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Teen pleads no contest in school plot
Dec 15 2006 11:59PM (CT)
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) - An 18-year-old man suspected of plotting a killing spree at a high school pleaded no contest to charges that will result in a five-year state prison sentence.
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F-35 test flight deemed a success
Dec 15 2006 11:53PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The new stealth fighter jet that will replace an aging fleet of military planes experienced a largely successful first flight Friday, with only a minor glitch, Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said.
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F-35 test flight deemed a success
Dec 15 2006 11:53PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The new stealth fighter jet that will replace an aging fleet of military planes experienced a largely successful first flight Friday, with only a minor glitch, Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said.
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F-35 test flight deemed a success
Dec 15 2006 11:53PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The new stealth fighter jet that will replace an aging fleet of military planes experienced a largely successful first flight Friday, with only a minor glitch, Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said.
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F-35 test flight deemed a success
Dec 15 2006 11:53PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The new stealth fighter jet that will replace an aging fleet of military planes experienced a largely successful first flight Friday, with only a minor glitch, Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said.
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F-35 test flight deemed a success
Dec 15 2006 11:53PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The new stealth fighter jet that will replace an aging fleet of military planes experienced a largely successful first flight Friday, with only a minor glitch, Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said.
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F-35 test flight deemed a success
Dec 15 2006 11:53PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The new stealth fighter jet that will replace an aging fleet of military planes experienced a largely successful first flight Friday, with only a minor glitch, Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said.
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Publisher behind Simpson book fired
Dec 15 2006 11:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - O.J. Simpson's would-be publisher, Judith Regan, was fired Friday, her sensational, scandalous tenure at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ending with the tersest of announcements.
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Powder found at U.N. apparently flour
Dec 15 2006 11:30PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A suspicious package leaking white powder was found near CNN's office at U.N. headquarters Friday, prompting officials to cordon off the area, but tests later showed the substance was harmless, officials said.
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R&D shale oil extraction leases granted
Dec 15 2006 11:26PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Interior Department granted leases Friday for shale oil extraction experiments, a step allowing companies to determine how to tap into an estimated 100-year supply of oil locked in rock formations under Colorado, Utah, and southwest Wyoming.
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NYC transit union chief re-elected
Dec 15 2006 11:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The transit union boss who led a strike that paralyzed New York City for 60 hours at the height of last year's Christmas shopping season has been re-elected, union officials said Friday.
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2 Fla. men convicted of felony hazing
Dec 15 2006 11:18PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Two Florida fraternity brothers were convicted of felony hazing Friday in a trial seen as a test of a new law restricting the practice, but jurors were unable to reach a verdict on three other defendants.
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Mother pleads not guilty in death
Dec 15 2006 11:15PM (CT)
VISTA, Calif. (AP) - A woman pleaded not guilty Friday to murdering her toddler and stuffing his body in a trash bin near her home.
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Mother pleads not guilty in death
Dec 15 2006 11:15PM (CT)
VISTA, Calif. (AP) - A woman pleaded not guilty Friday to murdering her toddler and stuffing his body in a trash bin near her home.
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Mother pleads not guilty in death
Dec 15 2006 11:15PM (CT)
VISTA, Calif. (AP) - A woman pleaded not guilty Friday to murdering her toddler and stuffing his body in a trash bin near her home.
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Florida, California suspend executions
Dec 15 2006 10:53PM (CT)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.
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Storm kills 4, cuts power in Northwest
Dec 15 2006 10:52PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The worst windstorm in more than a decade tore through the Pacific Northwest, leaving more than a million people without power Friday and killing at least four. Winds gusted to a record 69 mph about 1 a.m. at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, breaking the old mark of 65 mph set in 1993. Winds were clocked at 90 mph near Westport on the coast.
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Sharpton plans shooting protest march
Dec 15 2006 10:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton and other community leaders plan to stage a silent march down Fifth Avenue Saturday "to shop for justice," in the police shooting incident that killed Sean Bell and wounded two of his friends on his wedding day last month.
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Army Corps: 'Mr. Go' should be closed
Dec 15 2006 10:28PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A shipping channel blamed for widespread flooding during Hurricane Katrina and extensive wetlands destruction should be closed, the Army Corps of Engineers recommended Friday in a report to Congress.
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N.M. gov optimistic about N. Korea talks
Dec 15 2006 10:21PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - North Korean officials said "everything's on the table" as the reclusive communist country heads back to six-nation talks about its nuclear program, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday after meeting with the two diplomats.
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Carter explains 'apartheid' reference
Dec 15 2006 9:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter issued a letter to American Jews on Friday, explaining the use of the term "apartheid" in his new book and sympathizing with Israelis who fear terrorism.
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Group home owner loses license
Dec 15 2006 9:44PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - State regulators on Friday ordered the owners of a group home where 10 people died in a fire to shut down all four of their facilities for the mentally ill and disabled.
