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Grand jury extension sought in Ky. case
Nov 7 2005 11:04PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Prosecutors asked for a 90-day extension Monday of the special grand jury investigating Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration for alleged political influence in state hiring and firing.
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Chinese nationals held in alleged scheme
Nov 7 2005 10:57PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge on Monday denied bail for two Chinese nationals accused of conspiring to steal sensitive documents on U.S. Navy warship technology and smuggle them to China.
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Crews search Ind. pond for tornado victims
Nov 7 2005 10:48PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Crews began draining a pond next to a smashed mobile-home park in a search for bodies Monday after a twister ripped through Indiana and Kentucky and killed at least 22 people.
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Washington state rockslide closes highway
Nov 7 2005 10:17PM (CT)
HYAK, Wash. (AP) - A rockslide with boulders as big as refrigerators closed Washington state's principal commercial east-west highway, but state transportation officials hoped to have at least one lane in both directions open by Tuesday.
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Death-row escapee waives extradition
Nov 7 2005 10:07PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A death row inmate who brazenly walked out of a county jail and avoided capture for three days will have constant guards and reduced privileges when he is returned to Texas, authorities said Monday.
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Army translator suspected of spying
Nov 7 2005 9:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Arabic translator for the Army may have secretly helped Iraqi insurgents by taking classified documents home from Iraq to Brooklyn, where he made a series of calls to numbers linked to the insurgency, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
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Calif. city could become U.S. solar leader
Nov 7 2005 9:39PM (CT)
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - Here in the sunny suburbs east of San Francisco, voters get a chance to make their community a national leader in solar power at a time of soaring energy prices and global warming.
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Owners convicted in Kan. enslavement trial
Nov 7 2005 9:21PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The married owners of a group home for the mentally ill were convicted Monday of enslaving its residents, forcing them to work naked and perform sex acts, and illegally billing their families and the federal government for therapy.
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Fla. parents acquitted in baby diet death
Nov 7 2005 9:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Two parents were acquitted Monday of manslaughter in the death of their 6-month-old daughter, who was fed a strict raw foods diet.
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Liberal church may lose funds over sermon
Nov 7 2005 9:09PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service has warned a prominent liberal church that it could lose it's tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon a guest preacher gave on the eve of the 2004 presidential election, according to church officials.
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Lawyers wrangle over DeLay trial locale
Nov 7 2005 9:06PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Travis County is not so prejudiced against Rep. Tom DeLay that former House majority leader couldn't get a fair trial in the city, a veteran defense attorney said Monday in a sworn court statement.
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Mo. radio show host held in wife's death
Nov 7 2005 8:56PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A Missouri radio talk show host was arrested on murder charges Monday for allegedly poisoning his wife by spiking her Gatorade with a chemical found in antifreeze.
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Jurors watch tape in filmed kidnap case
Nov 7 2005 8:09PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Jurors in the trial of a man accused of raping and strangling 11-year-old Carlie Brucia intently watched security camera images Monday of a man grabbing her in a parking lot.
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R.I. governor denounces lobbyist comments
Nov 7 2005 8:05PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Gov. Don Carcieri on Monday angrily denounced a lobbyist's televised comments that he's had mistresses, calling it "gutter politics."
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Some schools re-open in Fla. after Wilma
Nov 7 2005 6:44PM (CT)
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Jaime Chehova spent two weeks getting supplies and decorations for her fourth-graders' first day of school in a new classroom _ for the second time this year.
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Maine proposition offers fishermen a break
Nov 7 2005 6:25PM (CT)
SOUTH FREEPORT, Maine (AP) - Every day during the summer, lobstermen berth their boats, buy bait and fuel, and sell their catch at Harraseeket Lobster Co. as tourists enjoying lobster rolls and fried clams watch the goings-on at the dockside takeout restaurant. How long this quintessentially Maine scene can continue is an open question.
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No other torture claims in Bush plot trial
Nov 7 2005 6:20PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A Briton and a Canadian who say they were tortured into false confessions by Saudi authorities will not be allowed to testify at the trial of a man accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, a judge ruled Monday.
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Jury told ex-professor a terror ringleader
Nov 7 2005 6:03PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A fired college professor acted as a "crime boss" for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a murderous gang that operated like the Mafia, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday.
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Wife pleads guilty in poison conspiracy
Nov 7 2005 5:52PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A woman who was a scientist for a drug company admitted in court Monday that she conspired with her lover five years ago to fatally poison her husband, a pediatric AIDS researcher.
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Buses, subways rolling in Philly again
Nov 7 2005 5:26PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Subways, trolleys and buses started rolling again for the first time in a week Monday after city transit workers agreed to end a strike that forced more than 400,000 daily riders to find some other way to get around.
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Nobel Prize winner gets prison in crash
Nov 7 2005 3:49PM (CT)
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - A Nobel Prize-winning physicist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for killing a man and injuring seven other people while going more than 100 mph in his sports car.
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Ex-fugitive arraigned in courthouse murder
Nov 7 2005 3:36PM (CT)
KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) - A former fugitive who authorities say ordered his wife to shoot a prison guard during a daring courthouse escape was arraigned Monday on a charge of first-degree murder.
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La. lawmakers take up hurricane issues
Nov 7 2005 1:30PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State lawmakers Monday considered ways to strengthen building codes and grappled with a billion-dollar hole in the state budget left by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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More Parks funeral programs to be printed
Nov 7 2005 9:38AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The trustee handling civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' affairs said thousands more of her funeral programs will be printed to try and stop people who are profiting from originals.
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Clarke urges more subway searches
Nov 7 2005 7:36AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke says the random search by police of bags on New York subways is a program that should be copied in other cities.
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New illegal trail rules critcized
Nov 7 2005 5:00AM (CT)
MOUNT HOOD NATIONAL FOREST, Ore. (AP) - Forest Service ranger Kevin Slagle struggles to keep his balance as he slides down a crudely cut trail in the Mount Hood National Forest.
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Texas city split over vote to change name
Nov 7 2005 4:46AM (CT)
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) - In the 1840s, a village of white pioneers sprang up amid several American Indian encampments. Its name, White Settlement, seemed fitting at the time.
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Kansas town dedicates new community center
Nov 7 2005 3:50AM (CT)
FRANKLIN, Kan. (AP) - When a tornado ripped through this rural community more than two years ago, it destroyed just about everything in sight. Most figured the town would never recover.
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Seattle voters to decide on monorail plan
Nov 7 2005 3:33AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Mass transit activists have been trying to get a citywide monorail system off the ground ever since a one-mile tourist tram was built for the Seattle World's Fair in 1962.
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Hundreds protest Iranian leader's remarks
Nov 7 2005 3:29AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - As many as 1,800 demonstrators rallied outside a federal building to protest a statement by Iran's president that Israel should be "wiped off the map," police said.
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Authorities investigate Tenn. house fire
Nov 7 2005 12:41AM (CT)
ROCKWOOD, Tenn. (AP) - An early morning fire burned an eastern Tennessee home to the ground, killing six people, four of them children, authorities said.
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Two Cuban migrants die in boat accident
Nov 7 2005 12:19AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A speedboat carrying 37 suspected migrants capsized off Key West, killing two Cuban women whose bodies were found trapped under the boat, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday.
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