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Relatives remember Utah shooting victims
Feb 16 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Vanessa Antrobus Quinn was meeting her husband at a jewelry store to pick out the wedding ring they couldn't afford when they got married. A.J. Walker and his dad were buying Valentine's Day cards for their family. Teresa Ellis was celebrating a bonus she'd gotten at work.
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Relatives remember Utah shooting victims
Feb 16 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Vanessa Antrobus Quinn was meeting her husband at a jewelry store to pick out the wedding ring they couldn't afford when they got married. A.J. Walker and his dad were buying Valentine's Day cards for their family. Teresa Ellis was celebrating a bonus she'd gotten at work.
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Relatives remember Utah shooting victims
Feb 16 2007 11:24PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Vanessa Antrobus Quinn was meeting her husband at a jewelry store to pick out the wedding ring they couldn't afford when they got married. A.J. Walker and his dad were buying Valentine's Day cards for their family. Teresa Ellis was celebrating a bonus she'd gotten at work.
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N.C. Jail guard claims $74.5M lottery
Feb 16 2007 11:14PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A prison guard stepped forward briefly Friday to claim her $74.5 million Powerball jackpot before dashing off in a stretch SUV limousine.
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13 injured in Texas refinery blaze
Feb 16 2007 11:12PM (CT)
SUNRAY, Texas (AP) - An explosion rocked a west Texas refinery Friday, injuring at least 13 people and sparking a blaze that sent a huge black cloud billowing into the sky.
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U.N. chief picks up support for reforms
Feb 16 2007 11:09PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon picked up support for proposed reforms Friday after dropping a proposal to downgrade the U.N. disarmament chief and providing details on his plan to split the overburdened U.N. peacekeeping department.
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Court: Permit violates owl protection
Feb 16 2007 11:03PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.
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Man convicted of molesting girl on plane
Feb 16 2007 10:58PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A businessman was convicted Friday in federal court of sexually touching an 8-year-old girl who was sitting next to him on an airplane.
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Fla. drops charges over 2002 primary
Feb 16 2007 10:55PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Elections Commission dropped all charges and potential fines Friday against former Broward County elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant, ending a four-year saga stemming from a botched primary.
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Marine apologizes in Iraq criminal case
Feb 16 2007 10:50PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and conspiracy apologized Friday to his country, the Marine Corps and the family of an Iraqi man his squad killed.
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Lawyer in child porn case charged
Feb 16 2007 10:30PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A prominent defense attorney was accused of destroying a computer containing child pornography that belonged to his client, a former church music director, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.
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Friends stop search for missing sailor
Feb 16 2007 10:23PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Friends of an acclaimed computer scientist who vanished at sea said Friday they were suspending their search for him and his sailboat.
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Police issue warrant in Wiesel attack
Feb 16 2007 10:00PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Police on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a New Jersey man suspected of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month.
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Court refuses medic's discharge claim
Feb 16 2007 9:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court refused on Friday to overturn the detention of a U.S. Army medic who declared his opposition to war on the eve of his deployment to Iraq.
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Colo. asked to return Clinton portrait
Feb 16 2007 9:42PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The National Archives and Records Administration wants the portrait of President Clinton now hanging at the State Capitol returned, but a brewing fight to keep it has united a Democrat and Republican, if only temporarily.
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Group to vet Texas inmates' DNA requests
Feb 16 2007 8:54PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The Innocence Project of Texas will review the cases of 354 inmates who have requested DNA testing in an effort to be exonerated, the Dallas County district attorney announced Friday.
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Pa. drivers freed, but highway still icy
Feb 16 2007 8:40PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The last of hundreds of stranded motorists were freed but Pennsylvania highways remained shut Friday as crews struggled to clear ice and snow following a monster storm that has been blamed for at least 24 deaths in the Northeast and Midwest.
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Pa. drivers freed, but highway still icy
Feb 16 2007 8:40PM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The last of hundreds of stranded motorists were freed but Pennsylvania highways remained shut Friday as crews struggled to clear ice and snow following a monster storm that has been blamed for at least 24 deaths in the Northeast and Midwest.
