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High level of radioactive material in water
Mar 21 2006 11:44PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - High levels of a radioactive material were found in groundwater near the Hudson River beneath a nuclear plant, the owner said Tuesday.
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Tenn. protesters arrested for blockages
Mar 21 2006 11:26PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - About 200 disabled activists, most in wheelchairs, blocked streets around the state Capitol on Tuesday in a second day of protests to criticize Tennessee's long-term health care program.
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Charges dropped in Fla. student sex case
Mar 21 2006 11:12PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors in one Florida county decided Tuesday to drop charges against a former Tampa teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old middle school student.
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Snow storm sweeps through Ohio Valley
Mar 21 2006 11:08PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The spring snow storm that buried parts of Nebraska under more than 2 feet of snow swept through the Ohio Valley on Tuesday, shutting down schools and making travel tough for voters headed for the polls for the Illinois' primary election.
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Missing family found alive after 2 weeks
Mar 21 2006 11:02PM (CT)
GLENDALE, Ore. (AP) - A family that disappeared more than two weeks ago after leaving for a short trip in an RV was found alive Tuesday in a remote area of southwestern Oregon.
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Supervisor: I never read Moussaoui memo
Mar 21 2006 10:59PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The headquarters supervisor of the FBI's international terrorism operations section testified Tuesday he had never read an Aug. 18, 2001, memo in which an agent proposed a full criminal investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui as a possible terrorist airplane hijacker.
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Animal rights groups decry bear wrestling
Mar 21 2006 10:57PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Lance Palmer, a 140-pound high school wrestler and four-time state champ, taps into his substantial skills whenever he takes on Ceaser Jr. Skill comes in handy when your opponent is a 650-pound black bear.
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Some DeLay charges may be reinstated
Mar 21 2006 10:32PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Prosecutors will try to persuade a Texas appeals court Wednesday to reinstate some of the criminal charges against Rep. Tom DeLay, who is trying to win re-election to Congress while under indictment.
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Missing family found alive after 2 weeks
Mar 21 2006 10:28PM (CT)
GLENDALE, Ore. (AP) - A family that disappeared more than two weeks ago after leaving for a short trip in an RV was found alive Tuesday in a remote area of southwestern Oregon.
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Cold War-era supplies found in New York
Mar 21 2006 10:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In 17 years of working on the city's bridges, Joe Vaccaro has made some unusual finds: a 100-year-old copy of a newspaper, sepia-toned photographs.
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Convicted killer wants to withdraw plea
Mar 21 2006 10:04PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Lionel Tate, who beat and stomped a little girl to death when he was 12, wants a judge to let him withdraw his guilty plea to robbing a pizza delivery man, saying in a letter released Tuesday that he can prove he didn't pull the heist.
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Remembrances held on shooting anniversary
Mar 21 2006 9:44PM (CT)
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - It was Derrick Brun's playful side, as much as his bravery, that family and friends remembered at a service Tuesday, the first anniversary of a teen gunman's rampage in which the school security guard was among 10 people who died.
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Gay couples challenge Conn. marriage laws
Mar 21 2006 9:13PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A lawyer for eight gay couples argued in court Tuesday that Connecticut's marriage laws illegally create a separate class of people based on sexual orientation.
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Errors found in handling of girl's case
Mar 21 2006 9:03PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - An alarming string of mistakes by state agencies and medical professionals contributed to the poor care given to a 12-year-old girl before and after a beating that left her severely brain-damaged, a panel appointed by the governor reported Tuesday.
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Medical school professor killed by croc
Mar 21 2006 8:51PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A University of Washington medical professor who moved to Botswana to alleviate a doctor shortage was killed when a crocodile dragged him from a canoe, his family and colleagues said.
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Gov. orders better storm-evacuation plan
Mar 21 2006 8:38PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry ordered state officials Tuesday to develop an improved hurricane-evacuation plan to prevent the kind of chaos and gridlock that occurred when millions of Houston-area residents tried to get out ahead of Hurricane Rita last summer.
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Abu Ghraib dog handler is convicted
Mar 21 2006 7:31PM (CT)
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - An Army dog handler at Abu Ghraib was convicted Tuesday of tormenting prisoners with his snarling animal and competing with a comrade to make the Iraqis soil themselves.
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Man gets stuck in mud after chase, dies
Mar 21 2006 7:17PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A man running from a routine traffic stop early Tuesday sank waist-deep in mud and apparently died of exhaustion and cold while authorities tried to pull him out.
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Conviction overturned in petroglyphs case
Mar 21 2006 7:10PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A federal appeals court overturned the conviction of two men accused of stealing American Indian artwork Tuesday even though the judges said it was clear the men stole the centuries-old petroglyphs.
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Leon Daniel, former UPI newsman, dies at 74
Mar 21 2006 6:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Leon Daniel, who spent nearly four decades reporting on wars, the civil rights movement and other domestic and foreign events for United Press International and retired in 1993 as its foreign editor, has died at age 74.
