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2 dead in Columbus group home fire
Dec 20 2006 11:54PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A fire at a group home for the mentally disabled that killed two people and injured another Wednesday apparently started when a resident lit clothing with a cigarette lighter, authorities said.
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Md. to buy Washington resignation letter
Dec 20 2006 11:51PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland will spend $600,000 to help buy George Washington's handwritten resignation from the Continental Army that he read to the Continental Congress, then meeting in Annapolis.
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2 bones found in ground zero manhole
Dec 20 2006 11:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two bones were recovered this week from debris in a manhole at ground zero, the first discoveries in more than a month in the ongoing search for human remains from the Sept. 11 attack.
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Crew boss charged in wildfire deaths
Dec 20 2006 11:40PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The former boss of a government firefighting crew was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of four U.S. Forest Service firefighters during a 2001 blaze, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Teens face probation in bus beating
Dec 20 2006 11:36PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - Two teenage boys charged with beating up a younger student on a school bus have been sentenced to six months' probation and ordered to serve 40 hours of community service.
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Sheriff calls off Mount Hood search
Dec 20 2006 11:30PM (CT)
HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) - With yet another snowstorm barreling in, search teams gave up any hope of finding two missing climbers alive on wind-whipped Mount Hood and abandoned the rescue effort Wednesday after nine frustrating days.
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Sheriff calls off Mount Hood search
Dec 20 2006 11:30PM (CT)
HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) - With yet another snowstorm barreling in, search teams gave up any hope of finding two missing climbers alive on wind-whipped Mount Hood and abandoned the rescue effort Wednesday after nine frustrating days.
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Sheriff calls off Mount Hood search
Dec 20 2006 11:30PM (CT)
HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) - With yet another snowstorm barreling in, search teams gave up any hope of finding two missing climbers alive on wind-whipped Mount Hood and abandoned the rescue effort Wednesday after nine frustrating days.
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Prosecutor: Mom chose to kill children
Dec 20 2006 11:28PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to kill her three children instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the woman's trial.
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Judge: Farms not hurt by whale rules
Dec 20 2006 11:23PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by building and farm groups that challenged the decision to make Puget Sound's resident killer whale population an endangered species.
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Plains blizzard strands travelers
Dec 20 2006 11:14PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A major snowstorm blew across Colorado toward the Plains on Wednesday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places and forcing the airport to close, stranding thousands of holiday travelers. Authorities at times shut down major highways in parts of six states.
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Plains blizzard strands travelers
Dec 20 2006 11:14PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A major snowstorm blew across Colorado toward the Plains on Wednesday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places and forcing the airport to close, stranding thousands of holiday travelers. Authorities at times shut down major highways in parts of six states.
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Plains blizzard strands travelers
Dec 20 2006 11:14PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A major snowstorm blew across Colorado toward the Plains on Wednesday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places and forcing the airport to close, stranding thousands of holiday travelers. Authorities at times shut down major highways in parts of six states.
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Officials redirect flag on Freedom Tower
Dec 20 2006 11:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An American flag plastered on the first steel column for the Freedom Tower at ground zero was removed Wednesday after the builders realized the stars and stripes were on the wrong sides.
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Officials redirect flag on Freedom Tower
Dec 20 2006 11:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An American flag plastered on the first steel column for the Freedom Tower at ground zero was removed Wednesday after the builders realized the stars and stripes were on the wrong sides.
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La. mom says pet ferret ate baby's toes
Dec 20 2006 11:04PM (CT)
BENTON, La. (AP) - A woman jailed after four of her infant daughter's toes were gnawed off says the family's pet ferret did it, not their pit bull pup as police had said.
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Police conduct probed in 'Land of No'
Dec 20 2006 11:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors are investigating what they say is a pattern of police brutality in a popular Long Island summer destination, including one claim that officers attacked a tourist during a spat over a littering ticket.
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Calif. high court reviewing gay marriage
Dec 20 2006 10:36PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates a constitutional ban on discrimination, though an outcome is not likely until late next year.
