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Schwarzenegger opens business part of tour
Nov 14 2005 11:56PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened the business portion of his China trade mission by focusing on renewable energy, praising a Silicon Valley-designed solar chip as part of "the future" of energy efficiency in China and at home.
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Judge halts Calif. Sequioa logging project
Nov 14 2005 11:28PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge stopped a logging project in Giant Sequoia National Monument on Monday, keeping intact more than 1,000 acres in a preserve that houses two-thirds of the world's largest trees.
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Gay Presbyterian minister ordained in N.Y.
Nov 14 2005 11:21PM (CT)
DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (AP) - A Presbyterian congregation has ordained a gay man who refuses to embrace celibacy despite the denomination's ban on sexually active homosexuals joining the clergy.
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Ex-U.S. attorney denies secret donations
Nov 14 2005 11:19PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The former U.S. attorney for southern West Virginia said Monday that he never contributed secretly to a political campaign, insisting he did not follow through on an offer to help another prosecutor win election.
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Longtime federal judge Bryant dies at 94
Nov 14 2005 11:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Longtime federal judge William B. Bryant _ the first black person to serve as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia _ has died. He was 94.
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N.Y. police test explosives detectors
Nov 14 2005 11:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police have introduced a new anti-terrorism tool designed to thwart potential subway bombers while reducing the intrusiveness of random bag searches: explosives detectors.
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Ex-N.M. treasurer pleads not guilty
Nov 14 2005 10:58PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil pleaded not guilty Monday to additional charges in the government's investigation of an alleged kickback scheme involving Vigil and his predecessor.
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Teen sought in Pa. slayings captured
Nov 14 2005 10:48PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A Pennsylvania teenager suspected of killing his girlfriend's parents in an argument over her curfew was captured in Indiana on Monday after a police chase that ended in a crash. The 14-year-old girl, who was in the car, was not hurt, authorities said.
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Miller surprised by withdrawal of support
Nov 14 2005 10:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller said Monday she has "nothing but admiration" for the newspaper but its editors' withdrawal of support "surprised and disappointed" her.
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Doctor bags license over flesh-eating gunk
Nov 14 2005 10:40PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A physician accused of not telling authorities about a man who sells a flesh-eating paste to cancer patients has surrendered her medical license.
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Vine Deloria, Sioux activist, dead at 72
Nov 14 2005 10:38PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Vine Deloria Jr., a groundbreaking author and an influential advocate of American Indian rights, has died, family members said. He was 72.
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Nations seek $500M U.N. humanitarian fund
Nov 14 2005 10:27PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Countries rich and poor on Monday called for a $500 million U.N. fund to meet humanitarian emergencies after a year of devastating disasters from the Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquakes in Asia and hurricanes in the Americas to drought in Africa.
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Los Angeles named nation's smog capital
Nov 14 2005 10:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The greater Los Angeles region surpassed Houston and the San Joaquin Valley as the nation's smog capital, in part because of a change in method of ranking, federal officials said.
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In hate crimes, racism is likeliest motive
Nov 14 2005 10:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Racial prejudice lay behind more than half the 7,649 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2004, the bureau said Monday. Hate crimes against black Americans were most prevalent.
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Official to focus on stronger Gulf levees
Nov 14 2005 10:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal coordinator for Gulf Coast recovery efforts said Monday he will focus on ensuring the region's levees are stronger than they were before Hurricane Katrina _ but can't offer assurances that they could withstand another storm of that size.
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State official says delay New Orleans vote
Nov 14 2005 10:12PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A top state official recommended Monday that elections scheduled for February in New Orleans be delayed because of Hurricane Katrina, which displaced thousands of residents and demolished polling places.
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Tropical depression forms in Caribbean
Nov 14 2005 10:04PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tropical depression was developing Monday in the southeast Caribbean Sea and was expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Gamma, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Defense in R.I. club fire seeks dismissal
Nov 14 2005 9:44PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Lawyers for the owners of a nightclub where 100 people died in a 2003 fire want criminal charges against their clients tossed out because evidence was allegedly withheld from a grand jury.
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Ga. woman charged after marrying teen boy
Nov 14 2005 8:16PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A 37-year-old woman has been charged with child molestation for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy whom she married last week.
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World's largest aquarium set to open
Nov 14 2005 7:51PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The whale sharks are kings of the 6-million-gallon tank, their presence palpable even before they emerge from the murky darkness like massive star cruisers in a science fiction film.
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Head Catholic bishop defends U.S. priests
Nov 14 2005 7:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president of America's Roman Catholic bishops defended American priests Monday, saying a "handful" of miscreants who sexually abused minors have forced the rest of the clergy "to endure an avalanche of negative public attention."
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Texas convict who led prison reform dies
Nov 14 2005 7:17PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Longtime convict David Ruiz, whose handwritten lawsuit more than three decades ago led to court-ordered Texas prison improvements, has died. He was 63.
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Jury to deliberate ex-professor's trial
Nov 14 2005 7:10PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - After hearing five months of testimony, jurors will begin deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former college professor accused of being a key member of a notorious Palestinian terrorist group.
