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Probes of LAPD abuse complaints faulted
Feb 12 2008 11:59PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Internal investigators failed to adequately probe almost half of 60 excessive-force complaints brought against police officers, according to an audit of randomly selected cases presented Tuesday to the department's civilian board of directors.
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Icy storm ties up travel, voting in East
Feb 12 2008 11:54PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Winter's latest delivery of misery slid across the East Coast after icing over parts of the Ohio Valley, snarling primary-day voting, delaying air travel and causing hundreds of traffic accidents.
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Icy storm ties up travel, voting in East
Feb 12 2008 11:54PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Winter's latest delivery of misery slid across the East Coast after icing over parts of the Ohio Valley, snarling primary-day voting, delaying air travel and causing hundreds of traffic accidents.
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Icy storm ties up travel, voting in East
Feb 12 2008 11:54PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Winter's latest delivery of misery slid across the East Coast after icing over parts of the Ohio Valley, snarling primary-day voting, delaying air travel and causing hundreds of traffic accidents.
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Uno the beagle wins best in show
Feb 12 2008 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Good ol' Snoopy, a champion at last. Barking and baying up a storm, Uno lived up to his name Tuesday night by becoming the first beagle to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club.
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Uno the beagle wins best in show
Feb 12 2008 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Good ol' Snoopy, a champion at last. Barking and baying up a storm, Uno lived up to his name Tuesday night by becoming the first beagle to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club.
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Uno the beagle wins best in show
Feb 12 2008 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Good ol' Snoopy, a champion at last. Barking and baying up a storm, Uno lived up to his name Tuesday night by becoming the first beagle to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club.
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Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
Feb 12 2008 11:29PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
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Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
Feb 12 2008 11:29PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
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Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
Feb 12 2008 11:29PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
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Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
Feb 12 2008 11:29PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
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Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
Feb 12 2008 11:29PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
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Police suspended for wheelchair dumping
Feb 12 2008 11:19PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair at a jail, authorities said Tuesday.
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NY millionaire sues Sharon Bush for ring
Feb 12 2008 11:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A multimillionaire financier once engaged to marry President Bush's former sister-in-law is suing her for the return of an 11-carat diamond engagement ring that he says is worth $434,000.
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Calif. Highway Patrol leader resigns
Feb 12 2008 11:10PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The commissioner of the California Highway Patrol resigned Tuesday after pressure from state lawmakers who called him an ineffective leader and a state audit found wasteful spending.
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Prosecutor: Woman fatally beat boy, 4
Feb 12 2008 10:40PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A woman beat her cousin's 4-year-old son to death while two of her own children held him down and a third watched, all because the boy soiled his pants, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Couple plead guilty to air ticket scam
Feb 12 2008 10:20PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A former Southwest Airlines employee and her husband pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud, acknowledging they stole more than 5,000 plane tickets and sold them to friends, co-workers and other acquaintances.
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Feds to review reward to 9/11 tipster
Feb 12 2008 9:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials have agreed to take another look at an anti-terrorism reward that excluded two Zacarias Moussaoui tipsters, two senators said after meeting with the officials on Tuesday.
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Private crews to fight 'dormant volcano'
Feb 12 2008 9:29PM (CT)
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) - Specialists arrived Tuesday to help extinguish a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire burning too intensely and deeply for standard firefighting to douse, and officials feared the deadly blaze could once again trigger explosions.
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Storms upset Miss. River ships, kill 1
Feb 12 2008 9:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tornadoes and other severe weather raked the Deep South on Tuesday, pushing Mississippi River ships around like toys, damaging homes and killing at least one person.
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Subsidies help some live in resort towns
Feb 12 2008 8:43PM (CT)
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - After spending his day in front of a middle school classroom, teacher Brook Yeomans sometimes jumps on his skateboard for the short commute to his home, a two-story, coffee-colored townhouse with views of the vast Wyoming mountains.
