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Car crashes into NY home, killing man
Dec 28 2006 11:57PM (CT)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - A car being chased by police spun out of control, crashed into a home and killed a man in his living room, authorities said.
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Car crashes into NY home, killing man
Dec 28 2006 11:51PM (CT)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - A car being chased by police spun out of control, crashed into a home and killed a man in his living room, authorities said.
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Calif. police shooting suspect killed
Dec 28 2006 11:45PM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A man suspected of shooting two police officers during a traffic stop was killed in a wild shootout with police in a strip mall parking lot, authorities said Thursday.
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Colo. snowstorm threatens airport again
Dec 28 2006 11:37PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - New Year's travelers jammed the Denver airport Thursday, trying to get out of town ahead of a snowstorm that threatened to close runways and gum up the nation's busy holiday travel season for the second time in a week.
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Colo. snowstorm threatens airport again
Dec 28 2006 11:37PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - New Year's travelers jammed the Denver airport Thursday, trying to get out of town ahead of a snowstorm that threatened to close runways and gum up the nation's busy holiday travel season for the second time in a week.
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Iraq war critic arrested near Bush ranch
Dec 28 2006 11:16PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Peace activist Cindy Sheehan and four other protesters were arrested Thursday for blocking a road near President Bush's ranch, authorities said.
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Nation plans 5 days of mourning for Ford
Dec 28 2006 10:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Less pomp, more circumstance. Gerald R. Ford's state funeral is missing some of the grandeur of the one for Ronald Reagan two years ago, a reflection of the 38th president's modest ways and lesser imprint on the nation, according to further planning details released Thursday.
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Court restores inmates' voting rights
Dec 28 2006 10:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A state appeals court is restoring the voting rights of about 100,000 local jail inmates across the state who are serving a year or less for felony convictions.
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N.C. bar files charges against Duke D.A.
Dec 28 2006 10:50PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The North Carolina bar filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case, accusing him of saying misleading and inflammatory things to the media about the athletes under suspicion.
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Bonobo dies, 12 sickened at Ohio zoo
Dec 28 2006 10:48PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A severe respiratory infection has sickened a group of bonobos at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, killing one of them, officials said Thursday.
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Ford: Nixon friendship affected pardon
Dec 28 2006 10:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford acknowledged in an interview last year that his long personal friendship with Richard Nixon did indeed play a role in his decision to pardon the disgraced former president, The Washington Post reported Thursday night.
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Colo. AG: Ethics law affects Nobel profs
Dec 28 2006 10:30PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Voter-approved ethics rules intended to bar public officials from taking gifts could also prevent future Nobel Prize-winning university professors from accepting the $1.3 million prize money, the state attorney general said Thursday.
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Pa. man convicted of murdering girl, 15
Dec 28 2006 10:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the death of a 15-year-old girl who authorities said was stabbed, beaten, burned and thrown in the water before being found dead on a riverbank.
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U.S. climber found dead in China ID'd
Dec 28 2006 10:02PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A snow-covered body found on a remote mountain in China has been identified as U.S. photographer Charlie Fowler, who disappeared several weeks ago during a climbing trip with the owner of a Seattle-based adventure company, friends said Thursday.
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U.S. climber found dead in China ID'd
Dec 28 2006 10:02PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A snow-covered body found on a remote mountain in China has been identified as U.S. photographer Charlie Fowler, who disappeared several weeks ago during a climbing trip with the owner of a Seattle-based adventure company, friends said Thursday.
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U.S. climber found dead in China ID'd
Dec 28 2006 10:02PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A snow-covered body found on a remote mountain in China has been identified as U.S. photographer Charlie Fowler, who disappeared several weeks ago during a climbing trip with the owner of a Seattle-based adventure company, friends said Thursday.
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U.S. climber found dead in China ID'd
Dec 28 2006 10:02PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A snow-covered body found on a remote mountain in China has been identified as U.S. photographer Charlie Fowler, who disappeared several weeks ago during a climbing trip with the owner of a Seattle-based adventure company, friends said Thursday.
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Schwarzenegger: Broken but unbowed
Dec 28 2006 9:59PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Terminator is looking all too human these days. The shattered leg that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suffered in a fall on an icy ski slope was the latest in a list of injuries and ailments to befall the actor-bodybuilder-politician.
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Ford had problems with Bush Iraq policy
Dec 28 2006 9:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford questioned the Bush administration's rationale for the U.S. invasion and war in Iraq in interviews he granted on condition they not be released until after his death.
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Domestic violence rates down sharply
Dec 28 2006 9:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Domestic violence rates fell sharply between 1993 and 2004, the Justice Department said Thursday, noting that American Indian women and native Alaskan women are far more likely to be victimized than whites and other minorities .
