|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ark. police find bodies of three children
Jan 28 2006 11:10PM (CT)
DE QUEEN, Ark. (AP) - Police found the bodies of three children lying side-by-side on a bed in their home Saturday after their mother said she smothered them, investigators said.
|
|
|
Fallen Challenger astronauts are honored
Jan 28 2006 10:11PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The widow of Challenger's commander laid a wreath of roses and carnations at a memorial honoring fallen astronauts Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the day the space shuttle lifted off from a launch pad a few miles away and blew apart 73 seconds later.
|
|
|
Debate heats up over temporary residency
Jan 28 2006 9:30PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Special temporary U.S. residency issued to thousands of Central Americans is due to expire in the coming months, and with the debate over immigration increasingly fierce, many of the immigrants fear they will be sent home.
|
|
|
Maryland inmate allegedly kills officer
Jan 28 2006 8:21PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - A corrections officer who was shot in the face by a hospitalized inmate has died of his injuries, officials said Saturday, and union leaders are demanding a review of the department's staffing policies.
|
|
|
Child advocates wary of overreaction
Jan 28 2006 8:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - There is no argument that Nixzmary Brown's death was horrific; the 7-year-old Brooklyn girl was allegedly tortured and beaten by her stepfather. There is, however, concern and contention over the next phase for New York City's child protection agency and the families it monitors.
|
|
|
Off-duty NYPD officer mistakenly shot
Jan 28 2006 8:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a tragic case of mistaken identity, police shot and critically wounded an off-duty officer as he pointed a gun at a suspect outside a fast food restaurant early Saturday, authorities said.
|
|
|
Louisiana's Democrats try to refocus party
Jan 28 2006 5:52PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Even before Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Democratic Party was struggling in a conservative state skewing more Republican in its voting tendencies.
|
|
|
Four Marines charged in drowning death
Jan 28 2006 5:08PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Four Marines who helped supervise swimming instruction have been charged in connection with a drowning death during training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
|
|
|
Suit alleging abuse at Boys Town is tossed
Jan 28 2006 4:53PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out one of the lawsuits claiming sexual abuse at the home for wayward children made famous in the 1938 movie "Boys Town."
|
|
|
Wyo. a battleground in deadly force debate
Jan 28 2006 4:21PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - In the "Cowboy State," where guns are present in more than half of all homes, an unlikely battleground is forming in the fight over the appropriate use of firearms.
|
|
|
N.H. town celebrates McAuliffe legacy
Jan 28 2006 3:13PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - It was just as Christa McAuliffe would have wanted. The Concord High School teacher and her six crewmates on the space shuttle Challenger appear chronologically, with no special billing, in a school lesson on space travel.
|
|
|
Chicago-bound Amtrak train derails
Jan 28 2006 2:01PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Amtrak's Chicago-bound Empire Builder passenger train derailed early Saturday near Spokane, causing minor injuries.
|
|
|
Sunoco worker awarded $9M after fall
Jan 28 2006 1:42PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A jury awarded a Sunoco laborer $9 million for injuries suffered when he fell from a ladder at the company's South Philadelphia refinery.
|
|
|
Search halted for missing migrant vessel
Jan 28 2006 10:50AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Authorities called off the search for a homemade boat carrying 15 migrants that disappeared amid fog and ocean swells off the Florida Keys.
|
|
|
ACLU sues on behalf of Pa. student
Jan 28 2006 10:20AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A high school senior who was transferred to an alternative school as punishment for parodying his principal on the Internet is suing the district, arguing it violated his freedom of speech.
|
|
|
Washington state OKs gay civil rights law
Jan 28 2006 8:40AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Before he died of AIDS, the state's first openly gay lawmaker asked a friend for a promise: that he would keep working on gay civil rights legislation. That was more than a decade ago. Now, the legislation Cal Anderson championed, 30 years in the making, is about to become law.
|
|
|
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa dethroned in Hawaii
Jan 28 2006 6:58AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Everyone thought the humuhumunukunukuapuaa was Hawaii's state fish. As it turns out, the brightly colored fish with the excessively long name has been dethroned.
|
|
|
Nevada site tests 'dirty bomb' sensors
Jan 28 2006 6:56AM (CT)
NEVADA TEST SITE, Nev. (AP) - The scientists stood waiting for a read-out from a hand-held Geiger counter-type machine placed next to a large corrugated metal shipping container. During the test at the Radiological-Nuclear Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Complex in the Nevada desert, the equipment failed to identify the plutonium in the container. On a second try, it worked.
|
|
|
Peter Ladefoged, pioneering linguist, dies
Jan 28 2006 6:12AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter Ladefoged, a pioneering linguist who consulted on the 1964 film "My Fair Lady," in which actor Rex Harrison plays a phonetician, has died. He was 80.
|
|
|
Ga. woman charged in death of adoptive son
Jan 28 2006 4:46AM (CT)
ALMA, Ga. (AP) - The body of a 3-year-old boy was found Friday after his adoptive mother reported him kidnapped and then finally confessed to slaying him, police said.
|
|
|
Mexico Army likely part of border incident
Jan 28 2006 4:41AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - It wasn't just Mexican military-style uniforms that suspected drug runners were wearing when they were confronted by Texas lawmen, the Hudspeth County sheriff says.
|
|
|
Katrina evacuees in Texas held in killings
Jan 28 2006 3:45AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - At least 23 people who evacuated to Houston during Hurricane Katrina were either the victim or the suspect in killings here between September and December, police say.
|
|
|
Army to investigate gay porn allegations
Jan 28 2006 1:39AM (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.
|
|
|
Political mud slung in dredging battle
Jan 28 2006 1:31AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For more than 15 years, New Jersey and Pennsylvania officials have quarreled quietly over whether to make a 103-mile stretch of the Delaware River five feet deeper so larger ships can sail into the port of Philadelphia. That simmering dispute has now boiled over and flowed downstream into the nation's capital.
|
|
|
CDC report criticizes Boy Scout leaders
Jan 28 2006 12:23AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Boy Scout leaders failed to provide sufficient water and shade to campers at their national Jamboree last summer, resulting in thousands of heat-related illnesses amid soaring temperatures, a federal report concluded Friday.
|
|
|
Utah House approves parental consent bill
Jan 28 2006 12:17AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah House passed a bill Friday requiring girls younger than 18 to get parental consent before they may undergo an abortion.
|
|
|
Starr asks Schwarzenegger to spare killer
Jan 28 2006 12:06AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday to spare the life of a death row inmate because the man has apologized for his crimes.
|
|
|
|
|
|