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Mistrial declared in Texas murder trial
Feb 25 2006 11:34PM (CT)
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the murder trial of a woman accused of fatally cutting the arms off her 10-month-old daughter.
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Despite Mardi Gras, New Orleans struggling
Feb 25 2006 10:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - They're throwing Mardi Gras beads again _ so many strands, they're landing in tree branches and getting snagged on the trellised balconies of the French Quarter.
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Bolton blasts U.N. 'sex and corruption'
Feb 25 2006 9:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday that the world body is hobbled "by bad management, by sex and corruption" and a lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions.
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More tests needed in Texas ricin scare
Feb 25 2006 9:26PM (CT)
AUSTIN (AP) - A University of Texas student found a substance in a roll of quarters that tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison, but more tests were needed, officials said Saturday.
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Glitzy Mardi Gras parade delayed a day
Feb 25 2006 8:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The last big weekend of the annual Carnival season drew healthy crowds to two Mardi Gras parades on Saturday, but a threat of evening showers pushed one of the city's biggest and glitziest processions back a day.
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Escaped inmate, dog trainer captured
Feb 25 2006 8:55PM (CT)
LANSING, Kan. (AP) - A prison volunteer and the murderer she allegedly helped escape were nabbed in a chance encounter with police, who were in a Tennessee mall parking lot discussing strategy for the capture when the couple walked out a bookstore, police said Saturday.
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Smart cameras, guards to protect WTC site
Feb 25 2006 8:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Visitors to the complex that eventually will fill the World Trade Center site might have to submit to iris scans or thumb print analysis to get into buildings, while smart cameras try to match their faces to a photo database of known terrorists. Well-paid armed guards would be on patrol and sensors would test the air for lethal gases.
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Foul play not suspected in boy's death
Feb 25 2006 8:15PM (CT)
GREENACRES, Fla. (AP) - An 8-year-old autistic boy whose body was found in a retaining pond drowned but did not appear to be a victim of foul play, according to a preliminary medical examiner's report released Saturday.
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17 arrested at Florida neo-Nazi rally
Feb 25 2006 7:30PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Fistfights broke out and police made 17 arrests Saturday at a neo-Nazi rally and march through a predominantly black neighborhood.
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Slaying haunts Ill. suburb 23 years later
Feb 25 2006 7:24PM (CT)
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - In the 23 years since 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico was raped and beaten to death, her friends and family have sat through trial after trial, seen men sentenced to die, then seen them exonerated and released. Late last year, prosecutors charged yet another man.
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Insurance in tour boat accident probed
Feb 25 2006 2:05PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Regulators in three states are investigating whether companies in London and Miami sold a fraudulent insurance policy to the owner of a tour boat that capsized on a New York lake and killed 20 elderly tourists, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Army charges 7 with having sex on video
Feb 25 2006 11:18AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Army has recommended that seven 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers be discharged following allegations they engaged in sex acts shown on a gay pornographic Web site.
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S.D. gov. 'inclined' to sign abortion ban
Feb 25 2006 11:18AM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Gov. Mike Rounds said he is inclined to sign a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in South Dakota, making it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life.
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Calif. gov. sounds populist note in speech
Feb 25 2006 5:30AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he will continue to push for government reforms but he also called on skeptical members of his own party to stop fighting and start leading.
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Teen shooter faces attempted murder charge
Feb 25 2006 4:21AM (CT)
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - Authorities charged a 14-year-old freshman with attempted murder in a school-yard shooting that seriously injured another student.
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Body of Fla. boot camp teen to be exhumed
Feb 25 2006 4:20AM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - The family of a teenager who died at a boot camp for juvenile delinquents plans to exhume his body for a second autopsy because they do not believe the official finding that the death was unrelated to a scuffle with guards.
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Storm-damaged floating homes await removal
Feb 25 2006 4:19AM (CT)
NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Wilma ripped apart Jackie Wuestenfeld's five-bedroom floating home more than three months ago _ but the debris hasn't moved. She doesn't want money to rebuild the 3,000-square foot house. What she does need is help sharing the cost for the estimated $17,000 to $20,000 it would likely take for a salvage company to remove it.
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Asbestos-tainted Montana town seeks aid
Feb 25 2006 2:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In one sense, Les Skramstad is almost jealous of his late neighbor in Libby, Mont. At least that man's death from cancerous mesothelioma came quickly, he said. Skramstad is dying of asbestosis, which feels like slow, constant suffocation.
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Police ID 3-year-old girl found in trash
Feb 25 2006 1:20AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - After weeks of searching, police identified the body of a 3-year-old girl who was found dead in a trash bin, and said she died when her mother's boyfriend beat her after he gambled away money that had been saved for a trip.
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Chicago man gets 190 years for deadly fire
Feb 25 2006 1:14AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former Chicago commodities trader convicted of setting a house fire that killed his 90-year-old mother was sentenced Friday to 190 years in federal prison.
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