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Fiery crash in N.C. kills 2 people
Feb 16 2007 8:21PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A fiery crash involving three large trucks killed two people Friday and closed Interstate 85 in one direction, authorities said.
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DA: Officers justified in killing gunman
Feb 16 2007 8:03PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Police officers acted properly in gunning down a Bosnian teenager who shot five people to death in a mall crowded with shoppers, a prosecutor said Friday.
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DA: Officers justified in killing gunman
Feb 16 2007 8:03PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Police officers acted properly in gunning down a Bosnian teenager who shot five people to death in a mall crowded with shoppers, a prosecutor said Friday.
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DA: Officers justified in killing gunman
Feb 16 2007 8:03PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Police officers acted properly in gunning down a Bosnian teenager who shot five people to death in a mall crowded with shoppers, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Group claims Coburn broke election law
Feb 16 2007 7:58PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A watchdog group filed complaints Friday alleging Sen. Tom Coburn's campaign broke election law by failing to properly identify some donors before the 2004 election.
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Child flu deaths have schools worried
Feb 16 2007 7:49PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness.
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NY man accused of wanting to fund terror
Feb 16 2007 7:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A businessman was charged Friday with secretly trying to pass along thousands of dollars to buy night vision goggles and other equipment for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
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N.J. to honor out-of-state gay marriages
Feb 16 2007 7:46PM (CT)
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - Gay couples who legally married elsewhere will have all the rights of married people in New Jersey, but they can't call themselves married, the state's attorney general decided Friday.
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Court allows lawsuit over morgue photos
Feb 16 2007 7:40PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Five employees of the county morgue can be held personally liable in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over photographs of bodies posed with fruit, dollhouse furniture and other props, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Mo. family sues ConAgra over salmonella
Feb 16 2007 7:23PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A couple sued ConAgra Foods Inc. on Friday over a salmonella outbreak linked to its peanut butter, and their attorney predicted more suits would follow.
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5 firefighters hurt in Mo. blaze
Feb 16 2007 7:22PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Five firefighters were injured Friday morning while battling a blaze at a 1920s building that once housed vaudeville productions and showings of silent films.
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5 firefighters hurt in Mo. blaze
Feb 16 2007 7:22PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Five firefighters were injured Friday morning while battling a blaze at a 1920s building that once housed vaudeville productions and showings of silent films.
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5 firefighters hurt in Mo. blaze
Feb 16 2007 7:22PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Five firefighters were injured Friday morning while battling a blaze at a 1920s building that once housed vaudeville productions and showings of silent films.
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Judge releases Anna Nicole Smith's will
Feb 16 2007 7:09PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The question of who will inherit Anna Nicole Smith's estate was thrown into further confusion Friday with the release of a 2001 will in which the former Playboy centerfold said her fortune should be held in trust for her son _ who died last year.
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Judge releases Anna Nicole Smith's will
Feb 16 2007 7:09PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The question of who will inherit Anna Nicole Smith's estate was thrown into further confusion Friday with the release of a 2001 will in which the former Playboy centerfold said her fortune should be held in trust for her son _ who died last year.
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Judge releases Anna Nicole Smith's will
Feb 16 2007 7:09PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The question of who will inherit Anna Nicole Smith's estate was thrown into further confusion Friday with the release of a 2001 will in which the former Playboy centerfold said her fortune should be held in trust for her son _ who died last year.
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Inventor of the TV remote dies
Feb 16 2007 7:08PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.
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What really happened in border shooting?
Feb 16 2007 6:58PM (CT)
FABENS, Texas (AP) - The prairie where it all happened is quiet now, but for the occasional Border Patrol vehicle passing by. A sign rests near a muddy ditch, "Stop Illegal Immigration," left behind by protesters who have visited in homage to two ex-agents, imprisoned for shooting a drug smuggler in the backside as he sprinted toward Mexico.
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More WTC steel buried at ground zero
Feb 16 2007 6:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An expert who investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center say there is likely much more steel from the buildings buried underground than the pieces recently found at ground zero.
