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Reputed mob boss captured in Chicago
Jan 13 2006 11:53PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A reputed mob boss charged along with 13 others with plotting several organized crime murders was taken into custody Friday after nine months on the run, the FBI said.
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S.C. county to observe its first MLK Day
Jan 13 2006 11:26PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Greenville County geared up Friday for what local black leaders called MLK Dream Weekend, as it became the last of South Carolina's 46 counties to officially mark the birth of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ellsberg: Exposing secrets may save lives
Jan 13 2006 11:21PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers 35 years ago, said Friday that whistleblowers shouldn't be afraid to reveal government secrets in an effort to save people's lives, even if it means going to jail.
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Calif. preschool initiative on June ballot
Jan 13 2006 11:14PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An initiative sponsored by director and Democratic activist Rob Reiner that would fund preschool for all California children has qualified for the June primary election ballot, the secretary of state's office said Friday.
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Judge in Pentagon Papers case dies at 75
Jan 13 2006 11:13PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - William Matthew Byrne, Jr., the federal judge who presided over the 1970s Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg, has died. He was 75.
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Nancy Reagan dedicates military plane
Jan 13 2006 11:03PM (CT)
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Former first lady Nancy Reagan dedicated a C-17 cargo plane dubbed "Spirit of Ronald Reagan" on Friday.
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SWAT team shoots 'armed' Fla. 8th-grader
Jan 13 2006 10:59PM (CT)
LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) - An eighth-grader was shot and wounded by a SWAT team officer in a school bathroom Friday after he pulled out a pellet gun that resembled a real weapon and later raised it at a deputy, authorities said.
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With 26 rainy days, Seattle nears record
Jan 13 2006 10:56PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - People in water-logged Washington now have official confirmation of something they've been suspecting: It's been raining a lot.
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Last Everglades homesteader relents, sells
Jan 13 2006 10:53PM (CT)
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - A homesteader leaving his Everglades land after years of fighting the state's claim on it is moving to a bigger, nicer house, but he mourns what he's lost.
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Conn. high court upholds Skakel conviction
Jan 13 2006 10:53PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - The Connecticut Supreme Court unanimously upheld Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder conviction Friday, more than 30 years after a killing that sparked decades of intrigue.
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Geoghan slay suspect saw himself as savior
Jan 13 2006 10:52PM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - The inmate on trial for strangling a child-molesting defrocked priest, John Geoghan, considered himself a savior of abused youngsters, an investigator testified Friday.
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Fires revive in Okla.; 29 buildings burn
Jan 13 2006 10:48PM (CT)
RATLIFF CITY, Okla. (AP) - Firefighters on Friday cleaned up the remnants of grass fires in southern Oklahoma that scorched up to 20,000 acres and destroyed more than two dozen homes and businesses overnight.
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Fla. tot dies; neck caught in car window
Jan 13 2006 10:42PM (CT)
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - A toddler was killed after his neck got stuck in an electric car window while his father slept in the driver's seat, police said.
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Second suspect held in reporter killing
Jan 13 2006 10:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A second suspect in the beating death of veteran New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum was arrested Friday night and charged with felony murder.
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Minn. teen sentenced for threats
Jan 13 2006 10:07PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A tribal chairman's teenage son was sentenced Friday for exchanging threatening messages with the gunman in last year's shootings on the Red Lake Indian reservation, but the closed hearing frustrated victims' family members.
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W.Va. mine emitted deadly gases for hours
Jan 13 2006 9:45PM (CT)
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) - Hours after an underground explosion, deadly carbon monoxide gas poured from the entrance to the Sago Mine at more than five times the level considered safe for humans, according to government documents released Friday.
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Sniper suspect lawyers file motion in Md.
Jan 13 2006 9:23PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - Attorneys for convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad asked a judge Friday for separate trials for the six murders he is charged with in Maryland.
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Grass fires devastate farms and ranches
Jan 13 2006 8:59PM (CT)
CARBON, Texas (AP) - The recent outbreak of grassfires across drought-stricken Texas and Oklahoma has compounded the misery of many farmers and ranchers dealing with the effects of one of the worst dry spells on record.
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Three accused of ecoterror attacks plot
Jan 13 2006 8:55PM (CT)
AUBURN, Calif. (AP) - Three people were arrested Friday on suspicion that they plotted to blow up U.S. Forest Service property along with cell phone towers and power generators, the FBI said.
