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Sales boost record Mega Millions jackpot
Mar 6 2007 11:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Lottery players lined up at ticket machines across the nation Tuesday, dreaming about the fat bank accounts and permanent vacations that winning the record $370 million Mega Millions jackpot would bring.
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Sales boost record Mega Millions jackpot
Mar 6 2007 11:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Lottery players lined up at ticket machines across the nation Tuesday, dreaming about the fat bank accounts and permanent vacations that winning the record $370 million Mega Millions jackpot would bring.
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SoCal couple carjacked, left naked
Mar 6 2007 11:40PM (CT)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Four people carjacked a man and his girlfriend at knifepoint early Tuesday and forced them to withdraw money from ATMs before leaving them naked on the side of a freeway, authorities said.
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Hattoy, former White House aide, dies
Mar 6 2007 11:35PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Bob Hattoy, an advocate for gay and lesbian issues who accused the former President Bush of doing nothing about AIDS during a nationally televised speech at the Democratic National Convention, has died. He was 56.
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Police detail plot to behead NYPD chief
Mar 6 2007 11:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A prisoner enraged by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by detectives was ordered jailed Tuesday on charges he tried to hire someone to bomb police headquarters and behead the commissioner, authorities said.
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Winemaker Ernest Gallo dies at age 97
Mar 6 2007 11:14PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Ernest Gallo, who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world's largest winemaking empire, died Tuesday at his home in Modesto. He was 97. "He passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by his family," said Susan Hensley, vice president of public relations for E.&J. Gallo Winery.
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Winemaker Ernest Gallo dies at age 97
Mar 6 2007 11:14PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Ernest Gallo, who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world's largest winemaking empire, died Tuesday at his home in Modesto. He was 97. "He passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by his family," said Susan Hensley, vice president of public relations for E.&J. Gallo Winery.
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Documents reveal astronaut romance
Mar 6 2007 11:14PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Bill Oefelein was in orbit aboard the space shuttle in December when he was sent a steamy e-mail from a girlfriend awaiting his return: "First urge will be to rip your clothes off, throw you on the ground and love the hell out of you."
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Documents reveal astronaut romance
Mar 6 2007 11:14PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Bill Oefelein was in orbit aboard the space shuttle in December when he was sent a steamy e-mail from a girlfriend awaiting his return: "First urge will be to rip your clothes off, throw you on the ground and love the hell out of you."
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Documents reveal astronaut romance
Mar 6 2007 11:14PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Bill Oefelein was in orbit aboard the space shuttle in December when he was sent a steamy e-mail from a girlfriend awaiting his return: "First urge will be to rip your clothes off, throw you on the ground and love the hell out of you."
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Miss.'s grocery tax unlikely to change
Mar 6 2007 11:00PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi families rank among the lowest paid households in the nation yet pay the highest taxes on groceries _ an imbalance that is not likely to change soon.
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Cross coming back to Va. college chapel
Mar 6 2007 10:58PM (CT)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - A brass cross will be permanently displayed in a chapel at the College of William and Mary under a compromise announced Tuesday, several months after the president's decision to remove it caused an outcry.
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Firm owner arrested in immigration raid
Mar 6 2007 10:57PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A leather company owner was arrested during a raid at his company Tuesday and accused of hiring hundreds of illegal immigrants to work in poor conditions so he could meet the demands of $91 million in military contracts.
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Firm owner arrested in immigration raid
Mar 6 2007 10:57PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A leather company owner was arrested during a raid at his company Tuesday and accused of hiring hundreds of illegal immigrants to work in poor conditions so he could meet the demands of $91 million in military contracts.
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State officials sue N.C. Medical Board
Mar 6 2007 10:47PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - State prison officials asked a court Tuesday to step into a debate about the death penalty, saying a threat by the state medical board to punish doctors who participate in executions has halted capital punishment.
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Police: Man tried to have mistress hurt
Mar 6 2007 10:44PM (CT)
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) - A wealthy New Canaan hedge fund manager posed as his former mistress and posted an Internet ad seeking someone to rape and abduct her, authorities said.
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Beverly Hills may get Iranian-born mayor
Mar 6 2007 10:36PM (CT)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - A city councilman was hoping to become the first Iranian-born mayor of this tony Los Angeles suburb in elections held Tuesday, a sign of the growing clout of Persian immigrants here.
