SC WWII vet's battle ends in gunshot at VA clinic
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On the last day of his long, troubled life, Grover Cleveland Chapman packed a black duffel bag, washed out his coffee cup, put it in the dish rack and fetched his Smith & Wesson. He threw away his favorite slippers...
Fla. police eye Mich. in holiday killings probe
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Investigators in Florida alerted Michigan authorities to be on the lookout Saturday for a man accused of shooting four relatives to death after a Thanksgiving dinner in South Florida. The suspect, Paul Michael Merhige,...
Wis. police report 4 shot in Madison duplex
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Four people, including two children, were wounded early Saturday at a duplex in what investigators described as domestic shootings. Madison police said they didn't know what prompted the shootings and were waiting...
La. interstate crash kills 5; critically hurts 10
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A minivan packed with children blew a tire, clipped a delivery truck and rolled on a Louisiana interstate Saturday, killing five people and critically injuring another 10, state police said. Thirteen children riding...
Boston woman delivers grandchild on Thanksgiving
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A Boston woman has succeeded at one of the all-time great Thanksgiving Day juggling acts: She cooked the turkey while helping deliver her baby granddaughter. Patricia McCalop was in the middle of preparing the meal...
Police find Texas teacher's body in SUV at impound
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Police say they found the body of a 35-year-old Houston teacher in his SUV after the apparently abandoned vehicle was towed to an impound. Galena Park Police Chief Robert Pruett says Heladio Rojas Perales' family...
Obituaries in the news
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Bernard Birnbaum NEW YORK (AP) _ CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum, who helped shape the public's view of issues ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal while working alongside Walter Cronkite and Charles...
Carbon credits spell new future for forests
8:37
Driving through the verdant timberlands of Oregon's Coast Range, Matt Fehrenbacher pointed out a mountainside where every tree had been clearcut. "That's business as usual," said Fehrenbacher, a forester with The...
2 dead, 2 wounded when NJ dad shoots his family
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A man chased down and shot his wife and their two young sons in northern New Jersey on Saturday _ killing one boy _ before he was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer, police said. It was not immediately clear...
Ski resorts fight global warming; Utah gov unsure
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Ski resorts across the country are using the Thanksgiving weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer...
Longtime CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum dies
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CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum, who helped shape the public's view of issues ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal while working alongside Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt, has died, the network said. ...
Park rangers recover man's body at Grand Canyon
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Officials at Grand Canyon National Park say a man's body has been found 200 feet below the canyon's South Rim. Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge says the park's communication center began getting calls Saturday...
Domestic abuse cases proceed _ even without victim
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Karla Giraldo's face required about 40 stitches after an incident with her boyfriend, a New York state senator. The wife of New York TV personality Dominic Carter had a swollen lip, cut ear, and bruised body after they...
Family: Slain public defender didn't speak of fear
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Family members say an assistant federal public defender found slain in her Oregon home didn't express fear about retribution from her clients. And, they say, the 57-year-old was strong and fit, so it's hard for them to...
Ohio inmate seeks hearing over execution method
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An Ohio inmate fighting the state's new execution procedure is asking a federal court to intervene. Kenneth Biros is scheduled to die Dec. 8. He would be the first inmate executed under Ohio's change from a three-drug...
Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police
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A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion. Officers later receive a text message from an anonymous tipster that...
CORRECTS Louisiana Interstate Crash story
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(Stations: Please substitute the following for V3043, slugged Louisiana Interstate Crash, which moved at 2:22 p.m. Eastern time. The new version CORRECTS number in van to 15 and number in critical condition to 10.) ...
Former McCain home goes up for auction
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A former home of Arizona Sen. John McCain is scheduled to go up for auction next week. Higgenbotham Auctioneers International says bidding on the Phoenix home will start at $5.9 million. The two-acre property has been...
Cleveland bodies case hard on nearby sausage shop
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The owners of a sausage shop once blamed for a rotten neighborhood stench said they are trying to regroup now that police have determined the odor was coming from the home of an alleged serial killer. The remains of 11...
Ohio school district sues over air pollution
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A school district near Cincinnati is suing a plastics plant, accusing it of continuing to release chemicals in the air that exceed government safety standards. Three Rivers School District closed an elementary school...
Last aircraft leave closing Maine Navy base
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The two last planes at Maine's Brunswick Naval Air Station lifted off Saturday in blustery winds, ending nearly 60 years of maritime patrol operations at New England's last active-duty military air base. The P-3 Orions...
Car smashes into Pa. day care center; 1 hurt
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Police in eastern Pennsylvania say a driver who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence was distracted by a puppy in the front seat and crashed into a day care center full of children, all of whom...
NYC's 'Sidewalk Santas' sidelined due to economy
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The economy has taken a toll on a New York tradition: the "Sidewalk Santas" who collected money for the poor on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The 107-year-old program has gone online for the second year in a row. The...
