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Judge: Ex-CIA contractor must stay in jail
Apr 11 2006 11:43PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former CIA contractor accused of beating an Afghan detainee who later died must remain in jail because he violated terms of his release while awaiting trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Portland police chief put on leave
Apr 11 2006 11:40PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The police chief was put on paid leave Tuesday as the city investigated allegations surrounding his relationship with a former desk clerk.
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Woman wins $27.5M in Southwest Air case
Apr 11 2006 11:10PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A jury awarded $27.5 million in damages to a woman of Iranian descent who said she was racially profiled when Southwest Airlines Co. accused her of assaulting a flight attendant.
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Autopsy links cop's death to 9/11 work
Apr 11 2006 11:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The death of a 34-year-old detective who developed respiratory disease after working at ground zero is directly related to the Sept. 11 attacks, a coroner said in the first known ruling that attributes a death to recovery work at the World Trade Center site.
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18 candidates face off in Calif. election
Apr 11 2006 11:01PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Eighteen candidates in a solidly GOP district on the Southern California coast competed in a special election Tuesday for the congressional seat once held by Randy "Duke" Cunningham, now in prison for bribery.
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Kansas teen, reportedly abducted, found
Apr 11 2006 11:00PM (CT)
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted at gunpoint from a small southeast Kansas town early Tuesday was found later unharmed, authorities said.
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Legislators block Illinois junk food ban
Apr 11 2006 10:32PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Board of Education's plan to restrict junk food in elementary and middle schools was blocked Tuesday by a legislative committee that said the state should also address the quality of cafeteria meals.
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Ex-Bush aide denies calls on phone jamming
Apr 11 2006 10:29PM (CT)
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - A former White House political director denied Tuesday that he or anyone on his staff spoke with New England Republicans about a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002.
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Military jet crash survivors blame engines
Apr 11 2006 10:24PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Passengers aboard a military cargo plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Dover Air Force Base say they sensed a power failure in the aircraft's engines.
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Latest Calif. storm spares harder-hit area
Apr 11 2006 10:20PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The latest in a series of unusual spring storms will spare the soggy San Joaquin Valley, reducing the danger of levee breaks there, but will raise river levels across Northern California, forecasters said Tuesday.
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Ind. wife pleads for abducted man's return
Apr 11 2006 10:14PM (CT)
LAPORTE, Ind. (AP) - The wife of an Indiana businessman kidnapped a year ago in Iraq broke her public silence Tuesday, revealing that his captors called their home in the weeks after his abduction and demanded money.
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Database at center of immigration reform
Apr 11 2006 10:11PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - At the heart of any immigration bill that makes it through the heated congressional debates is likely to be a computerized system that could help employers determine instantly whether someone can legally work in this country.
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Moussaoui jury shown gruesome 9/11 photos
Apr 11 2006 10:10PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Jurors weighing the fate of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui were shown gruesome photographs Tuesday of bodies burned inside the Pentagon and heard from two determined military officers who crawled almost blindly through falling debris, choking smoke and searing heat to safety.
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Teen convicted in Ga. slaying to be freed
Apr 11 2006 9:33PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge ordered the release Tuesday of a boy convicted in the slaying of an 8-year-old girl, after learning someone else confessed to the crime.
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Kentucky set to outlaw Internet hunting
Apr 11 2006 9:29PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Legislature on Tuesday voted to outlaw the practice of using the Internet to fire remote-controlled rifles at live animals.
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Former Texas governor expects recovery
Apr 11 2006 9:27PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards said Tuesday she feels "terrific" and expects to recover fully from cancer of the esophagus.
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Defunct trade school faces $57M in claims
Apr 11 2006 9:27PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A defunct trade school involved in a federal investigation faces $57 million in claims from more than 600 creditors, a bankruptcy trustee said Tuesday.
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Man convicted in Ill. children's drownings
Apr 11 2006 7:59PM (CT)
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois jury convicted a man Tuesday of killing his former girlfriend's three children, who drowned when their car rolled into a lake.
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8 sailors charged in marriage scheme
Apr 11 2006 7:38PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Eight sailors were charged Tuesday with arranging sham marriages to Polish and Romanian women to help the women obtain U.S. citizenship and to collect bigger military housing allowances for themselves.
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Aircraft carrier group heads to Caribbean
Apr 11 2006 7:35PM (CT)
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) - An aircraft carrier strike group moved into the Caribbean this week to begin two months of naval exercises in what the U.S. military hopes will be a show of its commitment to the region.
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Judge holds off calling Muhammad witnesses
Apr 11 2006 7:02PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A judge will not immediately subpoena witnesses requested by Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad in his upcoming murder trial because prosecutors complained many were not relevant.
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Woman pleads guilty in fatal baby-slashing
Apr 11 2006 6:46PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and was sentenced to life in prison for slitting the throat of her friend's baby in retaliation for being kicked out of her apartment
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Tampa VA hospital faces investigation
Apr 11 2006 6:45PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Staff members at the nation's busiest VA hospital failed to ensure that cranial implants prepared for two recent operations had been sterilized, an investigation found.
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Chicago auditing personnel records
Apr 11 2006 5:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The city will audit the personnel records of more employees to ensure they were hired for their job qualifications instead of their political clout, a city official said Tuesday.
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New York City officials OK water park plan
Apr 11 2006 4:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A proposal to build a $168 million water park that would bring wave pools and 80-foot water slides to New York City won final approval Tuesday.
