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Thieves take Picasso, Chagall from gallery
Dec 22 2005 11:49PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Thieves made off with a Chagall lithograph and a linoleum cut by Picasso after forcing open a side door of an art gallery in this resort community, authorities said Thursday.
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New York's 3-day transit strike ends
Dec 22 2005 11:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Faced with mounting fines and the rising wrath of millions of commuters, the city transit union sent its members back to work without a new contract Thursday and ended a crippling, three-day strike that brought subways and buses to a standstill.
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NTSB urges braking system on Chicago rails
Dec 22 2005 10:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal agency has urged Chicago's commuter train service to install an automatic braking system along tracks where two trains derailed in recent years and injured scores of passengers.
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Miami suspect had help escaping, police say
Dec 22 2005 10:58PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - An accused serial rapist who brazenly escaped from jail using bed sheets for a rope had sawlike tools that may have been smuggled in, and he had apparently plotted the breakout for months, police said Thursday.
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Ariz. jury rules Taser not liable
Dec 22 2005 10:45PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona jury rejected claims Thursday that Taser International Inc. failed to adequately warn users of its stun guns' potential dangers.
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Ore. OKs temporary vehicle emission rules
Dec 22 2005 9:59PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A state commission voted Thursday to adopt car and truck emissions rules modeled on California's, extending the stringent standards to the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada.
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Idaho man charged with murdering 3 kids
Dec 22 2005 9:27PM (CT)
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A man accused of using poison to kill his three young children told police he "didn't want the kids to suffer through the divorce," according to court papers filed Thursday.
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Pit bull owner convicted of manslaughter
Dec 22 2005 8:32PM (CT)
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) - A dog owner was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday for allowing her pit bulls to run loose and kill an 82-year-old woman.
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Former Md. teacher charged with stalking
Dec 22 2005 8:26PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - A former middle school teacher was charged Thursday with stalking students by leaving threatening notes, including one that read, "Tick-tock, tick-tock, is it a bomb or is it a clock?"
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Texas' last hurricane shelter closes up
Dec 22 2005 7:35PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The last of the nearly 115,000 hurricane evacuees who fled to shelters in Texas packed up their belongings Thursday and parted ways as the state's final goverment-run shelter closed its doors.
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Ecoterror suspect commits suicide in jail
Dec 22 2005 7:33PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona bookstore owner charged in the firebombing of a government wildlife lab in Washington committed suicide in his jail cell Thursday, officials said.
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Va. governor pardons two men cleared by DNA
Dec 22 2005 6:58PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Mark R. Warner on Thursday pardoned two men wrongly convicted of sexual assault and recently cleared after a review of DNA evidence saved years ago by a meticulous forensic scientist.
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FBI offers reward in Ohio mosque bombing
Dec 22 2005 6:19PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The FBI offered a $15,000 reward Thursday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the bombing of a Cincinnati mosque.
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Judge rules caging Ohio children was abuse
Dec 22 2005 5:28PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - A couple who adopted 11 children with a host of health and behavioral problems abused some of the youngsters by making them sleep in wooden cages without pillows or mattresses, a judge ruled Thursday.
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NYPD challenges report on surveillance
Dec 22 2005 4:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police officials Thursday disputed a newspaper report accusing them of using undercover officers to infiltrate and monitor anti-war groups and other activist organizations.
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Health care workers overcome strike burden
Dec 22 2005 4:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mary Alice Berg flew 2,000 miles from Montana to New York City for cancer treatments and walked the last 30 blocks to the hospital for her first radiation session.
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Correction: Dec. 21 NYC-Transit-Strike story
Dec 22 2005 4:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a Dec. 21 story about the New York City transit strike, The Associated Press misattributed a quote to State Supreme Court Justice Theodore Jones. It was Michael A. Cardozo, the city's corporation counsel, who said: "We're doing everything possible to make the union obey the law," adding that union members need to "realize the economic consequences of their actions." The corrected version appears below.
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Calif. court overturns $14.8M tobacco fine
Dec 22 2005 3:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a $14.8 million state fine levied against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. for handing out free cigarettes at a beer fest, a biker rally and other public events.
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Mass. bans hospital gift bags for new moms
Dec 22 2005 3:45PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - New moms at hospitals in Massachusetts will no longer get gift diaper bags filled with baby formula and other freebies, thanks to state health officials intent on promoting breast-feeding.
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W.Va. University to pay for asbestos tests
Dec 22 2005 3:11PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia University agreed Thursday to pay for medical testing for up to 20 years for 5,600 current and former employees who fear they were exposed to asbestos on the job.
