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3 arrested in Calif. border protest
Nov 12 2007 11:53PM (CT)
CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) - Border Patrol agents clashed with demonstrators at a boundary fence Monday, resulting in three arrests.
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Colo. survival school settles lawsuit
Nov 12 2007 11:15PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A wilderness-survival school has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a New Jersey man who died of dehydration last year during a grueling course in southern Utah, the institution said Monday.
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SF Bay ship pilot's actions investigated
Nov 12 2007 11:01PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Investigators want to know whether a ship pilot under investigation in San Francisco Bay's biggest oil spill in nearly two decades initially played down the damage to his vessel, Coast Guard officials said Monday.
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Lawyer: Finnish teen, Pa. boy chatted
Nov 12 2007 11:00PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A teenager who admitted plotting a school attack near Philadelphia had communicated online about the Columbine massacre with a teenage outcast who killed eight people and himself in a high school shooting in Finland, the Pennsylvania boy's attorney said Monday.
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Lawyer: Finnish teen, Pa. boy chatted
Nov 12 2007 11:00PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A teenager who admitted plotting a school attack near Philadelphia had communicated online about the Columbine massacre with a teenage outcast who killed eight people and himself in a high school shooting in Finland, the Pennsylvania boy's attorney said Monday.
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Lawyer: Finnish teen, Pa. boy chatted
Nov 12 2007 11:00PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A teenager who admitted plotting a school attack near Philadelphia had communicated online about the Columbine massacre with a teenage outcast who killed eight people and himself in a high school shooting in Finland, the Pennsylvania boy's attorney said Monday.
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High winds cut power in Northwest
Nov 12 2007 10:19PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Winds gusting at hurricane force in some places Monday left more than 125,000 customers without electricity across the Pacific Northwest and blew the roof off an Oregon firehouse, authorities said.
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2 Mich. teens charged in dismemberment
Nov 12 2007 10:14PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Two thrill-seeking teenagers stabbed an adult acquaintance, took a blowtorch to his corpse and threw his severed head into a river, prosecutors said Monday as they charged the pair.
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NYC may consider fine for pigeon-feeding
Nov 12 2007 8:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Put your hands up and back away from the breadcrumbs. Feeding New York City pigeons could soon be banned under a proposal to thin the flocks of the birds sometimes referred to as "rats with wings."
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Atty: Boy shares blame in Mexico flight
Nov 12 2007 8:35PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The attorney for a Nebraska middle school teacher who fled to Mexico with a student who was an illegal immigrant said Monday that the woman could be guilty of nothing except poor judgment.
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La. pol's 'Buckwheat' remark draws ire
Nov 12 2007 8:32PM (CT)
HOUMA, La. (AP) - A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign "Buckwheat," angering the NAACP, which urged voters to kick her out of office.
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Doc: Police helped bring airport death
Nov 12 2007 7:16PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A private pathologist hired by the family of a woman who died in police custody at the city's airport said Monday that she accidentally strangled herself _ but he also blamed police for her death.
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14 hurt as fire destroys Boston home
Nov 12 2007 6:51PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A quick-moving blaze consumed a three-story home Monday, sending firefighters scrambling up ladders to pluck screaming children from the top floor and hurting 14 adults and children, authorities said.
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14 hurt as fire destroys Boston home
Nov 12 2007 6:51PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A quick-moving blaze consumed a three-story home Monday, sending firefighters scrambling up ladders to pluck screaming children from the top floor and hurting 14 adults and children, authorities said.
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14 hurt as fire destroys Boston home
Nov 12 2007 6:51PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A quick-moving blaze consumed a three-story home Monday, sending firefighters scrambling up ladders to pluck screaming children from the top floor and hurting 14 adults and children, authorities said.
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14 hurt as fire destroys Boston home
Nov 12 2007 6:51PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A quick-moving blaze consumed a three-story home Monday, sending firefighters scrambling up ladders to pluck screaming children from the top floor and hurting 14 adults and children, authorities said.
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Bike-riding teen shot, killed in N.J.
Nov 12 2007 6:22PM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - A masked, hooded gunman shot and killed a 13-year-old boy riding a bike on a sidewalk and wounded another early Monday in an attack caught on a security camera, authorities said.
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Pope to visit US, including ground zero
Nov 12 2007 6:19PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI will travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President Bush, address the United Nations and visit ground zero, a Vatican official told American bishops Monday.
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Pope to visit US, including ground zero
Nov 12 2007 6:19PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI will travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President Bush, address the United Nations and visit ground zero, a Vatican official told American bishops Monday.
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Ga. governor prays for rain amid drought
Nov 12 2007 6:15PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - As Georgia descends deeper into drought, Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help. On Tuesday, the governor will call on a higher power.
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Ga. governor prays for rain amid drought
Nov 12 2007 6:15PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - As Georgia descends deeper into drought, Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered water restrictions, launched a legal battle and asked President Bush for help. On Tuesday, the governor will call on a higher power.
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Nun pleads no contest in sex case
Nov 12 2007 5:44PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun pleaded no contest Monday to indecent behavior with a child for alleged sexual encounters with two male students at a church convent and school where she was principal during the 1960s.
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Woman asks to keep horse in apartment
Nov 12 2007 5:25PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Patty Cooper's landlord normally welcomes tenants who use animals to help them get around, such as guide dogs for the blind.
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FBI closes probe of nuke plant vandalism
Nov 12 2007 4:51PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tiny hole in a pipe at a nuclear power plant led to a big investigation over sabotage fears, but authorities have closed the case as an unsolved act of vandalism, the FBI said Monday.