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No reprimand for officer in rap incident
Dec 20 2006 10:33PM (CT)
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - A police sergeant won't be disciplined for his role in a television program that showed him asking two black men to perform a rap song to get out of a littering ticket, officials said.
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New York murder conviction overturned
Dec 20 2006 10:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge cited a lawyer's incompetence Wednesday as he overturned the murder conviction of a father of three who has served 15 years in prison for a killing that seemed to have occurred while he was out of the country.
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2 Hawaii hikers fatally fall 300 feet
Dec 20 2006 10:10PM (CT)
WAILUA, Hawaii (AP) - Two women fell about 300 feet to their deaths while taking an off-the-beaten-path hike to the base of a waterfall, officials said.
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Bah humbug from property rights advocate
Dec 20 2006 9:59PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - Bah, humbug. The woman at the center of the national battle over property rights has some less-than-joyous tidings for the people involved in using eminent domain to take her house to make way for private development.
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Life sentence sought in Seattle shooting
Dec 20 2006 9:12PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Prosecutors said Wednesday they would not seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting six people, one fatally, at a Jewish charity because of the suspect's long history of mental illness.
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2 missing Amish boys, age 12, found safe
Dec 20 2006 9:06PM (CT)
BOWLING GREEN, Mo. (AP) - Two 12-year-old Amish boys who set out on an adventure, perhaps inspired by Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, were found late Wednesday afternoon after they were missing overnight, authorities said.
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Pa. awards licenses for slot machines
Dec 20 2006 8:55PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania gambling regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for Philadelphia to become the nation's largest city with a casino, while rejecting Donald Trump's bid for a slot-machine parlor and plans for another near the historic Gettysburg battlefield.
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Pa. awards licenses for slot machines
Dec 20 2006 8:55PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania gambling regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for Philadelphia to become the nation's largest city with a casino, while rejecting Donald Trump's bid for a slot-machine parlor and plans for another near the historic Gettysburg battlefield.
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Boston's Big Dig repairs to cost $34M
Dec 20 2006 8:43PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Repairs to the Big Dig highway system after a fatal ceiling collapse this summer will cost $34 million and are nearly finished, transportation officials said Wednesday.
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3 plead guilty in Alabama church arsons
Dec 20 2006 8:38PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Three former college students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal arson charges for burning nine churches in a series of blazes that alarmed rural congregations across Alabama.
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3 plead guilty in Alabama church arsons
Dec 20 2006 8:38PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Three former college students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal arson charges for burning nine churches in a series of blazes that alarmed rural congregations across Alabama.
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3 plead guilty in Alabama church arsons
Dec 20 2006 8:38PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Three former college students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal arson charges for burning nine churches in a series of blazes that alarmed rural congregations across Alabama.
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3 plead guilty in Alabama church arsons
Dec 20 2006 8:38PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Three former college students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal arson charges for burning nine churches in a series of blazes that alarmed rural congregations across Alabama.
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Woman treated for maggot-infested wounds
Dec 20 2006 8:19PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A resident of a long-term care facility had maggot-infested wounds so advanced that skin peeled off her legs when a hospital emergency room nurse removed her clothing, state inspectors found.
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Astronauts inspect shuttle for damage
Dec 20 2006 7:38PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery swept across the ship's exterior with remote-controlled cameras Wednesday in a search for damage that could jeopardize their return to Earth, as NASA managers pondered which of three sites would be best for landing Friday.
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Phillips sentenced to 40-years-to-life
Dec 20 2006 7:37PM (CT)
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - An escaped convict who shot and wounded a New York state trooper was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Wednesday, a day after he was given life without parole for shooting two other troopers, one of whom died.
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Phillips sentenced to 40-years-to-life
Dec 20 2006 7:37PM (CT)
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - An escaped convict who shot and wounded a New York state trooper was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Wednesday, a day after he was given life without parole for shooting two other troopers, one of whom died.
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Phillips sentenced to 40-years-to-life
Dec 20 2006 7:37PM (CT)
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - An escaped convict who shot and wounded a New York state trooper was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Wednesday, a day after he was given life without parole for shooting two other troopers, one of whom died.
