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Official: Death toll should stand at five in plant blast
2/9/2010 12:32 AM
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Search-and-rescue crews declared a section of an exploded power plant too unstable to comb through Monday, a task that lost urgency when officials said everyone assigned to work at the plant the day of the blast had been accounte ...
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2/9/2010 12:32 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Federal workers got a day off as the Mid-Atlantic region dug out Monday from as much as 3 feet of snow that left tens of thousands without power while making travel nearly impossible. And there's another storm brewing.
With ...
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2/9/2010 12:32 AM
BISMARCK, North Dakota -- More than almost any other U.S. state, North Dakota has escaped the worst effects of the country's recession, but with its good fortune has come an unexpected problem: homelessness, as desperate job seekers flow into the lar ...
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2/9/2010 12:31 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the worl ...
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2/9/2010 12:31 AM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what's likely the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling a new room and observation deck for the International Space Station.
The space shuttle took ...
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2/8/2010 8:58 PM
EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter - the biggest plane the company has ever built - took off on its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.
The huge plane took off from Everett's Paine Field after a weather dela ...
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2/6/2010 9:49 PM
NY court sniffs at ex-cop's drugged-dinner claim
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A former New York City counterterrorism detective who says he was unfairly fired as a result of a failed drug test he blamed on his wife's marijuana-spiked meatball ...
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2/6/2010 9:49 PM
2-inch toy gun in school means trouble for NYC boy
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City fourth-grader was sent to the principal's office and nearly suspended for bringing a 2-inch toy gun to school.
Nine-year-old Patrick Timoney and ...
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2/6/2010 9:49 PM
LAS VEGAS -- A daughter of a 70-year-old Washington state man said Thursday she was stunned to hear her father was behind the wheel of a speeding vehicle that crashed into a southern Nevada casino, killing two people and injuring at least eight.
"I ...
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2/6/2010 9:49 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A mentally ill New York man who spent nearly six years in jail for a 1976 rape he insisted he didn't commit was exonerated Thursday after DNA testing showed he was innocent.
The conviction of Freddie Peacock, now 60, of Rochester ...
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2/6/2010 9:49 PM
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A shark up to 9 feet long likely intended to eat the man it fatally attacked off South Florida, a shark expert said Friday.
Stephen Schafer, 38, was kiteboarding about a quarter-mile offshore in Stuart, 100 miles north of M ...
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2/6/2010 9:45 PM
JUNEAU, Alaska -- E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's role while his wife was Alaska's governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker's advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state governmen ...
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2/6/2010 9:45 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mid-Atlantic residents were buried Saturday from a likely record-setting blizzard the president jokingly called "Snowmageddon," and those brave enough tried to clear a path through the wet, heavy mounds of thigh-high snow.
The s ...
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2/6/2010 9:45 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A law intended to reduce inmate overcrowding by allowing early releases at state prisons and county jails is sowing confusion throughout California a month after it took effect.
Lawmakers of both parties have called for repeal ...
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2/6/2010 9:45 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. -- If you trust a rodent to predict when winter will end, how about an ape to guide your Super Bowl winner selection?
The Oregon Zoo's youngest orangutan, Kutai, showed no hesitation Friday in selecting an Indianapolis Colts T-shirt ...
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2/6/2010 9:44 PM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With many still in shock over this week's space exploration shake-up, NASA managers insist the launch team is focused on safely launching Endeavour today.
Mission managers cleared the space shuttle for liftoff even as they u ...
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2/6/2010 9:44 PM
LOS ANGELES -- Thunderous mudslides swept away cars and pushed furniture out of homes and into the streets in the foothills north of Los Angeles Saturday as an intense winter storm brought down hillsides in wildfire burn areas.
At least 41 homes we ...
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2/6/2010 9:44 PM
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- It wasn't the fairy tale wedding most brides dream of, but that didn't matter.
Keni Carter and Chris Hulett held hands at the front of the Athens Regional Medical Center chapel Friday afternoon, as a Barrow County probate judge ...
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2/4/2010 8:45 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House on Thursday voted to allow the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper in debt - or about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident.
The measure, approved 217-212, would raise the cap on federal borrowing to $14.3 trillion. Th ...
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2/4/2010 8:45 PM
STUART, Fla. (AP) -- A man who died in a shark attack while kiteboarding off South Florida's Atlantic coast was experienced on the water and usually went out with a buddy, his friend said Thursday.
Stephen Howard Schafer, 38, was the first person k ...
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2/4/2010 12:20 AM
TAMPA, Fla. -- More than a week ago, a friend of a missing Florida lottery winner approached an acquaintance with a chilling request, according to detectives: Dig up the body of the dead man in her backyard.
That woman, Dorice "DeeDee" Moore, was c ...
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2/4/2010 12:20 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be.
The tennis ball-sized meteorite plummeted through the roof of a Virginia medical office just after dusk on Jan. 18 ...
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2/2/2010 7:57 PM
ATLANTA -- UPS is seeing more people using cell phones to buy and ship goods over the Internet, a greater number of customers paying for premium services such as next-day air and businesses beefing up operations overseas.
That resulted in a four ...
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2/2/2010 7:57 PM
DETROIT -- Automakers said U.S. sales mostly rose in January as the economy improved, though Toyota Motor Corp. proved the exception, posting a 16-percent drop after halting sales of several top-selling models.
January is typically a weak month ...
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2/2/2010 7:56 PM
LILBURN, Ga. -- If Georgia groundhogs can be believed, winter is about to give way to an early spring.
Early Tuesday morning, Gen. Beauregard Lee braved wet, chilly weather to deliver his annual Groundhog Day prognostication Tuesday morning from hi ...
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2/2/2010 7:56 PM
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- Punxsutawney Phil might be an expert at shadow spotting, but texting? Not so much.
About two hours after the nation's most famous groundhog "saw" his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter, the rodent's inaugural stab at ...
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