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LA scare diverts plane to Vegas
Mar 6 2007 10:20PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An Iraqi immigrant with a suspicious device lodged in a body cavity was detained Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.
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Michigan man arraigned in wife's death
Mar 6 2007 10:04PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man who police say killed his wife in their suburban Detroit home, then disposed of her remains in a park, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and dismemberment of a body.
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Michigan man arraigned in wife's death
Mar 6 2007 10:04PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man who police say killed his wife in their suburban Detroit home, then disposed of her remains in a park, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and dismemberment of a body.
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Michigan man arraigned in wife's death
Mar 6 2007 10:04PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A man who police say killed his wife in their suburban Detroit home, then disposed of her remains in a park, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and dismemberment of a body.
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Philly mayor's brother drops mayoral bid
Mar 6 2007 9:53PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Mayor John F. Street's older brother abruptly ended his long-shot mayoral bid Tuesday, saying he did not want to divide the black vote in a race that already has three major black candidates.
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3rd Teen ordered held in kids pot case
Mar 6 2007 9:52PM (CT)
WATAUGA, Texas (AP) - A 16-year-old accused of videotaping two youngsters who were taught to smoke pot has been ordered to remain in the custody of Tarrant County juvenile authorities.
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Mom pleads guilty in baby-swinging case
Mar 6 2007 9:52PM (CT)
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend during a fight, fracturing the infant's skull in the process.
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Police sent to all Texas youth prisons
Mar 6 2007 9:51PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Police went to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up.
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Police sent to all Texas youth prisons
Mar 6 2007 9:51PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Police went to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up.
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Man sentenced to life in wife's death
Mar 6 2007 9:51PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A man who tried to pin his wife's brutal slaying on their 12-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder.
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Fed agency urged bus safety improvements
Mar 6 2007 9:50PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The federal agency investigating last week's deadly crash of a bus carrying a college baseball team has for years sought safety improvements that could have reduced the number of injuries from the accident.
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Pilot crashes into ex-in-law's house
Mar 6 2007 9:48PM (CT)
BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) - "I've got her, and you're not going to get her." Beth Johnson heard those words from her ex-husband Monday, shortly before he crashed his rented single-engine plane into his former mother-in-law's southern Indiana home, killing himself and the couple's 8-year-old daughter.
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Pilot crashes into ex-in-law's house
Mar 6 2007 9:48PM (CT)
BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) - "I've got her, and you're not going to get her." Beth Johnson heard those words from her ex-husband Monday, shortly before he crashed his rented single-engine plane into his former mother-in-law's southern Indiana home, killing himself and the couple's 8-year-old daughter.
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Pilot crashes into ex-in-law's house
Mar 6 2007 9:48PM (CT)
BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) - "I've got her, and you're not going to get her." Beth Johnson heard those words from her ex-husband Monday, shortly before he crashed his rented single-engine plane into his former mother-in-law's southern Indiana home, killing himself and the couple's 8-year-old daughter.
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Mass. stabbing victim chosen randomly
Mar 6 2007 8:46PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A high school sophomore charged with fatally stabbing a classmate searched for a random victim the morning of the school slaying, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Mass. stabbing victim chosen randomly
Mar 6 2007 8:46PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A high school sophomore charged with fatally stabbing a classmate searched for a random victim the morning of the school slaying, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Mass. stabbing victim chosen randomly
Mar 6 2007 8:46PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A high school sophomore charged with fatally stabbing a classmate searched for a random victim the morning of the school slaying, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Deal in works for alleged Mo. kidnapper
Mar 6 2007 8:41PM (CT)
UNION, Mo. (AP) - Federal and local prosecutors are considering a plea deal that would mean life in prison for a man accused of kidnapping two boys and sexually abusing one of them, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Ohio gov. freezes agencies' lunch tab
Mar 6 2007 8:29PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Ted Strickland told all state agencies Tuesday to stop ordering coffee, lunch and other meals while his office reviews nearly $4 million in food-related expenses in the past two years.
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Man surrenders in attack on Yale singers
Mar 6 2007 8:24PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - One of two men accused of taunting and beating members of an all-male singing group from Yale University surrendered to police Tuesday.
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Grand jury probes 4 Katrina deaths
Mar 6 2007 8:18PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A grand jury began investigating the deaths of four patients at a sweltering, flooded hospital after Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday, a prosecutor's spokesman said.
