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Pilot lands on interstate in Va.
Apr 2 2008 11:34PM (CT)
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) - A student pilot whose two-seat Cessna 150 ran out of gas while he was floating through the skies made an emergency landing Wednesday on an interstate highway in western Virginia.
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Woman gets 99 years in killing plot
Apr 2 2008 11:04PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A former stripper-turned-soccer-mom convicted of plotting to kill her former fiance 12 years ago was sentenced Wednesday to 99 years in prison.
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Woman gets 99 years in killing plot
Apr 2 2008 11:04PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A former stripper-turned-soccer-mom convicted of plotting to kill her former fiance 12 years ago was sentenced Wednesday to 99 years in prison.
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Woman gets 99 years in killing plot
Apr 2 2008 11:04PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A former stripper-turned-soccer-mom convicted of plotting to kill her former fiance 12 years ago was sentenced Wednesday to 99 years in prison.
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TSA touts bomb arrest at Fla. airport
Apr 2 2008 10:37PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former Army veteran arrested after trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials onto a flight home explained that he wanted to show his friends there how to make them, authorities said Wednesday.
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TSA touts bomb arrest at Fla. airport
Apr 2 2008 10:37PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former Army veteran arrested after trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials onto a flight home explained that he wanted to show his friends there how to make them, authorities said Wednesday.
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TSA touts bomb arrest at Fla. airport
Apr 2 2008 10:37PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former Army veteran arrested after trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials onto a flight home explained that he wanted to show his friends there how to make them, authorities said Wednesday.
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Convicted ex-priest faces new charges
Apr 2 2008 10:27PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A former Jesuit priest convicted in Wisconsin of molesting two boys and accused of molesting another boy on overseas trips is facing child molestation charges in Arizona.
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Wis. city denies shooting spree claims
Apr 2 2008 10:11PM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - The city on Wednesday denied claims seeking millions of dollars in damages filed by the families of the victims of an off-duty deputy sheriff's shooting spree.
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Experts dubious of Ga. 3rd-grader plot
Apr 2 2008 10:08PM (CT)
WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - Allegations that third-graders hatched an elaborate plot to knock out, handcuff and stab their teacher were met with shock by neighbors and with doubt by psychiatry experts who said it is unlikely that children that young seriously intended to hurt anyone.
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Experts dubious of Ga. 3rd-grader plot
Apr 2 2008 10:08PM (CT)
WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - Allegations that third-graders hatched an elaborate plot to knock out, handcuff and stab their teacher were met with shock by neighbors and with doubt by psychiatry experts who said it is unlikely that children that young seriously intended to hurt anyone.
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Experts dubious of Ga. 3rd-grader plot
Apr 2 2008 10:08PM (CT)
WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - Allegations that third-graders hatched an elaborate plot to knock out, handcuff and stab their teacher were met with shock by neighbors and with doubt by psychiatry experts who said it is unlikely that children that young seriously intended to hurt anyone.
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Senator's husband admits paying for sex
Apr 2 2008 9:17PM (CT)
TROY, Mich. (AP) - The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told authorities that he used the Internet to arrange a $150 sexual tryst with a prostitute at a metropolitan Detroit hotel, police said Wednesday.
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Senator's husband admits paying for sex
Apr 2 2008 9:17PM (CT)
TROY, Mich. (AP) - The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told authorities that he used the Internet to arrange a $150 sexual tryst with a prostitute at a metropolitan Detroit hotel, police said Wednesday.
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Body recovered after scaffolding falls
Apr 2 2008 8:57PM (CT)
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The body of a construction worker was pulled Wednesday from the swollen Arkansas River, hours after he and two colleagues fell 100 feet when the scaffolding they were on along a highway bridge collapsed.
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Body recovered after scaffolding falls
Apr 2 2008 8:57PM (CT)
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The body of a construction worker was pulled Wednesday from the swollen Arkansas River, hours after he and two colleagues fell 100 feet when the scaffolding they were on along a highway bridge collapsed.
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Body recovered after scaffolding falls
Apr 2 2008 8:57PM (CT)
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The body of a construction worker was pulled Wednesday from the swollen Arkansas River, hours after he and two colleagues fell 100 feet when the scaffolding they were on along a highway bridge collapsed.
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Explosion destroys Wis. church; 7 hurt
Apr 2 2008 8:40PM (CT)
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) - An explosion and fire in southeastern Wisconsin on Wednesday demolished a church, gutted two homes and injured seven people, including three firefighters, authorities said.
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Explosion destroys Wis. church; 7 hurt
Apr 2 2008 8:40PM (CT)
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) - An explosion and fire in southeastern Wisconsin on Wednesday demolished a church, gutted two homes and injured seven people, including three firefighters, authorities said.
