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Activists: Army bent truth on VX disposal
Oct 25 2005 11:30PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Activists in six states have accused the Army of distorting facts about the disposal of waste from the destruction of a deadly nerve agent stockpiled in western Indiana.
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Judge: 2003 fire retardant use broke law
Oct 25 2005 11:29PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service violated federal environmental laws when it used a toxic fire retardant that killed thousands of fish in streams, a judge ruled.
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Office building damaged Sept. 11 reopens
Oct 25 2005 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 23-story landmark known as the "miracle building" for withstanding fallout from the 2001 terrorist attack on the adjacent World Trade Center had a grand reopening Tuesday.
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Louisiana's hurricane death toll climbs
Oct 25 2005 10:39PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The death toll attributed to Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana has grown to 1,053, according to figures released Tuesday.
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Verdict vs. lawyer in terror case upheld
Oct 25 2005 10:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Freedom of speech offers no protection for a lawyer convicted of providing material support to terrorists for publicly releasing messages from a notorious jailed sheik, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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Women in media awarded for courage
Oct 25 2005 10:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Associated Press war photographer from Germany, a crime reporter from Bangladesh who was stabbed and beaten, and the founder of a magazine threatened with closure by Iran's government because of its coverage of women's rights all received Courage in Journalism Awards Tuesday from the International Women's Media Foundation.
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NTSB: Bus in Wis. fatal had bad brakes
Oct 25 2005 10:10PM (CT)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) - A bus chartered for a high school band that crashed into an overturned truck, killing five people, had defective brakes and shouldn't have been in use, a federal investigator said Tuesday.
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Body checked for match to missing student
Oct 25 2005 10:09PM (CT)
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - The search for a missing college student may have reached a critical point, as officials in Mississippi waited Tuesday for medical and dental records to determine whether a body found in a burnt-out chicken house could be that of 21-year-old Olamide Adeyooye.
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Two arrested in Katrina 'Cadillac' probe
Oct 25 2005 10:07PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A bounty hunter and another man have been arrested in the investigation into whether city police stole almost 200 cars from a dealership during Hurricane Katrina, authorities said Tuesday.
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AP president supports reporter shield law
Oct 25 2005 10:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal law to protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources is necessary no matter what, Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press said Tuesday.
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Recovery from Wilma begins for millions
Oct 25 2005 10:01PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Repair crews across Florida struggled Tuesday to restore electricity to up to 6 million people, reopen the region's airports and replace countless windows blown out of downtown high-rises during Hurricane Wilma's ruinous dash across the state.
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Wilma helps stoke powerful nor'easter
Oct 25 2005 9:09PM (CT)
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A nor'easter that drew energy from the remnants of far-off Hurricane Wilma battered New England and the mid-Atlantic states with 20-foot waves and winds up to 70 mph Tuesday, brought some inland areas their first snow of the season and knocked out power to about 200,000 homes and businesses.
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Kansas sues over BTK killer videotape
Oct 25 2005 8:48PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas attorney general Tuesday sued two psychologists hired by the state to interview BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, accusing them of profiting from a videotape of a session with him.
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Jury to deliberate 1993 WTC bombing case
Oct 25 2005 8:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An attorney for victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing closed his case Tuesday saying the building's owners failed to take steps to thwart a possible terrorist assault.
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Public giving gov't, business lower marks
Oct 25 2005 8:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The public's view of the government has eroded over the past year and its view of business corporations is now at the lowest level in two decades.
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Court allows work to resume on O'Hare
Oct 25 2005 7:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Work on a massive expansion of O'Hare International Airport aimed at reducing some of the nation's worst flight delays can resume over opponents' objections, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Roybal, L.A. Hispanic leaders dean, dies
Oct 25 2005 7:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Edward R. Roybal, a pioneering Hispanic leader who spent three decades in Congress as an advocate for minorities, the poor and the elderly, has died. He was 89.
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Katrina puts La. unemployment at '80s mark
Oct 25 2005 6:55PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Job losses after Hurricane Katrina sent Louisiana's unemployment rate soaring to 11.5 percent, the highest level since the 1980s oil crash, officials said Tuesday.
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Ex-Conn. governor's aide pleads guilty
Oct 25 2005 6:17PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A state contractor and a top aide to imprisoned former Gov. John G. Rowland each pleaded guilty to two felonies Tuesday, ending a public corruption case that led to the one-time political star's downfall.
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Sheehan: Oppose Clinton if she backs war
Oct 25 2005 6:14PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Cindy Sheehan, who became the face of anti-war sentiment after her son died in Iraq, urged foes of the war to thwart Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political aspirations unless the New York Democrat opposes the conflict.
