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Bush buoys victims of tornado-ravaged South - 3/4/2007
ENTERPRISE, Ala. - President Bush handed out hugs to residents who survived killer tornadoes that ripped through Alabama and Georgia and offered encouraging words Saturday at Enterprise High School where students grieved the loss of eight classmates. |
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Snowmobiler survives burial by avalanche - 3/4/2007
HELENA, Mont. - A man buried by an avalanche for almost eight hours emerged with little more than scratches after a relative, using a probe, found him. |
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Closing Till racial killing case called just - 3/4/2007
Even as the U.S. Department of Justice was announcing a fresh look at unsolved civil rights-era killings around the South, a Mississippi Delta prosecutor was closing the books on perhaps the most notorious of those cold cases - the brutal 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. |
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Vegetable oil gives chef a cheaper ride to work - 3/4/2007
HARTFORD, Conn. - Georges Zidi is the real frugal gourmet. Zidi is executive chef at the venerable and private Hartford Club, where members dine in style in a Georgian-revival townhouse. |
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FDA food safety inspections down by a half - 3/4/2007
WASHINGTON - The federal agency that's been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half as many food safety inspections as it did three years ago. |
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Survivors tell of shock, confusion following bus crash that killed 6 - 3/4/2007
ATLANTA - Tony Moore and his college baseball teammates were jolted awake when their bus slammed against a concrete barrier and dropped off an overpass. Two students were trapped, one player had already died and diesel fuel was leaking, survivors and family members said. |
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U.S. report on environment shows risks - 3/4/2007
WASHINGTON - By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies. |
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Torso found in garage may be that of missing woman - 3/4/2007
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Investigators found what is believed to be the torso of a mother of two who disappeared last month, and they sought her husband as the suspect in her slaying, authorities said Saturday. |
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FDA explores safety of kids' cold medicines - 3/4/2007
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government health officials say they are reviewing whether popular medicines like Tylenol Plus Cold & Cough and Infant Triaminic Thin Strips are safe and effective in treating children's colds and coughs. |
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Body parts go awry, arrive at private home - 3/4/2007
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Two packages containing human body parts - including a liver and part of a head - meant for a medical research laboratory were delivered instead to a home. |
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Soldier convicted in comrade's death - 3/4/2007
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - An Arkansas soldier has been convicted of negligent homicide for the shooting death of a fellow guardsman in Iraq. Spc. Daniel E. Turner was convicted Monday in Baghdad and sentenced to 15 months in a military prison, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Saturday. |
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Ex-KGB official found shot near home - 3/4/2007
WASHINGTON - An expert on Russian intelligence was critically injured in a shooting in front of his suburban Washington home, authorities said. The shooting of Paul Joyal, 53, came days after he accused the Russian government of involvement in the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. The FBI was helping in the investigation. |
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Student lawsuit hinges on whether 'That's so gay' is hate speech - 3/4/2007
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - When a few classmates razzed Rebekah Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay." |
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Secretary of Army fired over hospital - 3/3/2007
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday fired the Army secretary, and President Bush vowed to investigate allegations of substandard treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. |
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School warned prior to tornado - 3/3/2007
ENTERPRISE, Ala. - Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier. |
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U.S. picks design for new nuclear warhead - 3/3/2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration took a major step Friday toward building a new generation of nuclear warheads, selecting a design that is being touted as safer, more secure and more easily maintained than today's arsenal. |
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Six killed as bus goes off ramp - 3/3/2007
ATLANTA - A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife. |
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Libby jury seeks term clarification - 3/3/2007
WASHINGTON - Jurors asked for a definition of "reasonable doubt" as they completed an eighth day of deliberations Friday in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. |
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Obama's ancestors had slaves - 3/3/2007
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama, who would like to become the first black president, has white ancestors who owned slaves, according to a genealogical researcher. |
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Astronaut faces charge of kidnapping attempt - 3/3/2007
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors charged astronaut Lisa Nowak Friday with trying to kidnap a romantic rival but declined to file an attempted murder charge. |
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