doctor said Tuesday.
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Robert Goulet in need of lung transplant
Oct 23 2007 8:01PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Singer and actor Robert Goulet is heavily sedated and breathing through a respirator in a Los Angeles hospital while he awaits a lung transplant, his wife told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Robert Goulet in need of lung transplant
Oct 23 2007 8:01PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Singer and actor Robert Goulet is heavily sedated and breathing through a respirator in a Los Angeles hospital while he awaits a lung transplant, his wife told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Pam Smart gunman seeks reduced sentence
Oct 23 2007 7:51PM (CT)
WARREN, Maine (AP) - The teenage lover who murdered Pamela Smart's husband in 1990 is asking a judge to reduce his prison sentence 11 years before he is currently set to become eligible for parole.
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Female journalists honored for courage
Oct 23 2007 7:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six women who risked their lives reporting in Iraq, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on pedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist who was charged with treason received awards for courage Tuesday from the International Women's Media Foundation.
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Female journalists honored for courage
Oct 23 2007 7:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six women who risked their lives reporting in Iraq, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on pedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist who was charged with treason received awards for courage Tuesday from the International Women's Media Foundation.
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Fires from air: Smoke, wind, destruction
Oct 23 2007 7:16PM (CT)
ABOVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (AP) - Just after 7 a.m. the helicopter lifts off and we head east over San Diego into a blood red sun and a sheen of smoke so thick the horizon seems to have vanished.
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Fires from air: Smoke, wind, destruction
Oct 23 2007 7:16PM (CT)
ABOVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (AP) - Just after 7 a.m. the helicopter lifts off and we head east over San Diego into a blood red sun and a sheen of smoke so thick the horizon seems to have vanished.
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Fires from air: Smoke, wind, destruction
Oct 23 2007 7:16PM (CT)
ABOVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (AP) - Just after 7 a.m. the helicopter lifts off and we head east over San Diego into a blood red sun and a sheen of smoke so thick the horizon seems to have vanished.
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New Orleans dries out after flooding
Oct 23 2007 6:38PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With a shake of the head, Richie Stevens looked at the brownish, oil-streaked water surrounding his property Tuesday and wondered how so much of the city could be swamped by a rainfall not even associated with a hurricane.
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New Orleans dries out after flooding
Oct 23 2007 6:38PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With a shake of the head, Richie Stevens looked at the brownish, oil-streaked water surrounding his property Tuesday and wondered how so much of the city could be swamped by a rainfall not even associated with a hurricane.
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White House cut warming impact testimony
Oct 23 2007 6:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.
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Engineer: Pipe flaw caused NYC explosion
Oct 23 2007 6:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An 83-year-old steam pipe that exploded beneath a Manhattan intersection over the summer, terrifying New Yorkers and seriously burning two people, may have burst because of a defect in its iron skin, according to an engineering firm hired by the blast victims.
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NRC: Little danger in nuclear plant nap
Oct 23 2007 5:11PM (CT)
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) - Federal regulators have determined there was little danger when an armed guard fell asleep at an inner-ring security gate around the Indian Point nuclear plants.
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NAACP leads boot camp protest march
Oct 23 2007 5:02PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - About 700 protesters marched to the federal courthouse Tuesday to voice their outrage at the handling of a black teenager's death at a boot camp.
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Man pleads guilty in Duquesne shootings
Oct 23 2007 4:05PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - One of two men accused of shooting at five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance pleaded guilty to attempted homicide and other counts Tuesday.
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Details released on deadly home invasion
Oct 23 2007 3:47PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The attackers in a deadly home invasion poured gasoline on and around a woman and her two daughters, then set their house on fire, according to court documents released by a judge Tuesday.
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School board to look at contraceptives
Oct 23 2007 3:44PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A local school board will consider limiting student access to birth control pills and patches at a middle school's health center.
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Painting found in trash could fetch $1M
Oct 23 2007 3:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A painting stolen 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at auction.
