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Couple faked death with stolen corpse
May 7 2005 11:51PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) - Molly Daniels spent weeks surfing the Internet, gathering information for a bizarre and grisly plot of deception. She learned how to burn a human body beyond recognition. She sought clues on ways to deceive arson investigators, and took meticulous steps to create a new identity for her husband.
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Family of beheaded American seeks solace
May 7 2005 11:42PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Relatives of Nicholas Berg, the young American entrepreneur beheaded in Iraq, have taken different paths as they've searched for solace in the year since his death.
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JFK nephew Bobby Shriver weds
May 7 2005 10:17PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bobby Shriver, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and brother of California first lady Maria Shriver, married his fiancee Malissa Feruzzi Saturday in Los Angeles.
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Submarine crash could have been avoided
May 7 2005 10:16PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The crew of an attack submarine that struck an undersea mountain in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year did not adequately review navigation charts that warned of an obstacle in the vessel's path, according to a Navy report released Saturday.
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School reduces suspension over Iraq call
May 7 2005 9:46PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Following hundreds of angry phone calls and e-mails, school officials in this Army base city have reduced a suspension imposed on a student who wouldn't give up his cell phone while talking to his mom _ a sergeant on duty in Iraq.
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Virgin Mary image restored on underpass
May 7 2005 8:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A stain on the wall of an expressway underpass that some believe resembles the Virgin Mary is again attracting visitors after two car wash employees cleaned graffiti and brown paint off the image.
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Ohio shootings jury still deliberating
May 7 2005 7:09PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jurors in the trial of a man charged with a string of Ohio highway shootings failed to reach a verdict Saturday, the third full day of deliberations.
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About 300 mourn 'Precious Doe' at service
May 7 2005 7:08PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday for a memorial service to remember the little girl once known only as "Precious Doe," interrupting a pastor's remarks with applause and shouting the child's name in unison.
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Dems voted out of church weigh options
May 7 2005 6:51PM (CT)
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A pastor who led a charge to kick out nine church members who refused to support President Bush was the talk of the town Saturday in this mountain hamlet, with ousted congregants considering hiring a lawyer.
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Airports not rushing for private screeners
May 7 2005 6:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite all the grumbling about those federal security screeners, airports are not rushing to replace them with private workers. Only two airports _ in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Elko, Nev. _ have applied to the government to switch back to privately employed screeners. And the management at Elko is having second thoughts.
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Man who led Nixon impeachment dies
May 7 2005 6:39PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Peter W. Rodino Jr., a little-noticed Democratic congressman until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95.
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Death Row inmate dies in apparent suicide
May 7 2005 4:26PM (CT)
MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) - A death row inmate who thanked jurors for recommending that he be sentenced to die for killing a police officer was found dead in his cell Saturday, an apparent suicide, a prisons spokeswoman said.
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74-year-old man sentenced for drug sales
May 7 2005 4:15PM (CT)
TAZEWELL, Va. (AP) - A 74-year-old man who illegally sold prescription drugs was sentenced to 70 years in prison, but the judge suspended all except 10 years of the term.
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Rules aim to curb steroid use at schools
May 7 2005 2:33PM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - California high school sports officials have approved three new regulations aimed at curbing steroid use among teen athletes, making it the first state in the nation to take such action.
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Kansas board holding evolution hearings
May 7 2005 2:31PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Witnesses trying to persuade Kansas officials to encourage more criticism of evolution in public school classrooms are making statements some scientists say betrayed creationist views.
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AP: Race, pleas affect Ohio death penalty
May 7 2005 2:20PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Lawmakers writing a new capital punishment law two decades ago wanted a fair system for prosecuting the worst of the worst: killers whose crimes were so terrible there would be no question they deserved to die. That didn't happen.
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Death row inmate dies of apparent suicide
May 7 2005 1:38PM (CT)
MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) - A death row inmate who thanked jurors for recommending he be sentenced to die for killing a police officer was found dead on the floor of his cell Saturday, an apparent suicide, a prisons spokeswoman said.
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Fortunteller slaying baffles Calif. town
May 7 2005 1:32PM (CT)
WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) - The stabbing deaths of a popular Vietnamese fortuneteller and her daughter were mysterious enough, but stranger still was the white paint that covered their hands and faces.
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Analysis: Nonproliferation Treaty weakens
May 7 2005 1:05PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - "Considering the devastation that would be visited upon mankind ..." is how it begins, a 2,400-word contract some would say saved the world.
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94-year-old man dies after Fla. beating
May 7 2005 12:58PM (CT)
LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) - A 94-year-old wheelchair-bound man was badly beaten inside his garage and died at the hospital later in the day, police said.
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7 judges' futures hang in filibuster fight
May 7 2005 12:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They have been called a "family of seven judicial fanatics." Also "radical," "corporate stooges," the "most extreme of the extreme." The seven men and women whose judicial nominations are at the center of Washington's filibuster fight have been packaged as all-American success stories: a sharecropper's daughter, a senator's son, able jurists who can find time to teach Sunday school and clean up national parks.
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'Precious Doe' beaten in days before death
May 7 2005 11:02AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 3-year-old girl found beheaded four years ago had been brought to Missouri by a mother she barely knew and endured beatings by her stepfather in the days before her death, according to a woman who lived with the child.
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Clinton: Peace in Mideast a 'tough slog'
May 7 2005 8:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Clinton said Friday he thought the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gave peace another chance in the Middle East, but he spoke wryly of his past efforts to forge such a deal.
