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Thousands lack power days after storm
Dec 17 2007 11:55PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than 100,000 homes and businesses remained without power Monday, more than a week after an ice storm battered Oklahoma, and the emergency has outlasted the ability of many residents to pay for it.
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Military jet, commuter plane came close
Dec 17 2007 11:46PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An error by air traffic controllers caused a military jet and a commuter plane to fly close to each other over northern Illinois, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, arguing that they were never in danger of colliding.
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NJ inmates make Shawshank-style escape
Dec 17 2007 11:30PM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Two jail inmates used photos of bikini-clad women to hide holes they used to escape and left behind a thank-you note, signed with a smiley face, for a guard they claimed helped them, officials said Monday.
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NJ inmates make Shawshank-style escape
Dec 17 2007 11:30PM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Two jail inmates used photos of bikini-clad women to hide holes they used to escape and left behind a thank-you note, signed with a smiley face, for a guard they claimed helped them, officials said Monday.
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Japan completes missile intercept test
Dec 17 2007 10:19PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The Japanese military became the first U.S. ally to shoot down a mid-range ballistic missile from a ship at sea in a test Monday.
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Japan completes missile intercept test
Dec 17 2007 10:19PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The Japanese military became the first U.S. ally to shoot down a mid-range ballistic missile from a ship at sea in a test Monday.
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Japan completes missile intercept test
Dec 17 2007 10:19PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The Japanese military became the first U.S. ally to shoot down a mid-range ballistic missile from a ship at sea in a test Monday.
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Japan completes missile intercept test
Dec 17 2007 10:19PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The Japanese military became the first U.S. ally to shoot down a mid-range ballistic missile from a ship at sea in a test Monday.
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Calif moves toward major health reforms
Dec 17 2007 10:17PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state Assembly approved a major health care reform plan Monday that will expand coverage to nearly 70 percent of the state's uninsured and require most Californians to have health insurance.
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Calif moves toward major health reforms
Dec 17 2007 10:17PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state Assembly approved a major health care reform plan Monday that will expand coverage to nearly 70 percent of the state's uninsured and require most Californians to have health insurance.
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Minneapolis police raid goes awry
Dec 17 2007 10:14PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Two officers who raided an innocent family's house on a bad tip were shot at and returned fire, but no one was injured, a police spokesman said.
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Poll: Saudis oppose Qaida, split on US
Dec 17 2007 10:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - People in Saudi Arabia deeply dislike countryman Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, yet have only lukewarm views about the United States, one of the kingdom's allies, a poll showed Monday.
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Marine's rank reduced in abuse case
Dec 17 2007 9:57PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A military jury on Monday ordered a Marine drill instructor reduced in rank for failing to report the abuse of his recruits by other trainers.
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Body found in tow-yard car after crash
Dec 17 2007 9:31PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police found the body of an elderly woman in a vehicle that had been in an accident and taken to a tow yard the day before, authorities said. The woman's injured son had been pulled from the car the day of the crash.
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House honors Suu Kyi
Dec 17 2007 9:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Monday to bestow the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress' highest civilian honor, on Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Ex-jailer gets life for N. Dakota murder
Dec 17 2007 8:44PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A former jailer who admitted sexually assaulting inmates was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday for stabbing and strangling a college student in her off-campus apartment.
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Accused cartel lieutenant gets 30 years
Dec 17 2007 8:32PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Mexican drug trafficker accused of being a top lieutenant in a deadly cartel was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison, prosecutors said.
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Southern governors talk water, drought
Dec 17 2007 8:14PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A water-conservation measure that fishermen said would devastate the Florida Panhandle's oyster industry has been put on hold, the governors of three drought-stricken Southeastern states said Monday as they pledged to speed up talks on sharing water during scarcities.
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Southern governors talk water, drought
Dec 17 2007 8:14PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A water-conservation measure that fishermen said would devastate the Florida Panhandle's oyster industry has been put on hold, the governors of three drought-stricken Southeastern states said Monday as they pledged to speed up talks on sharing water during scarcities.
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64 journalists died covering news in '07
Dec 17 2007 8:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A media watchdog group said Monday that 64 journalists in 17 countries have died while covering the news in 2007 _ the deadliest year in more than a decade.
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Third guilty plea in Calif. terror case
Dec 17 2007 8:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A third man accused of plotting to attack Southern California military sites and other targets pleaded guilty Monday to a terrorism conspiracy charge in federal court.
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Child shot protecting mom hailed a hero
Dec 17 2007 7:39PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - As the gunman was about to open fire, 7-year-old Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, "Don't hurt my mother!"
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Child shot protecting mom hailed a hero
Dec 17 2007 7:39PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - As the gunman was about to open fire, 7-year-old Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, "Don't hurt my mother!"
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Penn to eliminate loans by 2009
Dec 17 2007 7:36PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The University of Pennsylvania on Monday joined Harvard and other elite private colleges in announcing loan-free financial aid packages aimed at middle- and upper-middle-class students.
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Nominee's company had safety violations
Dec 17 2007 7:05PM (CT)
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - President Bush's pick for a top Energy Department post is a former executive for a coal company that has a long history of mine safety and environmental violations.
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Police: Princeton student faked attack
Dec 17 2007 6:31PM (CT)
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - A Princeton University student who argued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and sending threatening e-mail messages to himself and some friends who shared his views, authorities said Monday.
