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GI guilty in Iraqi detainees' deaths
Mar 16 2007 11:51PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A military panel found a 101st Airborne soldier guilty of three counts of negligent homicide but not guilty of premeditated murder in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees.
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Christians gather for anti-war protest
Mar 16 2007 11:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of Christians prayed for peace at an anti-war service Friday night at the Washington National Cathedral, kicking off a weekend of protests around the country to mark the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq.
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Search continues for boy in dam plunge
Mar 16 2007 10:24PM (CT)
CLINTON, Ill. (AP) - A second day of searching for an 8-year-old boy missing since his grandfather's fishing boat plunged over a dam was unsuccessful Friday, and authorities conceded the outcome "does not look very good."
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U.S. swamped with passport requests
Mar 16 2007 10:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Eli Rogatz applied months ago for a passport so that he could fly to Israel with his family for his bar mitzvah. To his family's great relief, it finally came through on Friday, with just days to spare. "Given what else is being spent, we want to make sure he's there," Mitch Rogatz, a book publisher from the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, grumbled as he camped out in a federal office building for at least four hours, waiting for the passport.
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U.S. swamped with passport requests
Mar 16 2007 10:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Eli Rogatz applied months ago for a passport so that he could fly to Israel with his family for his bar mitzvah. To his family's great relief, it finally came through on Friday, with just days to spare. "Given what else is being spent, we want to make sure he's there," Mitch Rogatz, a book publisher from the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, grumbled as he camped out in a federal office building for at least four hours, waiting for the passport.
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Days before spring, sleet hits Northeast
Mar 16 2007 10:11PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Sleet, snow and freezing rain pelted the East Coast on Friday, dashing hopes that spring had arrived because temperatures had soared into the 60s and 70s two days earlier.
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Days before spring, sleet hits Northeast
Mar 16 2007 10:11PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Sleet, snow and freezing rain pelted the East Coast on Friday, dashing hopes that spring had arrived because temperatures had soared into the 60s and 70s two days earlier.
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Grand jury indicts 3 in NYPD shooting
Mar 16 2007 9:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three of the five policemen whose 50-bullet barrage killed an unarmed man on his wedding day were indicted Friday in a case that heightened racial tensions and renewed allegations that the city's officers are too fast on the trigger.
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Grand jury indicts 3 in NYPD shooting
Mar 16 2007 9:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three of the five policemen whose 50-bullet barrage killed an unarmed man on his wedding day were indicted Friday in a case that heightened racial tensions and renewed allegations that the city's officers are too fast on the trigger.
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Villepin: U.S. should leave Iraq in year
Mar 16 2007 9:34PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Friday the United States should pull out of Iraq within one year and work with Iraq's neighbors and Europe to resolve the crisis.
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Crash kills stunt pilot at Fla. air show
Mar 16 2007 8:49PM (CT)
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A lawyer flying a stunt plane at an air show crashed and died Friday before a crowd of spectators, authorities said.
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Crash kills stunt pilot at Fla. air show
Mar 16 2007 8:49PM (CT)
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A lawyer flying a stunt plane at an air show crashed and died Friday before a crowd of spectators, authorities said.
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Burned rail trestle halts Amtrak service
Mar 16 2007 8:48PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The fire that destroyed a railroad trestle on a key east-west link through Sacramento forced Union Pacific and Amtrak to create a 125-mile detour across northern California on Friday.
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Burned rail trestle halts Amtrak service
Mar 16 2007 8:48PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The fire that destroyed a railroad trestle on a key east-west link through Sacramento forced Union Pacific and Amtrak to create a 125-mile detour across northern California on Friday.
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Burned rail trestle halts Amtrak service
Mar 16 2007 8:48PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The fire that destroyed a railroad trestle on a key east-west link through Sacramento forced Union Pacific and Amtrak to create a 125-mile detour across northern California on Friday.
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Texas youth prison board resigns
Mar 16 2007 8:48PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The entire board of directors for the state's troubled youth prisons resigned Friday following weeks of criticism sparked by reports that agency workers covered up sex abuse of inmates.
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Judge questions trial for Ganja guru
Mar 16 2007 8:48PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge told prosecutors Friday to consider dropping pot-growing charges against self-proclaimed marijuana guru Ed Rosenthal.
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U.S. sounds alarm on Guatemala adoptions
Mar 16 2007 8:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Citing rampant problems of fraud and extortion, the State Department says it no longer recommends that Americans adopt children from Guatemala _ the No. 2 source of orphans coming to the United States.
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K.C. man guilty in 1980s killings
Mar 16 2007 8:46PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A former trash company supervisor was convicted on Friday of murdering six women whose strangled bodies were found scattered around the area two decades ago.
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Death renews debate over sex offenders
Mar 16 2007 8:44PM (CT)
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Neighbors of a slain 6-year-old boy are fuming over how a molester arrested in the child's abduction had been allowed to live in the same trailer park as the victim, just months after legislators passed one of the nation's toughest crackdowns on sex offenders.
