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Hole found in pipe at nuclear Fla. reactor
Apr 1 2006 11:31PM (CT)
FLORIDA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Officials inspecting a South Florida nuclear reactor found a small hole drilled into a pipe that helps maintain pressure, and investigators were trying to determine why it was there, Florida Power & Light said Saturday.
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3 men charged in fatal Texas park shooting
Apr 1 2006 11:28PM (CT)
MARSHALL, Texas (AP) - Three men were charged in a shootout that left one man dead and six people injured at a birthday party in a public park, police said.
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Hinckley skips speech at Mormon conference
Apr 1 2006 11:26PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley expressed regret over lives lost in wars, and carped criticism and the racial denigration of others on Saturday night to close the first day of the faith's twice-yearly conference.
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Depression hits some preachers' wives
Apr 1 2006 11:01PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Mary Winkler was the quiet, unassuming wife of a small-town, by-the-Bible preacher, seemingly devoted to church and family. But now her husband, Matthew, is dead and she is charged with shooting him in the back with a shotgun.
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Minutemen reopen border control effort
Apr 1 2006 10:55PM (CT)
THREE POINTS, Ariz. (AP) - Minuteman volunteers concerned about the continued flow of illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico gathered Saturday with lawn chairs, binoculars and cell phones for a new monthlong campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the issue.
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River threatens homes in N.D. and Minn.
Apr 1 2006 10:41PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Volunteers filled and stacked sandbags Saturday to protect homes in North Dakota and Minnesota from the rising Red River and its tributaries, swollen by a combination of melting snow and heavy rain.
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Activists decry porn's move to mainstream
Apr 1 2006 9:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The industry's VIPs mingle at political galas and Super Bowl parties. Their product is available on cell phones, podcasts, and particularly the Internet _ there it's an attraction like no other, patronized by tens of millions of Americans.
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Thousands in NYC protest immigration bill
Apr 1 2006 9:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of immigrant rights supporters formed a line stretching more than a mile long Saturday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, waving flags from more than a dozen countries as they demonstrated against possible immigration reform in Congress.
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Jackson, Sharpton rally for La. voters
Apr 1 2006 8:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of protesters led by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rallied Saturday, saying the city's election plans will disenfranchise voters displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Washington Monument now more approachable
Apr 1 2006 4:18PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In landscape architect Laurie Olin's mind, the approach to the most soaring of the capital's monuments had to be friendly and simple _ and safe.
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Spring forward for daylight-saving time
Apr 1 2006 1:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The good news is an extra hour of sunlight every day just as spring begins to bloom. And the bad news isn't that bad, just an hour's less sleep or a curtailed night of revelry.
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Duo arrested for aiding illegal immigrants
Apr 1 2006 1:05PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Emil Hidalgo-Solis couldn't stop throwing up. His diarrhea was bloody. His feet blistered. He had staggered through the desert, stumbled across the border, gulped contaminated water from a slimy cattle trough.
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D.C. sniper intent on defending himself
Apr 1 2006 12:17PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - His attorneys once urged him to pass the time by reading newspapers or magazines in his cell as he awaits trial for six of the 2002 Washington-area sniper killings. But John Allen Muhammad ignored that and other advice.
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Two men plead guilty to dynamite theft
Apr 1 2006 10:36AM (CT)
WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) - Two men accused of stealing 103 sticks of dynamite from a rock quarry have pleaded guilty to federal charges and face up to 10 years in prison.
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Tapes reveal how operators handled 9/11
Apr 1 2006 10:24AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The instructions to those trapped above where airliners had slammed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, sometimes sounded stern, sometimes sympathetic. But the central theme was the same: Stay put.
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John Dean blasts warrantless eavesdropping
Apr 1 2006 9:59AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - John W. Dean, Richard Nixon's White House lawyer, told senators Friday that President Bush's domestic spying exceeds the wrongdoing that toppled his former boss.
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Flag waving banned at Colorado school
Apr 1 2006 8:41AM (CT)
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S. flag _ as well as flags from other countries _ amid racial tensions following immigration rallies.
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Charles Taylor's son arrested in Miami
Apr 1 2006 6:55AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Charles McArthur Emmanuel, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, has been arrested by U.S. authorities in Miami, days after his father was handed over to a war crimes tribunal.
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Gov't hoping for chance to retry Moussoui
Apr 1 2006 5:39AM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - While a jury deliberates the fate of admitted terrorism conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, prosecutors are holding out hope for a mistrial if they can't obtain a death penalty.
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Reports reveal details of Seattle shooting
Apr 1 2006 4:25AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Jesiah Martin was ready for bed. He'd been partying all night, first at a rave a few blocks from his house, then with friends _ new and old _ at his Capitol Hill home. But before crashing, Martin went to the kitchen to check e-mail. That's when it all started.
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W.Va. student dies playing 'choking game'
Apr 1 2006 12:23AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A student at West Virginia University apparently hanged himself by accident in his dorm room while doing an activity known as the "choking game," a university spokeswoman said Friday.
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Water service restored in Charleston, S.C.
Apr 1 2006 12:02AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A main line at South Carolina's largest water treatment plant ruptured Friday, leaving homes and businesses in the Charleston area without water for a few hours, officials said.
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