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Texas Baby to be taken off life support
Mar 14 2005 11:44PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Doctors at Texas Children's Hospital plan to take a critically ill 5-month-old baby off life support after a judge on Monday reaffirmed his decision lifting an injunction that prevented them from stopping care they believe is futile.
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State abortion law won't take effect 3/30
Mar 14 2005 11:42PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A new state law that bans a procedure critics call partial-birth abortion will not take effect this month so that the state has more time to respond to a federal lawsuit challenging the statute.
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William and Mary chooses new president
Mar 14 2005 11:27PM (CT)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - Gene R. Nichol, law school dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was selection Monday as president of the College of William and Mary, the country's second oldest college after Harvard.
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No retrial for Tenn. ex-medical examiner
Mar 14 2005 11:13PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prosecutors have decided against a retrial of a former medical examiner accused of staging a bizarre bomb attack against himself.
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Prosecutors to seek death in Ill. killings
Mar 14 2005 11:09PM (CT)
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man who allegedly confessed to killing eight women, dumping some of their bodies along little-travelled country roads and burning the others to ash and bone in backyard pits.
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Calls tell horror of Wis. church slayings
Mar 14 2005 10:58PM (CT)
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) - Victims of a gunman's rampage at a church service used their cell phones to frantically call for help and describe the carnage that took the lives of seven worshippers, according to 911 tapes released Monday.
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Army captain faces accusations of abuse
Mar 14 2005 10:58PM (CT)
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - The trial of an Army captain accused of assaulting Iraqi civilians began Monday with a witness testifying the officer saw himself as a "sheik" or a "king" of the Iraqi desert town under his supervision.
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Condit reportedly settles magazine lawsuit
Mar 14 2005 10:57PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Former congressman Gary Condit has won an undisclosed sum of money and an apology from writer Dominick Dunne over his claims about the lawmaker's role in the 2001 disappearance of intern Chandra Levy, according to media reports.
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Colo. girl, 14, suspect in father's death
Mar 14 2005 10:42PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Authorities have arrested a 14-year-old girl on suspicion of manslaughter while they investigate her story that she helped her father commit suicide.
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Judge says Calif. can't ban gay marriage
Mar 14 2005 10:18PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judge ruled Monday that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional _ a legal milestone that, if upheld on appeal, would open the way for the most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed.
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Courthouse suspect's rape case a mistrial
Mar 14 2005 10:18PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Prosecutors on Monday dropped a weapons charge against a man accused of opening fire in an Atlanta courthouse, and a mistrial was declared in the suspect's rape case as officials continued sorting out charges in the slayings of a judge and three others.
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Ky. detective gives up getting job back
Mar 14 2005 10:06PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A former police officer fired after shooting a teenager during an undercover drug buy dropped his bid to return to the police force and will receive $59,500 in back pay, city officials said Monday.
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Planned Parenthood sues Ind. over privacy
Mar 14 2005 9:47PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Planned Parenthood sued the state of Indiana Monday to stop the seizure of its clients' medical records, saying investigators were on a "fishing expedition," possibly to identify the partners of sexually active 12- and 13-year-olds.
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Employees, Jackson protest Plaza plans
Mar 14 2005 9:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of bellhops, bartenders and chambermaids chanting "Save the Plaza!" joined the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday at a rally to protest plans to convert much of the historic Plaza Hotel into condominiums and retail shops.
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Ariz. inmate questions jurors at his trial
Mar 14 2005 9:37PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An inmate defending himself against charges he raped a guard and held her captive in a prison watchtower for 15 days politely questioned prospective jurors Monday about whether they had seen the hostage crisis on television.
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Platoon leader pleads guilty in Iraq case
Mar 14 2005 9:36PM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A platoon leader accused of ordering his men to force two Iraqis into the Tigris River at gunpoint will not be tried for manslaughter as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
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Neb. withdraws offer to hire Fossey killer
Mar 14 2005 9:31PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The state of Nebraska made _ and then abruptly took back _ a job offer to a man convicted of murdering Dian Fossey, the American wildlife researcher whose work in Africa was the subject of the movie "Gorillas in the Mist."
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Former President Clinton leaves hospital
Mar 14 2005 9:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Clinton left the hospital Monday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove scar tissue and fluid around his left lung.
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Proposed N.J. smoking ban includes casinos
Mar 14 2005 8:41PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Gamblers would not be allowed to smoke on Atlantic City casino floors or inside fraternal organizations under a measure passed Monday by a New Jersey Senate committee.
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Lawyers for Scott Peterson seek new trial
Mar 14 2005 8:32PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Scott Peterson's lawyers said in court papers unsealed Monday that newly discovered evidence could have spared the former fertilizer salesman from a death sentence in the slaying of his pregnant wife.
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Va. man pleads innocent to terror plot
Mar 14 2005 8:29PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A Virginia man accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush wants a doctor to examine scars on his back to corroborate claims that Saudi officials extracted a confession through torture.
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Man who won library suit sues NJ Transit
Mar 14 2005 8:18PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A homeless man who sued and received $230,000 after being ejected from a library in northern New Jersey is suing NJ Transit for kicking him and other homeless people out of train stations.
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Post office reopens after anthrax attacks
Mar 14 2005 8:13PM (CT)
HAMILTON, N.J. (AP) - The New Jersey post office that handled anthrax-laced letters reopened Monday morning, nearly 3 1/2 years after the deadly mailings that further heightened the nation's fears in the weeks after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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Witness protection program lacks marshals
Mar 14 2005 8:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal witness protection program, immortalized in crime movies, has granted new identities to more than 17,000 people. But as that number grows, the Marshals Service that provides protection is cutting the staff assigned to the program.
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Tenn. editor Dick Smyser dies at 81
Mar 14 2005 7:31PM (CT)
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - Dick Smyser, who served as president of two national editors' associations and posed the question that led President Nixon to declare, "I am not a crook," at the height of the Watergate scandal, died Monday. He was 81.
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Ohio child injured by pistol at school
Mar 14 2005 7:11PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A gun that a second-grader said he found on his way to school went off in his book bag in a classroom Monday, shooting him in the hand, police said.
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Boy injured when gun goes off at school
Mar 14 2005 7:01PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A gun in a bookbag discharged in an elementary school classroom Monday and the second-grader who brought it was shot in the hand, police said.
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Study: School leaders poorly educated
Mar 14 2005 7:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The principals and superintendents who run the nation's schools are unprepared for their jobs by education colleges, where training ranges from inadequate to appalling, according to research by a leader in higher education.
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4 die when SUV hits Las Vegas bus bench
Mar 14 2005 6:50PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - An SUV jumped the curb and plowed into a bench at a municipal bus stop Monday, killing four people and scattering bodies, broken glass and schoolbooks.
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Fla. lawmakers weigh feeding tube bill
Mar 14 2005 6:14PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Lawmakers proposed a measure Monday aimed at preventing Friday's scheduled removal of a feeding tube that is keeping brained-damaged Terri Schiavo alive.
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Security gaffes cited in courthouse spree
Mar 14 2005 6:07PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The deputy, a 51-year-old woman just 5 feet tall, was simply no match for the inmate she was escorting to the courtroom, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound former college linebacker on trial for rape. Authorities say Brian Nichols overpowered deputy Cynthia Hall, took her gun, and easily gained access to the courtroom, where he went on to kill the judge and a court reporter.
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Hagel to support Bolton nomination
Mar 14 2005 5:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said Monday he would support the nomination of John R. Bolton, who has criticized the United Nations, to be U.S. ambassador to the world organization.
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