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Strip-searches examined in Calif. prison
Feb 22 2008 11:59PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California corrections officials on Friday said they are investigating whether guards at a Southern California prison improperly watched video of female inmates being strip-searched.
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2 earthquakes rattle US-Mexico border
Feb 22 2008 11:39PM (CT)
OCOTILLO, Calif. (AP) - Two earthquakes several minutes apart rattled a desert area straddling the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, causing dozens of Mexican schools to be evacuated as a precaution, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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Prosecutors say Craig plea should stand
Feb 22 2008 11:21PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Prosecutors argued Friday that Sen. Larry Craig's appeal misinterprets the disorderly conduct law and his guilty plea in a bathroom sex sting should stand.
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B-2 stealth bomber crashes on Guam
Feb 22 2008 11:15PM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - A B-2 stealth bomber crashed at an air base on Guam but both pilots ejected safely and were in good condition, the Air Force said.
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Kansas clinic to turn over some records
Feb 22 2008 10:40PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Planned Parenthood clinic in suburban Kansas City will turn over a limited number of patient records to a grand jury investigating abortions there, a clinic attorney said Friday.
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Panel clears Boston firefighters
Feb 22 2008 9:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A Boston Fire Department panel issued a report Friday that concluded drugs and alcohol weren't factors in the deaths of two firefighters in a restaurant blaze last summer, though it never obtained copies of autopsy reports.
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NYC therapist-slay suspect fit for trial
Feb 22 2008 9:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man accused of using a meat cleaver to hack a psychotherapist to death and injure her colleague was indicted Friday after a judge reported that psychiatrists found the defendant fit to stand trial.
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Former Black Panther pleads guilty
Feb 22 2008 9:08PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former Black Panther Party member who spent years living under an assumed name in Canada pleaded guilty Friday to shooting a Chicago police officer in 1969.
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Ex-Arizona Gov. Mecham dies at 83
Feb 22 2008 8:58PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Evan Mecham, a firebrand conservative who served 15 months as Arizona's governor before a dramatic impeachment trial removed him from office in 1988, has died, his son said Friday. He was 83.
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Snow interrupts mild Northeast winter
Feb 22 2008 8:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Up to a foot of snow on Friday interrupted what had been a mild winter in much of the Northeast and created havoc for travelers, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,100 flights in the New York area alone.
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Snow interrupts mild Northeast winter
Feb 22 2008 8:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Up to a foot of snow on Friday interrupted what had been a mild winter in much of the Northeast and created havoc for travelers, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,100 flights in the New York area alone.
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Snow interrupts mild Northeast winter
Feb 22 2008 8:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Up to a foot of snow on Friday interrupted what had been a mild winter in much of the Northeast and created havoc for travelers, forcing the cancellation of more than 1,100 flights in the New York area alone.
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Calif. man gets 28 years in senior scam
Feb 22 2008 8:42PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An 81-year-old man was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday in an investment scam that prosecutors say seeped across half the country and bilked 1,800 people, many of them elderly, of about $190 million.
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Dog saved by Marine gets permanent home
Feb 22 2008 8:30PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - It began with a simple act of kindness to save an abused, injured dog from becoming one more victim in the Iraq war.
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Dog saved by Marine gets permanent home
Feb 22 2008 8:30PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - It began with a simple act of kindness to save an abused, injured dog from becoming one more victim in the Iraq war.
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Remember when? Man with big memory does
Feb 22 2008 6:16PM (CT)
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - For as long as he can remember, Brad Williams has been able to recall the most trifling dates and details about his life.
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Judge throws out subpoena request
Feb 22 2008 5:57PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A judge on Friday tossed a subpoena for unaired "60 Minutes" footage that the military says is vital in its effort to prosecute a Marine sergeant in an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians.
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SMU will host Bush presidential library
Feb 22 2008 5:43PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Southern Methodist University will be home to George W. Bush's presidential library, officials formally announced Friday after a yearlong approval process that some faculty and religious opponents failed to derail.
