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Beach house blaze's cause may be smoking
Nov 2 2007 11:56PM (CT)
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) - A discarded cigarette or other smoking materials may have caused a beach house fire that killed seven South Carolina college students, authorities said Friday, though a preliminary investigation failed to nail down the blaze's origin.
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Beach house blaze's cause may be smoking
Nov 2 2007 11:56PM (CT)
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) - A discarded cigarette or other smoking materials may have caused a beach house fire that killed seven South Carolina college students, authorities said Friday, though a preliminary investigation failed to nail down the blaze's origin.
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Beach house blaze's cause may be smoking
Nov 2 2007 11:56PM (CT)
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) - A discarded cigarette or other smoking materials may have caused a beach house fire that killed seven South Carolina college students, authorities said Friday, though a preliminary investigation failed to nail down the blaze's origin.
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FBI knew of O.J. Simpson plan in advance
Nov 2 2007 11:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal agents learned three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were stolen from him, according to FBI reports obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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FBI knew of O.J. Simpson plan in advance
Nov 2 2007 11:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal agents learned three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were stolen from him, according to FBI reports obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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Evidence against former astronaut tossed
Nov 2 2007 11:55PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A judge agreed Friday to toss much of the evidence against Nowak, a former astronaut accused of making a diaper-assisted, 1,000-mile drive to confront a woman vying for the affections of the same space shuttle pilot.
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Evidence against former astronaut tossed
Nov 2 2007 11:55PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A judge agreed Friday to toss much of the evidence against Nowak, a former astronaut accused of making a diaper-assisted, 1,000-mile drive to confront a woman vying for the affections of the same space shuttle pilot.
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Teacher, pupil believed to be in Mexico
Nov 2 2007 11:49PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) - An international hunt was under way Friday for a middle school teacher and her former student believed to be on the run after relatives said the 13-year-old boy called home from Mexico.
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Bloomberg proposes greenhouse gas tax
Nov 2 2007 11:21PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a national "pollution pricing" plan Friday that would tax companies directly for the greenhouse gases they release.
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Bloomberg proposes greenhouse gas tax
Nov 2 2007 11:21PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a national "pollution pricing" plan Friday that would tax companies directly for the greenhouse gases they release.
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Homeowner found dead; suspect in custody
Nov 2 2007 10:46PM (CT)
NEEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A man installing an irrigation system at a home was arrested Friday in connection with the apparent bludgeoning death of the 78-year-old homeowner and the beating of his daughter-in-law, police said.
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Tacoma Mall shooter gets 163 years
Nov 2 2007 10:22PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A gunman who told 911 dispatchers to "follow the screams" before wounding seven in a 2005 mall shooting rampage was sentenced to more than 160 years in prison Friday.
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Fatal crash shuts down I-95 in Conn.
Nov 2 2007 9:41PM (CT)
EAST LYME, Conn. (AP) - A tanker truck hauling home heating oil crossed into oncoming traffic Friday, killing three people in a multi-vehicle wreck that forced the shutdown of a key Northeast highway, state police said.
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Camera, coke seized in sex tape case
Nov 2 2007 9:35PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The man accused of molesting a little girl in an explicit sex videotape hid out last month in a short stay apartment where authorities have found a video camera and a quarter-pound of cocaine, a detective said Friday.
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Convicted priest faces new abuse charge
Nov 2 2007 9:22PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A retired Jesuit priest convicted of molesting two boys was taken into custody Friday on a charge that he molested a boy he took on a trip to Switzerland and Austria seven years ago, prosecutors announced.
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California prepares for more fires
Nov 2 2007 9:09PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Applying lessons learned just a week ago, Southern California is lining up fire crews and aircraft to get a jump on wildfires if the hot, dry Santa Ana winds expected to return this weekend cause major flare-ups.
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Pipe bomb locks down Ariz. nuke plant
Nov 2 2007 8:12PM (CT)
WINTERSBURG, Ariz. (AP) - Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said.
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Pipe bomb locks down Ariz. nuke plant
Nov 2 2007 8:12PM (CT)
WINTERSBURG, Ariz. (AP) - Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said.
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Pipe bomb locks down Ariz. nuke plant
Nov 2 2007 8:12PM (CT)
WINTERSBURG, Ariz. (AP) - Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said.
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Police search for missing Ill. woman
Nov 2 2007 7:39PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - State police sent divers into a retention pond Friday near the home of a suburban Chicago police sergeant whose wife disappeared Sunday and whose former wife was found dead in her bathtub in 2004.
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Guard jet crashes in Mo., pilot hurt
Nov 2 2007 7:12PM (CT)
BOSS, Mo. (AP) - An Air National Guard F-15C crashed Friday in rural south-central Missouri after the pilot ejected, authorities said.
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Former Ill. gov. assigned to Wis. prison
Nov 2 2007 5:58PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The federal Bureau of Prisons has reassigned former Gov. George Ryan to a prison in central Wisconsin to serve his racketeering and fraud sentence, his attorneys confirmed Friday.
