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LAPD make arrest in notorious '80s death
Feb 23 2008 11:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Japanese businessman has been arrested on suspicion of murder more than a quarter-century after an infamous downtown shooting that left his wife dead and caused an international furor, police said.
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LAPD make arrest in notorious '80s death
Feb 23 2008 11:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Japanese businessman has been arrested on suspicion of murder more than a quarter-century after an infamous downtown shooting that left his wife dead and caused an international furor, police said.
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Girl, 12, saves siblings from house fire
Feb 23 2008 11:15PM (CT)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - As flames consumed her home and prevented her parents from rescuing her and two younger siblings, a quick-thinking 12-year-old girl saved the other children Saturday by kicking out a second-story window and helping them down, firefighters said.
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Newspaper bids farewell to Albuquerque
Feb 23 2008 11:00PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Albuquerque Tribune said goodbye Saturday to the city it had served for nearly nine decades as it closed in what observers described as the latest newspaper to succumb to the digital age.
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Newspaper bids farewell to Albuquerque
Feb 23 2008 11:00PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Albuquerque Tribune said goodbye Saturday to the city it had served for nearly nine decades as it closed in what observers described as the latest newspaper to succumb to the digital age.
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Newspaper bids farewell to Albuquerque
Feb 23 2008 11:00PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Albuquerque Tribune said goodbye Saturday to the city it had served for nearly nine decades as it closed in what observers described as the latest newspaper to succumb to the digital age.
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Troubled Mich. ex-news anchor found dead
Feb 23 2008 10:58PM (CT)
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) - A former TV news anchor in Michigan who was accused of embezzling from a man she dated and advised financially has been found dead in her home.
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Air Force investigates B-2 crash in Guam
Feb 23 2008 10:32PM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - The Air Force investigated the first crash of a costly B-2 stealth bomber after one plunged to the ground Saturday shortly after beginning the last flight of a four-month deployment.
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Air Force investigates B-2 crash in Guam
Feb 23 2008 10:32PM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - The Air Force investigated the first crash of a costly B-2 stealth bomber after one plunged to the ground Saturday shortly after beginning the last flight of a four-month deployment.
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Air Force investigates B-2 crash in Guam
Feb 23 2008 10:32PM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - The Air Force investigated the first crash of a costly B-2 stealth bomber after one plunged to the ground Saturday shortly after beginning the last flight of a four-month deployment.
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Air Force investigates B-2 crash in Guam
Feb 23 2008 10:32PM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - The Air Force investigated the first crash of a costly B-2 stealth bomber after one plunged to the ground Saturday shortly after beginning the last flight of a four-month deployment.
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Nevada judge shot at work sues gunman
Feb 23 2008 8:45PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A family court judge who was shot in his chambers by a man whose bitter divorce he was handling has sued the gunman, seeking damages totaling more than $100,000.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Shooting aftermath: NIU moves forward
Feb 23 2008 8:32PM (CT)
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - The lecture hall where the shooting occurred is closed for the rest of the semester. Extra police and security guards will be on hand. Volunteer counselors will man each classroom, academic department and dormitory.
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Florida zoo takes in expunged exotics
Feb 23 2008 8:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday at a zoo event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose.
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Florida zoo takes in expunged exotics
Feb 23 2008 8:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday at a zoo event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose.
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Florida zoo takes in expunged exotics
Feb 23 2008 8:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday at a zoo event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose.
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Florida zoo takes in expunged exotics
Feb 23 2008 8:03PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday at a zoo event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose.
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Governors: Include coal in energy debate
Feb 23 2008 5:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors pushing alternative energy development are not shying from coal, a major culprit in global warming but also a homegrown energy source and an economic lifeline for many states.
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Governors: Include coal in energy debate
Feb 23 2008 5:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors pushing alternative energy development are not shying from coal, a major culprit in global warming but also a homegrown energy source and an economic lifeline for many states.
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Governors: Include coal in energy debate
Feb 23 2008 5:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors pushing alternative energy development are not shying from coal, a major culprit in global warming but also a homegrown energy source and an economic lifeline for many states.
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Governors: Include coal in energy debate
Feb 23 2008 5:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors pushing alternative energy development are not shying from coal, a major culprit in global warming but also a homegrown energy source and an economic lifeline for many states.
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Civil rights icon Johnnie Carr, 97, dies
Feb 23 2008 5:34PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97.
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Civil rights icon Johnnie Carr, 97, dies
Feb 23 2008 5:34PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97.
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Phelps DUI prosecutor charged with same
Feb 23 2008 5:19PM (CT)
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - A state's attorney who once prosecuted Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps for drunken driving has been arrested for the same infraction.
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NYPD trio set for trial in groom's death
Feb 23 2008 4:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - On the night before his wedding, Sean Bell went to a strip club called Kalua Cabaret for a bachelor party. As he and two friends left early in the morning, they were confronted by undercover officers investigating reports of drugs and prostitution.
