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Stricken cruise ship docks for cleaning
Nov 19 2006 11:57PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A thorough scrubbing of the Carnival Liberty began Sunday as the ship docked after a virus sickened nearly 700 passengers on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
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Pay packages rise for college presidents
Nov 19 2006 11:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More college presidents are earning annual compensation of $500,000 or more, fueled in part by stiff competition by schools for the best candidates, according to a study.
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Officials: $500,000 in tornado damage
Nov 19 2006 11:11PM (CT)
RIEGELWOOD, N.C. (AP) - A tornado that killed eight people in southeastern North Carolina caused at least $500,000 worth of damage, officials said.
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California to restrict ocean fishing
Nov 19 2006 11:04PM (CT)
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) - Flying over California's rugged Central Coast, Mike Sutton pointed to kelp forests and rocky reefs just below the water's surface that will soon be off-limits to fishing under one of the nation's most ambitious plans to protect marine life.
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Man charged in Detroit shootings
Nov 19 2006 10:58PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A man was charged Sunday in an apparently random shooting spree that killed two people and wounded three others.
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Mass. governor wants gay wedding vote
Nov 19 2006 10:55PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday he would ask the state's highest court to order an anti-gay marriage amendment question onto the ballot if legislators fail to vote on the matter when they reconvene in January.
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WTC's Freedom Tower starts to take shape
Nov 19 2006 10:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Seventy trucks rolled into ground zero Saturday to pour the concrete base of the signature skyscraper at the new World Trade Center, creating the first visible signs of the long-delayed tower.
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Piano tower would give Boston a lift
Nov 19 2006 9:13PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A Boston businessman's proposal to build a 1,000-foot, 75-story glass-and-steel building that would tower over all others is a bold move in a city that favors colonial era church steeples over skyscrapers.
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Baby, 3 others die in Indiana house fire
Nov 19 2006 8:14PM (CT)
NORTH VERNON, Ind. (AP) - Fire swept through a southern Indiana home Sunday morning, killing three adults and a baby and producing smoke so thick it drove back a would-be rescuer, fire officials said.
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Varied backgrounds lead to Rhodes honors
Nov 19 2006 7:11PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard senior Parvinder Thiara's life was reshaped when his beloved grandfather died of infectious diarrhea from drinking tainted water in India while Thiara prepared to begin his second year in college.
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Flames reached 90 feet in Calif. blaze
Nov 19 2006 6:50PM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Five firefighters who died battling an arson wildfire last month faced 90-foot-tall walls of flame that advanced at 40 mph in a terrifying firestorm fueled by howling winds and tinder-dry manzanita and chaparral, according to a new preliminary report.
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Officer's bullet killed man in standoff
Nov 19 2006 6:49PM (CT)
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - An armed hospital patient who asked officers to shoot him during a standoff was killed by police gunfire, authorities said Sunday.
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Probe: State errors led to child deaths
Nov 19 2006 5:53PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - More than four dozen Illinois children died over a seven-year span after state child-welfare workers made mistakes or ignored their own rules, according to a four-month investigation by the Belleville News-Democrat.
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Thousands protest Ga. military school
Nov 19 2006 5:47PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Thousands of demonstrators paraded, chanted and raised white crosses Sunday outside the Army's Fort Benning as they continued a 17-year-long effort to close a military school they blame for human rights abuses in Latin America.
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Woman back home after Vietnam conviction
Nov 19 2006 5:30PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A U.S. woman who was convicted in Vietnam of terrorism and deported after spending more than a year behind bars was welcomed home Sunday by a crowd of 50 supporters bearing American and Vietnamese flags.
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Former Kan. coach sentenced in sex case
Nov 19 2006 4:55PM (CT)
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City high school volleyball coach was sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison for sex crimes involving two former players _ one of whom he recently married.
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Upstate N.Y. man kidnapped in Iraq
Nov 19 2006 3:47PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A former soldier from western New York is among the four Americans and one Austrian who were kidnapped in southern Iraq last week, family members said Sunday.
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Denver opens new, $939M commuter rail
Nov 19 2006 3:11PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - When it comes to public transportation in this city, everything old is new again. Tens of thousands of people turned out for a celebration over the weekend to welcome the city's newest addition to its mass transit system: a train. The new 19-mile-long commuter rail line, projected to carry at least 38,000 passengers each day, officially opened Sunday.
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Irish activist Frank Durkan dies at 76
Nov 19 2006 3:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Frank Durkan, a lawyer and activist who defended Irish-Americans entangled with the law due to their involvement in the politics of Northern Ireland, has died. He was 76.
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Global Hawk to fly 1st mission over U.S.
Nov 19 2006 2:59PM (CT)
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - They've become a fixture in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan, a new breed of unmanned aircraft operated with remote controls by "pilots" sitting in virtual cockpits many miles away.
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Md. mall shooting suspect under guard
Nov 19 2006 2:41PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Authorities kept a man suspected in a triple shooting at a shopping mall under police guard Sunday in a hospital, and said charges were expected.
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Suspect in Md. mall shooting under watch
Nov 19 2006 2:38PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Authorities kept a man suspected in a triple shooting at a shopping mall under police guard Sunday in a hospital, and said charges were expected.
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Indiana house fire kills at least 4
Nov 19 2006 1:13PM (CT)
NORTH VERNON, Ind. (AP) - A fire swept through a single-story home in southern Indiana on Sunday morning, killing at least four people, State Fire Marshal Roger Johnson said.
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In U.S., 'Lost Boy' won't forget Sudan
Nov 19 2006 12:25PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Two days after crossing the border into southern Sudan, the pop of a blown tire halted Salva Dut's return journey to the war-scarred land he fled as a child in 1985. The two spares had already been shredded by sharp stones on rutted African backroads.
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Kerry: Botched joke won't affect 2008
Nov 19 2006 10:41AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry insisted on Sunday his "botched joke" about President Bush's Iraq policy would not undermine a possible White House campaign in 2008.
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More rights urged for birth mothers
Nov 19 2006 7:37AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mothers deciding to place their infants for adoption deserve better counseling, more time to change their minds, and more support in trying to keep track of the children they relinquish, a leading adoption institute recommends in a sweeping new report.
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1 killed, 1 injured in fan bus accident
Nov 19 2006 5:11AM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - One person was killed and another critically injured in an accident involving a bus carrying Kansas State University fans to Saturday's football game at the University of Kansas, police said.
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Columbus relatively calm after OSU win
Nov 19 2006 4:57AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Police arrested nearly 40 people and dozens of fires were set in student neighborhoods, but authorities reported a relatively smooth night following No. 1 Ohio State's 42-39 win over second-ranked Michigan.
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Plea deals pile up for accused Marines
Nov 19 2006 3:16AM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - In the beginning, there were eight. A squad of seven Marines and a Navy corpsman charged with kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man, a crime described by a prosecutor as especially brutal.
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$5.4B sale of NYC apartments closes
Nov 19 2006 2:11AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A development company closed its $5.4 billion purchase of one of the nation's largest apartment complexes, despite some tenants' claims that the sale isn't allowed under state housing laws.
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