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Military plane finds no sign of climbers
Dec 15 2006 9:38PM (CT)
MOUNT HOOD, Ore. (AP) - A National Guard C-130 circled Mount Hood on Friday in search of three missing mountaineers, but struck out, its commander said.
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Source: Guilty pleas in Cuban agent case
Dec 15 2006 9:11PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A psychology professor and his wife accused of being illegal Cuban agents will plead guilty to lesser charges next week, a source familiar with the case said Friday.
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$60M LA clergy abuse settlement OK'd
Dec 15 2006 8:34PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Attorneys representing 45 people who sued the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, accusing clergy members of sex abuse, signed off Friday on a $60 million settlement, according to the lead plaintiffs' lawyer.
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Britain: Iran sanctions deal 'emerging'
Dec 15 2006 8:00PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Britain said Friday that a deal is emerging on a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, but Russia remains opposed to a European and U.S.-backed travel ban against top Iranian officials.
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Nurse given probation in mistaken death
Dec 15 2006 7:57PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A nurse tearfully apologized Friday as she pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a drug mixup that led to the death of a 16-year-old patient giving birth.
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Feds sue village over Hispanic voting
Dec 15 2006 7:45PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - The federal government sued a suburban New York village Friday, alleging that its at-large method of electing trustees is unfair to Hispanics and violates the Voting Rights Act.
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'Atlanta Beauty': Zoo names new panda
Dec 15 2006 7:30PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Children sang and performers put on a lively dance Friday as Zoo Atlanta unveiled the name of the nation's newest panda cub _ Mei Lan, a 12-pound ball of adorableness too young to attend the hoopla.
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'Atlanta Beauty': Zoo names new panda
Dec 15 2006 7:30PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Children sang and performers put on a lively dance Friday as Zoo Atlanta unveiled the name of the nation's newest panda cub _ Mei Lan, a 12-pound ball of adorableness too young to attend the hoopla.
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Domenici daughter's home invaded
Dec 15 2006 7:22PM (CT)
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Would-be burglars broke into the home of New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici's daughter Friday, prompting the nanny to flee with one of the senator's young grandchildren and leaving another inside. No one was injured.
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Former Newsday publisher sentenced
Dec 15 2006 6:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former publisher of Newsday who has served on New York's education policy board was sentenced Friday to more than a year in prison for possessing child pornography on his company computer.
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Paternity test ordered in Duke rape case
Dec 15 2006 6:35PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A judge Friday ordered a paternity test on a baby expected by the woman who has accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape. But both the district attorney and the defense rejected any possibility that one of the men is the father.
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Paternity test ordered in Duke rape case
Dec 15 2006 6:35PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A judge Friday ordered a paternity test on a baby expected by the woman who has accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape. But both the district attorney and the defense rejected any possibility that one of the men is the father.
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Paternity test ordered in Duke rape case
Dec 15 2006 6:35PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A judge Friday ordered a paternity test on a baby expected by the woman who has accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape. But both the district attorney and the defense rejected any possibility that one of the men is the father.
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California to review sentencing
Dec 15 2006 6:25PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's corrections secretary said Friday that the state will create a commission to review sentencing guidelines for felons, potentially a key step in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to relieve prison overcrowding.
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New Orleans threatened by 'brain drain'
Dec 15 2006 5:54PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - It wasn't the flooding that drove Dr. David Jones out of New Orleans for good. His house in the Lakeview neighborhood stayed dry. Instead, it was the way Hurricane Katrina eroded the orthopedic surgeon's practice.
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Judge says executions unconstitutional
Dec 15 2006 5:46PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge who imposed a moratorium on executions in California ruled Friday that the state's method of lethal injection is unconstitutional because it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Charges reduced in caged kids case
Dec 15 2006 5:38PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - A judge on Friday reduced the number of felony child endangerment charges against a couple accused of forcing some of their 11 special-needs adoptive children to sleep in cages.
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Official says Fla. execution was botched
Dec 15 2006 5:27PM (CT)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.
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Texas report: Immigrants help economy
Dec 15 2006 5:13PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A report by the top financial officer of Texas claims illegal immigrants are more a boon to the Lone Star State's economy than a drain, adding another layer to the immigration reform debate.
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300 say they got ill from Olive Garden
Dec 15 2006 4:52PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More than 300 people say they became ill, and at least three have been hospitalized, after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant last weekend, health officials said Friday.
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AP appointments for online, photos
Dec 15 2006 3:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Lou Ferrara, The Associated Press's online editor, has been named deputy managing editor for multimedia in one of several new management assignments in the news cooperative's online and international photo operations.
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Cuban group said to include 7 deported
Dec 15 2006 3:49PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A group of Cubans deported in January after nearly reaching the U.S. landed Friday at close to the same spot, a bridge in the Florida Keys that authorities earlier ruled wasn't American soil, a relative said.
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W.Va. school board to pay $2.2M in death
Dec 15 2006 3:46PM (CT)
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - The family of a 12-year-old boy who died after his elementary school principal gave him sedatives so he would not resist being molested has settled the case for $2.25 million.
