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Evangelical dismissed amid sex scandal
Nov 4 2006 11:29PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The Rev. Ted Haggard was dismissed Saturday as leader of the megachurch he founded after a board determined the influential evangelist had committed "sexually immoral conduct," the church said.
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3 more victims found in Nevada arson
Nov 4 2006 11:17PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The bodies of three more victims of an arson fire at a casino-district hotel were recovered Saturday, bringing the death toll to nine, fire officials said.
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Eco groups use online maps in mine fight
Nov 4 2006 10:43PM (CT)
VICCO, Ky. (AP) - Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain. His electricity goes out repeatedly when the coal miners accidentally knock down power lines.
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1st Catholic cathedral in U.S. reopens
Nov 4 2006 9:42PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The first Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States reopened to the public Saturday after undergoing a $34 million restoration over the past two years.
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Navy's Blue Angels mark 60th anniversary
Nov 4 2006 8:29PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Touring with the Blue Angels was supposed to give Ernie Christensen a respite between deployments as a combat pilot in Vietnam.
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Episcopalians install female leader
Nov 4 2006 8:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Katharine Jefferts Schori took office Saturday as the first female leader of The Episcopal Church and the first woman priest to head an Anglican province, two landmarks that could quickly be overshadowed by divisions over the Bible and sexuality throughout world Anglicanism.
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Oscar-nominated writer Schrader dies
Nov 4 2006 8:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Leonard Schrader, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and co-wrote the critically praised "Mishima," has died. He was 62.
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Amish to build new school in Pa.
Nov 4 2006 5:14PM (CT)
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) - The Amish community has decided to build a new school within sight of the now-razed schoolhouse where a man last month shot 10 girls, killing five.
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Prison hostage situation lasts 13 hours
Nov 4 2006 4:59PM (CT)
RIDGELAND, S.C. (AP) - A suicidal inmate held a prison employee hostage for 13 hours before surrendering to emergency workers, state officials said Saturday. The medium-security prison remained on lockdown.
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Md. apartment fire displaces dozens
Nov 4 2006 3:57PM (CT)
LARGO, Md. (AP) - An early morning fire in a high-rise apartment building forced 75 people to evacuate it Saturday, and police suspect a resident's former boyfriend set the blaze after assaulting her.
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Some gas stations drop Citgo brand
Nov 4 2006 3:29PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Some gas station owners in Oklahoma are dropping the Venezuelan state-owned Citgo brand, saying sales have dropped significantly since the Venezuelan president criticized President Bush in a speech last month.
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Calif. schools to fingerprint students
Nov 4 2006 3:19PM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - A plan to fingerprint elementary school students when they buy lunch has some parents worrying that Big Brother has come to the cafeteria.
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Kings criticize civil rights museum site
Nov 4 2006 3:16PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children say a proposed civil rights museum should be near their father's grave instead of in the city's tourism hub.
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No charges planned in eBay mummy
Nov 4 2006 2:31PM (CT)
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) - Mummified human skeletal remains confiscated from the home of a woman who police say was trying to sell them on eBay likely came from an early 19th century Scottish collection, authorities said.
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Chelsea Clinton joins hedge fund
Nov 4 2006 1:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Chelsea Clinton has started working for Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund that manages about $12 billion in assets, the agency that represents Clinton confirmed Saturday.
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Md. apartment fire displaces dozens
Nov 4 2006 10:51AM (CT)
LARGO, Md. (AP) - An early morning fire in a high-rise apartment building forced the evacuation of 75 people early Saturday and investigators said it may have been arson. Three people were injured.
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Calif. launch for weather satellite
Nov 4 2006 9:55AM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A military weather satellite was launched into orbit early Saturday aboard a Boeing Delta 4 rocket.
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Fire destroys historic Chicago home
Nov 4 2006 9:49AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Fire early Saturday destroyed a historic North Side house designed by renowned architect Louis Sullivan, the third of his buildings brought down by flames this year in the city.
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Man gets 245 yrs. for 3 killings in Ind.
Nov 4 2006 7:09AM (CT)
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - A man originally charged with killing seven people more than a decade ago was sentenced Friday to 245 years in prison for three of the slayings and the rape of a teenage girl.
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Pa. man accused of raping online dates
Nov 4 2006 6:51AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - He was an online dater's dream: Tall, clean-cut, with a fashionable address and a taste for upscale bars and restaurants. He said he was a doctor, an astronaut, a spy _ though he was really an on-and-off nursing student. With woman after woman, he would slip something in their drinks and then rape them, police say.
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AWOL soldiers reconsider return to U.S.
Nov 4 2006 6:49AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Since going to Canada to avoid another deployment to Iraq, Corey Glass has considered returning to the United States. But after hearing that a fellow former soldier who surrendered to the military and was ordered to return to his unit instead of being discharged, Glass may not return at all.
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Groups challenge SoCal immigration law
Nov 4 2006 6:13AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups sued the city of Escondido in an effort to overturn a new law that prohibits landlords from renting to illegal immigrants.
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Official: Man's car spotted near fires
Nov 4 2006 4:36AM (CT)
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A car linked to a man charged with setting a wildfire that killed five firefighters was spotted near at least 10 other arsons, according to an official involved in the investigation.
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Brigham Young's chair returned to Utah
Nov 4 2006 4:13AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Two great-great-great-grandsons of Brigham Young presented to the Mormon church an heirloom rocking chair that one of Young's many wives likely sat in to soothe their children.
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NYC mayor observes search at WTC site
Nov 4 2006 4:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg quietly visited the World Trade Center site, thanking crews for their work on the renewed search for remains of Sept. 11 victims, according to those at the site.
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California begins transferring inmates
Nov 4 2006 3:23AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California began sending inmates out of state to save space in its overcrowded prisons on Friday, flying 80 to a private prison in Tennessee.
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Fla. guards convicted in smuggling trial
Nov 4 2006 12:32AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A jury found a male prison guard guilty of bribery and another guilty of witness tampering Friday in a sex-for-contraband scheme that ended in a deadly shootout at a federal prison for women.
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