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Subsidies help some live in resort towns
Feb 12 2008 8:43PM (CT)
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - After spending his day in front of a middle school classroom, teacher Brook Yeomans sometimes jumps on his skateboard for the short commute to his home, a two-story, coffee-colored townhouse with views of the vast Wyoming mountains.
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Subsidies help some live in resort towns
Feb 12 2008 8:43PM (CT)
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - After spending his day in front of a middle school classroom, teacher Brook Yeomans sometimes jumps on his skateboard for the short commute to his home, a two-story, coffee-colored townhouse with views of the vast Wyoming mountains.
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Sheriff: 5 die in Mich. house fire
Feb 12 2008 8:30PM (CT)
ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP) - A fire raced through a home in rural northern Michigan before dawn Tuesday, killing a man and his four children and sending the children's mother to the hospital, authorities said.
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FEMA to use trailers after tornadoes
Feb 12 2008 8:28PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Some of the thousands of trailers sitting unused since they were purchased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2005 for Gulf Coast hurricane victims may finally be put to use _ to help victims of last week's tornadoes, officials said Tuesday.
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FEMA to use trailers after tornadoes
Feb 12 2008 8:28PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Some of the thousands of trailers sitting unused since they were purchased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2005 for Gulf Coast hurricane victims may finally be put to use _ to help victims of last week's tornadoes, officials said Tuesday.
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Jury deliberates in ex-officer's trial
Feb 12 2008 8:28PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover, wrapping her body in a comforter and then dumping it in a park.
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Jury deliberates in ex-officer's trial
Feb 12 2008 8:28PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover, wrapping her body in a comforter and then dumping it in a park.
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Jury deliberates in ex-officer's trial
Feb 12 2008 8:28PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover, wrapping her body in a comforter and then dumping it in a park.
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College of William & Mary head resigns
Feb 12 2008 8:24PM (CT)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - The president of the College of William & Mary, who drew heavy criticism for removing a cross from the nation's oldest college chapel, resigned Tuesday after the public school's board told him his contract would not be renewed.
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Berkeley mulls new vote on Marines
Feb 12 2008 7:42PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Officials in this liberal city may soften their anti-recruitment stance toward the U.S. Marines in the face of widespread criticism.
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Computer issue stranded tanker off Mass.
Feb 12 2008 7:22PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Coast Guard says a problem with the computers that control a tanker's boilers caused a loss of power that left it adrift off Cape Cod.
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Student wounded at SoCal junior high
Feb 12 2008 7:17PM (CT)
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in a junior high school computer lab Tuesday and another eighth-grader was taken into custody, authorities said.
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Feds charge 3 with firebombing mosque
Feb 12 2008 7:01PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three men have been charged in the firebombing of a small mosque over the weekend, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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This spring, Clemens on Hill, not mound
Feb 12 2008 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.
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This spring, Clemens on Hill, not mound
Feb 12 2008 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.
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This spring, Clemens on Hill, not mound
Feb 12 2008 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.
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This spring, Clemens on Hill, not mound
Feb 12 2008 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.
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This spring, Clemens on Hill, not mound
Feb 12 2008 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.
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This spring, Clemens on Hill, not mound
Feb 12 2008 6:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.
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Truck leaking gas shuts Conn. highway
Feb 12 2008 6:43PM (CT)
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - A tractor-trailer carrying canisters of volatile hydrogen gas crashed on a major East Coast route early Tuesday, forcing responders to close the road and evacuate dozens of homes.
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Truck leaking gas shuts Conn. highway
Feb 12 2008 6:43PM (CT)
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - A tractor-trailer carrying canisters of volatile hydrogen gas crashed on a major East Coast route early Tuesday, forcing responders to close the road and evacuate dozens of homes.
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Injuries in 18-vehicle California pileup
Feb 12 2008 5:31PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Eighteen vehicles piled up in a chain-reaction accident in dense fog Tuesday, scattering mangled cars along a highway and sending 10 people to hospitals, the California Highway Patrol said.