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Compensation for slain NYC officers' kin
Mar 16 2007 8:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that the families of two unarmed NYPD volunteers who died trying to stop a gunman are ineligible for police line-of-duty death benefits, but could qualify for more than $400,000 from other programs.
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Compensation for slain NYC officers' kin
Mar 16 2007 8:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that the families of two unarmed NYPD volunteers who died trying to stop a gunman are ineligible for police line-of-duty death benefits, but could qualify for more than $400,000 from other programs.
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Affair with teacher leads to slaying
Mar 16 2007 8:15PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband.
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Army says fatal Iraq crash an accident
Mar 16 2007 8:06PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed last year in northern Iraq, killing all 12 aboard, does not appear to have been downed by enemy fire, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.
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Arson suspect charged in more fires
Mar 16 2007 8:01PM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - The man accused of setting a blaze that killed five firefighters last fall is being charged with additional counts linking him to 13 other fires, authorities said Friday.
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Father returning to Mali to bury family
Mar 16 2007 7:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man whose wife and four children were killed in a Bronx fire left the United States Friday to bury them in their African homeland.
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3 divers die in Florida wreck
Mar 16 2007 7:23PM (CT)
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) - Three divers died Friday off the Florida Keys while attempting to explore a wreck of a sunken U.S. military ship, authorities said.
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Death penalty sought in serial case
Mar 16 2007 6:53PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A prosecutor said Friday he will seek the death penalty against a man accused of being the Baseline Killer, a serial predator who terrorized residents here for more than a year.
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Jury in photographer's death starts over
Mar 16 2007 6:46PM (CT)
CHILTON, Wis. (AP) - Jurors deciding whether a man wrongly imprisoned for rape later murdered a photographer had to start over Friday after the judge replaced a member of the panel who had a family emergency.
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Life terms for arsonist who killed 12
Mar 16 2007 6:33PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A woman who set a devastating hotel fire was sentenced to 12 consecutive life prison terms Friday, one for each person killed in the blaze.
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Neb. court says bullying was stalking
Mar 16 2007 6:24PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A teenager who called a schoolmate "fat penguin" and other derogatory names in front of other students for months committed misdemeanor stalking, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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S.C. lawmakers weigh abortion bill
Mar 16 2007 6:14PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Women seeking abortions in South Carolina would be required to view an ultrasound image of their fetus before the procedure under a proposal gaining support from lawmakers. If enacted, it would be the first law of its kind in the nation.
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FBI: Extremists seek school bus work
Mar 16 2007 6:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."
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Dad charged in Ind. baby stabbing
Mar 16 2007 5:55PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A man accused of stabbing his 11-month-old son in the back with a kitchen knife faces four felony charges, including attempted murder, after police arrested him Friday at a woman's home.
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Moves toward slavery apology in Md., Ga.
Mar 16 2007 5:27PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Two states showed signs Friday of following Virginia's lead in apologizing for its role in slavery. Maryland's Senate approved an apology resolution, and a Georgia Senate leader he expects a similar measure will be approved in the coming weeks.
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Prosecutor: N.M. woman scouted hospital
Mar 16 2007 4:41PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - The woman accused of snatching a days-old infant from a hospital had scouted security measures there beforehand and also went to another maternity ward the day the baby was abducted, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Judge prohibits 'low tar' label overseas
Mar 16 2007 3:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge Friday prohibited top tobacco companies from marketing cigarettes overseas as "low tar" and "light," in a move applauded by anti-smoking activists.
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Utah teacher accused of abuse in class
Mar 16 2007 3:37PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A first-grade teacher honored last year as among the best in Utah was charged with sexually abusing three students in his suburban classroom, authorities said Friday.
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2 men die in cliff fall, train crash
Mar 16 2007 1:58PM (CT)
IAEGER, W.Va. (AP) - A van carrying two men plunged off a cliff, throwing it into the path of a freight train that came through soon afterward. Both were killed.
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Police arrest 7-year-old on dirt bike
Mar 16 2007 1:56PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Police arrested a 7-year-old boy, handcuffed him and hauled him down to the station house on a charge of riding a motorized dirt bike on a sidewalk.
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Alaska town is giving away land
Mar 16 2007 1:40PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anderson, a little town in Alaska's interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land _ and it's free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground.
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N.J. gov. questioned over ex-girlfriend
Mar 16 2007 12:54PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - After Jon broke up with Carla, he forgave a half-million-dollar mortgage loan he had given her. He also may have paid her kids' tuition and helped her with other expenses.
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Cruise ship passenger rescued after jump
Mar 16 2007 12:44PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A man who jumped from a cruise ship off Florida's coast early Friday was rescued about eight hours later by the Coast Guard, officials said.
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School: Dead mouse found in BBQ chips
Mar 16 2007 12:37PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An eighth-grader said he found a dead mouse inside a bag of Frito-Lay barbecue potato chips he bought in a school lunch line, and his claim appears credible, school officials said.
