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Clinton school gets money for speakers
Nov 25 2006 11:48PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A branch of the University of Arkansas named after Bill Clinton hopes to lure more big-name speakers after receiving a half-million dollar donation from the family of a local doctor.
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Official who warned of terrorism dies
Nov 25 2006 11:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert Kupperman, a government scientist who started warning of terrorist attacks against the United States more than 30 years ago, has died of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 71.
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N.Y. police kill groom near strip club
Nov 25 2006 10:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police fired 50 rounds Saturday at a car of unarmed men leaving a bachelor party at a strip club, killing the groom on his wedding day in a shooting that drew a furious outcry from family members and community leaders.
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Missing woman found dead behind bookcase
Nov 25 2006 9:52PM (CT)
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - A woman's body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her.
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Bond increased for Miami Herald intruder
Nov 25 2006 8:47PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A cartoonist arrested after brandishing a toy gun at The Miami Herald building had his bond increased Saturday to $75,000.
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Husband mourns slain N.J. prostitute
Nov 25 2006 7:24PM (CT)
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - The husband of a slain prostitute found near Atlantic City sat in front of a makeshift cross as he cried and prayed for his late wife, whose suffocated body was found here less then a week ago.
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Darkness halts search for Minnesota boys
Nov 25 2006 7:24PM (CT)
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - Authorities grew more concerned Saturday about two young brothers missing for three days from the Red Lake Indian Reservation after temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.
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Professor who had gun in airport cleared
Nov 25 2006 2:32PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal magistrate acquitted an Ohio State University professor charged with attempting to board an aircraft with a loaded handgun.
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U.S. border agent briefly held in Mexico
Nov 25 2006 2:09PM (CT)
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was jailed for more than a day after Mexican border officials found 650 rounds of ammunition in his car, authorities said Saturday.
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Hospital chain buyers get $175M in fees
Nov 25 2006 12:55PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The new owners of HCA Inc., the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain, will collect $175 million in transaction fees as part of a completed $21.3 billion leveraged buyout to take the company private.
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Appalachian Trail an environmental lab
Nov 25 2006 12:34PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The Appalachian Trail gives hikers a nearly 2,200-mile trek through mountains, meadows and forests stretching from Georgia to Maine. But to scientists and land managers it's also a living laboratory that could provide warnings of looming environmental problems while there's still time to fix them.
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Public transit not wheelchair-friendly
Nov 25 2006 12:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When Michael Harris powered his motorized wheelchair off the No. 5 subway train at a station in Brooklyn, he found that the elevator to the street was broken.
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Ill. police: Gunman was unpredictable
Nov 25 2006 9:26AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The gunman was calm one moment and frantic the next. For 23 hours on Thanksgiving Day, police said, officers tried to pacify Lance Johnson _ who had a history of mental illness and a criminal record _ and persuade him to release his neighbor Tasha Cooks, whom he'd taken hostage in an apartment building.
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More U.S. troops dying in Anbar province
Nov 25 2006 7:37AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the three months since thousands of U.S. forces poured into Baghdad to quash escalating violence, far more American troops have died in the volatile western Anbar province than in the capital city.
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Holocaust survivor reunites with rescuer
Nov 25 2006 6:22AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As Lea Ingel waited at John F. Kennedy International Airport, she was not sure what she would say when she was reunited with the Catholic woman whose family sheltered her on its Lithuania farm during the Holocaust.
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Widow, 2 others killed at celebration
Nov 25 2006 6:16AM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A young widow and two family members were shot to death as they celebrated Thanksgiving, and two of her late husband's brothers were arrested, authorities said.
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AWOL soldier says Army ignoring him
Nov 25 2006 6:08AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A soldier who is again absent without leave said his lawyer has repeatedly tried to speak with the Army about his status but the military is ignoring the subject.
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Man with toy gun disrupts Miami Herald
Nov 25 2006 4:18AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A cartoonist carrying a toy gun that looked real surrendered to police at The Miami Herald's building Friday, more than two hours after arriving and demanding to see an editor of the newspaper's Spanish-language sister paper, police said.
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PETA mistakenly targets Alaska church
Nov 25 2006 3:23AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The pastor at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church was mystified. Why was the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chastising him? No animals are harmed in the church's holiday nativity display. In fact, animals aren't used at all.
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Lawsuit blames tired driver for crash
Nov 25 2006 3:20AM (CT)
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - A tractor-trailer carrying a nearly full load of gasoline was driving so recklessly on a highway ramp one night in 2005, even a 6-year-old in a nearby car was alarmed, his mother said.
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USDA OKs genetically engineered rice
Nov 25 2006 12:40AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department approved for human consumption a type of genetically engineered rice that had contaminated domestic rice supplies last summer.
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11 injured as Tenn. stairwell collapses
Nov 25 2006 12:06AM (CT)
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) - A stairwell at a rental cabin collapsed as more than 30 family members posed for a group picture on Friday afternoon, sending 11 to the hospital, officials said.
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