|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Storm makes drivers slip, fliers wait
Feb 1 2008 11:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Winter storms at both ends of the country dumped snow and snarled air and land travel Friday, killing at least 10 people, blocking major highways and even stranding 400 train passengers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
|
|
|
Storm makes drivers slip, fliers wait
Feb 1 2008 11:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Winter storms at both ends of the country dumped snow and snarled air and land travel Friday, killing at least 10 people, blocking major highways and even stranding 400 train passengers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
|
|
|
Storm makes drivers slip, fliers wait
Feb 1 2008 11:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Winter storms at both ends of the country dumped snow and snarled air and land travel Friday, killing at least 10 people, blocking major highways and even stranding 400 train passengers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
|
|
|
Storm makes drivers slip, fliers wait
Feb 1 2008 11:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Winter storms at both ends of the country dumped snow and snarled air and land travel Friday, killing at least 10 people, blocking major highways and even stranding 400 train passengers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
|
|
|
Domestic partnerships allowed in Oregon
Feb 1 2008 11:52PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A state law allowing gay couples to register as domestic partners belatedly took effect Friday after a federal judge ruled the state's process of disqualifying petition signatures was consistent enough to be valid.
|
|
|
Domestic partnerships allowed in Oregon
Feb 1 2008 11:52PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A state law allowing gay couples to register as domestic partners belatedly took effect Friday after a federal judge ruled the state's process of disqualifying petition signatures was consistent enough to be valid.
|
|
|
Porn charge for child welfare official
Feb 1 2008 11:50PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A spokesman for the state agency that oversees the welfare of children was arrested Friday on charges that he solicited minors, at least one of whom may have been in state custody, to create pornography, authorities said.
|
|
|
Killer of baby, 3 adults gets life term
Feb 1 2008 11:30PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend, her infant son and two of the woman's friends should spend his life in prison a jury decided Friday.
|
|
|
Ex-boot camp guard sues sheriff's office
Feb 1 2008 11:09PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A former juvenile boot camp guard cleared in the beating death of a teenager sued the Bay County Sheriff's Office on Friday, claiming his due process rights were violated when he was fired.
|
|
|
F-15 crashes off Hawaii; pilot rescued
Feb 1 2008 11:04PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A fighter jet among a troubled fleet of F-15s that recently returned to the skies plunged into the ocean Friday, but the pilot ejected in time and was rescued shortly afterward.
|
|
|
No jail in NJ terror suspect ticket fix
Feb 1 2008 10:56PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A municipal court clerk who admitted fixing two traffic tickets for one of the men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix has been sentenced to two years probation.
|
|
|
Texas pupil found hanging from hook dies
Feb 1 2008 10:48PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A 7-year-old boy who was found hanging by his shirt from a coat hook in a school dressing room died Friday as police continued to investigate whether he was the victim of abuse or an accident.
|
|
|
Carter pleads for Baptist unity
Feb 1 2008 10:07PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Former President Carter, leading a meeting of thousands of Baptists across racial and theological lines, said Friday he hopes the gathering will help convince conservative Southern Baptists and other Christians to end divisions over the Bible and politics.
|
|
|
Carter pleads for Baptist unity
Feb 1 2008 10:07PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Former President Carter, leading a meeting of thousands of Baptists across racial and theological lines, said Friday he hopes the gathering will help convince conservative Southern Baptists and other Christians to end divisions over the Bible and politics.
|
|
|
Simpson seeks dismissal of 6 charges
Feb 1 2008 10:03PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson wants a judge to bar any mention of the former football star's 1995 acquittal in the slayings of his former wife and her friend when he stands trial on kidnapping and armed robbery charges, his attorney said Friday.
|
|
|
Elderly nun gets jail time in sex case
Feb 1 2008 9:54PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A 79-year-old nun was sentenced Friday to one year in a county jail for sexually abusing two teens when she was their principal four decades ago.
