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Fort Worth Episcopals move toward split
Nov 17 2007 11:56PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth took the first steps Saturday to withdraw from the national church as part of a growing rift over Scriptural interpretation and homosexuality, giving preliminary approval to constitutional amendments.
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Volunteer in Calif. fires has arson rap
Nov 17 2007 11:31PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A volunteer firefighter who helped battle one of last month's wildfires was sent to prison after it surfaced that he pleaded guilty years ago to setting several destructive wildfires.
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Relatives try to confront Ill. officer
Nov 17 2007 10:36PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - Armed with anger, hope and candles, participants in a vigil for a former police officer's missing fourth wife left a pink placard reading "Where's our sister Stacy?" _ along with several other signs _ on the man's porch Saturday.
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Ca. fire documents conflict with reports
Nov 17 2007 10:20PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Several aircraft were able to fly in strong winds on the first full day of last month's Southern California firestorms, contradicting officials' earlier claims that the weather had grounded virtually all aircraft, according to documents released Saturday.
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Abuse risk seen worse as families change
Nov 17 2007 9:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah.
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Abuse risk seen worse as families change
Nov 17 2007 9:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah.
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Abuse risk seen worse as families change
Nov 17 2007 9:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah.
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Abuse risk seen worse as families change
Nov 17 2007 9:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah.
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Former S.C. Gov. Robert McNair dies
Nov 17 2007 9:04PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Former Gov. Robert E. McNair, who helped guide the state through a turbulent era of race relations, including the deadly clash between state troopers and black college students known as the Orangeburg Massacre, has died. He was 83.
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Coin collection sells for $30 million
Nov 17 2007 8:01PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - An anonymous buyer has paid more than $30 million for a collection of rare U.S. prototype coins, some from the 1700s, that never went into circulation, according to the dealer that brokered the deal.
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Ex-ICE agent charged in detainee's rape
Nov 17 2007 7:49PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A former immigration agent has been charged with raping a woman he was transferring between detention centers, according to a federal criminal complaint, and authorities are investigating whether she was the only one.
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Malnourished twins found near dead woman
Nov 17 2007 7:28PM (CT)
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - Authorities responding to a report of a foul odor found malnourished 3-week-old twins under a bed in an apartment containing their mother's decomposing remains.
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Martha Stewart's mom - and mentor - dies
Nov 17 2007 7:16PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Martha Kostyra, whose daughter Martha Stewart credits her with teaching her many domestic tricks and techniques, has died at a hospital near her home in Weston. She was 93.
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Pastor of Ala. church bombed in '63 dies
Nov 17 2007 6:34PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. John H. Cross Jr., who dug through the rubble of his Alabama church looking for survivors of a bombing, then presided over a funeral for some of the youngest victims of civil rights-era violence, has died. He was 82.
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Parents ordered to court for kids' shots
Nov 17 2007 6:09PM (CT)
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
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Parents ordered to court for kids' shots
Nov 17 2007 6:09PM (CT)
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
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Parents ordered to court for kids' shots
Nov 17 2007 6:09PM (CT)
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
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Parents ordered to court for kids' shots
Nov 17 2007 6:09PM (CT)
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
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Boston cops seek invites to search homes
Nov 17 2007 5:16PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Boston police will ask parents in high-crime areas to let detectives search their children's bedrooms for guns without warrants in a new anti-crime program.
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FEMA trailer dwellers seek toxin tests
Nov 17 2007 3:51PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A group of hurricane victims wants a federal judge to order air quality tests in their government-issued trailers after the Federal Emergency Management Agency postponed its plans to check for hazardous fumes.
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Gunman flees police into Ariz. hospital
Nov 17 2007 3:46PM (CT)
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Phoenix police chased a gunman into a Glendale hospital Saturday, forcing a lockdown of the facility before authorities caught him, authorities said.
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NJ workers lose post-holiday day off
Nov 17 2007 2:29PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - In the eyes of many New Jersey state workers, the governor is the Grinch who stole the day after Thanksgiving.
