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 AP - Wed Aug 20, 5:59 AM ET WASHINGTON - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year — and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.  AP - Wed Aug 20, 1:22 AM ET ATLANTA - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 7:23 PM ET The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 8:33 PM ET SAN ANGELO, Texas - A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge.  AP - Wed Aug 20, 6:16 AM ET PHOENIX - Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding, authorities said. AP - Tue Aug 19, 6:02 PM ET McALLEN, Texas - Flooding receded Tuesday in southern Texas and main highways reopened after a deluge of as much as 13 inches of rain, as the drenching weather shifted to the northern end of the state and Oklahoma.  AP - 2 hours, 22 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 7:05 PM ET TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey congressman has arrived in the Republic of Georgia in an effort to bring home two young girls stuck overseas since the conflict with Russia began.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:15 PM ET BUFFALO, N.Y. - John Lennon's killer told parole officials during his latest unsuccessful bid for release from prison that he is ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decades ago. AP - Tue Aug 19, 5:10 PM ET PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania medical student told a classmate he was trying to recruit a New Zealand woman and her 4-year-old daughter to start a society of sex slaves that would live on a farm or island, the FBI said.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:15 PM ET PICKENS, S.C. - A convicted sex offender admitted Tuesday that he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student two years ago, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:09 PM ET BOSTON - The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. Someone loved the people once, enough to have their bodies cremated — then promptly forgot or decided they didn't want them.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 5:04 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 3:55 PM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.  AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:00 PM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Police said Tuesday they hadn't found any connection between slain Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney and a telephone number written with his last name on a Post-It note found in the home of the man who killed him. Crimes and Trials News  AP - Tue Aug 19, 9:08 PM ET LOS ANGELES - "Girls Gone Wild" entrepreneur Joe Francis wants a California court to rescind a settlement he claims a federal judge coerced him into signing. AP - Tue Aug 19, 5:53 PM ET MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - The five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at Fort Dix want their trial postponed because a key expert witness, an Army reservist, is being called to active duty in Iraq. AP - Tue Aug 19, 4:57 PM ET LOS ANGELES - Authorities say a California sheriff's deputy and an attorney were among 55 men charged with possessing child pornography after an eight-month investigation. Powered by: Yahoo! News | U.S. |
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