|
|
|
10 get $15.5M for Mich. prison sex abuse
Feb 1 2008 9:54PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Ten female inmates who say male workers raped and sexually abused them in a state prison were awarded $15.5 million Friday in what may be the first of several trials.
|
|
|
Inmate requests test public records law
Feb 1 2008 9:52PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - An arsonist imprisoned for firebombing the cars of two lawyers is using his remaining 19 years behind bars to dig up information on the judges, lawyers and corrections officers who helped put him there.
|
|
|
Missing woman declared a Sept. 11 victim
Feb 1 2008 9:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - On the night before the Sept. 11 attack, Dr. Sneha Anne Philip bought three pairs of shoes, bed linens and lingerie at a department store across the street from the World Trade Center. She was never heard from again.
|
|
|
6 killed in North Carolina plane crash
Feb 1 2008 9:51PM (CT)
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) - A twin-engine plane crashed Friday as it tried to land amid low fog at a small airport in northwest North Carolina, killing all six people on board, officials said.
|
|
|
6 killed in North Carolina plane crash
Feb 1 2008 9:51PM (CT)
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) - A twin-engine plane crashed Friday as it tried to land amid low fog at a small airport in northwest North Carolina, killing all six people on board, officials said.
|
|
|
NYC subways adding dogs, armed officers
Feb 1 2008 7:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Teams of police officers armed with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs will soon be patrolling the busiest parts of New York City subways as part of a major increase in regional security funding.
|
|
|
Legal loophole stops charges in Mass.
Feb 1 2008 7:31PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When a pregnant woman told a pharmacist that she was unhappy with her obstetrics care, authorities say, he took her into a back office in the store, where he posed as a gynecologist and gave her an exam.
|
|
|
Convict accused of raping boy in library
Feb 1 2008 7:30PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - A convicted sex offender who was released from prison over prosecutors' objections has been charged with raping a 6-year-old at a public library while the boy's mother used a computer nearby.
|
|
|
Reporter subpoenaed over book sources
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury has subpoenaed a reporter for The New York Times in an apparent attempt to force him to disclose his sources in a 2006 book on the CIA, a lawyer for the reporter said.
|
|
|
Judge grills e-mail-deleting Texas DA
Feb 1 2008 6:47PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - An embattled prosecutor facing a contempt charge for deleting e-mails was grilled Friday by a federal judge who said he should have known better than to erase material he had been ordered to turn over.
|
|
|
Faithful view Mormon leader's casket
Feb 1 2008 6:47PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Forming a line that stretched nearly three city blocks, faithful Mormons waited up to three hours apiece Friday to walk past the casket of church president Gordon B. Hinckley on the second day of viewing.
|
|
|
Moussaoui judge: Terror trials work
Feb 1 2008 6:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The judge who presided over Zacarias Moussaoui's trial questioned the government's decision to seek a death sentence against the Sept. 11 conspirator, and offered a strong defense of federal courts' ability to handle terror trials.
|
|
|
USDA bird flu plan needs test
Feb 1 2008 6:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department cannot ensure its response plan for a bird flu outbreak will work, largely because many aspects of the plan have not been tested, an inspector general's report said Friday.
|
|
|
Fake bomb defendant cites 1st Amendment
Feb 1 2008 5:45PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A computer science student who unwittingly created an airport bomb scare by wearing a blinking circuit board attached to her shirt had a First Amendment right to express herself in that manner, her lawyer argued Friday.
|
|
|
Fake bomb defendant cites 1st Amendment
Feb 1 2008 5:45PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A computer science student who unwittingly created an airport bomb scare by wearing a blinking circuit board attached to her shirt had a First Amendment right to express herself in that manner, her lawyer argued Friday.
|
|
|
Pentagon brass split on troop cuts
Feb 1 2008 5:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new burst of violence in Iraq sharpens the differences among U.S. military leaders over how to balance the risk of pulling U.S. troops out too quickly and the danger of waiting too long.
