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Texas executes man for clerk slaying
Mar 7 2007 11:53PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man convicted of fatally shooting a 70-year-old clerk during a robbery at a Houston convenience store in 1980 was executed Wednesday evening.
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2 charged in UCLA cadaver scandal
Mar 7 2007 11:50PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former UCLA official and an associate were arrested Wednesday on charges that they illegally sold parts of bodies donated for research in a scheme that produced more than $1 million in profits.
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2 charged in UCLA cadaver scandal
Mar 7 2007 11:50PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former UCLA official and an associate were arrested Wednesday on charges that they illegally sold parts of bodies donated for research in a scheme that produced more than $1 million in profits.
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6 years in swallowed cell phone case
Mar 7 2007 11:35PM (CT)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - A man convicted of shoving a cell phone down his girlfriend's throat was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
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Editor held hostage at Ky. newspaper
Mar 7 2007 11:34PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A man held his editor brother at gunpoint for a time at a newspaper office in Richmond on Wednesday and was being sought in the shooting death of a woman, authorities and another editor said.
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Teacher's 'witch lawsuit' goes to trial
Mar 7 2007 11:23PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - Was she casting spells or teaching spelling? In an unfolding trial, lawyers are debating a former teacher's claims in a $2 million federal lawsuit that she was improperly fired from Hampton Bays elementary school because administrators and others thought she was a witch.
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Immigrants sue over crime victim visas
Mar 7 2007 11:21PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Attorneys for undocumented immigrants who have suffered violent crimes sued the federal government Wednesday for failing to issue protective visas approved by Congress more than six years ago.
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Ga. truck driver claims half of $390M
Mar 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
DALTON, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia truck driver stepped forward Wednesday to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. "I'm going to do a lot of fishing," Ed Nabors, 52, of Rocky Face, Ga., about 90 miles north of Atlanta, said in a deep Southern drawl. The other winning ticket in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing was sold at a liquor store in New Jersey, and the holder did not immediately come forward.
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Ga. truck driver claims half of $390M
Mar 7 2007 11:06PM (CT)
DALTON, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia truck driver stepped forward Wednesday to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. "I'm going to do a lot of fishing," Ed Nabors, 52, of Rocky Face, Ga., about 90 miles north of Atlanta, said in a deep Southern drawl. The other winning ticket in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing was sold at a liquor store in New Jersey, and the holder did not immediately come forward.
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Teen shoots girl, self at Mich. school
Mar 7 2007 11:04PM (CT)
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - A teenager shot his former girlfriend four times outside her high school, then killed himself in one of two fatal U.S. school shootings Wednesday, authorities said. Jessica Forsyth, 17, was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where she was in serious but stable condition, hospital spokeswoman Christie White said Wednesday afternoon.
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Teen shoots girl, self at Mich. school
Mar 7 2007 11:04PM (CT)
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - A teenager shot his former girlfriend four times outside her high school, then killed himself in one of two fatal U.S. school shootings Wednesday, authorities said. Jessica Forsyth, 17, was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where she was in serious but stable condition, hospital spokeswoman Christie White said Wednesday afternoon.
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Teen shoots girl, self at Mich. school
Mar 7 2007 11:04PM (CT)
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - A teenager shot his former girlfriend four times outside her high school, then killed himself in one of two fatal U.S. school shootings Wednesday, authorities said. Jessica Forsyth, 17, was taken to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where she was in serious but stable condition, hospital spokeswoman Christie White said Wednesday afternoon.
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Ex-con guilty in Fla. girl's slaying
Mar 7 2007 11:04PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in February 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.
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Ex-con guilty in Fla. girl's slaying
Mar 7 2007 11:04PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in February 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.
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Ex-con guilty in Fla. girl's slaying
Mar 7 2007 11:04PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in February 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.
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Fla. officers justified in shooting
Mar 7 2007 10:43PM (CT)
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - Law enforcement officers were justified when they fired 110 rounds at a fugitive who killed a sheriff's deputy because the man made a sudden movement, a state prosecutor said Wednesday.
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N.H. Democrat resumes bid for top job
Mar 7 2007 10:03PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A gay Democrat was a shoo-in to become chairman of the state party just a year before New Hampshire's all-important presidential primary. Then a former friend and roommate accused him of possessing child pornography years ago.
