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Car crashes into L.A. health clinic
Feb 3 2006 11:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A car speeding up to 90 mph veered out of control and crashed through the front doors of a health clinic Friday, injuring 13 people, six of them critically, authorities said.
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N.J. firm closed amid body parts probe
Feb 3 2006 11:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Calling it a danger to public heath, the Food and Drug Administration shut down a biomedical firm on Friday amid allegations the company covertly harvested human tissue for profit at funeral homes in the New York city area and elsewhere.
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Suspect's friends jolted by gay bar attack
Feb 3 2006 11:08PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - A teenager accused of going on a rampage at a gay bar with a hatchet and a gun sometimes glorified Nazism and had a swastika tattoo but never previously expressed any prejudice toward gays, friends say.
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Man who taped airman shooting arrested
Feb 3 2006 10:52PM (CT)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - A man who videotaped a sheriff's deputy shooting an unarmed Air Force security officer was arrested Friday for an alleged assault in Florida, officials said.
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FBI joins Ala. church fires investigation
Feb 3 2006 10:44PM (CT)
CENTREVILLLE, Ala. (AP) - Five small Baptist churches were burned to the ground or otherwise damaged in a string of fires that investigators said were apparently set one after another by arsonists making their way down the highway.
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Correction: Obit-King quotes
Feb 3 2006 9:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - In stories earlier this week about the death of Coretta Scott King, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of her death. She died on Monday, not Tuesday, according to a family spokesman and her death certificate. The corrected version appears below.
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Correction: King shadow of history story
Feb 3 2006 9:56PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - In stories earlier this week about the death of Coretta Scott King, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of her death. She died on Monday, not Tuesday, according to a family spokesman and her death certificate. The corrected version appears below.
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Government wants Air Force suits dismissed
Feb 3 2006 9:51PM (CT)
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - The Justice Department claims an Air Force Academy graduate has no legal standing to sue the Air Force over allegations of proselytizing by chaplains, and asked a federal judge to dismiss the case.
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Kan. court blocks abortion records' access
Feb 3 2006 9:49PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The state's highest court on Friday temporarily stopped the state attorney general from looking at records from two abortion clinics, saying such a review could violate patient privacy.
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Boy accidentally shoots student on bus
Feb 3 2006 9:43PM (CT)
COMPTON, Calif (AP) - An 9-year-old boy showing off a handgun on his school bus Friday accidentally shot another student in the elbow, authorities said.
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Jordan's King Abdullah visits New Orleans
Feb 3 2006 9:29PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - King Abdullah II of Jordan toured some of the city's most devastated neighborhoods Friday, then visited a fire station to express his country's solidarity with New Orleans.
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Three killed in interstate crash in S.C.
Feb 3 2006 8:54PM (CT)
HARDEEVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A tractor-trailer slammed into a stopped van, starting a chain-reaction crash that killed three people early Friday and closed a stretch of the East Coast's main north-south interstate.
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Police unravel ex-postal worker shootings
Feb 3 2006 8:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A woman who went on a deadly rampage inside a postal facility believed that she was threatened by a conspiracy among workers there, authorities said Friday.
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NYPD works to get 9/11 items to families
Feb 3 2006 8:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Jay Winuk lost his brother Glenn in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. More than four years later, he got back an important keepsake: the victim's wristwatch.
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Truck smuggling case closing arguments end
Feb 3 2006 7:50PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - An attorney for one of three people accused in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt argued Friday that his client hadn't physically done anything to cause the 19 deaths, and another lawyer blamed federal immigration policies.
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Trucker in school bus crash awake 34 hours
Feb 3 2006 7:48PM (CT)
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) - A truck driver who plowed into a car at a school bus stop last week, killing seven children, had been awake for 34 hours, except for a short nap, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
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Megachurches growing in number and size
Feb 3 2006 7:35PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A new survey on U.S. Protestant megachurches shows they are among the nation's fastest-growing faith groups, drawing younger people and families with contemporary programming and conservative values.
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N.Y. ice cream shop owner gets prison
Feb 3 2006 7:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An ice cream shop owner from Yemen was sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison Friday for illegally funneling nearly $22 million overseas in a case stemming from a major terrorism investigation.
