| Texas floats plan to house Ike victims aboard ship (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:08 AM CDT  AP - An aging cruise ship could become temporary housing for Hurricane Ike refugees if Texas officials can navigate through the federal government's paperwork.
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| Polygamist child custody case winds down in Texas (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:58 AM CDT  AP - The custody case that swept 439 children from a polygamist sect's western Texas ranch into foster care has largely evaporated, with state authorities dropping all but a few dozen cases against parents.
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| NYC residents: Use your mouse to track rats online (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:20 AM CDT  AP - The city wants to make sure rats have no place to hide, at least online.
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| Man sets self aflame at Seattle college and dies (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:33 AM CDT  AP - A 61-year-old former University of Washington staff member doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze Thursday in the midst of a crowded campus plaza. He died a short time later.
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| Police official: Hudson nephew likely died in SUV (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:34 AM CDT  AP - Detectives believe the 7-year-old nephew of Jennifer Hudson was probably shot in the sport-utility vehicle where his body was later found, a police official said Thursday.
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| Searchers find large bones near Fossett crash site (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:27 AM CDT  AP - Searchers have found what appear to be two large human bones near the crash site of Steve Fossett's plane in California's Sierra Nevada, along with the adventurer's tennis shoes and driver's license, authorities said Thursday.
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| Report: No mechanical failure before copter crash (AP) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:40 AM CDT  AP - Federal investigators say they've found no evidence that mechanical failure was the cause of a medical helicopter crash earlier this month that killed a 1-year-old patient and three crew members.
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| Air Force: Nuke missile silo fire went undetected (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:30 PM CDT AP - A fire caused $1 million worth of damage at an unmanned underground nuclear launch site last spring, but the Air Force didn't find out about it until five days later, an Air Force official said Thursday. |
| US jury convicts son of ex-Liberian president (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:05 PM CDT  AP - A federal jury on Thursday convicted the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the first case brought under a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture and atrocities committed overseas.
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| Police: Husband strangled missing NY teacher (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:10 PM CDT  AP - It seemed like one of those classic suburban nightmares: A teacher went to school on Monday morning, sent a loving text message to her husband, then vanished on the side of the road. Her husband became distraught, making tearful pleas for her safe return.
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| Lawyer defends actions of mother in Nev. abduction (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:06 PM CDT  AP - The mother of a 6-year-old boy who was abducted from her home this month had gone to police after she got a warning note in July but was told that there was no imminent threat and that she should buy a shotgun, her lawyer said Thursday.
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| Suspicion falls on dairy farmer in Ill. murders (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:48 PM CDT  AP - George Weedon hid a tractor behind a false wall on his property, allegedly for a bankrupt dairy farmer who authorities say was trying to conceal assets from his creditors. But Weedon did not keep the secret for long.
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| Bill collectors get tough, and complaints surge (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:23 PM CDT  AP - After several years in which Americans were buying stuff on credit they couldn't afford, a rapidly increasing number are complaining about getting harassed and abused by bill collectors.
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| Calif. to cut water deliveries to cities, farms (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:04 PM CDT  AP - California said Thursday that it plans to cut water deliveries to their second-lowest level ever next year, raising the prospect of rationing for cities and less planting by farmers.
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| Voters in 11 states to elect governors next week (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:14 PM CDT AP - Voters on Tuesday elect governors in 11 states, deciding close contests in Indiana, North Carolina and Washington as Republicans try to chip away at the Democrats' slim majority of gubernatorial seats. |
| Fort Dix jury hears fuel truck mentioned as weapon (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT AP - Jurors in the trial of five men accused of plotting an attack on a New Jersey Army base listened Thursday to recordings of one defendant discussing driving a fuel truck into a building and firing on people in a picnic area. |
| Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT  AP - The nation's obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday. The highest rates were in the South, according to the first state-by-state review of new diagnoses. The worst was in West Virginia, where about 13 in 1,000 adults were diagnosed with the disease in 2005-07. The lowest was in Minnesota, where the rate was 5 in 1,000.
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| New snag for Hubble, no repair mission before May (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:03 PM CDT  AP - The Hubble Space Telescope is working again, taking stunning cosmic photos after a breakdown a month ago. But the good news was quickly tempered by NASA's announcement Thursday that a mission to upgrade the popular telescope will be delayed at least until May.
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| Juror injury halts testimony in retrial of Spector (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 12:20 PM CDT  AP - The first day of testimony in music producer Phil Spector's murder retrial has been canceled after a juror fell and broke his foot in the court parking lot.
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