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Midwest copes with floods DETROIT -- Temperatures rose toward the triple digits along the East Coast today as Midwesterners braced for more rain that could add to days of deadly floods
Midwest copes with floods DETROIT -- Temperatures rose toward the triple digits along the East Coast today as Midwesterners braced for more rain that could add to days of deadly floods. Eight deaths were blamed on stormy weekend weather, most in the Midwest. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle declared an emergency for 29 counties and President Bush late Sunday declared a major disaster in 29 Indiana counties. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said nearly a third o...
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Miami advances; Wichita State out
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Yonder Alonso homered and Enrique Garcia pitched six effective innings as Miami defeated Arizona 4-2 on Sunday night to advance to their 23rd College World Series. The three runs in the first inning were all the Hurricanes (52-9) needed to win the final two games of the super regional series. Reliever Carlos Gutierrez pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for his 13th save of the season. Arizona, which won the series open...
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National Basketball Association Playoffs By The Associated Press NBA FINALS (Best-of-7) Thursday, June 5 Boston 98, L
National Basketball Association Playoffs By The Associated Press NBA FINALS (Best-of-7) Thursday, June 5 Boston 98, L.A. Lakers 88 Sunday's Game Boston 108, L.A. Lakers 102, Boston leads series 2-0 Tuesday's Game Boston at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m. Thursday's Game Boston at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m. Sunday, June 15 Boston at L.A. Lakers, 8 p.m., if necessary Tuesday, June 17 L.A. Lakers at Boston, 8 p.m., if necessary Thurs...
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Note foretells stabbings TOKYO -- A man suspected of killing seven people in a knifing rampage foretold the mayhem in a series of messages posted on the Internet, including one just before the attack saying, "It's time," police and media reports said today
Note foretells stabbings TOKYO -- A man suspected of killing seven people in a knifing rampage foretold the mayhem in a series of messages posted on the Internet, including one just before the attack saying, "It's time," police and media reports said today. Tomohiro Kato, the 25-year-old man accused of ramming pedestrians with a truck and then stabbing 17 bystanders in Tokyo's popular Akihabara district on Sunday, posted the messages on an In...
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Nadal leaves no doubt
PARIS (AP) -- As Rafael Nadal made his entrance for the French Open final, he could not have looked more at home in Paris had he carried a baguette under his arm instead of a tennis bag. The place brings out the best in Nadal. He was at the top of his game again Sunday, when he won his fourth consecutive Roland Garros title and spoiled Roger Federer's latest bid to complete a career Grand Slam. The victory was widely anticipated, but the scor...
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Gas trumps global warming
WASHINGTON -- Congress retreated Friday from the world's biggest environmental concern -- global warming -- in a fresh demonstration of what happens when nature and business collide, especially in an election year. It was no contest. A bill the Senate was debating would put a price on carbon emissions, targeting "greenhouse gases" that contribute to the warming that many scientists say could dramatically change the Earth. Opponents wanted to ...
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Police arrest homicide suspect LAWRENCE -- Police say a 16-year-old boy is in custody in the weekend shooting deaths of two young men in Lawrence
Police arrest homicide suspect LAWRENCE -- Police say a 16-year-old boy is in custody in the weekend shooting deaths of two young men in Lawrence. Lawrence Police Sgt. Dan Ward said Sunday night that information developed during an investigation led to the arrest. Authorities say the suspect is from Lawrence. He was booked into the Douglas County Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of felony murder, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery ...
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"Show me the man who has enjoyed his school days and I will show you a bully and a bore
"Show me the man who has enjoyed his school days and I will show you a bully and a bore." -- Robert Morley, British actor (1908-1992).
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Spot nonferrous metal prices today
NEW YORK (AP) -- Spot nonferrous metal prices today. Aluminum -$1.3400 per lb., N.Y. Merc spot Fri. Copper -$3.6815 Cathode full plate, U.S. destinations. Copper $3.6240 N.Y. Merc spot Fri. Lead - $1935.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch. Zinc - $0.9091 per lb., delivered. Gold - $896.25 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Gold - $895.40 troy oz., NY Merc spot Fri. Silver - $17.365 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Silver - $1...
