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Student charged in threat at Mich. school
Mar 20 2006 11:54PM (CT)
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) - An 18-year-old student was arraigned Monday on charges of threatening to commit a Columbine-style attack at a high school, authorities said.
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Kin of man murdered awarded $106 million
Mar 20 2006 11:51PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A jury awarded $106 million Monday to the family of a man who was murdered by his wife, a former toxicologist convicted of poisoning him and staging the crime scene to look like a suicide.
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Five deaths blamed on storm in Midwest
Mar 20 2006 11:41PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A powerful storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the Plains, closing schools and roads and forcing residents to man shovels Monday during the first day of spring.
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Protesters block Tenn. intersections
Mar 20 2006 11:11PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Hundreds of disabled people parked their wheelchairs in intersections around the state Capitol on Monday, shutting down traffic to protest a system they say gives the disabled few options beyond nursing homes.
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Nevada trooper charged with manslaughter
Mar 20 2006 11:04PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A state trooper was charged Monday with nine felony counts of reckless driving and involuntary manslaughter in a crash that killed four people.
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Group: Airlines lost 30M bags in 2005
Mar 20 2006 10:50PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - If you've ever been frustrated after an airline lost your luggage, you're in the good company of millions of others. An estimated 30 million bags were temporarily lost by airlines in 2005, and 200,000 of those bags were never reunited with their owners, according to an industry report released Monday.
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Four killed in Branson, Mo., plane crash
Mar 20 2006 10:44PM (CT)
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - A twin-engine plane crashed in the heart of this resort town Monday, killing all four people aboard and setting fire to a building near the main drag of tourist nightclubs, theaters and music halls.
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Man faces manslaughter charge in death
Mar 20 2006 10:32PM (CT)
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - A man faces a manslaughter charge after another man shot himself in the head while the pair played Russian roulette, police said Monday.
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New Orleans mayor OKs rebuilding plan
Mar 20 2006 10:25PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin finished work Monday on a plan to rebuild New Orleans, endorsing a proposal that would allow all residents to reconstruct their homes in neighborhoods shattered by Hurricane Katrina.
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Ex-mayor of LA suburb gets 15 years
Mar 20 2006 10:13PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former suburban mayor was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for funneling millions of dollars in city contracts to a sham consulting company he secretly controlled.
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Student group sues Texas school district
Mar 20 2006 9:48PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A student organization sued a school district Monday, alleging officials prohibited them from posting information about their Bible study group on the district's Web site.
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Ex-East St. Louis police chief sentenced
Mar 20 2006 9:31PM (CT)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - The city's former police chief was sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison for attempting to shield a politically connected businessman from a criminal probe.
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FBI agent slams bosses at Moussaoui trial
Mar 20 2006 9:02PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The FBI agent who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 testified Monday he spent almost four weeks trying to warn U.S. officials about the radical Islamic student pilot but "criminal negligence" by superiors in Washington thwarted a chance to stop the 9/11 attacks.
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Police: Man killed teen for walking on lawn
Mar 20 2006 8:53PM (CT)
BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) - A man who neighbors say was devoted to his meticulously kept lawn was charged with murder in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his yard.
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Bush's Cleveland visit sees war protesters
Mar 20 2006 8:04PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - About 150 war protesters gathered outside the building where President Bush gave a speech Monday about progress in Iraq, banging drums, holding peace signs and chanting for him to leave.
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Protesters lock themselves in rectory
Mar 20 2006 7:55PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Ten people locked themselves into the rectory of one of the nation's oldest black Roman Catholic churches Monday to protest a decision to merge it with another parish.
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Weather experts predict busy storm season
Mar 20 2006 7:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - This year's hurricane season will be more active than normal but not as busy as last year's, and the Northeast will be hit by a major hurricane within five years, a private forecaster predicted Monday.
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Roof collapse in Texas kills at least one
Mar 20 2006 6:53PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A roof collapsed in high wind at a restaurant during lunch hour Monday, killing a 23-year-old woman and injuring nine other people, authorities said.
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Amazon makes modification after complaint
Mar 20 2006 6:50PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it had modified the way its search engine handles queries for the term "abortion" after receiving an e-mail complaint that the results appeared biased.
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Miss. making civil rights a school focus
Mar 20 2006 6:30PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi, where violence in the 1960s came to epitomize the struggle for racial equality, could be a pioneer in offering history lessons on civil rights from kindergarten through high school.
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Columbia Univ. gets gift to build center
Mar 20 2006 5:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia University has received a record $200 million from the widow of a distinguished graduate that will be used to establish a center devoted to the study of the brain, school officials announced Monday.
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Miami's Cubans torn over baseball success
Mar 20 2006 5:20PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Cuban immigrant Luis Gomez was quick to pick his favorite in the World Baseball Classic championship game between Japan and Cuba.
