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Gay marriage is put to a vote in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Gay marriage was put to a vote in Maine on Tuesday in a closely watched referendum that gay-rights activists across the country hoped would prove that public opinion is turning in their favor. Voters had to decide whether to repeal or affirm a state law that would allow gay couples to wed. The law was passed by the Legislature last May but never took effect because of a petition drive by conservatives....
Body count at rapist's Cleveland home rises to 10
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The number of bodies found in and near a rapist's home rose to at least 10 on Tuesday when authorities unearthed four corpses from the backyard and found a skull in a bucket in the basement....
DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution....
Police: 3 ND college students found dead in pond
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- Three missing North Dakota college softball players were found dead Tuesday in a Jeep pulled from a pond, and police said they believed the women were in the vehicle when they made two desperate calls to friends for help....
Feds: Gun, cash seizures up at Mexican border
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband....
La. justice resigns after interracial wed flap
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor....
Mich. looks at worst-case 20 percent budget cuts
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan's governor warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 have already dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates....
Feds: Chicago men discussed terror attack in India
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan-based terrorist group on how to slip people into the U.S., prosecutors said Tuesday....
Police: Pair stole up to 1k bags at Ariz. airport
PHOENIX (AP) -- Two people suspected of stealing up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix's airport have been arrested by police who found heaps of the stolen bags strewn throughout their home....
Man gets 2 years for flying stolen plane to US
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Turkish-Canadian man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three states before landing along a dark southern Missouri highway....
 
 
 
 
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Afghan corruption tough to combat
KABUL (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his two vice presidents - both former warlords widely believed to have looted Afghanistan for years....
Climate talks face difficult road ahead of meeting
Boycotts on either side of the Atlantic on Tuesday showed just how difficult it will be to clinch an agreement on global warming next month....
Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100
PARIS (AP) -- After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology....
China sentences notorious gang 'godmother'
BEIJING (AP) -- Dubbed the "godmother" of the Chinese underworld, she was notorious for her toughness and a lavish lifestyle that reportedly included luxury villas and a stable of 16 young lovers....
NKorea claims to expand arsenal of atomic bombs
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal....
New vaccine offers hope in Africa's malaria battle
SIAYA, Kenya (AP) -- A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year....
Czech president signs EU reform treaty
PRAGUE (AP) -- A charter designed to transform the 27 countries and half a billion people of the European Union into a more unified and powerful global player has passed its last major hurdle and looks set to become law within weeks....
European court: No crucifixes in Italian schools
ROME (AP) -- The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms....
British coup-plotter freed in Equatorial Guinea
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Equatorial Guinea freed a British coup-plotter and four South African mercenaries Tuesday after a presidential pardon for their foreign-bankrolled conspiracy to overthrow the government and take over the country's oil riches....
Karadzic attends UN war crimes court for 1st time
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his "fundamental rights have been violated" by judges who started without him....