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Feb 9 2010 3:03AM
Michael Jackson's doctor is pleading not
guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death. Dr. Conrad
Murray showed up to court in Los Angeles yesterday. One person
shouted "murderer" as he approached. Murray's bail was set at
$75,000, three tim
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| Miley Cyrus, other celebs auction items for Haiti Feb 8 2010 2:14PM
Miley Cyrus has organized an online auction to
benefit the relief effort in Haiti, and Britney Spears, Hugh
Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi
Lovato and others will donate items and experiences.
Cyrus is donating se
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| Five unaccounted for...Stocks lower...Terminal evacuated... Feb 8 2010 9:06AM
A Connecticut fire official says about
five people are unaccounted for after a deadly explosion at a power
plant that was under construction. It's not clear if they're
missing or if they just haven't yet been in contact with
authorities. Yesterday's
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| Aid groups launch Haiti mass vaccination campaign Feb 8 2010 6:46AM
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GENEVA Aid groups say they are launching an emergency
vaccination campaign for 140,000 people in Haiti to protect them
against measles and other diseases.
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| Gas blast at Conn. power plant kills at least 5 Feb 8 2010 1:38AM
Fire officials in Connecticut say no
one is known to be missing amid the rubble of an unfinished power
plant damaged by an explosion and fire.
The explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown,
about 20 miles south of Hartford, kille
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Feb 6 2010 7:22PM
A house fire in Warwick, R.I., has left
five people dead, including a 7-month-old baby.
Authorities say the victims were found unconscious and severely
burned just after noon Saturday on the second floor of a house in
Warwick. The local fire chi
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| 500 evacuations ordered after mudslides near LA Feb 6 2010 2:28PM
Fire officials say at least 41 homes have
been damaged and 500 more ordered evacuated after a pounding winter
storm triggered mudslides in wildfire burn areas north of Los
Angeles.
County Fire Insp. Matt Levesque says evacuations are ordered in
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| PARIS (AP) Red Cross: French staffer kidnapped in Chad in November has ... Feb 6 2010 10:44AM
Red Cross: French staffer kidnapped in Chad in
November has been freed.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Break for Quake Feb 2 2010 7:01PM
From money donations... to water supplies... to pancakes.
Help for Haiti comes in all forms, from all different backgrounds.
Reporter Amber Schatz shows us the local students cooking up a storm... to give a "break for the quake".
Most students here ha
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| Update on the latest in sports: Feb 2 2010 4:06PM
Tuesday of Super Bowl week is Media Day, when the
assembled hoard of journalists and pseudo journalists pepper
players with questions.
They talked with Dwight Freeney, and the Colts defensive end
told them it's "very discouraging" not to be able
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| Surgery for Sanchez...Smart gets sweeter deal...Cammalleri out... Feb 2 2010 2:56PM
New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is opting
to undergo surgery in the next few weeks to repair a knee injury
suffered before his 2008 season at Southern California. Not to
worry, Jets' fans. The guy who helped lead the team to the AFC
championsh
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Feb 1 2010 4:13PM
One Republican senator says the nation is
"sinking into a fiscal quagmire" and that President Barack
Obama's new budget doesn't begin to turn things around.
Sen. Judd Gregg's comments come as Obama releases a budget plan
with new spending aimed
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| Sinking into quagmire?...War spending...Delays continue in Haiti... Feb 1 2010 1:53PM
One Republican senator says the nation is
"sinking into a fiscal quagmire" and that President Barack
Obama's new budget doesn't begin to turn things around. Sen. Judd
Gregg's comments come as Obama releases a budget plan with new
spending aimed at l
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| Red Cross: Haiti airport remains major bottleneck Feb 1 2010 1:46PM
American Red Cross officials in Washington say
there is a waiting list of 1,000 flights to land at Haiti's airport
continues to limit the delivery of relief supplies.
David Meltzer, the charity's senior vice president for
international services,
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Feb 1 2010 2:27AM
She didn't take home album of the year. But
Beyonce grabbed just about every other award in sight at the
Grammys last night and made history in the process. She ended up
with six awards giving her the most wins by any female in a
single night at th
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| Blige, Bocelli duet to raise funds for Haiti Jan 27 2010 8:38AM
Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli (ahn-DRAY'-uh
boh-CHEL'-ee) will perform Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over
Troubled Water" during a fundraising segment for Haiti relief at
this year's Grammy Awards.