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Explosion destroys Wis. church; 7 hurt
Apr 2 2008 8:40PM (CT)
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) - An explosion and fire in southeastern Wisconsin on Wednesday demolished a church, gutted two homes and injured seven people, including three firefighters, authorities said.
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Explosion destroys Wis. church; 7 hurt
Apr 2 2008 8:40PM (CT)
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) - An explosion and fire in southeastern Wisconsin on Wednesday demolished a church, gutted two homes and injured seven people, including three firefighters, authorities said.
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Man accused of cover-up in ricin probe
Apr 2 2008 8:37PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted the cousin of a man who may have been sickened by the deadly toxin ricin, accusing him of lying to authorities about the origins of the compound found in a Las Vegas hotel room.
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Racial profiling lawsuit settled in Md.
Apr 2 2008 8:23PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A 10-year-old lawsuit alleging racial profiling by state police was resolved Wednesday when state officials approved a $400,000 settlement for six victims.
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SC interstate reopens after tanker spill
Apr 2 2008 7:27PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, S.C. (AP) - Interstate 26 in southeastern South Carolina has reopened six hours after a tanker carrying hazardous material overturned.
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Figure in O.J. Simpson case jailed
Apr 2 2008 7:23PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man who says he was held up by O.J. Simpson and several other men in a Las Vegas hotel room was arrested on a parole violation Wednesday after a key witness in the case accused him of making threats, authorities said.
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Jewish leader calls Hagee 'extremist'
Apr 2 2008 7:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism said Wednesday that synagogues in the movement shouldn't work with the Rev. John Hagee, a Christian Zionist, calling him an "extremist" on Israeli policy who disparages other faiths.
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Kan. exec resigns amid 'pill mill' case
Apr 2 2008 7:17PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The head of the state's medical board and its general counsel announced their resignations Wednesday amid criticism that the agency mishandled cases, including that of a doctor accused of running a "pill mill" linked to 56 deaths.
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Inmate freed after 14 years on death row
Apr 2 2008 6:57PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - After 14 years on death row, an inmate whose murder convictions were thrown out because investigators withheld evidence walked out of prison Wednesday a free man.
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Arrest in 7-year-old Utah girl's death
Apr 2 2008 6:56PM (CT)
SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) - A man held in the killing of a 7-year-old girl who vanished from her family's complex admitted he caused her death inside his apartment while hundreds of people searched for her, police said Wednesday.
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Ex-Ranger guilty in roommate's death
Apr 2 2008 6:25PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A former Army Ranger was convicted Wednesday in the shooting death of a roommate and fellow Ranger he claimed had committed suicide.
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Report: Probation bungled in UNC death
Apr 2 2008 6:22PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A probation officer assigned to a teenager charged with killing the University of North Carolina's student body president was handling 127 cases without benefit of training, state corrections officials said Wednesday.
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States suing EPA over global warming
Apr 2 2008 6:05PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Officials of 18 states are taking the EPA back to court to try to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming.
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Quilt show bumps ex-soldier's trial
Apr 2 2008 5:51PM (CT)
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - The trial of a former Fort Campbell soldier charged with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her and her family has been delayed by two weeks because of a quilt show.
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Fire kills 4 at N.Y. group home
Apr 2 2008 5:26PM (CT)
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities investigating a boarding house fire that killed four residents and injured another were reviewing Wednesday whether the facility, which housed mentally and physically disabled people, should have been licensed.
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Sex therapists: A few minutes is best
Apr 2 2008 5:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed. A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.
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8 plead to election fraud in St. Louis
Apr 2 2008 5:09PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Federal prosecutors say eight workers for a get-out-the-vote effort in St. Louis city and county have pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting false registration cards for the 2006 election.
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1,000 back anti-gay Okla. lawmaker
Apr 2 2008 5:00PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip.
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1,000 back anti-gay Okla. lawmaker
Apr 2 2008 5:00PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip.
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1,000 back anti-gay Okla. lawmaker
Apr 2 2008 5:00PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip.
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1,000 back anti-gay Okla. lawmaker
Apr 2 2008 5:00PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip.
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Maine gets extension on Real ID
Apr 2 2008 4:36PM (CT)
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Federal officials on Wednesday granted Maine an extension to comply with Real ID driver's license security requirements after giving the state an extra 48 hours to refine its request.
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Informant: Terror suspects sought him
Apr 2 2008 4:24PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A military veteran who became a government informant testified Wednesday that one of three men accused of planning to kill U.S. soldiers overseas sought him out for help training recruits for the plot.
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Smoking habit, lung cancer in the genes
Apr 2 2008 3:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have pinpointed genetic variations that make people more likely to get hooked on cigarettes and more prone to develop lung cancer _ a finding that could someday lead to screening tests and customized treatments for smokers trying to kick the habit.
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UN chief marks first World Autism Day
Apr 2 2008 3:44PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the courage of children with autism and their families on the first World Autism Awareness Day, calling Wednesday for all countries to respond to their needs.
