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Drug tunnel found on U.S.-Mexico border
Dec 3 2007 11:52PM (CT)
TECATE, Calif. (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol said Monday that it discovered a secret tunnel that may have been used for smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border east of San Diego.
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Iowa diocese reaches $37M sex abuse pact
Dec 3 2007 11:51PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport agreed Monday to pay out $37 million to more than 150 sex abuse victims under a settlement that requires the bishop to personally apologize to any accusers or relatives who ask.
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Court: Prison program unconstitutional
Dec 3 2007 11:44PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the state of Iowa cannot fund an evangelical Christian prison ministry program because doing so advances or endorses religion, violating the Constitutional separation of church and state.
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Powerful storm batters Pacific Northwest
Dec 3 2007 11:41PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Hurricane-force winds and heavy rain battered the Northwest for a second day Monday, killing at least two people and leaving entire communities dark and isolated as the storms blocked roads with trees, power lines, high water and mud.
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Man pleads not guilty to shooting deputy
Dec 3 2007 11:40PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A convicted robber pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally shooting a 76-year-old sheriff's deputy who was transporting him in a medical van to a court appearance.
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FBI: Heist timed to holiday shopping
Dec 3 2007 11:36PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Three suspects in the theft of about $7.4 million in cash and checks from an armored car company knew an unusually large amount of money would be on hand because of the busy shopping weekend after Thanksgiving, the FBI said Monday.
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Judge rejects subpoenas for reporters
Dec 3 2007 11:28PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A federal judge ruled Monday that a defense contractor convicted of bribing a former congressman cannot subpoena reporters and government officials to determine the source of grand jury leaks.
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No 'PorkChop' for baseball mascot
Dec 3 2007 11:27PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Two days after naming its mascot "PorkChop," the Philadelphia Phillies' new Triple-A affiliate abruptly dropped the moniker after receiving complaints from Hispanics that it was offensive.
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'Jena 6' teen pleads guilty to battery
Dec 3 2007 11:17PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a battery charge.
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'Jena 6' teen pleads guilty to battery
Dec 3 2007 11:17PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a battery charge.
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'Jena 6' teen pleads guilty to battery
Dec 3 2007 11:17PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a battery charge.
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Police: Pair financed fun with ID theft
Dec 3 2007 11:10PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - They were young, rich and in love. But the jet-setters financed their fun on the credit cards of unsuspecting neighbors in their high-end apartment building and other identity-fraud victims, police said Monday.
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Police: Pair financed fun with ID theft
Dec 3 2007 11:10PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - They were young, rich and in love. But the jet-setters financed their fun on the credit cards of unsuspecting neighbors in their high-end apartment building and other identity-fraud victims, police said Monday.
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Knievel's victim goes after the money
Dec 3 2007 11:08PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.
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Utah judge dismisses contempt ruling
Dec 3 2007 10:57PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A judge who ordered a TV news reporter to produce a "public interest" story to get a contempt of court ruling dismissed threw out the ruling Monday.
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Minn. probing pork plant illnesses
Dec 3 2007 10:01PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - State health officials said Monday they were investigating neurological illnesses among 11 workers at a pork processing plant, but that there was no evidence that the public was at risk.
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Marine faces court-martial in Iraq death
Dec 3 2007 9:49PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A jury was selected Monday to hear the court-martial of a Marine reservist accused of murdering an Iraqi soldier while the two stood guard together in Fallujah.
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Radio host sues group that quoted him
Dec 3 2007 9:46PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A conservative radio talk show host sued an Islamic civil rights group on Monday for copyright infringement over the organization's use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate."
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Mistrial in Muslim Air Force guard case
Dec 3 2007 9:43PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a former Andrews Air Force Base security guard accused of failing to include his Muslim name on a background check to hide his ties to an outspoken Washington imam and mosque.
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NYC bouncer blames police for 3 killings
Dec 3 2007 9:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A bouncer accused of killing three men took the witness stand at his murder trial on Monday and offered a surprise defense: The police did it.
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Ex-male prostitute linked to 2 scandals
Dec 3 2007 9:24PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - One of the rising stars of evangelical Christian politics resigns after allegations that he had sex with a man. More than a year later, a conservative U.S. senator is embroiled in a similar scandal.
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Ex-male prostitute linked to 2 scandals
Dec 3 2007 9:24PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - One of the rising stars of evangelical Christian politics resigns after allegations that he had sex with a man. More than a year later, a conservative U.S. senator is embroiled in a similar scandal.
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Ex-male prostitute linked to 2 scandals
Dec 3 2007 9:24PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - One of the rising stars of evangelical Christian politics resigns after allegations that he had sex with a man. More than a year later, a conservative U.S. senator is embroiled in a similar scandal.
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Charleston fined $3,000 in fatal fire
Dec 3 2007 8:50PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The city has agreed to pay $3,160 in fines but admits no wrongdoing in a furniture store fire that killed nine firefighters, according to a settlement with state regulators announced Monday.
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Man pleads guilty to killing Idaho boy
Dec 3 2007 8:42PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A man who murdered the family of two young siblings, then sexually abused the children before killing one of them at a remote Montana campsite, pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges that could lead to his execution.
