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Snowstorms sock upper Midwest
Mar 2 2007 11:43PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways Friday, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights.
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Snowstorms sock upper Midwest
Mar 2 2007 11:43PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways Friday, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights.
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Stolen Rockwell found with Spielberg
Mar 2 2007 11:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, the FBI announced Friday.
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Newborn's remains found in pickle jar
Mar 2 2007 11:23PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A road construction crew found the remains of a newborn girl inside a two-gallon pickle jar, authorities said Friday.
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Team's bus falls off Ga. highway; 6 die
Mar 2 2007 11:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife.
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Team's bus falls off Ga. highway; 6 die
Mar 2 2007 11:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife.
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Team's bus falls off Ga. highway; 6 die
Mar 2 2007 11:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife.
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Team's bus falls off Ga. highway; 6 die
Mar 2 2007 11:05PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife.
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Ala. school warned hours before tornado
Mar 2 2007 10:47PM (CT)
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) - Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier.
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Ala. school warned hours before tornado
Mar 2 2007 10:47PM (CT)
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) - Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier.
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Clinton doesn't support attack on Iran
Mar 2 2007 10:47PM (CT)
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton said Friday sanctions against Iran were working better than people think and questioned whether a military strike would work to end its nuclear program. He argued that two-thirds of Iran's population wants a moderate government and that sanctions could have some influence on the nation's powerful clerics.
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Judge denounces NYC on panhandling law
Mar 2 2007 10:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge said Friday that she will consider holding the city in contempt after learning that police have been enforcing a panhandling law ruled unconstitutional 15 years ago.
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Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt
Mar 2 2007 10:13PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Florida prosecutors charged an astronaut Friday with trying to kidnap a romantic rival, but they declined to file an attempted murder charge recommended by police. Lisa Nowak, 43, was formally charged almost a month after she was arrested at an Orlando airport parking lot.
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Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt
Mar 2 2007 10:13PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Florida prosecutors charged an astronaut Friday with trying to kidnap a romantic rival, but they declined to file an attempted murder charge recommended by police. Lisa Nowak, 43, was formally charged almost a month after she was arrested at an Orlando airport parking lot.
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Photos, evidence shown at Lunsford trial
Mar 2 2007 9:58PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Prosecutors on Friday showed jurors photographs of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford's body after it was unearthed and a blood-stained mattress as the trial of the convicted sex offender accused of killing her began.
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Photos, evidence shown at Lunsford trial
Mar 2 2007 9:58PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Prosecutors on Friday showed jurors photographs of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford's body after it was unearthed and a blood-stained mattress as the trial of the convicted sex offender accused of killing her began.
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More charges against Mo. kidnap suspect
Mar 2 2007 9:53PM (CT)
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri man suspected of kidnapping and molesting two boys was indicted for the third time in as many days Friday, accused by a grand jury in St. Louis County of 71 counts of kidnapping and sodomy.
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Teens suspected in bank heist arrested
Mar 2 2007 9:48PM (CT)
ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) - Police arrested two 19-year-old girls and a bank teller in a brazen robbery in which two young women disguised in sunglasses were caught on videotape laughing as they held up a bank branch.
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Teens suspected in bank heist arrested
Mar 2 2007 9:48PM (CT)
ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) - Police arrested two 19-year-old girls and a bank teller in a brazen robbery in which two young women disguised in sunglasses were caught on videotape laughing as they held up a bank branch.
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Accused D.C. madam could name clients
Mar 2 2007 9:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A woman accused of running an upscale prostitution service in the Washington area might sell her list of 10,000 clients to pay for her defense, her attorney said Friday. Authorities have seized about $1 million worth of real estate and $500,000 in cash and stocks from Deborah Jean Palfrey, 50, said her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley.
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3 acquitted in Chicago club stampede
Mar 2 2007 9:44PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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Police try MySpace to nab bank robber
Mar 2 2007 9:44PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A brazen bank robber with nothing but a baseball cap and dark sunglasses hiding his face is one of the latest members of the social-networking Web site MySpace, and he wants to meet "more bank tellers so that I can continue my crime spree!!!"
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Critics target Pizza Hut reading program
Mar 2 2007 9:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - You've read the book, now eat the pizza. Since 1985, that's been the gist of Pizza Hut's Book It, an incentive program used by 50,000 schools nationwide to reward young readers with free pizzas. The program is now under attack by child-development experts who say it promotes bad eating habits and turns teachers into corporate promoters.
