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Judge: Company must give experimental drug to teen
(AP)
(20 August 08:57) |
| AP - A federal judge has ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with muscular dystrophy. |
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Search suspended for plane with Alaska official
(AP)
(20 August 08:48) |
| AP - The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a small plane carrying an Alaska state official and his son. |
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US Rep. Tubbs Jones hospitalized near Cleveland
(AP)
(20 August 07:53) |
| AP - U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was in a hospital Wednesday but no details on her condition were released. |
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Jury finds ranch negligent in 10-death landslide
(AP)
(20 August 06:27) |
| AP - A jury has ruled that a ranch company's negligence helped lead to the 2005 landslide that killed 10 people in a community on California's central coast. |
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Wildfire prompts evacuation order in Wash. state
(AP)
(20 August 06:23) |
| AP - Rain overnight came to the aid of firefighters at a wildfire in Washington state that prompted an evacuation order for dozens of homes. |
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Tropical Storm Fay hugs Florida's Atlantic coast
(AP)
(20 August 06:08) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay meandered north along the Florida Atlantic coast Wednesday but did not immediately head out over the ocean, lessening the chances it will gain strength and become a h... |
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Kerry returns to stump 4 years after nomination
(AP)
(20 August 06:01) |
| AP - The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousand... |
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Dave Matthews Band sax player dies from ATV wreck injuries
(AP)
(20 August 04:47) |
| AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injur... |
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Situation still 'fragile' in Grand Canyon village
(AP)
(20 August 03:46) |
| AP - Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding, authorities said. |
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Study: Cost often not factor when picking college
(AP)
(20 August 03:33) |
| AP - Even if a student plans on a major where the financial rewards aren't so obvious, such as art history or philosophy, most American families don't factor in their child's expected earnin... |
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Tropical Storm Fay stays on Florida's coast
(AP)
(20 August 02:57) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday, moving north along the Florida coast but not going out over the Atlantic Ocean, where many had feared it could strengthen and cu... |
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Fay may strengthen and hit Florida again
(AP)
(20 August 12:47) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday reaching the coast and headed for the Atlantic Ocean, where it could strengthen and curve back toward Florida possibly as a hu... |
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Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled
(AP)
(20 August 10:51) |
| AP - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishme... |
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DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries
(AP)
(20 August 10:40) |
| AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injur... |
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Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies
(AP)
(20 August 09:04) |
| AP - Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in an all... |
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Searchers locate all missing Grand Canyon hikers
(AP)
(20 August 07:07) |
| AP - Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after floods tore through a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday. |
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`Boomerang' Fay maintains strength over Florida
(AP)
(20 August 07:04) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining its strength and threateni... |
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Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit
(AP)
(20 August 04:42) |
| AP - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice handed over to them for an undis... |
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'Boomerang' Fay gains strength over Florida
(AP)
(20 August 04:42) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in Florida Tuesday short of hurricane strength, but mysteriously gained speed as it headed over land, bringing heavy rain, high wind and tornadoes. |
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NJ congressman in Georgia to help trapped sisters
(AP)
(20 August 04:35) |
| AP - A New Jersey congressman has arrived in the Republic of Georgia in an effort to bring home two young girls stuck overseas since the conflict with Russia began. |
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Fay hits Florida, strengthens as it moves inland
(AP)
(20 August 02:42) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in Florida Tuesday short of hurricane strength, but mysteriously gained speed as it headed over land, bringing heavy rain, high wind and tornadoes. |
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FBI: Pa. student hoped to breed sex slave society
(AP)
(20 August 02:40) |
| AP - A Pennsylvania medical student told a classmate he was trying to recruit a New Zealand woman and her 4-year-old daughter to start a society of sex slaves that would live on a farm or is... |
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States throw out costly electronic voting machines
(AP)
(20 August 02:16) |
| AP - The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of... |
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Lennon's killer told parole board he's ashamed
(AP)
(20 August 01:45) |
| AP - John Lennon's killer told parole officials during his latest unsuccessful bid for release from prison that he is ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decade... |
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Funeral homes facing problem of abandoned ashes
(AP)
(20 August 01:39) |
| AP - The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaite... |
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Note by Ark. party leader's killer still a mystery
(AP)
(20 August 01:30) |
| AP - Police said Tuesday they hadn't found any connection between slain Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney and a telephone number written with his last name on a Post-It note fo... |