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Hostage suspect called ill, manipulative
Dec 3 2007 8:33PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - The man accused of taking hostages at a campaign office of Hillary Rodham Clinton watched impassively during his video arraignment Monday as he was portrayed alternately as a sick man desperately seeking psychiatric help and a manipulative longtime criminal.
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Hostage suspect called ill, manipulative
Dec 3 2007 8:33PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - The man accused of taking hostages at a campaign office of Hillary Rodham Clinton watched impassively during his video arraignment Monday as he was portrayed alternately as a sick man desperately seeking psychiatric help and a manipulative longtime criminal.
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No charges in MySpace teen suicide case
Dec 3 2007 7:55PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - People who sent cruel Internet messages to a 13-year-old girl before she committed suicide won't face criminal charges, a suburban St. Louis prosecutor announced Monday.
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Suit vs. transgender Ga. pol thrown out
Dec 3 2007 6:29PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge dismissed lawsuit Monday that had claimed a transgender city councilwoman tried to fool voters by running as a female, and the candidate was set to seek re-election Tuesday.
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Mixed martial arts fighter dies
Dec 3 2007 6:29PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A mixed martial arts fighter has died in a hospice about six weeks after he was injured in a sanctioned bout, a rare fatality for a combat sport that is growing in popularity.
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Teen pleads guilty to highway shootings
Dec 3 2007 6:25PM (CT)
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (AP) - A teenager pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday in a series of Indiana highway sniper shootings that left one man dead and another wounded.
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Lawsuit challenges profiling at airports
Dec 3 2007 5:48PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The top official in charge of fighting racial profiling for the American Civil Liberties Union says he was the victim of profiling at the Boston airport, and he has gone to federal court to challenge a screening technique that relies on suspicious behavior to identify potential terrorists.
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Snowfall is 'white gold' to ski areas
Dec 3 2007 5:22PM (CT)
STOWE, Vt. (AP) - A winter storm that wreaked havoc on the Upper Midwest began its snowy assault on the East on Monday, spelling trouble for travelers but elation for ski resorts that suffered through an abysmal winter last year.
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Powerful storm batters Pacific Northwest
Dec 3 2007 4:42PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A powerful Pacific storm battered the Northwest on Monday, blocking roads with fallen trees and flood waters, blacking out thousands of customers, and icing up mountain highways.
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Scientists: Teen brain still maturing
Dec 3 2007 4:12PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The teenage brain, Laurence Steinberg says, is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake. With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash.
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1 dead in California tour bus crash
Dec 3 2007 3:51PM (CT)
IONE, Calif. (AP) - The driver of a speeding pickup truck crossed a highway median and smashed head on into a tour bus, killing the pickup's driver and injuring 17 people, authorities said.
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Appeal heard in border agents' shooting
Dec 3 2007 3:49PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal prosecutors appear to have "overreacted" in their pursuit of a case against two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a fleeing drug suspect and hiding evidence, one of three judges considering an appeal said Monday.
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Lawsuit filed in Chicago train crash
Dec 3 2007 3:47PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A Michigan family sued Amtrak and Norfolk Southern on Monday, three days after being injured when a passenger train rammed a freight train sitting on the same track on Chicago's South Side.
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Jury begins terror plot deliberations
Dec 3 2007 3:42PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Jurors began deliberations Monday on charges against seven men accused of conspiring to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and blow up FBI offices in an attempt to start an anti-government insurrection.
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Congress food fight on dairy import fees
Dec 3 2007 3:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Big-name U.S. food companies are teaming up with cheese importers, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the European Union in trying to block the expansion of dairy promotion assessments beyond the 48 contiguous United States.
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N.J. college requires GPS cell phones
Dec 3 2007 2:40PM (CT)
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) - It was after 1 a.m. on a Sunday when college freshman Amanda Phillips arrived at the train station. She was nervous about walking alone in the dark to her dorm at Montclair State University.
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Astronauts at Cape for Thursday launch
Dec 3 2007 2:04PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Seven astronauts arrived for the start of countdown to Thursday's space shuttle launch as NASA wrapped up repairs on Atlantis' fuel tank.
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Husband suspect in wife's disappearance
Dec 3 2007 7:42AM (CT)
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Kultar Goraya is admittedly nervous _ and for good reason. His wife, Rupinder, disappeared two months ago. Police say he is the only "person of interest" and they can't get a single straight story out of him.
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Saggy pants bans may not be lawful
Dec 3 2007 6:47AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Call her old-fashioned, but Mary Gray doesn't want too much access to other people's underwear. "I'm from the old school," Gray said of the saggy pants ban she helped enact last month in Pine Lawn, Mo. "You got to leave something for the imagination."
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Mass. program aids American Indian vets
Dec 3 2007 5:36AM (CT)
BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Army veteran Craig Cournoyer left behind his community of 400 people on a South Dakota reservation, moving thousands of miles to learn how to fix moldy, broken down ventilation systems.
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Wash. growers focus on labor needs
Dec 3 2007 3:12AM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - High-tech robots that could prune trees or pick fruit are often discussed at the annual meetings of Washington's tree fruit growers, along with other proposals for reducing the need for farm workers.
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