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Court rejects detained German's lawsuit
Mar 2 2007 9:35PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The danger that state secrets could be revealed outweighs a German man's claims that the CIA tortured him in an Afghan prison, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in refusing to reinstate his lawsuit.
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Ohio campus mourns lost players
Mar 2 2007 9:20PM (CT)
BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) - Before the baseball team departed for their annual spring break tournament in Florida, students at close-knit Bluffton University gathered for a weekly chapel service to pray that all those who were traveling a safe trip.
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Ohio campus mourns lost players
Mar 2 2007 9:20PM (CT)
BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) - Before the baseball team departed for their annual spring break tournament in Florida, students at close-knit Bluffton University gathered for a weekly chapel service to pray that all those who were traveling a safe trip.
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Troops on Mexican border get citizenship
Mar 2 2007 9:04PM (CT)
LAREDO, Texas (AP) - Six soldiers deployed to the Mexican border became U.S. citizens Friday, apparently the first troops to take advantage of expedited citizenship rules while deployed to keep out illegal immigrants.
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Records allowed in slain minister trial
Mar 2 2007 8:59PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors will be allowed to discuss the finances of a slain small-town minister and his wife at her murder trial, a judge ruled Friday.
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Judge won't set aside 1993 WTC verdict
Mar 2 2007 8:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge agreed Friday with a jury's finding that negligence by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was in large part responsible for the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center.
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Diplomats to meet over Iran sanctions
Mar 2 2007 7:59PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Top diplomats from the world's major powers will try to reach agreement Saturday on new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. A U.S. official predicted the session would lead to a "substantive resolution."
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Pa. health dept. says milk contaminated
Mar 2 2007 7:10PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The state health department warned consumers Friday not to drink raw milk from a dairy farm after two people who drank it were sickened by salmonella.
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Bush volunteer: Staff ordered 3 ousted
Mar 2 2007 7:07PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A volunteer said Friday he was acting on orders from White House staffers when he helped eject three people from a taxpayer-funded event President Bush was attending, according to the man's attorney.
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Records: Wis. donor gave to AG candidate
Mar 2 2007 6:44PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former casino developer accused of illegally donating to Gov. Jim Doyle's campaign gave money in a similar pattern to the losing candidate for attorney general, records reviewed by The Associated Press showed.
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Board yanks license over botched funeral
Mar 2 2007 6:40PM (CT)
ALTON, Ill. (AP) - State regulators have revoked the license of a funeral home owner they say failed to properly prepare the body of a decorated military veteran whose remains were found shrouded by little more than a bloody covering in the casket.
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Teacher in S.C. sex case released
Mar 2 2007 6:35PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A 23-year-old former teacher accused of having sex with five teenage boys was released from jail Friday after her father posted her bail.
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Md. school where youth died to close
Mar 2 2007 5:59PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A residential juvenile treatment school where a teenager died in a struggle with staff members will close, officials said Friday.
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7 JFK crewmembers become U.S. citizens
Mar 2 2007 5:52PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Three hundred immigrants from 79 countries took the U.S. oath of citizenship Friday in an aircraft hangar during the USS John F. Kennedy's final call in the port of Boston, including seven of its crew members.
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Pals to testify in NYPD 50-shot killing
Mar 2 2007 5:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two men seriously injured in a 50-shot police barrage that killed their unarmed friend on his wedding day appeared Friday before a grand jury investigating whether five officers should face criminal charges.
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Georgia hospital evacuates after tornado
Mar 2 2007 3:17PM (CT)
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - Doctors and nurses struggled to evacuate patients after a tornado smashed a Georgia hospital, filling it with glass, dirt and debris, and flooding operating rooms with murky water.
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S.C. county fights for nuclear landfill
Mar 2 2007 2:48PM (CT)
SNELLING, S.C. (AP) - In this rural county beset by high unemployment, the soon-to-arrive day when the local nuclear-waste landfill closes its doors to nearly all debris is no cause for celebration.
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Coast Guard: Distress call likely a hoax
Mar 2 2007 2:23PM (CT)
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for six boaters and said it was investigating the distress calls about their small craft taking on water as a possible hoax.
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Million rounds of ammo at Calif. house
Mar 2 2007 2:17PM (CT)
NORCO, Calif. (AP) - More than 1 million rounds of ammunition, a cache of weapons and a tunnel were found at a man's home after an explosive fire that forced a neighborhood evacuation, authorities said Friday.