The Recording Academy said Wednesday the due
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 25 2010 5:02PM
He says the middle class has been "under
assault for a long time," and President Barack Obama is offering
some help.
In a partial preview of Wednesday's State of the Union address,
Obama is proposing more breaks for families taking care of child
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| Ethiopian jet crashes; hope for survivors dims Jan 25 2010 2:35PM
Red Cross workers have been carrying bodies on
stretchers into a hospital in Beirut. They're victims of an early
morning crash of an Ethiopian airliner that had just taken off from
Beirut for Ethiopia when it plunged into the sea in flames.
A Le
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| Helping middle class...Bodies at Beirut hospital...Church usher... Jan 25 2010 12:09PM
President Barack Obama is offering new ideas
meant to help struggling people pay bills and care for their
families, aiming to help a middle-class he says has been "under
assault for a long time." Obama and Vice President Joe Biden today
outlined a se
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| Pop stars flock to Univision show to help Haitian earthquake... Jan 24 2010 2:55AM
Juanes, Shakira, Paulina Rubio, Daddy Yankee,
Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin are among more than a dozen Latin
pop stars to lend their talents to Haiti earthquake relief.
They appeared last night on a special edition of a popular
Univision vari
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| Latest Minnesota news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 23 2010 1:46PM
A northern Minnesota wildlife control
specialist says for the first time in his 30-year career he's
getting calls from people in the Duluth city limits asking for help
managing coyotes.
Allen Edberg says he's had four such calls this winter. One
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| Minnesota musicians perform for Haiti Jan 23 2010 5:15AM
This weekend brings several benefit
performances by Twin Cities-area musicians to support earthquake
relief efforts in Haiti.
Starting at 2 p.m. Saturday, Arnellia's in St. Paul hosts a
"Haiti Mi Amour (ME' a-MORE') Fundraiser" with live perform
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| Skier to make history at Olympics, Paralympics Jan 22 2010 2:56PM
A visually impaired cross-country skier
at the Vancouver Games will become the first winter sports athlete
to compete in both the Olympics and Paralympics.
Brian McKeever was selected for the Canadian team on Friday.
He's won seven Paralymp
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Students Raise Funds for Quake Victims Jan 21 2010 7:17PM
More than 2 thousand miles separate the city of Minot and the country of Haiti, but that large distance hasn't discouraged students at Minot's Longfellow Elementary from wanting to help.
Yesterday, 3rd graders spent the day mixing ingredients like peanu
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| Haiti: Temporary camps...Landmark ruling...Obama goes after big... Jan 21 2010 7:08PM
The thousands of homeless
earthquake survivors living in open areas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
will soon have another option. Haiti says it will move 400,000
people this month to temporary camps on the outskirts of the
capital.
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
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| American Red Cross explains how donations are used Jan 21 2010 9:06AM
The American Red Cross says it knows its relief
efforts in Haiti will be under a microscope, so it's letting people
know how donations are being used.
The Red Cross received $137 million by yesterday, including more
than $25 million from people
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| Haiti quake poses key test for American Red Cross Jan 21 2010 5:36AM
For the American Red Cross, a surge of donations
to help its relief efforts in Haiti provides a dramatic chance to
prove it learned from its flawed responses to Hurricane Katrina and
Sept. 11.
Through Wednesday, the Red Cross had received by far
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| Zowie! Chili sauce lands German teens in hospital Jan 20 2010 11:27AM
Officials in Germany say eight teenagers were
hospitalized after a test of courage in which they drank chili
sauce more than 200 times hotter than normal.
The Red Cross in the southern city of Augsburg says that 10
boys, aged 13 and 14, year dra
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TODAY:
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| Group: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence Jan 20 2010 3:51AM
A human rights group says that more than 200
people have been killed in religious violence between Christians
and Muslims in central Nigeria.
Human Rights Watch is calling on Nigeria's government to
investigate and prosecute those responsible fo
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| 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 Jan 19 2010 3:45PM
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TODAY:
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| Update on the latest in religion news: Jan 19 2010 3:37AM
Amid talk of God and country, officials
in a Kentucky county have restored the Ten Commandments to their
courthouse walls, days after an appellate court allowed the
display.
Grayson County Judge-Executive Gary Logsdon thanked God for the
return
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| Religious violence erupts again in north Nigeria Jan 19 2010 2:42AM
Religious violence between Christians and
Muslims in northern Nigeria has erupted again after fighting
earlier in the week left at least 27 people dead.
