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Jury to deliberate Air Force rape trial
Feb 26 2007 11:59PM (CT)
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - An Air Force officer accused of raping four men and attempting to rape two others is only guilty of being gay in the military, a defense attorney told a court-martial jury during closing arguments Monday.
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Killer jaguar had mean twin named Osama
Feb 26 2007 11:44PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A Bolivian-born jaguar that killed a Denver zookeeper was well-behaved as a young cat but his twin was so mean that his handlers named him Osama, a Bolivian zoo official said Monday. Ashlee Pfaff, 27, died from a broken neck and other injuries after the big cat named Jorge attacked her while she was inside an employee hallway that opened into his outdoor enclosure on Saturday, the coroner said.
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Killer jaguar had mean twin named Osama
Feb 26 2007 11:44PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A Bolivian-born jaguar that killed a Denver zookeeper was well-behaved as a young cat but his twin was so mean that his handlers named him Osama, a Bolivian zoo official said Monday. Ashlee Pfaff, 27, died from a broken neck and other injuries after the big cat named Jorge attacked her while she was inside an employee hallway that opened into his outdoor enclosure on Saturday, the coroner said.
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Documentary shows possible Jesus tomb
Feb 26 2007 11:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Filmmakers and researchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christian beliefs.
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Documentary shows possible Jesus tomb
Feb 26 2007 11:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Filmmakers and researchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christian beliefs.
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Documentary shows possible Jesus tomb
Feb 26 2007 11:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Filmmakers and researchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christian beliefs.
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Mo. ag chief accused of harassment quits
Feb 26 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The state agriculture director resigned at the governor's request Monday, several days after allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination were made public.
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Calif. woman gets 11 years in car chase
Feb 26 2007 11:22PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - An Oakland woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison Monday for killing her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend by repeatedly ramming the vehicle they were riding in during a high-speed car chase.
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Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China
Feb 26 2007 11:12PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Prison doc: Terror suspect OK for trial
Feb 26 2007 11:06PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla has mild anxiety and personality disorders but is mentally able to stand trial, a prison psychologist said Monday in testimony that contradicted two defense experts.
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Sharpton: DNA could tie me to Thurmond
Feb 26 2007 11:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his great-grandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the late senator.
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Sharpton: DNA could tie me to Thurmond
Feb 26 2007 11:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his great-grandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the late senator.
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Judge considers playing tape of slaying
Feb 26 2007 11:03PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The family of a teacher slain nearly 11 years ago and prosecutors asked a judge Monday to keep her secretly recorded pleas for her life from being played aloud during the trial of her accused killer.
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DNA tests ordered in Atlanta murder case
Feb 26 2007 11:01PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Monday ordered DNA testing of dog hair and other evidence used to convict a man linked to two dozen murders more than a quarter of a century ago.
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Four die in Mich. apartment complex fire
Feb 26 2007 11:00PM (CT)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Two children and two women were killed early Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in suburban Detroit. The overnight fire seemed to have started in the kitchen on an electric stove, Southfield Fire Chief Peter Healy said.
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Four die in Mich. apartment complex fire
Feb 26 2007 11:00PM (CT)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Two children and two women were killed early Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in suburban Detroit. The overnight fire seemed to have started in the kitchen on an electric stove, Southfield Fire Chief Peter Healy said.
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Four die in Mich. apartment complex fire
Feb 26 2007 11:00PM (CT)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Two children and two women were killed early Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in suburban Detroit. The overnight fire seemed to have started in the kitchen on an electric stove, Southfield Fire Chief Peter Healy said.
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Storm brings light snow to Northeast
Feb 26 2007 10:58PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The storm that pounded the Midwest over the weekend brought relatively light snow to the Northeast on Monday, delaying some commuters but sparing the region a repeat of the Valentine's Day ice storm that brought airline flights to a standstill.
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Snow forces JetBlue to cancel 66 flights
Feb 26 2007 10:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - JetBlue canceled 66 flights because of snow Monday and tested the airline's customer bill of rights created after an uproar of criticism from the Valentine's Day storm that grounded more than 1,000 flights.
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Gay marriage opponents to look to states
Feb 26 2007 10:23PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A group lobbying for a constitutional ban on gay marriage concedes that its chances are slim with Democrats controlling Congress. So now it's setting its sights on state legislatures.
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Probe: Ex-academy head made bad comments
Feb 26 2007 9:45PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - An investigation at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy following the first-ever court-martial of a cadet found that a former superintendent occasionally made inappropriate comments and acted intemperately, officials said Monday.
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Ex-U.N. official freed in bribery case
Feb 26 2007 9:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former United Nations procurement official accused of taking bribes was released from jail Monday after additional cash and property were raised to support his $900,000 bail.
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Woman must remove 'messages from God'
Feb 26 2007 9:08PM (CT)
SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) - A woman who has covered her roof and property with painted slogans she calls messages from God has been ordered to remove them or face possible fines or jail time.
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5 charged in slayings of 2 boys in Mich.
Feb 26 2007 9:00PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Five people were charged with murder Monday in the shooting deaths of two boys whose bodies were found inside a ransacked home.
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Case dropped against La. ag commissioner
Feb 26 2007 8:49PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A judge threw out all charges against the state agriculture commissioner Monday as jury selection was to begin in his bribery and money-laundering case.
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C-note thief gets 9 months in prison
Feb 26 2007 8:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Treasury Department employee was sentenced to nine months in federal prison Monday for stealing more than $67,000 in uncut sheets of $100 bills that he tried to launder through casino slot machines.