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Feds: Men brought guns, drugs on plane
Mar 7 2007 10:00PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Two airline baggage handlers used their employee uniforms and identification cards to enter restricted areas, bypass screeners and carry a duffel bag loaded with guns and drugs into a plane's passenger cabin, according to court documents released Wednesday.
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San Francisco mulls ban on plastic bags
Mar 7 2007 9:40PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Paper or plastic? Shoppers may get a twist on that old checkout line question if the city approves a ban on plastic grocery bags.
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Mo. indictment: 5 sent money to Iraq
Mar 7 2007 9:25PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Four associates of a Missouri-based Islamic charity and a fifth man in the Middle East were indicted on charges that they illegally sent money to Iraq, the U.S. attorney's office announced Wednesday.
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Ill women return to U.S. from Russia
Mar 7 2007 9:17PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two American women who were hospitalized in Moscow for suspected thallium poisoning flew home to the United States on Wednesday, as colleagues and relatives tried to understand how the two were exposed to the potentially fatal chemical.
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Ex-pastor acquitted of sex charge
Mar 7 2007 9:11PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A former Baptist minister who had spoken out against homosexuality was acquitted Wednesday of propositioning an undercover male police officer.
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Tribe puts bridge on Grand Canyon's edge
Mar 7 2007 9:00PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Indian tribe fastened a massive glass-bottomed walkway to the edge of the Grand Canyon on Wednesday as part of an ambitious tourism center that has angered environmentalists and some tribal members. The Hualapai (pronounced WALL-uh-pie), an impoverished tribe of about 2,200 people at the canyon's remote western edge, allowed a private developer to construct the $30 million Skywalk in hopes of luring tourists to the region.
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Tribe puts bridge on Grand Canyon's edge
Mar 7 2007 9:00PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Indian tribe fastened a massive glass-bottomed walkway to the edge of the Grand Canyon on Wednesday as part of an ambitious tourism center that has angered environmentalists and some tribal members. The Hualapai (pronounced WALL-uh-pie), an impoverished tribe of about 2,200 people at the canyon's remote western edge, allowed a private developer to construct the $30 million Skywalk in hopes of luring tourists to the region.
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Teammates at bus crash victim's funeral
Mar 7 2007 8:49PM (CT)
ELIDA, Ohio (AP) - Bruised and bandaged, college baseball players stood in a circle and put their arms around one another Wednesday at the funeral for one of their four teammates killed in a bus wreck. Scott Harmon, a 19-year-old freshman at Bluffton University, was remembered as being passionate about sports and as a prankster who was the life of the party.
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Teammates at bus crash victim's funeral
Mar 7 2007 8:49PM (CT)
ELIDA, Ohio (AP) - Bruised and bandaged, college baseball players stood in a circle and put their arms around one another Wednesday at the funeral for one of their four teammates killed in a bus wreck. Scott Harmon, a 19-year-old freshman at Bluffton University, was remembered as being passionate about sports and as a prankster who was the life of the party.
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Teammates at bus crash victim's funeral
Mar 7 2007 8:49PM (CT)
ELIDA, Ohio (AP) - Bruised and bandaged, college baseball players stood in a circle and put their arms around one another Wednesday at the funeral for one of their four teammates killed in a bus wreck. Scott Harmon, a 19-year-old freshman at Bluffton University, was remembered as being passionate about sports and as a prankster who was the life of the party.
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Force-feeding near for fasting inmate
Mar 7 2007 8:48PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Prison workers soon might force feed a former university professor who has been on a hunger strike for six weeks to protest his imprisonment for refusing to testify about Palestinian charities, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Man surrenders in bus stop abduction
Mar 7 2007 8:46PM (CT)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - A Mexican national surrendered at the U.S. border Wednesday on allegations of abducting a 13-year-old from a Florida bus stop last month and leaving him tied up in the woods before the boy escaped, officials said. Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, 22, agreed to voluntarily return from Mexico after several days of negotiations with the FBI, Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells said.
