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Fla. blast releases low level radiation
Jan 30 2006 11:55PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - More than 70 people underwent decontamination Monday after being exposed to a small amount of radiation from an exploded krypton gas container at a defense contractor's plant Monday, officials said.
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3 arrested in N.Y. police officer assault
Jan 30 2006 11:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three suspects were arrested Monday in the assault of an off-duty police officer who was shot by a fellow officer in a case of mistaken identity.
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Jesse Jackson plans Katrina protest march
Jan 30 2006 11:20PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson is planning a march this spring to protest post-hurricane policies he fears will marginalize the black community, the civil rights leader said Monday as he toured one of the city's hardest-hit areas.
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Police videotaped hitting chase suspect
Jan 30 2006 10:52PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Police were videotaped punching and kicking a suspect after a car chase Monday, and officials are investigating to determine whether the four officers involved acted illegally.
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Child dies in Bronx, raising concerns anew
Jan 30 2006 10:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 4-year-old boy found unconscious in a squalid Bronx apartment visited previously by police and social workers died Monday while the city's child welfare agency was still trying to explain another youngster's death three weeks ago.
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Wis. gov. cancels travel contract
Jan 30 2006 10:24PM (CT)
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Jim Doyle on Monday canceled a state travel contract awarded by a state employee accused of fraud in the deal, but he refused to return $20,000 in campaign donations from the company's executives.
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Judge refers ex-cop's release to Justice
Jan 30 2006 9:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Justice Department should decide whether a former police officer serving a five-year prison term in the jailhouse torture case of a Haitian immigrant can qualify for early release, a federal judge said Monday.
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Woman pleads not guilty in deaths of kids
Jan 30 2006 9:03PM (CT)
DE QUEEN, Ark. (AP) - A woman accused of murdering her three children was distraught over the breakup of her marriage and may have fed the youngsters pesticide before smothering them, police said Monday.
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Dominatrix acquitted in bondage death
Jan 30 2006 9:02PM (CT)
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack.
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Hundreds at church for Fla. crash funeral
Jan 30 2006 9:02PM (CT)
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) - Mourners were met by a sign that read: "Bad things do happen. But God is still good" as hundreds packed into a church Monday to bid farewell to four of seven children killed last week in a fiery crash.
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Border tunnel probe yields first arrest
Jan 30 2006 8:57PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Mexican citizen was arrested on drug charges in the investigation into the longest tunnel ever found underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. officials said Monday.
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High tech has low return finding tunnels
Jan 30 2006 8:35PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A U.S. government effort to find drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the Mexican border with ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech gear has had little success.
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Judge tells lawyer to hold Berkowitz items
Jan 30 2006 8:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Items that belonged to David Berkowitz, the imprisoned "Son of Sam" killer who terrorized New York for 13 months in the 1970s, were assigned Monday to a lawyer for safekeeping until a judge decides whether he can have them back.
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Northwest storms hammer Wash. and Oregon
Jan 30 2006 7:34PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Avalanches and mudslides closed a major highway overnight and blocked Amtrak train service Monday amid the latest in a series of storms that have drenched the Northwest since December.
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Pa. family reports finding needle in soup
Jan 30 2006 7:14PM (CT)
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - A supermarket chain pulled soup cans from the shelves of its stores after a family reported finding a sewing needle in a sealed can of minestrone, officials said.
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Bison ranching a growing industry
Jan 30 2006 6:49PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The irony of bison ranching isn't lost on Dave Carter. Recovering the once nearly extinct creatures has required raising them for slaughter.
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Singer shooting suspect pleads not guilty
Jan 30 2006 6:39PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A man accused of shooting Marc Cohn as he tried to carjack the singer-songwriter's tour van pleaded innocent Monday to an attempted murder charge.
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Students win cage-free chicken campaign
Jan 30 2006 6:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - American University students wanted to change the food served on campus. Their efforts wound up changing the menus at hundreds of cafeterias nationwide _ and the lives of thousands of chickens.
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Fla. doctor guilty in pain pill case
Jan 30 2006 5:40PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A former Air Force doctor was convicted Monday of causing the deaths of five patients by overprescribing highly potent painkillers, including morphine and OxyContin.
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Kaine plans positive Bush speech response
Jan 30 2006 5:34PM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, tapped to deliver the State of the Union response for Democrats, has sharp words for both parties in Washington: Stop being so partisan, negative and irrelevant. "There's a better way," he said Monday.
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Student dies in suicide at Montana school
Jan 30 2006 4:42PM (CT)
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A student shot himself to death in a high school bathroom Monday, just moments after getting off the bus, authorities said.
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NYC coroner says Indonesian killed himself
Jan 30 2006 4:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Indonesian man found dead in the blood-spattered basement of his country's consulate committed suicide by repeatedly stabbing himself with various knives, authorities said Monday.
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Super Bowl host is U.S.'s poorest big city
Jan 30 2006 4:10PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Before the Super Bowl kickoff this weekend, private planes will land here, limousines will clog the streets, and lavish parties will be thrown for those with famous names or lots of money. The kitchens of Ford Field will be stocked with two tons of lobster.
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Judge offers a choice: Army or jail
Jan 30 2006 3:22PM (CT)
LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) - A judge offered a 20-year-old man facing sentencing an unusual choice: Enlist in the Army or go to jail for up to a year.
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Man pleads guilty in Katrina aid scam
Jan 30 2006 3:19PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A man accused of collecting almost $40,000 in donations by falsely claiming he was flying Hurricane Katrina relief flights pleaded guilty Monday to fraud.
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First WWII 'Gold Train' payouts made
Jan 30 2006 1:36PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The first payouts have been distributed from a $25 million settlement with Holocaust survivors who lost jewelry, artwork and other treasures when a Nazi "Gold Train" was commandeered by the U.S. Army during World War II.
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Workers are sentenced in vote fraud case
Jan 30 2006 1:04PM (CT)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A former Democratic election worker in this impoverished city was sentenced Monday to a year and a half in federal prison for scheming to buy votes in the November 2004 election. A City Hall volunteer also accused in the scheme was given probation.
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FDA finds dog food not properly tested
Jan 30 2006 9:55AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Federal regulators determined that a pet food company improperly tested or failed to test corn shipments for a deadly fungus that has been blamed for deaths and illness in dozens of dogs, a newspaper reported Monday.
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Cruise worker charged with sexual battery
Jan 30 2006 7:33AM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Royal Caribbean cruise employee was arrested and charged with attempting to rape a passenger during a weeklong cruise, authorities said.
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