Articles filed under Associated Press
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Brewers rally before losingSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - PITTSBURGH -- A loss like this hurt in April and May, for sure. When a contending team like Milwaukee climbs back from a 4-run deficit, ties it up in the late innings an...
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Kilogram sample losing weightSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - PARIS -- A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key out...
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NHL suspends Leafs' Bell for 15 gamesSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell was suspended for 15 games without pay Wednesday by the NHL after his plea last month of no contest to drunken driving and hit-and-...
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Ebola puts gorillas at brink of extinctionSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - GENEVA -- The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species rele...
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Cook County judge sues over re-election age limitSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - A Cook County circuit judge is suing to challenge a state law that restricts judges from running for re-election after age 75. Seventy-two-year-old Judge William Maddux ...
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Castro claims Cuba alerted Reagan to assassination plotSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Fidel Castro claims Cuba's government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984. The essa...
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Flu suspected as U.S. deaths jump in 2005Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a ...
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Judge: Former cop a flight riskSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - The judge who presided over Chicago's biggest mob trial in years expressed doubts Wednesday about setting bond for a retired police officer convicted in the case, saying...
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Spinach problems failed to affect rulesSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - SALINAS, Calif. -- Government regulators never acted on calls for stepped-up inspections of leafy greens after last year's deadly E. coli spinach outbreak, leaving the s...
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Gunmen rob armored car in BaghdadSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - An Iraqi man shops in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan in a market in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Ra...