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Parents in raw food case get probation
Dec 22 2005 3:05PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The parents of a 6-month-old baby who died after being fed strictly raw foods were placed on 15 years' probation Thursday for child neglect involving their four other children, who were put on the same diet.
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Union says NYC transit strike is over
Dec 22 2005 2:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city's crippling three-day mass transit strike ended Thursday after union leaders _ facing mounting fines, possible jail terms and the wrath of millions of commuters _ voted to return their 33,000 members to work without a new contract.
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East Texans suffer two fold after storms
Dec 22 2005 2:06PM (CT)
BUNA, Texas (AP) - For weeks, Tanya and Kevin Poole and their five children lived in tents just outside their East Texas home damaged by Hurricane Rita. It took two months and much lobbying by the Pooles before aid finally arrived _ two FEMA trailers to live in while they rebuild their house.
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Offender can't live with women, court rules
Dec 22 2005 1:58PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A federal appeals court upheld a sentence that bars a convicted drug offender with a history of domestic violence from living with a woman after he gets out of prison.
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No rush to examine oil-for-food documents
Dec 22 2005 1:51PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In a secret and secure location, a set of computers holds the hundreds of thousands of files that document how companies and individuals from some 40 countries exploited the U.N. oil-for-food program in league with Saddam Hussein.
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NTSB: Seaplane's voice recording inaudible
Dec 22 2005 1:44PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Federal investigators suffered a setback when nothing audible was found on the cockpit voice recorder recovered from a seaplane that crashed off Miami Beach.
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Catholic magazine apologizes over ad
Dec 22 2005 1:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Jesuit magazine has apologized after inadvertently publishing an advertisement for a Virgin Mary statue wrapped in a condom that an artist intended as a protest against the church's opposition to condom use.
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Parole board denies ailing Kevorkian
Dec 22 2005 1:06PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The state parole board rejected a request to pardon assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian or commute his sentence, despite warnings that he is in grave condition.
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Longtime AP editor John D. McClain dies
Dec 22 2005 12:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - John D. McClain, a longtime Associated Press editor and reporter in Washington who personified "multitasking" before the word became fashionable, has died.
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Religion news in brief
Dec 22 2005 12:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More Americans are concerned about the commercialization of Christmas than about restrictions on public displays of religious symbols, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Katrina is voted top story of 2005
Dec 22 2005 7:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The onslaught of Gulf Coast hurricanes, notably Katrina and the deadly flooding which devastated New Orleans, was overwhelmingly picked by U.S. editors and news directors as the top story of 2005 in The Associated Press' annual vote.
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Honduran transplant patient can return
Dec 22 2005 7:26AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A seriously ill Honduran transplant patient will be allowed to re-enter the United States for medical treatment that could keep his body from rejecting his donated kidney.
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Two New Orleans cops axed in taped assault
Dec 22 2005 6:18AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A union official vowed to fight the firings of two police officers accused in the beating of a man in the French Quarter shortly after Hurricane Katrina.
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Annan lays out plans, lashes out at media
Dec 22 2005 6:10AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan lashed out at the media after a year of unrelenting attacks on the United Nations and criticism of his management of the $64 billion oil-for-food program in Iraq, calling one critic "an overgrown schoolboy."
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Growing population shifts political power
Dec 22 2005 6:04AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Southern and Western states are growing so much faster than the rest of the country that several are expected to grab House seats from the Northeast and Midwest when Congress is reapportioned in 2010.
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New institute to study hurricane recovery
Dec 22 2005 5:47AM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A think tank has announced plans to create an institute to help the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast by finding long-term solutions to issues such as flood control, housing, education and emergency response.
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Kilt-wearing teen seeks dress code change
Dec 22 2005 5:45AM (CT)
JACKSON, Mo. (AP) - Nathan Warmack wanted to honor his heritage by wearing a Scottish kilt to his high school dance. Then a principal told him to change into a pair of pants.
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Ga. school's centennial marred by tragedy
Dec 22 2005 4:20AM (CT)
ROME, Ga. (AP) - This was to be the Darlington School's year of celebration. Purple banners were hung around the wooded campus and nearby downtown Rome, marking the 100th anniversary of the elite private school.
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Holiday travelers to face crowded roads
Dec 22 2005 4:12AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - This holiday season, expect more brake lights on the highways and more passenger screening at airports. The good news: Your tweezers and nail clippers can fly with you.
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Excommunicated priest wants to lead parish
Dec 22 2005 12:07AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A priest at odds with the St. Louis archbishop said he risked excommunication to give a traditionally Polish parish its first leader in over a year.
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