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Federal appeals court OKs Schiavo review
Mar 29 2005 11:40PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal appeals court early Wednesday agreed to consider a petition for a new hearing on whether to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
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Teen may face charges in Minn. slayings
Mar 29 2005 11:34PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Hours after the school shooting that devastated his reservation, Red Lake Tribal Chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain said the Indian tribe was in the midst of "the darkest days in the history of our people." A week later, it grew darker still for Jourdain, when his teenage son was arrested in the shootings that left 10 people dead.
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Arkansas arsenal begins destroying weapons
Mar 29 2005 10:47PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Pine Bluff Arsenal began destroying its stockpile of 3,850 tons of chemical weapons Tuesday, incinerating two rockets laced with sarin nerve gas.
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Jury considers New Orleans prosecutor suit
Mar 29 2005 10:44PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The jury in a discrimination lawsuit against the city's first black district attorney ended a second day of deliberations Tuesday without a verdict on whether the prosecutor illegally fired white employees solely so he could replace them with blacks.
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Plastinated fetus stolen from L.A. museum
Mar 29 2005 10:42PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two women stole a preserved 13-week-old fetus from an acclaimed exhibit at the California Science Center, authorities said Tuesday.
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Cochran references common on TV, in movies
Mar 29 2005 10:33PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - His law practice was serious, but Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. laughed with everyone else when he became a subject of parody and a pop culture fixture on TV and in movies.
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Superstar lawyer Johnnie Cochran dies
Mar 29 2005 9:58PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," died Tuesday. He was 67.
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Falwell critical as he battles pneumonia
Mar 29 2005 9:51PM (CT)
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday, battling his second case of viral pneumonia in just five weeks, hospital and church officials said.
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Ex-Boy Scouts official faces porn charges
Mar 29 2005 9:50PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A longtime Boy Scouts of America official who directed a national task force to protect children from sexual abuse has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
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Former Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin dies
Mar 29 2005 9:00PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin, a popular Alabama politician who served three terms in Washington, has died, lawmakers announced Tuesday. He was 83.
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Police seek motive in N.M. dragging
Mar 29 2005 8:57PM (CT)
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - The police chief said Tuesday he doesn't believe there was a racial motive in the dragging of a Hispanic man for three-quarters of a mile behind a vehicle, leaving a trail of blood and skin.
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Probe considered in 1965 Ala. shooting
Mar 29 2005 8:55PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama attorney general's office said Tuesday it is reviewing circumstances surrounding the 1965 fatal shooting of a civil rights demonstrator at the tumultuous start of the voting rights movement.
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Superstar lawyer Johnnie Cochran dies
Mar 29 2005 8:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit," died Tuesday. He was 67.
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Spouse as next of kin law has many roots
Mar 29 2005 8:33PM (CT)
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Some Christian conservatives and others who want to prolong Terri Schiavo's life do not see why her husband gets to decide her fate. But the role of the spouse as next of kin and decision-maker has deep roots in both civil and biblical law.
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Man convicted of killing 5 kids by grill
Mar 29 2005 7:51PM (CT)
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - A jury Tuesday convicted a man of killing five of his children by lighting a charcoal grill inside his home and closing all the doors and windows.
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Expert: Explosive traces at Rudolph home
Mar 29 2005 7:09PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Traces of an explosive used to bomb an Alabama abortion clinic were found in Eric Rudolph's home in North Carolina, a federal agent testified Tuesday in a key pretrial hearing for the serial bombing suspect.
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Woman sues over N.C. anti-cohabitation law
Mar 29 2005 6:58PM (CT)
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A former sheriff's dispatcher who quit her job after her boss found out she lived with her boyfriend is challenging North Carolina's law against cohabitation.
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U.S. deports 1985 hijacker to Lebanon
Mar 29 2005 6:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Lebanese hijacker, the first terrorist convicted in the United States for an attack against U.S. citizens on foreign soil, was deported this week after nearly 16 years in federal prison, authorities said Tuesday.
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Suspect in Fla. girl's slaying in court
Mar 29 2005 5:38PM (CT)
LECANTO, Fla. (AP) - A registered sex offender who police said confessed to abducting and slaying a 9-year-old girl pleaded guilty Tuesday to two unrelated probation violations.
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Mislabeling prompts recall of chocolate
Mar 29 2005 5:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Vermont company is recalling a batch of chocolate bars after discovering the wrong wrapper was used on bars that contain peanuts, posing health risks to people with peanut allergies.
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Catholic schools' enrollment drops again
Mar 29 2005 4:51PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Enrollment in Roman Catholic schools dipped again this school year, continuing a trend that has seen the student population drop from 2.6 million in 2000 to 2.4 million in 2004-05, according to the National Catholic Education Association.
