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Spinach E. coli traced to Calif. ranch
Mar 23 2007 11:57PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The likely source of an E. coli outbreak in spinach that killed three people and sickened more than 200 was a small cattle ranch about 30 miles from California's central coastline, state and federal officials said Friday as they concluded their investigation.
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Houdini poisoned? Remains to be exhumed
Mar 23 2007 10:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the head of the investigative team said Friday.
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Houdini poisoned? Remains to be exhumed
Mar 23 2007 10:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the head of the investigative team said Friday.
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Houdini poisoned? Remains to be exhumed
Mar 23 2007 10:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the head of the investigative team said Friday.
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Houdini poisoned? Remains to be exhumed
Mar 23 2007 10:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the head of the investigative team said Friday.
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Jailed professor's hunger strike over
Mar 23 2007 10:50PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a civil contempt ruling against a former university professor hours after he ended a two-month hunger strike to protest a judge's decision to extend his prison term.
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Families: City rushed 9-11 recovery work
Mar 23 2007 10:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers for families of those who died at the World Trade Center in the 2001 terrorist attack said in court documents Friday that the city pressed workers cleaning up the site to take shortcuts that may have caused human remains to be lost forever.
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Jailed P.I. Pellicano weds ex-wife
Mar 23 2007 10:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anthony Pellicano, the jailed private eye under federal indictment in a Hollywood wiretaps case, married his former wife in a courtroom ceremony Friday.
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Lawsuit: Del. police shocked, killed man
Mar 23 2007 10:12PM (CT)
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - The family of a former Marine who was given multiple electric shocks and then shot to death by police sued Friday, claiming the officers used excessive force and violated the man's constitutional rights.
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Padilla judge: Brig time doesn't count
Mar 23 2007 10:05PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge refused to dismiss terrorism support charges against Jose Padilla on Friday, rejecting defense claims that his 3 1/2 years in custody as an enemy combatant violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
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Man charged with beheading teen's dog
Mar 23 2007 10:05PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A man accused of cutting the head off his teenage ex-girlfriend's dog and leaving it at her front door in a gift-wrapped box was charged with animal cruelty and torture Friday.
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New Orleans residents arming themselves
Mar 23 2007 10:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Sixty-four-year-old Vivian Westerman rode out Hurricane Katrina in her 19th-century house. So terrible was the experience that she wanted two things before the 2006 season arrived: a backup power source and a gun. "I got a 6,000-watt generator and the cutest little Smith & Wesson, snub-nose .38 you ever saw," she boasted. "I've never been more confident." People across New Orleans are arming themselves _ not only against the possibility of another storm bringing anarchy, but a
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Rat poison found in tainted pet food
Mar 23 2007 10:04PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, but scientists said Friday they still don't know how it got there and predicted more animal deaths would be linked to it.
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Rat poison found in tainted pet food
Mar 23 2007 10:04PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, but scientists said Friday they still don't know how it got there and predicted more animal deaths would be linked to it.
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Flight quarantined over pox threat
Mar 23 2007 9:50PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities quarantined an arriving US Airways flight for several hours Friday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a passenger claimed he had smallpox, an airline spokesman said.
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Judge: Corps coal permits illegal
Mar 23 2007 8:38PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday that the Army Corps of Engineers illegally issued permits for four mountaintop removal mines without adequately determining whether the environment would be harmed.
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N.M. tornadoes destroy homes, injure 3
Mar 23 2007 8:27PM (CT)
LOGAN, N.M. (AP) - A tornado destroyed roughly two dozen mobile homes and campers and injured at least three people Friday as it swept through this New Mexico village, state police said.
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FAA picks plan for less clogged airspace
Mar 23 2007 8:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday said it has selected a new flight pattern to ease delays in the congested airspace around New York and Philadelphia, but the new system will also bring noisy jets over some communities for the first time.
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Lawyer: Ga. wife poisoned 2 out of greed
Mar 23 2007 7:32PM (CT)
DALTON, Ga. (AP) - A former 911 operator used antifreeze to fatally poison her husband and later a boyfriend because they were worth more to her dead than alive, a prosecutor told jurors Friday.
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Family donates wallet of early Mormon
Mar 23 2007 7:21PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Russell Martin Harris celebrated his 86th birthday Friday by giving a gift to the Mormon church _ a leather wallet carried by his great-great-grandfather in the 1830s.
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Texas juveniles' sentences to get review
Mar 23 2007 6:14PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The records of most inmates in Texas' scandal-rocked juvenile prison system will be reviewed to determine whether their sentences were unfairly extended, an official investigating the system said Friday.
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Attorney regrets defendant's answer
Mar 23 2007 6:03PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man charged in the slaying of a teenager romantically linked to his student-teacher wife said something he shouldn't have during a nationally televised interview, his attorney said.
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Former Ariz. governor says he saw UFO
Mar 23 2007 6:00PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington trotted out an aide dressed as an alien 10 years ago to spoof the frenzy surrounding mysterious lights in the Phoenix sky. Now he says he saw the lights himself, and believed from the start that they were extraterrestrial.
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Life term in N.J. teacher's taped death
Mar 23 2007 5:32PM (CT)
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A man who carjacked and killed a special education teacher who secretly tape-recorded her conversation with him during the crime was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
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Children removed from immigrant shelter
Mar 23 2007 5:17PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Everyone has been cleared out of a federal shelter for child immigrants amid allegations that a single staff member sexually abused some of the youngsters.