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Police officers indicted in New Orleans
Dec 28 2006 9:38PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left two people dead during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Military rehearses Ford ceremonies
Dec 28 2006 9:17PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and florists prepared Thursday for the first memorial ceremonies honoring former President Gerald R. Ford.
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Labor complaint filed against newspaper
Dec 28 2006 8:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal agency filed a complaint against the Santa Barbara News-Press, claiming the newspaper retaliated against employees who wanted to join a union.
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No charges against Kan. abortion doctor
Dec 28 2006 7:39PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline spent more than two years investigating a nationally known abortion provider, but he'll likely leave office next month with little to show for it.
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Ford's former Va. home for sale at $999K
Dec 28 2006 7:07PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The modest two-story home where Gerald Ford spent nearly 20 years as a Michigan congressman, 10 months as vice president and 10 days as president is for sale.
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National Cathedral a construction site
Dec 28 2006 6:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Washington National Cathedral, where a funeral service will be held Tuesday for former President Gerald Ford, is among Washington's most majestic structures _ a massive, limestone edifice that towers over the capital while gracefully reaching skyward.
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Family of dead Fla. sheriff sues track
Dec 28 2006 5:57PM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The family of a Florida sheriff killed during a charity school bus race has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the race track.
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Pastor: Family gathered near dying Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:29PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - With their father's health failing, all four of Gerald and Betty Ford's children made a pilgrimage to their parents' home in the California desert to say goodbye, Ford's pastor said.
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Somalis in Minn. hope and fear Islamists
Dec 28 2006 4:43PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The nation's biggest concentration of Somali refugees watched the turmoil in their homeland Thursday and wondered whether the withdrawal of Islamist forces from Mogadishu would mean a return to the lawlessness they fled years ago.
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Mrs. Ford now on her own
Dec 28 2006 2:02PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Where was Betty Ford when her namesake clinic for substance abusers opened in 1982? Dashing off to Kmart with her husband to buy soap dishes for patients' rooms.
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Ford remembered as a realist
Dec 28 2006 1:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inheriting the end of the unpopular Vietnam War, former President Gerald R. Ford sought commonsense solutions to heal the nation. But Americans were cool toward his offers of amnesty to draft deserters and his pleas for millions in aid for the Vietnamese people.
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AP Poll: Bush, Britney get thumbs-down
Dec 28 2006 1:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Bad guy of 2006: President Bush. Good guy of 2006: President Bush. When people were asked in an AP-AOL News poll to name the villains and heroes of the year, Bush topped both lists, in a sign of these polarized times.
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2 ex-officers guilty in Va. drug case
Dec 28 2006 12:51PM (CT)
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Two former officers with a rural sheriff's department pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that they took part in a scheme involving their boss and 10 colleagues to sell drugs seized from criminals.
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Feds apologize for woman's strip search
Dec 28 2006 12:24PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Homeland Security Department sent a letter apologizing to a Muslim woman who was detained at the Tampa airport and strip searched at a county jail.
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Univ. Texas rethinks Confederate statues
Dec 28 2006 11:20AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The new president of the University of Texas says he will appoint a panel to decide what to do with four bronze statues on the Austin campus that honor confederate leaders and have drawn complaints for several years.
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Convicted ex-Ill. gov. sues for pension
Dec 28 2006 9:02AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Convicted former Gov. George Ryan is suing to keep at least part of his $197,000 state pension, the third of it that he says he earned before the scandals that now have him facing 6 1/2 years in prison.
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Murders are up in New York, other cities
Dec 28 2006 6:43AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gangs, drugs, easy access to guns and a disturbing tendency among young people to pull guns to demand respect were among the causes authorities cited in trying to explain this year's increase in murders in New York and many other major cities after years of decline.
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Colorado braces for another snowstorm
Dec 28 2006 6:33AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Still recovering from last week's blizzard, Colorado cities braced Wednesday for another storm that could bring more than a foot of snow and high winds to the state and cause planes to be grounded at Denver International Airport again.
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Court can't force gay marriage vote
Dec 28 2006 5:26AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts judges who legalized gay marriage say they cannot force state lawmakers to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit the same-sex unions.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 28 2006 5:22AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Report: Apple probed on stock options
Dec 28 2006 3:31AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Apple Computer Inc.'s stock option troubles underwent extreme twists following reports of a federal probe into the possible forgery of documents to bolster executives' profits and that CEO Steve Jobs received 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without proper board approval.
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Murders are up in New York, other cities
Dec 28 2006 2:42AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gangs, drugs, easy access to guns and a disturbing tendency among young people to pull guns to demand respect were among the causes authorities cited in trying to explain this year's increase in murders in New York and many other major cities after years of decline.
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