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FEMA is selling off used trailers
Mar 7 2007 8:46PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
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FEMA is selling off used trailers
Mar 7 2007 8:46PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
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Grand jury indicts polygamous leader
Mar 7 2007 8:45PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal grand jury indicted the leader of a polygamous sect Wednesday, accusing him of fleeing to avoid prosecution on Utah sex charges. The one-count indictment covers a five-month period in 2006, although Warren Jeffs was believed to be on the run for a longer stretch before his arrest in August during a traffic stop near Las Vegas.
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Astronaut Lisa Nowak fired from NASA
Mar 7 2007 8:44PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.
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Astronaut Lisa Nowak fired from NASA
Mar 7 2007 8:44PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.
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Astronaut Lisa Nowak fired from NASA
Mar 7 2007 8:44PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.
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Idahoans call Capitol, and Jesus answers
Mar 7 2007 8:19PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Most people who call the Legislative Information Center at the state Capitol are looking for their district's lawmakers, not advice on the afterlife.
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Children stranded after immigration raid
Mar 7 2007 8:12PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Dozens of young children were stranded at schools and with baby sitters after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities who raided a leather goods maker suspected of hiring illegal immigrants, authorities said Wednesday.
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Children stranded after immigration raid
Mar 7 2007 8:12PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Dozens of young children were stranded at schools and with baby sitters after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities who raided a leather goods maker suspected of hiring illegal immigrants, authorities said Wednesday.
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Children stranded after immigration raid
Mar 7 2007 8:12PM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Dozens of young children were stranded at schools and with baby sitters after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities who raided a leather goods maker suspected of hiring illegal immigrants, authorities said Wednesday.
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Judge: Chinese couple can see daughter
Mar 7 2007 8:09PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Chinese couple who recently won custody of the daughter they put in temporary foster care eight years ago can start supervised visits with her next week, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Jackson, Miss., mayor booked into jail
Mar 7 2007 7:42PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The mayor turned himself in at the county jail Wednesday and was booked into the medical ward to await a hearing on whether he violated his probation on a misdemeanor weapons conviction, the sheriff said.
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3rd autopsy set for Louisiana mayor
Mar 7 2007 7:22PM (CT)
WESTLAKE, La. (AP) - The body of the first black man elected mayor of this mostly white town was exhumed Wednesday for a third autopsy, commissioned by relatives who believe he was killed, not a suicide victim.
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Blockage at Md. dam threatens homes
Mar 7 2007 6:58PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Workers were racing to beat a thaw in the weather and clear a blockage at an earthen dam that threatens to break and flood part of the town of Oakland, officials said.
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Fire breaks out in NYC hospital
Mar 7 2007 6:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Fire broke out in a doctor's seventh-floor office at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, injuring seven people and forcing the staff to move more than a dozen patients, officials said.
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LA food workers may get hepatitis shots
Mar 7 2007 6:43PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of food service workers in eateries across Los Angeles might be vaccinated for hepatitis A because of a series of outbreaks of the disease.
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Man found guilty in N.J. teacher slaying
Mar 7 2007 6:42PM (CT)
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A jury found a man guilty Wednesday in the 1996 carjacking and killing of a special education teacher who secretly tape-recorded the conversation that took place during the crime.
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Parents charged in twin's abuse
Mar 7 2007 6:35PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - A couple were charged Wednesday with abusing a 4-month-old conjoined twin who was separated from his brother after birth.
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Ex-hostage Carroll back in Middle East
Mar 7 2007 6:13PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Jill Carroll, the journalist held hostage for nearly three months in Iraq last year, has returned to the Middle East to report for the Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper spokesman said Wednesday.
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Illinois, Atlanta papers win Headliners
Mar 7 2007 5:40PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Newspaper reporters who exposed how 53 children in seven years died after Illinois child-welfare workers made mistakes or ignored their own rules and Atlanta photographers who covered the funeral of Coretta Scott King won top honors Wednesday in the 73rd annual National Headliner Awards.
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Pentagon orders mine-resistant trucks
Mar 7 2007 5:17PM (CT)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - A new combat truck with a V-shaped bottom designed to withstand blasts from roadside bombs is performing with such success in Iraq that the U.S. military is pressing a Wisconsin company and others to churn out hundreds more in the coming months.
