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Court lifts ban on Kansas underage sex law
Jan 27 2006 11:38PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A federal appeals court lifted a ban on a Kansas law that required health care providers to report consensual underage sex to authorities.
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Detained traveler suffers heart attack
Jan 27 2006 11:19PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A passenger who jumped out of a moving airplane as it prepared to take off was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack in jail Friday, his sister said.
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Florida town mourns kids killed in crash
Jan 27 2006 11:08PM (CT)
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) - Mourners sobbed Friday as candles were lit during a memorial service for seven children killed in a fiery highway crash.
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N.Y. judge nominee selection struck down
Jan 27 2006 10:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday the state's system for selecting trial judges gives too much power to political bosses, and ordered that it be replaced.
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Alleged victim testifies against ex-priest
Jan 27 2006 10:42PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A young man who was allegedly molested by former priest Michael Wempe testified Friday about twice being fondled by the clergyman, declaring "I hate Wempe!" and bursting into tears on the witness stand.
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Half-million baby teethers recalled
Jan 27 2006 10:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Massachusetts company on Friday recalled 500,000 liquid-filled baby teethers distributed in the United States and Canada because of a possible bacterial contamination that could cause serious illness.
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Ariz. court orders lawmaker out of office
Jan 27 2006 10:33PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona legislator has been removed from office for overspending during his 2004 primary race, making him the first lawmaker in the country to be ousted for violating a state's public campaign financing system.
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Army to investigate gay porn allegations
Jan 27 2006 10:32PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Army officials are investigating allegations that members of the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division appear on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Friday.
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Mexico Army likely part of border incident
Jan 27 2006 10:23PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Suspected drug runners dressed in Mexican military-style uniforms who were involved in an armed confrontation with Texas lawmen were using a Mexican military-issue Humvee and weapons, the Hudspeth County sheriff said Friday.
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New Orleans may lose 80 percent of blacks
Jan 27 2006 10:23PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The city of New Orleans could lose up to 80 percent of its black population if people displaced by Hurricane Katrina are not able to return to damaged neighborhoods, according to an analysis by a Brown University sociologist.
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Doctors: Sago survivor stands, with help
Jan 27 2006 10:00PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - With a little help, the sole survivor of the Sago Mine disaster stood for the first time since the accident, and puckered his lips when his wife asked for a kiss, doctors said Friday.
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Wash. Legislature passes gay rights bill
Jan 27 2006 9:28PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington lawmakers passed a gay rights bill Friday in a major victory for activists who had watched the measure fail in the Legislature for nearly 30 years.
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Husband of slain Mass. woman questioned
Jan 27 2006 9:27PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Police searched the suburban Boston home where a mother and her infant daughter were found shot to death a day before their bodies were discovered, but did not see anything wrong, authorities revealed Friday.
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Credit card numbers stolen off Web site
Jan 27 2006 9:13PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Thousands of credit card numbers were stolen from a state government Web site that allows residents to register their cars and buy state permits, authorities said Friday.
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Most claims rejected in suit vs. Jackson
Jan 27 2006 9:11PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury Friday rejected most claims by a conservative minister that the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his son threatened the clergyman during a 2001 meeting of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
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U.S. warns users of cross-border tunnel
Jan 27 2006 8:34PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Those associated with the longest and one of the most sophisticated tunnels ever discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border may be in grave danger, U.S. officials said Friday.
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Residents file suits in Calif. mudslide
Jan 27 2006 8:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Residents of a seaside town hit by a deadly landslide last year filed lawsuits against Ventura County and a private ranch company, claiming both were negligent in protecting the community.
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NYC child welfare worker arrested
Jan 27 2006 8:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city's beleaguered child welfare agency was dealt another blow Friday when police arrested one of its employees on suspicion of sexually assaulting his teenage daughter.
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NTSB: Ban landing method in Midway crash
Jan 27 2006 8:16PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal investigators on Friday recommended banning a landing calculation used by the pilots of a jetliner that skidded off a runway and into a city street, where it killed a 6-year-old boy.
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Two killed in Mich. flight-school crash
Jan 27 2006 7:54PM (CT)
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A single-engine plane registered to a flight school crashed at an airport Friday, killing both people aboard, officials said.