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2 sentenced in brutal NY sex attack
Oct 23 2007 3:00PM (CT)
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Two teenagers who used a plumbing snake to brutally attack a developmentally disabled handyman at a bowling alley were sentenced Tuesday to long prison terms.
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Detroit to pay $8.4M in civil cases
Oct 23 2007 2:57PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The City Council on Tuesday approved $8.4 million to settle lawsuits filed by former police officers who claim they were punished for investigating alleged misconduct by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's security unit, including cover-ups of extramarital affairs.
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Long-'dead' husband turns up alive
Oct 23 2007 2:55PM (CT)
CHATTAROY, Wash. (AP) - A woman fighting to regain widow's benefits that were cut off long after her husband was declared dead has learned that Social Security Administration officials were right _ he really is still alive.
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No bail for men accused in boat killings
Oct 23 2007 1:17PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Two men charged with killing the four crew members of a fishing boat they chartered were denied bail Tuesday, despite defense attorneys' insistence that no evidence linked their clients to the crime.
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March planned outside Justice Department
Oct 23 2007 1:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Civil rights leaders called Tuesday for a march on the Justice Department and an economic boycott next month because they believe the federal government has been sluggish in dealing with hate crimes.
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Ky. hazmat team checking acid leak
Oct 23 2007 10:16AM (CT)
RACELAND, Ky. (AP) - Residents of communities on both sides of the Ohio River were urged to stay indoors for much of Tuesday morning and schools were closed because acid fumes had leaked from a railroad car.
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San Diego stadium houses fire evacuees
Oct 23 2007 8:26AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
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San Diego stadium houses fire evacuees
Oct 23 2007 8:26AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
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San Diego stadium houses fire evacuees
Oct 23 2007 8:26AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
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San Diego stadium houses fire evacuees
Oct 23 2007 8:26AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
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Gloomy weather threatens shuttle launch
Oct 23 2007 8:13AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Seven astronauts blew kisses as they climbed into a fully fueled Discovery for liftoff Tuesday for a backbreakingly difficult space station construction mission, despite a gloomy forecast calling for rain right around launch time.
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Alumni try to keep Ohio college open
Oct 23 2007 8:10AM (CT)
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) - Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign that reads: "Office of Transition."
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Alumni try to keep Ohio college open
Oct 23 2007 8:10AM (CT)
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) - Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign that reads: "Office of Transition."
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Alumni try to keep Ohio college open
Oct 23 2007 8:10AM (CT)
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) - Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign that reads: "Office of Transition."
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Gov't likely to retry Muslim charity
Oct 23 2007 8:09AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Prosecutors will likely retry the former leaders of a Muslim charity, as well as the organization itself, after the government's biggest terror-financing case since Sept. 11 ended in a mistrial.
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Female journalists to be awarded
Oct 23 2007 6:40AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - She set out to expose a pedophile ring in Cancun, naming the rich and powerful she says were involved, and became a journalism sensation after she was abducted by police, allegedly at the behest of a state governor.
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Woman convicted in fetus theft case
Oct 23 2007 6:26AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Rejecting an insanity defense, a jury convicted a woman of killing an expectant mother, cutting the baby from her womb and taking the infant home.
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Woman convicted in fetus theft case
Oct 23 2007 6:26AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Rejecting an insanity defense, a jury convicted a woman of killing an expectant mother, cutting the baby from her womb and taking the infant home.
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Homes leveled in Calif. mountain fires
Oct 23 2007 3:34AM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - Standing on the shore of a scenic mountain lake near the scorched ruins of his $1.6 million home, James Towery cupped his hands and yelled into a sky thick with smoke.
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Sales of cranberries increase overseas
Oct 23 2007 2:43AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - An appetite is emerging overseas for cranberries, a staple in American diets since long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock.
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Oral Roberts says devil won't steal ORU
Oct 23 2007 1:03AM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Oral Roberts returned to his namesake university Monday and denied the lurid accusations that have threatened to engulf the school, telling students and employees in a chapel service that "the devil is not going to steal ORU."
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