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Hospitalized miner to get oxygen treatment
Jan 5 2006 11:54PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The lone survivor of a coal mine explosion that killed 12 other miners was moved Thursday to a Pittsburgh hospital to undergo oxygen treatment, hospital officials said.
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Miners' notes reveal their final moments
Jan 5 2006 11:36PM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Some of the 12 coal miners who died in the Sago Mine disaster scrawled farewell notes assuring their loved ones that their final hours trapped underground amid toxic gases were not spent in agony.
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Schwarzenegger seeks to move past election
Jan 5 2006 11:33PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A politically weakened Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought Thursday to move beyond his failed special election proposals, urging lawmakers to work together and assuring them, "I have learned my lesson."
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Hurricane blamed in death of Barry Cowsill
Jan 5 2006 11:26PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Barry Cowsill, a member of the popular 1960s singing family The Cowsills, was found dead on a wharf nearly four months after he disappeared when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. He was 51.
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Robertson links Sharon stroke, God's wrath
Jan 5 2006 11:19PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for "dividing God's land."
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American Jews cite Sharon's influence
Jan 5 2006 11:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - American Jewish leaders' anxiety mixed with their belief in Israel's ability to endure hardship Thursday while they closely monitored news on hospitalized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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DNA to be retested for man executed in '92
Jan 5 2006 11:02PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Mark R. Warner on Thursday ordered DNA evidence retested to determine whether a man convicted of rape and murder was innocent when he was executed in 1992.
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Mardi Gras not far off in New Orleans
Jan 5 2006 11:01PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Since Hurricane Katrina, Jolie Bonck has been living in a FEMA trailer in front of her flood-wrecked house.
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Zeta, tropical storm that won't quit
Jan 5 2006 10:35PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Zeta kept its strength Thursday in the eastern Atlantic and could break the record for lasting the longest into January since record keeping began in 1851.
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Mo. lawmaker seeks to ban cold beer sales
Jan 5 2006 10:01PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A state senator wants to force Missouri stores to sell warm beer. Under a bill by Sen. Bill Alter, grocery and convenience stores would risk losing their liquor licenses if they sold beer colder than 60 degrees. The intent is to cut down on drunken driving by making it less tempting to pop open a beer after leaving the store.
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Padilla makes first court appearance
Jan 5 2006 9:32PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Jose Padilla, the alleged al-Qaida operative held as an "enemy combatant" for more than three years, made his first appearance in court Thursday after he was taken from a Navy brig and flown to Miami.
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19 arrested at nursing homes in N.Y.
Jan 5 2006 8:39PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Hidden cameras recorded nursing-home patients being left in their own waste while staffers watched movies, and 19 workers at two facilities have been arrested, prosecutors said Thursday.
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Former congressman to get law license back
Jan 5 2006 8:30PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Former Rep. Bill Janklow's license to practice law was ordered reinstated by the South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday, two years after it was suspended over a deadly auto accident that ended Janklow's political career and sent him to jail.
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Train jumps tracks outside D.C.; four hurt
Jan 5 2006 8:06PM (CT)
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) - A commuter train carrying 400 passengers toward Washington derailed during Thursday morning's rush hour, injuring at least four people and tying up rail travel.
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Orthodox leader says he will meet Pope
Jan 5 2006 7:51PM (CT)
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - The spiritual leader of the world's 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians said Thursday that he is eager to meet with Pope Benedict XVI sometime in the coming year in an effort to heal the long-standing rift between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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Fla. court strikes down school vouchers
Jan 5 2006 7:39PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Supreme Court struck down a statewide voucher system Thursday that allowed children to attend private schools at taxpayer expense _ a program Gov. Jeb Bush considered one of his proudest achievements.
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Democrat fundraising keeps Daschle visible
Jan 5 2006 7:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is hoping to save incumbent Democrats from his own fate, giving away $230,000 in campaign cash to vulnerable members of his party.
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Ohio imam tied to terrorists to leave U.S.
Jan 5 2006 7:22PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A Cleveland imam convicted of hiding terrorist ties has agreed to leave the United States, ending his deportation case, his attorney and government officials said Thursday.
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Fall by Ryan co-defendant halts trial
Jan 5 2006 7:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Gov. George Ryan's corruption trial was halted abruptly Thursday after his co-defendant fell outside a nearby restaurant and was taken to a hospital.