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Doc gets 2 years in steroid case
Nov 2 2007 5:47PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two doctors who doled out illegal steroids and human growth hormone prescriptions to perhaps thousands of people were sentenced Friday, one to two years in prison and the other to a year of home confinement.
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Unknown spray sickens Calif. students
Nov 2 2007 5:45PM (CT)
LODI, Calif. (AP) - Two students sprayed a noxious gas in the main hallway of a high school, sickening 43 students and sending six to the hospital, police said.
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Audit: Texas slow delivering Rita aid
Nov 2 2007 5:24PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas has used only 2 percent of more than $500 million in federal aid for homeowners and communities hit by Hurricane Rita more than two years ago, a state audit found.
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Charges filed in doctor's office slaying
Nov 2 2007 4:09PM (CT)
ENOLA, Pa. (AP) - A psychiatric patient already in custody in another case was charged Friday in the fatal shooting of his doctor's wife last May.
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Judge booted for flipping coin to decide
Nov 2 2007 4:02PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A judge who ordered a woman to drop her pants and decided a custody dispute by flipping a coin was removed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday. The decision against Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge James Michael Shull of Gate City was unanimous.
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DA sues judge in Ga. courthouse killings
Nov 2 2007 3:59PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A prosecutor is suing the judge overseeing the capital murder trial of a man accused in a rampage that began in a courtroom, seeking to resume jury selection and questioning whether the judge should be removed.
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Gang rape suspects linked by DNA
Nov 2 2007 3:59PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Three teenagers charged in the gang rape and beating of a woman and her son have been linked to the crime by DNA, authorities said.
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Twins invent wedgie-proof underwear
Nov 2 2007 3:54PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Wedgie-proof underwear earned 8-year-old twin boys a spot Friday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Using rigged boxers and fabric fasteners to hold together some seams, Jared and Justin Serovich came up with the "Rip Away 1000."
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Twins invent wedgie-proof underwear
Nov 2 2007 3:54PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Wedgie-proof underwear earned 8-year-old twin boys a spot Friday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Using rigged boxers and fabric fasteners to hold together some seams, Jared and Justin Serovich came up with the "Rip Away 1000."
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Guard slain on Halloween helped others
Nov 2 2007 3:52PM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) - A security guard gunned down when he tried to keep vandals from throwing eggs on Halloween had survived a quarter-century as a prison guard in Jamaica, earning a reputation for fairness that kept him safe in the island's worst neighborhoods, his son said.
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Patient says dancing dentist misstepped
Nov 2 2007 3:31PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A dentist was dancing to a song on the radio while drilling on a woman's tooth, and she wound up in the hospital when the drill bit snapped off and lodged near her eye, a lawsuit alleges. Brandy Fanning, 31, said she had to undergo emergency surgery and spent three days in the hospital because of the October 2004 mishap.
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Rice presses diplomats on assignments
Nov 2 2007 3:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the U.S. envoy to Baghdad reminded diplomats on Friday of their duty to serve their country amid a revolt among some who are resisting forced assignments to Iraq.
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Rice presses diplomats on assignments
Nov 2 2007 3:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the U.S. envoy to Baghdad reminded diplomats on Friday of their duty to serve their country amid a revolt among some who are resisting forced assignments to Iraq.
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Family sues cemetery over lost remains
Nov 2 2007 2:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A family sued a cemetery after officials acknowledged that the grave of the family patriarch, who died in 1990, was empty and the remains were missing.
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Cops: Inmate confesses in 1979 killing
Nov 2 2007 2:49PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A man already serving life sentences in two murders will be charged in the slaying of a 19-year-old woman whose death has gone unsolved for 28 years, authorities said.
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Suit dropped against dockworkers' union
Nov 2 2007 2:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A government lawsuit against the International Longshoremen's Union aimed at wresting control of the nation's docks from alleged organized crime domination was dismissed by a federal judge who called the effort well-intentioned but overreaching.
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More maids working in U.S. homes
Nov 2 2007 1:59PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - In the debate over immigration, they are virtually unheard, unseen: the hundreds of thousands of foreign-born women, many of them in the U.S. illegally, who toil in America's homes as nannies, cooks and housekeepers, changing diapers and scrubbing floors.
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San Francisco mayor poised for 2nd term
Nov 2 2007 1:58PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Eight months after admitting he had a drinking problem and an affair with a close aide's wife, Mayor Gavin Newsom stands poised to win his second term without breaking a sweat.
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Museum's racial makeup challenged
Nov 2 2007 1:35PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum, built around the motel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, is drawing criticism that its governing board is too white and too closely tied to big business to watch over such an important piece of black history.
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Chicago leads in public military schools
Nov 2 2007 1:33PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Samantha Acevedo stands at attention while the chief yeoman stares her down and orders her to recite the Navy's 5th General Order from memory.
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N.O. prosecutor pays part of judgment
Nov 2 2007 12:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A day before he resigned, former New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan paid a fraction of the $3.7 million discrimination judgment against his office, an attorney said Friday.