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RightintheKisser
BOSTON (AP) -- Banner No. 17 is halfway to the rafters. The Celtics are two wins from another NBA championship. Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, Boston's defense mobbed Kobe Bryant long enough and unknown Leon Powe scored 21 points as the Celtics held off another Los Angeles rally for a 108-102 win over the Lakers on Sunday night. The Celtics have a 2-0 lead in these trip-down-memory-lane NBA finals. ...
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AG's office hands over records
TOPEKA (AP) -- The attorney general's office said Friday that it has turned over 34 redacted patient records to a grand jury investigating Wichita abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The records were from abortions Tiller performed in 2003 and were sought by a Sedgwick County grand jury investigating Tiller's practice. Attorney General Steve Six initially refused to turn over the records, and both he and Tiller challenged the scope of the gra...
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Abortion opponents fight over name
WICHITA (AP) -- Anti-abortion leader Randall Terry brought his legal battle over ownership of the name Operation Rescue to one of the cities where the name became synonymous with civil disobedience and mass arrests. Terry, a national leader of the anti-abortion movement in the late 1980s who now lives in Washington, D.C., has filed suit against Troy Newman of Wichita seeking to keep him from using the Operation Rescue name. Newman registered ...
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Man indicted in '75 Girl Scout slaying
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A suspect in the 1975 slaying of a 9-year-old Girl Scout, who disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies, has been indicted by a grand jury, prosecutors announced Friday. Nashville District Attorney Torry Johnson said Jerome Sidney Barrett was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and felony murder. The charges were made public Friday after Barrett, who is in jail on charges in anothe...
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JoCo to seek tax for research triangle
OLATHE (AP) -- Johnson County voters will be asked to approve a sales tax increase to finance projects designed to enhance the Kansas City area's efforts to become a leader in life sciences. The Johnson County Commission voted Thursday to put an eighth-cent sales tax on the November ballot. If approved it would raise an estimated $15 million every year. The tax would last forever. It would leverage state and federal dollars into a $1.4 billio...
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Kansas pursues lab despite concerns
MANHATTAN (AP) -- Safety questions linger, but officials trying to attract a new national biodefense laboratory see little danger in building it at Kansas State University. Most research at the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility would be in Level 3 labs on viruses such as foot-and-mouth disease, which infects cattle, pigs and sheep. But 20 percent of the space would be Level 4 labs, dealing with microorganisms posing a high risk of life-...
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Storms bring destruction EMMAVILLE, Minn
Storms bring destruction EMMAVILLE, Minn. -- Strong storms smashed houses, deluged neighborhoods and left thousands without power across the Midwest on Friday in the latest round of fierce weather. Hot temperatures baked the region even as residents coped with the lack of electricity. A tornado raked a half-mile-wide path of destruction in northwestern Minnesota, where a house overlooking Pickerel Lake near Emmaville was destroyed, it's conte...
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Ochoa shoots career-low round to take lead
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa had 17 good chances at birdie Friday and made enough of them for her lowest round ever in the LPGA Championship, a 7-under 65 that gave her a one-shot lead in her quest for a third straight major title. "It was very easy. I did enjoy it a lot," Ochoa said. "I'm going to try to do two more rounds like that." She was at 10-under 134 and had a one-shot lead over Lindsey Wright (68). It was the lowest 36-h...
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Aggressive diabetes therapy doesn't prevent heart problems, death
NEW YORK (AP) -- Aggressively treating diabetes doesn't prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar, Australian researchers reported Friday. It's the second large study, involving thousands of patients, to show no heart benefit from drastically lowering diabetics' blood sugar levels. Experts said doctors should stick to the recommended target levels. Heart disease is the cause of death for two...
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Shockers upend Seminoles in Super Regional opener
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Wichita State got home runs from Tyler Weber and Conor Gillaspie and held off a Florida State rally Friday to defeat the Seminoles 10-7 in the NCAA Super Regional opener. The Shockers (48-15) used a third-inning, two-run homer from Weber to erase a 1-0 deficit and then got a three-run blast from Gillaspie in the sixth to take a 9-3 lead. Five of Wichita State's runs came after walks or hit batters by starter Elih ...
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