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Mass inmate release possible in Calif.
Dec 20 2007 11:47PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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Man freed by DNA awarded $15.5M in Ill.
Dec 20 2007 11:41PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
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Battered N.O. OKs razing public housing
Dec 20 2007 11:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish some 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members ended up unanimously supporting.
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Battered N.O. OKs razing public housing
Dec 20 2007 11:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish some 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members ended up unanimously supporting.
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Battered N.O. OKs razing public housing
Dec 20 2007 11:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish some 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members ended up unanimously supporting.
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Battered N.O. OKs razing public housing
Dec 20 2007 11:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish some 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members ended up unanimously supporting.
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Battered N.O. OKs razing public housing
Dec 20 2007 11:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish some 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members ended up unanimously supporting.
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Firings over prank-call shock treatments
Dec 20 2007 11:26PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Seven people have been fired over electrical shocks given to two emotionally disturbed teenagers at the direction of what turned out to be a prank caller, the operator of the group home where the incident occurred said Thursday.
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Teens charged in 'Mortal Kombat' death
Dec 20 2007 11:22PM (CT)
JOHNSTOWN, Colo. (AP) - Two teens have been charged with killing the 7-year-old sister of one of them by beating her with imitations of moves from the "Mortal Kombat" video game, prosecutors said.
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Teens charged in 'Mortal Kombat' death
Dec 20 2007 11:22PM (CT)
JOHNSTOWN, Colo. (AP) - Two teens have been charged with killing the 7-year-old sister of one of them by beating her with imitations of moves from the "Mortal Kombat" video game, prosecutors said.
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2nd close call reported at FAA center
Dec 20 2007 11:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Another error by controllers at an air traffic center put planes too close to each other over central Illinois, but they were never in danger of colliding, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.
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Family of slain reporter settles lawsuit
Dec 20 2007 10:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The family of a slain New York Times reporter settled its lawsuit against a hospital and emergency workers they had accused of negligence and medical malpractice, representatives for both sides said Thursday.
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MIT cited for nuclear safety violations
Dec 20 2007 10:57PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was cited for two violations at its nuclear research reactor after a worker was exposed to a surprisingly high dose of radiation, federal regulators said Thursday.
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Ohio county split on new voting system
Dec 20 2007 10:56PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - The board that oversees elections in Ohio's most populous county deadlocked Thursday on whether to switch to a new voting system for the March presidential primary, leaving the state's chief elections officer to break the 2-2 tie.
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Small plane crashes in Ill., killing 3
Dec 20 2007 10:40PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A small plane crashed in a field Thursday after doing several loops, killing all three people on board, authorities said.
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Scene of Omaha mall shooting reopens
Dec 20 2007 9:14PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - About 50 employees held hands and lined up across a department store's entrance Thursday before parting to let a crowd of holiday shoppers enter for the first time since a gunman killed eight people there 15 days earlier.
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Scene of Omaha mall shooting reopens
Dec 20 2007 9:14PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - About 50 employees held hands and lined up across a department store's entrance Thursday before parting to let a crowd of holiday shoppers enter for the first time since a gunman killed eight people there 15 days earlier.
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SC monks to end egg farm after criticism
Dec 20 2007 8:53PM (CT)
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) - A monastery will halt its egg farming business after claims by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that the trappist monks mistreated hens.
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MoveOn.org and USO team up for troops
Dec 20 2007 8:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The liberal MoveOn.org, a leader of an anti-Iraq war coalition, is asking supporters to help pay for free phone calling cards for soldiers overseas in a partnership with the United Service Organizations, the charity that has helped troops for more than six decades.
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Clinton neighbor arrested in NY killing
Dec 20 2007 8:19PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A neighbor of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton was arrested Thursday and charged with murdering his wife, who he claimed had been shot by a stranger on a dark suburban road.
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Not guilty, priest in nude jog case says
Dec 20 2007 8:04PM (CT)
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A Catholic priest charged with indecent exposure after being accused of jogging naked in the pre-dawn darkness has pleaded not guilty and asked for a jury trial.
