|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crowds pay respects to Coretta Scott King
Feb 6 2006 11:37PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Thousands of mourners filed past the casket of Coretta Scott King on Monday, paying their respects to the "first lady of the civil rights movement" at the historic church where her husband shared his dream for racial equality in the 1960s.
|
|
|
Suspect in gay bar attack said to pen note
Feb 6 2006 11:28PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - The teenager suspected of attacking three men at a Massachusetts gay bar, then killing two other people while fleeing from authorities in Arkansas, left a note indicating he planned "something violent," authorities said Monday.
|
|
|
Moussaoui removed from courtroom
Feb 6 2006 11:04PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Proclaiming "I am al-Qaida," terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui disrupted the opening of his sentencing trial Monday and was tossed out of court as selection began for the jurors who will decide whether he lives or dies.
|
|
|
Ex-President Carter: eavesdropping illegal
Feb 6 2006 11:00PM (CT)
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.
|
|
|
Reagan honored on would-be 95th birthday
Feb 6 2006 10:58PM (CT)
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - President Reagan was remembered on what would have been his 95th birthday Monday for his efforts to end the Cold War and restore national pride after a period of malaise.
|
|
|
Chicago clerk resigns following indictment
Feb 6 2006 10:30PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's city clerk resigned Monday, more than three weeks after he was charged with soliciting bribes and obstructing justice in a widespread corruption investigation.
|
|
|
Hollywood private eye Pellicano indicted
Feb 6 2006 9:59PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A private eye was charged Monday with wiretapping such stars as Sylvester Stallone and Keith Carradine and paying tens of thousands of dollars to bribe a police officer for dirt on Hollywood figures.
|
|
|
Wind spreads wildfire in SoCal forest
Feb 6 2006 9:49PM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California wildfire driven by Santa Ana winds ate through 1,200 acres of wilderness Monday near Orange County suburbs, forcing evacuation of 1,500 homes.
|
|
|
La. lawmakers start new hurricane session
Feb 6 2006 9:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Gov. Kathleen Blanco pressed for unity Monday on the opening day of a second special legislative session for hurricane recovery, warning that many Washington politicians have moved beyond the hurricanes.
|
|
|
Social Security nos., licenses a risky mix
Feb 6 2006 9:00PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Millions of motorists across the nation are carrying around driver's licenses containing their Social Security numbers _ a potential jackpot for identity thieves.
|
|
|
Katrina evacuees face hotel deadlines anew
Feb 6 2006 8:48PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have been staying in hotels at FEMA's expense will have to pay their own way beginning Tuesday unless they were able to arrange extensions from federal officials.
|
|
|
Friends, family eulogize feminist Friedan
Feb 6 2006 8:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Friedan, who championed the once-radical assertion that women needed more than husbands and children to find fulfillment, was eulogized Monday as a feminist pioneer and loving mother _ if not always an easy one to live with.
|
|
|
Skakel lawyers reject ID request in case
Feb 6 2006 8:15PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Attorneys for Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin convicted of a 1975 murder in wealthy Greenwich, are rejecting a request by prosecutors to identify two men the defense says were implicated in the murder by a cousin of basketball star Kobe Bryant.
|
|
|
Trial in N.M. family's killing winds down
Feb 6 2006 8:07PM (CT)
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - Jurors began debating Monday whether a 16-year-old boy is guilty of murdering his family on newsman Sam Donaldson's ranch, after a prosecutor called the teen a cold-blooded killer who hid the bodies in a manure pile and a defense attorney countered that the shootings were in self-defense.
|
|
|
Coretta Scott King to rest near husband
Feb 6 2006 5:03PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Coretta Scott King's body will be placed in a temporary mausoleum about 100 feet from her husband's tomb until a permanent one can be built next to Martin Luther King's.
|
|
|
Two in Ill. vote-fraud case get prison
Feb 6 2006 4:55PM (CT)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - The city's former code-enforcement chief was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison Monday for plotting to buy votes in the November 2004 election.
