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Marine pleads guilty to assaulting Iraqi
Oct 26 2006 11:56PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in the death of an Iraqi civilian, telling a judge he knew his actions would fuel anti-war sentiment.
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Boy killed in crash on sect's land
Oct 26 2006 11:55PM (CT)
ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - A 3-year-old boy was killed and another child was injured Thursday when a minivan they were riding in crashed on a ranch owned by polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs.
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Woman says she didn't kill social worker
Oct 26 2006 11:48PM (CT)
HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) - A woman accused with her boyfriend of kidnapping her baby and killing a social worker said Thursday she did not participate in the slaying.
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AG: Ill. governor must release subpoenas
Oct 26 2006 11:47PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration is violating state public-information law by refusing to release subpoenas it received in a federal corruption probe, the state attorney general said Thursday.
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Calif. fire started by arsonist kills 4
Oct 26 2006 11:37PM (CT)
POPPET FLAT, Calif. (AP) - A wind-whipped wildfire started by an arsonist killed four firefighters Thursday and stranded up to 400 people in an RV park when flames burned to the edge of the only road out, officials said.
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$1.5M for Chicago nightclub stampede kin
Oct 26 2006 11:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge has approved a partial settlement in which families of 21 people killed in a 2003 Chicago nightclub stampede will receive $1.5 million, attorneys announced Thursday.
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Philly leaders object to voting monitors
Oct 26 2006 10:51PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - City officials and Hispanic community leaders objected Thursday to the federal government's plans to put monitors at city polling places on Election Day, saying those efforts could discourage people from voting.
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Colorado hit with over 2 feet of snow
Oct 26 2006 10:46PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The biggest October snowstorm to hit Colorado in several years dumped more than 2 feet Thursday, grounding flights, closing highways, knocking out electricity _ and jump-starting the ski season.
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Man torches Ore. church during service
Oct 26 2006 10:45PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A man ranting about "the blood" burst into a church sanctuary during a service, sloshed fuel onto people and started a fire, police and church officials said Thursday.
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Judge blocks Ohio ID rule for absentees
Oct 26 2006 10:40PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge suspended Ohio's new voter identification law Thursday as it applies to absentee voting, saying the state's 88 counties are inconsistently applying the rule in the voting, which is already under way.
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Alabama executes killer of woman, 89
Oct 26 2006 10:17PM (CT)
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - A man who nearly decapitated an 89-year-old woman as he burglarized her house became the first inmate put to death in Alabama in more than a year Thursday.
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N.C. nurse charged in patient's death
Oct 26 2006 10:07PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - For five years, the death of Sandra Baker Joyner after a mini-facelift was attributed to medical error. But last month, investigators proposed a more sinister explanation. As she lay bandaged in the recovery room, Joyner was poisoned by a nurse anesthetist who believed Joyner had stolen her boyfriend back in high school some 30 years ago, authorities say.
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CIA contractor retains conviction
Oct 26 2006 9:54PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A federal judge has denied a request from a former CIA contractor to overturn his conviction for assaulting an Afghan detainee who later died.
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Records: Elevators often trapped people
Oct 26 2006 9:25PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - In the year before last week's fatal elevator accident at Ohio State University, service technicians received 22 reports of passengers trapped inside stuck elevators in four high-rise dormitories, according to reports released Thursday by the university.
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AP's Online Video Network honored
Oct 26 2006 9:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The team responsible for creating AP's new online video network has won The Associated Press' 2006 Chairman's Prize, AP officials announced.
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'Son of Sam' settles property dispute
Oct 26 2006 8:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz has settled a lawsuit in which he accused his former lawyer of stealing and profiting from his personal property, including his bar mitzvah photos and his typewriter.
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Parents in court in bride-napping case
Oct 26 2006 8:50PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - A couple forcefully kept their 21-year-old daughter against her will while taking her across state lines on the eve of her wedding, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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Study: Polls work despite phone changes
Oct 26 2006 8:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The cell-phone-only crowd is not yet large enough and their views not different enough to affect the accuracy of traditional political polling, a new study suggests. Not yet, anyway.
