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DNA evidence from '73 helps convict rapist
Nov 9 2005 11:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury took less than two hours Wednesday to convict a man of raping a woman 32 years ago at knifepoint _ a verdict made possible by DNA technology that did not exist when the suspect escaped conviction in the 1970s.
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Feds indict 2 in missile-smuggling scheme
Nov 9 2005 11:04PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal grand jury indicted two men Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to smuggle surface-to-air missiles into the United States for use abroad. Such missiles are designed to bring down aircraft.
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Wis. man charged with weapons violation
Nov 9 2005 10:42PM (CT)
MISHICOT, Wis. (AP) - A man who was wrongly convicted of rape 20 years ago was arrested and charged Wednesday with a weapons violation during an investigation into a photographer's disappearance.
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Texas court clears way for new Yates trial
Nov 9 2005 10:19PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The state's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that threw out Andrea Yates' murder convictions for drowning her children in a bathtub in 2001.
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GOP looks for its lost edge in Va.
Nov 9 2005 10:16PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - How could this happen in a state supposedly as reliably Republican as Virginia? A Democrat who objects to capital punishment, had a clear record of backing gun control and even boasted of supporting a $1.4 billion tax increase beat a conservative Republican by six percentage points Tuesday.
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Groups to Congress: Undo part of voter law
Nov 9 2005 10:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Civil rights activists argued Wednesday that a 2-year-old Supreme Court decision largely wiped out 40 years of progress minorities have made under the Voting Rights Act.
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Rape, slay suspect confessed, brother says
Nov 9 2005 10:08PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - The brother of a man accused of raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl wiped his eyes Wednesday as he recounted how his sibling described sexually assaulting and killing the girl.
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Tenn. house fire kills 4, 2 are children
Nov 9 2005 10:07PM (CT)
LOUDON, Tenn. (AP) - A house fire early Wednesday killed four people, including two children, just four days after an even deadlier blaze about 20 miles away.
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U.S. to test boosting bird-flu vaccine
Nov 9 2005 10:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists will begin testing in January whether they can stretch the nation's limited supply of an experimental bird-flu vaccine by pairing it with an immune-system booster.
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Police: 2 men killed, Pa. trooper wounded
Nov 9 2005 10:03PM (CT)
DUNCANNON, Pa. (AP) - A man shot his boss to death Wednesday at a construction site, wounded a state trooper who was chasing him, and then committed suicide, authorities said.
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Mich. attorney general acknowledges affair
Nov 9 2005 10:02PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Attorney General Mike Cox on Wednesday tearfully acknowledged having an extramarital affair years ago and accused a political rival of threatening to expose the indiscretion.
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Va. security firm hired for WTC site
Nov 9 2005 8:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A firm that led security operations for the Athens Olympics was hired Wednesday to keep the World Trade Center site safe while it's rebuilt.
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Utah asks court to reject nuclear dump
Nov 9 2005 8:24PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to overturn the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of a nuclear waste storage site in the state's western desert.
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Tenn. slay suspect may be tried as adult
Nov 9 2005 8:03PM (CT)
JACKSBORO, Tenn. (AP) - A 15-year-old accused of shooting an assistant principal to death and wounding two other administrators should be tried as an adult, the district attorney said Wednesday, adding that the victims performed heroically to keep the shootings from becoming even worse.
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Ind. tornado survivors return to wreckage
Nov 9 2005 7:52PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Densil Sprinkle sat in a folding chair near the pond where his mother died, watching family members and friends search for memories amid the mud and rubble left by Indiana's deadliest tornado in 30 years.
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Troubled Ky. trade school may go broke
Nov 9 2005 7:44PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A trade school once run by former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is declaring bankruptcy and going out of business amid a federal investigation into its handling of student loan money, a co-owner says.
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NRA sues to overturn San Francisco gun ban
Nov 9 2005 7:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The National Rifle Association sued Wednesday to overturn an ordinance voters here overwhelmingly approved a day earlier that bans handgun possession and sales of firearms in the city.
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Off-reservation gambling bill splits tribes
Nov 9 2005 7:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The leader of an Oregon tribe that runs a profitable casino asked Congress on Wednesday to block other Indian tribes from setting up casinos outside their reservations.
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NY man accused of throwing dog out window
Nov 9 2005 6:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Brooklyn man was arrested Wednesday morning after beating his mother and tossing the family dog out the window of a fifth-floor apartment, authorities said.
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Prosecutor: Pakistani sought to aid terror
Nov 9 2005 5:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Pakistani man went on trial Wednesday on charges alleging he agreed to help an al-Qaida operative planning a chemical attack against Americans sneak into the United States.