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Ohio couple lose custody of adopted kids
Mar 20 2006 4:55PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - A couple charged with abuse for forcing some of their 11 adopted children to sleep in cages were stripped of custody Monday, six months after a social worker discovered the enclosures.
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Mich. governor to sign ultrasound bill
Mar 20 2006 4:45PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Gov. Jennifer Granholm will sign a bill requiring abortion providers to give pregnant women the option to see ultrasound images of their fetuses, a spokeswoman says.
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Some balk at pardon for Rosa Parks
Mar 20 2006 4:43PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - During the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott last year, civil rights leaders called for a pardon of Rosa Parks over her arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
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Judge delays Andrea Yates' retrial
Mar 20 2006 4:31PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A judge Monday postponed Andrea Yates' murder retrial until June because of a scheduling conflict, setting a new trial date that comes just days after the fifth anniversary of her children's drowning deaths.
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N.Y. anthrax patient's condition upgraded
Mar 20 2006 3:41PM (CT)
SAYRE, Pa. (AP) - A man who apparently contracted anthrax from the African goat hides he uses to make drums was upgraded from fair to good condition Monday, more than a month after he was hospitalized.
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Remains of two Katrina victims found
Mar 20 2006 3:21PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two more bodies have been found in the city's hurricane-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, a coroner said Monday.
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Philly teen charged in father's death
Mar 20 2006 2:54PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 13-year-old daughter of a police officer has been charged with his murder, accused of setting a house fire that killed him while he searched for her in the smoke, police said.
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Diplomats to discuss Iran nuclear issue
Mar 20 2006 2:23PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Senior diplomats from six key nations that have been struggling to find a way to deal with Iran's suspect nuclear program will try to take a longer, strategic view of the standoff in discussions Monday, U.N. ambassadors said.
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Mass. town escaping crime-plagued past
Mar 20 2006 2:22PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - For years, the news out of Lawrence was almost always bad. An old mill city and one of the state's poorest, Lawrence was plagued by gangs, drugs and violence and was known as the auto insurance fraud capital of Massachusetts.
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14 Cubans get U.S. OK to return
Mar 20 2006 1:49PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Fourteen Cubans sent back to their homeland by the Coast Guard after their boat landed at an abandoned U.S. bridge in the Florida Keys can return to the United States _ provided, of course, Fidel Castro lets them go.
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Slain Fla. girl's mother sentenced
Mar 20 2006 1:31PM (CT)
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - The mother of the 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a security camera two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to drug and prostitution charges and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
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Smugglers get 10 years for child's death
Mar 20 2006 1:24PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Two men were sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison _ well above federal sentencing guidelines _ for organizing a Cuban immigrant smuggling trip that ended when their speedboat capsized and a 6-year-old boy drowned.
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Ga. brigade begins return home from Iraq
Mar 20 2006 11:47AM (CT)
FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) - The first 100 troops of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade returned from Iraq on Monday to a cheering crowd after a particularly deadly year for the unit.
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Texas firefighter in critical condition
Mar 20 2006 8:52AM (CT)
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - In his hospital bed with a brace protecting three broken neck bones, volunteer firefighter Jeff Cook remembers fellow firefighter James McMorries' promise as they left to battle a raging Panhandle wildfire.
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Heavy rain in North Texas floods roads
Mar 20 2006 6:58AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - More than 5 inches of rain fell Sunday in parts of North Texas, causing high-rising floodwaters that killed at least one person and forced several rescues, officials said.
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Church fire suspects decline to post bond
Mar 20 2006 6:32AM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Three college students accused in a string of rural Alabama church fires will not seek release on bond on the federal charges, their attorneys said.
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Tiger bites man at county fair in Florida
Mar 20 2006 5:26AM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A trucker who transported a tiger to the Putnam County Fair was bit in the arm after he apparently stuck his arm in the big cat's cage, officials said.
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Days may be numbered for town's bingo game
Mar 20 2006 5:03AM (CT)
ROSSVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Most nights, a hushed crowd of at least 50 sits at lunchroom tables in this border town's bingo parlor, scratching off each square with oversized markers. Many of the regulars make the short trek from Tennessee, where bingo was banned in 1989, for the chance to win as much as $1,500.
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Teen charged in fire death of her father
Mar 20 2006 3:01AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 13-year-old daughter of a police officer has been charged with his murder, accused of setting a house fire that he died in while searching for her in the smoke, police said.
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Civil rights pioneer delivers last sermon
Mar 20 2006 1:26AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight against segregation, retired from the ministry Sunday, delivering his final sermon as pastor of the church he founded 40 years ago.
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Engine failure likely caused Calif. crash
Mar 20 2006 12:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Engine failure likely caused a small plane crash that killed former game show host Peter Tomarken and his wife, a preliminary investigation determined.
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