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California storm prompts evacuation plea
Dec 31 2005 11:45PM (CT)
NAPA, Calif. (AP) - A powerful storm sent rivers and creeks over their banks and into cities and set off mudslides that blocked major highways across Northern California on Saturday. At least a dozen people had to be rescued from the rushing water, and forecasters were warning of another storm on Sunday.
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Tropical Storm Zeta weakens over Atlantic
Dec 31 2005 11:24PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Zeta stalled and weakened Saturday in the open Atlantic, a day after it tied a record for the latest developing named storm on record.
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Revelers pack Times Square to ring in '06
Dec 31 2005 11:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of New Year's Eve revelers ignored the sleet and snow and packed into Times Square with their "2006" glasses, balloons and noisemakers for the famous ball drop and countdown of the final minutes of 2005.
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Spicy blogger leaves attorney's office
Dec 31 2005 11:10PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A young federal prosecutor who was revealed as the author of a spicy blog about the judiciary is leaving the inner circle. David Lat, who had been the anonymous writer of "Underneath Their Robes," left his job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Newark.
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Big Easy parties again to send off 2005
Dec 31 2005 10:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ringing out one of the worst years in its colorful history, New Orleans launched into a rollicking New Year's Eve of memorials and merrymaking, from a traditional jazz funeral procession in honor of the hundreds of hurricane victims to an after-dark New Year's party.
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S.C. bars toast the end of the minibottle
Dec 31 2005 10:39PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The year 2005 wasn't the only thing being toasted away in some South Carolina bars. Partygoers and bar owners could finally say good riddance to the minibottle.
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Medicare drug benefit set for '06 debut
Dec 31 2005 9:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Medicare's prescription drug coverage rolls out Sunday, a benefit being hailed as the most significant advance in the program's 40-year history. Most senior citizens should see their medicine become more affordable because of the new coverage. Still, not everyone will save, and Medicare's 42 million beneficiaries have been patient, if not hesitant, about enrolling in a private plan.
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Amtrak gets train to NYC, 28 hours late
Dec 31 2005 9:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Amtrak's Silver Meteor train arrived in New York from Florida more than 28 hours late on New Year's Eve, releasing more than 100 exhausted, hungry and angry passengers.
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Family awaits teen who journeyed to Iraq
Dec 31 2005 9:31PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The family of a 16-year-old who took off to Iraq as a journalism project without telling his parents talked to him by phone on Saturday and said he seemed unaware of the international stir he had caused.
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Police: Ark. man stole sex offender IDs
Dec 31 2005 9:15PM (CT)
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas man is facing his own felony charges after allegedly using a sex offender registry to scam about $20,000 from credit cards and federal tax refunds in the name of registered sex offenders.
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Okla. calls on firefighters outside state
Dec 31 2005 8:14PM (CT)
PINK, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma called on firefighters from across the South to help battle wildfire outbreaks that have already killed one person, charred 30,000 acres and destroyed about 100 homes across the state.
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Tenn. tries shame to stem drunken driving
Dec 31 2005 8:00PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new Tennessee law is enlisting the power of shame to discourage drunken driving _ even though law enforcement, the governor and various experts are calling it an expensive and bad idea.
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Charles Socarides, gay 'cure' doctor, dies
Dec 31 2005 7:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Charles Socarides, the psychiatrist famous for insisting that homosexuality was a treatable illness and who claimed to have "cured" hundreds, has died. He was 83.
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2005 N.J. prison brawl still up for debate
Dec 31 2005 2:20PM (CT)
LEESBURG, N.J. (AP) - By every account, the New Year's Day 2005 fight between inmates and guards at Bayside State Prison was terrifying, with broomsticks and clothing irons used as weapons and blood splattering the floor and walls.
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Hookah bars finding a place in America
Dec 31 2005 2:19PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The Rabbit Hole is a maze of sofas and sectionals, mismatched, some worn to threads in places, full of soft spots that sink low to the ground. The lighting is low and dim; the music is usually alternative rock, played at a volume to match the light.
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Bar fire in Delaware kills two people
Dec 31 2005 10:04AM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) - A fire broke out in a bar, killing two men and injuring three other people, police said. One man was in critical condition, and at least two people suffered from smoke inhalation, Lt. Joseph Aviola said.
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FEMA dumps unused hurricane drinking water
Dec 31 2005 10:02AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - One million cans of drinking water donated for hurricane relief have been emptied and recycled because the water was never used at Texas and Louisiana hurricane shelters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.
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Sign tallying military deaths upsets Army
Dec 31 2005 7:49AM (CT)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - Scott Cameron never imagined his modest memorial to American troops in Iraq would transform a quiet street here into the latest front of the nation's tense debate about the war in Iraq.
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Victims told, in error, Ohio inmates freed
Dec 31 2005 7:02AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The automated telephone call shook Karla Edwards so badly she couldn't compose herself. On the other end of the phone, a message was telling her the man who was in prison for her sister's slaying had been released.
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Problems plague dams in New England
Dec 31 2005 3:42AM (CT)
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) - In need of repair for more than a decade, the Slack Reservoir Dam has been declared unsafe and likely to fail in the event of a heavy storm. In a worse-case scenario, 400 million gallons of water could fill the bowl below in just 30 minutes, said Mark Barnes, president of the association that owns and maintains the dam.
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States urged to find Katrina sex offenders
Dec 31 2005 3:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Estimates that 2,000 registered sex offenders evacuated the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Katrina have prompted swift action in some states, while officials in others say they've already been trying to monitor the offenders.
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Three Katrina evacuees found dead in Texas
Dec 31 2005 12:21AM (CT)
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - A family of three Hurricane Katrina evacuees facing eviction was found dead Friday in their Texas apartment in what appears to be a double murder-suicide, authorities said.
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