Security forces ordered everyone to remain indoors Tuesday after
police and soldiers' effort
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 18 2010 6:55PM
U.N. officials say more than 73,000
people in Haiti have received food to last a week. But many more
still wait.
And even people whose houses survived are often living outside,
because of the fear that unstable buildings could collapse in
after
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| Still waiting...More planes...Clinton visits...Terror sentencing... Jan 18 2010 2:56PM
Six days later, help is still not
reaching a lot of the survivors of Haiti's earthquake people who
are still struggling to find a cup of water or a handful of food.
And security remains a concern in Port-au-Prince, where looting has
spread to more
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| Obama visits American Red Cross headquarters Jan 18 2010 2:35PM
President Barack Obama has personally thanked
some American Red Cross workers for their efforts following the
earthquake in Haiti last week.
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama went to American Red Cross
headquarters building just a few blocks f
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| At least 27 die in religious violence in Nigeria Jan 18 2010 11:33AM
Muslim officials say at least 27 people have
died and more than 300 others are injured after a wave of religious
violence in northern Nigeria.
Sani Mudi, a spokesman for the local imam, says 22 people died
Sunday after rioters set fire to a Cath
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| 5,000 displaced after violence in northern Nigeria Jan 18 2010 3:23AM
The Red Cross says violence between
Christians and Muslims in the city of Jos in northern Nigeria has
displaced 5,000 people and left 69 others injured.
Jos-based Red Cross official Auwal Muhammad Madobi says rioters
burned down churches, mosque
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Jan 18 2010 2:13AM
She may have gotten the award. But
Mo'Nique was giving others the praise in her acceptance speech for
her Golden Globes award. She praised both director Lee Daniels and
newcomer co-star Gabby Sidibe in her remarks after winning the
award for best sup
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 16 2010 4:06PM
Officials are evacuating a terminal at John F.
Kennedy International Airport in New York City because of a
security breach.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve
Coleman says travelers at Kennedy's Terminal 8 are being aske
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| Major Haitian aid convoy...A gathering of presidents... Jan 16 2010 6:46AM
More help is just a few hours away from the
Haitian capital as an International Federation of the Red Cross
convoy makes its way overland from the Dominican Republic. Red
Cross officials say the convoy carries a "huge amount" of aid,
including a 50-b
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| Rescue efforts continue amid mass burials Jan 16 2010 5:57AM
On the fourth day after Haiti's
devastating earthquake, bodies continue to pile up around the
country's capital city.
The Red Cross estimates that up to 50,000 people died after
Tuesday's magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
Workers have been burning
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| 'Huge' Red Cross medical aid convoy heads to Haiti Jan 16 2010 5:36AM
The International Federation of the Red Cross says
a convoy carrying a "huge amount" of aid is heading overland from
the Dominican Republic to quake-struck Haiti.
The IFRC says the aid includes a 50-bed field hospital, surgical
teams and an emer
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| Timberwolves, Vikings collect money for Haiti aid Jan 16 2010 5:15AM
The Minnesota Timberwolves are joining the
NBA for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
The league and players union jointly announced Friday a $1
million contribution to the cause.
The Timberwolves are encouraging fans to chip in, too. The
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| Desperate scene in Haiti...NATO report...Health overhaul update... Jan 16 2010 3:44AM
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians
are in desperate need of drinking water, and many have eaten little
since Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Aid groups, businesses and
governments from around the world are scrambling to help. A third
of Haiti's 9 mi
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| Latest North Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 16 2010 2:13AM
Supporters of the University of North
Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname are taking their case to the North
Dakota [[kxtopic:supreme-court:t[Supreme Court]:t]].
An attorney for a group of [[kxtopic:spirit-lake-nd:t[Spirit Lake]:t]] Sioux tribal mem
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 16 2010 1:20AM
A suicide bomber has attacked an
army vehicle in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, killing two
soldiers.
Local government head Sardar Khursheed says four soldiers were
injured in Saturday's blast on the outskirts of Rawalakot town.
Two Pakist
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| Miracles amid misery...Celebrity donations...Medication recall... Jan 15 2010 11:06PM
Rescuers are still finding people
alive in wrecked buildings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Mexican
rescue worker discovered a pulse in a 19-year-old that relatives
believed was dead. British firefighters pulled a 2-year-old girl
from a building. An Aus
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| NFL, union pledge $1 million in Haiti relief Jan 15 2010 4:13PM
The NFL and the players' union are contributing
$1 million toward relief efforts in Haiti.
