Ida hurricane watch for Mexico's Caribbean coast
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Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the...
Office shooting suspect's life spiraled downward
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His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill. The...
Mass. father of boy in cancer case dies
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The father of an autistic Massachusetts boy who died after his mother allegedly withheld cancer medication has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. Eric Fraser died Thursday after being taken off life...
Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting
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The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the...
Brother: Shooting suspect is a peaceful person
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A brother of the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood says the Army psychiatrist is peaceful person _ and hopes he will be treated fairly by the legal system. Eyad (ee-YAHD') Hasan said in an...
Perry says he's humbled after visiting wounded
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Texas governor Rick Perry has visited with wounded victims from the Fort Hood shooting. Perry said at a news conference on Saturday that the soldiers he visited with told him it is an honor to serve their country and...
Suspect told 'There's something wrong with you'
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There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent. ...
Suspect identified in Seattle police killing
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Seattle police on Saturday identified a 41-year-old man as the person suspected of shooting and killing a police officer on Halloween night. At a news conference, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel identified...
Navy ship built with WTC steel goes into service
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The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength. "No matter how many times you attack us, we always come back,"...
Some fear backlash against Muslims in US military
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military _ and wasn't treated as an American and soldier should be. He visibly lived his faith, wearing his...
Some fear backlash against Muslims in US military
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Some Muslim servicemembers are worried that the mass shooting at Fort Hood could unravel their work to be accepted as loyal, dedicated soldiers. Witnesses have told investigators that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted...
Transformer fire disrupts Ellis Island activities
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Fire officials say operations at Ellis Island have been widely disrupted by a transformer fire. Armando Roman, director of Jersey City's Fire and Emergency Services Department, says firefighters were dispatched at...
Officer describes firefight that downed Hasan
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One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military...
Police report says wrong-way driver a pot smoker
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New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. The report says Diane Schuler's...
Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial in Pa.
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With the words "Let's roll" _ the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt _ U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of...
Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers
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Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them _ most by strangulation _ and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard. Such brazenness...
Funeral services held for slain New Mexico nun
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A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation of western New Mexico was remembered for her passion for the poor at funeral services. A tearful, standing-room only crowd attended funeral...
Minnesota teen who fled chemo now cancer-free
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A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment. Daniel Hauser of Sleepy Eye underwent his final radiation session Friday, and his family says the 13-year-old is cancer-free....
Philly transit union says pact reports 'premature'
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A national spokesman for the Philadelphia transit system's largest union says reports of a tentative agreement were "premature" and the negotiations aimed at ending a five-day strike continue. Transport Workers Union...
Spat over 'terrorists' halts Conn. 9/11 memorial
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A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists." Town...
Woman hit, killed on Calif. highway fetching boxes
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A 36-year-old woman has died after she was struck several times while retrieving boxes on a Sacramento freeway. California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Lizz Dutton says the woman walked onto eastbound Interstate 80 to...
Police: Inmate had threatened deputy with knife
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Authorities in Wisconsin say an inmate somehow armed himself with a knife and threatened a sheriff's deputy before the officer shot and wounded him. The Waukesha County sheriff's department says Steven P. Lettenberger,...
Killings remain unsolved as sniper execution nears
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It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote. She got no reply....
NY case spotlights Dead Sea Scrolls, fake e-mails
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Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism. The messages, it turned out, were a...
George W. Bush visits Fort Hood, wounded soldiers
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Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood. The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center...
Alabama county celebrates official Obama holiday
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The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the...
Colo. man who threatened Obama makes weapons plea
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A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges. Shawn Adolf faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty...
Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete
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Police in Florida say a graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to potential critics to explain the unfinished work. Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fisher says...
Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu
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Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island _ prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help. "Diomede is probably the most isolated place in the United States...
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...
Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games
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A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space _ an idea spurred by science fiction novels. The team's robotic machine raced up more than 2,950...
Gift card scandal could sink Baltimore mayor
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The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of power....
Pa. locals, Flight 93 families united by history
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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...
Ida returns to tropical storm strength
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Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week. Ida came ashore in Nicaragua as a hurricane...
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Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph, as it swirls in the Caribbean. ...
Obituaries in the news
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Donald Baim NATICK, Mass (AP) _ Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60. Baim had...
After immigrant killed in NY, others tell of abuse
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The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "beaner hopping." "Jose, Kevin and I started popping and Jose punched him so hard he knocked him out," Anthony Harfford told...
NY town marks year since immigrant fatally stabbed
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The family of an Ecuadorean man slain on a Long Island street will be among those participating in a candlelight vigil and memorial service to mark the first anniversary of the killing. Joselo Lucero (loo-SEHR'-oh)...
Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La.
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State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in...
Stepfather convicted in death of 'Baby Grace'
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Two years after the remains of a toddler who came to be known as "Baby Grace" were dumped in Galveston Bay, the child's stepfather was convicted of capital murder in her beating death. The remains of Riley Ann Sawyer _...
Court upholds removal of man after Nazi salute
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A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute. Robert Norse was...
Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises
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Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates...
UN urges Karzai to fight corruption
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The U.N. Security Council joined calls Friday on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to fight corruption, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling the country's political situation "delicate" following deeply flawed...
Today in History - Nov. 7
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Today is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2009. There are 54 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
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....