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Western states get up to 2 feet of snow
Dec 7 2007 11:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Pacific Northwest storm blew through Southern California early Friday without causing much damage or delivering the mudslides and severe flooding that many had feared.
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Western states get up to 2 feet of snow
Dec 7 2007 11:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Pacific Northwest storm blew through Southern California early Friday without causing much damage or delivering the mudslides and severe flooding that many had feared.
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Western states get up to 2 feet of snow
Dec 7 2007 11:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Pacific Northwest storm blew through Southern California early Friday without causing much damage or delivering the mudslides and severe flooding that many had feared.
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Police dismiss tip in Peterson case
Dec 7 2007 11:48PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A trucker who claimed to have seen Drew Peterson hours after the former police officer's wife disappeared did not actually see the suspect, authorities said Friday.
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Gunman's suicide note, images released
Dec 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims.
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Gunman's suicide note, images released
Dec 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims.
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Gunman's suicide note, images released
Dec 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims.
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Gunman's suicide note, images released
Dec 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims.
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Gunman's suicide note, images released
Dec 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims.
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Gunman's suicide note, images released
Dec 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims.
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Former cabbie gets 25 years for killing
Dec 7 2007 11:03PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A former cab driver was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for strangling a woman 14 years ago after she couldn't pay her fare.
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Hearing held too late for dead girl
Dec 7 2007 10:53PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A child advocate had planned to ask a judge to remove a 3-year-old girl from her mother's care the same day that authorities say the mother and her live-in boyfriend beat the toddler to death, newly released documents show.
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NYC window washer dies in 47-story fall
Dec 7 2007 10:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A window washer fell 47 stories to his death and his brother was critically injured Friday when the scaffolding on a high-rise apartment building gave way, authorities said.
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Not guilty plea in Am. Indian killing
Dec 7 2007 10:30PM (CT)
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A day after his extradition to the U.S., a Canadian man pleaded not guilty Friday to killing an American Indian Movement activist in 1975.
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Not guilty plea in Am. Indian killing
Dec 7 2007 10:30PM (CT)
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A day after his extradition to the U.S., a Canadian man pleaded not guilty Friday to killing an American Indian Movement activist in 1975.
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Vt. man says he found condom in sandwich
Dec 7 2007 10:13PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A man who says he bit into a Burger King sandwich and found an unwrapped condom inside has sued the owner of the restaurant.
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Pearl Harbor survivors honor comrades
Dec 7 2007 10:02PM (CT)
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - A few dozen graying Pearl Harbor survivors observed a moment of silence on Friday in honor of their comrades who perished in the Japanese bombing of Oahu 66 years ago.
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Pearl Harbor survivors honor comrades
Dec 7 2007 10:02PM (CT)
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - A few dozen graying Pearl Harbor survivors observed a moment of silence on Friday in honor of their comrades who perished in the Japanese bombing of Oahu 66 years ago.
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Lawyer for Holocaust survivors gets $3M
Dec 7 2007 10:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A law professor who helped distribute a $1.25 billion settlement to Holocaust survivors will get $3.1 million in legal fees, a judge has ruled after years of wrangling.
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Train hits van in Texas, killing 3
Dec 7 2007 9:57PM (CT)
SPRING, Texas (AP) - A van whose driver disregarded a warning signal at a train crossing was hit by a freight train, killing three and critically injuring another, police said.
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DOD reports on sex assaults at academies
Dec 7 2007 9:50PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Some students at military academies fear retaliation if they report sexual assaults and others don't understand the reporting options created to give them confidentiality, according to a Defense Department report released Friday.
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Suburban sex parties draw complaints
Dec 7 2007 9:33PM (CT)
DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) - The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock's split-level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 people to swinger parties featuring "Naked Twister" nights.
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Man gets 17-year term for drug smuggling
Dec 7 2007 8:41PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man convicted in a scheme to ship cocaine to the United States in the shoes of young people recruited as couriers was sentenced Friday to 17 years in federal prison.
