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Trapped sea lion released into Pacific
Apr 27 2005 11:58PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 300-pound sea lion was released into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday after spending nearly 10 days inside a municipal power plant's water intake tank.
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Suburban Chicago officials indicted
Apr 27 2005 11:40PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A suburban public safety director, a county prosecutor and a policeman were among five people charged Wednesday in an indictment involving an election-night brawl.
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Security tightened for suspect in R.I.
Apr 27 2005 11:07PM (CT)
SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) - Security has been tightened around the man accused of killing a Providence police officer after the suspect allegedly lured prison guards into his cell and attacked them, authorities said Wednesday.
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Two men sue Chicago Tribune for defamation
Apr 27 2005 10:47PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Two men claim photographs in the Chicago Tribune misidentified them as high-ranking mobsters, prompting one of the men Wednesday to sue the newspaper.
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Man convicted of trying to sell missiles
Apr 27 2005 10:41PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former British clothing merchant was convicted Wednesday of attempting to sell shoulder-launched missiles to what he believed was a terrorist group planning to shoot down airliners.
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One dead, 3 missing in Eskimo boat mishap
Apr 27 2005 10:40PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A 16-foot Eskimo whaling boat made of animal skins capsized in the frigid Bering Sea with six people aboard Wednesday. One person died, and three others _ the mayor of an Eskimo village and two children _ were missing.
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Salazar backs off 'Antichrist' comment
Apr 27 2005 10:39PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Colorado Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar, locked in a bitter tussle with a conservative Christian group over President Bush's judicial nominees, referred to the group as "the Antichrist." He backed off Wednesday, saying he regretted using the term.
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Calif. Education Secretary to resign
Apr 27 2005 10:18PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - State Education Secretary Richard Riordan said Wednesday he will resign in June, ending a sometimes bumpy tenure in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.
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Authorities arrest D.C. arson suspect
Apr 27 2005 9:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - DNA evidence led to the arrest Wednesday of a Washington man in connection with more than 40 fires that have kept many in the capital area on edge the past two years, authorities said.
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Fla. police hope new photo helps find girl
Apr 27 2005 9:51PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Detectives on Wednesday released a photograph they hope will help them identify a girl seen in a series of sexually explicit pictures that were taken at a Walt Disney World hotel and other locations and have circulated over the Internet for the past three years.
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Army officer acquitted of raping soldier
Apr 27 2005 9:50PM (CT)
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (AP) - An Army officer was acquitted by a military judge Wednesday of raping a soldier in her barracks room, a claim the defense said she concocted to keep from being sent to Iraq.
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Sgt. Akbar to testify in attack trial
Apr 27 2005 9:49PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Facing a possible death penalty for his fatal attack on fellow soldiers, Sgt. Hasan Akbar will make an unsworn statement to the jury in his own defense, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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Witness in Marine case taken off stand
Apr 27 2005 9:49PM (CT)
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - A key witness in the case against a Marine officer accused of murdering two Iraqi civilians was abruptly taken off the stand Wednesday on suspicion of violating orders on giving interviews about the case.
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Boy charged with murder in father's death
Apr 27 2005 9:31PM (CT)
HUMBOLDT, Kan. (AP) - Prosecutors brought a murder charge Wednesday against a 10-year-old boy who allegedly killed his father with a shotgun and then walked to a neighbor's doorstep and said, "I done something really bad."
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N.Y. police blame iPods for subway crime
Apr 27 2005 9:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The iPod craze has spawned a crime wave in city subways. Police told the city transportation board on Wednesday that 50 iPods have been reported stolen on the subways so far this year, compared to none during the same period last year. Cell phone thefts have more than doubled to 165 from 82 last year.
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Fla. agency gets teen's abortion blocked
Apr 27 2005 9:04PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The state's social services agency was granted a court order to block an abortion for a pregnant 13-year-old girl living in a state shelter, prompting an emergency appeal Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Ex-N.J. governor resigns from law firm
Apr 27 2005 9:00PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Amid conflict of interest allegations, former Gov. James E. McGreevey resigned Wednesday from a law firm that hired him last year after he left office over a homosexual affair.
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Group says Abu Ghraib case part of pattern
Apr 27 2005 8:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Muslims in U.S. custody have been tortured and mistreated at dozens of detention facilities around the world, according to a Human Rights Watch report issued a year after notorious Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos were made public.
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Gov. Jeb Bush asks for 1964 killing review
Apr 27 2005 8:25PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday asked state law enforcement authorities to take another look at a 1964 race-riot slaying of a black maid _ a case in which charges against three white men were eventually dropped.
