Authorities say man stole car to face theft charge
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The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge. Patrol investigator Chris Linehan says he arrested Samuel Botchvaroff Tuesday as he sat inside a stolen...
But for heroes, bloodbath could have been worse
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Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted. A loud, popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent shout of "Gun!" Smith...
Several hundred gather at Fort Hood vigil
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Several hundred people gathered at a base stadium where the Army's chief chaplain offered prayers for families and victims of the shooting rampage that left 13 dead and 30 wounded at Fort Hood, Texas. Chaplain Douglas...
Person-of-interest in Seattle officer killing shot
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Police on Friday shot and wounded a person-of-interest sought in the Halloween night killing of a Seattle police officer, just as a massive memorial service for the officer drew to a close. Tukwila police spokesman...
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,359
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As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 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...
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 833
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As of Friday, Nov. 6, 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....
NJ jurors convict Fla. man in 'fat defense' trial
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A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway. Edward...
Los Angeles moves to ban declawing of cats
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The Los Angeles City Council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that would ban the declawing of cats. The unanimous vote Friday follows a similar action by the Beverly Hills City Council a day earlier. A...
Teen charged with killing nun in NM
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A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo Indian reservation in search of cash or valuable items. Federal authorities accused Reehahlio Carroll, 18,...
NM cabinet official resigns after DWI arrest
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A top official in Gov. Bill Richardson's cabinet has resigned over a drunken driving arrest just days after she was appointed to a spot in President Barack Obama's administration. Secretary of Aging and Long-Term...
4th Chicago teen charged in videotaped beating
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A fourth teen is facing murder charges in the beating death of a Chicago high school honor student last month. The 14-year-old's name isn't being released. He was charged Thursday as a juvenile and appeared Friday...
Wis. man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama
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A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay. Mansfield Neblett told The Associated Press in an e-mail Friday he decided...
Capitol Christmas tree to be cut from AZ forest
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An 85-foot blue spruce soon will embark on a long journey from the mountains of northeastern Arizona to Washington, D.C., to stand as the Capitol Christmas tree. The 7,000-pound tree that is taller than a seven-story...
NZ lawmaker sculpted in cow manure
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A sculpture of a New Zealand government minister crafted from cow manure sold for New Zealand dollars 3,080 ($2,220) on an auction Web site. The bust of New Zealand Environment Minister Nick Smith, sculpted as a protest...
Coast Guard chief hails Calif. crash victims
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Thousands of family members, friends and colleagues said farewell Friday to seven Coast Guard members who died when their plane collided with a Marine helicopter off the San Diego coast. "No ceremony is as difficult as...
Cops: Mich. man admits killing abortion protester
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A Michigan man charged with killing an abortion protester and a business owner told police he had guns loaded in his truck when he took two nieces and a friend to school just before the shooting spree. An affidavit...
Veteran admits faking paralysis to avoid Iraq
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An Army veteran admitted in federal court Friday to plotting with his wife to bilk the U.S. government by faking paralysis after a car wreck to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq. Jeffrey Rush,...
Father pleads not guilty to killing daughter
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A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter. Prosecutors contend that Jason Hann stuffed...
NYC woman sentenced for killing, mutilating father
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A New York City woman convicted of killing her father and mutilating his body has been sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. After Friday's sentencing, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown called the crime deeply...
Wisconsin deputy shoots inmate at hospital
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Authorities in Wisconsin say a deputy shot an inmate at a hospital in suburban Milwaukee after the inmate began a scuffle. Waukesha Memorial Hospital Kathy Allen says the inmate is in critical condition there with a...
2 teens charged with girl's death at Calif. school
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Two 16-year-old boys have been charged as adults in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach. Los Angeles County prosecutors say Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis were...
Survivor of Conn. family slayings calls for probe
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As the lone survivor of a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion called for an investigation into why prison officials let a writer interview one of the defendants for a book, the state attorney general said Friday a...
Iraq again seeks international bombing probe
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Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions. In a letter to...
Circus elephant that escaped and was hit by SUV OK
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An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma...
Fla. cops: Wife faked own abduction to scam hubby
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A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been abducted from her posh Florida beach community. ...
