Articles filed under Associated Press
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Fidel Castro resigns Cuban presidency after nearly half-centuryFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - HAVANA -- Fidel Castro, ailing and 81, announced Tuesday he was resigning as Cuba's president, ending a half-century of autocratic rule which made him a communist icon a...
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Small Texas town a 'Giant' for OscarFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - MARFA, Texas -- A thousand feet above a wind-swept, drought-browned valley, a man steps out of a late-70s Ford Granada on a deserted two-lane. He is confronted by a seco...
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'Devil toad' fossil foundFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago -- intimidating enough that scientists who unear...
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New law may not have stopped NIU gunmanFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year's massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what w...
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Stocks head for higher openFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Stock futures rose Tuesday as investors digested earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and news of more problems at some of the world's largest banks. Wal-Mart'...
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GOP patriarch Bush endorses McCainFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - HOUSTON -- John McCain picked up former President George H.W. Bush's support on Monday, a critical blessing by a pillar of the Republican establishment whose members are...
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NIU's Patton close to two tragediesFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - For Northern Illinois basketball coach Ricardo Patton, last week's tragedy jarred memories of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. He was the head coach at Colora...
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Nets send Kidd to Mavericks in eight-player tradeFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The Jason Kidd era is over in New Jersey. The New Jersey Nets and Dallas on Tuesday completed a trade sending the All-Star to the Mavericks, who ...
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Irwin's 4-year-old son unfazed by first snake biteFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Like father, like son? The 4-year-old son of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin wasn't at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, acco...
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Serbs set border checkpoints on fire to protest Kosovo independenceFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- Thousands of Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbia" marched Tuesday to a bridge dividing them from ethnic Albanians while others torched U.N. bo...