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Calif. court hears dog-mauling appeal
Mar 6 2007 8:17PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A prosecutor asked the California Supreme Court Tuesday to uphold a murder conviction against a woman whose two dogs fatally mauled a neighbor.
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Judge allows alleged order at trial
Mar 6 2007 8:06PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A former brigade commander for the 101st Airborne Division won't be forced to testify in the trial of a soldier accused in the slayings of three detainees in Iraq last year, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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DA faults Pa. lawmaker in shooting probe
Mar 6 2007 7:43PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pennsylvania state senator violated state firearms law by allowing his 16-year-old son to keep a handgun that was later found next to a young neighbor who was killed with the weapon, a prosecutor said.
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ACLU sues over detained immigrant kids
Mar 6 2007 7:03PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Civil liberties and immigration advocates sued federal officials Tuesday on behalf of children confined to a former Texas prison-turned-center for immigrant families awaiting possible deportation.
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Ohio lawmakers support Iraqi refugees
Mar 6 2007 6:51PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A symbolic Republican resolution supporting President Bush's plan to relocate thousands of Iraqi refugees unanimously cleared the state Senate on Tuesday without any reference to critical comments by the Democratic governor.
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Army town buries students, not soldiers
Mar 6 2007 6:07PM (CT)
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) - Bill Tompkins was serving with the Army in Iraq when he got the call to come home and bury his son, one of eight students killed when a tornado ripped through a high school last week.
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Guards say man admitted Lunsford slaying
Mar 6 2007 6:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A convicted sex offender on trial in the abduction and slaying of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford told authorities that he hoped to meet her in heaven and apologize, a detective testified Tuesday.
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Guards say man admitted Lunsford slaying
Mar 6 2007 6:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A convicted sex offender on trial in the abduction and slaying of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford told authorities that he hoped to meet her in heaven and apologize, a detective testified Tuesday.
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Guards say man admitted Lunsford slaying
Mar 6 2007 6:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A convicted sex offender on trial in the abduction and slaying of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford told authorities that he hoped to meet her in heaven and apologize, a detective testified Tuesday.
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N.C. fines chemical company $550,000
Mar 6 2007 3:10PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - State regulators fined a chemical storage company more than $550,000 for violations connected with an October fire that prompted a massive evacuation in the town of Apex.
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Mass. governor defends call to Citigroup
Mar 6 2007 2:17PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Deval Patrick is defending a telephone call he made to a top official at Citigroup on behalf of a struggling lending company on whose board he once served.
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NY Times acknowledges reporter's payment
Mar 6 2007 2:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times acknowledged Tuesday that a reporter who wrote an acclaimed 2005 article about a teenage Internet pornographer helped gain the boy's trust by sending him a $2,000 check.
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Md. hate crime bill would help homeless
Mar 6 2007 2:07PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The state Senate voted Tuesday to add homeless people to the list of groups protected under anti-hate-crime laws.
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Bitter cold, blowing snow hit Northeast
Mar 6 2007 2:04PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Fierce wind and biting cold kept youngsters home from school Tuesday in upstate New York and authorities warned against perilous driving conditions already blamed for at least five deaths.
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Voters are hard to find in New Orleans
Mar 6 2007 2:01PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Campaigning for office is typically a shoe-leather exercise, with lots of walking through neighborhoods and knocking on doors. But that's not easily done in some of New Orleans' devastated and largely depopulated sections.
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Scandal rocks Texas juvenile system
Mar 6 2007 2:00PM (CT)
PYOTE, Texas (AP) - For at least two years, investigators say, boys at a juvenile prison in the West Texas desert were summoned from their dorms late at night and taken to darkened conference rooms, offices and ball fields for sex with two of the institution's top administrators.
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Ill. plant blasts blamed on worker error
Mar 6 2007 2:00PM (CT)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Explosions that killed five employees at a central Illinois chemical plant in 2004 were caused by a worker mistakenly opening a valve on a high-temperature processing unit, a federal agency said Tuesday.
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La. finds the dangers below
Mar 6 2007 1:59PM (CT)
SHELL BEACH, La. (AP) - Under a murky, low-hanging sky, the Lacey Marie pitches to and fro on choppy Lake Borgne, using sonar to map a muddy bottom littered with rusted-out cars, boats, oil platforms, washing machines and other junk swept into the water by Hurricane Katrina 18 months ago.