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Pilot recalls shoot-down during escort
Dec 15 2006 3:27PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A bomber pilot in World War II says he was shot down while being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen, an account that supports a recent report by two historians who say the black fighter group, contrary to legend, did lose at least a few bombers to fire from enemy aircraft.
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Ohio State provost named Case president
Dec 15 2006 3:10PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Case Western Reserve University, beset by dismal finances that led to its last president's resignation, named his successor Friday, choosing a veteran of the school's law college.
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Va. reviews DNA databank for omissions
Dec 15 2006 3:04PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Authorities are reviewing Virginia's DNA databank _ the nation's first and most extensive _ after an investigation found that many felons were omitted.
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Soccer player accused of killing father
Dec 15 2006 2:47PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Emmanuel Thompson used to pace the sidelines at his son's high school soccer games, berating the boy for his play so mercilessly that the coach had to ask him to leave. At home, Thompson smacked his son around and bullied him into focusing on nothing but his studies and soccer.
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Space station astronaut is movie buff
Dec 15 2006 2:24PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The space-to-ground radio crackled recently with a message from Mission Control to U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and his two crewmates at the international space station.
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2 killed in Del. helicopter crash
Dec 15 2006 2:20PM (CT)
DAGSBORO, Del. (AP) - A real estate developer with a small stake in the Washington Capitals and a pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed in a soybean field shortly after taking off in fog, authorities said.
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No bail for Taylor's son in torture case
Dec 15 2006 1:21PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge denied bail Friday for former Liberian President Charles Taylor's son, who was indicted last week on torture charges stemming from his time as head of a security force in his father's government.
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16 charged as Bosnian Serb militants
Dec 15 2006 12:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sixteen people have been charged with lying about serving in the Bosnian Serb military when applying for refugee status in the United States, the Justice Department announced Friday.
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2 ATF agents shot near Atlanta
Dec 15 2006 11:00AM (CT)
LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) - Two federal agents were shot early Friday at a suburban Atlanta apartment complex while serving a search warrant for firearms.
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Pilots in Brazil crash defend actions
Dec 15 2006 10:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two pilots whose executive jet collided with a larger jet over the Brazilian jungle, killing 154 people, said Friday they were flying at the altitude assigned by air traffic controllers.
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Polygamist leader ordered to stand trial
Dec 15 2006 6:18AM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is either a heartless autocrat or benevolent marriage counselor, depending on who you ask.
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Polygamist leader ordered to stand trial
Dec 15 2006 6:18AM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is either a heartless autocrat or benevolent marriage counselor, depending on who you ask.
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Polygamist leader ordered to stand trial
Dec 15 2006 6:18AM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is either a heartless autocrat or benevolent marriage counselor, depending on who you ask.
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N.J. civil unions bill goes to governor
Dec 15 2006 5:15AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For more than four years, Saundra Toby-Heath has waited for the state of New Jersey to recognize her partner as her wife.
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N.J. civil unions bill goes to governor
Dec 15 2006 5:15AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For more than four years, Saundra Toby-Heath has waited for the state of New Jersey to recognize her partner as her wife.
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N.J. civil unions bill goes to governor
Dec 15 2006 5:15AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For more than four years, Saundra Toby-Heath has waited for the state of New Jersey to recognize her partner as her wife.
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N.J. civil unions bill goes to governor
Dec 15 2006 5:15AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For more than four years, Saundra Toby-Heath has waited for the state of New Jersey to recognize her partner as her wife.
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N.J. civil unions bill goes to governor
Dec 15 2006 5:15AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For more than four years, Saundra Toby-Heath has waited for the state of New Jersey to recognize her partner as her wife.
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N.J. civil unions bill goes to governor
Dec 15 2006 5:15AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - For more than four years, Saundra Toby-Heath has waited for the state of New Jersey to recognize her partner as her wife.
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Ex-homeless attend to library bathrooms
Dec 15 2006 4:56AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A group that helps the homeless find housing, employment and health care is posting formerly homeless people in the restrooms of a downtown library to help manage those who flock there looking for shelter or a makeshift bath.
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U.S. Iraqi Christians seek help
Dec 15 2006 3:30AM (CT)
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) - For the past three years, Raad Khalaf has worried that every phone call to his suburban San Diego home would bring bad news about his sister in Baghdad.
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Texas priest removed after abuse claim
Dec 15 2006 12:39AM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Roman Catholic bishop on Thursday removed from active ministry a Wichita Falls priest accused of sexually abusing a minor before he was a clergyman.
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Former nuke courier sentenced to prison
Dec 15 2006 12:24AM (CT)
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - A former nuclear weapons courier accused of using his position to obtain restricted items and selling them over the Internet was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison Thursday.
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Workers to return to WTC skyscraper
Dec 15 2006 12:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Workers who walked off the job at a damaged skyscraper near the World Trade Center site in a contract dispute will return to work in the next few days, officials overseeing the project said Thursday.
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