The American Red Cross and Partners In Health will receive
$500,000 each.
The NFL and its network broadcast partners will also run
messages before a
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| Mourning, Wade teaming up for Haiti relief Jan 15 2010 3:45PM
Retired NBA star Alonzo Mourning has flown to Haiti
to assist relief workers in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince.
He is joining former Miami Heat teammate Dwyane Wade and other
pro athletes in an effort to raise funds for the recovery.
Mou
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 15 2010 1:04PM
As desperate Haitians wait for aid,
looters have been roaming the downtown streets.
A man watching the young men and boys with machetes says, "They
are scavenging everything."
Aid groups say there are fears of large-scale unrest among the
Ha
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| Minot Red Cross chapter activates call center Jan 15 2010 11:54AM
The American Red Cross chapter in Minot has
activated a call center to help handle donation calls coming in
after the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
The call center run by the Mid-Dakota Chapter of the American
Red Cross is one of several arou
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| People growing desperate and impatient for help Jan 15 2010 8:45AM
Aid workers are focusing on the
overwhelming challenge of getting food and water to millions of
earthquake survivors in Haiti. Meanwhile, government workers are
burying thousands of bodies in mass graves.
U.N. peacekeepers say people are growing
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| Haitian anger grows at slow pace of aid...Estimate: Quake killed... Jan 15 2010 6:53AM
United Nations peacekeepers
patrolling Haiti's capital say earthquake survivors are angry about
the lack of aid since Tuesday's earthquake. The U.N. says its
emergency food warehouse in the capital has been looted, as have
local food stocks.
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| Survivors of Hudson jet landing gather year later Jan 15 2010 3:37AM
The survivors of the airplane river landing
known as the Miracle on the Hudson are marking its one-year
anniversary.
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, his crew and a number of
survivors plan to gather Friday to revisit the site where he deftly
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| North Korea says it will accept SKorean food aid Jan 15 2010 3:37AM
North Korea has agreed to accept
10,000 tons of food aid from South Korea.
Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said Friday that
the North's Red Cross sent a message to its South Korean
counterpart and said it will accept the 10,000 tons
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| Bodies in the streets...Finding a way into Haiti Jan 15 2010 3:07AM
Uncounted bodies still litter
Haitian streets in 80-degree heat as the outside world tries to get
in with massive earthquake aid. Bottlenecks are everywhere,
beginning at an airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and
without a control tower. Hundre
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| Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 15 2010 2:13AM
The South Dakota House of Representatives
has rejected a plan that would have created a new committee to deal
with American Indian issues during legislative sessions.
The State-Tribal Relations Committee now meets during the months
the Legislatu
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| First lady tapes Red Cross PSA Jan 15 2010 1:03AM
First lady Michelle Obama has taped a public
service announcement on behalf of the Red Cross as part of the U.S.
response to the Haiti earthquake.
A statement from the Ad Council says the thrust of the PSA is to
encourage support from American
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 15 2010 1:03AM
A US official says a Pentagon inquiry into the
case of the alleged Fort Hood shooter could lead to punishment of
up to eight Army officers.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to refer findings on
the officers to the Army for further inqu
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| No room at the morgue...Fort Hood inquiry...Health care compromise... Jan 15 2010 12:07AM
The morgue in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, is among the public facilities being overwhelmed by
Tuesday's killer earthquake. Grief-stricken relatives have been
going through the hundreds of bodies placed in the morgue's parking
lot. Rescuers have started us
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| Bodies bulldozed...Americans arriving....Health care negotiations... Jan 14 2010 9:07PM
Recovery teams are resorting to
using bulldozers to transport bodies in Haiti. Uncounted bodies
still line streets and walkways. The international Red Cross
estimates between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died since
Tuesday's earthquake. Meanwhile, t
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| Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead Jan 14 2010 8:32PM
Dozens of aid flights have arrived
in Haiti, but the small damaged airport, poor roads and a damaged
port are slowing the delivery of aid.
The airport is short on jet fuel and ramp space. The control
tower was destroyed by Tuesday's killer quake
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| Logistical challenge...Health care bargaining...Guilty plea... Jan 14 2010 7:08PM
The world is responding to the
needs of earthquake victims in Haiti. But getting doctors, troops
and rescue teams to the devastated nation created a bottleneck
during the day. The airport at Port-au-Prince is small and damaged
and flights were restri
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| Rushing relief...Former presidents to make appeals...Terrorism... Jan 14 2010 6:05PM
Medical professionals, rescue teams
and troops are arriving in Haiti to deal with the aftermath of
Tuesday's massive earthquake. The International Red Cross estimates
that as many as 50,000 people have been killed. A major challenge
is getting planes
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| SD governor urges Red Cross donations for Haiti Jan 14 2010 5:44PM
Gov. Mike Rounds is suggesting that South
Dakotans who want to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti should
make donations through the American Red Cross International Fund.
