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Archdiocese, not parishes, to pay lawsuits
Dec 30 2005 11:41PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that the Archdiocese of Portland, not its parishes, owns church assets, dealing a major blow to its efforts to protect church property from lawsuits filed by alleged victims of priest sex abuse.
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Dozens of Cubans land on Florida beaches
Dec 30 2005 11:22PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Dozens of Cuban migrants, including at least nine children, came ashore Friday throughout South Florida, officials said.
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Tropical Storm Zeta forms in Atlantic
Dec 30 2005 10:34PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - In a surprising but nonthreatening curtain call to the Atlantic's busiest-ever hurricane season, Tropical Storm Zeta formed in the open ocean Friday, trying a record for the latest-developing named storm.
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Three Katrina evacuees found dead in Texas
Dec 30 2005 10:07PM (CT)
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - A family of three Hurricane Katrina evacuees facing eviction were found dead Friday in their Texas apartment in what appears to be a double murder-suicide, authorities said.
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States urged to find Katrina sex offenders
Dec 30 2005 9:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors in states that accepted Katrina evacuees are being urged to locate about 2,000 registered sex offenders who fled the Gulf region during the hurricane's mayhem and may have vanished from legally required tracking.
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Northern Calif. braces for storms
Dec 30 2005 9:37PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities on Friday urged homeowners with hillside houses to collect valuables and identify escape routes in case mudslides force them to evacuate as Northern California prepared for heavy weekend rain and flooding.
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Victims told, in error, Ohio inmates freed
Dec 30 2005 8:57PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Thousands of Ohio crime victims received calls from a computer notification system on Friday mistakenly telling them inmates had been released, a state prisons spokesman said.
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Dozens of Cubans land on Florida beaches
Dec 30 2005 8:55PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Dozens of Cuban migrants, including at least nine children, came ashore Friday throughout Southern Florida and Dry Tortugas, officials said.
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Hundreds in Ohio protest Somali's shooting
Dec 30 2005 8:44PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Somali immigrants upset over the fatal police shooting of a man they say had mental health problems rallied Friday in protest, questioning the decision to use deadly force.
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Church in Mass. offers more settlements
Dec 30 2005 8:35PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has offered to settle another round of sexual abuse claims for less per person than it paid in hundreds of cases two years ago.
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Dry and hot, Okla., Texas fear new fires
Dec 30 2005 8:04PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Firefighters on Friday contained many of the wildfires that raced through Texas and Oklahoma and killed four people, but officials worried that forecasts for more warm, dry and windy weather could set the stage for additional blazes.
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Amtrak train moves after day in Ga. woods
Dec 30 2005 5:22PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Exasperated passengers were stuck on an Amtrak train for close to 20 hours while engineers waited for a derailed freight train to be removed.
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Siblings split on selling King center
Dec 30 2005 5:19PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Two children of Martin Luther King Jr. said Friday they will fight any sale of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change to the National Park Service, pitting them against their two younger siblings.
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Lewis Hanson, pilot of presidents, dies
Dec 30 2005 5:07PM (CT)
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) - Lewis Hanson, a pilot for four presidents who co-piloted the flight that brought John F. Kennedy's body back from Dallas aboard Air Force One, has died. He was 81.
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FAA orders checks of seaplanes
Dec 30 2005 4:33PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday grounded all seaplanes similar to the one that crashed last week off Miami Beach until they are inspected.
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Archbishop of Washington recalls last pope
Dec 30 2005 3:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The death this year of Pope John Paul II ended an extraordinary chapter in the history of the Catholic Church and the world, the Archbishop of Washington says.
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States take closer look at dam safety
Dec 30 2005 3:01PM (CT)
FREETOWN, Mass. (AP) - Driving north up the two-lane highway from the center of this town's Assonet section, where Town Hall finds its home and a white gazebo sits in a park near an auto repair shop and gas station, three dams stretch across the adjacent river.
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England burned in prison kitchen accident
Dec 30 2005 2:50PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) - Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier who posed for some of the most infamous pictures of detainee abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, suffered burns at the prison where she is serving her sentence, her family said Friday.
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New year for some, others wait
Dec 30 2005 2:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In this ethnically diverse city, "Happy New Year" isn't just a Jan. 1 greeting chanted by the thousands of revelers in Times Square.
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A night in New York costs more than ever
Dec 30 2005 1:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hotel prices set wallet-busting records in New York City in 2005 after a long, slow recovery from the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Man shot in the head drives to hospital
Dec 30 2005 1:45PM (CT)
PORT ORANGE, Fla. (AP) - A man who woke up with a head wound drove himself to a hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged in his brain. His girlfriend killed herself when she was contacted by police.
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Nevada power plant to close after dispute
Dec 30 2005 12:01PM (CT)
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) - A large coal-fired power plant at the center of a dispute several years ago will close at the end of the year rather than violate a court-ordered deadline to install an estimated $1.1 billion in pollution-control measures.
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Army plan gets Gulf Coast reservists jobs
Dec 30 2005 10:40AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - At a cost of as much as $20 million, more than 200 National Guard soldiers returning to Louisiana from Iraq are staying on active duty for up to a year so they can have full-time work in their hurricane-ravaged hometowns.
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Court rules GM program not discriminatory
Dec 30 2005 10:18AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A General Motors Corp. program that lets Hispanics, blacks or lesbians _ but not Christians _ organize in employee groups does not commit religious discrimination, a federal court ruled.
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Fun freshman seminars gain in popularity
Dec 30 2005 10:17AM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - For first-year students, they are kicking around some heady questions: Is there such thing as absolute mathematical truth? Can a perfect circle exist? What if two plus two didn't equal four?
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4-year-old calls 911 for help for mom
Dec 30 2005 8:48AM (CT)
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) - A 4-year old girl called 911 and got help for her mother after she fell while taking down Christmas decorations.
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Mich. man bowls 3rd 300 game, then dies
Dec 30 2005 8:33AM (CT)
PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) - A bowler collapsed and died at a bowling alley shortly after rolling the third perfect game of his life. Ed Lorenz, 69, bowled a 300 Wednesday in his first league game of the night at Airway Lanes.
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Judge: Ky. governor must turn over e-mails
Dec 30 2005 6:39AM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Some of Gov. Ernie Fletcher's electronic records may be released to prosecutors investigating the hiring practices of his administration, a judge ruled.
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Bank robber turned in by sons gets 40 years
Dec 30 2005 5:48AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - To his family and neighbors, Alfred Ginglen was a pillar of community life. The married father and ex-Marine served in local civic groups, even working in town as an auxiliary police officer. But in his diary, he documented his other side: a life filled with prostitute visits, a secret girlfriend, a crack habit.
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Divers find body of missing N.J. officer
Dec 30 2005 3:43AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - In the back of an ambulance, Officer Robert Nguyen's family said a private goodbye before his flag-draped body was driven away, down a road lined with saluting officers.
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Idaho remembers former governor's murder
Dec 30 2005 3:18AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A century after a bomb killed former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, Idaho residents are remembering his assassination and the events surrounding it with new exhibits, lectures, a play devoted to the trial and a textbook for schoolchildren.
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Teens accused of being lesbians sue school
Dec 30 2005 2:04AM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Two 16-year-olds who were expelled from a Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being lesbians have sued the school for invasion of privacy and discrimination.
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Engine fire forces jet to return to JFK
Dec 30 2005 1:16AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An engine fire forced a British Airways jet to return to John F. Kennedy International Airport shortly after taking off Thursday night.
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