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Extreme eastern Maine awaits more light
Mar 7 2007 4:56PM (CT)
LUBEC, Maine (AP) - As the easternmost point in the United States, Lubec gets some of the earliest sunrises in America. But it also gets some of the most depressingly early sunsets, with the sun slipping below the horizon before 4 p.m. for weeks on end in early winter.
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Russian ex-U.N. official convicted
Mar 7 2007 4:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former Russian diplomat who once led the United Nations' powerful budget oversight committee was convicted Wednesday of conspiring to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars obtained from companies seeking U.N. contracts.
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Agencies simulate Cuban influx
Mar 7 2007 4:30PM (CT)
DORAL, Fla. (AP) - More than 85 federal and local law enforcement agencies kicked off a two-day exercise Wednesday to prepare for a possible mass migration from the Caribbean, such as might occur following a change in government in Cuba.
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Agencies simulate Cuban influx
Mar 7 2007 4:30PM (CT)
DORAL, Fla. (AP) - More than 85 federal and local law enforcement agencies kicked off a two-day exercise Wednesday to prepare for a possible mass migration from the Caribbean, such as might occur following a change in government in Cuba.
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Agencies simulate Cuban influx
Mar 7 2007 4:30PM (CT)
DORAL, Fla. (AP) - More than 85 federal and local law enforcement agencies kicked off a two-day exercise Wednesday to prepare for a possible mass migration from the Caribbean, such as might occur following a change in government in Cuba.
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U.S. Mint goof creates 'Godless dollars'
Mar 7 2007 4:30PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are fetching around $50 apiece online.
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Gay veterans want lawsuit reinstated
Mar 7 2007 3:08PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Twelve gay and lesbian veterans who were dismissed under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reinstate their lawsuit challenging the policy.
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Philadelphia police end MOVE policing
Mar 7 2007 2:58PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police ended their nearly 20-year practice of providing around-the-clock security at the former headquarters of the radical back-to-nature group MOVE, a city official said.
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Pilot crashes into ex-in-law's house
Mar 7 2007 2:36PM (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 7 2007 2:36PM (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 7 2007 2:36PM (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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Ex-N.Y. Gov. Pataki joins law firm
Mar 7 2007 2:29PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Two months after leaving office, former Gov. George Pataki announced Wednesday that he is joining a New York City law firm and will specialize in environmental issues.
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Colo. may put inmates to work on farms
Mar 7 2007 2:03PM (CT)
VINELAND, Colo. (AP) - Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.
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Guilty plea in wrongful-conviction case
Mar 7 2007 12:58PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - An inmate serving 25 years to life for killing his landlady pleaded guilty to a community activist's slaying that led to a mentally disabled man being wrongfully imprisoned for over a decade.
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Plea deal close in Boston cartoon scare
Mar 7 2007 12:18PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The case against two men charged in a botched advertising scheme that created a bomb scare in the Boston area could be resolved by the end of the month, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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NYC goes global to attract tourists
Mar 7 2007 12:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city's tourism office officially launched its first major international advertising effort Wednesday, aiming to sell potential visitors a new New York, one that's as much the birthplace of hip-hop as it is the home of the Empire State Building.
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Woman sues doctors after failed abortion
Mar 7 2007 12:14PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A Boston woman who gave birth after a failed abortion has filed a lawsuit against two doctors and Planned Parenthood seeking the costs of raising her child.
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Tots' bodies found hidden under house
Mar 7 2007 11:57AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The decomposing bodies of two young children, no older than toddlers, were found wrapped in plastic bags and placed under a house, police said Wednesday.
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Defamation charge dropped in suicide
Mar 7 2007 11:49AM (CT)
JEFFERSON, Wis. (AP) - The district attorney dropped a defamation charge against a man accused of driving his ex-boss to suicide, saying the charge was probably unconstitutional.
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Jogger, declared dead, revived by deputy
Mar 7 2007 10:30AM (CT)
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 78-year-old jogger was recovering Wednesday after he was hit by a car and pronounced dead by a passer-by, then revived by a passing sheriff's deputy.
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Med school 'betrayed' by hospital cuts
Mar 7 2007 10:29AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A medical school that trains minority students plans to sue Los Angeles County, saying the government betrayed the school and its patients when it downsized a troubled inner-city hospital.