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Slay victims' families seek priest reform
Nov 14 2005 6:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The families of two men allegedly killed by a Roman Catholic priest in Hudson, Wis., urged the nation's bishops to adopt changes aimed at weeding out troubled priests, and asked the bishops to arrange a meeting for them with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Get a load of this! N.J. seeks new slogan
Nov 14 2005 6:40PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Make us a slogan we can't refuse, the state of New Jersey said. We got your slogan right here, the people replied.
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Donated elk meat, venison heading to Miss.
Nov 14 2005 6:12PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Elk gumbo, anyone? More than 1 1/2 tons of donated elk meat and venison meant to help feed Hurricane relief workers and victims is arriving this week in Mississippi.
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Woman drives station wagon into bookstore
Nov 14 2005 6:00PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A woman drove a station wagon through a wall of the Barnes & Noble bookstore, sending glass, wood and books flying. Three people suffered leg injuries. Two were taken to a hospital.
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Fla. family killed by commuter train
Nov 14 2005 5:09PM (CT)
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 2-year-old boy and his parents were struck and killed by a commuter train after the father tried to drive around a railroad crossing gate, officials said.
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Doctors plead guilty in fake-Botox case
Nov 14 2005 4:53PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Husband-and-wife doctors pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges involving the distribution of a dangerous knockoff of the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox.
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Historic NY fish market reopens in Bronx
Nov 14 2005 4:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Fulton Fish Market, a Lower Manhattan fixture for 180 years, began operating out of a new facility Monday, leaving behind its smelly historic home for a gleaming refrigerated hub in the Bronx.
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Hurricanes send sugar prices soaring
Nov 14 2005 4:17PM (CT)
ERATH, La. (AP) - When the wave of black water descended on this town, the fields of sugarcane were ripe, tall, green shoots bursting with sugar. "This entire field was a lake," recalled Clay DuPlantis, standing in one of the decimated fields his family has farmed for seven generations.
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Mich. school drops folk song
Nov 14 2005 3:10PM (CT)
BERKLEY, Mich. (AP) - A song about people picking cotton was pulled from a middle school concert in suburban Detroit after a black parent complained that it glorifies slavery.
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Judge recounts raucous spring break tales
Nov 14 2005 2:43PM (CT)
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) - Making out with palm trees. Mistaking police cars for taxicabs. Rolling a stolen restaurant barbecue down the road, flames shooting up from the chicken still cooking on the grill.
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New Orleans has new post-Katrina lingo
Nov 14 2005 2:14PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In this city of so many linguistic influences, Hurricane Katrina is the latest to reshape the colorful local tongue.
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La. convicts claim to be Katrina evacuees
Nov 14 2005 2:07PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two escaped prison inmates from Louisiana took advantage of sympathy for Hurricane Katrina victims to pass themselves off to University of Tennessee students as fraternity brothers who had been displaced by the storm, police said.
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Wash. shootings blamed on man out on bail
Nov 14 2005 1:51PM (CT)
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) - Less than 12 hours after being freed on bail following a domestic complaint, a man allegedly killed his estranged girlfriend, wounded her father and then committed suicide, authorities said.
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Iowans recovering from rare Nov. tornadoes
Nov 14 2005 12:34PM (CT)
WOODWARD, Iowa (AP) - State agencies and relief organizations were on the job Monday helping Iowans clear away wreckage and resume their lives following weekend tornadoes that ravaged small towns and killed one woman.
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Attorneys ask for reduced sentence
Nov 14 2005 12:02PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Defense attorneys are asking a judge to reduce the eight-year prison term he imposed on the former town president of suburban Cicero so she can be reunited with her young daughter.
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Va. fire chief found dead in brush fire
Nov 14 2005 11:39AM (CT)
RAVEN, Va. (AP) - The burned remains of a volunteer fire department chief were found in the woods after he went to battle a brush fire alone.
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Scientists examine airman found in ice
Nov 14 2005 8:01AM (CT)
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AP) - The airman's possessions, laid out on a table in a military lab, offer a peek deep into the past.
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Neighbor: Man threatened to take down cops
Nov 14 2005 5:19AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer had threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and said if police became involved, he would "take them down," the woman's neighbor said.
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Police aggressively recruit job candidates
Nov 14 2005 5:06AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Recruiters for New York City's police department now hand out coffee mugs on college campuses. In Los Angeles County, they offer baseball jerseys with the words "Join Our Team."
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Boise State University mulls cigarette ban
Nov 14 2005 2:36AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - At Boise State University, smoking is banned in the buildings and they must have one smoke-free entrance where smokers are not allowed to huddle in the doorway for one last puff before going inside.
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Pickup crashes through house, killing girl
Nov 14 2005 12:51AM (CT)
MELMORE, Ohio (AP) - A pickup truck crashed through a house where six people were sleeping early Sunday, killing an 8-year-old girl and critically injuring her parents, authorities said.
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Candidate says Bush troubles became his
Nov 14 2005 12:51AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Republican who lost New Jersey's bitter gubernatorial race said he would have won had President Bush's popularity not been sagging.
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Panel wants more students to study abroad
Nov 14 2005 12:19AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A bipartisan federal commission is pushing for a dramatic increase in the number of U.S. college and university students taking classes in other countries.
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