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MIT professor ends hunger strike
Feb 16 2007 6:15PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A black MIT professor who claimed racism led to the university's decision to deny him tenure ended a 12-day hunger strike Friday, saying his demands were still on the table but the fast had focused attention on "issues of equity, diversity and justice at MIT and in higher education."
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Lawyer: Ex-R.I. senator making plea deal
Feb 16 2007 5:51PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former state senator already headed to federal prison for corruption plans to plead no contest to state charges next week, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Scientists check Ga. peanut butter plant
Feb 16 2007 5:08PM (CT)
SYLVESTER, Ga. (AP) - Government and company scientists went through one of the nation's largest peanut butter plants Friday, trying to figure out how salmonella got into batches of the spread.
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Scientists check Ga. peanut butter plant
Feb 16 2007 5:08PM (CT)
SYLVESTER, Ga. (AP) - Government and company scientists went through one of the nation's largest peanut butter plants Friday, trying to figure out how salmonella got into batches of the spread.
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Scientists check Ga. peanut butter plant
Feb 16 2007 5:08PM (CT)
SYLVESTER, Ga. (AP) - Government and company scientists went through one of the nation's largest peanut butter plants Friday, trying to figure out how salmonella got into batches of the spread.
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9 shot as New Orleans starts Mardi Gras
Feb 16 2007 5:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With tourists streaming into town for Mardi Gras celebrations, a spasm of gun violence left two people dead and seven wounded _ more bad news for a city struggling to rebuild itself and its tourism industry.
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9 shot as New Orleans starts Mardi Gras
Feb 16 2007 5:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With tourists streaming into town for Mardi Gras celebrations, a spasm of gun violence left two people dead and seven wounded _ more bad news for a city struggling to rebuild itself and its tourism industry.
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Man acquitted of hair-removal fondling
Feb 16 2007 4:48PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The owner of a cosmetic-procedure center was acquitted Friday of sexually assaulting a customer during laser hair removal on her bikini line.
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Inventor of the TV remote dies
Feb 16 2007 4:41PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.
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Finding place for Mayan kids in Florida
Feb 16 2007 4:22PM (CT)
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) - It's early Saturday and the cafes, surf shops and antique stores of this beach town, like most of its residents, have yet to show signs of life. But inside the cramped, borrowed offices of the Guatemalan-Maya Center, nearly a dozen kids buzz about. They swap video games, peruse National Geographics, tease one another _ mostly in English, occasionally in the Mayan language of their parents.
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Official: Erie collar-bomb case solved
Feb 16 2007 4:00PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Federal authorities have figured out how a pizza deliveryman wound up in the middle of a bizarre bank robbery scheme that ended with a bomb around his neck exploding, and the identities of the plotters, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
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Vegas shelter euthanizes 1,000 animals
Feb 16 2007 3:45PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - An outbreak of contagious diseases at a shelter where officials admit they kept animals for too long without destroying them has forced the killing of about 1,000 dogs and cats, officials said.
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U.S. businessman sentenced in Iraq scam
Feb 16 2007 3:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. businessman whose companies made more than $8 million in Iraq reconstruction money through a gifts-for-contracts scheme was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in prison.
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Sex offenders are housed in trailers
Feb 16 2007 3:28PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A Long Island county is dealing with the not-in-my-backyard problem by housing sex offenders in trailers away from residential areas.
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Lake Okeechobee cleanup estimate: $1.1B
Feb 16 2007 3:02PM (CT)
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Cleaning Lake Okeechobee could cost $1.1 billion and involve creating reservoirs and marshes and possibly dredging the polluted lake bottom, water officials said.
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SF mayor's mistress got $10K in back pay
Feb 16 2007 2:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The city attorney is investigating whether Mayor Gavin Newsom's former mistress should have received thousands of dollars in sick pay after leaving her job as a City Hall secretary.
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Man gets 25 years for road rage crash
Feb 16 2007 2:39PM (CT)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - A man whose road rage scared another driver into a crash that killed a teenager was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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Teen can't shake hiccups after 3 weeks
Feb 16 2007 2:20PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - For more than three weeks, despite medical tests and home remedies, a teenager has been hiccuping. A lot.
