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Smelly 'corpse plant' drawing crowds
Nov 20 2005 11:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Its scent has drawn comparisons to garbage and spoiled meat, but that isn't stopping crowds from flocking to see _and smell _ an unusual plant in bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden.
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Six hurt in Washington state mall gunfire
Nov 20 2005 11:31PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall Sunday, wounding at least six people and taking three others hostage in a music store before he surrendered to a SWAT team, authorities said.
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41 arrested protesting Army school in Ga.
Nov 20 2005 10:38PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Zawada has already served a federal prison term for trespassing on government property to protest a Fort Benning school he blames for human rights abuses in Latin America.
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California wildfire 90 percent contained
Nov 20 2005 10:35PM (CT)
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - A nearly 4,000-acre wildfire burning in rough terrain above this oceanfront city was 90 percent contained Sunday night, despite the return of hot, gusty Santa Ana winds.
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Snowboarder says he prayed while lost
Nov 20 2005 9:14PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - His rescuers credited snowboarder John Ryan with doing all the right things to survive three days lost in the mountains outside a ski resort area, but he doubts he would have made it through another night.
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32 U.S. students chosen as Rhodes scholars
Nov 20 2005 8:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A student who was shot four times while promoting democracy in Iraq and a senior who is writing her thesis on vampires and blood contagion in 19th-century literature were among 32 Americans selected Sunday as Rhodes Scholars for 2006.
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New Hampshire is named most miserly state
Nov 20 2005 8:44PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - New Englanders remain among the most tightfisted in the country when it comes to charitable giving while Bible Belt residents are among the most generous, according to an annual index.
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Poll: Ala. residents support Aruba boycott
Nov 20 2005 6:59PM (CT)
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Three-quarters of Alabama residents back the governor's call for a travel boycott of Aruba to protest the island's handling of the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway.
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Report: School crime halved over 10 years
Nov 20 2005 6:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - One in 20 students was a victim of violence or theft at school in 2003, the government said in a report that shows school crime rates about were half what they were 10 years earlier.
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Stars, top advocates weigh in on NY races
Nov 20 2005 6:52PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Actor Chevy Chase, director-actor Rob Reiner, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno last week endorsed candidates in New York politics, where star power has often been a tool and a target.
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Commandments draw 300 to Okla. courthouse
Nov 20 2005 6:49PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A group of pastors fired up a crowd of more than 300 people during a rally around a monument engraved with the Ten Commandments on the Haskell County Courthouse lawn.
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Investigation suggests wrong man executed
Nov 20 2005 6:37PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A decade after Ruben Cantu was executed for capital murder, the only witness to the crime is recanting and his co-defendant says Cantu, then 17, wasn't even with him that night.
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NASA spacecraft is halfway toward Mars
Nov 20 2005 5:46PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A NASA spacecraft is halfway toward Mars where it is expected to collect more data on the Red Planet than all previous Martian explorations combined.
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Police in N.C. investigate six shootings
Nov 20 2005 5:38PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Four men were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Saturday night at a town house in an upscale Durham neighborhood.
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Report: Scooter company gets complaints
Nov 20 2005 5:23PM (CT)
MANTUA TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - A company that sells electric scooters used by senior citizens and people with disabilities is being accused of using high-pressure sales tactics and charging high interest rates.
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A look at charitable giving state-by-state
Nov 20 2005 2:38PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Here are the latest Generosity Index rankings based on 2003 tax data, followed by average adjusted gross income and average itemized charitable contribution, with the previous year's ranking in parenthesis:
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N.Y. trial focuses on al-Qaida ties
Nov 20 2005 2:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In testimony before a U.S. military tribunal, Saifullah Paracha said he met Osama bin Laden on a charity mission to Afghanistan in 1999.
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Pa. teen remains in care of relatives
Nov 20 2005 2:04PM (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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Big Easy couple still cooking for troops
Nov 20 2005 1:44PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An old oak tree blown down by Hurricane Katrina destroyed the home of Jessie and Sherry Krummel. Looters took everything else.
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McCain discusses terrorism at Ole Miss
Nov 20 2005 1:02PM (CT)
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - U.S. Sen. John McCain says Iraq must be stabilized if the United States is to be successful in fighting terrorism.
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Incumbent won't challenge teen mayor's win
Nov 20 2005 8:56AM (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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