2 men to stand trial in Philly pedestrian deaths
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Two men will face trial on murder charges in the deaths of three children and a mother who were killed on a sidewalk by a car fleeing police. Twenty-year-old Ivan Rodriguez and 18-year-old Donta Cradock are charged in...
NC woman lay dead in bed for months despite visits
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Authorities are investigating why the body of an 88-year-old woman lay in her bed for up to eight months even though caretakers visited the house daily. Sheriff's deputies say the corpse of Blanche Matilda Roth was...
Dead rodents, skinny snakes found in Texas raid
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A raid on an exotic animal delivery company in Texas found starving snakes, hundreds of reptiles packed in shipping crates and rodents that had killed and eaten each other, officials said. Dozens of people with the...
Money robbed from western Pa. bank mailed back
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Someone mailed an envelope filled with money to a western Pennsylvania bank that was robbed earlier this month, and the FBI suspects it was either the repentant robber or an acquaintance of his. Special Agent Jeff...
Suspect arrested in Ohio city hall firebombing
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A man accused of firebombing an Ohio city hall has been arrested on charges of aggravated arson and manufacturing a dangerous ordnance. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says 40-year-old...
Laid-off Wall Streeters take stock, start fresh
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Eighteen months without a job. Fourteen months. Twelve. It's been a long, dry spell for many of the suit-clad Wall Streeters who were handed their pink slips before hardly anyone was talking recovery. But sit down...
Teen runs up dad's cell bill to nearly $22,000
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A 13-year-old teen was probably in hot water with his father after running up a cell phone bill of nearly $22,000. Ted Estarija said he was expecting his bill to be higher this month after adding his son to his plan,...
Chances slim 2 climbers are alive, authorities say
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Five days into the search for two missing climbers, authorities in Oregon were piecing together a theory about what may have gone wrong as hope dwindled that the pair would be found alive. Rescue workers said Tuesday...
Neb. man jailed for unregistered machine guns
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Officials say a 24-year-old Nebraska man who was found with two unregistered, homemade machine guns has been sentenced to 8 1/2 months in prison. According to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release, prosecutors said a...
The nation's weather
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The storm system that pounded through the Great Lakes and Northeast was forecast to depart the region Wednesday, bringing a drying trend. Nevertheless, localized lake effect snow was expected to continue over southern...
SC legislators consider formal rebuke of governor
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South Carolina lawmakers are preparing to discuss a formal rebuke of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford for his travels to see a mistress in Argentina and his misuse of state planes. The House Judiciary Committee meeting...
Custody dispute may have led to shooting deaths
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A Texas attorney involved in a bitter custody dispute was ordered to return to a Southern California court Monday afternoon with her two young daughters. She never made it. The bodies of 38-year-old Elizabeth Fontaine,...
Navajos vote to reduce size of Tribal Council
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Navajos voted Tuesday to drastically reduce the size of the Tribal Council and give their president a line-item veto in the first ballot initiatives ever brought before tribal members on the nation's largest Indian...
Car hits horse-drawn Va. holiday wagon; 14 hurt
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Fourteen people on a holiday wagon-ride in a small western Virginia town were hurt Tuesday when a car rear-ended the horse-drawn wagon, authorities said. About 20 adults and children were on the wagon with bolted-down...
Today in History - Dec. 16
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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2009. There are 15 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and...
Hearing starts for CG officer facing sex charges
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A military investigative hearing is under way for a senior Coast Guard commander facing numerous charges, including indecent acts and conduct unbecoming of an officer. Capt. Herbert M. Hamilton III is charged with 31...
Mass. school denies suspending student for drawing
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A Massachusetts school district on Tuesday night denied a father's claims that his son was suspended for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on a cross. The Taunton School District said in a written statement that the...
Pittsburgh City Council set to vote on tuition tax
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The Pittsburgh City Council is set to take a preliminary vote on a proposed first-of-its kind tax on student tuition. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl says the measure could generate $16.2 million in annual revenue to help pay...
FBI squad to assist NYC terror trial prosecutors
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is forming a squad to assist prosecutors in the upcoming New York trials of Sept. 11 suspects. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Tuesday the squad will include agents, analysts and...
Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91
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Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium _ and his message of God's healing power _ to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name,...
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,370
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As of Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at least 4,370 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...
Attorney: Missing Utah mom's husband met with cops
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The husband of a missing Utah woman has been answering questions from police on a daily basis and is not hindering an investigation into her disappearance, as police have alleged, his attorney said Tuesday. Scott...
80-year-old sailor rescued in Gulf of Mexico
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The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued an 80-year-old man from his sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico, 10 days after he left Houston. A statement from the Coast Guard says the man was onboard a 34-foot sailboat. It says he sent...
Pa. House whip, official who resigned are charged
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State prosecutors added more defendants Tuesday to their expanding legislative corruption case, accusing a longtime House Democratic leader and a former legislator serving in the governor's cabinet of illegally using...
Man pleads not guilty to 1981 Calif. triple murder
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A ministry director has pleaded not guilty to a 1981 triple murder in the Southern California desert. An attorney entered the plea Tuesday for James "Jimmy" Hughes in Riverside Superior Court. Hughes faces charges of...
Energy-efficient traffic lights can't melt snow
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Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm _ a problem blamed...
