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Texas co. hired illegals to make MREs
Oct 27 2005 11:02PM (CT)
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A Texas employment agency was sentenced to five years of probation for hiring illegal immigrants to work at the nation's top producer of military battlefield rations, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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Shriver stays mum on husband's agenda
Oct 27 2005 10:02PM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Maria Shriver refused to take a stand Thursday on the political agenda of her husband, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying, "We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off."
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Floridians again find gas in short supply
Oct 27 2005 9:57PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Many Floridians struggled another day to find food, water and fuel after Hurricane Wilma on Thursday, with lines of people and cars forming around home improvement stores and gas stations.
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Ex-engineer charged with selling secrets
Oct 27 2005 9:52PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - An engineer who called himself the father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles has been arrested and accused of selling U.S. military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said.
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Suspect's mother arrested in Calif. slay
Oct 27 2005 9:41PM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - The mother of a teenager accused of killing a prominent attorney's wife was arrested Thursday and held on suspicion of being an accessory to murder.
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Court OKs food stamp ban in cigarette sale
Oct 27 2005 9:22PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The sale of a single pack of cigarettes paid for with food stamps was grounds enough for state officials to ban a grocery store from being part of a subsidy program for the poor, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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La. gov. blamed for slow removal of bodies
Oct 27 2005 9:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina went uncollected for more than a week in the New Orleans area as the federal government waited for Louisiana's governor to decide what to do with them, according to memos released Thursday by a Republican-led House committee.
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LA County urges gays to cut back smoking
Oct 27 2005 8:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County health officials are focusing a new anti-smoking program at gays and lesbians, who they say are nearly twice as likely to smoke as the general population.
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Court blocks Ga. photo ID requirement
Oct 27 2005 8:45PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal appeals court refused Thursday to let Georgia demand photo identification from all voters at the polls.
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Lawsuit dismissed in 'wrong beer' case
Oct 27 2005 8:42PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A lawsuit filed by a man who alleged a Budweiser distributor wrongfully fired him after he drank a competitor's beer during his off-hours has been dismissed.
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NYC firefighters get 17.5 percent raise
Oct 27 2005 8:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Firefighters who have been working without a contract for more than three years will get a 17.5 percent raise under a deal announced Thursday.
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Poll: Gov. Schwarzenegger's measures lag
Oct 27 2005 8:31PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's "year of reform" initiatives are proving a tough sell to California voters despite a multimillion dollar advertising blitz, according to a poll released Thursday.
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Wife of Md. airport worker gets 5 in fraud
Oct 27 2005 8:31PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The wife of a former baggage handler at Baltimore-Washington International Airport was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for her role in a multimillion dollar mail theft scheme.
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Fla. ag chief: Wilma is worst he's seen
Oct 27 2005 8:30PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Wilma has devastated Florida agriculture more than any other natural disaster in decades, the state's agriculture commissioner said Thursday.
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Methodist leaders hear about gay minister
Oct 27 2005 8:04PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A lesbian Methodist minister should retain her ordained status because defrocking her would amount to discrimination, and would fly in the face of the inclusiveness that the church preaches, representatives of a Pennsylvania minister argued Thursday before the church's Judicial Council.
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Ex-school trustee 'misspoke' on evolution
Oct 27 2005 8:01PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A former school board member who denied saying creationism should be taught alongside evolution in high school biology classes changed his story Thursday after being confronted in court with TV news footage of him making such comments.
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La. hospitals nearing financial collapse
Oct 27 2005 7:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Louisiana's public hospital system is on the verge of financial collapse two months after Hurricane Katrina and needs federal aid quickly, the head of the system said Thursday.
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Grand jury issues new subpoenas for DeLay
Oct 27 2005 7:55PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas prosecutor asked Thursday for all e-mail sent and received in 2002 by three indicted associates of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay as part of an investigation into an alleged campaign finance scheme.
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Cities reserve bus seats to honor Parks
Oct 27 2005 7:41PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - In the city where she died and the city where she sparked the civil rights movement, the front of the bus is reserved for Rosa Parks.