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Phillips sentenced to 40-years-to-life
Dec 20 2006 7:37PM (CT)
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - An escaped convict who shot and wounded a New York state trooper was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Wednesday, a day after he was given life without parole for shooting two other troopers, one of whom died.
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Transformer explosion injures 4
Dec 20 2006 7:30PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A transformer exploded underground near the city courthouse Wednesday, seriously burning two electrical service workers.
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MADD mad at Miss Teen USA
Dec 20 2006 6:19PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The reigning Miss Teen USA's official biography says she loves hiking, water sports and apples _ "only cold, red ones!"
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Girl with new face buys new clothes
Dec 20 2006 6:10PM (CT)
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - A teenager who had been unwilling to leave her home in Haiti after a football-sized tumor enveloped her face went on a public shopping spree Wednesday.
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Video has DMV and pranksters red-faced
Dec 20 2006 5:24PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - With their skin painted bright red, spray-on hair and oversized fake teeth, the Virginia men looked a little like teenagers from Pluto _ but the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles issued them driver's licenses all the same.
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Ind. crash kills 3, leaves money on road
Dec 20 2006 5:05PM (CT)
PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Three vehicles, including an armored truck, crashed Wednesday near the Indianapolis International Airport, killing three people and scattering money across Interstate 70, state police said.
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Judges quiz lawyer on FCC indecency rule
Dec 20 2006 5:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal appeals judges Wednesday challenged a government lawyer over the Federal Communications Commission's tough new policy against accidental use of profanities in broadcasts.
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Suspected drug kingpin faces new charges
Dec 20 2006 4:32PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The suspected kingpin of one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels and an associate pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges of ordering the murder of Tijuana's deputy police chief and beheading three police officers.
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Amish shooting survivors mark holiday
Dec 20 2006 3:46PM (CT)
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) - The last of five Amish girls hospitalized after being shot nearly three months ago in a schoolhouse massacre is scheduled to go home before Christmas, according to a family friend.
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3 teens arrested in Iowa school threat
Dec 20 2006 3:42PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Three students accused of plotting in coded letters to attack classmates and staff at their high school have been arrested after one of the suspects alerted the principal, officials said Wednesday.
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Miami commuter train derails
Dec 20 2006 3:39PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - An elevated train partially derailed Wednesday, stranding commuters but causing no injuries.
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Reputed mob boss pleads in trash probe
Dec 20 2006 3:23PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The aging reputed boss of the Genovese organized crime family pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges filed in an investigation of organized crime influence over the trash industry in Connecticut and New York.
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Iraq war voted top news story of 2006
Dec 20 2006 3:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The convoluted, increasingly costly war in Iraq was chosen the top story of 2006 by U.S. editors and news directors in The Associated Press' annual vote, followed closely by the U.S. election in which debate over Iraq played a pivotal role.
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More rap lyrics showing up in court
Dec 20 2006 3:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When police arrested Ronell Wilson, his pockets were stuffed with the type of violent poetry that boys have been scribbling in notebooks since the advent of gangsta rap.
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Somber services mark 'Blue Christmas'
Dec 20 2006 2:25PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - There were no jolly Christmas carols at the Cannon Memorial Chapel. No brilliant poinsettias or festive branches of holly. No smiling faces or hearty wishes of happiness.
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Families rule politics in Chicago
Dec 20 2006 2:21PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When the longtime Cook County Board president suffered a stroke and couldn't run for another term, he anointed a successor: his son, a Chicago alderman.
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Lab: 2nd test rules out date-rape drug
Dec 20 2006 1:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of a leading French laboratory said Wednesday there were no significant traces of a common date-rape drug in hair samples from two women who have accused a former Naval Academy football player of drugging and sexually assaulting them.
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Thieves kick through jewelry store wall
Dec 20 2006 12:55PM (CT)
WADSWORTH, Ohio (AP) - Thieves cut phone lines and drilled locks out of doors, but then all it took to break into a jewelry store was kicking a hole in a wall from the adjacent barber shop.
