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NTSB: Flight school plane flew too slow
Mar 22 2008 11:57PM (CT)
LANTANA, Fla. (AP) - A small plane that crashed last week in South Florida, killing all four people aboard, was apparently flying too low and might have been overloaded, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Saturday.
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2 charged in Conn. millionaire's death
Mar 22 2008 11:08PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A chauffeur and his cousin are being charged in the 2006 stabbing death of a millionaire developer accused of real estate fraud, police said Saturday.
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Free by error, ex-radical back in prison
Mar 22 2008 10:01PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Just days after her release on parole, a former 1970s radical was headed back to prison Saturday to serve at least one more year after corrections officials said a miscalculation resulted in her early release.
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Mistake dashes regional speller's dream
Mar 22 2008 9:31PM (CT)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - Seventh-grader Morgan Brown thought her dream to compete in the national spelling was about to come true when she won her regional contest.
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Body found in Atlanta tornado rubble
Mar 22 2008 8:08PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Workers found a body on Saturday while clearing rubble from a building damaged over a week ago when a tornado slammed into downtown Atlanta, police said.
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Levee holds at flood-threatened town
Mar 22 2008 7:55PM (CT)
VALLEY PARK, Mo. (AP) - Residents of small towns along the Meramec River breathed a sigh of relief Saturday as the stream finally crested following days of flooding caused by torrential rainfall across the Midwest.
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Levee holds at flood-threatened town
Mar 22 2008 7:55PM (CT)
VALLEY PARK, Mo. (AP) - Residents of small towns along the Meramec River breathed a sigh of relief Saturday as the stream finally crested following days of flooding caused by torrential rainfall across the Midwest.
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Levee holds at flood-threatened town
Mar 22 2008 7:55PM (CT)
VALLEY PARK, Mo. (AP) - Residents of small towns along the Meramec River breathed a sigh of relief Saturday as the stream finally crested following days of flooding caused by torrential rainfall across the Midwest.
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Worker sentenced in slaughterhouse abuse
Mar 22 2008 7:07PM (CT)
CHINO, Calif. (AP) - A man caught on video dragging sick cows and shocking them at a Southern California slaughterhouse has been sentenced to six months in jail.
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Marine, Iraq dog reunited in San Diego
Mar 22 2008 5:18PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A San Diego-based Marine major was reunited on Saturday with one of his closest war buddies _ a 2-year-old dog named Nubs.
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Vt. inmates call food foul, sue over it
Mar 22 2008 2:15PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - When shooting suspect Christopher Williams acted up in prison, he was given nutraloaf _ a mixture of cubed whole wheat bread, nondairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes.
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Heater may have caused cockpit smoke
Mar 22 2008 1:25PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The crew of an American Airlines plane reacted calmly as they made an emergency landing in January because smoke was filling their cockpit, according to newly released Federal Aviation Administration tapes.
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Truckers slowing down to save fuel
Mar 22 2008 11:50AM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Coast-to-coast trucker Lorraine Dawson says fellow drivers used to call her "Lead Foot Lorraine." But with diesel fuel around $4 a gallon, she and other big-rig drivers have backed off their accelerators to conserve fuel.
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Police: Georgia dad killed self, 3 kids
Mar 22 2008 9:57AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Police in western Georgia have determined that a father whose body was found in a wooded field next to those of his three children shot them and himself.
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DHS will reissue controversial rules
Mar 22 2008 9:44AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Homeland Security Department is appealing a judge's ruling against its proposal to force employers to fire workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers, and promises to try to make the policy a law.
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Kan. museum unveils foul weather exhibit
Mar 22 2008 7:18AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - After a year in which Kansas endured destructive ice storms, killer tornadoes and severe flooding, it seemed the state history museum carefully timed the opening of an exhibit on extreme weather.
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Kan. museum unveils foul weather exhibit
Mar 22 2008 7:18AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - After a year in which Kansas endured destructive ice storms, killer tornadoes and severe flooding, it seemed the state history museum carefully timed the opening of an exhibit on extreme weather.
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4 found safe, pulled from Tenn. cave
Mar 22 2008 6:08AM (CT)
TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) - Rescuers found four cavers cold and wet but otherwise safe on Friday after they didn't return as planned from an overnight spelunking trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Obese relative may have crushed toddler
Mar 22 2008 5:27AM (CT)
LA JOYA, Texas (AP) - A 2-year-old boy who died with a fractured skull may have been accidentally crushed by a morbidly obese relative, authorities say.
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Man mugged while training for Army test
Mar 22 2008 5:25AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Knife-wielding muggers attacked a jogger running in Central Park to prepare for an Army physical fitness test, police and his family said.
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Colo. man accused of posing as veteran
Mar 22 2008 2:57AM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado man is accused of stealing an Army veteran's identity and using it for 24 years to get married, obtain free medical treatment and even serve as president of a VFW post.
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N.Y. sex scandals have couples talking
Mar 22 2008 2:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Every so often, says Marla Felcher, something happens that makes her realize again that she made a great choice of husband, lo these 29 years ago. One of those moments was the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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N.Y. sex scandals have couples talking
Mar 22 2008 2:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Every so often, says Marla Felcher, something happens that makes her realize again that she made a great choice of husband, lo these 29 years ago. One of those moments was the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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N.Y. sex scandals have couples talking
Mar 22 2008 2:17AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Every so often, says Marla Felcher, something happens that makes her realize again that she made a great choice of husband, lo these 29 years ago. One of those moments was the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal.
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Colo. city's water is bacteria source
Mar 22 2008 2:14AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - It could be three more weeks before residents of a southern Colorado town can drink water straight from the tap after dozens of cases of salmonella poisoning were linked to municipal water, putting seven people in the hospital.
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Mexican police chief requests US asylum
Mar 22 2008 1:45AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The police chief of a Mexican border town racked by smuggling-related violence fled to the U.S. seeking asylum after his deputies abandoned him, federal officials said Friday.
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Tahoe panel: Make fire prevention focus
Mar 22 2008 1:28AM (CT)
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - A special panel created after last summer's Lake Tahoe wildfire warned Friday that another catastrophic blaze is imminent and recommended dozens of steps to stop it, from banning wood shingles to spending more than $100 million to improve the area's water system.
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SoCal area jittery after 911-call death
Mar 22 2008 12:17AM (CT)
WEST COVINA, Calif. (AP) - Residents of an upscale community were on edge Friday as detectives sought whoever shot a neighbor to death in her gated, high-security mansion as she called 911.
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Torture death shocks Illinois town
Mar 22 2008 12:16AM (CT)
ALTON, Ill. (AP) - Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.
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Town finds alternative to cat bounty
Mar 22 2008 12:00AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - After causing a stir with plans for a $5 bounty on wild cats, the tiny town of Randolph is ready for Plan B.
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