|
|
|
Double dipping: Worse than you think
Feb 1 2008 5:39PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.
|
|
|
Detroit mayor: Scandal hurts city image
Feb 1 2008 5:19PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Friday that a text messaging sex scandal involving him and a former aide has hurt the city's image but has not interfered with its daily operations.
|
|
|
Detroit mayor: Scandal hurts city image
Feb 1 2008 5:19PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Friday that a text messaging sex scandal involving him and a former aide has hurt the city's image but has not interfered with its daily operations.
|
|
|
Retrial starts in 'Liberty 7' case
Feb 1 2008 4:52PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A retrial began Friday for six men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower, a case a defense attorney alleged was a "setup" by federal officials hungry for a high-profile terrorism case.
|
|
|
Lesley Stahl's NYC apartment burglarized
Feb 1 2008 3:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A burglar posing as a construction worker made away with about $100,000 worth of jewelry and electronics in a broad-daylight heist at Lesley Stahl's apartment, police said Friday.
|
|
|
S.F. activist seeks peace on the Rock
Feb 1 2008 3:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
|
|
|
S.F. activist seeks peace on the Rock
Feb 1 2008 3:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
|
|
|
S.F. activist seeks peace on the Rock
Feb 1 2008 3:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
|
|
|
S.F. activist seeks peace on the Rock
Feb 1 2008 3:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
|
|
|
S.F. activist seeks peace on the Rock
Feb 1 2008 3:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
|
|
|
S.F. activist seeks peace on the Rock
Feb 1 2008 3:11PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
|
|
|
NASA honors Columbia's dead in memorial
Feb 1 2008 2:23PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - In an emotional ceremony just a few miles from where Columbia should have landed five years ago Friday, NASA officials, astronauts, schoolchildren and family members of the lost shuttle crew gathered to remember the seven who died while returning from space.
|
|
|
Global Mormon growth brings challenges
Feb 1 2008 2:08PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - Every Wednesday, hundreds of young Mormon men and women not far removed from high school arrive on the campus of Brigham Young University, where they are severed from family and text-messaging and entrusted with the very future of their faith.
|
|
|
Web TV spoof features the homeless
Feb 1 2008 2:05PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A dirty, disheveled Keith Peeler had been living on the streets for nearly a year when a crew of 20-somethings with cameras jumped out of a van and headed straight for him. Some of Peeler's homeless buddies wanted to run.
|
|
|
Web TV spoof features the homeless
Feb 1 2008 2:05PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A dirty, disheveled Keith Peeler had been living on the streets for nearly a year when a crew of 20-somethings with cameras jumped out of a van and headed straight for him. Some of Peeler's homeless buddies wanted to run.
|
|
|
Appeals court backs Brooklyn development
Feb 1 2008 1:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court gave a green light Friday to a $4 billion project that would bring pro basketball and new skyscrapers to Brooklyn but is bitterly opposed by some local residents.
|
|
|
Patriots coach shows warmer side
Feb 1 2008 1:21PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - With his mumbled, one-word answers and stern demeanor, Bill Belichick often seems as gray as the hooded sweatshirt he wears on the sideline, as prickly as the cactuses seen everywhere at the site of this year's Super Bowl.
|
|
|
Patriots coach shows warmer side
Feb 1 2008 1:21PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - With his mumbled, one-word answers and stern demeanor, Bill Belichick often seems as gray as the hooded sweatshirt he wears on the sideline, as prickly as the cactuses seen everywhere at the site of this year's Super Bowl.
|
|
|
Trial delayed for political fundraiser
Feb 1 2008 1:19PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The trial of political fundraiser Antoin Rezko has been delayed one week to give his attorneys more time to prepare.
|
|
|
Parents defend daughter jailed in Italy
Feb 1 2008 10:25AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The parents of an American student accused in a sensational Italian sex slaying said in an interview broadcast Friday that their daughter could never have committed such a crime.
