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Holloway's parents sue Dutch youth
Feb 16 2006 10:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The parents of an Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba last May filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against a Dutch youth questioned in the case.
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Md. vote system called best - by its maker
Feb 16 2006 10:50PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The maker of Maryland's voting machines defended the system Thursday as the nation's best, a day after the governor said he had lost confidence in the state's ability to hold fair and accurate elections this year.
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Segregation mostly ended at L.A. jails
Feb 16 2006 10:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The emergency use of racial segregation has almost completely ended at a 3,500-inmate jail where black and Hispanic inmates fought in a deadly riot two weeks ago, sheriff's officials said Thursday.
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Md. official defends behavior toward woman
Feb 16 2006 10:04PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - William Donald Schaefer, a former governor who is now state comptroller, ogled a young woman at a Statehouse meeting. And he made no apologies about it.
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Feds end investigation of Spokane mayor
Feb 16 2006 9:56PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Federal officials on Thursday said they found insufficient evidence to charge former Mayor Jim West with abusing his office to meet young gay men over the Internet.
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Coroner: Boy at boot camp died of illness
Feb 16 2006 9:51PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A teenager at a state-run boot camp died from a blood disorder and not from any injuries he may have suffered while being restrained by guards, a medical examiner reported Thursday.
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Powerball jackpot hits record of $365M
Feb 16 2006 9:16PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Powerball jackpot has reached a new high of $365 million _ making it the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
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Entwistle pleads not guilty to murders
Feb 16 2006 9:10PM (CT)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) - Neil Entwistle pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges and was jailed without bail in the killings of his wife and baby daughter, who were found shot to death in bed at the couple's suburban Boston home.
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Mo. firefighters refuse to help non-member
Feb 16 2006 9:07PM (CT)
MONETT, Mo. (AP) - Rural firefighters stood by and watched a fire destroy a garage and a vehicle because the property owner had not paid membership dues.
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Prosecutors: Calif. man trained for jihad
Feb 16 2006 9:05PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A man accused of attending an al-Qaida training camp is a trained terrorist intent on attacking Americans, prosecutors alleged Thursday, but his attorney called him just a directionless young man prone to wild storytelling.
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Rep. Hefley will not seek 11th term
Feb 16 2006 8:46PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Republican Rep. Joel Hefley, Colorado's senior congressional member, said Thursday he will not seek re-election this fall after 20 years on Capitol Hill.
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Man who killed ex-girlfriend pleads guilty
Feb 16 2006 8:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man who killed his ex-girlfriend, tossed her body in the garbage and left her 4-year-old daughter wandering the streets of New York pleaded guilty to manslaughter Thursday, prosecutors said.
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Counselor: Woman expected to die with baby
Feb 16 2006 8:11PM (CT)
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A woman accused of chopping the arms off her 10-month-old daughter believed she was supposed to die along with her baby, a mental health counselor testified Thursday.
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Victim's colleague in Moussaoui jury pool
Feb 16 2006 8:01PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A co-worker of a woman killed in one of the Sept. 11 jetliner crashes cleared a preliminary hurdle Thursday to sit on the jury that will decide whether confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is executed or spends the rest of his life in prison.
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Search for wayward whippet called off
Feb 16 2006 8:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The search for an award-winning show dog that got loose at Kennedy Airport was called off Thursday, but officers in the area are still keeping an eye out for the wayward whippet, authorities said.
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Second governor in a week has surgery
Feb 16 2006 7:54PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Surgeons removed Gov. George Pataki's appendix Thursday morning after the governor checked himself into a hospital complaining of abdominal pain.
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La. lawmakers OK satellite voting bill
Feb 16 2006 5:32PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A bill to allow New Orleans' storm-scattered residents to cast ballots in the mayor's race at satellite voting centers around the state won final approval in the Legislature on Thursday.
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Police: Dog crate used in prison escape
Feb 16 2006 5:19PM (CT)
LANSING, Kan. (AP) - A dog trainer who did volunteer work at a prison ran off with a convicted killer after helping him escape in a dog crate loaded into the back of her van, authorities say.
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Attempt to ram Navy ship brings coke bust
Feb 16 2006 5:11PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard seized more than a ton of cocaine from a boat after those aboard tried to ram a Navy frigate and scuttle their vessel, authorities said Thursday.
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Convention center to reopen in New Orleans
Feb 16 2006 4:45PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The convention center that became a squalid evacuation shelter in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina reopens on Friday _ the day before the city's first major Mardi Gras parades roll _ in an encouraging sign for New Orleans' tourism industry.
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Chicago diocese requests outside auditors
Feb 16 2006 3:03PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has asked two independent consultants to review its procedures for handling child sex abuse claims, the latest response to critics who have blasted the church's sluggish response to removing priests accused of abuse.
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W.Va. mines cited for more violations
Feb 16 2006 2:44PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Federal regulators have cited the West Virginia coal mines where 14 miners died last month with a total of seven alleged safety violations in recent weeks, records show.
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Gettysburg battlefield monuments damaged
Feb 16 2006 2:30PM (CT)
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Vandals damaged monuments and removed parts of sculpture at the Gettysburg National Military Park in the third such incident in a little over a year.
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Ky. miner dies in coal mine roof collapse
Feb 16 2006 2:18PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A rock fall at an underground coal mine in eastern Kentucky killed a worker who was moving equipment Thursday, a state official said.
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Costly service for Alaska lawmakers
Feb 16 2006 2:09PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - In the early 1960s, when Alaska was still a brand-new state, lawmakers arrived for the legislative session along with their families, many traveling to Juneau in a caravan of cars down the gravel Alaska Highway.
