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Runaway bride denies having cold feet
May 5 2005 11:31PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks apologized Thursday for disappearing just before her wedding day, and insisted cryptically that her flight was prompted not by cold feet, but by "a host of compelling issues, which seemed out of control."
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Texas bank robber wielding toy gun killed
May 5 2005 10:31PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A bank robber once dubbed "Cowboy Bob" because of her bearded male disguise was fatally shot by police Thursday after holding up a bank, fleeing police in a recreational vehicle and pulling a toy gun that officers thought was real.
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Firefighters battle 3,900-acre Wis. blaze
May 5 2005 10:26PM (CT)
BIG FLATS, Wis. (AP) - A small brush fire quickly escalated into a 3,900-acre forest fire in central Wisconsin Thursday, forcing at least 96 people from their homes, officials said.
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N.C. Army National Guard chopper crashes
May 5 2005 10:23PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An Army National Guard helicopter carrying two crew members crashed late Thursday while on a training mission, authorities said.
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Stepdad, mom charged in Precious Doe slay
May 5 2005 10:11PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - For four years, she was known only as Precious Doe, a little girl whose headless body was found along a road. On Thursday, police identified the girl, arrested her mother and stepfather on murder charges, and pronounced the sad mystery solved.
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Chicago launches campaign to curb meth
May 5 2005 10:09PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard Daley launched a campaign Thursday against methamphetamine use in the city, with a particular focus on Chicago's gay population, where authorities say it is an increasing problem.
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U.S. news cartoonist to be in China paper
May 5 2005 10:04PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Pat Oliphant will be the first American editorial cartoonist published in China by a Chinese-language newspaper, Universal Press Syndicate said Thursday.
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Ark. woman claims Nichols has more to say
May 5 2005 10:03PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Terry Nichols wants to reveal more about the Oklahoma City bombing, says a woman who released a letter in which the bombing conspirator accuses an Arkansas man of aiding in the plot.
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Fundraiser for Calif. ex-official indicted
May 5 2005 10:00PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a political fundraiser for former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley for allegedly diverting $125,000 from a taxpayer-funded grant to Shelley's campaign coffers.
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Passenger crash-lands plane
May 5 2005 9:45PM (CT)
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - A passenger was forced to crash land a private plane Thursday after the pilot suffered an apparent heart attack, authorities said.
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Loyola criticized over Landrieus honor
May 5 2005 9:44PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The archbishop of New Orleans on Thursday rebuked Loyola University over an honor for the family of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and her brother, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, obliquely criticizing them for supporting abortion rights.
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Poll: Most want no Social Security cuts
May 5 2005 9:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most people say they are not willing to give up some of their Social Security benefits to save the poor from having their payments cut.
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Wash. mayor denies molesting boys in '70s
May 5 2005 9:00PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Mayor James E. West, a Republican foe of gay rights, was accused in a newspaper story Thursday of molesting two boys decades ago and was caught by the paper using the trappings of his office to try to court a young man on a gay online chat room.
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Fla. lawmakers approve abortion regulation
May 5 2005 8:54PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to increase regulation of clinics that perform second-trimester abortions _ from rules about sterilizing equipment and employee training to post-procedure care.
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Grenades damage British Consulate in N.Y.
May 5 2005 8:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two small makeshift grenades exploded early Thursday outside a building housing the British Consulate, just as Britons went to the polls in a national election. The blast caused minor damage and no injuries.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger ends petition drive
May 5 2005 8:44PM (CT)
ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the completion Thursday of a petition drive to change how legislative districts are drawn _ the second of three measures he wants to put before voters in a proposed special election this fall.
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Court reinstates Calif. murder dog ruling
May 5 2005 8:29PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A state appeals court on Thursday reinstated the second-degree murder conviction of an attorney whose giant dogs mauled and killed a neighbor in the hallway of a San Francisco apartment building.
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USA Today says reporter quits over quotes
May 5 2005 8:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A reporter for USA Today resigned Thursday after an internal investigation found that he used without attribution quotes that had appeared last year in another newspaper, USA Today said.
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Kan. Board of Ed begins evolution hearings
May 5 2005 8:16PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, Kansas education officials began four days of trial-like hearings to consider changes to how Kansas students are tested on the origins of life.
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Vietnam vet, journalist Hackworth dies
May 5 2005 8:10PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Retired Army Col. David Hackworth, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who spoke out against the war and later became a journalist and advocate for military reform, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 74.
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Judge blocks Md. school health program
May 5 2005 8:04PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked a county school system from instituting a health curriculum that includes discussions of homosexuality.
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Ohio highway shootings jury asks questions
May 5 2005 7:40PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jurors in the trial of a gunman who admitted to a string of Ohio highway shootings asked to review psychiatric reports and a post-arrest interview Thursday in their first full day of deliberations.
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Pilot pleads guilty in Afghanistan crash
May 5 2005 7:39PM (CT)
WHEELER ARMY AIR FIELD, Hawaii (AP) - An Army helicopter pilot pleaded guilty to negligent homicide on Thursday, admitting he was showing off before his Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last year and killed the crew chief.
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Officers suspended after boy, 5, cuffed
May 5 2005 7:35PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Two officers accused of handcuffing a 5-year-old boy after a fight on a school bus have been suspended from police duties while the city investigates the allegations, authorities said.
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Ga. courthouse shooting suspect indicted
May 5 2005 7:25PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols was indicted Thursday on murder charges in the March 11 rampage that left four people dead, including a judge. The district attorney said he will seek the death penalty.
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Emmett Till's kin oppose FBI exhumation
May 5 2005 7:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Many of Emmett Till's relatives oppose FBI plans to exhume the boy's remains nearly 50 years after he was killed in one of the most infamous crimes of the civil rights era, one family member said Thursday. Another cousin said he supports the investigation, and that he knows of little or no objection to it.
