Economic crisis, Obama response face new Congress
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate officials denied Illinois Democrat Roland Burris admission to the exclusive club Tuesday, just before the Democratic-dominated Congress convened to confront an economic crisis ...
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Ex-aide sentenced for role in Detroit sex scandal
By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE
Associated Press Writers
DETROIT (AP) -- Nearly a year after headlines revealed a City Hall sex scandal, the former top aide to ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail Tuesday to serve the same punishment as h ...
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Records reveal anguish of anthrax suspect's wife
By DAVID DISHNEAU
Associated Press Writer
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Anthrax mailing suspect Bruce Ivins tormented his wife with rudeness and behaved erratically in the weeks before the Army scientist took his own life by overdosing on Tylenol, acc ...
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Obama's intel picks short on direct experience
By PAMELA HESS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's selection of an old White House hand to head the CIA shows a preference for a strong manager over an intelligence expert.
Obama's decision to name Leon Pan ...
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Bush to establish 3 marine monuments in Pacific
By DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The home of a giant land crab, a sunken island ringed by pink-colored coral, and equatorial waters teeming with sharks and other predators are being designated national marine monument ...
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Madoff scandal, SEC role under scrutiny
By MARCY GORDON
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two more months of mortgage payments and retiree Allan Goldstein says he'll be broke, just another victim in what may be the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.
Goldstein, 76, was among the thousands ...
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Milky Way -- the galaxy -- not snack-sized anymore
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not any ...
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Chrysler sales drop 53 pct; others not much better
By TOM KRISHER and BREE FOWLER
AP Auto Writers
DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler LLC's December U.S. sales plunged by more than half and it sold 30 percent fewer vehicles in 2008, dwarfing the steep declines at the other major automakers as consumers ...
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Carter Attorney General Griffin B. Bell dies at 90
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- Griffin B. Bell, the shrewd Southern lawyer who grew up with Jimmy Carter and later became U.S. attorney general after Carter was elected president, died Monday. He was 90.
Bell died ...
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Kids alone for days, parents dead in locked room
MADRAS, Ore. (AP) -- A couple who hadn't been seen since New Year's Eve have been found dead inside their locked bedroom with their crying 9-month-old daughter in an apparent murder-suicide. Three older children had been left out on their own.
Th ...
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Fire deaths confirmed at Texas homeless shelter
PARIS, Texas (AP) -- Fire tore through a small-town homeless shelter early Monday, partially collapsing the building and killing five men, fire officials said.
The cause of the blaze had not been determined. Residents tried to fight the flames wit ...
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Ford's Dec. sales drop 32 pct; Toyota down 37 pct
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. sales plummeted 32 percent in December and Toyota Motor Corp.'s fell 37 percent as car and truck buyers continued to steer clear of showrooms due to the dismal economy.
Ford ...
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