High School Coach Says California Gunman was ‘Sadistic’
MONTCLAIR, CA (AP) — A second high school coach of the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar recalled him on Sunday as volatile and intimidating, and said that repeated complaints to school administrators about his behavior failed to prompt any discipline. Evie Cluke coached Ian David Long on Newbury Park High…
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Florida Election Recount Underway, Tensions Rise
By KELLI KENNEDY and TERRY SPENCER , Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After some early bumps, more than half of Florida's 67 counties began recounting votes Sunday in the razor-thin Senate and gubernatorial races, bringing back memories of the 2000 presidential fiasco. In Democratic-leaning Broward County, the scheduled start of the recount was…
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World Leaders Gather In Paris A Century After WWI Armistice
By JOHN LEICESTER, RAF CASERT and LORI HINNANT , Associated Press PARIS (AP) — World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve peace solemnly marked the end of World War I's slaughter 100 years ago at commemorations Sunday that drove home the message "never again" but also exposed the globe's…
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Recounts Ordered In Florida Senate, Governor Races
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and KELLI KENNEDY , Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida secretary of state ordered recounts in the U.S. Senate and governor races on Saturday, an unprecedented review of two major contests in the state that took five weeks to decide the 2000 presidential election. Secretary Ken Detzner issued the order…
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At Least 9 Dead As Fire Incinerates N. California Town
By DON THOMPSON and GILLIAN FLACCUS , Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A fierce wildfire in Northern California incinerated most of a town of about 30,000 people with flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do, authorities said Friday. Nine people died in what quickly grew into the state's most destructive…
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