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Threat prompts 3 Calif. airports to close
Oct 25 2005 5:33PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A San Diego International Airport terminal was evacuated Tuesday morning after luggage screeners mistook a child's toy and a cookie for bomb-making materials.
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Majority of Katrina's victims were elderly
Oct 25 2005 4:48PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The water was rising at a frightening rate, but Randolph Fazande's elderly mother wasn't scared _ or wasn't showing it. Her son says that was her way.
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Internet phone wiretap rule challenged
Oct 25 2005 3:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new federal regulation making it easier for law enforcement to tap Internet phone calls is being challenged in court.
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Fla. high-rises suffer window damage
Oct 25 2005 2:56PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A leading structural engineer and others were perplexed by the large number of windows blown out of high-rises in Miami and Fort Lauderdale when Hurricane Wilma made its dash across the state.
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Philadelphia city councilman indicted
Oct 25 2005 2:50PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A city councilman was indicted on federal fraud and bribery charges Tuesday, five days after he was talked down from the City Hall observation deck.
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N.J. issues curfew for sex offenders
Oct 25 2005 1:52PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey sex offenders who face supervision under Megan's Law will be confined to their homes on Halloween and will be under orders not to answer the door when trick-or-treaters come calling.
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Toy, cookie are mistaken for bomb parts
Oct 25 2005 12:36PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A terminal at San Diego International Airport was evacuated Tuesday after luggage screeners mistook a child's toy and a cookie for bomb-making components, officials said.
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Gay rights activists target Ore. lawmaker
Oct 25 2005 12:30PM (CT)
TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) - Gay rights activists are going to be looking for payback when Oregon House Speaker Karen Minnis comes up for re-election next year.
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Fla. airports may be out until midweek
Oct 25 2005 12:26PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - It could be midweek before normal service resumes at major Florida airports, meaning hundreds of thousands domestic and international fliers will be inconvenienced at least another day because of Hurricane Wilma and the troubled airline industry will lose millions of dollars in revenue.
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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, 92, dies
Oct 25 2005 11:24AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.
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GOP contenders pass on Ariz. governor race
Oct 25 2005 11:14AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Conservatives have long dominated the political landscape of this state, the home of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater. Republicans dominate the Legislature, hold both Senate seats and six of eight U.S. House seats.
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Ohio executes cocaine dealer for killings
Oct 25 2005 10:33AM (CT)
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A cocaine dealer was executed Tuesday for killing four men in a bid to seize control of the drug trade in a Youngstown housing project.
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Leaders, friends remember Rosa Parks' life
Oct 25 2005 9:47AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - This city was gearing up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of what many view as the start of the modern civil rights movement. Those ceremonies must now go on without one of its greatest heroes.
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New England braces for Wilma, nor'easter
Oct 25 2005 7:01AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The remnants of Hurricane Wilma plus a nasty nor'easter began kicking up high winds, heavy rains and coastal flooding Tuesday across New England, a region already saturated by days of rain.
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Judge rejects Bush plot suspect's request
Oct 25 2005 6:29AM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge ruled Monday that prosecutors can use a confession by a man charged with joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, despite defense claims that the confession was obtained through torture.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry suit settled for $15M
Oct 25 2005 6:19AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A lawsuit filed by Teresa Heinz Kerry after her first husband died in a midair collision in 1991 was settled for $15 million, according to newly unsealed court records.
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Millions suffer power outages in Florida
Oct 25 2005 4:56AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Across South Florida's largest cities, Hurricane Wilma forced residents, hospital administrators, airport staff and emergency personnel to cope with sweeping power outages that may not be quickly remedied.
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FARM SCENE: Canadian cattle trade flows
Oct 25 2005 4:16AM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The renewed flow of Canadian cattle into the United States remains below levels seen before a ban was imposed two years ago following a case of mad cow disease, economists and industry leaders say.
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After 8 weeks, La. oysters being harvested
Oct 25 2005 4:12AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana oysters are being harvested again, although it may be another week or more before people can belly up to an oyster bar and order a dozen on the half-shell.
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Metrolink train slams into truck in Calif.
Oct 25 2005 1:53AM (CT)
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - A Metrolink commuter train slammed into a tractor-trailer rig Monday night, injuring at least seven people, officials said.
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Colombian extradited to N.H. over slaying
Oct 25 2005 1:26AM (CT)
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - A 24-year-old Colombian wanted in the beating death of a 62-year-old Nashua man has been arraigned in Hillsborough County Superior Court on a charge of second-degree murder.
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Brazilian worker killed in N.H. accident
Oct 25 2005 1:23AM (CT)
MILFORD, N.H. (AP) - Safety officials were investigating the death of a 37-year-old Brazilian man killed in an accident at Northern Marble and Granite.
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