Schools, roads close as heavy rain drenches South
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Heavy rains pounded the already-soggy South on Tuesday, flooding roads and homes and forcing school closures in parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. Some drivers had to be rescued from flooded roads in Alabama and...
Calif. police fatally shoot woman on playground
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A woman wielding a meat cleaver on a California elementary school playground was fatally shot Tuesday by officers, police said. Staff at the Catherine Everett Elementary School called police a little after 2 p.m. to...
Starving snakes, dead rodents found in Texas raid
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Starving snakes, dead rodents and hundreds of reptiles packed in shipping crates were discovered Tuesday when animal welfare groups in Texas raided an exotic animal delivery company, officials said. Dozens of people...
Calif. police fatally shoot woman on playground
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Police say a woman wielding a meat cleaver on an elementary school playground was shot and killed by officers during school hours. Modesto police Sgt. Brian Findlen says officers arrived Tuesday and saw the woman...
Oregon teen remains may be Green River victim
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Investigators are looking for a possible Oregon link to Seattle's Green River serial killer after the remains of a 16-year-old Portland girl were identified 26 years after she was reported missing. The Oregon State...
Book 99 years overdue returned to Mass. library
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The book returned to the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts this week wasn't overdue by a week, a month or even a year. It was nearly a century overdue, and the fine came to $361.35. "Facts I Ought to Know...
Teen runs up dad's cell bill to nearly 22,000
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A 13-year-old teen was probably in hot water with his father after running up a cell phone bill of nearly $22,000. Ted Estarija said he was expecting his bill to be higher this month after adding his son to his plan,...
Lawyer wants charges for Nevada hospital officials
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A lawyer for a Las Vegas woman is calling for criminal charges against hospital officials who he says ignored his client in the emergency room so long that she went home and gave birth to a premature baby who died. ...
Ohio justices: Cell phone searches require warrant
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The Ohio Supreme Court said Tuesday police officers must obtain a search warrant before scouring the contents of a suspect's cell phone, unless their safety is in danger. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio...
DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage
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After suffering setbacks from California to New York, Maine to New Jersey, same-sex marriage supporters got a victory Tuesday with the City Council's vote to legalize gay marriage in the District of Columbia. Gay...
DNA testing clears man who served 28 years
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A man who spent 28 years behind bars for a rape and murder he said he didn't commit walked out of a federal prison in Arizona on Tuesday with $75 and a bus ticket to Ohio after DNA testing showed he was innocent. The...
WTC rebuilding on social networking sites
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New pictures and video showing the rebuilding at the World Trade Center site are now on two social networking sites. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it added the views from One World Trade Center to...
Mass. ex-gov: Grudge led to Ky. college bankruptcy
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A federal official upset about losing his job gained revenge by triggering the 2005 bankruptcy of a Kentucky college run by former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld, two attorneys allege. Former White House counsel...
Panel: Great Lakes not losing extra water
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Lakes Huron and Michigan are not losing extra billions of gallons of water daily because of navigational dredging as a Canadian group contends, a scientific panel said Tuesday. After a two-year, $3.5 million study, the...
Police probe sleep aid allegation against day care
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Allegations that workers at a church day care put an over-the-counter dietary supplement in candy to help children sleep at nap time are under investigation, police said Tuesday, and the church's pastor said two workers...
Gotta love it! NYC holds condom contest
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New York City wants to "keep people excited" about safe sex, and is sponsoring a contest for the design of the wrapper for the city's next official condom. The city health department is inviting the public to submit...
Verdict closes 'worst' hate crime in Wash. history
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Jurors on Tuesday brought a close to a case described as Washington's worst hate crime, rejecting claims of legal insanity as they convicted a hate-spouting gunman of a deadly shooting rampage at a Seattle Jewish center...
NYC school kids face paying to ride to school
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The cash-strapped agency that runs New York City subways and buses is considering a proposal to end the more than 60-year-old practice of giving free rides for schoolchildren, a move that could cost half a million...
Chicago man accused in terror plot denied bond
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A federal judge on Tuesday declined to release on bond a Chicago man accused of planning to attack a Danish newspaper and of knowing beforehand about last year's terrorist attacks on Mumbai. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan...
'Coastie Song' stirs up U. of Wisconsin campus
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When two students recorded their first rap song together, they wanted to have fun with a cultural icon unique to the University of Wisconsin-Madison: the coastie. The term is widely used here to describe out-of-state...
Oregon teen remains may be serial killer victim
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The remains of a 16-year-old Portland, Ore., girl reported missing in 1983 have been identified _ reopening an investigation into whether there's a link to a convicted serial killer. The Washington County sheriff's...
Iowa woman sentenced to life for son's slaying
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An Iowa woman convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of her 2-year-old son has been sentenced to life in prison. Michelle Kehoe of Coralville also received 25 years for an attack on her other son at the...
Shirtless man, woman in handcuffs belt rob bank
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Authorities in South Florida are searching for a man who held up a Fort Lauderdale bank shirtless then fled with a woman who sported a belt made of handcuffs. According to a news release from the Fort Lauderdale Police...
Katrina: DA seeks 1 autopsy in hospital deaths
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The New Orleans district attorney has requested an autopsy on a terminally ill patient whose doctor acknowledged increasing the drugs the patient received in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the city's coroner said...