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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. — A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others.
Jason Rodriguez, 40, surrendered to police about three hours later, after off ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades.The lawsuit, filed in 1999, contends that Indi ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump-start.Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottome ...
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Published Saturday, November 07, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO -- Gay-marriage opponents pulled off another victory at the ballot box this week by using a tried-and-tested argument: Approve it, and children will be taught homosexuality in school.Voters seemed to be swayed by the message, both in Ma ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
NEW YORK -- A festive air is filling Wall Street as the New York Yankees' World Series celebration revs up with a ticker-tape parade.At a subway station near the parade route, fans packed the staircase chanting, "Let's go Yankees!" and crooning "New ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
CLEVELAND -- Serial-killing suspect Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer, she said -- until he began choking her and threatening to kill her.The 43-year-old ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama assured American Indians on Thursday that they had a place in his White House and on his agenda, telling tribal leaders that their marginalized community deserved more from its government."I get it. I'm on your si ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Bounce it, kick it, catch it. Chase, throw or smack it. The ball, arguably the most popular plaything of all time, has finally earned a place inside a glass case at the National Toy Hall of Fame in New York.Along with the Big Whee ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. -- The medical marijuana dispensary in this California wine country town is in a former auto dealership and has more registered patients than the town has residents. Los Angeles has more pot shops than Starbucks stores or schools.T ...
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Published Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
EASTCHESTER, N.Y. -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi capped off a victorious evening by helping a car crash victim in suburban New York.Police said Girardi pulled over to help after a woman lost control on a Westchester County parkway and crashed into a ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
CHIPLEY, Fla. -- Investigators spent five days searching dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed.Clothing was packed around it to mu ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens.The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding non-citizens from the populat ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Bounce it, kick it, catch it. Chase, throw or smack it. The ball, arguably the most popular plaything of all time, has finally earned a place inside a glass case at the National Toy Hall of Fame in New York.Along with the Big Wheel ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
ENID, Okla. -- An Oklahoma couple driving home from church hit an animal -- a really big one.An elephant that escaped from a nearby circus collided with the couple's SUV Wednesday night when it ran across a rural highway in Enid, about 100 miles nort ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
CHICAGO -- Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the meas ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities reported a staggering jump in the number of marijuana plants seized in California's eradication effort, claiming a more than 50 percent jump over the previous year.The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting seized 4.4 millio ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Federal agents spent the night searching the law offices of a high-profile South Florida attorney suspected in a massive fraud scheme.A spokesman for law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler says firm officials cooperated with FBI ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Jury deliberations got under way Thursday in New Jersey in the trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law.Edward Ates says he didn't have the energy to accurately shoot Paul Duncsak and ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors say criminal charges have been filed against 14 people, including attorneys and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $25 million insider trading case that has already snared one of the richest men in America.Accord ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
PHILADELPHIA -- Hundreds of commuters were stranded at a regional rail station Thursday after service was suspended when a worker was struck and killed on the tracks, creating further havoc on the system already crippled by a transit strike.The train ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
CLEVELAND -- For days, there were no memorials in a run-down neighborhood where 11 bodies were found in one home. No flowers or framed photos. Just a few small melted candles and two stuffed animals tucked in the notch between a chain link fence and ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
CLEVELAND -- The discovery of 11 bodies in one home in a run-down neighborhood here has relatives of the presumed victims wondering how such a gruesome scene could have gone unnoticed for perhaps years, and they charge that police ignored their missi ...
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Published Thursday, November 05, 2009
CHIPLEY, Fla. -- Florida authorities have found a missing baby alive under her baby sitter's bed and say they're planning to charge the baby sitter, her husband and the child's mother.Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock said early Thursday that i ...
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Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009
BATON ROUGE, La. -- At least four times in the last 2 1/2 years, Keith Bardwell says he refused to marry interracial couples while serving as a Louisiana justice of the peace.He said from his experience and discussions, he had concluded that blacks a ...
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