CA teen charged with murder in death of 4-year-old
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Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central California boy accused in the death of a 4-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found in a clothes dryer at the teen's home. Fresno County...
Voters in NC's largest city elect Democratic mayor
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Voters have narrowly elected a Democrat to lead Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city. With most of the votes counted, Anthony Foxx was leading challenger John Lassiter, a Republican, by nearly 3,000 votes out of...
School moves to tighten security after gang rape
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Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, powerful lighting and new fencing. The measures...
Obituaries in the news
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Bernerd Harding CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday....
Parents of slain Calif. student stunned by bill
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The parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt. Gerald and Elizabeth Hawkins say 10 days after...
Police: CO man made up knife attack to miss work
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Police in the Denver suburb of Edgewater say a man stabbed himself, then said he was attacked by three men dressed in black who were either Hispanic or skinheads, in a ploy to miss work. Twenty-nine-year-old Aaron...
Judge orders redaction of polygamist documents
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A Texas judge ordered Tuesday that a document showing a member of a polygamist sect had at least four wives who were pregnant or nursing at the same time should be excluded from his trial on charges of child sexual...
Pa. woman, daughter hold signs admitting theft
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In exchange for no jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday. Fifty-six-year-old...
Man angry with police response walks onto roadway
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A 28-year-old Portland man described as unhappy about police response time to his 911 call walked onto Interstate 5 near Woodburn in an apparent attempt to get assistance more quickly. No one was injured Monday but...
Mich. county seeks to prevent shouting at inmates
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A new law takes effect in early December making it illegal to give a shout-out to an inmate at the Van Buren County Jail. A century-old section of the jail in the heart of Paw Paw has no air conditioning, so its barred...
Heavyset Fla. man allegedly robs same bank 4 times
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Investigators are searching for a man who has robbed the same South Florida bank four times in the past year. The suspect has targeted a Tamarac BankAtlantic so many times that during the last heist one of the tellers...
Wis. firefighter accused of drugging wife's tea
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A veteran Milwaukee firefighter was charged with drugging his wife's tea with his anti-depressent medication because he said he wanted to calm her after an argument. A criminal complaint charges the 43-year-old man with...
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 833
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As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at least 833 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department....
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,357
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As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at least 4,357 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed...
Jury acquits driver of murder in border crash
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A California jury has acquitted a Mexican boy of murder in the drowning of six suspected illegal immigrants but convicted him of gross vehicular manslaughter for driving a sport utility vehicle into a canal in the fatal...
4 Amish bishops charged with not reporting abuse
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Four Amish leaders in southwest Missouri who chose to "shun" an accused child molester in their community rather than report him to authorities were charged Tuesday with failing to report the sexual abuse. Webster...
NM boy charged with murder in father's death
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An 11-year-old New Mexico boy who police say reported he fatally shot his father because the man was punishing him was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder. Belen Police Sgt. Joe Portio said evidence supports the...
Trial date delayed for NYC terror suspect's dad
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Lawyers preparing for the trial of a Colorado man whose son is charged with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction are getting more time to get ready. A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday granted a request from...
Immigration teams arrest more criminal offenders
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Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records during the past year, new data show. Data from Immigration and Customs...
Feds: Gun, cash seizures up at Mexican border
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U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband. Nearly 600 illegal weapons were...
Mich. looks at worst-case 20 percent budget cuts
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Michigan's governor warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 have already dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward...
3 suspects arrested in Halloween attack in Calif.
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San Jose police say they have arrested three teens in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy and the stabbing of his 13-year-old friend while they were trick-or-treating on Halloween. Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said Tuesday a...
Feds: Chicago men discussed terror attack in India
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A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan-based terrorist group on how...
DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution
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Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution. The 48-year-old Muhammad is...
Denver public TV plans nonprofit news operation
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A Denver public television station is planning a nonprofit investigative news operation with a Web site and on-air program. KBDI-TV said this week it will launch the project when it raises an initial $400,000. A news...
Police: Pair stole up to 1k bags at Ariz. airport
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Two people suspected of stealing up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix's airport have been arrested by police who found heaps of the stolen bags strewn throughout their home. There were...
Mayor chooses deputy chief to head LA police
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A respected Los Angeles Police Department veteran credited with cleaning up a devastating corruption scandal was picked by the mayor Tuesday to become the next police chief of the nation's second-largest city. The...
