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Texas Dems criticize contract with lobbyist
Jan 18 2006 11:59PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democrats in the Texas Legislature called on the governor Wednesday to cancel a contract with a lobbyist that they contend was used to funnel taxpayer money into Republican campaigns.
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Witness: Interrogation guidelines broken
Jan 18 2006 11:52PM (CT)
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - An Army officer charged in the death of an Iraqi general during interrogation suggested guidelines for questioning detainees were being broken "every day" in Iraq, a witness testified late Wednesday at the officer's court-martial.
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Ex-teacher indicted on sex charges
Jan 18 2006 10:37PM (CT)
TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A former teacher on Wednesday was charged with having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy who was found with her in a Mexico hotel earlier this month.
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Miss. gov. vetoes bill to end grocery tax
Jan 18 2006 10:30PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour vetoed a bill Wednesday that would phase out a state sales tax on groceries and increase the tax on cigarettes.
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U.S. judge blocks Tenn. Senate vote void
Jan 18 2006 10:20PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the state Senate from voiding a special election that was narrowly won last fall by the sister of an indicted former senator.
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Texas car chase ends in head-on crash
Jan 18 2006 10:04PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A high-speed chase that lasted nearly two hours Wednesday ended when the fleeing sedan smashed head-on into another car while going the wrong way on a highway entrance ramp.
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Rowers rescued; boat flipped in Atlantic
Jan 18 2006 10:03PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Two rowers competing in an international race were rescued after spending 16 hours clinging to the hull of their capsized boat in the Atlantic Ocean, the Coast Guard said.
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Ohio county eyes custody of caged children
Jan 18 2006 9:58PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - County officials asked a judge Wednesday to permanently end a couple's custody of 11 special-needs children, some of whom allegedly were forced to sleep in cages.
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Abducted reporter's family makes appeal
Jan 18 2006 9:49PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The family of an American reporter abducted in Baghdad appealed for mercy after her captors threatened to kill her if U.S. authorities don't release all Iraqi women in military custody by Friday.
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Lawyer says Fortier wants to see family
Jan 18 2006 9:48PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case is looking forward to spending time with family after serving his sentence, his attorney said Wednesday.
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Doctor: Mine survivor waking from coma
Jan 18 2006 9:23PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Sago Mine survivor Randal McCloy Jr. appears to be awakening from his coma, and his improving condition may allow him to be transferred to a rehabilitation center within a few weeks, doctors said Wednesday.
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Comatose Mass. girl responds to stimuli
Jan 18 2006 9:07PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A comatose girl beaten with a baseball bat is responding to medical stimuli, officials said Wednesday, a day after Massachusetts' highest court ruled the state could take her off life support.
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High winds in Northeast blamed in 2 deaths
Jan 18 2006 8:40PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - High winds knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Northeast on Wednesday and wreaked havoc for commuters, blowing trees across railroad tracks, overturning tractor-trailers, and making for wild ferry rides.
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Dissatisfied Jews, Christians share ideas
Jan 18 2006 7:54PM (CT)
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Every time Rabbi Dov Gartenberg led the Sabbath service at Congregation Beth Shalom, he would see bored faces among the worshippers and wonder how long he could hold their interest.
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Homeowners get New Orleans to notify them
Jan 18 2006 7:52PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Under pressure from angry residents and a lawsuit, the city has agreed to notify owners before any hurricane-damaged home is demolished, even those homes washed into streets or reduced to heaps of debris.
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More than 3,200 still missing from Katrina
Jan 18 2006 7:31PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - More than 3,200 people are officially still unaccounted for nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and the state medical examiner wants the search to resume for those missing from the most devastated neighborhoods.
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Eight Ind. counties to switch time zones
Jan 18 2006 7:30PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - In a state where time has long been a contentious issue, the federal government Wednesday granted the requests of eight counties to switch from the Eastern to the Central time zone.
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Two sailors die, one missing off Cape Fear
Jan 18 2006 7:23PM (CT)
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Two sailors aboard a tugboat died when their boat sank about 40 miles off Cape Fear in gale-force wind and high seas, the Coast Guard said Wednesday as a search continued for one sailor who remained missing.
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Test failures slow U.S. missile defense
Jan 18 2006 7:20PM (CT)
FORT GREELY, Alaska (AP) - Behind the heavy barbed wire at this snowy range are silos containing eight interceptors designed to shoot down incoming enemy missiles. There were supposed to be as many as 16 in place by now.
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Two charged in Northwest ecoterror probe
Jan 18 2006 6:40PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Two people have been charged in a federal investigation of a string of Northwest arsons claimed by the shadowy radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, authorities said Wednesday.
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Nev. pair sentenced in chili finger case
Jan 18 2006 6:20PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A couple who planted a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a scheme to extort money from the fast-food chain were sentenced Wednesday to at least nine years in prison.
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Third teen held in homeless beating death
Jan 18 2006 5:56PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A third teenager was ordered held without bail Wednesday after he was charged with murder in the death of a homeless man who was beaten with a baseball bat and shot with a paintball gun.