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Panel: Judge's acts may be impeachable
Dec 20 2007 7:58PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - There is evidence to support impeachment of a federal judge for misconduct, including lying in bankruptcy court and accepting gifts from lawyers with cases before him, a federal judicial council said Thursday.
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Former Los Alamos worker gets probation
Dec 20 2007 7:53PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A former archivist at Los Alamos National Laboratory was sentenced Thursday to two years' probation for taking home secret data from the nuclear weapons facility.
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Kan. doc accused of running 'pill mill'
Dec 20 2007 7:48PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A physician accused of operating a "pill mill" was charged Thursday with illegally prescribing drugs in a scheme that prosecutors say caused the overdose deaths of at least four patients.
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U.S. astronaut mourns mother from orbit
Dec 20 2007 7:11PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Daniel M. Tani's 90-year-old mother died in an auto accident this week, but he has no way of getting home until late January. He must grieve from more than 200 miles away _ in orbit, aboard the international space station.
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Judge tours Calif. migrant housing camp
Dec 20 2007 7:06PM (CT)
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge ventured from his chambers and into the dusty streets of a migrant housing encampment Thursday as he debated whether to grant a government motion to order drastic repairs or shut the place down.
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Judge tours Calif. migrant housing camp
Dec 20 2007 7:06PM (CT)
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge ventured from his chambers and into the dusty streets of a migrant housing encampment Thursday as he debated whether to grant a government motion to order drastic repairs or shut the place down.
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Judge tours Calif. migrant housing camp
Dec 20 2007 7:06PM (CT)
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge ventured from his chambers and into the dusty streets of a migrant housing encampment Thursday as he debated whether to grant a government motion to order drastic repairs or shut the place down.
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Judge tours Calif. migrant housing camp
Dec 20 2007 7:06PM (CT)
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge ventured from his chambers and into the dusty streets of a migrant housing encampment Thursday as he debated whether to grant a government motion to order drastic repairs or shut the place down.
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Judge tours Calif. migrant housing camp
Dec 20 2007 7:06PM (CT)
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge ventured from his chambers and into the dusty streets of a migrant housing encampment Thursday as he debated whether to grant a government motion to order drastic repairs or shut the place down.
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Peace center to occupy Va. shooting site
Dec 20 2007 6:08PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Tech classroom wing where a student gunman killed 30 people and himself and wounded two dozen others last spring will be turned into a place to study peace, the school announced Thursday.
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Judge: U.S. rightly excluded scholar
Dec 20 2007 5:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. government did not violate the Constitution when it kept a Muslim scholar from entering the country for making charitable donations to a terrorist group, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Ill. could owe taxes for gov.'s flights
Dec 20 2007 5:38PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Taxpayers could wind up owing $40,000 to the IRS for Gov. Rod Blagojevich's repeated trips on state aircraft between his home in Chicago and the state capital, according to an Associated Press analysis.
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Top news story: Virginia Tech killings
Dec 20 2007 5:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech by a mentally disturbed student gunman was chosen the top story of 2007 by U.S. editors and news directors in The Associated Press' annual vote.
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Murder charge being dropped in 1980 case
Dec 20 2007 5:18PM (CT)
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) - A murder charge filed this year based on DNA tests unavailable when the victim was strangled in 1980 is being dropped because more testing made the case difficult to prove, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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Two pregnant 16-year-olds in spotlight
Dec 20 2007 5:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the new hit movie "Juno" and now in real life with Jamie Lynn Spears, 16-year-old girls get pregnant and decide to bear the child rather than opt for abortion. For social conservatives, it's a challenging story line _ they condemn the teen sex but hail the ensuing choice.
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CHANGING NYC: Harlem seeing rapid change
Dec 20 2007 5:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Harlem is the historic capital of black American culture, but like many New York neighborhoods, it is rapidly changing.
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Wife jailed in 'modern-day slavery' case
Dec 20 2007 4:55PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A federal judge revoked bail Thursday for a wealthy woman convicted of imprisoning and torturing two Indonesian housekeepers in what prosecutors called a case of "modern-day slavery."
