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Published Tuesday, February 09, 2010
WASHINGTON -- A $20 cab ride to the airport skyrocketed to the "snow rate" of $100 in the nation's capital, and those travelers who could get to the airport or train station still had to haggle or wait in long lines to escape the snowbound Mid-Atlant ...
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Published Tuesday, February 09, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what's expected to be the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling up a new room and observation deck for the International Space Station.The space shutt ...
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Published Tuesday, February 09, 2010
CLEVELAND -- A family member who testified earlier that an Ohio doctor denied poisoning his wife now says the defendant admitted to the killing.Firas Essa returned to the witness stand Monday in Cleveland and said his brother, Yazeed Essa, told him t ...
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Published Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Associated PressMIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Crews were slowly and carefully removing gas cylinders from the site of a deadly explosion at an under-construction power plant, and investigators interviewed survivors to try determine the cause.Deputy Fire Marsh ...
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Published Tuesday, February 09, 2010
NEW ORLEANS -- Another jolt of Saints euphoria is on tap for New Orleans Tuesday when the Super Bowl champs board floats borrowed from Mardi Gras krewes for a victory parade through the grateful city.The Carnival-flavored parade honoring the team's 3 ...
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Published Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering com ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
NEW YORK -- As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain inconsistent or exaggerated claims about how workers got sick or how ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Despite more clouds on the horizon, NASA fueled Endeavour for the second straight night Sunday in hopes of sending the shuttle on the last big space station construction mission.The launch team began pumping millions of gallon ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers and injuring a dozen or more.The explosion at the ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Planes were grounded, trains stood still and Greyhound buses weren't rolling in the Mid-Atlantic region on Sunday, leaving stranded travelers wondering when they'll be able to escape the icy, gray mess created by a major snowstorm. ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) -- Residents evacuated from foothill communities deluged by weekend mudslides north of Los Angeles were allowed to return home Sunday as crews moved debris and started clearing catch basins in anticipation of more ra ...
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Published Monday, February 08, 2010
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Less than a mile downstream from one of the nation's best-known engineering marvels, the Hoover Dam, a second is taking shape.A soaring 1,900-foot span across the gorge created by the Colorado River on the Arizona-Nevada bo ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Mid-Atlantic residents were buried Saturday by a blizzard the president jokingly called "Snowmageddon," and those brave enough tried to clear a path through the wet, heavy mounds of thigh-high snow.The snow was falling too quickly in th ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- San Antonio police announced Saturday that they are investigating the case of an Arizona baby missing for more than a month as a kidnapping and homicide, allowing them to search for a dead body.Police Chief William McManus said of ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected mayor of New Orleans on Saturday, replacing term-limited Ray Nagin and becoming the majority-black city's first white mayor since 1979.Landrieu, 49, won in a landslide over a field of ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) -- A house fire that officials said might have simmered undetected for hours Saturday killed five people, including a mother and her 7-month-old baby, in one of Rhode Island's deadliest blazes since a 2003 fire at a crowded nightcl ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- A woman suspected of killing her 8-year-old son at a New York City luxury hotel and then trying to commit suicide has been charged with second-degree murder.Police say 49-year-old Gigi Jordan was charged Saturday at a local hospital ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Black farmers must strongly lobby the head of the Senate Agriculture Committee and other lawmakers to make sure Congress approves a $1.15 billion discrimination settlement, the president of the National Black Farmers Associa ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A small plane clipped the towline of another plane pulling a glider Saturday, sparking a fiery midair crash in Colorado and killing three people, authorities said.The glider disconnected from its tow plane just before the colli ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA fueled shuttle Endeavour for an early morning launch in darkness Sunday with the last major pieces of the International Space Station.Stiff wind rattled the launch site Saturday night as the fuel flowed into the shuttle, ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
CHICAGO -- Could it be that blogs have become online fodder for the — gasp! — more mature reader?A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief — and mob ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
Christy Nameche moved with her family to Kendall County, Ill., in 2007, joining thousands of other hope-filled newcomers who made the county No. 1 in population growth in the nation that year.Nameche liked the farms around her new neighborhood, the f ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
Many jobless people have reached a conclusion that captures the depth of the unemployment crisis: Looking for a job is a waste of time.The economy is growing. Yet it's creating few jobs. That's why in the past eight months, 1.8 million people without ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
DENVER -- The federal courts are wrestling with a question of both liberty and patriotism: Does the First Amendment right to free speech protect people who lie about being war heroes?At issue is a three-year-old federal law called the Stolen Valor Ac ...
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Published Sunday, February 07, 2010
CASPER, Wyo. -- Authorities say a Wyoming woman was assaulted at her front door, raped at knifepoint in her living room and left bound on the floor, and they say one of the men charged in the brutal attack claimed that he thought it was invited.Two m ...
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