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New Orleans ends fight over FEMA trailers
Jan 6 2006 11:32PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and two city council members said Friday they have agreed on temporary housing sites for thousands of families that requested assistance after Hurricane Katrina.
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Orthodox leader celebrates Epiphany
Jan 6 2006 11:05PM (CT)
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - The spiritual leader of the world's 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians celebrated Epiphany with an audience of American followers Friday, commending them for their "steadfastness in maintaining the faith."
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Mine investigators begin search for clues
Jan 6 2006 10:55PM (CT)
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - As the victims' families made plans for the first of the funerals, officials worked Friday to purge the Sago Mine of poisonous gases and allow investigators to determine what sparked the blast and how the miners spent their final hours.
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Fire destroys landmark Chicago church
Jan 6 2006 10:54PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A massive fire Friday destroyed a landmark South Side church where Mahalia Jackson and other gospel royalty often sang during the 20th century and the man considered the father of gospel music led the choir.
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Witnesses say newlyweds argued on cruise
Jan 6 2006 10:49PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A man who disappeared from his honeymoon cruise last summer argued in the ship's bar with his wife, who kicked him in the groin hours before he vanished, two witnesses said Friday.
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Linguists vote 'truthiness' word of 2005
Jan 6 2006 10:47PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
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Conservatives plan pre-Alito hearing rally
Jan 6 2006 10:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Rick Santorum and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson will headline a rally Sunday for conservatives in Philadelphia one day before the start of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
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L.A. Archdiocese in abuse settlement talks
Jan 6 2006 9:30PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - With the threat of civil trials looming, the Los Angeles Archdiocese is deep in talks with lawyers for 45 people allegedly abused by priests, seeking to settle the cases before they reach court, lawyers said Friday.
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Mine survivor has inflammation in lung
Jan 6 2006 9:15PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Rescuers who found the lone survivor of the West Virginia coal mining tragedy may have reached him just in time, because his lungs were starting to fill up with dust and gases, one of his doctors said Friday.
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Boy Scout electrocutions ruled accidental
Jan 6 2006 9:14PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The electrocution deaths of four Boy Scout leaders at the National Scout Jamboree last summer were found to be accidental, an Army spokesman said Friday.
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Dozens of companies may sponsor Mardi Gras
Jan 6 2006 9:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With the city in dire financial shape because of Hurricane Katrina, companies are lining up for the opportunity to become the first-ever corporate sponsors of New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebration.
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New Orleans agrees to delay demolitions
Jan 6 2006 9:12PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city agreed Friday to wait two more weeks before beginning the wholesale demolition of thousands of storm-damaged homes while a federal judge decides whether to hear a challenge from community activists.
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Plea, bail hearing for Padilla delayed
Jan 6 2006 9:07PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla returned to court Friday, a day after his transfer from military to civilian custody, but a judge agreed to postpone hearing his plea and deciding whether he should be granted bail.
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Fire destroys landmark Chicago church
Jan 6 2006 9:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Fire destroyed a landmark 1890 church Friday on the city's South Side that played a major role in the development of gospel music in the 1930s.
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Runaway bride's pastor to publish book
Jan 6 2006 8:40PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The pastor who became spokesman for runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has hit the ground running with a book about "the various issues of life that cause us to make foolish decisions."
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S. Korean arrested in oil-for-food scandal
Jan 6 2006 8:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A South Korean businessman accused of accepting millions of dollars from Iraq in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal was arrested Friday by the FBI in Houston, authorities announced.
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Bond spy craft featured at NYC boat show
Jan 6 2006 6:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tucked away in a corner of the vast hall, all but lost amid the glistening white luxury cruisers and speedy runabouts, five of James Bond's film dreamboats were showing their stuff _ nautical, but hardly naughty.
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My Lai hero Hugh Thompson Jr. dies at 62
Jan 6 2006 6:00PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62.
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Tropical Storm Zeta draws its last breath
Jan 6 2006 5:32PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Zeta fell apart Friday in the open Atlantic, finally bringing the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season to an end.
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Man gets probation after setting Wis. fire
Jan 6 2006 4:18PM (CT)
FRIENDSHIP, Wis. (AP) - A man was sentenced to probation Friday for setting a fire in his yard that spread out of control and destroyed 30 homes in central Wisconsin.
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4 charged with defrauding N.Y. churches
Jan 6 2006 2:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A top purchasing agent for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York was indicted along with his wife and two others on federal charges of pocketing $2 million while buying food products from lettuce to pancakes.
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Jury viewing evidence finds apparent drugs
Jan 6 2006 2:27PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A jury looking at the bloody coat of the victim in an attempted murder trial found something the authorities missed: 30 bags of what appeared to be crack.
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N.J. lawmakers may suspend executions
Jan 6 2006 2:17PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey is on track to become the third state to suspend executions while it studies the cost and fairness of the death penalty.
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WTC restaurant survivors open new place
Jan 6 2006 1:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The surviving employees of Windows on the World, the 107th-floor restaurant obliterated in the World Trade Center attacks, have something to celebrate after more than four painful years: a new upscale eatery, just a walk from ground zero.
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Tourists trickling back to New Orleans
Jan 6 2006 1:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The paddlewheeler on which they had planned to take a Mississippi River excursion was being used to house Hurricane Katrina relief workers. But Phoenix residents Barbara Levy and Skip Hanson still had French Quarter antique stores and restaurants to enjoy.
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German teen released, returns to school
Jan 6 2006 12:19PM (CT)
PANDORA, Ohio (AP) - A teenager from Germany spent 16 days in jail on a visa violation after discovering that a relative never completed paperwork allowing him to legally remain in the United States.
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Detroit gang leader makes plea deal
Jan 6 2006 11:55AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A drug gang leader accused of ordering the killings of two rivals pleaded guilty to federal drug charges and promised to help investigators, a deal likely to spare him the possibility of a death sentence, the Justice Department said.
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Witness' death stuns Wyoming community
Jan 6 2006 11:17AM (CT)
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - In the weeks before his murder, Bryce Chavers had gone from the lighthearted goofball his mother knew to a scared kid who told his grandmother he thought someone was going to kill him.
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Blacks stay longer in Texas foster care
Jan 6 2006 11:06AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Black children in Texas stay in foster care significantly longer, are less likely to be reunited with their families and wait longer for adoption than white or Hispanic children, a study showed.
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L.A. major crime down 14 percent in 2005
Jan 6 2006 9:34AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The major crime rate in Los Angeles dropped 14 percent last year, making it the second-safest large city in the country, police said.
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New Orleans bridge reopens to traffic
Jan 6 2006 9:31AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A major bridge over Lake Pontchartrain that was torn apart by Hurricane Katrina reopened fully to traffic just before dawn Friday.
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DNA to be retested for man executed in '92
Jan 6 2006 7:13AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Death penalty opponents praised Gov. Mark R. Warner's order for DNA testing that could determine whether Virginia sent an innocent man to the electric chair in 1992.
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Religion in the news
Jan 6 2006 7:06AM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - In an unusual clash between creed and curriculum, evangelical day schools are suing the prestigious University of California system, charging that it's biased against conservative Christian viewpoints.
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Fla. court strikes down school vouchers
Jan 6 2006 6:41AM (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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Robertson links Sharon stroke, God's wrath
Jan 6 2006 4:37AM (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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