Rounds says donating to that fund will help get water, food and
other
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| Red Cross death estimate...Aid bottleneck...Obama: Jobs focus... Jan 14 2010 5:02PM
The international Red Cross is
estimating that Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti killed 45,000 to
50,000 people. There are easily hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of
people still trapped, living or dead, in collapsed buildings.
President Barack Obama s
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| Haiti missingpersons site gets quick response Jan 14 2010 4:34PM
Thousands of people are using a special Red Cross
Web site that was set up to try to help Haitians find loved ones
missing in the earthquake.
An official says more than 5,000 people registered in the first
few hours after the site was launched.
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| Bodies still in streets, capital mostly calm amid some looting... Jan 14 2010 4:06PM
More than two days after the Haiti
earthquake, the bodies of some of the dead are still in the streets
of the capital, often covered by a white cloth.
In other cases, people are dragging dust-covered bodies along
the road toward the morgue. ther
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| Managing the relief...Survivors bury victims...Scam warning... Jan 14 2010 3:04PM
So many planes have been arriving
at Haiti's main airport today, carrying earthquake relief supplies
and personnel, that all civilian flights from the U.S. to Haiti had
to be stopped for a while. An FAA official says there wasn't enough
room on the g
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| No coordination...Flights backed up...Obama's appeal... Jan 14 2010 2:07PM
Earthquake relief supplies and personnel have been
arriving in Haiti, but a U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman says it's
"chaos" there, in terms of coordinating deliveries. Aid
organizations say there doesn't appear to be anyone at the airport
in Port-au-
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| Stocks firm...Taxing banks...Text bonanza Jan 14 2010 1:18PM
Stock prices are higher at midday. The key
averages have worked higher, despite some lackluster economic data
out earlier today.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama says he wants to tax
banks to recoup the public bailout of foundering firm
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| New death estimate...Flights stopped...China's response... Jan 14 2010 1:04PM
There's a new estimate that the number of dead in
the Haiti earthquake is well into the tens of thousands. The Red
Cross federation says it estimates there have been 45,000-50,000
deaths. A spokesman says the Haitian Red Cross came up with the
estima
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| GENEVA (AP) Red Cross federation estimates 45,00050,000 dead in Haitian... Jan 14 2010 12:22PM
Red Cross federation estimates 45,000-50,000 dead
in Haitian earthquake.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
APNP 01-14-10 1214CST
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| PortauPrince is calm Jan 14 2010 11:33AM
Haiti's often-chaotic capital is
surprisingly calm in the aftermath of the massive earthquake.
Journalists in Port-au-Prince says they've heard little or no
gunfire and have seen no major violence.
Looting began immediately after Tuesday's
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| Red Cross: bodies won't spread disease Jan 14 2010 10:23AM
The International Committee of the Red Cross says
it's a myth that dead bodies cause epidemics after natural
disasters.
A forensic expert says the bodies of people who have died in
disasters don't spread disease because they died of trauma. The
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| Haiti update...How many?...New tax Jan 14 2010 6:53AM
More help is arriving on the scene
of Haiti's devastating earthquake. A Chinese search-and-rescue
team, medics and tons of food and medicine landed before dawn. A
British relief crew is on the ground in neighboring Dominican
Republic. And the aircraf
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| Update on the latest in business: Jan 14 2010 2:55AM
The stock market closed higher in the latest
session. The improvement with help of financial stocks as the heads
of several big banks testified before a special panel about the
financial crisis.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 54 points to
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Jan 13 2010 10:03PM
Cargo planes from around the world
are headed to Haiti with food, water, medical supplies, shelter and
sniffer dogs. The response comes just over a day after a massive
earthquake.
The first cargo plane carrying part of a U.S. military
assessmen
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| U.S., international assistance heading to Haiti Jan 13 2010 8:46PM
Cargo planes from around the world
are headed to Haiti with food, water, medical supplies, shelter and
sniffer dogs. The response comes just over a day after a massive
earthquake.
The first cargo plane carrying part of a U.S. military
assessmen
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