|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gunfire, chase closes stretch of border
Jan 24 2006 11:57PM (CT)
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) - A high-speed chase that ended in gunfire closed the U.S.-Canadian border crossing near here for hours Tuesday, authorities said. Two men sought in a California homicide were arrested after one of them was shot and wounded.
|
|
|
U.N. projects global economic growth
Jan 24 2006 11:36PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is projecting global economic growth of just over 3 percent this year and is calling for economic cooperation to battle risks and fight "investment anemia."
|
|
|
Feds agree to pay ACLU over no-fly list
Jan 24 2006 11:34PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two federal agencies agreed Tuesday to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $200,000 to settle a lawsuit brought to uncover information about the government's no-fly list, which bars suspected terrorists from airliners.
|
|
|
4 killed in small-plane crash in Calif.
Jan 24 2006 11:24PM (CT)
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - A private jet overshot a runway and crashed in flames Tuesday, killing all four people aboard, authorities said.
|
|
|
Santa Ana winds raise SoCal fire fears
Jan 24 2006 11:11PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Santa Ana winds gusting to nearly 70 mph swept through Southern California for a third day Tuesday, knocking over more big rigs and spurring a wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest.
|
|
|
Schwarzenegger plans to keep Dem staffer
Jan 24 2006 11:11PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that he isn't worried about losing the Republican Party's support as punishment for hiring a Democratic activist as his chief of staff, and he added that he doesn't know what all the fuss is about.
|
|
|
High court delays Fla. inmate execution
Jan 24 2006 11:04PM (CT)
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A death row inmate won a stay from the Supreme Court Tuesday night about an hour after he was scheduled to be executed for killing a police officer.
|
|
|
Jury deliberates accused Iraqi agent case
Jan 24 2006 11:01PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the case of an Indiana truck driver accused of conspiring to sell U.S. intelligence secrets to Saddam Hussein's government.
|
|
|
Police: Girl shot, wounded at Md. day care
Jan 24 2006 11:00PM (CT)
GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) - A 7-year-old girl was shot in the arm at a day-care center Tuesday after an 8-year-old classmate brought in one of his father's guns and it accidentally went off, authorities said.
|
|
|
Blanco: Wait for FEMA delaying recovery
Jan 24 2006 10:49PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The wait for federal standards for home building is hampering Louisiana's hurricane reconstruction efforts, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Activist drops reward for info on profs
Jan 24 2006 10:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A conservative activist dropped his offer to pay students up to $100 per class for providing information on what he called "radical" professors at the University of California, Los Angeles.
|
|
|
Officials order Kentucky coal mine closed
Jan 24 2006 10:16PM (CT)
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - State inspectors on Tuesday ordered a coal mine in eastern Kentucky closed because they feared for the safety of the miners.
|
|
|
Mormon church says leader has surgery
Jan 24 2006 10:01PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Gordon B. Hinckley, the 95-year-old president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, underwent surgery Tuesday to remove a cancerous growth on his large intestine, church officials said.
|
|
|
Calif. lawmakers probing prison deaths
Jan 24 2006 9:59PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - State lawmakers are calling on California's corrections chief to explain details of a practice in which prison officials use influential inmates to help keep order behind bars.
|
|
|
Pastor urges Microsoft stock buy-and-dump
Jan 24 2006 9:45PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A pastor who threatened a national boycott against Microsoft and other major corporations for endorsing a gay rights bill urged supporters Tuesday to buy up the companies' stock and dump it to drive prices down.
|
|
|
Director of Lincoln library to step down
Jan 24 2006 9:05PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum announced Tuesday he was stepping down, less than a year after the museum's grand opening.
|
|
|
Vietnam deserter readjusts after 'release'
Jan 24 2006 8:51PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Jerry Texiero's last official military duty was to complete a course on something he mastered more than 40 years ago _ leaving the Marine Corps.
|
|
|
Official details Texas-Mexico standoff
Jan 24 2006 8:16PM (CT)
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) - Texas law enforcement officers faced off with men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers and apparent drug suspects near the U.S.-Mexican border Tuesday, after three SUVs attempted to flee state authorities, officials said.
|
|
|
Nagin chides media over some coverage
Jan 24 2006 8:14PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin chided the media Tuesday for "embellishments" and "things that were stretched" during the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
|
|
|
Jury begins deliberating Geoghan killing
Jan 24 2006 8:10PM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the murder case against an inmate who claimed he was insane when he strangled child-molesting priest John Geoghan in the clergyman's prison cell.
|
|
|
Former President Ford still hospitalized
Jan 24 2006 7:29PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former President Ford continued to get better Tuesday, his 11th day of hospital treatment for pneumonia, his spokeswoman said.
|
|
|
Judge OKs trial of N.C. death row inmate
Jan 24 2006 6:46PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A man who spent 11 years on death row and came within hours of execution deserves a new trial because police did not turn over files that could have helped clear him of murder, a judge has ruled.
|
|
|
Mine survivor responding to commands
Jan 24 2006 6:15PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The sole survivor of an explosion that killed 12 men at a West Virginia coal mine is responding to simple commands as he continues to emerge from a light coma, doctors said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Retired corporal pleads guilty in charade
Jan 24 2006 4:38PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A retired Marine lance corporal pleaded guilty Tuesday to passing himself off as a retired colonel during a Memorial Day speech last year.
|
|
|
Kansas group home operator gets 30 years
Jan 24 2006 3:20PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The operator of a group home for the mentally ill was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for enslaving its residents, forcing them to work naked and perform sex acts, and his wife was sentenced to seven years.