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Judith Miller retires from New York Times
Nov 9 2005 4:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was first lionized, then vilified by her own newspaper for her role in the CIA leak case, has retired from the Times, the paper announced Wednesday.
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Attorney: Ex-professor in dark on attacks
Nov 9 2005 3:14PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An attorney for a former professor on trial as an allegedly key figure in a terrorist group wrapped up closing arguments Wednesday, telling jurors his client never planned or supported violence.
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Iowa candidate involved in fatal crash
Nov 9 2005 3:12PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gregg Connell ran a stop sign and caused a car crash that killed another motorist, authorities say.
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S.C. prison escape blamed on budget cuts
Nov 9 2005 3:07PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Two inmates were able to escape from a maximum security prison aboard a garbage truck because of staffing cuts, improperly compacted trash and toilet-paper heads made by other prisoners to delude officers, the chief of the state's prisons said.
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No Child Left Behind becomes contract issue
Nov 9 2005 2:40PM (CT)
SANDY, Ore. (AP) - The homecoming game has been canceled and parents are running out of ways to keep cranky kids entertained because of a teacher strike in which a key sticking point is more than just a local issue: the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
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Ala. governor praises former FEMA chief
Nov 9 2005 2:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley won gushing praise Wednesday from his former House colleagues for the way his state handled Hurricane Katrina, a dramatic contrast to the criticism directed at federal and Louisiana officials.
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Gun charges dropped against Baltimore man
Nov 9 2005 1:26PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Prosecutors said they plan to dismiss a handgun charge against a convenience store owner caught in a roundup during an investigation into a possible terrorist threat to a highway tunnel.
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CDC may distribute 1918 killer flu
Nov 9 2005 1:18PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal scientists say they will consider requests to ship the recently recreated 1918 killer flu virus to select U.S. research labs.
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Police: Couple held runaway teen captive
Nov 9 2005 12:58PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A couple held a runaway teen captive in a hollow bed frame for weeks and forced her to have sex for money with people they found on the Internet, police said.
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NYU Graduate assistants strike
Nov 9 2005 12:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - About 1,000 graduate assistants started striking against New York University on Wednesday over its refusal to bargain with or recognize their union.
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Evolution critics score win in Kansas
Nov 9 2005 11:54AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Critics of evolution won a big victory with the approval of new public school science standards that cast doubt on Darwinism.
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Texas court clears way for new Yates trial
Nov 9 2005 10:51AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused Wednesday to reconsider a lower court's decision to overturn Andrea Yates capital murder convictions for drowning her children in a bathtub in 2001.
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Ex-Chicago transport foreman sentenced
Nov 9 2005 10:10AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former Chicago transportation foreman was sentenced to a year in prison for taking $15,000 in bribes to divert city-owned asphalt to private construction projects.
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Judge rejects suit by Alabama inmate
Nov 9 2005 5:55AM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an inmate who was handcuffed to an outdoor hitching post at an Alabama prison in 1995 and sought monetary damages from three guards.
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Katrina floodwall collapsed investigated
Nov 9 2005 5:38AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The state attorney general's office is investigating whether the collapse of canal floodwalls during Hurricane Katrina warrants criminal or civil action.
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Hmong immigrant receives life in prison
Nov 9 2005 5:32AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) - The judge who sentenced a Hmong immigrant to life in prison for killing six deer hunters said the man was a "time bomb ready to go off" at the slightest provocation.
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Abortion fetus pain bill passed in Wis.
Nov 9 2005 4:33AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Doctors would have to tell women seeking abortions in their 20th week of pregnancy or later that their fetuses might feel pain _ an assertion debated in the medical community _ under a bill passed by Wisconsin lawmakers.
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Pakistanis in U.S. helping quake victims
Nov 9 2005 4:32AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - In this city's vibrant Pakistani and Indian neighborhood, the collection jars for victims of last month's devastating South Asian earthquake are as ever-present as those that appeared across the country after Hurricane Katrina hit.
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Pennsylvania voters oust school board
Nov 9 2005 2:39AM (CT)
DOVER, Pa. (AP) - Voters came down hard Tuesday on school board members who backed a statement on intelligent design being read in biology class, ousting eight Republicans and replacing them with Democrats who want the concept stripped from the science curriculum.
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Celebrities unite at anti-poverty awards
Nov 9 2005 1:32AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and broadcaster Walter Cronkite joined forces Tuesday night to honor nine "unsung heroes of poverty eradication."
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