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Ala. Ten Commandments monument finds home
Apr 27 2005 8:22PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A 5,300-pound Ten Commandments monument that forced the chief justice of the state Supreme Court out of office will be put on display at his church.
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Va. standoff ends as police kill suspect
Apr 27 2005 8:20PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An armed man who held his 9-year-old son hostage for 20 hours was killed Wednesday after police said he came out from his home and threatened officers with a gun. The boy was not harmed.
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U.S. judge rules ex-cons exempt from DNA
Apr 27 2005 7:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A voter-approved measure that expands California's DNA database to all felons and felony suspects _ even those who are not charged _ does not apply to ex-convicts, a federal judge ruled.
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Moussaoui asked for burial in Muslim land
Apr 27 2005 7:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Admitted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui told a hushed courtroom last week that he would "fight every inch against the death penalty." But in a private meeting with the judge two days earlier, he seemed resigned to the strong possibility that he would be put to death.
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Samantha Runnion jury begins deliberating
Apr 27 2005 7:53PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the case of a factory worker accused of kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion in 2002.
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Dethroned 'Ms. Wheelchair' given new title
Apr 27 2005 7:49PM (CT)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - The high school teacher who lost her Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin title after she was seen standing in a newspaper photo has been given a new honor _ Miss disAbility International.
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Autopsy: Body of shot man in handcuffs
Apr 27 2005 7:45PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The body of a man who was shot by a sheriff's deputy arrived at the state medical examiner's office with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to an autopsy report.
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Juror removed from Philly corruption case
Apr 27 2005 7:20PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A juror in a City Hall corruption trial was removed on the 11th day of deliberations Wednesday after other jurors accused her of being biased against prosecutors and FBI agents.
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Md. field hockey players charged in hazing
Apr 27 2005 7:01PM (CT)
FROSTBURG, Md. (AP) - Six female field hockey players hazed their new college teammates by urging them to drink so much beer and liquor that one 18-year-old was hospitalized with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit, police say.
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Drug suspect's Colombia house to be sold
Apr 27 2005 6:33PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The federal government has cleared the way for an alleged Colombian drug kingpin to sell his house in Bogota to pay his legal fees.
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Court TV argues for cameras in the court
Apr 27 2005 6:28PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Court TV took its effort to reverse the state's ban on cameras in the courtroom to New York's highest court Wednesday, arguing television coverage does not prevent a fair trial.
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Media file motion to unseal BTK records
Apr 27 2005 6:20PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Six media organizations, including The Associated Press, filed court papers Wednesday seeking the release of sealed documents in the BTK serial killings case.
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Permit renewed for now-famous chimp zoo
Apr 27 2005 5:54PM (CT)
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - The state has renewed the operating permit of an animal sanctuary where two chimpanzees brutally attacked a visitor last month, chewing off most of the man's face.
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Sodexho settles large racial bias case
Apr 27 2005 5:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Food services company Sodexho Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of black employees who charged that they were routinely barred from promotions and segregated within the company.
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Sentencing of Algerian terrorist delayed
Apr 27 2005 4:59PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The sentencing of an Algerian who plotted to blow up part of the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium was postponed Wednesday by a federal judge to give the defendant more time to help the government in its terrorism investigations.
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White supremacist J.B. Stoner dies at 81
Apr 27 2005 4:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - J.B. Stoner, an unrepentant white supremacist and anti-Semite convicted in the civil rights-era bombing of a black church, has died. He was 81.
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Waitresses file discrimination complaint
Apr 27 2005 4:29PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Two casino cocktail waitresses have filed a discrimination complaint over their employer's weight-limit policy, saying it unfairly burdens women and older employees.
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Man drives on taxiway at Iowa airport
Apr 27 2005 4:26PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Air traffic at Des Moines International Airport was temporarily halted when a disoriented 70-year-old man drove in through an exit gate and led security on a chase onto an active taxiway.
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Wayward buffalo's owner to slaughter them
Apr 27 2005 1:47PM (CT)
PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) - A herd of buffalo that got loose and wandered around a well-to-do neighborhood won't be causing any more trouble: Their annoyed owner plans to pack them off to the slaughterhouse.
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66 illegal immigrants arrested in Fla.
Apr 27 2005 1:34PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Sixty-six illegal immigrants were arrested while helping to build the new federal courthouse in Orlando on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Autopsy: Frozen Wis. mother died naturally
Apr 27 2005 1:13PM (CT)
La CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - An elderly woman whose body was kept in the freezer for four years while her son continued to collect her Social Security checks appeared to have died of natural causes, according to autopsy results released Wednesday.