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Mom charged a decade after son's slaying
Mar 29 2005 4:32PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - In a case that had baffled police for more than a decade, a woman and her husband were charged Tuesday with the murder of her 4-year-old son, whose remains were found in a duffel bag in Philadelphia in 1994.
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Former California Gov. Jerry Brown engaged
Mar 29 2005 4:26PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Mayor Jerry Brown, the former governor who once dated singer Linda Ronstadt, has announced plans to marry his longtime live-in girlfriend.
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Texas Republicans spar over Sen. Clinton
Mar 29 2005 4:25PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The campaigns of Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, widely expected to be opponents in next year's GOP gubernatorial race, are taking political shots at each other over apparently friendly relationships with liberal Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Founder of Bushnell binocular co. dies
Mar 29 2005 3:30PM (CT)
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) - David Bushnell, an entrepreneur who transformed Bushnell Optical Corp. from a small mail-order business into the country's leading binocular brand, has died. He was 91.
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Three accused of stealing Air Force vests
Mar 29 2005 3:08PM (CT)
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) - Three airmen have been arrested in an alleged scheme to steal 35 bulletproof vests from Moody Air Force Base and sell them to drug dealers for $100 each.
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Removel of three from Bush visit probed
Mar 29 2005 2:49PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Secret Service is investigating the claims of three people who say they were removed from President Bush's town hall meeting on Social Security last week because of a bumper sticker on their car that read: "No More Blood for Oil."
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Arson suspect said to have hanged himself
Mar 29 2005 12:53PM (CT)
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - The man who was suspected of setting multiple fires at his apartment complex and was found dead in his unit had hanged himself, authorities said Tuesday.
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Minn. tribal leader says son is innocent
Mar 29 2005 12:40PM (CT)
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The chairman of the Red Lake band of Chippewa confirmed Tuesday that his son was arrested in connection with last week's deadly school shootings but maintained that the teen is innocent.
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Court rules telecommuter must pay taxes
Mar 29 2005 11:36AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A telecommuter who lives out of state while working by computer for a New York employer must pay New York tax on his full income, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have wide implications in the growing practice.
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Poll: Harvard students mostly unhappy
Mar 29 2005 10:42AM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A long-held stereotype that Harvard undergraduates feel neglected by their professors and don't have as much fun as students at other colleges now has some data to back it up.
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Judge says Cincinnati violated riots deal
Mar 29 2005 8:09AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The city, torn by rioting four years ago, violated terms of an agreement to reform police procedures and improve relations with the black community, a federal judge ruled.
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Poll: Most American adults sleep poorly
Mar 29 2005 7:03AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Getting a good night's sleep is hard for many adults and that often means poorer health, lower productivity on the job, more danger on the roads and a less vibrant sex life.
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Trial begins in clergy sex abuse case
Mar 29 2005 6:07AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - Diocese officials in Northern California nurtured a policy of secrecy, negligence and disregard for children's safety that led to the sexual abuse of two altar boys more than 20 years ago, an attorney argued.
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Calif. corrections spend $1.27M on imates
Mar 29 2005 5:41AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California Department of Corrections spent $1.27 million in just six months on medical care for six comatose inmates last year _ and that's not counting more than $1,000 per day for each guard it cost for security.
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Tenn. governor accused of failing medicaid
Mar 29 2005 4:30AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A lawyer challenging proposed cuts from the state's expanded Medicaid program contends that the governor mismanaged the $8 billion program.
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Jury can't use Bible in death penalty case
Mar 29 2005 4:11AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Ruling that juries cannot turn to the Bible for advice during deliberations, a divided Colorado Supreme Court threw out the death penalty for a convicted murderer because jurors discussed verses from Scripture.
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Investigator tours Texas oil refinery
Mar 29 2005 3:35AM (CT)
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) - Crumpled trailers, damaged cars and blast damage were visible as the lead investigator into last week's deadly explosion at a BP refinery got her first tour of the site.
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Annan criticized in oil-for-food report
Mar 29 2005 3:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators probing the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq will criticize U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, his son, and the Swiss company that employed him but will not accuse the U.N. chief of corruption, officials said.
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Lawmakers urged to rename BWI airport
Mar 29 2005 2:28AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The widow of Thurgood Marshall joined those urging lawmakers to rename Baltimore-Washington Airport in honor of her husband, the nation's first black Supreme Court justice.
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Wyoming's budget surplus tops among states
Mar 29 2005 1:52AM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Budget crunch? Program cuts? New taxes? Not in Wyoming, where record surpluses prompted an unprecedented spending spree by lawmakers the past two sessions.
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Activists make point in Schiavo case
Mar 29 2005 1:20AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Grabbing attention with a brief, dramatic demonstration, disabled activists have been raising their voices throughout the final stages of the Terri Schiavo drama to send a message: that Schiavo, too, is a disabled person who is worthy of living.
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