|
|
|
L.A. county jail in lockdown after riots
Feb 6 2006 4:41PM (CT)
CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) - Most of Los Angeles County's jail system was on lockdown Monday after fighting broke out between blacks and Hispanics at two jails over the weekend. One inmate died in the fighting, and more than 100 others were injured.
|
|
|
Pa. Gov. Rendell orders mine inspections
Feb 6 2006 4:36PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday ordered follow-up inspections of the state's mines in the next 30 days, citing the deaths of 16 miners in West Virginia since early January.
|
|
|
Detroit leaders: City needs mass transit
Feb 6 2006 3:26PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - City leaders are using the Super Bowl, and all the trouble fans had getting to the big game Sunday, to push for a new mass transit system.
|
|
|
Pa. court rules city can't seize home
Feb 6 2006 3:18PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A city agency violated the separation of church and state when it seized a woman's home to help a religious group build a private school in a blighted Philadelphia neighborhood, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
|
|
|
States eye picketing at soldiers' funerals
Feb 6 2006 3:15PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - States are rushing to limit when and where people may protest at funerals _ all because of a small Kansas church whose members picket soldiers' burials, arguing that Americans are dying for a country that harbors homosexuals.
|
|
|
Bus owner pleads not guilty in explosion
Feb 6 2006 3:05PM (CT)
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - The owner of a tour company whose bus exploded and killed 23 nursing home residents as they fled Hurricane Rita pleaded not guilty Monday to conspiracy and safety violations.
|
|
|
Prosecutors drop Capano death penalty bid
Feb 6 2006 2:35PM (CT)
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Prosecutors announced Monday they will not seek a new penalty hearing for convicted killer Thomas Capano, a once wealthy and well-connected attorney whose death sentence was overturned by the Delaware Supreme Court last month.
|
|
|
N.C. dad indicted in twins' deaths
Feb 6 2006 1:58PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A banking executive accused of fatally stabbing his twin 5-year-old daughters last month was indicted Monday on first-degree murder charges.
|
|
|
Body parts lead to N.C. couple's arrest
Feb 6 2006 12:43PM (CT)
SELMA, N.C. (AP) - Investigators searching a farm for a missing man found two groups of decomposing human remains, possibly belonging to two people, and arrested a couple who live on the property, authorities said Monday.
|
|
|
Groups sue on behalf of Conn. mentally ill
Feb 6 2006 12:33PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Connecticut of violating federal law by forcing hundreds of psychiatric patients to live in nursing homes, often in segregation, when community-living alternatives would better suit them.
|
|
|
Four children killed in Missouri crash
Feb 6 2006 11:44AM (CT)
WINONA, Mo. (AP) - Four children died in a flaming crash when a sport utility vehicle collided nearly head-on with a tractor-trailer in southern Missouri, the state Highway Patrol said.
|
|
|
Worker hurt in N.C. plant explosion dies
Feb 6 2006 9:01AM (CT)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - A worker severely burned in a chemical plant explosion has died, nearly a week after the blast injured 13 others and destroyed the building.
|
|
|
Column: Marathon reveals Katrina's wrath
Feb 6 2006 4:06AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Lining up for the Mardi Gras Marathon in the shadow of the Superdome and a blasted-out office tower offers plenty of reminders of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
|
|
|
King honored at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Feb 6 2006 3:55AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - After a rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" stirred worshippers at the new Ebenezer Baptist Church, the congregation paused to mourn the loss of Coretta Scott King _ who remained a faithful member until her death.
|
|
|
Group: Kids need extra care in disasters
Feb 6 2006 12:02AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A national pediatricians' group is calling on doctors to ensure that children's needs are not neglected in disaster planning. Doctors should volunteer for medical response teams, and help schools, day-care centers and families plan for both natural disasters, such as hurricanes, and terrorist attacks, says an American Academy of Pediatrics' disaster planning policy statement appearing Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
|
|
|
|
|
|