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Severe storms cause damage in four states
Nov 15 2005 11:20PM (CT)
PARIS, Tenn. (AP) - Severe thunderstorms rolled across the nation's midsection late Tuesday, producing funnel clouds that tore off roofs and destroyed or damaged buildings in at least four states.
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N.J. investigators allege co. had mob ties
Nov 15 2005 11:13PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - State investigators want a construction company banned from doing business with Atlantic City casinos because its owners allegedly lied about their dealings with Bernard Kerik, the one-time nominee for Homeland Security secretary.
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Man executed in Texas for 1993 slayings
Nov 15 2005 10:54PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A habitual drug user was executed Tuesday for the slayings of two people at a Houston crack house 12 years ago.
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Prosecutors play tapes in Fla. killing
Nov 15 2005 10:29PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - The man accused of abducting, raping and strangling 11-year-old Carlie Brucia said in taped conversations from jail that he was high on drugs during the crime and that the girl's death was an accident.
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Gramm to testify in governor's trial
Nov 15 2005 10:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Sen. Phil Gramm will be allowed to testify about money the Texas Republican's 1996 presidential campaign paid to former Gov. George Ryan's daughters, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Emancipation Proclamation copy auctioned
Nov 15 2005 10:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A souvenir copy of the Emancipation Proclamation autographed by Abraham Lincoln sold for $688,000 on Tuesday at an auction of American artifacts collected by the late publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes.
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N.Y. Senate chamber forced to close
Nov 15 2005 9:58PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's Senate chamber won't be used for a session set for later this month because X-rays detected a long crack in the ceiling more than 50 feet above where the lawmakers sit.
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Court: Indian money accounting impossible
Nov 15 2005 9:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court decided Tuesday that it was unreasonable to require a detailed historical accounting of money the government has been managing for American Indians, saying the bookkeeping chore would "take 200 years."
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Court lets sheriff keep Columbine diaries
Nov 15 2005 9:48PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Supreme Court said Tuesday a sheriff can refuse to release videotapes and writings made by the Columbine gunmen before the high school massacre.
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Mont. holds first bison hunt in 15 years
Nov 15 2005 9:46PM (CT)
GARDINER, Mont. (AP) - Montana's first bison hunt in 15 years opened at sunrise Tuesday, with a 17-year-old boy bagging the first buffalo within 90 minutes.
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Teen returns to Pa. to face murder charges
Nov 15 2005 9:44PM (CT)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - An 18-year-old man accused of killing his girlfriend's parents and fleeing with her to Indiana was flown back to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to face murder and kidnapping charges.
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Chinese immigrants charged in data theft
Nov 15 2005 8:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Chinese-American engineer and two family members who allegedly conspired to steal sensitive information about Navy warships and smuggle it to China were indicted Tuesday on federal charges, authorities said.
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Search continues for escaped Iowa convicts
Nov 15 2005 8:42PM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Authorities searched on Tuesday for two convicted murderers who escaped from the Iowa State Penitentiary by using a homemade grappling hook to scale an unguarded section of the prison's limestone walls.
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Two who died at Disney had health problems
Nov 15 2005 8:36PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Two children who died in separate incidents this summer at Walt Disney World were both victims of irregular heartbeats linked to natural causes, the medical examiner's office said Tuesday.
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Mass. House defeats death penalty bill
Nov 15 2005 8:22PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - House lawmakers on Tuesday soundly rejected a bill put forward by Gov. Mitt Romney to restore capital punishment in Massachusetts.
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Schwarzenegger to address Beijing students
Nov 15 2005 8:21PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger held a series of meetings to talk about everything from renewable energy to communications before getting personal in a speech to Chinese students.
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Teen accused of shooting turns herself in
Nov 15 2005 7:34PM (CT)
MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) - A teenage girl shot another girl in the chest Tuesday in an argument on a school bus in this Fort Lauderdale suburb, authorities said.
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'Peace Mom' plans to resume war protest
Nov 15 2005 7:34PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - The fallen soldier's mother who drew thousands to her 26-day war protest near President Bush's Crawford ranch this summer plans to return for Thanksgiving next week, despite new county ordinances banning roadside camping.
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Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers dies
Nov 15 2005 7:34PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Adrian Rogers, a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention who helped religious conservatives take control of the 16 million-member denomination, died Tuesday at age 74.
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Suspected Va. 'cell phone bandit' arrested
Nov 15 2005 6:07PM (CT)
CENTREVILLE, Va. (AP) - FBI agents arrested a woman Tuesday who was suspected of robbing four banks in suburban Virginia while appearing to be talking on a cell phone.
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No charges in alleged Mich. blackmail case
Nov 15 2005 6:03PM (CT)
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - No criminal charges will be brought in an alleged plot by a political rival to blackmail Michigan's attorney general by threatening to expose an extramarital affair, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Catholic bishops turn to lay ministers
Nov 15 2005 5:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops took a big step Tuesday to acknowledge and deal with one of the church's nagging problems: the growing shortage of priests.
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U.N. reinstates official fired in scandal
Nov 15 2005 5:49PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan reversed his decision to fire a key official in the Iraq oil-for-food probe, the United Nations said Tuesday, an embarrassing move as the world body recovers from one of the worst scandals in its history.
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La. lawmaker's kin won Katrina contracts
Nov 15 2005 5:15PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The uncle and father of a Louisiana lawmaker won three no-bid contracts worth $108 million to provide temporary housing for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, stirring complaints of a sweetheart deal from rival businesses and prompting a state investigation.
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Exonerated man charged with Wis. murder
Nov 15 2005 5:04PM (CT)
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - A man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was charged Tuesday with murdering a young woman who vanished after going to his salvage yard on a photography assignment.