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Family arranges 3rd autopsy of La. mayor
Mar 2 2007 2:06PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The family of a small-town mayor found dead from a gunshot said Friday they are arranging a third autopsy to try to prove he was killed, despite earlier rulings of suicide.
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Anatomy of a gun trafficking case
Mar 2 2007 1:48PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - There were 501 guns in all, the government says _ revolvers and pistols, Glocks and Rugers, a few rifles, too, a giant cache of firearms suitable for sport or self-protection.
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15-month sentence for illegal labor use
Mar 2 2007 1:37PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The head of a temporary labor business that used hundreds of illegal immigrants was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $12 million.
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5-year term for would-be subway bomber
Mar 2 2007 1:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a New York subway station next to Macy's flagship department was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.
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Girl overdoses at Pa. high school
Mar 2 2007 1:33PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) - A high school student overdosed on painkillers during class, and her father said she bought the drugs from a schoolmate.
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Police: Puppies are dognapped in L.A.
Mar 2 2007 1:19PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A pair of gunmen men posing as prospective buyers of four Yorkshire puppies forced their way into a home and stole the terriers worth $2,500 each, police said.
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Tribes note anniversary of dam closure
Mar 2 2007 1:13PM (CT)
CELILO VILLAGE, Ore. (AP) - Jay Minthorn remembers watching the Columbia River rise, the islands of Celilo Falls vanish, the fishing platforms wash away _ and a centuries-old way of tribal life vanish forever.
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Chicagoans charged in fatal heroin combo
Mar 2 2007 9:44AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An illegal lab in Mexico produced some of the powerful painkiller that killed dozens of people in Chicago last year who ingested with heroin, according to newly unsealed indictments.
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Teen who posted `Catch me' on Web caught
Mar 2 2007 9:05AM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A 16-year-old fugitive believed to have posted a "Catch me if you can" message on his MySpace Web page was captured Friday, three days after his escape from a detention center, an official said.
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Religion in the news
Mar 2 2007 6:51AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez calls Jesus a guiding light for his self-styled socialist revolution.
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9 reported dead as storms strike Georgia
Mar 2 2007 5:14AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A system of powerful storms packing tornadoes passed from Alabama into southwest Georgia, hitting a hospital and causing at least nine deaths statewide, a state official said early Friday.
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Head of Chicago art museum to step down
Mar 2 2007 4:57AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Robert Fitzpatrick arrived an hour early to interview for the position of director and chief executive officer of the Museum of Contemporary Art, so he sat on a park bench across the street. He did not like what he saw.
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Man who stabbed his lawyer back in court
Mar 2 2007 4:27AM (CT)
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A rape defendant who stabbed his lawyer during jury selection returned to court under heavy security and aggressively asked the attorney: "You still breathing?"
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Database to track crime on tribal lands
Mar 2 2007 4:21AM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Sgt. Bill Blake gave his anti-gang presentation to American Indian communities so many times, he says, that his daughter knew it by heart. Yet it wasn't enough: "Dad, you have to do more," he recalls her saying.
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4.2 earthquake hits San Francisco
Mar 2 2007 4:11AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area Thursday night, rattling residents' nerves but causing no major damage or injuries.
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U.N. hopes U.S. takes lead on climate
Mar 2 2007 3:23AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope that the U.S. will take a leadership role in combatting climate change _ which he said poses as much danger to mankind as war and is likely to fuel future conflicts.
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Candy bars suspected in student sickness
Mar 2 2007 12:33AM (CT)
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - Nearly two dozen students fell ill after eating candy bars that were sold as a school fundraiser, and police have opened a criminal investigation, authorities said Thursday.
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NYC man convicted in 2002 bar siege
Mar 2 2007 12:29AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A black man who took hostages in a bar and told the patrons that "white people are going to burn tonight" was convicted Thursday of attempted murder, assault and other crimes.
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Air Force cadet withdraws amid scandal
Mar 2 2007 12:20AM (CT)
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - One of 36 freshman cadets caught up in a cheating scandal at the Air Force Academy has withdrawn from school, officials said Thursday.
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Feds allege fraud in Samoan adoptions
Mar 2 2007 12:12AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An adoption agency is accused of tricking poor Samoan families into giving up their children so they could be placed with families in the United States, a U.S. attorney said Thursday.
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Norovirus closes Washington-area hotel
Mar 2 2007 12:07AM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - A hotel was closed for cleaning Thursday night after as many as 150 guests were sickened by the highly contagious norovirus, hotel and county health officials said.
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