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Part of N.J. airport evacuated over odor
Nov 17 2007 2:10PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport was evacuated Saturday as authorities investigated a possible gas leak, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.
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A year on, families wait for abductees
Nov 17 2007 1:55PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) - Families of four American security guards working in Iraq had expected them home in time for last Thanksgiving. But a year after the men were abducted by suspected militiamen, the families are still waiting.
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Couple fight deportation after 20+ years
Nov 17 2007 1:42PM (CT)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Immigrants Pedro and Salvacion Servano have been model U.S. residents since arriving from the Philippines in the 1980s.
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Goldman: I'll shadow O.J. Simpson always
Nov 17 2007 12:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - No matter how O.J. Simpson's hotel-room robbery trial plays out, he can plan on seeing Fred Goldman's lawyers in court again.
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Courts stall inmate's desire to die
Nov 17 2007 7:45AM (CT)
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - The first letter, neatly handwritten on lined paper, arrived at the federal courthouse in Dallas nearly a year and a half ago with a simple address: U.S. District Clerk's Office.
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Courts stall inmate's desire to die
Nov 17 2007 7:45AM (CT)
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - The first letter, neatly handwritten on lined paper, arrived at the federal courthouse in Dallas nearly a year and a half ago with a simple address: U.S. District Clerk's Office.
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Courts stall inmate's desire to die
Nov 17 2007 7:45AM (CT)
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - The first letter, neatly handwritten on lined paper, arrived at the federal courthouse in Dallas nearly a year and a half ago with a simple address: U.S. District Clerk's Office.
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Alcohol found in some beach fire victims
Nov 17 2007 6:59AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Six out of the seven college students killed last month in a beach house fire had alcohol in their systems, although a prosecutor said he doesn't believe drinking played a role in the deaths.
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Mom: Web hoax led girl to kill herself
Nov 17 2007 5:46AM (CT)
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. (AP) - Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.
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Hawaii Superferry to set sail Dec. 1
Nov 17 2007 4:02AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's new inter-island ferry, idled for weeks by protesters and court rulings, will resume daily service between Honolulu and Maui beginning Dec. 1, the company said.
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Naval Academy program tackles harassment
Nov 17 2007 3:45AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Midshipmen Joy Dewey and Joshua Foxton hope to hear familiar epithets when they ask a group of new students at the U.S. Naval Academy to describe promiscuous men and women.
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Naval Academy program tackles harassment
Nov 17 2007 3:45AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Midshipmen Joy Dewey and Joshua Foxton hope to hear familiar epithets when they ask a group of new students at the U.S. Naval Academy to describe promiscuous men and women.
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Naval Academy program tackles harassment
Nov 17 2007 3:45AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Midshipmen Joy Dewey and Joshua Foxton hope to hear familiar epithets when they ask a group of new students at the U.S. Naval Academy to describe promiscuous men and women.
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Smith judge no longer facing pot charge
Nov 17 2007 2:16AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A retired judge who briefly heard arguments in cases involving the death of Anna Nicole Smith no longer faces a misdemeanor marijuana charge.
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Former Southern Baptist leader dies
Nov 17 2007 2:01AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Rev. Wayne Dehoney, who was president of the Southern Baptist Convention for two terms in the 1960s and later became pastor of Louisville's oldest Baptist church, has died. He was 89.
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2 plead guilty in Cuban militant case
Nov 17 2007 1:47AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Two men who refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a Cuban militant pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges, authorities said.
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Mother gets 60 years in scalding death
Nov 17 2007 1:20AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A woman convicted of killing her 3-year-old son by plunging him into scalding water as punishment for soiling his diaper was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison.
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Drought postpones Texas A&M bonfire
Nov 17 2007 12:44AM (CT)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - A huge off-campus bonfire Texas A&M University students light before the annual football game against their archrival was postponed this weekend because of drought conditions and a ban on outdoor burning.
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Mistakes made in New Orleans flood maps
Nov 17 2007 12:04AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A system of flood gates and pumps built since Hurricane Katrina to help alleviate flooding in several New Orleans neighborhoods may not be as much help as authorities first said.
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