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NYC funeral home van towed _ with body inside
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A police tow truck removed a minivan parked outside a New York City funeral home, giving its dearly departed passenger an unexpected side trip.
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Friend: Suspected US al-Qaida member grew radical
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Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago.
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Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders
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A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair.
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Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom
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A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled rather than let the couple attend.
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Brake, driver problems cited in fatal Ariz. crash
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Authorities say a bus that rolled on an Arizona freeway last week, killing six passengers and injuring 16 others, had problems with its brakes and its drivers.
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2 killed, 2 injured in Salt Lake TRAX accident
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Two people are dead and two are in critical condition after their car collided with a light-rail train.
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Ask AP: Air travelers’ luggage, a skier’s death
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Saving people’s lives, of course, is an airline’s top priority whenever a plane crashes. But later on, what’s the procedure for trying to save their luggage?
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2 killed, 2 injured in Salt Lake TRAX accident
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Two people are dead and two are in critical condition after their car collided with a light-rail train.
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Beer lovers froth with anger over Philly bar raids
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A real brew-haha has beer lovers in the City of Brotherly love frothing over with anger.
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The nation’s weather
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Wet weather was forecast to persist in the Eastern half of the nation Friday as a large low pressure system hovered over the region.
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Former John Edwards aide returning to NC court
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A former aide to John Edwards is returning to court just days after a North Carolina judge nearly sent him to jail over his handling of a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter.
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Fed. appeals court upholds ’under God’ in pledge
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An appellate court has upheld references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments they violate the constitutional separation of church and state.
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Accused lottery killer indicted by Fla. grand jury
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The woman accused of killing a Florida Lottery winner has been formally charged with his murder.
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Autopsy: Animal fatally mauled teacher in Alaska
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A teacher jogging along a rural Alaskan road was killed in an animal attack and authorities say wolves are the chief suspects.
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Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman
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Utah’s House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
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After drop in poll, AG recuses himself in NY probe
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In recusing himself after two weeks of investigating Gov. David Paterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said there was no "technical conflict" but described the probe thus far as preliminary and bowed to pressure that included sinking approval ratings for the man widely expected to run for governor.
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Book clubs for doctors show human side of medicine
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Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients.
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Woman beaten in NYC bar after rejecting advances
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A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, police said.
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Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches
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Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.
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Pilot dies in plane crash at small Ariz. airport
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A World War II-era plane crashed Thursday while attempting to land at a small suburban Phoenix airport, killing the pilot and starting a hangar on fire, authorities said.
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More SF drug cases dropped amid crime lab scrutiny
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More drug-related cases were dismissed in San Francisco courtrooms Thursday, bringing to nearly 60 the number of cases thrown out over the past two days because of accusations of evidence tampering in the city’s crime lab.
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4 killed by trains in accidents in NJ, NY, Pa.
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Authorities say four people were fatally struck by trains in the Northeast.
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Tips, IDs follow release of serial killer’s photos
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California police say they are receiving calls from the public after releasing more than 100 photos apparently taken by convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala in the 1970s, but tip gathering has been hampered by phone problems at police headquarters.
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Former northern Indiana mayor, aides to pay $108M
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A federal judge has ordered a former northern Indiana mayor and two ex-aides to pay $108 million in civil damages in an alleged sidewalks-for-votes scheme.
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Indiana man who murdered 2 executed in Texas
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An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a sheriff’s officer.
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