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Controversial Boston sculpture removed
Jan 18 2006 5:53PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A sculpture hailed by some as a moving tribute to freedom fighters but deplored by others as depressing is headed back to its owner after 23 years on the Boston Common.
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Cunard says Queen Mary 2 can still sail
Jan 18 2006 5:30PM (CT)
PORT EVERGLADES, Fla. (AP) - The Queen Mary 2, the world's largest and most expensive ocean liner, should be able to continue on its voyage to South America even though one of its four propulsion motors hit the side of a shipping channel, its operator said Wednesday.
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NYC mourns for young girl beaten to death
Jan 18 2006 5:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hours after family, friends and strangers said a tearful goodbye to a 7-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death by her stepfather, city officials announced a shake up Wednesday at the agency that missed warning signs.
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New Orleans may hold elections in Spring
Jan 18 2006 4:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's top election official assured a federal judge Wednesday that New Orleans can hold its hurricane-delayed elections by late April, and the judge gave the state a week to set the dates.
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Man buries BMW to collect insurance money
Jan 18 2006 3:59PM (CT)
RAVENNA, Ohio (AP) - A man facing a big bill because he had blown the engine in his 1997 BMW decided to bury his car instead and collect $20,000 from his insurance company by claiming it was stolen.
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In 1983 Ill. murder, a not guilty plea
Jan 18 2006 3:39PM (CT)
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A murder case that became a national symbol of death-penalty flaws when two men condemned for the killing of a 10-year-old girl were exonerated was back in court Wednesday, with another man facing murder charges.
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Ford could leave hospital Thursday
Jan 18 2006 2:49PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford was showing improvement after five days hospitalized for treatment of pneumonia and could be released Thursday, his chief of staff said.
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D.C. may make cherry its official fruit
Jan 18 2006 2:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - New York has the apple, Florida has the orange and soon the District of Columbia could have the cherry as its official fruit.
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Superintendent's partner pleads guilty
Jan 18 2006 2:33PM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in looting an affluent Long Island school district of $7 million after a court ruled that his gay partner would have to testify against him.
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Pioneer in fuel rocket technology dies
Jan 18 2006 2:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Col. Edward N. Hall, who as director of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program helped develop the country's solid-fuel rocket technology, putting the U.S. decades ahead of other superpowers, has died. He was 91.
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Mob beating not as it appeared, police say
Jan 18 2006 2:04PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Civic leaders were outraged and heartsick for their city last month when police reported that a motorist had been dragged from his car and beaten senseless by a gang of youths after he honked at them to move out of the street.
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Iraqi kids recovering from heart surgery
Jan 18 2006 1:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A group of Iraqi children who came to the United States for lifesaving heart surgery are well enough to return home soon, but not before some sightseeing.
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Cooling problem shuts Ariz. reactor
Jan 18 2006 12:54PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A reactor at the nation's largest nuclear power plant was shut down because of a growing vibration in a coolant pipe.
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Doctor: Autistic boy died from drug mixup
Jan 18 2006 12:23PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A 5-year-old autistic boy died from a drug mixup, not the lead-poisoning treatment that was attempted to ease his disorder, a federal health official who reviewed the boy's autopsy results said.
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W.Va. Capitol housed piracy studio
Jan 18 2006 11:48AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Tucked away in the basement of West Virginia's gold-domed Capitol, state officials say, an office was secretly transformed into a taxpayer-funded studio that may have been used to pirate DVD videos and music CDs.
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Iraqi baby back at Atlanta hospital
Jan 18 2006 11:41AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Iraqi infant who underwent surgery for spinal birth defects earlier this month returned to an Atlanta hospital Wednesday so fluid could be drained from her back, officials said.
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UCLA alumni want scoop on 'radical' profs
Jan 18 2006 11:22AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ice wine: Born in frost upstate
Jan 18 2006 5:02AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's called ice wine _ dubbed "the nectar of the gods" for its rare, sweet intensity and high price. It's so rare that upstate New York winemaker Art Hunt had to wait three years for the current harvest.
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Jury selection to begin in smuggling case
Jan 18 2006 4:46AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Three people accused of operating smuggling cells were part of a ring responsible for the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt, according to federal prosecutors.
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Study finds that marriage builds wealth
Jan 18 2006 4:43AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Marrying for money, it turns out, works. A study by an Ohio State University researcher shows that a person who marries _ and stays married _ accumulates nearly twice as much personal wealth as a person who is single or divorced.
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Weapons found in car at U.S.-Canada border
Jan 18 2006 4:04AM (CT)
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) - Four weapons were found in a car after Canadian officials at a border crossing became suspicious of the driver, authorities said.
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New Orleans courts expect to begin trials
Jan 18 2006 12:11AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Criminal trials in New Orleans could begin again by March, a judge said Tuesday, and the first grand jury since Hurricane Katrina hit could begin work in February _ when it may hear the case of some 40 patients who died at a hospital after the storm.
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Amateur photographer indicted for murder
Jan 18 2006 12:08AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An amateur photographer was indicted Tuesday for the murder of a 17-year-old college student whose body was found in a ravine in a remote area miles from campus.
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