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Juneau sweats over avalanche risk
Mar 23 2007 4:53PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Butch Holst and his wife were thrilled in 1978 when they sealed a deal on a downtown home at the foot of Mount Juneau. Thrilled, that is, until someone showed them a photo of their house in a National Geographic article that said Juneau has the highest risk of an avalanche disaster of any city in America. "That was our first indication that there was a serious problem," said Janice Holst, a dance teacher and grandmother of 12.
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Nation's first blind federal judge dies
Mar 23 2007 4:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Conway Casey, who was the nation's first blind federal trial judge and presided over high-profile cases including an abortion-law challenge and the Peter Gotti trial, has died at the age of 74.
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NYC arrest after boy handcuffed to tree
Mar 23 2007 3:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police on Friday arrested a convicted sex offender suspected of abducting a 13-year-old at knifepoint and sexually abusing him before leaving him undressed and handcuffed to a tree.
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Carrier USS Kennedy decommissioned
Mar 23 2007 3:06PM (CT)
MAYPORT, Fla. (AP) - The first skipper of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was surrounded Friday by shipmates wanting an autograph, a picture or just a chance to talk about old times.
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Carrier USS Kennedy decommissioned
Mar 23 2007 3:06PM (CT)
MAYPORT, Fla. (AP) - The first skipper of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was surrounded Friday by shipmates wanting an autograph, a picture or just a chance to talk about old times.
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Carrier USS Kennedy decommissioned
Mar 23 2007 3:06PM (CT)
MAYPORT, Fla. (AP) - The first skipper of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was surrounded Friday by shipmates wanting an autograph, a picture or just a chance to talk about old times.
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Edwards' saga shows 'new face' of cancer
Mar 23 2007 2:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Just two decades ago, a breast cancer diagnosis was something a patient likely wouldn't share beyond close family and friends. Even the word "cancer" was barely spoken out loud. And no wonder: It raised immediate thoughts of a death sentence.
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Young, black pilot seeks world records
Mar 23 2007 2:06PM (CT)
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) - A 23-year-old aerospace student who built his plane from more than $300,000 in donated parts took off Friday hoping to become the youngest person and first black pilot to fly around the globe alone.
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Ga. judge halts gassing of animals
Mar 23 2007 2:03PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A county judge ordered the state Friday to enforce a law preventing animal shelters from using gas chambers to euthanize cats and dogs.
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Child's overdose death raises questions
Mar 23 2007 1:58PM (CT)
HULL, Mass. (AP) - In the final months of Rebecca Riley's life, a school nurse said the little girl was so weak she was like a "floppy doll."
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Teen hangs self at Utah school
Mar 23 2007 1:53PM (CT)
HYRUM, Utah (AP) - A 14-year-old girl who had talked about suicide died in a hospital a day after hanging herself in a school bathroom, school officials said.
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Rapist loses 8th retrial bid in Mass.
Mar 23 2007 1:34PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A convicted rapist whose support from Gov. Deval Patrick became an election flash point last fall lost his eighth bid for a new trial Friday.
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No bail for terror suspect, ex-Navy man
Mar 23 2007 1:17PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A federal judge ordered a former Navy sailor held without bail Friday on charges that he supported terrorism by disclosing secret information about the location of Navy ships and the best ways to attack them.
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Man gets prison for killing NYC stripper
Mar 23 2007 1:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A personal trainer was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend, a dancer who dreamed of Broadway but wound up working as a stripper.
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Indiana officer charged in teen's death
Mar 23 2007 1:01PM (CT)
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A police officer was charged with reckless homicide more than a year after fatally shooting a teenager while responding to a burglary call, a case that drew angry community protests.
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Firefighter dies in fire truck-bus crash
Mar 23 2007 11:59AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago fire truck heading to a call collided with an empty school bus Friday morning, killing one firefighter and injuring three others. The bus driver had just finished dropping off the children for the day.
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Convicted killer stabs 4 at hospital
Mar 23 2007 9:20AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A convicted killer tried to escape from a Chicago hospital in leg shackles and stabbed a nurse and three other people with a metal shank before he was caught on a bus outside, authorities said.
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Fire chief accused of targeting witness
Mar 23 2007 8:24AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - FBI agents arrested a parish fire chief accused of trying to have a witness killed to prevent testimony in a federal grand jury investigation.
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Blue Cross fined $1M; dropped policies
Mar 23 2007 8:06AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - State regulators fined California's largest health insurance provider $1 million for violating state law, saying an investigation found that the company systematically dropped policyholders after they became sick or pregnant.
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Forum lets taxpayers turn tables on IRS
Mar 23 2007 6:56AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Taxpayers are getting the chance to turn the tables on the Internal Revenue Service and audit the agency's services.
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Billionaire opens mansions to homeless
Mar 23 2007 6:32AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion Thursday, courtesy of a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
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Billionaire opens mansions to homeless
Mar 23 2007 6:32AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion Thursday, courtesy of a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
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Billionaire opens mansions to homeless
Mar 23 2007 6:32AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion Thursday, courtesy of a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
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Billionaire opens mansions to homeless
Mar 23 2007 6:32AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion Thursday, courtesy of a Japanese real estate mogul who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
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Conflicts bedevil citizen lawmakers
Mar 23 2007 2:12AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Jeff Siddoway is a rancher who sells hunting trips for trophy elk on his land in eastern Idaho. He is also a Republican state senator.
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Not guilty plea entered for ex-astronaut
Mar 23 2007 12:28AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Former astronaut Lisa Nowak's attorneys formally entered a not guilty plea Thursday to charges that she tried to kidnap a rival for a space shuttle pilot's affections.
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