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Kansas sheriff shot; suspect killed
Oct 26 2006 8:35PM (CT)
HOXIE, Kan. (AP) - A county sheriff was shot and killed in his office Thursday by a 36-year-old man he was interviewing, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said. The suspect was then fatally shot by a deputy.
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Panel: Journalists must fight for access
Oct 26 2006 8:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the five years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there has been an enormous shift toward government secrecy, and the news media needs to begin pushing back more forcefully, a journalism advocate said Thursday.
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2 soldiers arraigned at Fort Campbell
Oct 26 2006 7:41PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were arraigned Thursday on murder charges in the death of Iraqi detainees last summer.
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LA Times editor considered quitting
Oct 26 2006 7:27PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The editor of The Los Angeles Times said Thursday that he considered resigning after publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson was ousted for refusing to implement staff cuts ordered by the newspaper's owner, Tribune Co.
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Police meet with Malvo on Ariz. slaying
Oct 26 2006 7:23PM (CT)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Convicted Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo met Thursday with Arizona police who are investigating whether he and cohort John Allen Muhammad were involved in a fatal shooting there in March 2002, Malvo's lawyer said.
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Mexican describes deadly smuggling trip
Oct 26 2006 7:14PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The tractor-trailer was to be the last stage on Jose Juan Roldan Castro's long journey to Houston. He had already been smuggled safely over the border from Mexico, and he didn't think these last four hours would put his life in danger.
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Misguided manatee eludes rescue team
Oct 26 2006 7:06PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A manatee that took an unheard-of swim 700 miles up the Mississippi River eluded a rescue team Thursday that hoped to return the animal to the sea.
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Remains search could move off WTC site
Oct 26 2006 6:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Officials overseeing the recovery of human remains at the World Trade Center site will recommend expanding the search to several nearby roads, The Associated Press learned Thursday.
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Suspect in hidden bunker case indicted
Oct 26 2006 4:53PM (CT)
CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) - More rape charges have been filed against a man suspected of holding a 14-year-old girl captive in an underground bunker for more than a week before she managed to send a text message to her mother for help.
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Mom sentenced for ignoring infection
Oct 26 2006 4:22PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A mother whose 13-year-old daughter nearly died from an infection caused by a bellybutton piercing was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for failing to seek medical attention for several weeks as the child grew sicker.
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Iowa oil distributor's warehouse burns
Oct 26 2006 4:11PM (CT)
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A motor oil distributor's warehouse caught fire early Thursday, sending flames 30 feet into the air but injuring no employees.
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Clocks get turned back this weekend
Oct 26 2006 2:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most Americans will get a chance at an extra hour of sleep this weekend, as the clocks fall back to standard time.
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Padilla jury to come from pool of 3,000
Oct 26 2006 2:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The jury selection process in the terrorism trial of alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla will begin next month with an unusually large group of 3,000 Miami-area residents, a judge said Thursday.
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Paternity claim of German, 55, rejected
Oct 26 2006 1:52PM (CT)
WESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A judge Thursday threw out a paternity claim filed by a 55-year-old German man who has fought for a decade to prove a long-dead state legislator is his father.
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5 life terms for raping Miami girl, 11
Oct 26 2006 1:43PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A man charged with a string of sexual assaults got five consecutive life prison sentences without the chance of parole Thursday for raping an 11-year-old girl three years ago.
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Ballot measures seek limited government
Oct 26 2006 1:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - He lives in New York City; his name is on no ballot. Yet real estate investor Howard Rich is a key reason why citizens in distant states will be voting Nov. 7 on bitterly contested initiatives that would limit state spending, impose term limits and curb land-use regulation.
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Schwarzenegger camp uses consumer data
Oct 26 2006 1:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gin or vodka? Ford or BMW? Perrier or Fiji water? Does the car you buy or what's in your fridge say anything about how you'll vote?