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SMU will host Bush presidential library
Feb 22 2008 5:43PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Southern Methodist University will be home to George W. Bush's presidential library, officials formally announced Friday after a yearlong approval process that some faculty and religious opponents failed to derail.
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SMU will host Bush presidential library
Feb 22 2008 5:43PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Southern Methodist University will be home to George W. Bush's presidential library, officials formally announced Friday after a yearlong approval process that some faculty and religious opponents failed to derail.
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Ex-Philly mayor's brother a tax cheat
Feb 22 2008 5:40PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The eccentric older brother of Philadelphia's last mayor was convicted of three tax-evasion charges Friday but acquitted of four fraud counts over what prosecutors had described as a kickback scheme at the city-owned airport.
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Many blacks worry about Obama's safety
Feb 22 2008 5:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes.
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Many blacks worry about Obama's safety
Feb 22 2008 5:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes.
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Many blacks worry about Obama's safety
Feb 22 2008 5:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes.
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Flight lands in Miami after gear scare
Feb 22 2008 5:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - An American Airlines flight to Chicago landed safely in Miami on Friday after being diverted with nose gear trouble.
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Flight lands in Miami after gear scare
Feb 22 2008 5:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - An American Airlines flight to Chicago landed safely in Miami on Friday after being diverted with nose gear trouble.
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Woman charged in Minn. bus crash deaths
Feb 22 2008 4:44PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The driver of a van that hit a school bus in a crash that killed four children was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges, authorities said.
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Woman charged in Minn. bus crash deaths
Feb 22 2008 4:44PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The driver of a van that hit a school bus in a crash that killed four children was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges, authorities said.
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Body found day after Ind. wreck reported
Feb 22 2008 4:32PM (CT)
GARRETT, Ind. (AP) - Confused police abandoned their search for a car wreck, leaving a 66-year-old man, who died outside his vehicle in freezing temperatures, and his autistic grandson, who huddled inside for nearly a day.
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US envoy sees Iran sanctions next week
Feb 22 2008 3:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The latest United Nations report on Iran's nuclear program should pave the way for passage next week of a new U.N. Security Council resolution tightening sanctions on Tehran, the American U.N. ambassador said Friday.
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Psych exam ordered in teen strangulation
Feb 22 2008 3:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man accused of strangling his 14-year-old daughter and stuffing her body in a boiler pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of murder and manslaughter from his room at Bellevue Hospital Center, prosecutors said.
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Psych exam ordered in teen strangulation
Feb 22 2008 3:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man accused of strangling his 14-year-old daughter and stuffing her body in a boiler pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of murder and manslaughter from his room at Bellevue Hospital Center, prosecutors said.
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Ken Kesey's family fights for wrestling
Feb 22 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PLEASANT HILL, Ore. (AP) - Before Ken Kesey wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," or stocked a psychedelic school bus with LSD and the Merry Pranksters to look for America, he was a wrestler.
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Ken Kesey's family fights for wrestling
Feb 22 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PLEASANT HILL, Ore. (AP) - Before Ken Kesey wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," or stocked a psychedelic school bus with LSD and the Merry Pranksters to look for America, he was a wrestler.
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Ken Kesey's family fights for wrestling
Feb 22 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PLEASANT HILL, Ore. (AP) - Before Ken Kesey wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," or stocked a psychedelic school bus with LSD and the Merry Pranksters to look for America, he was a wrestler.
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George Mason fraternity's suit dismissed
Feb 22 2008 2:38PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by a George Mason University fraternity that claimed its constitutional rights were infringed when it was expelled from campus for hazing and other violations.
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Alaska disputes polar bear threat
Feb 22 2008 2:20PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The polar bear can be found in just one place in America _ Alaska _ and is perhaps as much a symbol of the state as, say, alligators are of Florida. So you might think Alaska's politicians would be pounding on doors in Washington to protect it.