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NYPD trio set for trial in groom's death
Feb 23 2008 4:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - On the night before his wedding, Sean Bell went to a strip club called Kalua Cabaret for a bachelor party. As he and two friends left early in the morning, they were confronted by undercover officers investigating reports of drugs and prostitution.
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10 Ga. refinery blast victims remembered
Feb 23 2008 4:35PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A hardhat was hung in the centers of 10 wreaths of white carnations at a memorial service Saturday, one for each of the Imperial Sugar workers killed in the explosion at the company's nearby refinery.
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10 Ga. refinery blast victims remembered
Feb 23 2008 4:35PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A hardhat was hung in the centers of 10 wreaths of white carnations at a memorial service Saturday, one for each of the Imperial Sugar workers killed in the explosion at the company's nearby refinery.
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10 Ga. refinery blast victims remembered
Feb 23 2008 4:35PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A hardhat was hung in the centers of 10 wreaths of white carnations at a memorial service Saturday, one for each of the Imperial Sugar workers killed in the explosion at the company's nearby refinery.
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FEMA trailers to be tested by request
Feb 23 2008 4:03PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Occupants of FEMA trailers placed in disaster areas may now get their units tested for formaldehyde contamination if they file a request.
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Phils closer Lidge hurts knee on mound
Feb 23 2008 2:54PM (CT)
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Phillies closer Brad Lidge caught a spike in the mound on his first pitch of batting practice Saturday and hurt the same knee he had surgery on in October.
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Man accused of stealing 7-year-old's ID
Feb 23 2008 2:42PM (CT)
CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Police in a Chicago suburb say the Internal Revenue Service has told a 7-year-old boy he owes back taxes on $60,000 because someone else has been using the youngster's identity to collect wages and unemployment benefits.
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Sheriffs protest fed drug-war fund cuts
Feb 23 2008 1:31PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - From Arizona to Oregon and east to Kentucky, county sheriffs are bracing for stiff cuts in a federal funding program that has helped them battle drug cartels.
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Saving long-gone native tribal languages
Feb 23 2008 12:41PM (CT)
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) - The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe's lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried. "My ancestors were speaking to me," Freeman said of the sounds captured when American Indians still inhabited California's Salinas Valley. "It was like coming home."
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Iraqi to return home, as a U.S. soldier
Feb 23 2008 7:53AM (CT)
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - Safaa Wadi moved to this former mill city after his life was threatened in his native Iraq while serving as an interpreter for the U.S. Army. He expects to soon head back to Iraq _ not as a civilian interpreter, but as a U.S. soldier.
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Casino exec in election cash controversy
Feb 23 2008 5:56AM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A wealthy casino operator is defending an eye-catching $1 million contribution to a political group that worked to elect a pro-gambling governor in Kentucky.
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Casino exec in election cash controversy
Feb 23 2008 5:56AM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A wealthy casino operator is defending an eye-catching $1 million contribution to a political group that worked to elect a pro-gambling governor in Kentucky.
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Man who bilked thousands gets 28 years
Feb 23 2008 5:40AM (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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Atlanta girl gets kidney from stranger
Feb 23 2008 5:40AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The picture of the smiling little girl on the flier was more than Laura Bolan could take. The 8-year-old on the pamphlet needed a kidney transplant, and Bolan knew she could help.
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Atlanta girl gets kidney from stranger
Feb 23 2008 5:40AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The picture of the smiling little girl on the flier was more than Laura Bolan could take. The 8-year-old on the pamphlet needed a kidney transplant, and Bolan knew she could help.
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Woman charged in Minn. school bus crash
Feb 23 2008 5:37AM (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. school bus crash
Feb 23 2008 5:37AM (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. school bus crash
Feb 23 2008 5:37AM (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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Kan. clinic to deliver abortion records
Feb 23 2008 5:34AM (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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Judge denies prosecutors Haditha footage
Feb 23 2008 5:31AM (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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Judge denies prosecutors Haditha footage
Feb 23 2008 5:31AM (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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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Colorado residents fight uranium mine
Feb 23 2008 5:26AM (CT)
NUNN, Colo. (AP) - Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.
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Calif. prison strip searches reviewed
Feb 23 2008 5:23AM (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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La. man charged under animal cruelty law
Feb 23 2008 5:19AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A man from Louisiana has been charged with violating a new federal animal cruelty law by smuggling cockfighting weapons into the United States.
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Man amasses black history treasure trove
Feb 23 2008 4:31AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history.
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Man amasses black history treasure trove
Feb 23 2008 4:31AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history.
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Man amasses black history treasure trove
Feb 23 2008 4:31AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history.
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Man amasses black history treasure trove
Feb 23 2008 4:31AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history.
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