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New Orleans may hire a public watchdog
Oct 26 2006 12:58PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - City leaders are pressing for the hiring of a corruption watchdog to send a message that New Orleans _ with its long and colorful reputation for graft and thievery _ can be trusted with the billions of dollars in federal aid pouring in to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
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Residents grateful for weak storm season
Oct 26 2006 12:55PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - With last year's ruinous hurricanes fresh in her mind, Beth Aroyo stocked up last spring on dried food, canned goods and lots of bottled water. She ended up pouring the water into her pool and donating most of the food to the needy.
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Ex-municipal judge in Wis. faces charges
Oct 26 2006 12:47PM (CT)
RACINE, Wis. (AP) - A former municipal judge faces 18 felony charges after two women accused him of making them sign a contract that let them live on his property if they gave him control of their prescription medications, which he then doled out in exchange for sex acts.
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Bars price-fixing suit is tossed in Wis.
Oct 26 2006 12:31PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A state appeals court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit claiming the owners of two dozen bars illegally conspired to raise prices when they banned drink specials on weekend nights.
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Mediation of Katrina cases ordered
Oct 26 2006 11:48AM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - David Rideout braced for a grueling court battle when he sued Allstate Insurance Co. for denying his claim after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Claim filed over sunbather hit on beach
Oct 26 2006 11:43AM (CT)
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - The family of a sunbather who was run over by a police beach patrol filed a $10 million legal claim against the city, alleging it was negligent in allowing the officers on the beach in an SUV without specialized training.
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Religion today
Oct 26 2006 11:14AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The Kamiyacho Open Terrace cafe in central Tokyo has all the trappings of a trendy establishment _ good coffee, homemade dessert, an airy terrace.
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Not guilty plea in Vt. student's death
Oct 26 2006 10:28AM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A man accused of beating and strangling a University of Vermont student he had met on a Burlington street pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder.
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Holocaust activist Benjamin Meed dies
Oct 26 2006 10:07AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Benjamin Meed, who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and went on to help reunite survivors and establish a national Holocaust registry and two museums, has died. He was 88.
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NJ's gay ex-governor says he would marry
Oct 26 2006 10:06AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. James McGreevey, who resigned after acknowledging a gay affair, said he would tie the knot with his partner if state lawmakers decide to allow gay marriage.
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N.Y. shredmobile to fight ID theft
Oct 26 2006 8:56AM (CT)
RYE, N.Y. (AP) - Mr. Smith, as he wants to be known, is a very private man. He wouldn't give his real name, he wouldn't say how old he was and he ducked behind a reporter when a photographer approached.
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Florida and Texas execute killers
Oct 26 2006 4:02AM (CT)
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - Florida executed an infamous serial killer just hours before Texas put to death a man convicted in the stabbing deaths of his parents and an uncle.
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Military aims to fix helicopter brownout
Oct 26 2006 3:35AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - As the military chopper prepared to land in the New Mexican desert during a nighttime training exercise, gunner Paul Bratcher and the rest of the crew were suddenly hit by helicopter brownout.
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3-iron aids in golf course lake rescue
Oct 26 2006 3:14AM (CT)
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - A golf course security guard likely owes his life to two quick thinking employees and a 3-iron.
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S.C. rapist to face judge who freed him
Oct 26 2006 2:11AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Six years ago, convicted sex offender Kenneth Glenn Hinson was released from prison after a judge rejected prosecutors' pleas that he be committed indefinitely.
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Old West leaves Dodge City; guns remain
Oct 26 2006 2:04AM (CT)
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - Dodge City has a rich history as an Old West frontier town, where cowboys and gunslingers could take a break from the trail and get their fill of saloons and brothels.
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Fla. killer executed for 5 1990 murders
Oct 26 2006 1:28AM (CT)
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - Danny Harold Rolling, Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, was executed by injection Wednesday for butchering five college students in a ghastly string of slayings that terrorized Gainesville in 1990.
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No deal in Rosa Parks estate fight
Oct 26 2006 1:15AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Further attempts to settle a dispute involving civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' multimillion-dollar estate have failed, a lawyer says, and the matter now is set to go before a judge Nov. 21.
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