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82nd Airborne cancels annual celebration
Mar 6 2007 11:45AM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Too many paratroopers are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to hold the annual All American week celebration for the 82nd Airborne Division this year, a division spokesman said.
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Woman admits guilt in ex-husband's death
Mar 6 2007 11:00AM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A woman accused of orchestrating the killings of her husband and ex-husband in 2001 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that spares her the possibility of the death penalty.
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Lawyer: 3 athletes apologize for attack
Mar 6 2007 10:48AM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Three college football players accused in an attack on Palestinian students have apologized, and the victims' lawyer says they'll drop their complaint once the fourth player says he's sorry.
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2 dead in Michigan ambulance crash
Mar 6 2007 9:19AM (CT)
SKANDIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - An ambulance on an emergency run crashed into a logging truck along an Upper Peninsula road, killing the patient and one of the three ambulance crew members, state police said.
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TV art scam bilked buyers of millions
Mar 6 2007 8:49AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A couple who sold art through televised auctions admitted selling bogus works and forging signatures of artists including Picasso, Chagall and Dali in a scam that bilked buyers out of millions of dollars, prosecutors said.
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Tipster in fatal Ga. police raid busted
Mar 6 2007 7:49AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A suspected drug dealer whose November arrest led to the fatal shooting of an elderly woman during a police raid was arrested again on drug charges.
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Man wounds 3 co-workers, kills self
Mar 6 2007 7:20AM (CT)
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (AP) - Investigators were trying to determine Tuesday why a 68-year-old man opened fire at a menu printing plant, wounding three co-workers who had apparently helped him land a job there.
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Man wounds 3 co-workers, kills self
Mar 6 2007 7:20AM (CT)
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (AP) - Investigators were trying to determine Tuesday why a 68-year-old man opened fire at a menu printing plant, wounding three co-workers who had apparently helped him land a job there.
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Man wounds 3 co-workers, kills self
Mar 6 2007 7:20AM (CT)
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (AP) - Investigators were trying to determine Tuesday why a 68-year-old man opened fire at a menu printing plant, wounding three co-workers who had apparently helped him land a job there.
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N.J. to consider .50-caliber gun ban
Mar 6 2007 5:45AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey is looking to become the second state to outlaw a powerful gun that critics say can be used by terrorists to shoot down an airliner.
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N.J. to consider .50-caliber gun ban
Mar 6 2007 5:45AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey is looking to become the second state to outlaw a powerful gun that critics say can be used by terrorists to shoot down an airliner.
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N.J. to consider .50-caliber gun ban
Mar 6 2007 5:45AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey is looking to become the second state to outlaw a powerful gun that critics say can be used by terrorists to shoot down an airliner.
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Arkansas House backs Apostrophe Act
Mar 6 2007 5:16AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The state House approved a resolution declaring "Arkansas's" the possessive form of the state's name _ a bill so weird it prompted the sponsor to offer an apology.
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Washington state sues over kids' health
Mar 6 2007 4:20AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington is suing the federal government over a new rule that makes it tougher to get medical coverage for infants born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.
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Iraqi baby to have surgery Tuesday
Mar 6 2007 4:10AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - When he was born in Iraq, little Karm's right arm and hand were paralyzed. But he had two things in his favor: His parents are pediatricians and they refused to give up hope.
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Homeschoolers find university doors open
Mar 6 2007 3:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Sample wanted to attend the University of California at Riverside but thought it was a lost cause because he had been homeschooled.
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Homeschoolers find university doors open
Mar 6 2007 3:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Sample wanted to attend the University of California at Riverside but thought it was a lost cause because he had been homeschooled.
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Homeschoolers find university doors open
Mar 6 2007 3:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Sample wanted to attend the University of California at Riverside but thought it was a lost cause because he had been homeschooled.
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Homeschoolers find university doors open
Mar 6 2007 3:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Sample wanted to attend the University of California at Riverside but thought it was a lost cause because he had been homeschooled.
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Homeschoolers find university doors open
Mar 6 2007 3:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Sample wanted to attend the University of California at Riverside but thought it was a lost cause because he had been homeschooled.
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Smoke sends flight back to Los Angeles
Mar 6 2007 2:07AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An American Airlines flight heading to Honolulu returned to Los Angeles on Monday after the pilot reported smelling smoke.
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