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Pa. girl missing after parents slain
Nov 13 2005 11:25PM (CT)
LITITZ, Pa. (AP) - A 14-year-old girl was missing after her parents were shot to death in their home Sunday morning, and authorities issued an arrest warrant for an 18-year-old believed to be her boyfriend.
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Tropical depression forms in Caribbean
Nov 13 2005 10:41PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tropical depression formed late Sunday in the southeast Caribbean Sea and was expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Gamma on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Bell tolls for Edmund Fitzgerald wreck
Nov 13 2005 10:18PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A crowd of 600 people stood silently Sunday as bells rang 29 times in remembrance of the mariners lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a vicious storm on Lake Superior 30 years ago.
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Pickup crashes through house, killing girl
Nov 13 2005 9:49PM (CT)
MELMORE, Ohio (AP) - A pickup truck crashed through a house where six people were sleeping early Sunday, killing a young girl and critically injuring a man, authorities said.
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Survivor describes Iowa tornado tragedy
Nov 13 2005 9:34PM (CT)
STRATFORD, Iowa (AP) - Ron Runyan couldn't hear the sirens. The winds were deafening. In a matter of moments, the quiet weekend he had planned with his mother and sister turned into a nightmare.
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Mom convicted in baby's chili powder death
Nov 13 2005 8:31PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A woman accused of suffocating her 5-month old daughter by using chili powder as a thumb-sucking remedy was convicted of manslaughter Sunday.
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Bloomberg: N.Y. judicial process a 'farce'
Nov 13 2005 8:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg took on the state's judicial nominating system Sunday, calling it a "farce" in which politics and "shady back-room deals" put unqualified jurists on the bench.
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Rent snafus plague hurricane evacuees
Nov 13 2005 4:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Only $114 a month stands between Shawn Williams, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, and eviction from her temporary apartment in suburban Houston. Williams can afford to pay out of her own pocket and is willing to do so to make up the difference between the $633 voucher she gets in federal housing aid and the apartment's $747 rent. But a bureaucratic snag prevents her from closing the gap on her own.
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Resident becomes aid 'boss' in New Orleans
Nov 13 2005 3:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The truck driver bringing a load of bottled water for residents was incredulous and demanded to speak to someone other than the diminutive woman standing before him. But a National Guardsman armed with an M-16 rifle said he had no choice.
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Man faces Ohio university shooting trial
Nov 13 2005 1:58PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A man accused of going on a shooting rampage and killing a student at Case Western Reserve University in 2003 is scheduled to go on trial Monday.
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Catholic bishops gather for D.C. meeting
Nov 13 2005 12:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are gathering for a meeting with an unusually light agenda _ in public, that is.
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Asian youths suffer harassment in schools
Nov 13 2005 12:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Eighteen-year-old Chen Tsu was waiting on a Brooklyn subway platform after school when four high school classmates approached him and demanded cash. He showed them his empty pockets, but they attacked him anyway, taking turns pummeling his face.
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Cop finds 600 lbs. of pot in traffic stop
Nov 13 2005 10:21AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 23-year-old man was arrested Saturday after a police officer pulled him over on the George Washington Bridge and found 600 pounds of marijuana in the truck he was driving, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.
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Florida PTA takes stance on stun guns
Nov 13 2005 9:37AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Taking its first official position on the use of stun guns, the Florida PTA is calling for the devices to be used only as an alternative to shooting a student with a gun and urging lawmakers to further study the device's effect on people.
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Teen surfer bitten by shark off Fla. coast
Nov 13 2005 6:22AM (CT)
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A surfer dangling his feet into the Atlantic Ocean on Florida's east coast was bitten by a shark, authorities said.
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Architects envision New Orleans rebuilding
Nov 13 2005 6:07AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Michael Willis has designed an airport terminal in San Francisco and a 750 million-gallon water treatment plant in Los Angeles, but nothing on the architect's resume gives him a blueprint for rebuilding New Orleans.
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Cop finds 600 lbs. of pot in traffic stop
Nov 13 2005 4:41AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 23-year-old man was arrested Saturday after a police officer pulled him over on the George Washington Bridge and found 600 pounds of marijuana in the truck he was driving, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.
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Man stabbed on platform at Penn Station
Nov 13 2005 4:36AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man was stabbed twice in the leg and once in the back on a subway platform at Penn Station on Saturday, police said.
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Ex-New Orleans police officer arrested
Nov 13 2005 3:18AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A former New Orleans police officer who resigned from the force after being accused of abandoning his post during the Hurricane Katrina crisis was arrested while driving a stolen truck, authorities said.
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