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NYC firefighters focus of parade flap
Mar 16 2007 12:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ah, St. Patrick's Day in the city: the green stripe painted on Fifth Avenue, the echo of endless bagpipes, the annual March infighting among New York's Irish.
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NYC firefighters focus of parade flap
Mar 16 2007 12:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Ah, St. Patrick's Day in the city: the green stripe painted on Fifth Avenue, the echo of endless bagpipes, the annual March infighting among New York's Irish.
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N.H. towns break ties with dice, lottery
Mar 16 2007 11:31AM (CT)
LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) - The political tides in several tight New Hampshire elections turned on the flip of a coin, the roll of a die or the plucking of the longest draw.
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Teen charged in Detroit graffiti slaying
Mar 16 2007 9:30AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Young gang members cornered an older teen who they suspected had covered up their group's graffiti, and a 14-year-old shot him and killed a 13-year-old bystander, police said.
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3 sentenced for castration `dungeon'
Mar 16 2007 9:10AM (CT)
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Three men accused of operating what police described as a sadomasochistic "dungeon" that included castrations have been sentenced to jail time.
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Man dies after collapsing at Disney park
Mar 16 2007 8:38AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A man with heart problems collapsed at a Walt Disney World water park and later died at a hospital, officials said.
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Rep. Kennedy: I was hooked on OxyContin
Mar 16 2007 8:35AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday he sought treatment for an addiction to the painkiller OxyContin months before wrecking his car outside the U.S. Capitol last year.
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Sago relatives praise union blast theory
Mar 16 2007 8:22AM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Two relatives of men who died inside the Sago Mine last year said the union's new theory about the explosion's cause provides answers they have long wanted.
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JetBlue cancels 215 flights due to storm
Mar 16 2007 7:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - JetBlue canceled 215 flights Friday because of a winter storm on the East Coast, aiming to avoid the days of cancellations and criticism that followed a storm last month, an airline spokesman said.
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FBI raids N.American HQ of Japan airline
Mar 16 2007 6:33AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - All Nippon Airway said its flights were operating normally after FBI agents raided the company's North American headquarters.
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FBI raids N.American HQ of Japan airline
Mar 16 2007 6:33AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - All Nippon Airway said its flights were operating normally after FBI agents raided the company's North American headquarters.
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Religion in the news
Mar 16 2007 6:06AM (CT)
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Weddings aren't the only major life event Americans are traveling for these days.
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Experts condemn many cities' fire codes
Mar 16 2007 5:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Fire fatalities have steadily declined in the U.S. since the late 1970s, thanks partly to improved building codes requiring safety measures such as sprinkler systems, multiple fire exits and fire-resistant construction materials.
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Police: Teen sped to catch bus
Mar 16 2007 5:29AM (CT)
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - A teenager clocked driving at 93 mph in a 45 mph zone told police he had to get home in time to catch the school bus.
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Man gets 18 months for '84 attack
Mar 16 2007 5:17AM (CT)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - The ninth step of the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program calls on members to make amends with those they have harmed _ unless doing so would cause further injury.
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Florida girl once again hiccuping
Mar 16 2007 4:18AM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A 15-year-old girl who hiccuped her way through part of January and all of February is hiccuping once again.
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Buzzards mean business for Ohio town
Mar 16 2007 4:16AM (CT)
HINCKLEY, Ohio (AP) - To the relief of bird watchers and business boosters alike, the first officially spotted Hinckley buzzard of 2007 glided smoothly over the treetops, marking the 50th anniversary of the gimmicky vigil.
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R.I. ponders future of foster care
Mar 16 2007 3:53AM (CT)
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Eighteen-year-old Amanda Addison has jumped around from intake centers to short-term foster care homes since childhood and is barely scraping by on a $100 a week while preparing to attend community college.
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New York eyes regulating bottle service
Mar 16 2007 3:39AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The violent deaths of several young people who had been partying at city bars has prompted some officials to re-examine what they consider a loophole in New York's liquor laws: bottle service.
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Philly lawmakers adopt casino referendum
Mar 16 2007 2:18AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - In a jab at state gaming officials, the City Council voted unanimously to place a referendum on the spring primary ballot that, if passed, could seriously hamper plans for two casinos along Philadelphia's waterfront.
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Philly lawmakers adopt casino referendum
Mar 16 2007 2:18AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - In a jab at state gaming officials, the City Council voted unanimously to place a referendum on the spring primary ballot that, if passed, could seriously hamper plans for two casinos along Philadelphia's waterfront.
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Churches plan new sanctuary movement
Mar 16 2007 2:12AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Churches in a handful of U.S. cities are preparing to launch a "sanctuary" movement to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation and unite faith-based groups in a push for immigration reform.
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Ship leaves for Iraq in wake of protests
Mar 16 2007 1:35AM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A ship carrying 300 Stryker vehicles and other military equipment has left the Port of Tacoma bound for Iraq after more than a week of anti-war demonstrations.
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