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Tens of thousands in NYC protest war
Apr 29 2006 11:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched Saturday through lower Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, just hours after this month's death toll reached 70.
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Storms batter Texas with wind and hail
Apr 29 2006 11:34PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Texas (AP) - Storms battered eastern Texas with wind up to 100 mph and hail the size of baseballs, damaging buildings and slamming parked airplanes into one another at an airport.
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Arson suspected in Wis. apartment fire
Apr 29 2006 10:52PM (CT)
RICE LAKE, Wis. (AP) - A man was suspected of setting an apartment fire that killed two people following a family dispute early Saturday, police said.
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Bus driver blacks out, crashes into bridge
Apr 29 2006 10:47PM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - A charter bus driver who apparently blacked out behind the wheel and slumped out his window Saturday died as the vehicle traveled past a bridge column and smashed the man's head, officials said.
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Break looms within American Baptist Church
Apr 29 2006 9:44PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Delegates from the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest voted overwhelmingly Saturday to recommend severing ties with the national denomination in a dispute over homosexuality.
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Refugees from Darfur rally in Maine
Apr 29 2006 8:20PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Mansour Ahmed enjoys the trappings of the good life in the United States: an apartment, a computer, a car. More importantly, he is safe and free. He can't say the same for the family he left behind in Sudan.
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Blast at Texas plant leads to evacuations
Apr 29 2006 8:06PM (CT)
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) - An explosion and fire at a chemical plant produced dense clouds of smoke Saturday and forced some residents of the area to spend hours indoors with their doors and windows closed.
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YWCA votes to allow male leaders
Apr 29 2006 7:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The YWCA voted overwhelmingly Saturday to allow men to help direct its operations for the first time in its 148-year history, eliminating a policy that allowed only women to serve as leaders of its nearly 300 local affiliates.
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Disaster response improvements lacking
Apr 29 2006 6:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most of the changes in natural disaster preparedness proposed by the White House and Congress since Hurricane Katrina are years away at best, leaving the Gulf Coast and other areas vulnerable to new devastation.
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Autopsy: G.I. accidentally killed in Ga.
Apr 29 2006 5:32PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A Fort Benning soldier missing 12 days before his body was discovered in a downtown hotel died after he got caught in an industrial-sized air conditioner, officials said Saturday.
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Movie promotion confused with bomb in L.A.
Apr 29 2006 5:04PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming "Mission: Impossible III" got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.
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Empire State Building turns 75 on Monday
Apr 29 2006 4:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Born in the Great Depression, it has weathered economic hardship, world war, labor strikes, murder, terrorist fears, and even a plane crash.
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Central Fla. developing growth model
Apr 29 2006 4:25PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Leaders in burgeoning central Florida are crossing municipal lines to prevent what they see down the road: sprawl, overcrowded schools, traffic congestion, a shortage of affordable housing and few recreational areas.
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Limbaugh, prosecutors can declare victory
Apr 29 2006 4:22PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - After three years under suspicion, Rush Limbaugh can finally put behind him the investigation that exposed the conservative commentator's own drug problems, thrusting him into the spotlight for the very things he derided in others.
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Sadness and glee at Harvard writer's fall
Apr 29 2006 4:19PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The rise and crashing fall of the Harvard University sophomore accused of plagiarizing passages of her debut novel has made of some of her classmates smile, some sympathize.
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Ten Commandments display going to trial
Apr 29 2006 1:51PM (CT)
STIGLER, Okla. (AP) - The 8-foot granite slab planted in the Haskell County courthouse lawn makes the Ten Commandments easy to read and hard to miss from the state highway that doubles as this town's main thoroughfare.
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The life and times of Ramsey Clark
Apr 29 2006 1:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Saddam Hussein's lawyer is walking in Greenwich Village, admiring the brave buds of a skeletal tree slowly stirring from winter sleep. In the twilight of his life, he notices such things: the advent of spring, the daily opera that plays on the streets of Manhattan, the small, simple pleasures that still stir his soul.
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Pa. vet accused of faking dog's death
Apr 29 2006 10:52AM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A couple who thought they were watching their epileptic dog being euthanized actually witnessed a simple sedation procedure concocted so the veterinary clinic could later give the canine to another owner, they claim in a lawsuit.
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DOJ seeks to dismiss domestic spying suit
Apr 29 2006 8:10AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Justice Department said Friday it was moving to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program.
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Raid rumors fuel fear among immigrants
Apr 29 2006 8:00AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Thousands of illegal immigrants stayed home this week amid rumors of immigration roundups that federal officials say were unfounded, leaving some industries scrambling for workers.
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Jury awards $1.7M to woman spanked at work
Apr 29 2006 7:29AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A woman who was spanked in front of her co-workers in what her employer called a camaraderie-building exercise has been awarded $1.7 million.
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Prosecutors: Suspects shot 'casing videos'
Apr 29 2006 7:27AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two men charged last week in a terrorism case traveled to Washington to shoot "casing videos" of the Capitol building and other potential targets, a prosecutor said.
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Man convicted of smuggling Tongans
Apr 29 2006 12:44AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A man convicted of smuggling Tongans into the country and forcing them to work for his landscaping and construction businesses was sentenced Friday to 26 years in prison.
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Stolen body parts blamed for illnesses
Apr 29 2006 12:19AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - At least a dozen people who had routine operations claim they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses in a ghoulish scandal that has sent hundreds of people for tests.
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Police: Sleepy trucker may be behind crash
Apr 29 2006 12:18AM (CT)
UPLAND, Ind. (AP) - The driver of a semitrailer may have dozed off before crossing an interstate median and colliding with a Taylor University van, killing four students and a staff member, authorities said.
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