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Lawyer suggests wife drugged during cruise
Jan 5 2006 6:51PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A lawyer for the parents of a man who disappeared from a cruise ship suggested Thursday that the man's newlywed wife, who was found unconscious far from their cabin, may have been drugged.
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Vt. to pay for some poor seniors' meds
Jan 5 2006 6:47PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - State officials agreed Thursday to cover drug costs for poor Vermont senior citizens for a month after a new federal Medicare prescription drug program rejected some of their claims.
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Hospital execs charged in R.I. graft probe
Jan 5 2006 6:37PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A medical center and three current or former executives were indicted Thursday in an influence-peddling scandal involving the hiring of a state senator as a consultant to the hospital for a quarter-million dollars.
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Different men, brought together by a mine
Jan 5 2006 6:15PM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Jim Bennett was about to retire after decades in the mines; Randal McCloy was just getting started. Fred Ware was the son and grandson of miners; Terry Helms didn't want to be the father of one.
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Mine tragedy a test for W.Va. governor
Jan 5 2006 5:54PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - He embraced them like old friends, held their hands and prayed with them, and sat and listened to them talk about their loved ones trapped in the Sago Mine.
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Probe into fatal crash in Mass. dropped
Jan 5 2006 3:52PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - An investigation into whether alcohol was involved in a crash that killed two teenage sisters last fall was dropped Thursday amid controversy over alleged interference by the state's attorney general, a friend of the girls' father.
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Ex-fire boss's son suspect in Okla. arson
Jan 5 2006 2:55PM (CT)
ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) - The teenage son of a former fire official was charged with arson in four blazes set in a state that has been buffeted by deadly grass fires.
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Judge issues warning to Baltimore schools
Jan 5 2006 2:41PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - City school officials could face penalties for contempt if they keep failing to provide overdue special education services such as speech therapy and counseling, a federal judge said.
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Few Mexicans in U.S. seek absentee ballots
Jan 5 2006 1:32PM (CT)
LYNWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Luis del Angel Garcia perks up as the first person in an hour approaches his information booth to ask about voting in the Mexican presidential election in July.
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Calif. couple leaves children home alone
Jan 5 2006 12:58PM (CT)
MANTECA, Calif. (AP) - A married couple who got a dog sitter for their puppies but left the man's young children home alone while they vacationed in Las Vegas were arrested Wednesday, police said.
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Va. man charged with killing missionary
Jan 5 2006 12:29PM (CT)
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) - A man was charged with killing a Mormon missionary and wounding another in a shooting that police believe occurred because the victims had witnessed a crime while they were discussing their religion door-to-door.
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Boy, 12, charged as adult in arson death
Jan 5 2006 12:08PM (CT)
JONAS, Pa. (AP) - A 12-year-old boy was charged as an adult with homicide and arson for allegedly setting a house fire that killed his 11-year-old cousin, state police said.
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Religion today
Jan 5 2006 12:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Camilo Jose Vergara has spent the last three decades taking his camera to some of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, documenting places few outsiders ever visit.
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Religion news in brief
Jan 5 2006 12:00PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian Orthodox Church, one of the world's largest Christian bodies, has severed relations with the Church of Sweden over the latter's recognition of same-sex unions. The Russians previously broke with the U.S. Episcopal Church for consecrating an openly gay bishop.
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Off-duty NY cop shoots stabbing suspect
Jan 5 2006 7:13AM (CT)
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - An off-duty New York Police Department sergeant shot and killed a man who had stabbed another NYPD officer in a disturbance in a Yonkers bar that spilled out onto the sidewalk, police said.
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Answers to foul up in mine disaster sought
Jan 5 2006 4:33AM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - High on a tree-shaded hill beside the Sago Baptist Church, the moss-covered inscription on a weathered tombstone reads: "Sometime we will understand."
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Some want to allow kids to hunt deer at 12
Jan 5 2006 4:29AM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Jeffrey Sapa turned 14 years old just one week after the deer hunting season _ a week too late for him to qualify for a hunting license.
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Military vehicles crash, kill two Marines
Jan 5 2006 2:33AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two military vehicles carrying Marines to the Miramar air base crashed Wednesday night, killing two Marines who were ejected over the side of a freeway and injuring two others, authorities said.
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Judge rejects bail bond in terror probe
Jan 5 2006 12:16AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected bail for a father involved in a terrorism probe with his son, finding that his relatives could not properly post his $1.2 million bond.
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