New commanders at embattled ND base vow perfection
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The sign over the main gate at Minot Air Force Base brags, "Only the Best Come North." It's been a questionable claim over the past two years at the North Dakota base following a rash of nuclear-related screwups that...
SC WWII vet's battle ends in gunshot at VA clinic
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On the last day of his long, troubled life, Grover Cleveland Chapman packed a black duffel bag, washed out his coffee cup, put it in the dish rack and fetched his Smith & Wesson. He threw away his favorite slippers...
9 injured during fireworks mishap near Pittsburgh
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Part of a fireworks display in suburban Pittsburgh misfired into a group of onlookers and exploded, slightly injuring nine people. The mishap occurred in Etna on Friday night as the town held its annual holiday...
Pa. city torn by racial strife elects black mayor
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A little girl who trembled in her house as a National Guard tank rumbled past during York's chaotic 1969 race riots has grown up to become the first black mayor of the central Pennsylvania city. Kim Bracey, 45, an...
Kennedy to speak on health care after church feud
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Congressman Patrick Kennedy is to make his first public appearance since heightening a feud with Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop over abortion. The Democratic lawmaker plans to speak Monday at Brown University...
76-year old accused of killing son on Thanksgiving
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A Thanksgiving dispute over chores turned deadly outside Colorado Springs, where police say a 76-year-old man shot and killed his son after the two argued for most of the day. Ayalis Clay Oliver is being held without...
Carbon credits spell new future for forests
10:39
Driving through the verdant timberlands of Oregon's Coast Range, Matt Fehrenbacher pointed out a mountainside where every tree had been clearcut. "That's business as usual," said Fehrenbacher, a forester with The...
Some gays seek renewed focus on civil unions
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Leland Traiman, who runs a sperm bank in California, worries about his lesbian clients in more conservative parts of the country when he hears fellow gay rights activists talk about winning the right to wed. With 34...
Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered
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A Utah cave's narrow crevice that trapped and eventually killed a medical student will become his final resting place, and the dangerous cavern will be permanently sealed. State and county officials said Friday that...
Recession sends older Americans to food pantries
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Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing...
AP News in Brief
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White House dinner crashers met Obama; Secret Service says officers didn't check guest list WASHINGTON (AP) _ This time, the picture is the story. After the Secret Service insisted that President Barack Obama was...
The nation's weather
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Snow and freezing rain was expected before a storm moves out of New England Saturday morning, leaving strong winds behind. Freezing temperatures also were expected in parts of the Southeast. On the opposite coast, a...
Quotations of the day
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"The preliminary findings of our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifying that two individuals were on the guest list. Although these individuals...
Slain Ore public defender was strangled
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An autopsy has found that an assistant federal public defender found dead in her home was strangled. Nancy Bergeson was found Tuesday afternoon lying face down in the dining room of her southwest Portland home. A girl...
Today in History - Nov. 28
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Today is Saturday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2009. There are 33 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 28, 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff's notoriously difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op....
US and China to reduce emissions, but not enough
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Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert...
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 849
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As of Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at least 849 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department....
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,366
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As of Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at least 4,366 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed...
Obituaries in the news
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Al Alberts PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Veteran TV talent-show host Al Alberts, one in a long line of South Philadelphia crooners, died Friday in Florida, a son said. He was 87. Alberts featured child singers and dancers on...
Conn. charity gets fishing vessels, jobs for vets
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His father was a lifelong scalloper, his uncles are fishermen, and 23-year-old Chris Pinto realized as he got older that fishing is "in my blood." It just didn't look like it was in his future. His father, Paul, died...
AP News in Brief
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Florida authorities: Tiger Woods injured in early morning car accident outside his mansion Tiger Woods sustained facial cuts in a minor car accident early Friday when his SUV hit a fire hydrant and a neighbor's tree as...
Christian church, Native American tribe reconcile
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Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday _ for the first time _ for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago. "We consumed your resources, dehumanized your...
Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered
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The Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed. State and county officials made the announcement Friday afternoon, saying it was...
18 Leonberger puppies keeps Wyoming family busy
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A Wyoming family's Leonberger dog has given birth to a litter of 18 puppies. Ariel, a large Leonberger dog owned by Mary Ann Ruggiero-Smith, of Powell, gave birth to the puppies on Oct. 27. After the pups were born,...
FBI: Ex-doctor in Ohio admitted making pipe bombs
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A former doctor who practiced medicine in Ohio and West Virginia has admitted to making pipe bombs that were part of an arsenal seized at his apartment after two explosions, federal agents say. An affidavit filed in...
Man apparently tried to haul away ATM in Colorado
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Authorities say a man in Colorado apparently tried to steal an ATM by hauling it away with a truck. The plan didn't work. The alleged attempted theft of the free-standing, outdoor ATM in Boulder set off an alarm early...
Signal fading on radio traffic reports
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For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic. These days, he...