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Mistrial declared in Ohio shootings case
May 8 2005 10:29PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A judge declared a hung jury Sunday in the case of a man who admitted to a string of highway shootings _ one of which killed a woman _ but claimed innocence by reason of insanity.
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Farm where Boone may be buried for sale
May 8 2005 9:22PM (CT)
MARTHASVILLE, Mo. (AP) - For sale: Portion of historic farmstead. Asking price: $1.2 million. May or may not be burial place of storied frontier explorer.
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Military confronts reckless air crashes
May 8 2005 8:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A deadly aircraft accident in Afghanistan last summer is one of a series of exasperating crashes in the military that was blamed on recklessness, not enemy gunfire or faulty equipment, The Associated Press found.
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Leithold, calculus textbook author, dies
May 8 2005 7:58PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Louis Leithold, who wrote one of the most widely used calculus textbooks and helped change the way the subject is taught, has died. He was 80.
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Conn. death penalty opponents protest
May 8 2005 7:48PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Death penalty opponents set off Sunday on a five-day walk to protest the state's plans to execute a serial killer who admitted killing and raping eight young women in Connecticut and New York in the early 1980s.
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Harley-riding Ark. fireman dies in Iraq
May 8 2005 6:47PM (CT)
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Colleagues remembered a former firefighter who died during an explosion in Baghdad as a Harley-riding "gung ho" natural leader who always tried to get close to the action.
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Rev.: Political ousters a misunderstanding
May 8 2005 5:56PM (CT)
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Calling it a "great misunderstanding," the pastor of a small church who led the charge to remove nine members for their political beliefs tried to welcome them back Sunday, but some insisted he must leave for the wounds to heal.
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Church protests continue after closings
May 8 2005 2:57PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Protests ranging from round-the-clock vigils to appeals to the pope are continuing almost a year after the Archdiocese of Boston listed churches it planned to close because of dwindling numbers of priests and worshippers _ and a shortage of cash blamed in part on the clergy sex abuse crisis.
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Examples of crashes blamed on recklessness
May 8 2005 2:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The military is confronting a series of exasperating crashes blamed on pilot recklessness, including the fatal accident in which a seasoned Army pilot confessed last week that he was trying to show off performing a dangerous maneuver at low altitude.
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Submarine crash could have been avoided
May 8 2005 1:56PM (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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Quintuplet improves after heart surgery
May 8 2005 1:53PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - One of the quintuplets born to a surrogate mother last month has been upgraded to fair condition, hospital officials said.
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Party-line Bolton approval expected
May 8 2005 1:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday he expected John R. Bolton, the contentious nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to win a party-line vote in the committee this week.
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L.A. Times endorses challenger for mayor
May 8 2005 1:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Times has endorsed City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa in the May 17 mayoral run-off, saying the candidate has a "relish and intensity" for attacking the city's woes that incumbent Mayor James Hahn lacks.
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Ore. Parishes battle to keep assets
May 8 2005 12:46PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Roman Catholic parishes and schools are competing with alleged victims of clerical sex abuse to claim assets held by the Archdiocese of Portland, the first in the country to file for bankruptcy because of abuse settlements.
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Report: Boy asked for inhaler before death
May 8 2005 12:33PM (CT)
CLEVELAND, Ga. (AP) - A 13-year-old boy who died after being restrained at a state-run camp for troubled youngsters had told counselors he needed his asthma inhaler about an hour before he stopped breathing, records show.
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Alaska-Yukon link could boost economies
May 8 2005 12:32PM (CT)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - A rail link between Alaska and Canada, proposed as a faster way to transport natural resources, would also enable the United States to support anti-ballistic missile silos and military bases, a new study says.
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Transgender teen's slaying retrial opens
May 8 2005 11:47AM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - There's no debate that pretty Gwen Araujo ended up dead after the men she was partying with discovered that the 17-year-old was biologically male. But will a jury agree that it was murder?
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Pizza owner's school graduates first class
May 8 2005 11:11AM (CT)
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - The Roman Catholic university founded by Domino's pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan has graduated its first class, giving an honorary degree to L. Paul Bremer, who once led the U.S. occupation in Iraq.
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Missing Vietnam servicemen to be buried
May 8 2005 9:47AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Marine Sgt. James Neil Tycz and three other U.S. servicemen were killed on Hill 665 near Khe Sanh, Vietnam on May 9, 1967, close to the Laos border, in a battle with North Vietnamese troops. It was too dangerous to recover their bodies, so for decades, they were listed as "killed in action-body not recovered."
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Family of beheaded American seeks solace
May 8 2005 8:37AM (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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Missouri mourners remember 'Precious Doe'
May 8 2005 8:12AM (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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Congressman who led Nixon impeachment dies
May 8 2005 7:39AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Peter W. Rodino Jr., a little-noticed Democratic congressman from New Jersey until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95.
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School reduces suspension over Iraq call
May 8 2005 5:27AM (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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Couple faked death with stolen corpse
May 8 2005 5:26AM (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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Airports not rushing for private screeners
May 8 2005 3:37AM (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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AP: Race, pleas affect Ohio death penalty
May 8 2005 3:09AM (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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Dallas voters veto increasing mayor's power
May 8 2005 3:03AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Voters in this city rejected a proposal to strengthen the mayor's power, while a high-profile race for San Antonio mayor headed for a runoff.
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Death Row inmate dies in apparent suicide
May 8 2005 12:44AM (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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