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Testimony: Accusers pursued USAF colonel
Feb 12 2008 5:04PM (CT)
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Two women who claim an Air Force colonel assaulted them, including one who alleges he raped her, constantly flirted with him and frequently went into his office, his former secretary testified at a military hearing Tuesday.
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No early release for Smart case gunman
Feb 12 2008 4:43PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The gunman in the notorious Pamela Smart murder case has been denied early release from prison, but he will be eligible for parole three years earlier than he previously would have been.
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New abuse counts against Ohio nurse
Feb 12 2008 3:10PM (CT)
SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) - New charges have been filed against a former nightshift nurse who authorities say admitted abusing nearly 100 patients, but prosecutors say many of the cases have been tough to investigate.
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Colleges seek to protect church tills
Feb 12 2008 2:54PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The globe-trotting priest from Connecticut drove a Jaguar, shopped at Bergdorf Goodman and bought jewelry from Cartier, all of it with money stolen from his church's coffers. By the time the parish finance council caught on, he had embezzled $1.3 million.
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Prof sent bacteria to artist; no jail
Feb 12 2008 12:19PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A University of Pittsburgh geneticist will pay a $500 fine but avoid prison for sending bacteria to an artist friend for an exhibition.
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Ban sought on novelty lighters
Feb 12 2008 10:29AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The cartoonish plastic frog with bulging eyes could be a children's toy _ but for the torch-like flame that bursts from the novelty lighter's head.
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Mistrial declared in microwave baby case
Feb 12 2008 8:54AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of woman accused of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave, finding that new defense witnesses bolster her claim that she is innocent.
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Partially mummified body found in AZ tub
Feb 12 2008 8:27AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A partially mummified body was found in a bathtub filled with dirt in an apartment that was stacked to the ceiling with garbage and human waste.
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Romance blooms in NYC cupid cab
Feb 12 2008 6:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Finding your better half this Valentine's Day could be as easy as hailing a taxi _ especially if Ahmed Ibrahim is in the driver's seat.
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FEMA looks at trains for evacautions
Feb 12 2008 6:42AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency may expand the use of passenger trains to evacuate the sick and elderly in advance of hurricanes across the Gulf Coast, a FEMA official said.
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USDA official pushes for farm bill
Feb 12 2008 6:19AM (CT)
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) - Failure to reach agreement on a new farm bill before the old one expires March 15 would be "catastrophic" for most agricultural sectors of the U.S. economy, a top USDA official said.
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Man may be exonerated in child murder
Feb 12 2008 6:09AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The three men all lived in the same small town where two little girls were brutally killed in the early 1990s. Two of the men were convicted and went to prison. Now, the third man has allegedly confessed he alone committed both crimes.
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Alaska lawmaker awaits kidney transplant
Feb 12 2008 5:46AM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - When an Alaska state representative was diagnosed with a genetic kidney disease, his colleagues wanted to help. After two years of testing, a match was finally found _ but an ethics law appeared to block a legislative staffer's generous offer.
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Alaska lawmaker awaits kidney transplant
Feb 12 2008 5:46AM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - When an Alaska state representative was diagnosed with a genetic kidney disease, his colleagues wanted to help. After two years of testing, a match was finally found _ but an ethics law appeared to block a legislative staffer's generous offer.
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Alaska lawmaker awaits kidney transplant
Feb 12 2008 5:46AM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - When an Alaska state representative was diagnosed with a genetic kidney disease, his colleagues wanted to help. After two years of testing, a match was finally found _ but an ethics law appeared to block a legislative staffer's generous offer.
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Sleek hospital plan roils New York City
Feb 12 2008 4:23AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a neighborhood known for its quaint streets and bohemian reputation, a rambling old hospital wants a sleek new upgrade.
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'Dinnertime bandit' suspect tells all
Feb 12 2008 2:28AM (CT)
SUFFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Alan Golder once strolled the markets and museums of Paris, where he lived with a view of the Eiffel Tower.
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