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Louisiana man arrested for impersonating police officer

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October 10, 2011

SHREVEPORT (AP) — A man who allegedly tried to pass himself off as a Shreveport police officer during a fight in a parking garage has been arrested on a charge of impersonating a police officer. Police...

State files suit against unlicensed cemetery in north Baton Rouge

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October 10, 2011

(AP) — The Louisiana Cemetery Board has filed suit against the owners of a north Baton Rouge cemetery and its overseer, Lymus Washington, for operating without a license for the past eight years. The...

1,597 welfare applicants decline drug test in Florida

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October 10, 2011

MIAMI (AP) — State figures show that hundreds of welfare applicants in Florida have declined to take drug tests that have been required for the assistance since July. Thirty-two applicants failed...

New Zealand says oil spill is its worst environmental sea disaster

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October 10, 2011

TAURANGA, New Zealand (AP) — Rough weather has jostled a cargo ship stuck off New Zealand's coast and worsened its oil leak fivefold to make it the country's worst maritime environmental disaster...

Hostages freed from Somali pirates thanks to message in bottle was found

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October 10, 2011

ROME (AP) — British and U.S. forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in a dramatic rescue Tuesday after retrieving a message in a bottle tossed by hostages from a porthole alerting...

Italian cargo ship attacked by five pirates off Somalia

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October 9, 2011

ROME (AP) — State TV in Italy says pirates have attacked an Italian cargo ship carrying 23 crew members in waters off Somalia. The ship's owner, D'Alessio Group, said five armed men conducted the...

Syphilis on the rise in northwest La., Caddo ranked fourth nationally

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October 9, 2011

SHREVEPORT (AP) — Health officials are looking at ways to stem the rising number of syphilis cases in northwest Louisiana. There were 142 cases of primary and secondary syphilis in adults in Caddo...

Christians under siege in post-revolution Egypt protest after riots

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October 9, 2011

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim...

Body found in trunk of burning car, police investigate possible homicide

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October 9, 2011

LAFAYETTE (AP) — Lafayette authorities are investigating a possible homicide after finding a body in the trunk of a burning car in a rural part of the parish. Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman...

Big Ben clock tower slightly askew

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October 9, 2011

LONDON (AP) — Big Ben has a little bend. Experts say the neogothic clock tower — one of the world's most recognizable landmarks — is gently leaning to one side. Documents recently published...

A photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the remains of a killer whale in the Nushagak river near Portage Creek, Alaska Saturday Oct. 8, 2011. Federal biologists have confirmed that two of the three killer whales that swam far up the river in southwestern Alaska have died.

No sign of young killer whale in Alaska river

By The Associated Press
October 9, 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal fisheries official says an aerial survey has failed to find a juvenile killer whale last seen swimming in a river in southwest Alaska. NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman...

Seven survive 20 hours at sea clinging to capsized boat, cooler

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October 9, 2011

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Four hours into a family fishing trip, rough waves flipped a 22-foot boat off the Florida Keys, tossing eight people overboard. Seven of them, including a 4-year-old girl, survived...