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Rights museum picks Gore, Nash for Freedom Awards
(AP)
(20 August 01:26) |
| AP - Former Vice President Al Gore and civil rights activist Diane Nash were named Tuesday as recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's annual Freedom Awards. |
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Widow of Confederate soldier dies at 93
(AP)
(20 August 01:25) |
| AP - Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93. |
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Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling
(AP)
(20 August 12:43) |
| AP - A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around he... |
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Washington state, Wyoming hold state primaries
(AP)
(19 August 11:56) |
| AP - Washington state voters cast ballots Tuesday in a primary that would almost certainly set up the nation's most competitive governor's race with a reprise of the 2004 cliffhanger that wa... |
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Ohio says no to voting machine 'sleepovers'
(AP)
(19 August 11:51) |
| AP - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unac... |
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Former Mich. teacher accused of sex with boy, 12
(AP)
(19 August 11:45) |
| AP - Authorities accuse a former Michigan elementary school teacher of having sex with a 12-year-old boy she was tutoring at her home. |
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Conn. umpires group rescinds sex offender's award
(AP)
(19 August 11:00) |
| AP - A Connecticut baseball umpires group has reversed its decision to give a lifetime achievement award to a convicted child sex offender. |
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Girl from polygamist group ordered into state care
(AP)
(19 August 10:56) |
| AP - A Texas judge has ordered a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly married to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to be placed in foster care. |
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Searchers say all missing in Grand Canyon located
(AP)
(19 August 10:45) |
| AP - Authorities say they have accounted for a handful of hikers who were missing after flooding struck a remote part of the Grand Canyon. |
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California fines 18 hospitals for shoddy care
(AP)
(19 August 10:40) |
| AP - Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths. |
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Fay hits Florida, but doesn't become hurricane
(AP)
(19 August 09:02) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida, never growing into the hurricane that forecasters had cautioned it could become. |
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Slain Arkansas party chairman honored at funeral
(AP)
(19 August 08:13) |
| AP - The funeral for slain Arkansas Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney was marked by humor as former President Clinton and others remembered the man who had touched their lives. |
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Flooding recedes in South Texas after foot of rain
(AP)
(19 August 07:26) |
| AP - The Rio Grande Valley's main highway was open to traffic again Tuesday as flooding receded following a deluge of up to 13 inches of rain across southern Texas. |
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Sailor, knocked from boat, rescued 12 hours later
(AP)
(19 August 06:55) |
| AP - A sailor rescued after he fell into Lake Michigan says one of the worst moments of the 12-hour ordeal came near the end, when a Coast Guard helicopter seemed to have its spotlight on hi... |
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Tropical Storm Fay soaks southwest Florida
(AP)
(19 August 06:25) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida, bringing soaking rains and gusty winds but failing to reach the minimal hurricane status that had bee... |
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Search to resume for 11 missing Grand Canyon tourists
(AP)
(19 August 06:21) |
| AP - A handful of hikers remained unaccounted for after flooding struck a tiny village near the Grand Canyon rim, a community so remote it is the only one in America where the mail is delive... |
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To college freshmen, GPS has always been there
(AP)
(19 August 05:21) |
| AP - Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always... |
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Fay makes landfall in southwest Florida
(AP)
(19 August 04:13) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay made landfall on Florida's southwest coast early Tuesday, bringing soaking rains and gusty winds but nothing like the destruction last seen in the area during a 2004 ... |
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At one inner-city L.A. high school, nearly 6 in 10 drop out
(AP)
(19 August 03:39) |
| AP - Amid the verdant lawn and leafy trees of the tidy Jefferson Senior High School campus, a police officer patrols the grounds and a sign warns that guns are illegal. |
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TS Fay makes landfall in southwest Florida
(AP)
(19 August 02:59) |
| AP - Tropical Storm Fay made landfall on Florida's southwest coast early Tuesday after residents with memories of a killer hurricane in 2004 took the precaution of shutting schools, governme... |
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Flood waters in South Texas recede after torrent
(AP)
(19 August 02:55) |
| AP - The Rio Grande Valley's main highway was reopened and flood waters receded after up to 13 inches of rain swamped southern Texas. |
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Search to resume for missing Grand Canyon tourists
(AP)
(19 August 02:41) |
| AP - A handful of hikers remained unaccounted for after flooding struck a tiny village near the Grand Canyon rim, a community so remote it is the only one in America where the mail is delive... |
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Hearing to resume in new polygamist sect case
(AP)
(19 August 02:40) |
| AP - A mother accused of abuse for allegedly allowing her then-12-year-old daughter to marry polygamist leader Warren Jeffs plans to call in her defense a stepdaughter who returned voluntari... |
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Wyo. tribe mourns 3 teens, loss of cultural ties
(AP)
(19 August 02:15) |
| AP - Rows of rundown houses sit among stunted trees on a bleak, wind-swept plateau. The nearest mountains are a faint smudge on the horizon, and a boarded-up house marks the end of the road. |
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