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Yale student election candidates cited
Apr 11 2006 3:45PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale University, where presidential hopefuls have been groomed for generations, held an election for student body president Tuesday in which all five candidates were cited for campaign violations.
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Big Oil makes push in on-campus recruiting
Apr 11 2006 3:41PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - University of Texas senior Thuan Phan switched majors from computer science to geological sciences, figuring the field trips would make it more fun. Now his degree turns out to be lucrative, too.
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Couple sentenced in child scalding deaths
Apr 11 2006 2:56PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A couple who were in a drug-induced stupor while their two young children died in a bathroom flooded with scalding water were sent to prison Tuesday.
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Judge lifts decree on L.A. school teachers
Apr 11 2006 2:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Satisfied with efforts to spread experienced teachers more uniformly across Los Angeles' 750 schools, a judge lifted a consent decree imposed 15 years ago on the school district.
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F-16 crashes near Ariz. base; pilot safe
Apr 11 2006 2:06PM (CT)
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - An F-16 fighter jet crashed and burned Tuesday near Luke Air Force Base, but the pilot ejected safely, authorities said.
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$10M bail set for alleged Israeli kingpin
Apr 11 2006 1:40PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge set bail Tuesday at $10 million for an alleged Israeli organized crime figure described by U.S. authorities as one of the world's biggest distributors of Ecstasy.
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Suit filed over response to boy's 911 call
Apr 11 2006 1:32PM (CT)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - A boy who was scolded by a 911 operator while trying to get help for his dying mother is not the only Detroit resident whose emergency call wasn't taken seriously by a dispatcher, the boy's lawyer said.
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Autopsy: Driver in fatal crash was drunk
Apr 11 2006 1:26PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The teenage driver of a speeding car that crashed off an overpass, killing him and three friends, had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit for adult motorists, according to autopsy results.
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Briton pleads not guilty to murder charges
Apr 11 2006 12:40PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A British man accused of killing his wife and infant daughter in their Massachusetts home and then fleeing the country pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder.
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Car plows into crowd in Ind., killing 4
Apr 11 2006 11:27AM (CT)
GARY, Ind. (AP) - A speeding car collided with another vehicle and smashed into a crowd gathered near a city street, killing a 6-year-old boy and three men and seriously injuring several others, authorities said.
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Fla. plans to reflood miles of riverbed
Apr 11 2006 11:25AM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - State water managers have acquired about 103,000 acres of land as part of a plan to reflood 43 miles of the Kissimmee River bed, allowing the water to reclaim its original meandering path toward Lake Okeechobee and on into the Everglades.
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Court: Couple can't sue Northrop Grumman
Apr 11 2006 9:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Irish couple who were detained after their U.S. employer accused them of being threats to national security will not be allowed to sue a work training program that reported them to federal investigators, an appeals court ruled.
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Siblings plead guilty in immigration scam
Apr 11 2006 9:25AM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Four siblings accused of recruiting at least 130 people to pose as spouses for Vietnamese nationals pleaded guilty to what federal prosecutors described as one of the largest immigration marriage scams in the Pacific Northwest.
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Ill. seeks to commit sex offender
Apr 11 2006 8:42AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A Catholic priest who was scheduled for parole Tuesday after serving two years in prison for molesting boys will instead be sent to a state treatment center for sexually violent criminals, where he could be committed indefinitely.
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Immigration rights rallies draw thousands
Apr 11 2006 8:37AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Florentino Cruz, an illegal worker from Mexico, joined hundreds of thousands of immigrant rights supporters in rallies across the nation, holding a sign with a simple message: "The USA is made of immigrants like me."
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L.A. refinery accident kills 1 worker
Apr 11 2006 7:22AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The roof of a six-story-high oil refinery storage tank collapsed on a group of workers, killing one and injuring four others, officials said.
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Chicago schools sue over breakup of league
Apr 11 2006 6:57AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Two predominantly black school districts are suing over the breakup of a suburban Chicago athletic league, saying racism led more than two dozen high schools to pull out and create their own, predominantly white leagues.
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New Maine law expands to protect pets
Apr 11 2006 6:12AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Spurred by growing evidence of a link between domestic violence and animal abuse, Maine has enacted a first-in-the-nation law that allows judges to include pets in protection orders for spouses and partners leaving abusive relationships.
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15 immigrants fired after attending rally
Apr 11 2006 5:10AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Fifteen immigrant women were fired from their jobs as meat cutters after attending a protest for immigrant rights last month.
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Immigration protests start slowly in Texas
Apr 11 2006 4:33AM (CT)
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - For a place where languages and cultures have blended for generations and illegal immigrants are parents and cousins, input from the Rio Grande Valley on the national immigration debate has been mostly subdued.
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Evacuees roll into La. for early voting
Apr 11 2006 3:25AM (CT)
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - For Elaine Stovall, getting on a bus for the two-hour trip back to Louisiana to vote for the future of New Orleans was just something she had to do.
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Fort Lewis soldier sentenced in theft
Apr 11 2006 2:01AM (CT)
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - A 19-year Army veteran admitted Monday that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of military supplies that were later sold online.
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Chicago man sentenced for trespassing
Apr 11 2006 12:31AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A 22-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 18 months of court supervision for walking through a security gate and onto an airfield at Midway International Airport last month, prompting a brief shutdown of the airfield.
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