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Sharpton hosting Imus on radio show
Apr 8 2007 11:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday.
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Teen who shot grandparents gets support
Apr 8 2007 10:26PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Every week, Janet Sisk rises as early as 5 a.m. and drives nearly 100 miles to spend her Sundays with a teenager who was just 12 when he murdered his grandparents in their sleep.
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Teen who shot grandparents gets support
Apr 8 2007 10:26PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Every week, Janet Sisk rises as early as 5 a.m. and drives nearly 100 miles to spend her Sundays with a teenager who was just 12 when he murdered his grandparents in their sleep.
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Teen who shot grandparents gets support
Apr 8 2007 10:26PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Every week, Janet Sisk rises as early as 5 a.m. and drives nearly 100 miles to spend her Sundays with a teenager who was just 12 when he murdered his grandparents in their sleep.
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3rd eaglet hatches on Catalina Island
Apr 8 2007 9:09PM (CT)
AVALON, Calif. (AP) - A bald eagle egg has hatched in the wild on Santa Catalina Island, only the third since chemical contamination there wiped out the iconic birds several decades ago, conservation officials said Sunday.
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Teen accused of Web escort service
Apr 8 2007 9:08PM (CT)
HILLSIDE, Ill. (AP) - A teenager once arrested alongside her mother in a prostitution case has been accused of running an escort service out of her suburban Chicago home using the popular Web site Craigslist.
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NYC brush fire damages injures 8
Apr 8 2007 8:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A brush fire that was pushed by strong winds toward a residential area damaged several homes Sunday and injured at least eight people.
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Cold snap postpones spring festivities
Apr 8 2007 8:34PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An unseasonable cold snap put a chill on Easter Sunday services across the Southeast and much of the rest of the country, moving some events indoors and adding layers over spring frocks.
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Cold snap postpones spring festivities
Apr 8 2007 8:34PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An unseasonable cold snap put a chill on Easter Sunday services across the Southeast and much of the rest of the country, moving some events indoors and adding layers over spring frocks.
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Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
Apr 8 2007 6:20PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - It was a balmy night, the sort that brings the homeless out from the shelters, when the police were summoned to America Street. On the driveway of a condo, just a few paces from the gutter, lay a man. A dying man.
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Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
Apr 8 2007 6:20PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - It was a balmy night, the sort that brings the homeless out from the shelters, when the police were summoned to America Street. On the driveway of a condo, just a few paces from the gutter, lay a man. A dying man.
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Many gays struggle at black colleges
Apr 8 2007 5:02PM (CT)
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - So lured was April Maxwell by the promise of the black college experience, with its distinct traditions and tight-knit campus life, that she enrolled at Hampton University in 2001 without even visiting the waterfront campus.
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Nurse accused in fatal Houston fire
Apr 8 2007 4:31PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A licensed vocational nurse has been arrested and accused of starting a fire in her office that killed three people and injured six others.
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Small Tenn. town braces for murder trial
Apr 8 2007 3:08PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - People in the small western Tennessee town of Selmer have been waiting for more than a year to find out why a quiet, unassuming preacher's wife might have killed her husband.
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Fire in subway car, station evacuated
Apr 8 2007 2:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Metro subway train and an underground station were evacuated Sunday after two loud noises were reported, and an electrical fire was discovered in the undercarriage of one car, transit system officials said.
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Fla. shelter fire kills dozens of cats
Apr 8 2007 1:46PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A fire gutted the local Humane Society headquarters, killing dozens of animals including nearly all of the cats in the building, authorities said.
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Cardinal leaves hospital after fall
Apr 8 2007 1:20PM (CT)
MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) - Cardinal Francis George was released from the hospital Sunday, one day after slipping on a marble church floor while blessing Easter baskets and fracturing his hip.
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Rain forest wood for boardwalks debated
Apr 8 2007 12:50PM (CT)
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) - It looks good, lasts for decades and can support the weight of a police car or fire engine, not to mention thousands of people. With those qualities, wood from tropical rain forests has become a favorite for building and repairing boardwalks.
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AP Exclusive: 1.4M Pa. warrants pending
Apr 8 2007 12:41PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's new statewide computer system makes it possible for the first time to put a number on how many warrants remain unserved across the state _ 1.4 million, including more than 100 for homicide, The Associated Press has found.
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Ex-Tenn. lawmaker faces corruption trial
Apr 8 2007 12:18PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - As one of Tennessee's most powerful state senators, John Ford bragged that he would have little trouble getting a new law passed to benefit a computer recycling company.
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Court OKs water work opposed by Mexicans
Apr 8 2007 8:33AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - An appeals court has ruled that the federal government can line a major canal with concrete to stop huge leaks, rejecting arguments that growers across the border in Mexico need the leaking water for their crops.
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L.A. marchers demand immigration rights
Apr 8 2007 7:58AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush's latest proposal.
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L.A. marchers demand immigration rights
Apr 8 2007 7:58AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush's latest proposal.
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L.A. marchers demand immigration rights
Apr 8 2007 7:58AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush's latest proposal.
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Officials head to Korea for GI remains
Apr 8 2007 4:19AM (CT)
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson left Saturday with a delegation of past and present U.S. officials for North Korea, where he hopes to reclaim the remains of American soldiers killed in the Korean War.
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Officials head to Korea for GI remains
Apr 8 2007 4:19AM (CT)
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson left Saturday with a delegation of past and present U.S. officials for North Korea, where he hopes to reclaim the remains of American soldiers killed in the Korean War.
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Pope celebrates Easter Mass
Apr 8 2007 4:03AM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Sunday Mass on the flower-adorned steps of St. Peter's Basilica as thousands of pilgrims and tourists jammed St. Peter's Square to join in the service and later receive his blessing.
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LA orchestra's maestro to step down
Apr 8 2007 3:36AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, will step down at the end of the 2008-2009 season to concentrate on composing, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
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Trump to market condos on reality show
Apr 8 2007 3:06AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Donald Trump is using his assistant-grooming reality show to sell units in his second Las Vegas condominium tower.
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Child recovering from vaccine infection
Apr 8 2007 2:33AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A 2-year-old Indiana boy who contracted a rare and life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination is recovering, a hospital spokesman said.
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Cyclist hurt after hitting tub in road
Apr 8 2007 2:31AM (CT)
COVINGTON, La. (AP) - A boxed bathtub fell from the bed of a pickup truck and slid into a motorcycle's path, critically injuring the 72-year-old cyclist, state police said.
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NYC sisters arrested in baby's death
Apr 8 2007 1:52AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A recently born infant girl was found in a garbage bag on a back porch in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and the apparent mother and her two sisters were arrested, police said.
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