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Survivor recalls deadly bus crash
Mar 7 2007 10:14AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Kyle King remembers everything about the bus crash that killed four of his Bluffton University teammates, including the scream that woke him just before the impact.
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Miss. considers slicing grocery tax
Mar 7 2007 9:43AM (CT)
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Mollie Hudson, a social worker, has some hungry boys to feed and a pocketbook that can barely keep up.
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Winemaker Ernest Gallo dies at 97
Mar 7 2007 8:50AM (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, has died at his home in Modesto at the age of 97.
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Utah settles with Boy Scouts over fire
Mar 7 2007 8:41AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a state lawsuit over a wildfire that burned 14,200 acres, officials said.
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Army town buries students, not soldiers
Mar 7 2007 8:28AM (CT)
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) - The military community here has grown accustomed to burying its soldiers, but the funerals this week are taking an especially heavy toll.
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Army town buries students, not soldiers
Mar 7 2007 8:28AM (CT)
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) - The military community here has grown accustomed to burying its soldiers, but the funerals this week are taking an especially heavy toll.
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Judge limits defendants in wiretap suits
Mar 7 2007 5:54AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has moved to break a legal logjam in the Hollywood wiretapping case by ruling that no new defendants can be added to the 13 civil lawsuits already filed against private eye Anthony Pellicano and others.
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Feds probe counterfeit wine sales
Mar 7 2007 5:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal authorities are investigating whether inferior bottles of wine were passed off as rare vintages worth more than $100,000 a bottle, including some portrayed as part of Thomas Jefferson's collection.
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Va. college compromises on chapel cross
Mar 7 2007 5:47AM (CT)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - Removing an 18-inch brass cross from the altar of the oldest college chapel in the United States proved a costly decision _ dozens of alumni withheld contributions, including one whose pledges totaled $12 million.
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Lawyer: Threats to NYPD chief only words
Mar 7 2007 5:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man charged with trying to hire a hit man to behead the city's police commissioner is mentally ill, and his threats were nothing more than talk, his attorney said.
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Watchdog group slams New Orleans plan
Mar 7 2007 4:53AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A watchdog group says the $14 billion blueprint for rebuilding the city after Hurricane Katrina is a muddled wish-list of projects, and city officials should use the best parts to create a more cohesive, realistic plan.
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Vermont voters debate Iraq war
Mar 7 2007 4:49AM (CT)
CALAIS, Vt. (AP) - Packed into their 140-year-old Town Hall on a clear, frigid morning, some residents of Calais _ population 1,552 _ took care of business.
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Surgery helps 8-month-old Iraqi baby
Mar 7 2007 4:34AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - An 8-month-old Iraqi infant, who suffered nerve damage during birth, is expected to recover some movement in his right hand following successful surgery in Houston.
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Beverly Hills may get Iranian-born mayor
Mar 7 2007 3:36AM (CT)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - A city councilman was close to becoming the first Iranian-born mayor of this tony Los Angeles suburb, a sign of the growing clout of Persian immigrants here.
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Feds seize old F-14s in private hands
Mar 7 2007 2:16AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal agents seized four retired F-14 fighter jets that authorities said were improperly transferred from the Navy to two air museums and the company that produced the TV show "JAG."
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'Jughead' the bear dies at NYC zoo
Mar 7 2007 1:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A male grizzly bear relocated from the wild 12 years ago has died at the Bronx Zoo, where he was a popular attraction, zoo officials said.
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Police: Carjacked couple left naked
Mar 7 2007 12:29AM (CT)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - A group of four people carjacked a couple at knifepoint early Tuesday, forcing them to withdraw money from ATMs and sexually assaulting the woman before both were left naked on the side of a freeway, authorities said.
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2 4-year-olds wounded in Calif. shooting
Mar 7 2007 12:23AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - Two 4-year-old cousins were in a hospital Tuesday after being wounded in a drive-by shooting in a northern California city, authorities said.
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2 4-year-olds wounded in Calif. shooting
Mar 7 2007 12:23AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - Two 4-year-old cousins were in a hospital Tuesday after being wounded in a drive-by shooting in a northern California city, authorities said.
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