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Judge throws out suit challenging lottery
Mar 21 2006 6:43PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new North Carolina lottery, clearing the way for ticket sales to begin as scheduled next week.
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Missing children cases from storms resolved
Mar 21 2006 6:28PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The largest child-recovery effort in U.S. history is complete after more than six months, with 5,192 children missing after hurricanes Katrina and Rita reunited with family members, officials said Tuesday.
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Skakel murder conviction being appealed
Mar 21 2006 6:03PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - An attorney for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel said Tuesday she would appeal his murder conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Connecticut Supreme Court refused to reconsider the case.
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Coast Guard rape case hinges on drinking
Mar 21 2006 5:33PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A night of heavy drinking last spring resulted in a U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet becoming pregnant and accusing a classmate of rape, witnesses testified Tuesday at a hearing to determine whether the classmate should be court-martialed.
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Six KKK members plead guilty in gun plot
Mar 21 2006 5:17PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Six members of a Ku Klux Klan splinter group have pleaded guilty in a plot to steal and sell guns as a way to raise money to blow up a courthouse and kill a county sheriff, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Wad of cash found in New Orleans home
Mar 21 2006 5:11PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Trista Wright was spending her spring break cleaning out hurricane-damaged homes when she discovered some unusual papers among the moldy plaster board and debris.
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Police: Man killed teen for walking on lawn
Mar 21 2006 4:26PM (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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FAA begins probe into Branson, Mo., crash
Mar 21 2006 3:10PM (CT)
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - Federal aviation investigators Tuesday began combing the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed into a storage building and burst into flames just a few hundred feet from this resort town's main strip.
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NYU receives $200M for ancient world study
Mar 21 2006 3:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York University is getting up to $200 million to create a new institute offering a multidisciplinary approach to studying the ancient world, the school said Tuesday.
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Mayor says New Orleans is better prepared
Mar 21 2006 2:24PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans is better prepared for the upcoming hurricane season because of stronger flood walls and better evacuation plans since Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin said in an interview Tuesday.
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Baton Rouge adjusts to population boom
Mar 21 2006 2:22PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Mandina's restaurant used to be in an old pink house by New Orleans' streetcar tracks. Now, it is 80 miles north, surrounded by strip malls and traffic-clogged roads.
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More Californians forgo quake insurance
Mar 21 2006 2:10PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - When Charlie Bott got an offer in the mail recently for earthquake insurance, he stared long and hard at the bottom line. Then he threw it away.
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Mich. couple accused of three slayings
Mar 21 2006 12:41PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A paroled armed robber accused of killing three people during a crime spree apparently knew one of the victims and had included her on a list of six people he wanted to telephone while imprisoned for a parole violation, authorities said.
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DNA clears Texas man after 18 years
Mar 21 2006 12:12PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A man who spent 18 years behind bars for allegedly attacking a woman in her home has been released after DNA testing excluded him as the attacker.
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Scientists back bears' endangered status
Mar 21 2006 11:48AM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - More than 250 scientists and researchers have signed a letter protesting a federal proposal to no longer protect grizzly bears in the Yellowstone area under the Endangered Species Act.
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Teacher gets probation for mock noose
Mar 21 2006 10:44AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A substitute teacher will spend a year on probation for tying a mock noose around a young boy's neck during an after-school program.
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Ex-Marine regrets 1968 decision to desert
Mar 21 2006 9:51AM (CT)
YAHK, British Columbia (AP) - A Vietnam war-era deserter who was caught crossing into the United States and held for a week says he made a mistake when he fled the Marine Corps in 1968.
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Minuteman Project plans new border patrol
Mar 21 2006 9:30AM (CT)
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) - A controversial civilian border patrol group is planning a return to Arizona in two weeks to again confront the problem of illegal immigration.
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Liberty Bell Pavilion to be taken down
Mar 21 2006 9:08AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After standing empty for more than two years, the glass-and-granite Liberty Bell Pavilion is coming down, marking another major step in the $300 million redevelopment plan for Independence Mall.
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Report says airlines lost 30M bags in 2005
Mar 21 2006 7:14AM (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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Miami's Cubans torn over baseball success
Mar 21 2006 7:05AM (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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New Orleans mayor endorses rebuilding plan
Mar 21 2006 4:37AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin presented his plan for resuscitating this hurricane-battered city, saying residents should be allowed to rebuild anywhere _ as long as they do so at their own risk.
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Roof collapse in Texas eatery kills one
Mar 21 2006 3:26AM (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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Internet twins' mom may gain visitation
Mar 21 2006 2:41AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A woman who twice offered her twin daughters for adoption over the Internet could get visitation rights after a therapist tells the girls about their birth mother.
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Engineers assess Kauai's dams
Mar 21 2006 2:38AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A visual inspection of about half the dams on the island of Kauai found that they are not in danger of failing, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
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Ex-mayor of LA suburb sentenced to prison
Mar 21 2006 1:52AM (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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