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Moussaoui sentencing trial to begin Monday
Feb 3 2006 7:14PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - More than four years ago, Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested by the FBI while taking pilot training in Minnesota. He was still in custody when al-Qaida hijackers attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.
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King funeral reflects civil rights gains
Feb 3 2006 7:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Georgia's few black legislators asked then-Gov. Lester Maddox, a fiery segregationist, if his body could lie in honor in the state Capitol.
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Convict challenges NSA warrantless spying
Feb 3 2006 6:44PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A lawyer for an Ohio trucker who pleaded guilty to plotting to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge asked a federal judge Friday to throw out the case on the grounds that the government illegally spied on him.
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Package probed near Md. school a hoax
Feb 3 2006 6:35PM (CT)
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) - A suspicious device found Friday near an elementary school just outside Washington turned out to be a hoax, a fire department official said.
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Chicago priest abuse raises new doubts
Feb 3 2006 5:52PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Cardinal Francis George's concession that he failed to act soon enough in the case of a priest charged with sexual abuse has cast new doubt on reforms taken by America's Roman Catholic bishops to stamp out cleric molestation _ and just at a time when the abuse problem is again haunting the U.S. church.
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Katrina may have washed away DNA evidence
Feb 3 2006 5:10PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nearly 30 years after Darrel Miles was sent to prison for rape, he thought he was on his way to proving his innocence. Now he worries that his chance for freedom was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
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N.J. man charged in hoax anthrax letters
Feb 3 2006 4:35PM (CT)
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) - A man accused of mailing hundreds of anthrax hoax letters _ including one to President Bush _ was arrested Friday. Derek Brodie, 42, was ordered held without bail pending a psychiatric evaluation.
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Mayor: Stepdaughter's blog targeted rival
Feb 3 2006 4:27PM (CT)
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) - A mayor who had repeatedly denied that anyone in his household had written an obscenity-laced Internet blog attacking a rival has identified the author as his stepdaughter.
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Report finds no crime in N.Y. capsizing
Feb 3 2006 3:44PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sheriff's officials investigating a tour boat capsizing last fall that killed 20 elderly passengers concluded in a report released Friday that neither the vessel's owner nor its captain committed a crime.
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Falun Gong protests exclusion from parade
Feb 3 2006 3:22PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The city's annual Chinese New Year Parade _ an extravaganza of lion dances, firecrackers and colorful floats _ has been thrown into turmoil over organizers' decision to exclude members of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement outlawed as a dangerous cult in China.
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Workers refloat stricken tanker in Alaska
Feb 3 2006 2:32PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Three tug boats helped pull a grounded fuel tanker off a beach on the Kenai Peninsula on Friday, one day after an ice floe pulled the tanker from its mooring and sent it adrift.
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L.A. cardinal wants files kept private
Feb 3 2006 2:26PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the church keep two priests' personnel records out of the hands of investigators in a sex abuse probe.
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14 hurt as car crashes into L.A. clinic
Feb 3 2006 1:44PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fourteen people were injured, a half-dozen critically, when a car crashed into a south Los Angeles health clinic on Friday.
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Md. men sentenced for witness-intimidation
Feb 3 2006 1:17PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Two gang members who helped firebomb the home of an activist who had repeatedly told police about neighborhood drug deals were sentenced Friday, one to 60 years in prison and the other to 84 years.
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Judge nixes army training in Hawaii valley
Feb 3 2006 12:55PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A federal judge has denied the Army's request to resume live-fire training exercises in a valley that Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
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Kidnapping suspect dies in Texas shootout
Feb 3 2006 12:36PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A gunman apparently kidnapped his ex-girlfriend and her daughter near Dallas and forced them on a 200-mile drive, firing at other motorists and police until the car crashed and officers fatally shot him, police said.
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Judge orders Padilla's shackles removed
Feb 3 2006 12:27PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - U.S. officials who want terror suspect Jose Padilla to wear handcuffs and ankle chains during open court appearances must first show he poses a direct safety threat, a federal judge said Friday.
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School bus driver faces bullying charges
Feb 3 2006 11:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A school bus driver faces child endangerment charges for masterminding a bullying system among middle school students that included a pecking order of abuse, authorities said.
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Molestation investigations may be revised
Feb 3 2006 11:27AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The leader of Chicago's Roman Catholic archdiocese vowed to revise a molestation investigation process that "wasn't adequate," saying he should have removed a priest charged with abusing three boys much sooner.