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Military signal blocks garage remotes
Feb 26 2007 5:31PM (CT)
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) - For many suburbanites, life without garage door openers is unimaginable. But neighbors of the Marine base here have been reduced to just that after a strong radio signal coming from the facility began neutralizing remote-control openers.
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Man kills retarded children, himself
Feb 26 2007 4:29PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An 81-year-old man killed his wife and disabled adult children before fatally shooting himself because he was ill and worried the family might become a burden to others, police said Monday.
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Lawyer: Foster father to plead in murder
Feb 26 2007 3:15PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A man will plead guilty to murdering his developmentally disabled 3-year-old foster son by binding him in a closet before leaving for a family reunion, the man's attorney and a prosecutor said Monday.
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Mexico border sewage deal hits the rocks
Feb 26 2007 2:48PM (CT)
IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) - When it rains along the border, millions of gallons of sewage and industrial waste from Mexican slums and factories flow down the Tijuana River into the United States and end up in the Pacific Ocean _ a mess that closed the beach here to swimmers and surfers a total of 198 days last year.
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NYC can't limit ferry crash damages
Feb 26 2007 2:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge Monday denied the city's request to limit the amount of damages from the Staten Island ferry crash that killed 11 people and injured dozens in one of the worst mass-transit disasters in city history.
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NYC's largest homeless shelter closing
Feb 26 2007 1:57PM (CT)
CHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the Depression, when homeless people were called Bowery bums and fresh air was the solution to just about all ills.
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Postal regulators want 2-cent stamp hike
Feb 26 2007 12:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A postal regulatory commission recommended a 2-cent increase in the cost of mailing a letter Monday and urged the Post Office to introduce a "forever" stamp valid for first-class postage even when rates rise.
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Libby juror booted; deliberations go on
Feb 26 2007 12:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge avoided a potential mistrial in the CIA leak case Monday by dismissing a juror and sending the other 11 back to continue deliberating the fate of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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Marines' lawyers had little time in Iraq
Feb 26 2007 12:14PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A hearing for a Marine sergeant considered by some to be the mastermind of a kidnapping and killing in Iraq was postponed Monday for at least 24 hours because bad weather grounded key attorneys on the East Coast.
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Kennedy cousin in new appeal bid
Feb 26 2007 11:24AM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel has filed a motion seeking to compel a Florida man to testify about his claim implicating two friends in the 1975 murder that sent Skakel to prison.
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Ark. town copes with tornado damage
Feb 26 2007 10:45AM (CT)
DUMAS, Ark. (AP) - Much of this small town still had no electricity Monday and an estimated 800 workers had no jobs to report to because of a weekend tornado.
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Welfare state growing despite overhauls
Feb 26 2007 9:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid. The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted since the government imposed time limits on the payments a decade ago. But other programs for the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps and disability benefits, are bursting with new enrollees.
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Welfare state growing despite overhauls
Feb 26 2007 9:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid. The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted since the government imposed time limits on the payments a decade ago. But other programs for the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps and disability benefits, are bursting with new enrollees.
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Welfare state growing despite overhauls
Feb 26 2007 9:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid. The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted since the government imposed time limits on the payments a decade ago. But other programs for the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps and disability benefits, are bursting with new enrollees.
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Family challenges lesbian adoption
Feb 26 2007 8:51AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - In their 14-year relationship, Patricia Spado and Olive Watson spent only five nights apart. They lived in New York, spent summers in Maine, and shared the more practical pieces of a life together _ a home, a joint bank account.
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TXU announces sale to private firms
Feb 26 2007 6:56AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - TXU Corp., Texas' largest electricity producer, said Monday it has agreed to be sold to a group of private-equity firms for about $45 billion including debt in what would be the largest private buyout in U.S. corporate history if shareholders go along.
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Event held to aid West Bank settlers
Feb 26 2007 3:59AM (CT)
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) - As protesters chanted and waved signs outside, roughly 250 American Jews received information on buying homes in the West Bank during an event promoted as a way to help Jewish settlers.
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Event held to aid West Bank settlers
Feb 26 2007 3:59AM (CT)
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) - As protesters chanted and waved signs outside, roughly 250 American Jews received information on buying homes in the West Bank during an event promoted as a way to help Jewish settlers.
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Scorsese finally basks in Oscar triumph
Feb 26 2007 3:22AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a year of unparalleled diversity and international muscle at Hollywood's film honors, the Academy Awards finished as a love fest for a long-overlooked American _ Martin Scorsese.
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Farrakhan in speech: 'My time is up'
Feb 26 2007 2:52AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was greeted by cheers, tears and chants from tens of thousands as he returned to the public eye just long enough to say he would be leaving it soon.
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Farrakhan in speech: 'My time is up'
Feb 26 2007 2:52AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was greeted by cheers, tears and chants from tens of thousands as he returned to the public eye just long enough to say he would be leaving it soon.
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Farrakhan in speech: 'My time is up'
Feb 26 2007 2:52AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was greeted by cheers, tears and chants from tens of thousands as he returned to the public eye just long enough to say he would be leaving it soon.
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Sick teen's military dreams come true
Feb 26 2007 2:16AM (CT)
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - Weakened by a lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis, 14-year-old Riley Woina dreamed of being strong like the heroes he'd seen in war movies like "Black Hawk Down."
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