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2nd storm prompts California evacuations
Jan 1 2006 11:21PM (CT)
GUERNEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - The second major storm in two days washed across Northern California on Sunday, prolonging the threat of flooding as residents tried to clean up thick layers of mud and debris left behind as the first wave of floodwater receded.
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Victims' families to confront killer nurse
Jan 1 2006 11:18PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - This could be the week that Marie Romero finally gets to look Charles Cullen straight in the eye and tell the former nurse and admitted serial killer how much pain he caused by killing her sister.
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Fires ravage Oklahoma City, Texas towns
Jan 1 2006 11:16PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Grassfires raged across the dry southern prairie Sunday, burning homes in Oklahoma City, destroying two small towns in Texas, and creating patchworks of flames as burning embers were blown by winds gusting up 50 mph.
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Tropical Storm Zeta drifts across Atlantic
Jan 1 2006 10:51PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Zeta, the 27th named storm of a record-breaking hurricane season, maintained its strength as it drifted across the Atlantic on Sunday, but forecasters expected it to eventually weaken.
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Florida teen home after Iraq adventure
Jan 1 2006 10:18PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A 16-year-old who took off to Iraq alone to experience the lives of its people firsthand arrived back in Florida on Sunday, ending a three-week Middle East odyssey _ much to the relief of his parents.
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Rose parade could get rare rain storm
Jan 1 2006 8:38PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - It hasn't rained on the Rose Parade since 1955, but organizers were prepared in case that half-century run of luck washed away Monday with the storms that have been pelting the state.
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2 snowmobilers killed in Colo. avalanche
Jan 1 2006 7:23PM (CT)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A New Year's Day avalanche killed two men who were snowmobiling near Rocky Mountain National Park, and a snowshoer was missing and presumed dead after another avalanche in Utah, officials said.
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Big Easy residents hope for better 2006
Jan 1 2006 3:34PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Dr. Jeffrey Coco, his wife and their three children returned to New Orleans especially for a New Year's Eve party held at a neighbor's house that did not flood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They stayed in the second story of their own house.
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U.S. rings in 2006 with parties, fireworks
Jan 1 2006 2:58PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Fireworks rained over the Las Vegas Strip as hundreds of thousands of revelers rang in 2006 with quickie weddings, parties at posh nightclubs and what organizers hoped was the world's largest simultaneous toast _ 14,000 Chardonnay-filled plastic glasses raised just before midnight.
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U.S. rings in 2006 with parties, fireworks
Jan 1 2006 11:16AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Fireworks rained over the Las Vegas Strip as hundreds of thousands of revelers rang in 2006 with quickie weddings, parties at posh nightclubs and what organizers hoped was the world's largest simultaneous toast _ 14,000 Chardonnay-filled plastic glasses raised just before midnight.
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City News Service closes its doors
Jan 1 2006 9:15AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The story has ended for Chicago's venerable City News Service. Saturday was the final day of business at the agency that trained generations of journalists and writers and inspired "The Front Page."
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Spicy blogger leaves attorney's office
Jan 1 2006 8:11AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A young federal prosecutor who was revealed as the author of a spicy blog about the judiciary is leaving the inner circle. David Lat, who had been the anonymous writer of "Underneath Their Robes," left his job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Newark.
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Medicare prescription drug benefit debuts
Jan 1 2006 7:31AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Medicare's prescription drug coverage rolls out Sunday, a benefit being hailed as the most significant advance in the program's 40-year history. Most senior citizens should see their medicine become more affordable because of the new coverage. Still, not everyone will save, and Medicare's 42 million beneficiaries have been patient, if not hesitant, about enrolling in a private plan.
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Big Easy sends off 2005 in style
Jan 1 2006 1:47AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ringing out one of the worst years in its colorful history, New Orleans put on a rollicking New Year's Eve of memorials and merrymaking, from a traditional jazz funeral procession in honor of hurricane victims to an after-dark party.
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One snowshoer missing after Utah avalanche
Jan 1 2006 1:08AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Two snowshoers were caught in an avalanche Saturday high in the mountains of Provo Canyon and one remained missing when heavy snow and the threat of more slides forced rescuers to call off the search.
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S.C. bars toast the end of the minibottle
Jan 1 2006 12:35AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The year 2005 wasn't the only thing being toasted away in South Carolina: Partygoers and bar owners finally said good riddance to the minibottle.
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