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Boy found hanging, in critical condition
Apr 27 2005 1:11PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 9-year-old boy was in critical condition after he was found unconscious in a school coatroom, hanging from a hook by his shirt collar, authorities said.
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Supremacist convicted in synagogue attack
Apr 27 2005 12:45PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A former member of a white supremacist group was convicted of federal charges of hurling a fire bomb at a synagogue, causing minor exterior damage.
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Suspect is arrested in D.C. arson cases
Apr 27 2005 10:48AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Officials with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms arrested a District of Columbia man on Wednesday who they suspect may be responsible for more than 40 fires in the Washington region.
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Surrogate mom gives birth to quintuplets
Apr 27 2005 10:20AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - In the space of five minutes, surrogate mother Teresa Anderson delivered five boys to a childless couple she met on the Internet, a bond that grew so close she eventually waived the $15,000 fee she had charged.
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Fla. issues Amber Alert for 12-year-old
Apr 27 2005 9:40AM (CT)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - Police issued an Amber Alert Tuesday for a 12-year-old girl who they say was abducted by a 25-year-old co-worker of her brothers.
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Inmate denies sexually assaulting officer
Apr 27 2005 9:07AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An inmate defending himself against charges stemming from a prison hostage standoff last year denied sexually assaulting a female correctional officer he held captive for 15 days.
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Four charged with killing Philly teen
Apr 27 2005 9:00AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 15-year-old girl was stabbed, beaten, set on fire and thrown into a river, and four acquaintances were charged with murder, authorities said.
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Survey: U.S. trusts the news but sees bias
Apr 27 2005 8:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most Americans believe news coverage is biased and negative, but they also say they respect journalists and trust what they hear and read.
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Texas school board adds Bible class
Apr 27 2005 8:08AM (CT)
ODESSA, Texas (AP) - The school board in this West Texas town voted unanimously to add a Bible class to its high school curriculum.
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Diocese seeks to cap sex-abuse claims
Apr 27 2005 7:25AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson has filed an amended bankruptcy organization plan, seeking to cap its payout for sex-abuse claims at $20 million. A plaintiffs' lawyer said the amount wasn't enough and vowed to challenge the proposal.
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Salvadoran gang eyed in Houston slaying
Apr 27 2005 7:24AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A gang with roots in Central America is suspected in the deaths of a toddler and at least eight others here, and authorities are cracking down to prevent the group from expanding.
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Mo. executes man who killed grandmother
Apr 27 2005 7:07AM (CT)
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - An inmate who fatally stabbed his grandmother more than 30 times to get cash for crack cocaine was executed early Wednesday in Missouri's new death chamber.
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DNA tests lead to serial rape suspect
Apr 27 2005 6:38AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Acting on DNA evidence, authorities arrested a man for a 1973 rape and said he also is responsible for sexually assaulting at least 25 women in three states.
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Ill. student charged with racist threats
Apr 27 2005 5:45AM (CT)
BANNOCKBURN, Ill. (AP) - A black college student who authorities said wanted to leave her college is accused of sending threatening letters to minorities on campus in hopes of convincing her parents the school wasn't safe.
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Rescued skier ready to return to dancing
Apr 27 2005 5:39AM (CT)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - After surviving eight cold nights stranded in the Colorado backcountry with a broken right leg, Charles Horton had one last thing to worry about _ dancing.
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Gay nightclub discriminated against blacks
Apr 27 2005 4:29AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In a case closely watched by San Francisco's gay community, a city commission found that the owner of a popular gay nightclub discriminated against black patrons and violated local civil rights codes.
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Cinn. businesses work to reduce homeless
Apr 27 2005 4:23AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - After seeing a homeless woman outside in the cold rain for two days, her belongings stuffed in bags stretching down the sidewalk, an employee at a nearby YMCA picked up the phone for help.
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Some states want recreation fees repealed
Apr 27 2005 2:43AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - When Rich Vaughn takes his boat onto the Salmon River in Idaho, he must pay $4 a day per person to the U.S. Forest Service. That hurts his sense of fairness more than his wallet.
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Autopsy: 2 missing Ga. toddlers drowned
Apr 27 2005 12:43AM (CT)
WARRENTON, Ga. (AP) - Autopsies confirmed Tuesday that two toddlers found dead in a sewage pond after disappearing from their home drowned, and the coroner said there appeared to be no sign of foul play.
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Workers at Mich. newspaper quarantined
Apr 27 2005 12:37AM (CT)
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - Seven workers were taken to a hospital as a precaution and the rest were quarantined after a white powder was discovered in a letter sent to a newspaper. Health officials said it apparently was not anthrax.
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