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Queen Mary 2 passengers to get full refund
Jan 27 2006 7:45PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The owners of the Queen Mary 2 will fully refund about 1,000 enraged passengers after the world's largest cruise ship missed three ports of call on a voyage from New York to Los Angeles because of an accident, the company said Friday.
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Iran atomic program called major U.N. test
Jan 27 2006 7:30PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton said Friday he expects Iran's disputed atomic program to ultimately go before the U.N. Security Council, but acknowledged that doing so wouldn't necessarily stop Iran from pursuing its nuclear ambitions.
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Fla. school stands by aide hit by father
Jan 27 2006 7:28PM (CT)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - A teenager who accused a teacher's aide of molesting her _ prompting the girl's father to march into school and punch the man in the face _ made up the story, officials said.
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Lawyer dons dominatrix mask in Mass. trial
Jan 27 2006 7:28PM (CT)
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A prosecutor put on a black leather mask and re-enacted a bondage session Friday at a dominatrix's manslaughter trial, telling the jury the woman did nothing to help her client when he suffered a heart attack.
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Traveler helps crack Ala. sex abuse case
Jan 27 2006 7:27PM (CT)
EVERGREEN, Ala. (AP) - A couple arrested in a child sex abuse case claimed to be hurricane victims _ after both Ivan and Katrina _ while collecting donations and sharing a mobile home with a south Alabama man who says he was unaware of their backgrounds.
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Two on Navy plane die in Texas crash
Jan 27 2006 7:14PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A Navy training plane crashed and burned Friday in Corpus Christi, killing the pilot and the student on board, a military spokeswoman said.
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Gulf reefs damaged by Rita, warm waters
Jan 27 2006 7:14PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Rita's pounding waves and a hotter-than-usual Gulf of Mexico took a toll on the Gulf of Mexico's only government-protected coral reefs about 100 miles off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.
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Chicago cardinal hospitalized briefly
Jan 27 2006 6:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Cardinal Francis George, the head of the nation's third-largest Catholic diocese, was hospitalized for medical tests after several recent bouts of dizziness, a spokesman for the archdiocese said.
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Katrina refugees in Texas held in killings
Jan 27 2006 6:25PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Eight members of rival New Orleans gangs who had moved to Houston since Hurricane Katrina have been arrested in connection with the slayings of 11 fellow refugees and other violent crimes, police said Friday.
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Prison for 3 in transgender teen killing
Jan 27 2006 4:55PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - Two men who killed a transgender teenager after discovering the girl they had had sex with was biologically male were sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison.
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Two consecutive life terms for N.J. killer
Jan 27 2006 4:24PM (CT)
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - Calling him "an evil human being," a judge ordered consecutive life sentences Friday for a former nurse convicted in the murders of a businessman and a gay prostitute whose remains were dumped along New Jersey highways.
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Texas judges allowed to resume campaigns
Jan 27 2006 3:42PM (CT)
AUSTIN (AP) - Two Republicans who were knocked off the March primary ballot because of problems with voter signatures they collected will be allowed to resume their campaigns, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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Vietnam deserter won't face trial
Jan 27 2006 3:40PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Vietnam-era Marine Corps deserter who was arrested after more than 36 years on the lam will not face a military trial and has been discharged from the military, officials said.
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Father convicted of raping daughter, 3
Jan 27 2006 3:06PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A man who was arrested after offering to have sex with a toddler live on the Internet was convicted of raping his 3-year-old daughter and could face life in prison.
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Phoenix police say recent shootings linked
Jan 27 2006 2:25PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A series of apparently random shootings that killed three men, wounded two others and also targeted dogs and horses may be linked, police said Friday, and authorities are searching for the unidentified assailants.
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Live poultry markets raise bird flu fears
Jan 27 2006 2:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The odor is the first clue, a sharp barnyard smell that seems out of place on a stretch of the Lower East Side near a Burger King and a Dunkin' Donuts. Hand-lettered signs advertise in English, Spanish and Chinese: live chickens, ducks, quail, pheasants.