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WTC tower steel rises at ground zero
Dec 20 2006 12:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Freedom Tower _ the 1,776-foot emblem of ground zero's renaissance _ has been so beset by setbacks that it has even had multiple groundbreakings.
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WTC tower steel rises at ground zero
Dec 20 2006 12:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Freedom Tower _ the 1,776-foot emblem of ground zero's renaissance _ has been so beset by setbacks that it has even had multiple groundbreakings.
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WTC tower steel rises at ground zero
Dec 20 2006 12:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Freedom Tower _ the 1,776-foot emblem of ground zero's renaissance _ has been so beset by setbacks that it has even had multiple groundbreakings.
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WTC tower steel rises at ground zero
Dec 20 2006 12:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Freedom Tower _ the 1,776-foot emblem of ground zero's renaissance _ has been so beset by setbacks that it has even had multiple groundbreakings.
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WTC tower steel rises at ground zero
Dec 20 2006 12:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Freedom Tower _ the 1,776-foot emblem of ground zero's renaissance _ has been so beset by setbacks that it has even had multiple groundbreakings.
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WTC tower steel rises at ground zero
Dec 20 2006 12:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Freedom Tower _ the 1,776-foot emblem of ground zero's renaissance _ has been so beset by setbacks that it has even had multiple groundbreakings.
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Guilty plea in assaults on 11-year-old
Dec 20 2006 11:33AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A 16-year-old girl was sentenced to up to three years in a juvenile facility for aiding in what authorities said was a series of sexual assaults on an 11-year-old girl by more than a dozen males at a party.
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Lawyer: Marine leader to face charges
Dec 20 2006 11:28AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The leader of a squad of Marines expects to be charged in the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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'Nativity Story' trailer to air in plaza
Dec 20 2006 11:07AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A religious group plans to set up a DVD player and TV set at a downtown holiday bazaar to show a movie trailer depicting the birth of Jesus after the city dropped an objection to the display.
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Iraq prison escapee plans trip to U.S.
Dec 20 2006 9:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former Iraqi minister convicted of corruption there says he broke out of a Baghdad jail over the weekend because he feared he was about to be assassinated, according to published reports Wednesday.
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LA hospital cleans neonatal unit, opens
Dec 20 2006 9:40AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hospital executives said they were confident that a bacterial outbreak suspected of causing the deaths of two premature babies was contained, and the facility reopened its neonatal intensive care unit two weeks after it stopped accepting new patients.
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FBI investigates N.Y. Senate leader
Dec 20 2006 7:04AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The majority leader of the New York state Senate announced that the FBI is investigating him and his private consulting business.
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Wash. residents hope power returns
Dec 20 2006 5:37AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Residents of communities still in the dark after the Northwest's worst windstorm in a decade have grown more frustrated and hope power will be restored in time for Christmas.
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Most Americans have had premarital sex
Dec 20 2006 5:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
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Miss. capital eyed as museum home
Dec 20 2006 3:54AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Before the Freedom Riders came to Jackson, nine black students from Tougaloo College entered the city's segregated main library branch and began reading.
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Miss. capital eyed as museum home
Dec 20 2006 3:54AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Before the Freedom Riders came to Jackson, nine black students from Tougaloo College entered the city's segregated main library branch and began reading.
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Miss. capital eyed as museum home
Dec 20 2006 3:54AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Before the Freedom Riders came to Jackson, nine black students from Tougaloo College entered the city's segregated main library branch and began reading.
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Ads hope to dispel fears of Muslims
Dec 20 2006 2:21AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The small beige signs bearing swirling, black Arabic script appear all over town on buses and at colleges.
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Kansas utility's plan faces scrutiny
Dec 20 2006 2:20AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is considering a request from environmentalists that she ban new coal-fired power plants amid concerns about plans to build three of them in western Kansas.
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Poll: Stress knows few borders
Dec 20 2006 1:51AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Stress _ that tense feeling often connected to having too much to do, too many bills to pay and not enough time or money _ is a common emotion that knows few borders.
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2 men accused of posing as doctors
Dec 20 2006 12:11AM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Two men passed themselves off as doctors and performed pelvic, breast and other exams on female patients, according to an indictment.
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