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Major Republican donor indicted in Ohio
Oct 27 2005 7:04PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A coin dealer and major GOP donor at the center of a scandal in Ohio state government was charged Thursday with illegally funneling $45,400 in contributions to President Bush's re-election bid.
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Court: Clinton library can get tax break
Oct 27 2005 6:39PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Bill Clinton's presidential library foundation is eligible for a $3.5 million tax break meant for economic development, The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting the state's argument that nonprofits shouldn't receive such aid.
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Newsweek senior editor Tom Masland dies
Oct 27 2005 6:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tom Masland, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent decades covering Haiti, Africa and the Middle East, died Thursday of injuries suffered in an auto accident. He was 55.
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Suicide mistaken for Halloween decoration
Oct 27 2005 6:10PM (CT)
FREDERICA, Del. (AP) - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.
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Fla.'s aggressive hurricane plan faltered
Oct 27 2005 5:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Florida disaster response officials thought their vast experience with hurricanes meant they could design an effective plan to distribute water, ice and other supplies only hours after Hurricane Wilma's winds subsided. It didn't pan out as they intended.
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Head of New Orleans' levee board quits
Oct 27 2005 3:22PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The head of the Orleans Levee Board has quit amid questions about no-bid contracts to his relatives in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
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Prof calls no witnesses at Florida trial
Oct 27 2005 3:10PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An attorney for a fired college professor accused of supporting Palestinian terrorists rested his case Thursday without calling a single witness to answer nearly five months of prosecution testimony.
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Philanthropist Enid A. Haupt dies at 99
Oct 27 2005 1:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Enid A. Haupt, the publishing heiress whose multimillion-dollar philanthropy benefited cancer patients, museum-goers and the New York Botanical Garden, has died at the age of 99.
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Yale bans drinking games for Harvard game
Oct 27 2005 1:42PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale is banning drinking games from this year's football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime _ a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football's oldest and most storied rivalries.
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Rosa Parks honored with march in hometown
Oct 27 2005 1:41PM (CT)
TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) - More than 200 people linked arms and marched through Rosa Parks' hometown to pay tribute to the late civil rights pioneer.
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Black engineering program in Ga. closing
Oct 27 2005 1:09PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Yemaya Stallworth came to Clark Atlanta University to get an engineering degree at a school where her teachers and classmates looked like her: black. But that option may soon disappear _ if not for her, then for the students who come after her.
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Set clocks back an hour this Sunday
Oct 27 2005 1:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fall is in the air, the leaves are changing and that means it's time to set the clocks back. It's fall, so remember to fall back one hour.
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La. cattlemen lose much of stock in storm
Oct 27 2005 1:01PM (CT)
JOHNSON BAYOU, La. (AP) - Billy Griffith still dresses like a cowboy: blue jeans, boots and cowboy hat. But the lifelong cattleman has lost most of his cattle.
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Volunteer group encourages hitchhiking
Oct 27 2005 12:16PM (CT)
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - She has been called the Walking Quaker, an 86-year-old pacifist pedestrian who embodies this college town's grassroots activism and liberal politics.
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Apology follows Christian-themed assembly
Oct 27 2005 11:33AM (CT)
NEWARK, Del. (AP) - The principal of a public high school apologized to parents for allowing a Christian-themed assembly that featured two pro football players, saying he was misled about what the presentation would cover.
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Illinois student's body found in Miss.
Oct 27 2005 11:20AM (CT)
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - Friends and classmates mourned the death of an Illinois State University senior as authorities continued investigating how the missing woman's body ended up in a burned-out chicken coop in Mississippi.
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Religion news in brief
Oct 27 2005 11:07AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressing concerns about an upcoming Vatican document that will address whether homosexuals should be ordained, said "witch hunts and gay bashing have no place in the church."
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Religion today
Oct 27 2005 11:07AM (CT)
CAESAREA, Israel (AP) - The full scope of Jewish texts and traditions couldn't help the rabbi sort this one out: Could he inline-skate to synagogue on the holy day of rest and prayer?
