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NEW YORK (AP) -- Spot nonferrous metal prices today
NEW YORK (AP) -- Spot nonferrous metal prices today. Aluminum -$1.3400 per lb., N.Y. Merc spot Fri. Copper -$3.6815 Cathode full plate, U.S. destinations. Copper $3.6240 N.Y. Merc spot Fri. Lead - $1935.00 metric ton, London Metal Exch. Zinc - $0.9091 per lb., delivered. Gold - $896.25 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Gold - $895.40 troy oz., NY Merc spot Fri. Silver - $17.365 Handy & Harman (only daily quote). Silver - $1...
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RightintheKisser
BOSTON (AP) -- Banner No. 17 is halfway to the rafters. The Celtics are two wins from another NBA championship. Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, Boston's defense mobbed Kobe Bryant long enough and unknown Leon Powe scored 21 points as the Celtics held off another Los Angeles rally for a 108-102 win over the Lakers on Sunday night. The Celtics have a 2-0 lead in these trip-down-memory-lane NBA finals. ...
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AG's office hands over records
TOPEKA (AP) -- The attorney general's office said Friday that it has turned over 34 redacted patient records to a grand jury investigating Wichita abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The records were from abortions Tiller performed in 2003 and were sought by a Sedgwick County grand jury investigating Tiller's practice. Attorney General Steve Six initially refused to turn over the records, and both he and Tiller challenged the scope of the gra...
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Abortion opponents fight over name
WICHITA (AP) -- Anti-abortion leader Randall Terry brought his legal battle over ownership of the name Operation Rescue to one of the cities where the name became synonymous with civil disobedience and mass arrests. Terry, a national leader of the anti-abortion movement in the late 1980s who now lives in Washington, D.C., has filed suit against Troy Newman of Wichita seeking to keep him from using the Operation Rescue name. Newman registered ...
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Man indicted in '75 Girl Scout slaying
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A suspect in the 1975 slaying of a 9-year-old Girl Scout, who disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies, has been indicted by a grand jury, prosecutors announced Friday. Nashville District Attorney Torry Johnson said Jerome Sidney Barrett was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and felony murder. The charges were made public Friday after Barrett, who is in jail on charges in anothe...
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JoCo to seek tax for research triangle
OLATHE (AP) -- Johnson County voters will be asked to approve a sales tax increase to finance projects designed to enhance the Kansas City area's efforts to become a leader in life sciences. The Johnson County Commission voted Thursday to put an eighth-cent sales tax on the November ballot. If approved it would raise an estimated $15 million every year. The tax would last forever. It would leverage state and federal dollars into a $1.4 billio...
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Kansas pursues lab despite concerns
MANHATTAN (AP) -- Safety questions linger, but officials trying to attract a new national biodefense laboratory see little danger in building it at Kansas State University. Most research at the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility would be in Level 3 labs on viruses such as foot-and-mouth disease, which infects cattle, pigs and sheep. But 20 percent of the space would be Level 4 labs, dealing with microorganisms posing a high risk of life-...
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Storms bring destruction EMMAVILLE, Minn
Storms bring destruction EMMAVILLE, Minn. -- Strong storms smashed houses, deluged neighborhoods and left thousands without power across the Midwest on Friday in the latest round of fierce weather. Hot temperatures baked the region even as residents coped with the lack of electricity. A tornado raked a half-mile-wide path of destruction in northwestern Minnesota, where a house overlooking Pickerel Lake near Emmaville was destroyed, it's conte...
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Ochoa shoots career-low round to take lead
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. (AP) -- Lorena Ochoa had 17 good chances at birdie Friday and made enough of them for her lowest round ever in the LPGA Championship, a 7-under 65 that gave her a one-shot lead in her quest for a third straight major title. "It was very easy. I did enjoy it a lot," Ochoa said. "I'm going to try to do two more rounds like that." She was at 10-under 134 and had a one-shot lead over Lindsey Wright (68). It was the lowest 36-h...