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Fire destroys novelist Roberts' hotel
Feb 22 2008 1:41PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Fire destroyed a historic hotel Friday owned by best-selling novelist Nora Roberts, who was remodeling it to turn it into a literary-themed inn.
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Notorious inmate slain in N.Y. prison
Feb 22 2008 1:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To some on the streets, Larry Davis was a legend: A black drug dealer who shot six white police officers as they closed in to arrest him, then fled into the night and eluded capture for more than two weeks.
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Notorious inmate slain in N.Y. prison
Feb 22 2008 1:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To some on the streets, Larry Davis was a legend: A black drug dealer who shot six white police officers as they closed in to arrest him, then fled into the night and eluded capture for more than two weeks.
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Clarification: Marines MRAP story
Feb 22 2008 12:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Feb. 18 story by The Associated Press reported that two senators were urging the Pentagon to investigate allegations that the Marine Corps refused an urgent request from battlefield commanders in 2005 for blast-resistant vehicles.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Long journey of Freedom Tower steel
Feb 22 2008 12:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.
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Officer escorting Clinton crashes
Feb 22 2008 11:02AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A police motorcycle officer has crashed while escorting Hillary Clinton's motorcade to a campaign rally.
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Death of ex-cop's 3rd wife was homicide
Feb 22 2008 8:33AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Amid the search for a former police officer's fourth wife, an autopsy on the exhumed body of the man's third wife found what her relatives have long suspected _ her death was no accident.
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Jury: Man poisoned wife with antifreeze
Feb 22 2008 8:20AM (CT)
ELKHORN, Wis. (AP) - Before she was killed, Julie Jensen left a note with a neighbor suggesting that if she died, her husband would be to blame. Nearly a decade after she was poisoned and suffocated, a jury decided he was.
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Recovery tough for Mo. city council
Feb 22 2008 6:59AM (CT)
KIRKWOOD, Mo. (AP) - The first City Council meeting since a gunman stormed City Hall and killed five people began with a sense of togetherness that didn't last long.
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Lots of damage, no deaths in Nev. quake
Feb 22 2008 6:55AM (CT)
WELLS, Nev. (AP) - A powerful earthquake damaged hundreds of homes, toppled chimneys and reduced part of a historical district to rubble, but residents of this rural northeastern Nevada town are grateful it wasn't worse.
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Lots of damage, no deaths in Nev. quake
Feb 22 2008 6:55AM (CT)
WELLS, Nev. (AP) - A powerful earthquake damaged hundreds of homes, toppled chimneys and reduced part of a historical district to rubble, but residents of this rural northeastern Nevada town are grateful it wasn't worse.
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Lots of damage, no deaths in Nev. quake
Feb 22 2008 6:55AM (CT)
WELLS, Nev. (AP) - A powerful earthquake damaged hundreds of homes, toppled chimneys and reduced part of a historical district to rubble, but residents of this rural northeastern Nevada town are grateful it wasn't worse.
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Lots of damage, no deaths in Nev. quake
Feb 22 2008 6:55AM (CT)
WELLS, Nev. (AP) - A powerful earthquake damaged hundreds of homes, toppled chimneys and reduced part of a historical district to rubble, but residents of this rural northeastern Nevada town are grateful it wasn't worse.
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Charges dropped vs. officer in GI death
Feb 22 2008 4:57AM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - An Army officer no longer faces a military trial on charges of lying to investigators about when he last spoke with a soldier found dead after disappearing during a training exercise.
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CIA leak prosecutor back on the hunt
Feb 22 2008 3:31AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When he went looking for a new federal prosecutor for this corruption-plagued city, then-Sen. Peter Fitzgerald focused on one thing.
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CIA leak prosecutor back on the hunt
Feb 22 2008 3:31AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When he went looking for a new federal prosecutor for this corruption-plagued city, then-Sen. Peter Fitzgerald focused on one thing.
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Va. priest sentenced in donation theft
Feb 22 2008 1:48AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A retired Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to 63 months in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his parishioners, money he used in part to support his secret family.
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