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US has big plans for NYC traffic
Dec 20 2007 4:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Grumpy New Yorkers accept certain terrible truths: Subways will be overcrowded, cars will sit in gridlock and flights will be delayed. Federal officials have lately taken a less fatalistic view: If you can fix traffic here, you can fix it anywhere.
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Ohio man arrested in 1982 N.J. slaying
Dec 20 2007 4:45PM (CT)
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. (AP) - A medical school graduate living in Ohio was arrested on a charge that he beat his boss to death when he was a chef in New Jersey 25 years ago.
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Bush team confident on Pakistan funds
Dec 20 2007 3:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration said Thursday it is confident new restrictions set by lawmakers on $50 million in military aid to Pakistan will not prevent it from providing the money.
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Mich. man learns co-worker is birth mom
Dec 20 2007 3:07PM (CT)
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Steve Flaig's long search for his birth mother ended at an incredible place: the checkout line of the home-improvement store where he works.
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Miss. storm injures 3; possible tornado
Dec 20 2007 2:55PM (CT)
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - A powerful storm system, possibly packing a tornado, moved across Mississippi on Thursday, injuring at least three people and damaging homes in two counties, authorities said.
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Press Foundation to honor journalists
Dec 20 2007 2:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Press Foundation will honor half a dozen journalists at its 25th anniversary dinner in February.
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Man arrested in Goya theft pleads guilty
Dec 20 2007 2:37PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A truck driver accused of stealing a Goya painting from an unattended transport truck, then claiming he found it in his basement, pleaded guilty Thursday.
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Man lost in snow stayed strong for kids
Dec 20 2007 2:12PM (CT)
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) - A man who was lost in the mountains along with his three children for three days during a snowstorm said he was terrified they wouldn't make it out alive, but he remained strong for his children and relied on his faith.
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Man lost in snow stayed strong for kids
Dec 20 2007 2:12PM (CT)
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) - A man who was lost in the mountains along with his three children for three days during a snowstorm said he was terrified they wouldn't make it out alive, but he remained strong for his children and relied on his faith.
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Man lost in snow stayed strong for kids
Dec 20 2007 2:12PM (CT)
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) - A man who was lost in the mountains along with his three children for three days during a snowstorm said he was terrified they wouldn't make it out alive, but he remained strong for his children and relied on his faith.
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Man lost in snow stayed strong for kids
Dec 20 2007 2:12PM (CT)
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) - A man who was lost in the mountains along with his three children for three days during a snowstorm said he was terrified they wouldn't make it out alive, but he remained strong for his children and relied on his faith.
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Man lost in snow stayed strong for kids
Dec 20 2007 2:12PM (CT)
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) - A man who was lost in the mountains along with his three children for three days during a snowstorm said he was terrified they wouldn't make it out alive, but he remained strong for his children and relied on his faith.
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Ohio congregation lives giving parable
Dec 20 2007 2:04PM (CT)
CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio (AP) - The Rev. Hamilton Coe Throckmorton shivered with anticipation as he gazed at the loot _ wads of $50 bills piled high beside boxes of crayons in a Sunday school classroom.
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Fla. spent heavily on Cuban custody case
Dec 20 2007 1:55PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Top Florida officials say they treated the politically charged custody fight over a young Cuban girl like any other case, but documents obtained by The Associated Press show they took extraordinary steps to stop the youngster's father from taking her back to the communist island.
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Atlantic City mayor moves against graft
Dec 20 2007 1:48PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - After decades of corruption _ bribes, scandals, a videotaped sex romp used for blackmail, a former City Council president who went to prison with his middle finger raised high _ Atlantic City is hiring someone to keep an eye on itself.
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Fla. blast kills chemical plant co-owner
Dec 20 2007 1:45PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The co-owner of a chemical plant was among four people killed when the facility exploded and caught fire, authorities said Thursday.
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Fla. blast kills chemical plant co-owner
Dec 20 2007 1:45PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The co-owner of a chemical plant was among four people killed when the facility exploded and caught fire, authorities said Thursday.