AP News in Brief
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Fort Hood suspect gave away belongings, said methodical goodbyes, before shooting rampage FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) _ As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli...
Officer praised for taking down suspected gunman
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A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso. Police officials say after arriving at the scene of Thursday's...
Pa. prostitution case tossed over gov't-funded sex
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An appeals court has ruled Pennsylvania State Police botched a prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage parlor, along with a total of $180 for the man's...
`Drug kingpin' convicted by New York jury
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A Guatemalan designated as one of the world's biggest drug kingpins has been convicted of cocaine importation and distribution charges. Jorge Mario Paredes-Cordova (HOR'-heh MAH'-reeoh Pah-REH-dess Cor-DOH'-vah) was...
AZ 'honor killing' victim just wanted to be normal
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Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman. The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who'd lived in Phoenix since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be...
Ohio man who killed family, self had money woes
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Police say an Ohio man sent a letter to a business associate saying his family would soon be dead before fatally shooting his wife, son and himself. The businessman who received the letter, William Beer, says John...
Judge approves release of some Yale killing files
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Some documents detailing the case against a former Yale University employee accused of killing a graduate student must be unsealed and made available to the public in three business days, a Connecticut judge ruled...
NY village gets new voting system to aid Hispanics
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A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics. The village, Port Chester, is run by a mayor and six...
Hospital: Fort Hood suspect moved to San Antonio
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An Army medical official says the man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Hospital spokeswoman Maria Gallegos says Maj. Nidal...
Gay marriage foes win with message about schools
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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...
Exhaust cone falls off jet onto NY home's lawn
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An engine tailcone fell off a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after takeoff Thursday and plummeted thousands of feet before landing harmlessly on a lawn in a Long Island residential neighborhood. Apparently, neither the...
Mass shootings in recent years
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Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years: ___ Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 13 people were killed and 30 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas. The suspect in the...
Correction: Black Muslims story
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In an Oct. 30 story about African-American Muslims, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a 2007 Pew survey estimated that 35 percent of the nation's Muslims were African-American. The survey estimated that 20...
Ohio town to toast forgotten Vietnam veterans
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The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I. The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during...
Police: Man posed as Ariz. student for scholarship
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A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a student at two Arizona high schools wanted to play basketball and hoped to get a college scholarship, authorities said. Yuma police on Wednesday arrested Anthony M. Avalos on...
Miss. gov's son scores 2 holes-in-one in one round
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A single hole-in-one is a big enough dream for most golfers. But two in one round? That's some luck. Reeves Barbour, the 30-year-old son of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, had two aces in a single round Oct. 25 on a...
SKorean woman passes driver's exam on 950th try
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A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time. The aspiring driver spent more than 5 million won...
Oregon man charged with DUI after 911 call
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Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road. Marion County sheriff's...
Sleepwalker beaten after men find him in apartment
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Charges have been filed against three men accused of beating a man who sleepwalks after they found him asleep in one of the men's apartment. Iowa City Police Sgt. Troy Kelsay said the 21-year-old victim who was not...
Wyoming hunter bags deer, then hungry lion
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Retired orthopedic surgeon Chris Smith thought his hunt was over when he bagged a white tail deer with a bow and arrow near Sheridan. Because the light was fading, he decided to return the next day to recover the deer....
Developer: Proposed wind farm site is too windy
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A wind-power company says a western Maine site it's been looking at is too windy for turbines. First Wind's Matthew Kearns told a public meeting in Rumford on Thursday that its proposed Longfellow wind farm on Black...
Neighbors: Suspected serial killer seemed harmless
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The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors. Anthony Sowell was the guy who liked to sit on his front steps drinking King Cobra...
Van stolen 35 years ago in Wash. state recovered
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A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport. Customs agents found the 1965 van on Oct. 19 when they opened a shipping container...
Nevada Dem. leader pleads guilty to hitting son
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A Nevada Democratic Party leader who pleaded guilty to hitting his teenage son and throwing him on the hood of a car has resigned, according to a letter received Friday by a newspaper. Paul Belt, the party chairman of...
Pa. locals, Flight 93 families united by tragedy
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Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn't stop crying. The only other...