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Quake rattles Southern Calif.; no damage reported (AP)
AP - A moderate earthquake struck San Bernardino Thursday night, shaking residents from Los Angeles to San Diego but apparently causing no damage or injuries.
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Moderate quake strikes San Bernardino (AP)
AP - A moderate earthquake struck Thursday night in San Bernardino, with shaking felt from Los Angeles 55 miles to the west and south to Orange County. No immediate reports of damage or injuries were reported.
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Border Patrol to close Calif. plaza for new fence (AP)
AP - A half-acre plaza that has stood for the goodwill between Mexico and the United States is closing to make way for a triple fence along the U.S. southern border, the California State Parks Department confirmed Thursday.
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Calif. court rejects lawsuit against tax increases (AP)
AP - A California appeals court has tossed out a lawsuit filed by anti-tax groups that sought to block a package of tax increases passed by Democrats in the state Legislature.
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Catholics targeted by NY man in $17M Ponzi scheme (AP)
AP - An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through ads in Catholic newspapers.
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Police: Teen planning school shooting in custody (AP)
AP - A teenager who authorities say was plotting to "shoot up" a North Carolina high school is in custody because of a tip from a teen who chatted with the suspect online, investigators said Thursday.
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Key panel recommends impeaching Ill. governor (AP)
AP - A key panel unanimously recommended impeachment for Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday, setting up a vote that could make him the first governor to face such fate in Illinois' sordid political history. Blagojevich should lose his job for abusing power, mismanaging government and committing possib …
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Diocese seeks $20M from breakaway Episcopalians (AP)
AP - Episcopal leaders in Pittsburgh went to court Thursday seeking to recover $20 million in assets they believe were wrongfully taken when the conservative branches split from the liberal diocese in October.
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Missing Kan. boy was once briefly in state custody (AP)
AP - A boy whose disappearance went unreported for 10 years was once taken away from his adoptive parents, then returned days later, Kansas' social services agency said Thursday.
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Judge delays start of evangelist Alamo's trial (AP)
AP - A federal judge on Thursday delayed the trial of jailed evangelist Tony Alamo on charges he took young girls across state lines for sex.
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Illinois, 41 other states in salmonella outbreak (AP)
AP - A nationwide salmonella outbreak that has struck 42 states has put about one in five of its victims in the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
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Panel recommends impeaching Ill. governor (AP)
AP - A key panel unanimously recommended Thursday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich be impeached for abusing his power, mismanaging Illinois government and committing possible criminal acts.
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Ill. House panel recommends governor's impeachment (AP)
AP - An Illinois House committee has unanimously recommended that Gov. Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY'-uh-vich) be impeached for abuse of power.
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Firefighters near containment of Colo. wildfire (AP)
AP - Thousands of evacuated residents, including former FEMA chief Michael D. Brown, were allowed to return to their homes Thursday after firefighters partially contained a wildfire near Denver that destroyed two houses and several outbuildings.
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Fatal police shooting sparks violent protests (AP)
AP - In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face-down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and fatally shoots the man in the back ? then looks up.
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Judge releases Ala. sheriff jailed over jail food (AP)
AP - An Alabama sheriff who made $212,000 in the last three years by feeding inmates what a judge said were skimpy portions was released from prison Thursday after submitting a plan pledging to feed them better.
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Paterson: Kennedy lacks some experience for Senate (AP)
AP - Gov. David Paterson said for the first time Thursday that Caroline Kennedy's lack of legislative experience is a "minus" to her qualifications as a possible appointee to the U.S. Senate.
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Court papers: Gotti neighbor was dissolved in acid (AP)
AP - It is perhaps the most intriguing unsolved mystery from the gaudy gangland career of John Gotti: Whatever happened to the neighbor who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son ? and then vanished?
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Court strikes down federal sex offender law (AP)
AP - An appeals court has ruled that the federal government cannot hold sex offenders in custody beyond the end of their prison sentences.
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Search abandoned for NJ baby's body, lost in trash (AP)
AP - Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital's trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.
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