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Tropical storm possible in Atlantic
Dec 9 2007 11:56PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A weather system off Puerto Rico has the potential to become a tropical storm, forecasters said Sunday, a little more than a week after the Atlantic hurricane season ended.
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Ice storm coats nation's middle; 5 dead
Dec 9 2007 11:51PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands Sunday in a swath from the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes as even colder weather threatened.
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4 die in Colo. church, mission attacks
Dec 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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4 die in Colo. church, mission attacks
Dec 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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4 die in Colo. church, mission attacks
Dec 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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4 die in Colo. church, mission attacks
Dec 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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4 die in Colo. church, mission attacks
Dec 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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4 die in Colo. church, mission attacks
Dec 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman shot four staff members at a missionary training center near Denver early Sunday, killing two, after being told he couldn't spend the night. About 12 hours later and 65 miles away in Colorado Springs, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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Evel Knievel's body arrives for funeral
Dec 9 2007 11:03PM (CT)
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - Fireworks exploded over this mining town Sunday as the body of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel arrived for a funeral expected to draw thousands.
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Evel Knievel's body arrives for funeral
Dec 9 2007 11:03PM (CT)
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - Fireworks exploded over this mining town Sunday as the body of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel arrived for a funeral expected to draw thousands.
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Evel Knievel's body arrives for funeral
Dec 9 2007 11:03PM (CT)
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - Fireworks exploded over this mining town Sunday as the body of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel arrived for a funeral expected to draw thousands.
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Evel Knievel's body arrives for funeral
Dec 9 2007 11:03PM (CT)
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - Fireworks exploded over this mining town Sunday as the body of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel arrived for a funeral expected to draw thousands.
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Rene J. Cappon, AP writing ace, dies
Dec 9 2007 10:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Rene J. Cappon, longtime editor for The Associated Press and the word master behind some of its best writers, died Sunday. He was 83.
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Wis. victims' families press for changes
Dec 9 2007 9:32PM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - Relatives of six people killed by a young off-duty sheriff's deputy who then apparently killed himself called Sunday for required psychological screening, full training and a minimum age of at least 21 for anyone hired as an officer.
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Group targeted in shooting has far reach
Dec 9 2007 7:40PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Begun in 1960 after a 20-year-old college student said he experienced a vision from God, Youth With a Mission has grown into one of the world's most formidable Christian missions groups.
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Loved ones pay respects to mall victims
Dec 9 2007 6:58PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman.
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Loved ones pay respects to mall victims
Dec 9 2007 6:58PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman.
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Loved ones pay respects to mall victims
Dec 9 2007 6:58PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman.
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Loved ones pay respects to mall victims
Dec 9 2007 6:58PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman.
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4 shot outside Colorado Springs church
Dec 9 2007 3:57PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in the parking lot of a Colorado Springs church on Sunday, striking four people, the church's pastor said.
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3 killed in crash with fire truck
Dec 9 2007 3:54PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A sport utility vehicle and a fire truck collided early Sunday, killing the three occupants of the SUV and injuring four firefighters, the fire department official said.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
Dec 9 2007 3:22PM (CT)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.
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Car hits Santa train, 2 people killed
Dec 9 2007 2:25PM (CT)
ISABELLA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A car crashed into a train that was carrying mostly children to a visit with Santa Claus, killing two people in the car.
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Engineers learning people skills, too
Dec 9 2007 2:20PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Hands wave in the air as students join a spirited discussion about start-up financing and laughter ripples through the class when someone IDs the three "Fs" of independent funding: Friends, family, fools.
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Site of racial tensions still has scars
Dec 9 2007 2:04PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) - Longtime residents of Pine Street say it used to bustle with traffic to black-owned businesses. Today, 40 years after racial tensions peaked with a devastating fire, it's hard to tell that the neighborhood of peeling paint and sagging porches was ever a thriving community.
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Student threatens LA campus shooting
Dec 9 2007 1:32PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police arrested a 21-year-old Loyola Marymount University student in connection with an online threat to shoot people on campus, officials said Saturday.
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UN could be dwarfed by development
Dec 9 2007 1:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The United Nations has been one of New York's most recognizable landmarks for more than half a century, a sleek, modern slab standing tall above its more modest-sized neighbors along the East River.
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Academy teaches use of prescribed fires
Dec 9 2007 12:34PM (CT)
CERRO GRANDE PEAK, N.M. (AP) - Wildland firefighters come here to the Southwest Fire Use Training Academy to learn not how to stop fires but how to start them, using prescribed burns to clean out overgrown forests and reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfires.