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Padilla's alleged al-Qaida papers released
Jan 13 2006 8:46PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Friday released an application to join an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan purportedly filled out by accused terror operative Jose Padilla.
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Calif. governor has no mercy for inmate
Jan 13 2006 8:38PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's oldest death row inmate _ a 75-year-old who is legally blind and nearly deaf _ is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: block an execution because of the condemned man's advanced age and infirmity.
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Court OKs request in 'Fatal Vision' case
Jan 13 2006 8:37PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An appeals court gave new life Friday to the defense of a former Green Beret doctor convicted of the 1970 murders of his wife and daughters, ruling that his lawyers can introduce evidence that a prosecutor threatened a witness.
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12 states oppose Bush pollution plan
Jan 13 2006 8:16PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Attorneys general in 12 states said Friday that the Bush administration's plan to ease rules on reporting legal toxin releases would compromise the public's right to know about possible health risks in their neighborhoods.
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Chicago city clerk faces charges in bribes
Jan 13 2006 8:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's city clerk was charged Friday with soliciting bribes and obstructing justice, becoming the highest ranking official charged in a federal investigation into a city program that awarded hauling jobs to trucking companies.
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Storms injure 13 in Fla., kill 1 in Ala.
Jan 13 2006 7:56PM (CT)
BAKER, Fla. (AP) - Severe storms and tornadoes swept across two states Friday, killing a woman in Alabama, damaging dozens of homes, and tearing a section of roof off a Florida school where 13 children were injured, authorities said.
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Mine disaster probe to rely on forensics
Jan 13 2006 7:30PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - They will probably look for scorch marks and melted plastic, examine equipment for signs of a short-circuit, establish whether the methane detectors were working and take air samples to check for highly combustible coal dust.
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Boston's Big Dig winding down to a close
Jan 13 2006 7:16PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - After more than a decade of ever-shifting traffic detours, the last major piece of roadway in Boston's Big Dig opened Friday, officials said.
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Mayflower hotel conventioneers get sick
Jan 13 2006 6:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Spoiled salad dressing may have caused stomach illness in at least 28 conventioneers staying at a posh downtown hotel, city health officials said Friday.
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African archbishops support U.S. Anglicans
Jan 13 2006 6:20PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Nine Anglican archbishops from overseas are in the United States supporting a burgeoning movement that began with Episcopalians disenchanted over liberal theology, including the acceptance of homosexuality.
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Man who left bomb note on plane sentenced
Jan 13 2006 5:49PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who admitted scribbling a fake bomb threat on a gum wrapper and leaving it on a Southwest Airlines plane was sentenced Friday to five years of probation.
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Medal for Minneapolis cop renews anguish
Jan 13 2006 5:30PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Old wounds were reopened this week when the Police Department awarded a medal to a white officer for shooting a black teenager 16 years ago.
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Photograph of surviving miner unauthorized
Jan 13 2006 5:10PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The hospital where Sago Mine explosion survivor Randal McCloy Jr. is being treated said Friday that a supermarket tabloid photo of McCloy in his room was obtained without the permission of the medical center or the miner's family.
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Teen with toy gun tries to take Ark. baby
Jan 13 2006 3:57PM (CT)
CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) - A teenager holding a toy gun forced her way into a hospital nursery and snatched a newborn from a crib before the employees grabbed her and held her down, police said.
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Mass. homeless shelter chief faces charges
Jan 13 2006 3:48PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - The former director of the city's homeless shelter was charged Friday with siphoning off $350,000 in taxpayer money to outfit his beach home and pay for two friends' no-show jobs.
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San Quentin row hurts 2 staff, 23 inmates
Jan 13 2006 3:35PM (CT)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - A riot broke out in a crowded dining hall at San Quentin State Prison, injuring at least 23 inmates and two staff members, prison officials said Friday.
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Alaska volcano erupts third time in a week
Jan 13 2006 2:37PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Augustine Volcano erupted Friday for the third time in a week, sending an ash plume toward communities on the southwest Kenai Peninsula.
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Ariz. tribes angered by man-made snow
Jan 13 2006 1:27PM (CT)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - A federal judge is allowing a ski area to use treated wastewater to make snow, enraging Indian tribes who say the plan will taint a mountain they consider sacred.