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Fla. blast kills chemical plant co-owner
Dec 20 2007 1:45PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The co-owner of a chemical plant was among four people killed when the facility exploded and caught fire, authorities said Thursday.
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Coroner identifies Ohio stabbing victims
Dec 20 2007 1:42PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Four Mexican construction workers who were beaten and stabbed in the heart in a suburban apartment were related, and two of them were brothers, a coroner said Thursday.
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Ohio doctor arrested in 1982 NJ slaying
Dec 20 2007 1:37PM (CT)
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. (AP) - A doctor living in Ohio was arrested on a charge that he beat his boss to death when he was a chef in New Jersey 25 years ago.
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Teen shot in leg near St. Louis school
Dec 20 2007 1:01PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A teenager was shot in the leg Thursday outside of a school, and authorities said he may have shot himself accidentally when he tried to show the weapon to his friends.
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Religion news in brief
Dec 20 2007 12:01PM (CT)
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Evangelical struggles to settle on a Republican presidential candidate and Democrats' efforts to reach religious voters led the Religion Newswriters Association's list of top religion stories of 2007.
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Religion today
Dec 20 2007 12:01PM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - It's long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now a professor from the University of Notre Dame thinks he has it figured out _ almost, anyway.
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Reporters say Hatfill partly to blame
Dec 20 2007 12:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Army scientist is partly to blame for news stories identifying him as a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, two reporters told a federal judge.
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Fla. man dies from shooting 12 years ago
Dec 20 2007 11:57AM (CT)
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Daniel Restrepo often suffered seizures after he was shot in the head as a boy in Colombia; now authorities in Florida are calling his death a homicide caused by those 12-year-old wounds.
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Inmate hospitalized just before freedom
Dec 20 2007 11:52AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A man who spent 20 years on death row before his sentence was overturned was hospitalized Thursday, just hours before he planned to enter a plea that would have freed him.
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Inmate hospitalized just before freedom
Dec 20 2007 11:52AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A man who spent 20 years on death row before his sentence was overturned was hospitalized Thursday, just hours before he planned to enter a plea that would have freed him.
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Space station astronaut's mother dies
Dec 20 2007 11:49AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - NASA was reassigning the duties of an astronaut aboard the international space station as he grieved for his mother, who was killed when a train struck her vehicle.
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Year's Top Quotes: `Don't Tase me, Bro'
Dec 20 2007 8:51AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - It was the plea heard round the world. "Don't tase me, bro" _ shouted by a Florida college student as officers removed him from a speech by Sen. John Kerry _ tops this year's list of most memorable quotes, compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations.
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Power restored to most Oklahomans
Dec 20 2007 8:33AM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Utility crews have nearly completed the huge job of returning power to homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where as many as 600,000 customers were blacked out by last week's deadly winter storm.
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Arrest in student-porn actress' death
Dec 20 2007 8:31AM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A man suspected in the slaying of a college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn performer was arrested in Mexico, authorities said.
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Arrest in student-porn actress' death
Dec 20 2007 8:31AM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A man suspected in the slaying of a college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn performer was arrested in Mexico, authorities said.
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Arrest in student-porn actress' death
Dec 20 2007 8:31AM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A man suspected in the slaying of a college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn performer was arrested in Mexico, authorities said.
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Man denies beating televangeslist wife
Dec 20 2007 6:45AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The man accused of beating his estranged wife, televangelist Juanita Bynum, says he never hit her and that she physically abused him.
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Fla., Calif., in dispute over citrus
Dec 20 2007 6:23AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - For decades, a common fungus found on citrus in California was so insignificant that farmers say they nearly forgot about it.
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Georgia soldier to face murder charge
Dec 20 2007 6:10AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Army has decided to move forward with murder charges against a Georgia soldier accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi civilian during a nighttime raid.
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Is new Corvette the last supercar?
Dec 20 2007 2:33AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - When General Motors Corp. pulls the cover off a new supercharged version of the Corvette at the Detroit auto show next month, it will unveil a performance car designed to rival or better even the fastest, most expensive exotic cars from Europe.
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