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Small explosion at Fox News building
Dec 17 2007 6:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A chemical used in the heating and cooling system at the building that houses Fox News fell on the floor and mixed with another substance Monday, triggering a small explosion, firefighters said.
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NY couple convicted in slavery case
Dec 17 2007 6:05PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers.
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NY couple convicted in slavery case
Dec 17 2007 6:05PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers.
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Judge: Peterson can't have seized items
Dec 17 2007 5:47PM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - A judge on Monday denied a request to return 11 guns, two vehicles and other property seized from the home of the former police officer who is considered a suspect in the disappearance of his wife.
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Lawyer sentenced in church porn case
Dec 17 2007 5:44PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A former attorney for a prominent church was sentenced Monday to six months of home confinement for destroying the former music director's laptop computer, which contained child pornography.
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Lawyer sentenced in church porn case
Dec 17 2007 5:44PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A former attorney for a prominent church was sentenced Monday to six months of home confinement for destroying the former music director's laptop computer, which contained child pornography.
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Lawyer sentenced in church porn case
Dec 17 2007 5:44PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A former attorney for a prominent church was sentenced Monday to six months of home confinement for destroying the former music director's laptop computer, which contained child pornography.
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Border Patrol fires tear gas into Mexico
Dec 17 2007 5:07PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks.
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Border Patrol fires tear gas into Mexico
Dec 17 2007 5:07PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks.
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Border Patrol fires tear gas into Mexico
Dec 17 2007 5:07PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks.
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Should media make mass killers 'famous'?
Dec 17 2007 4:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - "Just think tho," wrote the 19-year-old Omaha shooter in his suicide note. "I'm gonna be (expletive) famous." And he was, at least for a while.
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UC to pay $2.8M in lab security breach
Dec 17 2007 4:14PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The University of California has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million over a security breakdown at Los Alamos National Laboratory last year.
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Omaha store to reopen after violence
Dec 17 2007 4:07PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The department store where a teen gunman went on a rampage will reopen Thursday, about two weeks after the shootings, company officials said.
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U.S. corn boom has downside for Gulf
Dec 17 2007 4:02PM (CT)
JEFFERSON, Iowa (AP) - Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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Coroner: Ohio men were stabbed in heart
Dec 17 2007 3:32PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Four men who were beaten and methodically stabbed in the heart had lived in a sparsely furnished apartment, sleeping on mattresses on the floor while sending thousands of dollars to relatives in Mexico, a coroner said Monday.
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Locked up at 14 for an infamous murder
Dec 17 2007 2:43PM (CT)
DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) - On a late summer night just two months out of elementary school, Derrick Hardaway stepped into a car for a short ride and a deadly mission that changed his life.
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Body of suspect in 4 slayings identified
Dec 17 2007 2:26PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The body of a teacher suspected of killing his ex-wife, their two children and another woman has been identified based on his tattoos, authorities said Monday.
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Man hurt in attack told to leave church
Dec 17 2007 2:24PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A church member who suffered minor injuries in the fatal shootings at New Life Church was escorted off church grounds by police a week later because New Life officials thought he was "volatile" and might be disruptive.
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New Jersey bans death penalty
Dec 17 2007 2:10PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment.
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New Jersey bans death penalty
Dec 17 2007 2:10PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment.
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Retailers eager for last-minute shoppers
Dec 17 2007 7:42AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Following a lukewarm shopping weekend, the nation's stores are now focusing their attention on the final week leading to Christmas, as consumers seem to be postponing more of their buying to the last minute compared to a year ago.
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Farms lure families for the holidays
Dec 17 2007 7:38AM (CT)
REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb. (AP) - With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen _ something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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Farms lure families for the holidays
Dec 17 2007 7:38AM (CT)
REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb. (AP) - With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen _ something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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Farms lure families for the holidays
Dec 17 2007 7:38AM (CT)
REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb. (AP) - With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen _ something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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Farms lure families for the holidays
Dec 17 2007 7:38AM (CT)
REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb. (AP) - With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen _ something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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Farms lure families for the holidays
Dec 17 2007 7:38AM (CT)
REPUBLICAN CITY, Neb. (AP) - With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen _ something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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Farmers suffer in flood-hit Washington
Dec 17 2007 4:43AM (CT)
CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) - Homemade cow and goat cheese from Twin Oaks Farm and Creamery has been a staple at the Olympia Farmers market for three years.
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S.D. moves to protect sacred butte
Dec 17 2007 4:08AM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - For centuries, members of the Lakota, Cheyenne and other American Indian tribes have been climbing Bear Butte to fast and hold religious ceremonies.
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S.D. moves to protect sacred butte
Dec 17 2007 4:08AM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - For centuries, members of the Lakota, Cheyenne and other American Indian tribes have been climbing Bear Butte to fast and hold religious ceremonies.
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Carnegie Hall tenants allege nepotism
Dec 17 2007 2:59AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The tenants of studios high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building.
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Carnegie Hall tenants allege nepotism
Dec 17 2007 2:59AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The tenants of studios high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building.
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Carnegie Hall tenants allege nepotism
Dec 17 2007 2:59AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The tenants of studios high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building.
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