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Iraqi baby released from U.S. hospital
Jan 13 2006 1:23PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Iraqi infant who underwent surgery for spinal birth defects was released from a hospital Friday to recover at an Atlanta-area home where her father and grandmother have been staying, hospital officials said.
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Man gets 30 years for killing N.J. teen
Jan 13 2006 1:01PM (CT)
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A man who admitting killing a 16-year-old girl after she asked him not to smoke crack cocaine in front of her was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
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7-year-old started deadly NYC fire
Jan 13 2006 11:18AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A fire that killed two sisters and their teenage uncle in a Coney Island apartment was started by a 7-year-old boy playing with a butane lighter, investigators said.
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Seattle man charged with threatening Bush
Jan 13 2006 10:56AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A man was in federal custody Friday on charges of sending threatening packages to President Bush, including one last month marked "Brace For Impact" that shut down the White House mailroom, authorities said.
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Debris fire burns in New Orleans
Jan 13 2006 10:51AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A smoky fire was burning Friday in a 100-foot-high pile of furniture, refrigerators and other hurricane debris in the city's hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward.
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New Orleanians vow to keep rebuilding
Jan 13 2006 10:48AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Michael Knight kept nailing new shingles on his home in the devastated Ninth Ward, even after a commission recommended a moratorium on new building permits in areas heavily flooded by Hurricane Katrina until neighborhoods prove their viability.
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La. woman won't be prosecuted for looting
Jan 13 2006 10:46AM (CT)
GRETNA, La. (AP) - A church deaconess and great-grandmother jailed for two weeks after being accused of looting sausage during Hurricane Katrina will not be prosecuted.
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Dog food co. noticed tainted corn early
Jan 13 2006 10:35AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A dog food manufacturer noticed it was receiving more contaminated corn a month before some eluded testers, contaminating food and killing dozens of dogs, a company executive said.
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Activists angered by flyover at MLK march
Jan 13 2006 9:52AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Peace activists are protesting plans for a military flyover at the city's annual Martin Luther King Jr. march, saying the gesture runs counter to the nonviolent beliefs of the civil rights leader.
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Agents make huge heroin bust in Calif.
Jan 13 2006 8:13AM (CT)
INDIO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities seized 31 pounds of Mexican heroin in the Southern California desert in a bust one official said was so big it looked like something out of a movie.
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Man gets 160 years in courthouse bomb plot
Jan 13 2006 7:15AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A counterfeiter who hated the federal government so much he dreamed of causing more destruction than Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to a maximum 160 years in prison for plotting to blow up Chicago's federal courthouse.
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Defense team outnumbered in Gitmo trials
Jan 13 2006 6:53AM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Prosecutors outnumber defense lawyers 4-to-1 at military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the chief defense counsel said, arguing that his team needs more staff.
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ASPCA charm school helps dogs find homes
Jan 13 2006 6:38AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Lie down. Roll over. Sit up. Give me a paw. The pet tricks are so simple they couldn't even qualify as "stupid" on television, but for the pooches performing them at the ASPCA's charm school, they could be a ticket to adoption.
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L.A. mayor: City is the 'homeless capital'
Jan 13 2006 6:33AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A report released Thursday that provided new details on the region's homeless population prompted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to call the nation's second-largest city the nation's "capital of homelessness."
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Ancient remains found in downtown Miami
Jan 13 2006 6:04AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Archaeologists excavating two American Indian burial sites in downtown Miami say they have found hundreds of remains piled in limestone fissures, some of them stacked in stone burial boxes.
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Report: Sarasota, Fla., the 'meanest city'
Jan 13 2006 5:02AM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Sarasota, which recently imposed a no-camping ban, is the meanest city in the nation toward the homeless, according to a national advocacy organization.
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DNA tests confirm executed Va. man guilty
Jan 13 2006 2:37AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A new round of DNA tests that death penalty opponents believed might finally prove that an innocent man was executed in the United States confirmed instead that Roger Keith Coleman was guilty when he went to the electric chair in 1992.
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United Way to give money to Boy Scouts
Jan 13 2006 2:36AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta announced it would give the local Boy Scouts $250,000, six months after it withheld the donation over inflated numbers of inner-city recruits.
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