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Blast rocks Baltimore sugar plant
Nov 2 2007 12:39PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - An explosion blew out windows and started a fire Friday at one of the last remaining industrial plants on Baltimore's waterfront, fire officials said. No serious injuries were reported.
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Toxic fumes blamed in 4 workers' deaths
Nov 2 2007 12:12PM (CT)
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) - Toxic fumes are believed to have killed four workers whose bodies were pulled from a 12-foot-deep sewer line near a construction company landfill, authorities said Friday.
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Congressman defends Albanian immigrant
Nov 2 2007 11:38AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A Texas congressman says the government's treatment of an Albanian immigrant who fears his life could be in danger if he is deported is "intolerable" and "callous."
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IRS warns of wildfire e-mail scam
Nov 2 2007 11:20AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People should be on the lookout for a new e-mail scam soliciting donations to California wildfire victims in the name of the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. government, the IRS said Friday.
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Mass. plans new heroin overdose program
Nov 2 2007 11:06AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts officials next month will begin distributing kits to heroin addicts that include medication to treat overdoses.
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Maggie the elephant leaves Alaska
Nov 2 2007 10:58AM (CT)
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) - After living nearly her whole life in Alaska, Maggie the elephant on Friday made her way to a new home in California.
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Train cars derail in Tenn; no injuries
Nov 2 2007 9:34AM (CT)
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A freight train sideswiped another in this Nashville suburb, causing about three dozen cars to derail, but there were no injuries or hazardous leaks.
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2 dead in Miss. gas line explosion
Nov 2 2007 8:42AM (CT)
QUITMAN, Miss. (AP) - An explosion in a propane pipeline started a blaze that killed two people, destroyed four homes and burned more than 150 acres in southeastern Mississippi.
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Rice: Kurdish rebels are 'common threat'
Nov 2 2007 8:15AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Turkish officials Friday that Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq were a "common threat" and that the United States would help Ankara in its fight against them.
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Rice: Kurdish rebels are 'common threat'
Nov 2 2007 8:15AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Turkish officials Friday that Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq were a "common threat" and that the United States would help Ankara in its fight against them.
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Episcopal head warns Pittsburgh bishop
Nov 2 2007 7:04AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh's bishop could face discipline if he continues to support efforts to split his diocese from the Episcopal Church, the presiding bishop of the national church warned in a letter.
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NY judge: FBI made `deal with the devil'
Nov 2 2007 6:42AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former FBI agent accused of conspiring in a mob murder spree has been cleared of the sensational charges, but the vaunted law enforcement agency received a scathing rebuke from a judge in the process.
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NY judge: FBI made `deal with the devil'
Nov 2 2007 6:42AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former FBI agent accused of conspiring in a mob murder spree has been cleared of the sensational charges, but the vaunted law enforcement agency received a scathing rebuke from a judge in the process.
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Reporter Bernstein raps celebrity news
Nov 2 2007 6:39AM (CT)
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - A culture coarsened by celebrity news is to blame for inadequate public affairs journalism, Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein told a group of college preparatory students.
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Tennessee town has run out of water
Nov 2 2007 6:09AM (CT)
ORME, Tenn. (AP) - As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.
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Tennessee town has run out of water
Nov 2 2007 6:09AM (CT)
ORME, Tenn. (AP) - As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.
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Former player sues NY college over staph
Nov 2 2007 5:47AM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A former college football player has sued Iona College over an antibiotic-resistant staph infection he says nearly cost him his leg two years ago.
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911 calls detail horror of SoCal blazes
Nov 2 2007 4:41AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The elderly woman was alone when fire roared across her property before dawn, filling her home with smoke and cutting off the power as she pleaded with authorities to rescue her.
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911 calls detail horror of SoCal blazes
Nov 2 2007 4:41AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The elderly woman was alone when fire roared across her property before dawn, filling her home with smoke and cutting off the power as she pleaded with authorities to rescue her.
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Jury: Man should die for sheriff's death
Nov 2 2007 2:57AM (CT)
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) - A jury recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of fatally shooting a sheriff who was serving an arrest warrant.
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Andrew Cuomo makes waves as NY AG
Nov 2 2007 2:24AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo started his political career as the Son of Mario Cuomo and took office this year as the Guy who Followed Eliot Spitzer.
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Legal fights highlight church's message
Nov 2 2007 2:22AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The fiery message of the Westboro Baptist Church has led its followers into a fight for what they say are their First Amendment rights.
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Veteran pleads guilty to stealing gear
Nov 2 2007 12:11AM (CT)
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - An Iraq war veteran pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing body armor, night-vision equipment and other gear while serving in the Illinois National Guard.
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Report: Pilots slept on overnight flight
Nov 2 2007 12:08AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Two commercial pilots allegedly fell asleep on a flight between Baltimore and Denver, with one pilot waking up to "frantic" calls from air traffic controllers warning them they were approaching the airport at twice the speed allowed.
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