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Schiavo, Quinlan weigh end-of-life issues
Apr 30 2006 11:49PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Schiavo, appearing with Julia Duane Quinlan at a bioethics symposium, said Sunday that outsiders from protesters to politicians should stay out of decisions like the high-profile ones they faced over the right to die.
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Man suspected of starting fatal fire dies
Apr 30 2006 10:26PM (CT)
RICE LAKE, Wis. (AP) - A man suspected of starting an apartment fire in northwestern Wisconsin that killed two people and injured two others died Sunday, officials said.
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Blaze erupts atop NYC police, fire station
Apr 30 2006 9:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A fire erupted Sunday on the roof of a police station and a firehouse, causing construction workers' gas tanks to explode and shoot fireballs into the sky.
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Judge awards $4M to owners of razed tower
Apr 30 2006 9:17PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After years of legal wrangling, a federal judge has ordered the National Park Service to pay $4 million to the owners of an observation tower that once stood near Gettysburg National Military Park.
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Thousands urge end to Sudan genocide
Apr 30 2006 9:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of people joined celebrities and lawmakers at a rally Sunday urging the Bush administration and Congress to help end genocide in Sudan's Darfur region. "Not on our watch!" the crowd chanted as a parade of speakers lined up for their turn on a stage on the National Mall, the Capitol serving as a backdrop.
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Paul Spiegel dies at age 68
Apr 30 2006 8:39PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Paul Spiegel, who fled the Nazis as a child during World War II and later became the head of Germany's main Jewish organization, has died. He was 68.
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2 Boys arrested in Florida brush fires
Apr 30 2006 7:53PM (CT)
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (AP) - Two boys were charged Sunday with setting weekend brush fires that have destroyed or damaged more than two dozen homes and burned more than 1,500 acres in southwest Florida, authorities said.
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Time lists 100 most influential people
Apr 30 2006 7:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar winners George Clooney and Reese Witherspoon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among the newsmakers on Time magazine's list of 100 people who shape our world.
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Harvard economist Galbraith, 97, dies
Apr 30 2006 5:35PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - In the 1950s, John Kenneth Galbraith cautioned that corporations were becoming too powerful. In the 1960s he warned President Kennedy about the dangers of unilateral military action abroad.
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Columbine memorial promised this year
Apr 30 2006 2:29PM (CT)
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - A memorial to the Columbine High School massacre victims will be built this year, vows the chairman of the group building the project.
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Katrina forces the merging of families
Apr 30 2006 2:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jerry Reese sleeps on a sofa that is too short for his 6-foot-3 frame in the living room of his sister's house, a place that's become a long-term shelter for eight other relatives displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Danforth: Ban on gay marriage a silly idea
Apr 30 2006 1:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. John Danforth says a conservative push to ban gay marriage through a constitutional amendment is silly, calling it the latest example of how the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the GOP.
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Corruption trial bares Vegas secrets
Apr 30 2006 1:14PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Even in a town used to baring it all _ where gangster Bugsy Siegel is considered a founding father, showgirls are a way of life and old-timers fondly recall when the mob ran the casinos _ the revelations in a political corruption trial have been shocking.
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Sentencing set for accused Fla. professor
Apr 30 2006 1:11PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A lengthy terrorism conspiracy case in which the government failed to win a conviction is drawing to a close, with a former college professor likely to soon walk out of a jail cell _ and straight into deportation.
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Medal of Honor fakers are proliferating
Apr 30 2006 12:01PM (CT)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A proliferation of phony heroes is prompting such groups as The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to lobby for tougher laws to punish the impostors.
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LA Times discontinues reporter's column
Apr 30 2006 10:00AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Times said Sunday it is discontinuing the column and Internet blog of a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter because he posted items online using assumed names.
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Sadness and glee at Harvard writer's fall
Apr 30 2006 8:36AM (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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Sadness and glee at Harvard writer's fall
Apr 30 2006 8:36AM (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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Texas battered with hail, 100-mph wind
Apr 30 2006 8:03AM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Texas (AP) - Storms battered parts of 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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Tens of thousands in NYC protest war
Apr 30 2006 3:11AM (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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Hero William Durkin dies at 89
Apr 30 2006 2:32AM (CT)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - William Durkin, the Marine who pulled Howard Hughes from the wreckage of a plane he had been test-piloting over Beverly Hills, has died. He would have turned 90 Sunday.
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Movie promotion confused with bomb in L.A.
Apr 30 2006 1:49AM (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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