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Judge delays detainee's military trial
Nov 15 2005 4:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge is delaying the military commission trial of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks of Australia, pending a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the post-Sept. 11 panels created by President Bush.
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ACLU sues to expand Bible tax break
Nov 15 2005 3:53PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Acting on behalf of a seller of spiritual books, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit arguing that a Georgia law exempting the Bible from sale taxes is discriminatory and should be extended to all publications dealing with the meaning of life.
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Driver in Rita bus fire avoids indictment
Nov 15 2005 3:35PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The driver of the bus that caught fire while carrying nursing home residents fleeing Hurricane Rita, killing 23 of them, is cooperating with federal authorities investigating the accident, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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Stowaway from Cuba gets asylum in U.S.
Nov 15 2005 3:32PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A Cuban woman who arrived in Miami as a stowaway inside a wooden crate on a cargo flight from the Bahamas is being allowed to stay permanently in the United States.
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Faced with too many bears, N.J. plans hunt
Nov 15 2005 3:25PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - After a court case halted a bear hunt last year, New Jersey officials said Tuesday they would hold a six-day hunt as part of an overall plan to manage the population.
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Mich. teen charged in mom's death in court
Nov 15 2005 2:24PM (CT)
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) - A teenager charged with killing his mother by stabbing her 111 times waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
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Focus now on getting kids to finish degree
Nov 15 2005 2:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For decades, getting more students into college has been the top priority of America's higher education leaders. But what's the point, a growing number of experts are wondering, when so few who go to school finish a degree?
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La. governor facing post-Katrina battles
Nov 15 2005 1:28PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - When Gov. Kathleen Blanco convened a truly "extraordinary" session of the state Legislature this month, one goal was to show Washington that Louisiana is aggressively responding to its battering by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, that the state is helping itself.
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Suspect's torture claims disputed
Nov 15 2005 12:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a man accused of laundering millions of dollars for terrorist activities used "total falsehoods or gross exaggerations" when he claimed Israeli police used torture to coerce him into confessing.
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Boston radio hires controversial host
Nov 15 2005 12:52PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A conservative radio host who was fired by a Washington station after he called Islam "a terrorist organization" is hosting a new radio show in Boston.
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Moussaoui death penalty trial delayed
Nov 15 2005 11:14AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui will be delayed a month as lawyers for the government and the admitted al-Qaida conspirator battle over classified information in the case.
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Price dispute delays Calif. crab season
Nov 15 2005 7:42AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Central California's Dungeness crab season started Tuesday, but that doesn't mean the tasty critters will be hauled up anytime soon. Fishermen and processors haven't been able to agree on prices.
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Colorado mom sentenced to 30 years
Nov 15 2005 7:34AM (CT)
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A woman who authorities said had sex with high school boys during alcohol- and drug-fueled parties has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, officials said.
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Six sailors charged in N.Y. marriage scam
Nov 15 2005 6:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six U.S. Navy crew members looking for quick and profitable marriages to illegal aliens face federal charges after being among 10 people caught in an FBI sting operation targeting the sham unions, prosecutors said.
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Puppy to get artificial leg
Nov 15 2005 6:53AM (CT)
FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Peg, a 4-month-old puppy born without an ankle joint or right paw, will always have "a little hitch in her giddyup," says Rex Miller.
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Time's Person of the Year could be Katrina
Nov 15 2005 6:53AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Time magazine's 2005 Person of the Year may not be a person after all. A panel of notables has made a strong case for awarding the distinction this year to Hurricane Katrina.
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FEMA to help repair mudslide damage
Nov 15 2005 6:50AM (CT)
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The federal government will share repair costs to public areas of Laguna Beach damaged by a massive mudslide in June after local officials appealed an earlier decision denying federal aid, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said.
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Insurance adjustors survey tornado damage
Nov 15 2005 6:43AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Insurance adjustors surveyed tornado damage in central Iowa, with one saying the devastation equals that of Hurricane Andrew that hit Florida in 1992.
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Lawyer brings political tips to Liberia
Nov 15 2005 5:24AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Over the objections of nearly everyone on the campaign, Larry Gibson held firm: A traditional African headdress shouldn't be worn in a key campaign photograph of the woman hoping to become Africa's first elected female president.
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Atlanta district tops endangered list
Nov 15 2005 5:18AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta's Auburn Avenue commercial district, once the heart of the nation's black business community, is lined with historic treasures such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth house _ and also with crumbling, boarded-up buildings.
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Smoking ban to take effect in Louisville
Nov 15 2005 4:25AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Smokers got in a few last puffs in restaurants and other businesses on the eve of a partial smoking ban in a city that once was a home to top cigarette makers.
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Tropical Depression forms in Caribbean
Nov 15 2005 4:21AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tropical depression that formed in the southeast Caribbean Sea was expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Gamma later Tuesday, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said.
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Miami mayor on ballot in delayed vote
Nov 15 2005 4:09AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - After a two-week delay caused by Hurricane Wilma, Miami voters finally get their chance to decide whether Mayor Manny Diaz deserves a second term.
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Language immersion in colleges growing
Nov 15 2005 3:46AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Students who can't speak French or Spanish might find themselves at a loss for words inside the University of Cincinnati's Valentine House.
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Ambassador Bolton catalogues U.N. problems
Nov 15 2005 1:05AM (CT)
WINGATE, N.C. (AP) - United Nations Ambassador John Bolton catalogued the agency's problems Monday, saying Americans want to fix the U.N. or find an alternative to it.
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Students return to school after shooting
Nov 15 2005 12:58AM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A high school was back in session Monday for the first time since an assistant principal was killed and two administrators injured while trying to disarm a student last week.
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