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N.Y. Democrats pull stories from Web site
Feb 16 2006 2:00PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state Democratic Committee on Thursday removed re-edited AP articles from its Web site, a week after the party accused a GOP candidate of doctoring news stories for his Web site.
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Fla. middle schoolers bribed gym teacher
Feb 16 2006 1:52PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A middle school gym teacher let children sit out his class if they paid him $1 a day, collecting perhaps thousands of dollars, officials said Thursday.
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Chicago city employee pleads guilty
Feb 16 2006 1:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former city employee who married into Mayor Richard M. Daley's family pleaded guilty Thursday to taking at least $5,400 in bribes to help a business take part in a program that awarded city contracts to trucking companies.
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Students find body after apparent suicide
Feb 16 2006 12:46PM (CT)
YORK, Pa. (AP) - High school students arriving for class Thursday morning found the body of a teacher who had apparently shot himself to death the day before, a coroner said.
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Four Dallas police officers shot
Feb 16 2006 12:22PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Four police officers were shot early Thursday while helping to serve a federal drug warrant at a home.
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Blue Cross of Fla. reports computer breach
Feb 16 2006 12:16PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (AP) - A contractor at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida e-mailed himself about 27,000 Social Security numbers from a company database, the company said Thursday.
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Religion news in brief
Feb 16 2006 12:09PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - At least 21 out of 173 regional bodies in the Presbyterian Church (USA) have petitioned a June legislative assembly to repeal a church law that bars clergy and lay officeholders living in relationships outside heterosexual marriage.
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Religion today
Feb 16 2006 12:08PM (CT)
WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) - In a city reduced to rubble by Hurricane Katrina, John King and Chris Johnson have formed an unlikely friendship at the uneasy intersection of church and state.
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Two EMTs die in Ark. ambulance crash
Feb 16 2006 11:14AM (CT)
CARTHAGE, Ark. (AP) - An ambulance responding to a call for help went off a road, rolled several times and hit a tree, killing two emergency medical technicians, state police said.
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Fla. father sues school district
Feb 16 2006 10:08AM (CT)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - A father charged with punching a teacher's assistant is suing the school district, saying officials wrongly accused his daughter of making up a misconduct claim.
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Girl, 12, pleads no contest in bomb threat
Feb 16 2006 10:08AM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A 12-year-old girl accused of messaging friends about a plan to bomb her suburban middle school pleaded no contest to terror threat charges.
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FBI investigating Mich. mosque attacks
Feb 16 2006 9:28AM (CT)
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) - Authorities are investigating a series of attacks on Detroit-area Muslims, including an assault on a cleric who was hit with a shovel and reports that a group of youths threw shoes at worshippers in a mosque.
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Yale Univ. dumps stocks linked to Sudan
Feb 16 2006 8:19AM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale University is selling off its oil stocks linked to the African nation of Sudan because the country has been accused of genocide.
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Commuter train, car collide on Long Island
Feb 16 2006 6:29AM (CT)
SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) - A commuter train carrying about 800 passengers collided with a car, killing a person inside the vehicle, authorities said.
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Lawyer: Former Ill. governor may testify
Feb 16 2006 6:08AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The suspense has been hanging over former Illinois governor George Ryan's racketeering and fraud trial for weeks _ but there is still no decision about whether jurors will get to hear from Ryan himself.
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Artist threatens to sue Florida city
Feb 16 2006 5:15AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Officials in Deltona have removed several paintings from a Black History Month display because of concerns the works were overtly religious.
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Cincy cop won't face civil rights charges
Feb 16 2006 4:28AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Federal authorities decided not to file civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in 2001, triggering the city's worst racial unrest in decades.
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Sago Mine survivor learning to speak again
Feb 16 2006 4:15AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The survivor of the Sago Mine disaster sometimes responds to a single word, but also uses phrases to answer relatives and therapists, a family spokeswoman said.
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Wild Bunch letter underscores problem
Feb 16 2006 3:41AM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - At first, Richard Johnston thought nothing of an online auction house's offer to sell a letter written in 1900 by a member of Butch Cassidy's infamous Wild Bunch for $5,999.
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Tension between doctors, free clinics rise
Feb 16 2006 3:37AM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Miss. (AP) - When Clifton Davis hurt his eye recently, he went to a free medical clinic in this hurricane-wrecked community. For Davis, and others with health insurance, getting free care is easier than figuring out if regular doctors are still around.
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Bomb-sniffing dog dies in accidental fall
Feb 16 2006 2:42AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - An explosives-sniffing dog died Wednesday after falling more than 50 feet during a security sweep to prepare for the NBA All-Star Game.
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Man who kept dead mom in freezer indicted
Feb 16 2006 2:40AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A man convicted of keeping his dead mother in a freezer for years was indicted Wednesday on a federal charge accusing him of illegally collecting thousands of dollars of her Social Security benefits after she died.
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Suspect in Conn. killing pleads not guilty
Feb 16 2006 1:09AM (CT)
DANIELSON, Conn. (AP) - A man accused of killing a jogger and hiding her body on property owned by the performer who plays Big Bird on "Sesame Street" pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
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R.I. man gets life for killing 3 women
Feb 16 2006 12:09AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to murdering three missing women, dismembering their bodies and discarding their remains in commercial trash bins.
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Guard allegedly helped six inmates escape
Feb 16 2006 12:08AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A guard accused of helping six inmates escape from the Cook County Jail over the weekend handcuffed himself and gave the prisoners his uniform and boots, prosecutors alleged during a hearing Wednesday.
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