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Tiger escapes S.F. zoo cage and kills 1
Dec 25 2007 11:54PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A tiger that mauled a zookeeper last year escaped from its pen at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two others before police shot it dead, authorities said.
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Tiger escapes S.F. zoo cage and kills 1
Dec 25 2007 11:54PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A tiger that mauled a zookeeper last year escaped from its pen at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two others before police shot it dead, authorities said.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 25 2007 11:48PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 25 2007 11:48PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 25 2007 11:48PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Big Dig victim's family settles for $6M
Dec 25 2007 10:37PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A company blamed in the deadly ceiling collapse of a Big Dig tunnel last year has agreed to give the family of the woman killed not only $6 million, but something they really want: answers.
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Tigers escape cages in San Francisco Zoo
Dec 25 2007 9:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Four tigers escaped their cages at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.
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Police academy class slogan: Cause PTSD
Dec 25 2007 8:16PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 25 2007 7:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 25 2007 7:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 25 2007 7:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 25 2007 7:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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2 women found slain in Neb. basement
Dec 25 2007 7:10PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A man killed two women and left their bodies in the basement of a house, then beat and raped the daughter of one of the victims in the same home, authorities and a relative of the victims said.
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Delaware River current halts crossing
Dec 25 2007 5:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON CROSSING, N.J. (AP) - This George Washington could not make it across the Delaware River. Ronald Rinaldi III was prepared to play the role of the military leader whose daring Christmas crossing led to a rout of British-led forces and revived the downtrodden Continental forces.
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Delaware River current halts crossing
Dec 25 2007 5:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON CROSSING, N.J. (AP) - This George Washington could not make it across the Delaware River. Ronald Rinaldi III was prepared to play the role of the military leader whose daring Christmas crossing led to a rout of British-led forces and revived the downtrodden Continental forces.
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Delaware River current halts crossing
Dec 25 2007 5:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON CROSSING, N.J. (AP) - This George Washington could not make it across the Delaware River. Ronald Rinaldi III was prepared to play the role of the military leader whose daring Christmas crossing led to a rout of British-led forces and revived the downtrodden Continental forces.
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Delaware River current halts crossing
Dec 25 2007 5:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON CROSSING, N.J. (AP) - This George Washington could not make it across the Delaware River. Ronald Rinaldi III was prepared to play the role of the military leader whose daring Christmas crossing led to a rout of British-led forces and revived the downtrodden Continental forces.
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Company makes clothes for warfare
Dec 25 2007 4:48PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - As an Army surgeon in the Middle East, Dr. Keith Rose watched a colleague bleed to death when a truck in his convoy was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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Company makes clothes for warfare
Dec 25 2007 4:48PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - As an Army surgeon in the Middle East, Dr. Keith Rose watched a colleague bleed to death when a truck in his convoy was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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WWII veteran dies after softball reunion
Dec 25 2007 2:50PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A Navy World War II veteran died, one day after returning home from a reunion softball game for U.S. and Japanese veterans in Hawaii.
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Philly mayor gets big payday from city
Dec 25 2007 2:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Mayor John F. Street is getting more than $111,000 as he leaves office, money that a city official said comes from pay raises that he was entitled to but did not take.
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Jet crash survivors honor airboat hero
Dec 25 2007 1:40PM (CT)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) - An airboat speeding across the sawgrass and mud. A ringing in the ears when the engine was cut. Moaning. Screams for help. Desperate gasps at the water's surface. Helicopters in the distance. Christmas carols.
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Plan would let seniors work to pay taxes
Dec 25 2007 1:38PM (CT)
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn't want to leave Greenburgh.
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Plan would let seniors work to pay taxes
Dec 25 2007 1:38PM (CT)
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn't want to leave Greenburgh.
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Plan would let seniors work to pay taxes
Dec 25 2007 1:38PM (CT)
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn't want to leave Greenburgh.
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Many questions in Stacy Peterson case
Dec 25 2007 1:07PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - A mysterious blue barrel. Divers searching the murky, frigid waters of an industrial canal. A woman's body exhumed for clues three years after her death.
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Mass held at ground zero one last time
Dec 25 2007 10:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The first midnight Mass at ground zero was celebrated as workers were still clearing debris from the World Trade Center and recovering bodies after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Lawyer: I had 'no reason' to kill wife
Dec 25 2007 8:42AM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A disbarred lawyer who lives three doors from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton says he's being "abused for publicity's sake" after being charged with murdering his wife.
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Calif. court: Malls can't bar protesters
Dec 25 2007 7:39AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court has ruled that shopping malls can't stop protesters from urging the boycott of stores while on mall property.
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Report: New Orleans pop. nears 300,000
Dec 25 2007 2:45AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans' population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, according to a new report.
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Crack-vs.-powder disparity is questioned
Dec 25 2007 2:33AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that notion is under attack like never before.
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Most travel goes smooth on Christmas eve
Dec 25 2007 2:25AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Many Christmas Eve travelers around the country got what they wished for _ few airport delays and highways that were mostly clear, despite a deadly weekend snowstorm in the Plains and the Midwest.
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Gusty winds cause outages in LA area
Dec 25 2007 1:29AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Powerful wind gusts knocked down power lines and blew several transformers Monday, causing outages to nearly 10,000 homes and businesses.
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Gusty winds cause outages in LA area
Dec 25 2007 1:29AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Powerful wind gusts knocked down power lines and blew several transformers Monday, causing outages to nearly 10,000 homes and businesses.
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Gusty winds cause outages in LA area
Dec 25 2007 1:29AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Powerful wind gusts knocked down power lines and blew several transformers Monday, causing outages to nearly 10,000 homes and businesses.
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