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Minn. slaughterhouse workers fall ill
Dec 7 2007 8:38PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors Inc. is an area known as the "head table," but not because it is the place of honor. It is where workers cut up pigs' heads and then shoot compressed air into the skulls until the brains come spilling out.
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Jury deliberates Miami terror case
Dec 7 2007 7:20PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A jury wrestled a fifth day on Friday with the guilt or innocence of seven men accused of conspiring to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI buildings.
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Court: Gay couple can't divorce in RI
Dec 7 2007 7:14PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A lesbian couple that married in Massachusetts cannot get divorced in their home state of Rhode Island, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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Pa. bridge collapses; truck may be cause
Dec 7 2007 7:02PM (CT)
DYSART, Pa. (AP) - The state will review the inspection records of 216 bridges with designs similar to a 116-year-old, single-lane bridge that collapsed soon after a snow plow truck drove over it, state officials said Friday.
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Theater villain hides real-life mystery
Dec 7 2007 6:58PM (CT)
WESTPORT, Wash. (AP) - The amateur theater group here had been dormant for a few years when Peggy Coverdale decided to revive it with a dinner-theater mystery she wrote.
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Peterson attorney attracted by challenge
Dec 7 2007 6:51PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When a former police officer suspected in his wife's disappearance pleaded for legal help on the "Today" show, lawyer Joel Brodsky's first thought was: "What an idiot."
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Peterson attorney attracted by challenge
Dec 7 2007 6:51PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When a former police officer suspected in his wife's disappearance pleaded for legal help on the "Today" show, lawyer Joel Brodsky's first thought was: "What an idiot."
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Mall shooter's note: 'I just snapped'
Dec 7 2007 6:40PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The gunman who killed eight people in a mall shooting "just snapped," he said in a hand-scrawled suicide note released Friday that combines love for his friends and family with nothing but contempt for his random victims.
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Forecaster predicts 7 hurricanes in '08
Dec 7 2007 6:34PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Using a simplified forecasting technique, researcher William Gray is predicting an above-average hurricane season in the Atlantic next year, with seven hurricanes, three of them major.
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Transcription of Hawkins' suicide note
Dec 7 2007 6:30PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Omaha Police Department on Friday released a three-page suicide note left by Robert A. Hawkins, the 19-year-old who fatally shot eight people at an Omaha shopping mall before turning the gun on himself Wednesday.
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Cheney criticizes Congress' war funding
Dec 7 2007 6:24PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney used a speech Friday at a military museum on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack to criticize Congress for its "irresponsible" approach to war funding.
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How Much Security: an American Dilemma
Dec 7 2007 6:22PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An Amish schoolhouse. A college classroom building, bustling with students and professors. An upscale department store at a mall, decked with holiday trimmings.
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Schwarzenegger reveals list of donors
Dec 7 2007 6:12PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - For the first time, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a list of the millionaires and billionaires who pay to send him on lavish overseas trips, offering a glimpse into the elite business and social circles that critics say have unfair access to his power.
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Schwarzenegger reveals list of donors
Dec 7 2007 6:12PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - For the first time, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a list of the millionaires and billionaires who pay to send him on lavish overseas trips, offering a glimpse into the elite business and social circles that critics say have unfair access to his power.
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Chicago to pay $20M in torture case
Dec 7 2007 6:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The city has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle lawsuits filed by four former death row inmates who claimed they were tortured by Chicago police and wrongly convicted, an alderman said Friday.
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3 found dead in Connecticut fire
Dec 7 2007 5:52PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Fire tore through three homes on Friday, killing three people whose bodies were found huddled in the rubble, injuring four others and leaving 20 people homeless, authorities said.
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3 found dead in Connecticut fire
Dec 7 2007 5:52PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Fire tore through three homes on Friday, killing three people whose bodies were found huddled in the rubble, injuring four others and leaving 20 people homeless, authorities said.
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3 found dead in Connecticut fire
Dec 7 2007 5:52PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Fire tore through three homes on Friday, killing three people whose bodies were found huddled in the rubble, injuring four others and leaving 20 people homeless, authorities said.
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Bus attack investigated as hate crime
Dec 7 2007 5:26PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Transit officials said they are investigating the beating of a white woman by nine black middle school students on a city bus as a possible hate crime.