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Aggressive diabetes therapy doesn't prevent heart problems, death
NEW YORK (AP) -- Aggressively treating diabetes doesn't prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar, Australian researchers reported Friday. It's the second large study, involving thousands of patients, to show no heart benefit from drastically lowering diabetics' blood sugar levels. Experts said doctors should stick to the recommended target levels. Heart disease is the cause of death for two...
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Shockers upend Seminoles in Super Regional opener
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Wichita State got home runs from Tyler Weber and Conor Gillaspie and held off a Florida State rally Friday to defeat the Seminoles 10-7 in the NCAA Super Regional opener. The Shockers (48-15) used a third-inning, two-run homer from Weber to erase a 1-0 deficit and then got a three-run blast from Gillaspie in the sixth to take a 9-3 lead. Five of Wichita State's runs came after walks or hit batters by starter Elih ...
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... on driving distractions: We cringe to think common sense is becoming more common in California than Kansas, but that appears to be the case
... on driving distractions: We cringe to think common sense is becoming more common in California than Kansas, but that appears to be the case. The home of Hollywood and unlimited ballot propositions is well ahead of the Sunflower State in recognizing the danger of driving while holding a cell phone to your ear. Beginning July 1, it will be illegal in California to hold a cell phone and conduct a conversation while driving. Exceptions will b...
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Bus bombings hit Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up two passenger buses in Sri Lanka on Friday, killing 23 people and raising the specter of an escalating cycle of attacks on civilian targets
Bus bombings hit Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up two passenger buses in Sri Lanka on Friday, killing 23 people and raising the specter of an escalating cycle of attacks on civilian targets. An additional 67 people were wounded in the attacks, which came two days after a bombing that targeted civilians in Colombo, the capital. The government also blamed that blast on Tamil Tiger rebels, who have made such a...
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Clinton, Obama talk without aides
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sat in comfortable chairs, sipped water and spoke for an hour about the presidential campaign to come. Just the two of them, without aides. And they parted laughing. Aside from a fleeting backstage encounter in between their respective speeches to a pro-Israel group Wednesday, this was the first face-to-face meeting between Obama and Clinton since he clinched the Democratic presidenti...
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Dems to push Obama's goals with bills
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Between now and Election Day, Democrats say they will use Congress to showcase the kinds of change promised by their presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Some legislation they'll choose has good prospects of passage -- policy blueprints for higher education and the military; a ban on lead in toys -- and skip over debates on spending plans and some taxes until a new president takes office. Other bills they'll debate are doo...
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Berroa dealt to Dodgers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Kansas City Royals traded shortstop Angel Berroa, the 2003 American League Rookie of the Year, to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday for minor league infielder Juan Rivera. The Dodgers also received cash in the trade. Berroa is making $4.75 million this season in the last of a four-year $11 million contract, which also includes a $500,000 buyout for next season on a club option of $5.5 million. Berroa, 30, is batti...
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Davies, bullpen shut down Yanks
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kyle Davies won his second consecutive start since being called up from the minors and the struggling Kansas City Royals earned a rare victory Friday night at Yankee Stadium, shutting down New York 2-1 to snap an 11-game road skid. David DeJesus hit an RBI single and the Royals got splendid relief work from Ron Mahay and Joakim Soria to win for only the third time in 18 games. They also got a break from plate umpire Ed Montag...
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Oil price leap drags down stock market
By The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Oil prices made their biggest single-day leap ever Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points and raising the once-unthinkable prospect of $150 oil and more record gas prices by the Fourth of July. The meteoric rise of nearly $11 for the day piled atop an increase of almost $5.50 the day before, taking oil futures more than 13 percent higher in just two days, easily a record on the Ne...
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Triple Threat
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Triple Crown trail is littered with colts whose feet failed them along the way. Less than 24 hours before the biggest horse race in three decades, favorite Big Brown and his Japanese challenger, Casino Drive, took steps in opposite directions. The cracked hoof that stood between trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.'s big bay colt and the sport's first Triple Crown since 1978 was covered with an acrylic patch Friday, ending a weeklong ...
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