|
|
|
Rabbi makes office calls for busy execs
Feb 1 2008 9:22AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Jewish doctors, lawyers and business executives too busy for the formal study of their faith can now order in religious lessons, thanks to an organization whose rabbis make office calls.
|
|
|
CDC pins name on slaughterhouse illness
Feb 1 2008 8:26AM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Investigators are closer to understanding a mysterious illness reported by pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana and now have pinned a name on it, officials said.
|
|
|
No targets reached at climate conference
Feb 1 2008 8:14AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A meeting of delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants ended without concrete targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, but participants praised what they saw as a new willingness by the United States to discuss possible solutions.
|
|
|
No targets reached at climate conference
Feb 1 2008 8:14AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A meeting of delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants ended without concrete targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, but participants praised what they saw as a new willingness by the United States to discuss possible solutions.
|
|
|
No targets reached at climate conference
Feb 1 2008 8:14AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A meeting of delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants ended without concrete targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, but participants praised what they saw as a new willingness by the United States to discuss possible solutions.
|
|
|
Feds: NY detective plotted with dealers
Feb 1 2008 8:09AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal prosecutors accuse a police detective of providing confidential information to cocaine dealers in the latest arrest of NYPD officers on corruption charges.
|
|
|
Town quietly remembers shuttle disaster
Feb 1 2008 7:57AM (CT)
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) - The bronze medallion embedded in the pavement behind the Commercial Bank of Texas is easy to overlook. About the size of a DVD, it barely registers as a bump for the cars pulling into the drive-thru window.
|
|
|
Magnitude-3.6 earthquake shakes Utah
Feb 1 2008 7:50AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A small earthquake rattled south-central Utah, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
|
|
|
Religion in the news
Feb 1 2008 7:44AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - It wouldn't be Friday night in Milwaukee without a fish fry.
|
|
|
N.M. tax would target TVs, video games
Feb 1 2008 7:32AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Dave Gilligan remembers being pushed outside to play baseball and other sports, but feeling it just wasn't for him.
|
|
|
Pa. teacher accused of school threats
Feb 1 2008 6:08AM (CT)
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A teacher who was upset because she didn't get her preferred classroom assignment left more than a dozen scribbled threats at her elementary school and a suspicious device in a student's desk, authorities said.
|
|
|
N.D. farmers renew hemp licenses
Feb 1 2008 4:43AM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Two North Dakota farmers who received the nation's first state licenses to grow industrial hemp have been granted renewals, though forces outside the state will largely decide whether the farmers will ever get a crop in the ground.
|
|
|
Drifter guilty in Ga. hiker's murder
Feb 1 2008 3:49AM (CT)
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year's Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt.
|
|
|
Drifter guilty in Ga. hiker's murder
Feb 1 2008 3:49AM (CT)
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year's Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt.
|
|
|
Drifter guilty in Ga. hiker's murder
Feb 1 2008 3:49AM (CT)
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year's Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt.
|
|
|
Fla. doctors remove girl's rare tumor
Feb 1 2008 1:42AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Surgeons removed a rare brain tumor from a 12-year-old Cambodian girl who was being cared for by a Christian school for the disadvantaged in Phnom Penh.
|
|
|
NYPD detective charged with pimping teen
Feb 1 2008 1:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 13-year-old runaway returned home with a horrific account of being forced into prostitution by the kind of person who should have instead come to her aid: a city detective.
|
|
|
Alabama inmate wins stay of execution
Feb 1 2008 1:18AM (CT)
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
|
|
|
NYC traffic fees closer to fruition
Feb 1 2008 12:35AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A panel in charge of solving the chronic gridlock plaguing New York City made its final recommendations Thursday, offering a scaled-back version of the original plan but still proposing an $8 charge on cars entering the most traffic-choked parts of Manhattan.
|
|
|
|
|
|