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Houston police hunt a serial killer
Nov 12 2007 4:19PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The "CSI"-style wizardry increasingly being used to solve crimes is running up against its limitations in Houston, where police are hunting for a possible serial killer in the slayings of seven prostitutes.
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Journalism professor admits plagiarism
Nov 12 2007 3:54PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A distinguished University of Missouri-Columbia journalism professor will no longer write a weekly newspaper column after admitting he plagiarized material from a student reporter.
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Pope Benedict to visit US in 2008
Nov 12 2007 3:26PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the United States as pontiff next year, and plans to visit the White House, ground zero and speak at the United Nations, Archbishop Pietro Sambi told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Monday.
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Herbal sex pills pose hidden dangers
Nov 12 2007 3:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Many of the pills marketed as safe herbal alternatives to Viagra and other prescription sex medications pose a hidden danger: For men on common heart and blood-pressure drugs, popping one could lead to a stroke, or even death.
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Accident claims family's second toddler
Nov 12 2007 2:46PM (CT)
NEWRY, Maine (AP) - The death of a 2 1/2-year-old boy who was run over by his father's pickup truck in a ski area was the second accident in four years in which the family lost a toddler.
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Mystery $100M donation lifts Pa. city
Nov 12 2007 2:26PM (CT)
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Mike Batchelor invited the heads of 46 charities into his downtown office for one-on-one meetings to personally deliver the news. Nearby, on a small table, sat a box of tissues.
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Filing: Man says he killed stepdaughter
Nov 12 2007 2:21PM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A man charged in the rape and murder of his 9-year-old stepdaughter told investigators he took part in the crimes, according to court filings.
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Five dead in Calif. shooting
Nov 12 2007 2:05PM (CT)
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - A shooting at a house on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac left five people dead in what authorities said could be a murder-suicide.
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N.Y. reburial set in cemetery mix-up
Nov 12 2007 12:35PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A funeral director is giving a Veterans Day gift to a Marine he never met: A proper reburial.
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More time for groups seeking Vick dogs
Nov 12 2007 12:22PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Rescue groups were given an extra day Monday to take custody of fighting dogs seized from NFL quarterback Michael Vick's rural Virginia property.
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Victim shot in Wis. attack played dead
Nov 12 2007 11:26AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The lone survivor of a shooting rampage in which an off-duty deputy killed six people and himself says he still doesn't understand why his one-time friend staged the attack.
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War foes arrested at Veterans Day event
Nov 12 2007 10:34AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Several anti-war veterans were arrested when they protested their exclusion from a Veterans Day event by refusing to move away from a podium.
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Theaters dark on Broadway for 3rd day
Nov 12 2007 10:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking stagehands and theater producers traded accusations but not much else as the work stoppage that has shut down more than two dozen Broadway shows entered its third day Monday.
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Theaters dark on Broadway for 3rd day
Nov 12 2007 10:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking stagehands and theater producers traded accusations but not much else as the work stoppage that has shut down more than two dozen Broadway shows entered its third day Monday.
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Theaters dark on Broadway for 3rd day
Nov 12 2007 10:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking stagehands and theater producers traded accusations but not much else as the work stoppage that has shut down more than two dozen Broadway shows entered its third day Monday.
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Theaters dark on Broadway for 3rd day
Nov 12 2007 10:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking stagehands and theater producers traded accusations but not much else as the work stoppage that has shut down more than two dozen Broadway shows entered its third day Monday.
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Theaters dark on Broadway for 3rd day
Nov 12 2007 10:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking stagehands and theater producers traded accusations but not much else as the work stoppage that has shut down more than two dozen Broadway shows entered its third day Monday.
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URSOVAIN: Va. tops nation in vanity tags
Nov 12 2007 8:44AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A state-by-state survey of the popularity of vanity license plates has found that car and truck owners in Virginia are the vainest of them all.
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Report: Let adoptees see birth info
Nov 12 2007 8:38AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's among the most divisive questions in the realm of adoption: Should adult adoptees have access to their birth records, and thus be able to learn the identity of their birth parents?
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Texas inmate spared hours before death
Nov 12 2007 7:31AM (CT)
BEEVILLE, Texas (AP) - Kenneth Foster, the only condemned Texas inmate to win a commutation from Gov. Rick Perry without the prodding of a court, believes other miracles may be headed his way.
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Texas inmate spared hours before death
Nov 12 2007 7:31AM (CT)
BEEVILLE, Texas (AP) - Kenneth Foster, the only condemned Texas inmate to win a commutation from Gov. Rick Perry without the prodding of a court, believes other miracles may be headed his way.
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Minister calls Senate probe 'unjust'
Nov 12 2007 6:11AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Bishop Eddie Long, one of several ministers targeted by a Senate investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, called the request for records unjust and intrusive.
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EPA targets fish farms with permits
Nov 12 2007 4:14AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal environmental officials have a new permitting process designed to cut down on pollution that trout farms and other aquaculture producers discharge into the Snake River.
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Woman wins Sears Tower race sixth time
Nov 12 2007 1:35AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Cindy Harris won the women's division of a race to the top of the nation's tallest building for the sixth straight year Sunday.
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Guns linked to Pancho Villa auctioned
Nov 12 2007 1:31AM (CT)
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) - Three guns linked to Pancho Villa were auctioned for nearly $29,000, apparently less than what organizers expected the firearms tied to the Mexican revolutionary to fetch.
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