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Ga. parents convicted in child's death
Feb 16 2007 1:58PM (CT)
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A suburban Atlanta couple was convicted of murder Friday in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the parents' church because it supports corporal punishment.
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Michigan county got fleeced
Feb 16 2007 1:53PM (CT)
HARRISVILLE, Mich. (AP) - As the elected treasurer of rural Alcona County for nearly 14 years and an accountant on the side, Thomas Katona did not exactly look like an easy mark for con artists.
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Tire reef off Florida proves a disaster
Feb 16 2007 1:50PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A mile offshore from this city's high-rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor _ a white-walled, steel-belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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Kennedy criticized over Chavez link
Feb 16 2007 1:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - In a TV commercial, former Rep. Joseph Kennedy stands aboard an oil tanker moving across the Boston skyline and promises that millions of gallons of discounted heating oil are on their way to poor, shivering families, courtesy of "our good friends in Venezuela."
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One-time fire hero sentenced for arson
Feb 16 2007 12:34PM (CT)
ABILENE, Texas (AP) - A man once hailed for rescuing youngsters from a burning apartment was sentenced to 20 years in prison for starting the blaze by tossing a lit marijuana cigar into a nearby trash bin.
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New Orleans seeks Mardi Gras donations
Feb 16 2007 12:03PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans may have half the population it did before Hurricane Katrina, but the cash-strapped city still loves a party, so to help pay for Mardi Gras, it's trying a new money source: text-messaged donations.
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Teacher accused of hitting fifth-graders
Feb 16 2007 11:19AM (CT)
PICO RIVERA, Calif. (AP) - A first-grade teacher was placed on leave after she allegedly hit and kicked fifth-graders who ran through her class during physical education, school officials said.
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Foster parent accused of sexual battery
Feb 16 2007 10:04AM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A foster parent already jailed on child porn charges was accused of photographing himself involved in sex acts with a 2-year-old girl under his care, authorities said.
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Finding toilet at Mardi Gras a challenge
Feb 16 2007 7:21AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Joe Briand recalled a less-than-fond Mardi Gras run-in with the law almost a decade ago, when hundreds of revelers were hopping a fence at a local school to use the playground as an impromptu bathroom.
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Finding toilet at Mardi Gras a challenge
Feb 16 2007 7:21AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Joe Briand recalled a less-than-fond Mardi Gras run-in with the law almost a decade ago, when hundreds of revelers were hopping a fence at a local school to use the playground as an impromptu bathroom.
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Finding toilet at Mardi Gras a challenge
Feb 16 2007 7:21AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Joe Briand recalled a less-than-fond Mardi Gras run-in with the law almost a decade ago, when hundreds of revelers were hopping a fence at a local school to use the playground as an impromptu bathroom.
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Fla.: No charges for 'Tigger' actor
Feb 16 2007 6:15AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Criminal charges will not be filed against a Disney employee accused of hitting a teenager while in costume as the Winnie the Pooh character "Tigger," authorities said.
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West Point center aims to know the enemy
Feb 16 2007 4:18AM (CT)
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists _ that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy _ one adept at both propaganda and Power Point _ said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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West Point center aims to know the enemy
Feb 16 2007 4:18AM (CT)
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists _ that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy _ one adept at both propaganda and Power Point _ said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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West Point center aims to know the enemy
Feb 16 2007 4:18AM (CT)
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists _ that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy _ one adept at both propaganda and Power Point _ said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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Calif. man gets death for 2 murders
Feb 16 2007 2:16AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Long Beach man who committed two murders, one of them while behind bars, was sentenced to death by a judge who called him "a Houdini in jail."
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Couple gets 2 years in 'caged kids' case
Feb 16 2007 12:45AM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in wire-and-wood cages were sentenced to two years in prison Thursday, after the parents insisted they were only trying to keep the kids safe.
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Teen charged in suspected school plot
Feb 16 2007 12:09AM (CT)
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) - A 16-year-old high school junior has been charged with making bombs in a plan to target classmates in his school, a plot uncovered after a video was discovered on the Internet, police said.
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