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Tornado causes damage in Fla. town
Oct 28 2006 11:04PM (CT)
APALACHICOLA, Fla. (AP) - This seaside town was without power Saturday after a tornado tore through the area, damaging nearly 50 buildings and slightly injuring two people, authorities said.
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Halloween party opens with few arrests
Oct 28 2006 10:56PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - From the pedestrian to the profane, costumed college students and others roamed downtown Saturday in an annual weekend party that in recent years has ended with drunken mayhem and police spraying pepper gas.
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Firefighter's mom asks guilty to step up
Oct 28 2006 10:38PM (CT)
SOBOBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - The mother of one of the four firefighters who died battling a wildfire that authorities blamed on arsonists urged those who set it to turn themselves in Saturday.
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Mesaba reaches pact with pilots
Oct 28 2006 8:26PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Mesaba Aviation Inc. and the union that represents its pilots reached a tentative agreement on labor concessions, the bankrupt airline announced Saturday.
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Ohio elevator death tempers campus mood
Oct 28 2006 8:01PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State University was ready to roar a little extra for Saturday's homecoming, with its football team ranked No. 1 in the nation.
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Feds seek $28M to cleanup Wash. wildfire
Oct 28 2006 6:16PM (CT)
CONCONULLY, Wash. (AP) - Smoke still rises from smoldering stumps in north-central Washington, months after a wildfire roared through 274 square miles of state and federal land.
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Police: Driver causes crash, fires gun
Oct 28 2006 5:17PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The driver of a sport utility vehicle slammed into a car early Saturday, killing three family members, then pulled a gun and fired at people fleeing from a third car that had been sideswiped, police said.
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Pa. court refuses surrogate mom's appeal
Oct 28 2006 4:26PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal filed by a surrogate mother who lost custody of triplets she delivered nearly three years ago to their biological father.
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NYC journalist slain in Oaxaca mourned
Oct 28 2006 4:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Undeterred by violence, journalist Bradley Roland Will felt compelled to document what he called human rights abuses around the globe, so he headed to the volatile city of Oaxaca in Mexico.
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Aging McGovern still campaigns for peace
Oct 28 2006 3:49PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Back in the stacks _ bracketed by shelves filled with copies of "Where The Wild Things Are" and "My Friend Rabbit" and beneath an oversized cutout of Babar, the elephant king _ the elder statesman has again found an audience.
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Bill Clinton celebrates 60th birthday
Oct 28 2006 3:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Celebrating your birthday on the day of your birth is common. Celebrating it by getting your wealthy friends to donate to your charitable foundation is presidential.
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Chalk's to resume flights after crash
Oct 28 2006 3:28PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Nearly one year after a crash killed 20 people, Chalk's International Airlines has received federal approval to resume service to the Bahamas, but without its trademark seaplanes.
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Church fire was set to kill, police say
Oct 28 2006 3:10PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A man accused of sloshing fuel on pews and parishioners during a church service and starting fires intended to kill everyone in the building, investigators say.
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Wal-Mart reports slow growth in October
Oct 28 2006 2:42PM (CT)
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Saturday reported a 0.5 percent sales increase for October, a disappointing performance that fell short of the retailer's expectations.
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Pa. businessman wins suit against paper
Oct 28 2006 2:34PM (CT)
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - A judge has awarded $3.5 million in damages to a businessman and one of his companies in a defamation lawsuit against The Citizens' Voice, a newspaper in Wilkes-Barre.
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School safety drill upsets some parents
Oct 28 2006 2:20PM (CT)
WYOMING, Mich. (AP) - A school safety drill that included police officers in riot gear with weapons has caused concern among some parents who say it was too realistic and frightened some students.
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'Devil Winds' attack firefighters
Oct 28 2006 2:03PM (CT)
ALANDALE, Calif. (AP) - Jeff Horn paid little attention when he heard his friends next door at the fire station packing up their gear and warming up the fire engine.
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Census revision means Boston is growing
Oct 28 2006 2:02PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The city is growing, not shrinking, the U.S. Census Bureau says, acknowledging it underestimated the population by more than 37,000 people.
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Carrier Intrepid bound for overhaul
Oct 28 2006 1:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To the sound of horns and the calling of orders, the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid will slip its moorings on its Hudson River berth on Nov. 6 and sail once again on the morning tide.
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U.S. returns to standard time on Sunday
Oct 28 2006 10:17AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Autumn's chill is in the air, and little ghosts and goblins are preparing to play trick-or-treat. It must be time to set the clocks back. Officially we will fall back to standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday, though most folks will change their clocks Saturday night.
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Police: Malvo confessed to Ariz. killing
Oct 28 2006 6:30AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Cheryll Witz wrote convicted Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo a letter in June, imploring him to talk to Arizona detectives about her father's 2002 death. She got her wish. Police said Friday that Malvo tearfully confessed that he and John Allen Muhammad were responsible for killing 60-year-old Jerry Taylor on a golf course in Tucson.
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Ill. teen charged with baby's death
Oct 28 2006 6:28AM (CT)
SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. (AP) - A 14-year-old girl accused of suffocating her newborn daughter and leaving the infant's body in a trash can was charged with murder.
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Ill. teen charged in her baby's death
Oct 28 2006 6:23AM (CT)
SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. (AP) - A 14-year-old girl accused of suffocating her newborn daughter and leaving the infant's body in a trash can was charged with murder.
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Substance at Clinton's office not toxic
Oct 28 2006 5:56AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police and Secret Service agents determined Friday that a suspicious substance found at former President Clinton's office in Manhattan was not toxic.
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Suspect held in slaying of Fla. family
Oct 28 2006 5:55AM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A family of four was gunned down execution-style along a dark and deserted stretch of highway. Each was lying down or kneeling, and the mother was clutching her two young sons.
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No Halloween for paroled sex offenders
Oct 28 2006 5:52AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Costume parties, jack-o-lanterns, haunted houses and handing out treats are forbidden under newly issued Halloween guidelines for Tennessee sex offenders on probation or parole.
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New attractions open at Mount Vernon
Oct 28 2006 2:27AM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) - Amid Revolutionary War re-enactors and a fife and drum corps, the public got its first glimpse of changes at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate that officials hope will inject new life into the public's image of the Founding Father.
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Judge orders limits on L.A. county jails
Oct 28 2006 1:19AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday seeking to reduce overcrowded and filthy conditions in the nation's largest county jail system.
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Ex-pastor gets 11 yrs. for sex with teen
Oct 28 2006 12:03AM (CT)
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) - A former Baptist pastor who disappeared with a 15-year-old girl for a month and later pleaded guilty to raping her was sentenced Friday to more than 11 years in federal prison.
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