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MIAMI (AP) -- Ida has reached hurricane force as it nears Nicaragua's mainland.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and two Northeastern senators are working on new climate change legislation, a tacit acknowledgment that a bill being considered by a Senate committee is too controversial to win broad support.
MENDOTA, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say in court documents that a teenager charged with murder confessed to killing a 4-year-old boy because the child was going to reveal the teen molested him.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Blasting is under way as crews try reopening Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line where a massive rock slide closed the road late last month.
Although born prematurely, Chauntasia Gardner left the hospital fat and sassy. But when EMS crews and deputies came to her home in Lakeland on Sunday, what they found shook them to their core. Chauntasia was dead. She'd been starved to death.
PEORIA, Ariz. (azcentral.com) -- A 20-year-old Valley woman has died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an "honor killing."
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A rapist who lived at a Cleveland house where 10 bodies were found has been ordered held without bond.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fire has broken out on a Philadelphia commuter train during the morning rush, complicating commutes hampered by the city's transit strike. Officials say no injuries have been reported.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Democrat Bill Owens has captured the special election for a New York congressional seat that became a fight over the identity of the Republican Party.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Chris Christie says he will restore hope and dreams to New Jersey as its next governor.
DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana.
Greensboro (WFMY) -- November 3, 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of a tragic event in Greensboro's history--the fatal shooting by Ku Klux Klan and Nazi of members of the Community Workers Party.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black has resigned.
Dickinson, ND (AP) -- The father of one of three missing college students says they often went star gazing near a lake in southwestern North Dakota and police don't suspect foul play in their disappearances.
Cleveland, OH (WKYC) -- Since his release from prison in 2005, mass murder suspect Anthony Sowell has been a model ex-convict, according to the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Southern California man who aimed a laser beam at two airliners as they approached an airport has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for disrupting the flights.
Albuquerque, NM (AP) -- Authorities say a man arrested in Colorado is suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas over 15 years, and recently trying to kill a police officer.
Navajo, NM (AP) -- Authorities believe that a 64-year-old nun found dead in her residence on the Navajo Nation may have been murdered.
