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(AP) Construction on a huge reservoir meant to help restore the Everglades will be put on hold over a lawsuit brought by a group that fears the water could be diverted for other purposes.The South Florida Water Management District, whose board voted Thursday to stop work, has already spent about $250 ...
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(AP) Prosecutors say a New York landlord who tried to kill a tenant with a bomb has been indicted on attempted murder and other charges. The tenant lost a leg in the blast.Prosecutors said Thursday that 38-year-old Yung Tang placed the bomb in a bag next to Israel Halberstam's minivan while ...
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(AP) Police say they have charged a teenager with murder in the Mother's Day stabbing death of a 19-year-old man who was refueling his car to take his wife to the hospital to give birth.Daniel Thompson Jr., 17, was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Carlos ...
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(AP) A jury convicted a city firefighter Thursday of fatally shooting three people and wounding two others during a late-night Fourth of July celebration, rejecting defense claims that he was angered by the noise and snapped.Terrance Hough Jr. was convicted of three counts of aggravated murder and two counts of attempted ...
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(AP) A man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods as firefighters battled large blazes nearby set several other small fires to throw off officers who were pursuing him, police said Thursday.Each of the fires that Brian Crowder, 31, is accused of setting Wednesday was quickly extinguished, Police Chief ...
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(AP) A man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods as firefighters battled large blazes nearby set several other small fires to throw off officers who were pursuing him, police said Thursday.Each of the fires that Brian Crowder, 31, is accused of setting Wednesday was quickly extinguished, Police Chief ...
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(AP) The state will take over an effort to collect grant money from Hurricane Katrina victims who got too much, citing a lack of confidence in a private contractor's ability to determine who owes money, a Louisiana official said Thursday.Paul Rainwater, executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, said the state ...
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(AP) Children who survive cancer face a much greater risk of heart problems later in life than their brothers and sisters who did not have cancer, new research shows.Doctors have long known that certain chemotherapy drugs and radiation can harm the heart, but it has been seen as a relatively small ...
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(AP) Evidence is growing that vitamin D, which the skin makes from sunshine, is linked to lower risk of breast cancer and other cancers. But that doesn't mean it's good to get a golden tan _ and certainly not a sunburn.Vitamin D also is in certain foods and supplements, though the ...
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(AP) A growing number of women with early stage breast cancer seem to be choosing to have the whole breast removed instead of just the cancerous lump, doctors are reporting.Mastectomies were standard treatment until 1990, when studies showed that women whose cancers were small and confined to the breast did just ...
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(AP) Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found _ adding to evidence the "sunshine vitamin" has anti-cancer benefits.The results are sure to renew arguments about whether ...
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(AP) The parents of a teenager killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo filed a claim against the city Thursday, seeking monetary compensation for the mauling of their 17-year-old son.Carlos Sousa Jr. died Dec. 25 when a Siberian tiger named Tatiana escaped its enclosure and attacked the San ...
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(AP) Inadequate training, outdated tactics and aging equipment helped lead to the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters fighting a furniture store blaze last year, according to a long-awaited analysis by fire experts released Thursday.The report said firefighters did not follow standard safety practices and had obsolete equipment when battling the Sofa ...
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(AP) A man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to writing racially hateful letters and e-mails to black or mixed-race people, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.David Tuason, 46, pleaded guilty to six counts of mailing threatening communications and two counts of threatening interstate ...
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(AP) Americans spent $1.23 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in April, up 47 percent from a year earlier, even as the price of more essential items like food and gasoline soared.Nintendo Co. again took the crown in hardware sales, with its Wii console selling more units than Sony Corp.'s ...