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U.N. sex abuse allegations double in 2004
May 5 2005 6:46PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sex abuse allegations against U.N. peacekeepers and other staff more than doubled last year, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report released Thursday, calling the increase "deeply troubling."
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2 die in apparent Houston murder-suicide
May 5 2005 6:12PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A lawyer working for an oil-services company walked into an office Thursday morning armed with two handguns and shot a co-worker to death before turning the gun on himself, police said.
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Fla. Senate rejects proposal on class size
May 5 2005 5:59PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The state Senate rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's proposal Thursday that would have asked voters to scale back a constitutional requirement limiting the number of students in public school classrooms.
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Nazi camps freed 60 years ago remembered
May 5 2005 5:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It happened to be Charles Torluccio's 19th birthday _ April 23, 1945 _ when his Army squadron came across Jews on a forced march to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, even as Axis defenses were crumbling. The Americans set them free.
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Moussaoui penalty jury selection slated
May 5 2005 4:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jury selection for the penalty phase of the terrorism case against Zacarias Moussaoui would begin Jan. 9, according to a court filing Thursday by the government and the defense team.
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U.S. general: Car bombs may be remote
May 5 2005 3:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a shift by the insurgents in Iraq, an increasing number of suicide car bombs are being detonated by people outside the vehicles, a senior military officer said Thursday.
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Ga. preacher gets 17 years for embezzling
May 5 2005 3:46PM (CT)
ROME, Ga. (AP) - A small-town preacher was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison Thursday for stealing nearly $9 million from some 1,600 black churches by promising big returns on small investments.
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Man charged with string of bad checks
May 5 2005 3:22PM (CT)
MOUNT IDA, Ark. (AP) - A man charmed business owners across as many as four states, leaving a trail of hot checks for purchases during a two-month spree of buying and pawning items, authorities said.
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AP: Navy punishes four in carrier death
May 5 2005 3:19PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Navy has punished two officers and two sailors in the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan's nuclear-reactor department for mistakes related to the accidental death of a sailor and a mishap that led to costly repairs and delays.
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Iran to continue EU talks on nuke program
May 5 2005 3:05PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Iran's foreign minister reaffirmed Thursday that his country will press on with negotiations with the European Union over its uranium-enrichment program, as the nuclear quarrel continued to bog down a monthlong conference here to review the nonproliferation treaty.
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U.S. rejects idea of ban on nuclear attack
May 5 2005 3:03PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The plea heard from the conference floor, from nation after nation, seems simple: Since we don't have nuclear weapons, please guarantee you won't use yours on us.
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Woman gets 20 years for staging fake death
May 5 2005 2:51PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - A woman who helped her husband dig up a corpse and use it to fake his death in a fiery staged car accident was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison.
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Debate over evolution becomes war of words
May 5 2005 2:22PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Eighty years after the first famed "Monkey Trial," a second one of sorts opened Thursday, giving critics of evolution a forum in which to attack the theory.
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Husband of woman in Wendy's case arrested
May 5 2005 11:55AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The husband of the woman accused of making up a story about finding a finger in a bowl of fast-food chili was arrested near Las Vegas on unrelated charges, San Jose police said.
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Army sergeant arrested as deserter in Fla.
May 5 2005 11:31AM (CT)
WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) - An Army sergeant who left his Georgia post six months ago was tracked down at his parents' home after a notebook with anti-American and anti-Semitic writings was found in his discarded backpack.
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Patriot Act stirs defenders, detractors
May 5 2005 11:30AM (CT)
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) - U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor often meets with community groups and asks audience members how many of them believe the government uses the Patriot Act to search library records and find out what people are reading.
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Religion news in brief
May 5 2005 11:02AM (CT)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Despite pleas from many of the world's top Anglican leaders, Bishop Michael Ingham said that the blessing of same-sex unions continues within his New Westminster Diocese.
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Religion today
May 5 2005 11:01AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A video screen showed President Bush boarding a plane for Washington. His purpose: To get to the White House and sign Congress' bill asking federal courts to review the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
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Mom: Samantha Runnion 'believed in heroes'
May 5 2005 9:36AM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The mother of a 5-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed told jurors how her daughter "believed in heroes" as prosecutors pushed for the death penalty for the killer.
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Lynndie England case back at square one
May 5 2005 8:33AM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - In what military legal experts describe as a "shocker," the judge put the case of former Abu Ghraib prison guard Pfc. Lynndie England back at square one.
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No court-martial in Iraq mosque shooting
May 5 2005 8:29AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Marine corporal captured on video shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi did not violate the rules of engagement and will not face a court-martial, the Marine Corps announced.
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Army reaches out to kids of reservists
May 5 2005 8:27AM (CT)
LONDON, Ohio (AP) - Sixteen-year-old Emily Rohner was scared and worried during the nine months her father was with the National Guard in Kosovo. And she had nobody like her to turn to.
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Calif. teachers back mayoral candidate
May 5 2005 7:01AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The California Teachers Association said it will spend $500,000 on TV ads to help elect mayoral challenger Antonio Villaraigosa, who is leading incumbent James Hahn.
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N.M. Congressman's press secretary resigns
May 5 2005 6:13AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The press secretary for Republican Rep. Steve Pearce resigned after admitting he plagiarized material in a newspaper column published under the congressman's name.
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Arizona inmate convicted of 19 charges,
May 5 2005 5:55AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An inmate who took two guards hostage in a watchtower last year _ including a female guard who was held for 15 days _ was convicted on 19 charges, including sexual assault.
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British team tries to break speed record
May 5 2005 5:39AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A British team will try to break the speed record for electric-powered cars weighing more than 2,200 pounds, using a vehicle that has 52 batteries and no mechanical gears.
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