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Little has changed since MLK called Sunday morning "the most segregated hour"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- As a young white minister, Michael Catt said he was fired from a Mississippi church for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. He never forgot it.


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Three-eyed critter was expected to live only a few days; now he's in the Guinness Book

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes - and lots of doubts about his future.

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61-year-old Manuel Valle's case adds to recent spate of Southern executions

STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man convicted of killing a police officer during a traffic stop 33 years ago has been executed at the Florida State Prison.


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Powerful Republican Scott Beason made comment about a predominantly Black county

GARDENDALE, Ala. (AP) -- A powerful Republican leader in the Alabama Senate apologized Tuesday for referring to blacks as "aborigines" on recordings played during a federal gambling corruption trial.


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Hollywood producer and two chaplains file complaints

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two chaplains and a Hollywood producer who volunteer at downtown's Los Angeles County jail say deputies brutalize inmates and sheriff's supervisors don't take beating reports seriously.


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Says one 72-year-old recipient in Oregon: "I have no pain"

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.


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Parents are in custody in Harrisburg as children return to New York

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Eight siblings allegedly taken from a New York child welfare agency by their mother last week have been found with their parents in a parked van in central Pennsylvania, authorities said.


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Once-damning weight of testimony has come under question in courts and legislatures

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- When Georgia executed Troy Davis last week, it brushed aside international protests that too many witnesses had recanted trial testimony that he was the gunman who killed a police officer in 1989.

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A number of singer's family members in the courthouse on high-profile first day

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson, with a prosecutor saying the superstar's misplaced trust in the doctor led to his death.

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Annual premiums for family coverage climbed 9 percent, triple the jump from last year

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance surged this year, snapping a trend toward moderate growth, but experts say these increases may slow again in 2012.


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