Hallelujah for Handel's `Messiah'
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Carl Drews still remembers the first time he heard the "Hallelujah" chorus. His parents had taken him to see "The Greatest Story Ever Told," the movie about the life of Jesus with a soundtrack including the famous...
AP News in Brief
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Governor races in Virginia, New Jersey test Obama clout; Maine votes on same-sex marriage WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama's political clout was on the line Tuesday as Virginia and New Jersey chose governors in...
Records show Oakland mayor owes IRS back taxes
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Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife owe more than $200,000 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, property records indicate. Alameda County records show the IRS has placed a lien on the couple's property...
3 get prison time for Idaho hate crime beating
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A federal judge says three Idaho men convicted of hate crimes for beating a black man outside a Nampa Wal-Mart will serve time in prison. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge on Tuesday sentenced 23-year-old Michael...
Mass. town puts limits on cat ownership
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A Massachusetts town has made it illegal to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting in Dudley added language to a town bylaw on Monday night that makes it illegal to own more...
Climate talks face difficult road ahead of meeting
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Boycotts on either side of the Atlantic on Tuesday showed just how difficult it will be to clinch an agreement on global warming next month. At U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, African nations walked out of...
Man gets 2 years for flying stolen plane to US
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A Turkish-Canadian man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three states before landing along a dark southern Missouri highway. Adam Dylan Leon might have...
Correction: Lounge Chair-Drunk Driving story
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In stories Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 about a motorized recliner in which a man was arrested in Proctor, Minn., for driving drunk, The Associated Press erroneously described the recliner as a La-Z-Boy. Police in Proctor, where...
Police: Valet's umbrella saves woman from attack
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A Boston parking valet armed with an umbrella is being credited for helping a woman fight off a knife-wielding purse snatcher. Police said Tuesday that 61-year-old Barbara Pero of Auburn was attacked Monday night...
Baseball 'Champagne goggles' make some fans groan
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When the New York Yankees clinched their spot in the World Series last week, the casual TV viewer might have wondered if they were about to go swim the 200-meter butterfly with Michael Phelps. Call it a fashion...
Preservation group leader to retire after 17 years
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The long-serving head of the nation's best-known preservation group is retiring. Richard Moe has been president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for 17 years and will step down in the spring. Best known...
Doomed scallop boat was to head home day it sank
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A scallop boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in March, killing six of the seven crew members on board, was supposed to return to port that same day, its owner said Tuesday. Capt. Royal Smith Sr. broke down at a...
Calif. man indicted in 4 Va. bludgeoning deaths
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An aspiring California rapper has been indicted on capital murder charges in the deaths of four people found bludgeoned to death at a central Virginia home in September. Twenty-year-old Richard "Sam" McCroskey of...
Detainees in NYC post-9/11 reach $1.26M settlement
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Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. government. The men were part of a lawsuit...
Police: NC father killed wife, 2 children, self
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A North Carolina businessman who coached basketball at the religious school where his teenagers attended classes fatally shot his family in their upscale home before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday. ...
Lennon's family donates peace recording to UN
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John Lennon's widow and two sons are donating the proceeds from the 40th anniversary release of the hit "Give Peace a Chance" to a U.N. peacebuilding fund used to help countries emerging from conflict, the fund...
Town makes it illegal to own more than 3 cats
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It's now illegal in one Massachusetts town to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting in Dudley on Monday night added language to a town bylaw that makes it illegal to own...
Program will monitor Md. doctors' hand-washing
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Be sure to wash up, Maryland doctors and nurses. You're being watched. State officials said Tuesday they're creating teams of staff members at hospitals around the state to secretly monitor their colleagues'...
NH WWII pilot who sought his lost wings dies at 90
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Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday at age 90. Harding's wife, Ruth...
RI gov signs bill banning indoor prostitution
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Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has signed legislation closing a loophole that made indoor prostitution legal and allowed more than 30 suspected brothels to operate around the state. The bills signed Tuesday end Rhode...
Ruling expected on release of Yale killing files
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A Connecticut judge says he expects to rule later this week on whether to unseal documents detailing the case against a former Yale employee accused of murdering graduate student Annie Le (LAY'). Raymond Clark III is...
Calif. court to hear challenge to Jessica's Law
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The California Supreme Court is set to hear arguments challenging a key section of a law aimed at protecting children from sexual predators. Jessica's Law prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 2,000...
Police repost motorized recliner from DWI on eBay
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Police in Minnesota have had to start over again an online auction for a motorized recliner used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk. The Proctor police department had to repost the chair after eBay...