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Incumbent won't challenge teen mayor's win
Nov 19 2005 11:47PM (CT)
HILLSDALE, Mich. (AP) - The mayor who lost his re-election bid to a high school senior by two votes said Saturday he won't seek a recount, clearing the way for 18-year-old Michael Sessions to take the oath of office on Monday.
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Pa. teen attends slain parents' funeral
Nov 19 2005 11:02PM (CT)
LITITZ, Pa. (AP) - Kara Borden sat with her four siblings in the chapel of Lancaster Bible College for her parents' funeral on Saturday. On the Bordens' street, white ribbons were affixed to mailboxes to honor their memory.
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Small plane crashes off California coast
Nov 19 2005 10:57PM (CT)
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - A small plane believed to be carrying four people crashed into the ocean off the Southern California coast Saturday.
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Jewish leader blasts 'religious right'
Nov 19 2005 10:55PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism blasted conservative religious activists in a speech Saturday, calling them "zealots" who claim a "monopoly on God" while promoting anti-gay policies akin to Adolf Hitler's.
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One killed as Wis. hunting season opens
Nov 19 2005 10:44PM (CT)
BLACK EARTH, Wis. (AP) - A hunter was fatally shot by a colleague, and a juvenile accidentally shot himself Saturday as Wisconsin's deer hunting season opened amid racial tensions stemming from last year's deadly attack on a group of hunters.
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Calif. wildfire is 60 percent contained
Nov 19 2005 10:19PM (CT)
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - Aided by an ocean breeze, firefighters on Saturday began to get the upper hand on a 3,700-acre wildfire burning in the steep hills above this picturesque oceanfront city.
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Snowboarder survives days in wilderness
Nov 19 2005 9:37PM (CT)
KEYSTONE, Colo. (AP) - A snowboarder survived three days lost in the backcountry wilderness by building a shelter of pine boughs as temperatures dropped into the low teens, his rescuers said Saturday.
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Calif. family shooting suspect arrested
Nov 19 2005 8:06PM (CT)
RUBIDOUX, Calif. (AP) - A man suspected of shooting his girlfriend, her mother and her two young children was arrested early Saturday in Phoenix, authorities said.
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Ex-Aristide security chief gets prison
Nov 19 2005 8:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The former security chief of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sentenced to about three years in prison for his involvement in a cocaine smuggling operation.
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SIU, U.S. to discuss minority fellowships
Nov 19 2005 7:56PM (CT)
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - A white female student at Southern Illinois University considers the school's fellowships for women and minorities a noble bid to build diversity. A black female student calls such efforts discriminatory.
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Destruction of nerve gas resumes in Ind.
Nov 19 2005 7:09PM (CT)
NEWPORT, Ind. (AP) - Workers fixed faulty gaskets on a chemical reactor built to neutralize the Newport Chemical Depot's stockpile of VX and restarted destruction of the deadly nerve agent Saturday, the Army said.
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Wal-Mart arrests are a warning, feds say
Nov 19 2005 6:54PM (CT)
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - Federal officials say the arrest of 125 workers at a construction site for a new Wal-Mart distribution center should serve as a warning to employers who hire illegal immigrants.
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'Peace Mom' Sheehan to release book
Nov 19 2005 6:28PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - After spending scorching August days with hundreds of war protesters at her makeshift camp near President Bush's Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan slipped away each night to her tent or RV for a few quiet moments on her laptop.
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Big Easy streetcar system out of service
Nov 19 2005 5:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The clacking old streetcars that traveled up and down St. Charles Avenue for the past 170 years and their shiny new red counterparts on Canal Street will be out of service for months, maybe a year or more, because of Hurricane Katrina.
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Lawyer seeks pardon for Kevorkian in Mich.
Nov 19 2005 5:26PM (CT)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Jack Kevorkian's attorney is asking Michigan's governor and parole board for a third time to pardon the 77-year-old assisted-suicide advocate or commute his sentence.
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Activists seek marker for Till's church
Nov 19 2005 4:16PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - In a small, nondescript church, the mutilated body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was put on display in an open casket because his mother wanted the nation to see what racism looked like.
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Tropical Storm Gamma could threaten Fla.
Nov 19 2005 3:58PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Gamma drifted north along the coasts of Belize and Honduras on Saturday and was likely to turn onto a path that could threaten South Florida this coming week, but it was not expected to gain much strength.
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Oaks uprooted by Katrina to help fix ship
Nov 19 2005 3:38PM (CT)
MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) - Ancient live oak trees uprooted in Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina are going to escape being turned into wood chips, instead being used to restore what is believed to be the world's last wooden whaling ship.
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Police outnumber protestors at race rally
Nov 19 2005 3:18PM (CT)
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) - A rally organized by a white supremacist radio talk-show host on Saturday drew about 50 supporters and 100 counter demonstrators, but they were outnumbered by police.
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Charges are filed against boy in shooting
Nov 19 2005 3:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A 12-year-old boy has been charged with the juvenile equivalent of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man at a sidewalk dice game.
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Army engineers: Levee warnings unreported
Nov 19 2005 1:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Engineers responsible for monitoring the levees that failed following Hurricane Katrina were never told that canal water had been pooling in yards beside a flood wall months before the storm, an Army Corps of Engineers manager said Friday.
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Official apologizes for morgue mishap
Nov 19 2005 1:02PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A city health official has apologized to the relatives of a woman whose body sat unidentified in the medical examiner's office for more than two years.
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Teen dad honored by People is gunned down
Nov 19 2005 12:58PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An 18-year-old gunned down on his way home from work had been honored by People magazine this past summer as an outstanding father.
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Ex-Salvadoran gen. found guilty of torture
Nov 19 2005 11:03AM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Daniel Alvarado said he was kidnapped by government agents in El Salvador, hung blindfolded from a ceiling, shocked with electrical wires and repeatedly beaten. More than two decades later, a federal jury in Tennessee has held a former Salvadoran Army colonel responsible for the torture.
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Seven winners of $315M lottery emerge
Nov 19 2005 10:44AM (CT)
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - The seven winners of a $315 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot have emerged after three days of anonymity to talk about their plans for all that money.
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Investigator: Spokane mayor broke law
Nov 19 2005 9:09AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A private investigator hired by the City Council says Mayor Jim West, who is facing a recall election over a sex scandal, violated the city's Internet policy and state law.
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Dogs search for missing Colo. girl's body
Nov 19 2005 3:38AM (CT)
AURORA, Colo. (AP) - After reporting his 6-year-old daughter missing earlier this week, Aaron Thompson went on television to plead with the public for help.
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Church panel: Union contract invalid
Nov 19 2005 12:25AM (CT)
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - What was believed to be the first union contract within a U.S. Roman Catholic Church has been declared invalid by an internal church court, church officials said Friday.
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