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Crackdown targets vice in Tenn. mountains
Jan 27 2006 2:10PM (CT)
NEWPORT, Tenn. (AP) - When agents swooped in last year with helicopters and machine guns in a raid on what was said to be the nation's largest illegal cockfighting pit, they shined new light on a tradition of good ol' boy vice in aptly named Cocke County.
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Texas toll booth scofflaw owed $76,000
Jan 27 2006 1:25PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A driver who racked up about $76,000 in charges for cruising through toll booths without paying has pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor citations.
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Pregnant woman charged with child abuse
Jan 27 2006 1:05PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A pregnant woman has been taken into custody after three of her 14 children, showing signs of abuse, were found taking refuge in an abandoned house, police said Friday.
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Pa. families latest to get Venezuelan oil
Jan 27 2006 1:03PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Low-income families in the Philadelphia area will receive discounted Venezuelan heating oil in the latest deal bringing fuel to U.S. communities that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims are neglected by Washington.
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Woman accused of driving bloodmobile drunk
Jan 27 2006 1:02PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The driver of a bloodmobile ran a red light on her way to a blood drive and has been charged with drunken driving, police said.
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Tropical Storm Cindy upgraded months later
Jan 27 2006 12:40PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Cindy, the third named storm of last year's record hurricane season, has been upgraded, putting the 2005 Atlantic hurricane count at 15.
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Customs shutters U.S.-Mexico drug tunnel
Jan 27 2006 12:39PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - With tougher drug enforcement above ground, authorities say traffickers along the U.S.-Mexican border were forced to dig deep below ground instead.
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Missouri targets phony charity collections
Jan 27 2006 12:01PM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Missouri is suing two men accused of placing phony Special Olympics donation boxes at stores and keeping the proceeds, and authorities are investigating similar suspected scams in neighboring states.
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Coulter jokes about poisoning Justice
Jan 27 2006 12:00PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, speaking at a traditionally black college, joked that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned.
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Judge derides Mass. aid for mentally ill
Jan 27 2006 11:17AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts is needlessly forcing thousands of mentally ill youngsters to live away from home because of "woefully inadequate" health care assessments, a federal judge found.
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Study: Disease afflicts deer flesh, brain
Jan 27 2006 10:59AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The leg muscles of deer infected with chronic wasting disease contain the infectious proteins that cause the fatal brain disease, new research shows.
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Fla. men arrested for dog vs. hog fights
Jan 27 2006 10:12AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Authorities arrested five men for setting up fights between dogs and wild boars at an Indian reservation in South Florida.
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Medical marijuana crusader to face jail
Jan 27 2006 9:04AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby, a key figure behind California's voter-approved medical marijuana law, is back in the United States to face a jail sentence after spending years as a fugitive in Canada.
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Exxon Valdez judgment back in court
Jan 27 2006 8:14AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It's been nearly 17 years since the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil along the Alaska coast in one of the country's worst environmental disasters, and a jury's $5 billion judgment against the company is still tied up in the courts.
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Indiana man executed for 1981 slayings
Jan 27 2006 8:01AM (CT)
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) - After his last chance for a reprieve was exhausted, a convicted killer who challenged the legality of lethal injection said only: "Let's get it over with."
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L.A. city attorney sues video game maker
Jan 27 2006 7:03AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The city attorney's office has sued the makers of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for allegedly hiding pornographic material inside the video game, officials said.
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Minor earthquake shakes central Utah
Jan 27 2006 6:43AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A minor earthquake shook part of central Utah, officials said. There were no reports of injury or damage.
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Gunman in standoff served time for robbery
Jan 27 2006 5:17AM (CT)
EXETER, Calif. (AP) - A man who wielded a pellet gun to take eight hostages inside a bank during a 10 1/2-hour standoff with police served prison time for a previous bank robbery, officials said.
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Vt. judge increases sex offender's penalty
Jan 27 2006 3:53AM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - After three weeks of being called "the worst judge in the USA" and hearing politicians demand his resignation, the judge berated for giving a child molester 60 days behind bars lengthened the sentence.
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Study finds rich-poor income gap growing
Jan 27 2006 2:29AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The disparity between rich and poor is growing in America as the federal minimum wage has remained flat for years, union membership has declined and industries have faced global competition, according to a study released Thursday.
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