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USPS: Mail military valentines early
Feb 3 2006 11:25AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Valentine cards for service members overseas need to be mailed by Saturday to be sure of getting them delivered by Feb. 14, the Postal Service said.
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Fla. children protest candy sale
Feb 3 2006 11:14AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - More than a dozen elementary school students refused to sell chocolate bars and potato chips to raise money for trips, saying they had learned in class about the health dangers of such snacks.
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Warm winter weather not likely to last
Feb 3 2006 10:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The year's weather got off to a balmy start across much of the nation _ bad news for ice fishermen but an unexpected treat for die-hard golfers. Like it or hate it, the winter warmth is on its way out.
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Mine rescuer recounts W.Va. recovery
Feb 3 2006 9:16AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - When Brett Bushong emerged from the Sago Mine, he saw a floodlit army of ambulances, a swarm of medical workers and anguished expressions on onlookers' faces.
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Utah rehab program under investigation
Feb 3 2006 8:12AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A rehabilitation program at a church is facing allegations it forced people to work as telemarketers for 28 cents an hour under the threat they could go back to jail.
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Religion in the news
Feb 3 2006 7:22AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Grace Harbor Community Church's young congregants meet in a crowded hotel conference room, learn Scripture via PowerPoint and listen to a "praise team" play the bongos. The Web site of the 4-year-old Southern Baptist church includes a cartoon proclaiming "God said it, that settles it!"
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Twisters compound damage in New Orleans
Feb 3 2006 7:19AM (CT)
KENNER, La. (AP) - Tornadoes tore through New Orleans neighborhoods Thursday that had been hit hard by Hurricane Katrina just five months earlier, collapsing at least one previously damaged house and battering the airport, authorities said.
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Clinton's tax-help for Kartrina victims
Feb 3 2006 7:00AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Clinton on Friday announced plans to launch an effort to help victims of Hurricane Katrina find out if they are eligible for the earned income tax credit and claim the refund if they qualify.
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Mo. school considers mandatory drug tests
Feb 3 2006 5:46AM (CT)
TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo. (AP) - Behind the turreted brick walls of Christian Brothers College High School is a clean-cut student body of about 1,000 boys in collared shirts and dress pants.
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NYC mayor's gifts rarely stay anonymous
Feb 3 2006 4:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When Johns Hopkins University officials announced they received an anonymous gift of $100 million, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg's secret was safe for about four hours.
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Idaho tribe to hunt bison near Yellowstone
Feb 3 2006 2:50AM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Members of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho plan to hold a bison hunt in Gallatin National Forest this week, as a three-month limited and controversial hunt in Montana winds down.
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Alaskans battle over invasive weed
Feb 3 2006 2:44AM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Activists scored a minor victory when their Hawkweed Manifesto _ urging people to "be prickly and hard to eradicate, join the resistance" _ helped stop the spraying of weedkiller on an aggressive, nonnative plant.
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W.Va. coal mines close for safety checks
Feb 3 2006 1:14AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Thousands of West Virginia miners got safety lectures at the start of their shifts and officials began a round of inspections across the No. 2 coal-producing state Thursday in a "time-out" urged by the governor.
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Andrea Yates leaves jail for hospital
Feb 3 2006 1:00AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state mental hospital where she will await her second capital murder trial for the drowning deaths of her young children.
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Judge slams ex-EPA chief over Sept. 11
Feb 3 2006 12:52AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge blasted former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman on Thursday for reassuring New Yorkers soon after the Sept. 11 attacks that it was safe to return to their homes and offices while toxic dust was polluting the neighborhood.
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Man unfit for trial in fatal Vegas crash
Feb 3 2006 12:19AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A judge declared on Thursday that a man accused of intentionally plowing his car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing three people, was unfit for trial.
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Prominent L.A. attorney pleads no contest
Feb 3 2006 12:19AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A prominent attorney pleaded no contest Thursday to using a false name while making political contributions to the election campaign of former Mayor James Hahn in 2000 and 2001, officials said.
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Ga. child groom runs away from group home
Feb 3 2006 12:11AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A 15-year-old boy whose 37-year-old wife is due to give birth to the couple's baby this month has run away from a group home, and his wife through her lawyer says she has no idea where he is.
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