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'Mafia cop' pleads guilty in tax case
Feb 5 2008 11:39PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A former New York police detective accused of moonlighting as a hit man for the mob pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of filing a bogus income tax return, federal prosecutors said.
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Tornadoes rip through South, killing 11
Feb 5 2008 11:33PM (CT)
ATKINS, Ark. (AP) - Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi on Tuesday in a rare midwinter outbreak of violent weather that killed at least 11 people and injured dozens.
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Tornadoes rip through South, killing 11
Feb 5 2008 11:33PM (CT)
ATKINS, Ark. (AP) - Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi on Tuesday in a rare midwinter outbreak of violent weather that killed at least 11 people and injured dozens.
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Atty: County to deny shooting claims
Feb 5 2008 11:04PM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - A northern Wisconsin county will deny claims filed against it by the families of six young people killed and another injured in an off-duty deputy sheriff's shooting rampage, a county attorney said Tuesday.
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Police: Woman survived store shootings
Feb 5 2008 9:42PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Police said Tuesday that a sixth shooting victim at a suburban clothing store survived the attack and that investigators were questioning people in salons hoping to find someone who had braided the gunman's hair.
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Mardi Gras party has political twist
Feb 5 2008 9:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday collided on the streets of the French Quarter, where revelers added a distinctly political flavor to the city's annual raucous bash.
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Mardi Gras party has political twist
Feb 5 2008 9:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday collided on the streets of the French Quarter, where revelers added a distinctly political flavor to the city's annual raucous bash.
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Mardi Gras party has political twist
Feb 5 2008 9:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday collided on the streets of the French Quarter, where revelers added a distinctly political flavor to the city's annual raucous bash.
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Charges in Kan. deaths of ex-wife, girl
Feb 5 2008 9:20PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A man accused of fatally shooting his pregnant ex-wife and her 8-month-old daughter was charged Tuesday with three counts of murder, prosecutors said.
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No resolution in dispute over Mo. church
Feb 5 2008 8:44PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke met with an excommunicated priest at the center of a dispute over a Polish-heritage Roman Catholic church on Tuesday, but dismissed the pastor's reconciliation offer as "offensive to God."
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Feds want rendition lawsuit dismissed
Feb 5 2008 8:19PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Bush administration lawyers cited national security concerns Tuesday in urging a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured.
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Fence could change border town landscape
Feb 5 2008 8:14PM (CT)
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) - With its motto "Where Yee-Hah meets Ole," Eagle Pass is a border town that prides itself on being both Tex and Mex, a community with many cultural and financial ties that bind it to its sister city across the Rio Grande.
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Key witness testifies in ex-cop's trial
Feb 5 2008 8:14PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that a longtime friend picked her up one morning last summer and told her the body of his son's pregnant mother was in the back of the truck they were riding in.
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Key witness testifies in ex-cop's trial
Feb 5 2008 8:14PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that a longtime friend picked her up one morning last summer and told her the body of his son's pregnant mother was in the back of the truck they were riding in.
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Key witness testifies in ex-cop's trial
Feb 5 2008 8:14PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that a longtime friend picked her up one morning last summer and told her the body of his son's pregnant mother was in the back of the truck they were riding in.
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Key witness testifies in ex-cop's trial
Feb 5 2008 8:14PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A key prosecution witness testified Tuesday that a longtime friend picked her up one morning last summer and told her the body of his son's pregnant mother was in the back of the truck they were riding in.
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No last-minute switch at Cleveland polls
Feb 5 2008 8:13PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A federal judge refused Tuesday to stop Ohio's most populous county from using an elections system that critics say won't allow voters in the March 4 presidential primary to correct mistakes.
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2 children dead in Iowa house fire
Feb 5 2008 7:36PM (CT)
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) - An early morning house fire killed two young children Tuesday, but their parents escaped by jumping from a second-story window, fire officials said.
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U.S. acknowledges use of waterboarding
Feb 5 2008 6:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects.
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Texas strip club judge suggests conflict
Feb 5 2008 6:29PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A court hearing on Texas' new $5 strip club fee halted abruptly Tuesday when the presiding judge said she may have been present during discussions with legislators about the surcharge.
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Kan. court blocks abortion grand jury
Feb 5 2008 5:53PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Supreme Court temporarily blocked a grand jury Tuesday from obtaining patient records from a physician who is one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions.
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R.I. teens won't be prosecuted as adults
Feb 5 2008 5:51PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Seventeen-year-olds who were charged with felonies as adults under a short-lived state law will either have their cases dismissed or be transferred back to juvenile court under a judge's ruling released Tuesday.
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Drug lord gets 30-year prison term
Feb 5 2008 5:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Colombian described by the U.S. government as one of the world's biggest drug lords was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for directing an organization that shipped tons of cocaine into the United States.
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Judge: Detroit documents must be public
Feb 5 2008 4:57PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Documents related to a whistle-blower lawsuit that led to a text-messaging sex scandal involving the mayor must be released to the public, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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Suit challenges town's immigrant law
Feb 5 2008 4:42PM (CT)
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) - A lawsuit was filed Tuesday over this Dallas suburb's latest effort to keep out illegal immigrants by barring home rentals to people who can't prove they are in the country legally.
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Prosecutor: Students had explosives
Feb 5 2008 2:51PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A federal prosecutor disputes defense claims that two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station were carrying harmless fireworks and not dangerous explosives.
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Businessman rescues Oral Roberts U.
Feb 5 2008 2:02PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - As a kid, Mart Green made 7 cents for every picture frame he glued together for his father's arts and crafts business. But before he went out and bought baseball cards with his money, the 9-year-old gave 10 percent to charity.
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Businessman rescues Oral Roberts U.
Feb 5 2008 2:02PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - As a kid, Mart Green made 7 cents for every picture frame he glued together for his father's arts and crafts business. But before he went out and bought baseball cards with his money, the 9-year-old gave 10 percent to charity.
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Businessman rescues Oral Roberts U.
Feb 5 2008 2:02PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - As a kid, Mart Green made 7 cents for every picture frame he glued together for his father's arts and crafts business. But before he went out and bought baseball cards with his money, the 9-year-old gave 10 percent to charity.
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Man indicted in machete killing
Feb 5 2008 12:41PM (CT)
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - A man accused of hacking his wife to death with a machete and leaving her body in her bed was arraigned Tuesday on a second-degree murder charge.
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Appeal filed in teen reform school death
Feb 5 2008 11:35AM (CT)
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) - Prosecutors filed an appeal challenging the dismissal of charges against five counselors at a school for juvenile offenders who were accused of waiting more than half an hour before calling 911 about an unresponsive student who died.
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Damages reduced in funeral protest case
Feb 5 2008 9:38AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge has reduced by more than half the amount of damages that a fundamentalist Kansas church must pay to the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq.
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Navy must comply with no-sonar rule
Feb 5 2008 6:42AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Environmental groups seeking to protect whales from the potentially harmful effects of sonar cheered a legal victory against the Navy and the Bush administration.
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Ice cream firm pushes for hormone labels
Feb 5 2008 4:10AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., one of the first companies to label its ice cream as free of a synthetic hormone, is protesting a move by some states to restrict such labeling.
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Sleepy Spokane shows its sordid side
Feb 5 2008 3:46AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The resignation of a conservative politician who claims he was shaken down by a gay hustler has again exposed the seamy underside of this ostensibly staid city.
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Jonesboro shooter arrested again
Feb 5 2008 2:53AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson, already facing sentencing on a federal weapons charge, was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor drug possession, police said Monday.
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