|
|
|
Four U.S. governors visit troops in Iraq
Jan 24 2006 3:13PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and three other governors are in Iraq on a surprise visit to their states' troops, his spokeswoman said Tuesday morning.
|
|
|
Coroner loses Katrina job due to charges
Jan 24 2006 3:04PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Louisiana officials investigating whether New Orleans hospital patients were put out of their misery in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina no longer want Dr. Cyril Wecht's help now that the coroner is under indictment.
|
|
|
$17M awarded in Mass. gas-explosion deaths
Jan 24 2006 2:22PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The parents of two girls killed in a 2002 gas explosion at their home have received a $17.2 million settlement from the gas company and others.
|
|
|
W.Va. lawmakers approve mine safety rules
Jan 24 2006 2:05PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia lawmakers approved a wide raft of measures aimed at improving mine safety in the nation's second-largest coal producing state, an overhaul triggered by the deaths of 14 miners this month.
|
|
|
Former EMT guilty of manslaughter
Jan 24 2006 2:04PM (CT)
LEBANON, Va. (AP) - A judge convicted a former rescue squad worker of involuntary manslaughter for zapping a co-worker with defibrillator paddles in what turned out to be a deadly prank.
|
|
|
Pope's first encyclical 'God is Love'
Jan 24 2006 2:01PM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI releases his long-awaited first encyclical Wednesday, an exploration of God's love and charity that has surprised even some Vatican officials because it isn't at all controversial.
|
|
|
Suits over infected body parts expected
Jan 24 2006 1:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Patricia Battisti had thought her back surgery in early 2005 was routine. A letter from her hospital nearly a year later made it clear she was wrong.
|
|
|
New Orleans restaurants starved for help
Jan 24 2006 1:51PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ralph Brennan can get the oysters, crawfish and other seafood he needs for The Redfish Grill and his other French Quarter restaurants. What he can't find are enough busboys, waiters, dishwashers and other kitchen help.
|
|
|
Univ. of Md. student killed in fire
Jan 24 2006 1:00PM (CT)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A University of Maryland student was killed and another injured in a fire in their off-campus apartment Tuesday.
|
|
|
N.C. bank exec charged in twins' slayings
Jan 24 2006 10:58AM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A banking executive was charged in the killings of his twin 5-year-old daughters, who were found stabbed at the family's home.
|
|
|
Shootings prompt UPenn to bolster security
Jan 24 2006 10:39AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - University of Pennsylvania officials, concerned about two recent shootings and an increase in crime near campus, will spend an extra $5 million to immediately bolster security.
|
|
|
4 teens arrested for beating man in Phila.
Jan 24 2006 10:12AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Four teens were arrested on attempted murder charges after they beat up a man who was chosen at random, videotaping the planning and the attack "almost like a documentary," police said.
|
|
|
Mass. Gov. Romney may veto disclosure bill
Jan 24 2006 8:29AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Mitt Romney signaled he may veto a bill strongly opposed by religious organizations that would require religious groups to disclose their finances.
|
|
|
Laguna Beach parade hit by political fight
Jan 24 2006 8:10AM (CT)
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) - For nearly 40 years, this quaint city overlooking the Pacific has united around its annual Patriots' Day Parade, a celebration of school marching bands, charities, civic groups and military personnel.
|
|
|
U.S. sailors recall pirate ship operation
Jan 24 2006 7:34AM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - With weapons drawn, a group of U.S. Navy sailors boarded a suspected pirate ship off the Somalia coast over the weekend and began looking around, uncertain what dangers might await them.
|
|
|
U.N. probe into internal fraud expands
Jan 24 2006 7:24AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A U.N. inquiry into fraud and corruption in purchases made for global peacekeeping operations has expanded to include more than 200 investigations, according to a top official.
|
|
|
Jury orders reprimand, no jail for soldier
Jan 24 2006 6:56AM (CT)
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - A military jury has recommended that an officer once facing up to life in prison for the interrogation death of an Iraqi general be given only a reprimand, a decision that drew applause from soldiers.
|
|
|
Committee OK New Orleans election plan
Jan 24 2006 5:58AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A panel of lawmakers has approved a plan to hold city elections in the spring by distributing absentee ballots to displaced residents and establishing new polling places to replace those devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
|
|
|
Dead girl unclaimed in Las Vegas
Jan 24 2006 4:11AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Mourned by a community but unclaimed by a family, a dead little girl remained unidentified while police planned to reach further into Mexico and Central America in hopes of learning her name and finding her killer.
|
|
|
Katrina evacuees face eviction in Dallas
Jan 24 2006 4:04AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Some Hurricane Katrina evacuees face possible eviction from their rental housing because the Dallas Housing Authority has not paid their December rent.
|
|
|
Judge orders man removed from death row
Jan 24 2006 2:09AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man convicted of three murders was taken off death row after a federal judge ruled that an IQ test administered when the inmate was 10 showed he was mentally retarded.
|
|
|
Minnesota house fire kills four
Jan 24 2006 1:25AM (CT)
PEQUOT LAKES, Minn. (AP) - A father and three of his daughters were killed Monday in a blaze that started near a wood-burning stove, authorities said.
|
|
|
Man jumps from moving jetliner onto tarmac
Jan 24 2006 12:29AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - An airline passenger bit a fellow traveler Monday, then jumped out of a jetliner as it was moving to take off, authorities said. He was later subdued with a stun gun.
|
|
|
|
|
|