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Skiing photographer dies in Andean fall
Oct 27 2005 10:32AM (CT)
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - A professional skiing photographer attempting to document the harsh Argentine terrain where plane crash survivors once resorted to cannibalism died in a 4,500-foot fall, his family said.
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Calif. has $4.8 billion in unclaimed stuff
Oct 27 2005 9:43AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Danny DeVito has a $26 check waiting for him from Allstate Insurance. Reese Witherspoon is owed nearly $100 by Tiffany Co. And California first lady Maria Shriver has more than $300 waiting for her in the state's unclaimed property vault, according to the state controller's Web site.
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Anaheim goes after city's hookah bars
Oct 27 2005 9:35AM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Mohammed Elkhatib surveyed his cafe and shook his head _ no belly dancers, no live music, no dance floor. Just a handful of clean-cut men sitting around puffing tobacco from hookahs and watching Game 3 of the World Series.
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Chertoff orders 'air bridge' for Wilma aid
Oct 27 2005 8:05AM (CT)
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) - Hundreds of truckloads of food, water, power generators and other supplies are being flown to Hurricane Wilma victims over a new "air bridge" ordered by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
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Season's 23rd tropical storm forms
Oct 27 2005 7:54AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Beta formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, extending this year's record of named storms in the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Man, 74, rides out nor'easter on sailboat
Oct 27 2005 7:40AM (CT)
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - A 74-year-old sailor said being rescued by the Coast Guard was "the most fantastic feeling" after he rode out a powerful nor'easter on board a 33-foot sailboat.
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Ex-New Orleans cop sentenced to death
Oct 27 2005 5:51AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A former New Orleans policeman was sentenced to death again for ordering the murder of a woman who filed a brutality complaint against him.
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Americans hold vigils for dead in Iraq
Oct 27 2005 5:46AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - The cashier became emotional and speechless when war protester Joseph Mosyjowski bought 2,000 small candles a few weeks ago for a vigil he knew was bound to happen, and she realized they represented each U.S. military death in Iraq.
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Hospitals' response to Wilma commended
Oct 27 2005 4:51AM (CT)
BELLE GLADE, Fla. (AP) - The response at some area hospitals _ during and after Hurricane Wilma _ point to lessons learned from previous storms that ripped through Florida in recent years, a state health official said.
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More charges against driver in Vegas crash
Oct 27 2005 4:13AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man accused of killing three pedestrians and injuring 11 others by intentionally plowing a stolen car onto a crowded Las Vegas Strip sidewalk is facing new charges.
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Woman sees husband off to war, gets fired
Oct 27 2005 3:46AM (CT)
CALEDONIA, Mich. (AP) - A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure.
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Jury faults Port Authority in WTC bombing
Oct 27 2005 3:38AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The agency that owns the World Trade Center has been found negligent for not doing enough to thwart a deadly 1993 terrorist bombing in a parking garage beneath the twin towers, a ruling that likely opens the door to more litigation.
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Some Katrina workers unwelcomed in La.
Oct 27 2005 3:10AM (CT)
KENNER, La. (AP) - Richard Tornow rolled into town a few weeks back in a battered pickup truck, took a demolition job for $10 an hour and had "Katrina '05" tattooed on his right shoulder.
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Veteran columnist Michael Kilian dies
Oct 27 2005 12:54AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Michael Kilian, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist who also wrote mystery novels, nonfiction on public affairs and the Dick Tracy comic strip, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 66.
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U.N.: 2,000 firm gave Iraq illicit funds
Oct 27 2005 12:10AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - More than 2,000 companies paid about $1.8 billion in illicit kickbacks and surcharges to Saddam Hussein's government through extensive manipulation of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, according to key findings of a U.N.-backed investigation obtained by The Associated Press.
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Gorbachev: No security if poverty persists
Oct 27 2005 12:09AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Curbing poverty and building stronger international alliances are key to maintaining security and spreading democracy, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday.
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