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King slaying stained Memphis for years
Apr 2 2008 3:31PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Joe Warren dropped his head to his hands, sobbing as he remembered back 40 years to the bitter garbage workers strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis _ and to his death.
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King slaying stained Memphis for years
Apr 2 2008 3:31PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Joe Warren dropped his head to his hands, sobbing as he remembered back 40 years to the bitter garbage workers strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis _ and to his death.
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King slaying stained Memphis for years
Apr 2 2008 3:31PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Joe Warren dropped his head to his hands, sobbing as he remembered back 40 years to the bitter garbage workers strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis _ and to his death.
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Prosecution rests at NYPD shooting trial
Apr 2 2008 3:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The prosecution has rested its case against three New York police officers in the death of an unarmed man in a hail of 50 police bullets on his wedding day.
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La. congressman's brother indicted
Apr 2 2008 2:14PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The eldest brother and political strategist of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson has been charged with giving payoffs to a school-board president _ a bribery case apparently unrelated to the one against the congressman.
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Teams search for possible flood victims
Apr 2 2008 1:56PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Rescue divers searched Wednesday for a tow truck driver apparently swept into a flooded ditch, while in Arkansas a man was missing after a boat capsized.
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Wisconsin justice ousted in nasty race
Apr 2 2008 1:18PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A little-known county judge has narrowly defeated a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice with a law-and-order message and a barrage of third-party ads in a race that will go down as one of the state's nastiest.
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Miners' families sue over Utah cave-in
Apr 2 2008 1:07PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A lawsuit filed by the families of six men killed in a Utah mine cave-in claims that the collapse occurred because the mine's owners were harvesting coal unsafely.
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No charge over fetus found on airliner
Apr 2 2008 12:44PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Police in Houston say a 14-year-old girl who delivered a stillborn fetus in an airliner restroom on her way back from a middle-school field trip will not be charged with any wrongdoing.
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Boy, 12, kills man who attacked his mom
Apr 2 2008 11:40AM (CT)
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - A 12-year-old boy fatally slashed a man who was attacking his mother at the boarding house where they lived, authorities said.
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Grant awarded to save wheat from fungus
Apr 2 2008 11:30AM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Wheat is among the planet's most important food crops, but it has a natural enemy that can turn the crop into a black tangle of broken stems.
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Virginia governor halts executions
Apr 2 2008 9:58AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia has put all executions on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether lethal injections are constitutional.
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Woman jailed over lice-infested children
Apr 2 2008 9:08AM (CT)
BELLE VERNON, Pa. (AP) - A woman in western Pennsylvania is charged with endangering her two children for allegedly ignoring warnings and sending the kids to school with lice.
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Dads pleads not guilty in bridge deaths
Apr 2 2008 8:33AM (CT)
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A father has pleaded not guilty to capital murder charges in the deaths of his four young children, who were thrown from a coastal Alabama bridge in January.
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Marine retreat aids war-strained couples
Apr 2 2008 7:08AM (CT)
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) - Fighting in Iraq took a heavy toll on Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Patrick, damaging his hand, injuring his brain and causing him to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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ACLU: Military skirting law to spy
Apr 2 2008 5:39AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, the ACLU said Tuesday.
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Man arrested in Ga. wreck that killed 4
Apr 2 2008 4:50AM (CT)
NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) - Police have arrested a man they believe caused a four-car accident that killed two children and two adults and injured four others.
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FBI: Parachute isn't hijacker Cooper's
Apr 2 2008 4:18AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A tangled, torn parachute found buried last month last month is not the one used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out of a plane over the Pacific Northwest, the FBI said Tuesday. Investigators reached that conclusion after speaking with parachute experts, including Earl Cossey, who packed the chutes provided to Cooper that rainy November night in 1971.
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Wiretap could be played at LA trial
Apr 2 2008 4:14AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lisa Gores' one hope after her affair with her husband's brother was revealed was that a tape of the lovers' conversation would never become public. She may not get her wish.
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Fire at hotel in Chicago suburb kills 1
Apr 2 2008 4:03AM (CT)
LOCKPORT, Ill. (AP) - A fire tore through a suburban Chicago hotel early Tuesday, killing at least one person, and authorities searched for more possible victims.
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Deaths awaken fear in sleepy Alaska town
Apr 2 2008 3:07AM (CT)
SITKA, Alaska (AP) - Not much new happens in this sleepy little southeast Alaska fishing community, and the locals seem to like it that way.
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Man fatally stabbed in Ariz. mall
Apr 2 2008 1:22AM (CT)
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Something seemed wrong with Bernard Allen as he went to the register and asked for a butcher's knife. Employees at the store noted Allen was acting strangely, though nobody stopped him as he walked out and into the adjoining shopping mall with a new eight-inch blade in hand.
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