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Police reopen Atlanta child-killing cases
May 7 2005 8:16AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A police chief has reopened an investigation into four of the child slayings that terrorized the Atlanta area more than two decades ago, saying he believes the man suspected in most of the killings is innocent. Altogether, 29 people _ all of them black, most of them boys _ were killed in the Atlanta area between 1979 and 1981.
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Judge sets Moussaoui jury selection date
May 7 2005 8:14AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Zacarias Moussaoui will face the penalty phase of his terrorism case starting next Jan. 9 when jury selection will begin, a federal judge decided Friday, approving a schedule proposed this week by prosecutors and Moussaoui's lawyers.
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Feds bring rare Vermont death penalty case
May 7 2005 8:12AM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Vermont, a famously liberal New England state that abolished capital punishment decades ago, is about to see its first death penalty trial in more than 40 years _ a case brought not by Vermont authorities but by federal prosecutors.
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Wisconsin forest fire destroys 15 homes
May 7 2005 8:11AM (CT)
BIG FLATS, Wis. (AP) - A fast-moving forest fire destroyed 30 homes and forced dozens to flee as it spread to almost 4,000 acres before being contained overnight, officials said Friday.
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Sex offender's suicide raises questions
May 7 2005 8:11AM (CT)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - For nearly four years, Chuckie Claxton lived anonymously amid the gated horse pastures and moss-draped oaks of the Florida Orange Groves subdivision. Then the crimes of others drew new attention to his own.
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U.N. nuclear chief pushes 'sea change'
May 7 2005 8:09AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Sixty years after Hiroshima, Mohamed ElBaradei has big ideas for changing the way the world handles the atom. The sweeping overhaul he envisions _ bringing uranium and plutonium technology under tougher, possibly international control _ would mean a "sea change" in the nuclear realm. But it's necessary, the U.N. nuclear chief says, "because we are facing a threat."
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Schiavos don't know where Terri's ashes are
May 7 2005 8:08AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The family of a severely brain-damaged woman who died after her feeding tube was removed in March said Friday they still have not been told where her remains will be laid to rest.
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Rare Appalachian horses grow in popularity
May 7 2005 7:26AM (CT)
ROGERS, Ky. (AP) - Like a well-trained pet, Star can shake hands, roll over and play dead. He can also run like the wind and wear a saddle with style. Star is one of the champions of a rare equine breed developed in Appalachia at a time when people needed horses that were sure-footed enough to cross steep trails, brawny enough to pull a plow and gentle enough to give rides to children on lazy Sunday afternoons.
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Hot-rod shop pays attention to detail
May 7 2005 7:24AM (CT)
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. (AP) - Crammed into Tim Stromberger's tidy two-bay shop are hot rods-in-the-making that would make the average gearhead drool. A shiny black chopped 1949 Cadillac convertible with custom aluminum wheels. A bright yellow roadster with a chrome Jaguar rear end. A faded 1960s-era Studebaker to be restored for an owner who got in over his head trying to customize it himself.
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Site of rebellion nominated to registry
May 7 2005 6:09AM (CT)
LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) - State officials are recommending the site of the country's largest labor insurrection for the National Register of Historic Places, despite protests from landowners and members of the coal industry.
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Police replace staff after student's death
May 7 2005 5:32AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - An elite police unit that shot pepper-spray pellets at revelers after a Red Sox win last fall has replaced a quarter of its officers, including the entire command staff. A college student died from one of the pellets.
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Blake once offered $250,000 to wife's kids
May 7 2005 5:15AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Robert Blake says he once offered $250,000 to settle a wrong-death lawsuit brought by the children of his murdered wife _ a sum he no longer can afford.
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Soldier asks for review of Afghan deaths
May 7 2005 4:58AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A soldier facing a court-martial on charges related to the deaths of two Afghan detainees wants a military judge to reopen the investigation.
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FBI releases NYC teens detained for 6 weeks
May 7 2005 4:51AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The FBI has released a 16-year-old girl and will allow another to leave the country after the teens were detained for six weeks amid concerns they were potential recruits for a suicide bomb plot that never materialized.
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Carousel in Pa. undergoes restoration
May 7 2005 4:00AM (CT)
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) - It took nearly eight months, 14-hour days, dozens of cans of brightly colored paint and workers from coast to coast to take on one of the biggest jobs at a historic landmark in western Pennsylvania.
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Paleontological art available on Internet
May 7 2005 3:11AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - From a lifelike painting of a triceratops to exquisitely detailed drawings of ancient mollusk shells, a small gallery of paleontological art can be seen via the Internet.
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Snow hampers Everest climbers' evacuation
May 7 2005 2:02AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A helicopter took off from Katmandu on Saturday in a bid to rescue two Americans and four other injured climbers trapped by treacherous weather at a makeshift tent hospital on Mount Everest.
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Police ask band's fans for help
May 7 2005 1:39AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Authorities searching for a college student who vanished almost a month ago in New York are asking fans of the band Ratdog to help find him.
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Los Angeles labor leader dead at 52
May 7 2005 12:57AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Miguel Contreras, a son of migrant farmworkers who helped revive Southern California's unions in recent years as head of the politically powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, died of a heart attack Friday. He was 52.
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Emily, Jacob still most popular baby names
May 7 2005 12:53AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A lot of kids must look up when teachers call out "Emily" or "Jacob" these days. Those were the most popular babies' names last year _ and have been every year since the 1990s.
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Report: Northwest risks mad cow exposure
May 7 2005 12:51AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is still a risk, though slight, of mad cow disease in the United States, and it is greatest in the three Northwestern states bordering Canada, according to Agriculture Department investigators.
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