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Wife takes up husband's Army enlistment
Dec 9 2007 11:43AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than a year after Spc. Alejandro Albarran lost part of his right leg in an explosion in Iraq, he still hasn't decided whether he'll stay in the Army.
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Wife takes up husband's Army enlistment
Dec 9 2007 11:43AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than a year after Spc. Alejandro Albarran lost part of his right leg in an explosion in Iraq, he still hasn't decided whether he'll stay in the Army.
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Wife takes up husband's Army enlistment
Dec 9 2007 11:43AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than a year after Spc. Alejandro Albarran lost part of his right leg in an explosion in Iraq, he still hasn't decided whether he'll stay in the Army.
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Wife takes up husband's Army enlistment
Dec 9 2007 11:43AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than a year after Spc. Alejandro Albarran lost part of his right leg in an explosion in Iraq, he still hasn't decided whether he'll stay in the Army.
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Wife takes up husband's Army enlistment
Dec 9 2007 11:43AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than a year after Spc. Alejandro Albarran lost part of his right leg in an explosion in Iraq, he still hasn't decided whether he'll stay in the Army.
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Body found after garage collapse ID'd
Dec 9 2007 10:02AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A body pulled from the rubble of a partially collapsed parking garage has been identified as a 26-year-old construction worker.
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Space shuttle launch scrubbed a 2nd time
Dec 9 2007 8:19AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA called off Sunday's planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after a gauge in a fuel tank failed for the second time in four days.
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Diocese splits with Episcopal Church
Dec 9 2007 5:21AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The conservative Diocese of San Joaquin voted Saturday to split from the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church, becoming the first full diocese to secede from the denomination in the debate over the Bible and homosexuality.
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Bush declares disaster in Northwest
Dec 9 2007 2:49AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - President Bush declared a federal disaster for 11 counties in the Pacific Northwest on Saturday, clearing the way for federal aid after severe storms ravaged parts of Oregon and Washington.
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Bush declares disaster in Northwest
Dec 9 2007 2:49AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - President Bush declared a federal disaster for 11 counties in the Pacific Northwest on Saturday, clearing the way for federal aid after severe storms ravaged parts of Oregon and Washington.
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Body found in chopper crash in Alaska
Dec 9 2007 2:07AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Searchers have found a body and wreckage from a medical helicopter missing since Monday, a spokesman for the rescue effort said.
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Fla. teen documenting '08 election
Dec 9 2007 12:47AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tenth grader Noah Gray quietly pulled out his iPhone in English class and saw the e-mail he'd been waiting for. "You're in!" He smiled and hid his phone. The 15-year-old hadn't gotten in to a party or a sports event. The e-mail was from a spokeswoman for Univision, the Spanish television station. The news: He'd have a press pass for Sunday's Republican presidential debate in Florida.
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Tree shipments to troops take root
Dec 9 2007 12:45AM (CT)
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) - Sprawled in his recliner, tired and achy after three days of nearly nonstop work, James Ward hardly looks like Santa Claus.
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Tree shipments to troops take root
Dec 9 2007 12:45AM (CT)
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) - Sprawled in his recliner, tired and achy after three days of nearly nonstop work, James Ward hardly looks like Santa Claus.
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Victim's half-sister wants killers freed
Dec 9 2007 12:41AM (CT)
HOPKINS, Mich. (AP) - There's not much left to remember Robert Sellon by. A single, wallet-sized photo tucked into a framed collage. Old newspaper clippings. Many, many memories. But Tammi Smith doesn't let go easily. Nearly 26 years after her half brother was murdered, she can still mimic the way he smiled, the way he talked. And she recounts what must have happened the night he was beaten to death in a Grand Rapids pool hall.
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Victim's half-sister wants killers freed
Dec 9 2007 12:41AM (CT)
HOPKINS, Mich. (AP) - There's not much left to remember Robert Sellon by. A single, wallet-sized photo tucked into a framed collage. Old newspaper clippings. Many, many memories. But Tammi Smith doesn't let go easily. Nearly 26 years after her half brother was murdered, she can still mimic the way he smiled, the way he talked. And she recounts what must have happened the night he was beaten to death in a Grand Rapids pool hall.
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Victim's half-sister wants killers freed
Dec 9 2007 12:41AM (CT)
HOPKINS, Mich. (AP) - There's not much left to remember Robert Sellon by. A single, wallet-sized photo tucked into a framed collage. Old newspaper clippings. Many, many memories. But Tammi Smith doesn't let go easily. Nearly 26 years after her half brother was murdered, she can still mimic the way he smiled, the way he talked. And she recounts what must have happened the night he was beaten to death in a Grand Rapids pool hall.
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