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Owner: Ride's over at Coney Island amusement park By RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused. I ...
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Jobless rate jumps to 5-year high of 6.1 percent By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is in ...
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Fla. Keys residents weigh evacuation ahead of Ike By BRIAN SKOLOFF Associated Press Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- As a ferocious Hurricane Ike ripped across Cuba, a tropical storm warning was issued for the Florida Keys early Monday. Residents from Key West to the Gulf Coast watched Ike's u ...
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Obama and McCain: Big economic differences By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Job No. 1 for the next president? In the minds of an overwhelming number of Americans, it's fixing what ails the sick economy. What the voters will have to sort out are very different approa ...
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Home loan troubles break records again By ALAN ZIBEL AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who had solid credit but took out exotic loans with ballooning monthly paymen ...
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Sources: Bush advised to delay troop cuts in Iraq By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year contrary to expectations that the improved ...
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Murder trial opens in Tenn. love triangle case By DUNCAN MANSFIELD Associated Press Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A prosecutor described a schoolteacher's husband as a jealous, calculating killer as trial opened Friday on charges he murdered his wife's teenage lover. But a defense lawyer to ...
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FDA posts list of potential problem drugs By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems in an effort to better inform doctors and patients. The first ...
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Review panel criticizes Great Lakes health study By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an ind ...
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'Broken man' Abramoff gets 4 years in prison By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of ...
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McCain tells convention, nation he'll bring change By DAVID ESPO and ROBERT FURLOW Associated Press Writers ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the "constant partisan rancor" that grips Washington as he launched his fall campaign ...
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Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick pleads guilty, resigns By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE Associated Press Writers DETROIT (AP) -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the natio ...
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Detroit mayor, soon off to jail, talks of comeback By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Writers DETROIT (AP) -- Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city -- and ...
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FEMA to cover hotel costs for some Gustav evacuees By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Victims of Hurricane Gustav who can't return to their homes over the next month because of storm damage or power outages can have their hotel costs covered by the Federal Emergency M ...
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Duck Stamp error sends callers to sex line By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct. The ...
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Army: soldier suicide rate may set record again By PAULINE JELINEK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force s ...
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FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they c ...
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Abramoff gets 4 years prison in corruption scandal By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had s ...
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Productivity up strongly while labor costs dip By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans' productivity soared in the spring while labor costs declined, two welcome outcomes that should relieve concerns that inflation is getting out of hand. The Commerce Departmen ...
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