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Friends, former foes praise Hyde
Dec 7 2007 5:26PM (CT)
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) - Friends and one-time opponents at Henry Hyde's funeral Friday praised the former congressman as a political giant and a "man of great principle."
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Ex-Alaska lawmaker sentenced in oil case
Dec 7 2007 4:39PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Former Alaska House Speaker Pete Kott was sentenced to six years in a federal prison Friday for accepting $9,000 in bribes from the founder of an oil field services company.
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Pulitzer winner for 1946 fire photo dies
Dec 7 2007 4:27PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Arnold Hardy, an amateur photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his gripping 1946 photo of a woman falling from a burning hotel, has died. He was 85.
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Marine charged again with Iraq murder
Dec 7 2007 3:51PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Marine was charged a second time with murdering a detainee three years ago in Fallujah, Iraq, the military announced Friday.
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Shots fired in Pa. mall parking lot
Dec 7 2007 3:02PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Shots were fired in the parking lot of a shopping mall Friday during an apparent holdup of an armored car, officials said.
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Ex-Weldon aide pleads guilty to fraud
Dec 7 2007 1:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The one-time top aide to former Rep. Curt Weldon pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to a conspiracy charge as part of a plea agreement.
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Rare John Brown photo sells for $97,750
Dec 7 2007 1:15PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown was bought Friday by an unidentified bidder for $97,750, an auctioneer said.
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Man pleads guilty in wife's mutilation
Dec 7 2007 12:52PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man accused of strangling and dismembering his wife pleaded guilty Friday to mutilating her corpse, but he will still stand trial on a murder charge.
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Man pleads not guilty in dragging death
Dec 7 2007 12:34PM (CT)
NEWPORT, Wash. (AP) - A man pleaded not guilty to charges he tied a rope around the neck of a college student who was strangled while being dragged 13 miles behind a pickup truck.
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Crews search for man in Fla. collapse
Dec 7 2007 12:17PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Rescue crews used special cameras and audio equipment Friday to search for a missing construction worker believed to be trapped under concrete debris after a parking garage partially collapsed.
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Millionaire sentenced in wife's death
Dec 7 2007 8:41AM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A millionaire was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for hiring someone to kill his estranged wife so he wouldn't have to split the couple's fortune.
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2 N.C. inmates recaptured in S.C.
Dec 7 2007 6:48AM (CT)
TILLERY, N.C. (AP) - Two prison inmates who escaped from a work crew and are suspected of robbing two hunters of their guns were recaptured early Friday in South Carolina.
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Records allege abuse before miscarriages
Dec 7 2007 5:35AM (CT)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - Darshana Patel said her boyfriend abused her to the point that she once leapt from a moving vehicle to escape him.
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Slain NYC gay man is remembered
Dec 7 2007 5:08AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ten years ago this month, Ali Forney _ a gay man who for years had struggled with homelessness and drug use _ was fatally shot in the head.
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Early copy of Magna Carta on sale in NYC
Dec 7 2007 4:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the year 1215, a group of English barons handed King John a document written on parchment. Put your royal seal on this, they said. John did, and forever changed the relationship between the monarchy and those it governed.
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Early copy of Magna Carta on sale in NYC
Dec 7 2007 4:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the year 1215, a group of English barons handed King John a document written on parchment. Put your royal seal on this, they said. John did, and forever changed the relationship between the monarchy and those it governed.
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Early copy of Magna Carta on sale in NYC
Dec 7 2007 4:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the year 1215, a group of English barons handed King John a document written on parchment. Put your royal seal on this, they said. John did, and forever changed the relationship between the monarchy and those it governed.
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UN tour guides protest pay, conditions
Dec 7 2007 2:26AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Twenty-two tour guides called in sick on Thursday to protest the U.N.'s failure to deal with their demands for better salaries and working conditions, forcing all but large, prearranged tours to be canceled.
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Police release 911 calls from shooting
Dec 7 2007 12:06AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Three quick gunshots, then nothing. Then a gasp, and again, nothing. Then more gunfire, and a 911 operator's questions going unanswered.
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