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Former LAPD police chief Ed Davis dies
Apr 22 2006 11:41PM (CT)
SAN LUIS OBISBO, Calif. (AP) - Former Los Angeles police chief and state Sen. Ed Davis, whose tough rhetoric during the turbulent 1970s made him popular with conservatives, died Saturday, a family spokesman said. He was 89.
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6 Alaska students accused of murder plot
Apr 22 2006 11:37PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Six middle school students in a small Alaska town were arrested Saturday on suspicion of plotting to bring guns and knives to school to kill their classmates and faculty.
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Russian likely won't face U.S. trial
Apr 22 2006 10:47PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Russia's former nuclear energy minister, accused of stealing millions of dollars in U.S. aid with his American business partner, will likely never be tried in the United States, a federal prosecutor said.
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Displaced New Orleanians journey to vote
Apr 22 2006 10:38PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Their journey began at the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King once preached, and it ended at polling places in the shattered city where they once lived. For four busloads of displaced New Orleans residents, their eight-hour ride from Atlanta was the ultimate expression of their civil rights _ to have a say in how their city is going to be rebuilt after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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White supremacists taunted in Michigan
Apr 22 2006 9:49PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A group of white supremacists demonstrating outside Michigan's Capitol was far outnumbered by 500 protesters who were screened by metal detectors and kept separate by 6-foot-high chain-link fences.
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New Orleans says vote running smoothly
Apr 22 2006 7:57PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A steady stream of New Orleans voters, some from storm-scarred neighborhoods and others by the busload from evacuee havens across the nation, cast their first ballots since Hurricane Katrina in a crucial election Saturday to decide who will lead the rebuilding of this devastated city.
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Indiana U. mourns students killed in crash
Apr 22 2006 6:34PM (CT)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Garth Eppley and Georgina Joshi had planned to join about 300 other chorus members and an orchestra Sunday to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Indiana University's Musical Arts Center.
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Girl, 10, charged with tossing crack
Apr 22 2006 4:45PM (CT)
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A 10-year-old girl has been charged with evidence tampering after authorities say she tossed small bags of crack cocaine out of a window during a drug raid.
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Six slain relatives are buried in Va.
Apr 22 2006 4:23PM (CT)
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) - Six family members found beaten to death in a rural Pennsylvania home were buried Saturday in the hometown of the eldest victim, the grandmother of the suspected killer.
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Bush takes muddy bike ride on Earth Day
Apr 22 2006 4:07PM (CT)
LAS POSADAS STATE FOREST, Calif. (AP) - President Bush marked Earth Day with a lung-busting mountain bike ride high above Napa County wine country, dodging ruts that sent several of his riding partners crashing into the mud.
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College editor fights for newspaper
Apr 22 2006 3:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Editions of a student newspaper that featured a front-page story about crime at Catholic University were removed from a news rack outside the school's admissions office, the paper's editors say.
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Mourners gather to remember slain nun
Apr 22 2006 3:07PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Whenever the blood of violence stained a city sidewalk or street, Sister Karen Klimczak would soon be there _ not to condemn the place, but to claim it. She would lead a peace vigil, and plant a sign with a dove that read, "Nonviolence begins with me."
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Terror meetings suspect appears in court
Apr 22 2006 2:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 19-year-old suspected of meeting with Islamic extremists to discuss possible U.S. targets for a terrorist attack sat silently in a courtroom Saturday during a brief hearing that followed his extradition from Bangladesh.
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Man sentenced in toddler's abduction, rape
Apr 22 2006 2:07PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A man accused of kidnapping a sleeping 2-year-old boy from his bed, raping him and then leaving him in some bushes was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison.
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Suspected Kan. students to stay in custody
Apr 22 2006 1:50PM (CT)
RIVERTON, Kan. (AP) - Five teenagers suspected of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school will stay in custody through the weekend while prosecutors decide whether to file charges, a judge ruled Saturday.
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Court rules in favor of deported widow
Apr 22 2006 1:38PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - An appeals court ruled that a woman ordered deported to South Africa after her husband of 11 months was killed in a car crash has the right to apply to live in the United States.
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Neb. taking steps to monitor meatpacking
Apr 22 2006 11:42AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - With a bill of rights and a state watchdog, Nebraska has taken extra steps to monitor working conditions in the meatpacking industry.
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A century after 'Jungle,' dangers remain
Apr 22 2006 11:34AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - He works in a world of long knives and huge saws, blood and bone, arctic chill and sweltering heat. For Martin Cortez, this is life on the line as a meatpacker.
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Suicide note: Church poisoner acted alone
Apr 22 2006 11:31AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The only person implicated in the arsenic poisonings that killed one person and sickened 15 others at a northern Maine church three years ago said in a handwritten suicide note that he acted alone.
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Plane crash kills 5 Ind. music students
Apr 22 2006 5:42AM (CT)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana University student was piloting a small plane through dense fog when the aircraft crashed, killing the four passengers and fellow classmates, officials said Friday.
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SEIU president supports striking janitors
Apr 22 2006 5:01AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The president of the Service Employees International Union joined a fast to support janitors who have been striking at the University of Miami since March.
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Century-old Nazi propaganda still in use
Apr 22 2006 3:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A century-old forgery used to justify ill-treatment of Jews in Czarist Russia and widely circulated by the Nazis is distributed even today in many languages to stoke hatred of Israel, an exhibit at the Holocaust Museum says.
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