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Chiropractor in Botox probe gets license
May 14 2005 10:02PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A chiropractor who owned the clinic where four people were paralyzed after they were injected with the raw botulism toxin instead of the anti-wrinkle drug Botox has regained his suspended license.
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Park manager disavows carnival death
May 14 2005 9:59PM (CT)
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The general manager of a Tennessee amusement park denied responsibility Saturday in the death of a woman who fell from a carnival ride last year after her safety harness broke.
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Vacationer charged with disrupting flight
May 14 2005 9:21PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A vacationing Japanese businessman has been charged with disrupting an international flight by yelling, spilling water and bumping a flight attendant after finding a hair on his blanket, officials said.
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Victims of smuggling attempt remembered
May 14 2005 9:04PM (CT)
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) - Family members of immigrants who died in the back of an airtight trailer during a smuggling attempt gathered for a tearful memorial Saturday, placing flowers and flags from their home countries along a roadside where the trailer was found.
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Marines' families await word from Iraq
May 14 2005 8:58PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Families of some Ohio Marines waited anxiously Saturday for word of whether their loved ones were injured during a major U.S. offensive in Iraq that has claimed the lives of four members of a reserve unit.
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Hundreds mourn girl slain with friend
May 14 2005 8:52PM (CT)
WINTHROP HARBOR, Ill. (AP) - Krystal Tobias loved to pick dandelions with friends and was excited to learn how to fish _ until she screamed at the sight of the worms, mourners recalled Saturday at the funeral for the second-grader killed with her best friend last week.
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MOVE marks police bombing anniversary
May 14 2005 7:42PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Under the watchful eyes of police and neighbors, the militant group MOVE marked the 20th anniversary Saturday of the police bombing that destroyed the organization's home and killed 11 members.
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Lincoln Park Zoo probed after deaths
May 14 2005 7:20PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - An endangered monkey is in quarantine while experts at the Lincoln Park Zoo try to determine what killed three other Francois langurs, the latest in a series of animal deaths that have prompted activists to call for a criminal investigation.
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Derogatory note left for dining judge
May 14 2005 6:55PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Someone taped a profane, derogatory note to the window of a restaurant where a federal judge whose mother and husband were killed earlier this year was dining under the protection of U.S. Marshals, authorities said.
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Attack ads in L.A. mayor's race heat up
May 14 2005 6:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the final days before the election, the attack ads have come on strong. The mayor is dogged by a corruption scandal. His challenger is accused of coddling child abusers and hobnobbing with a crack dealer.
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AP president urges media to build alliance
May 14 2005 5:45PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Confronted with growing government secrecy, the news media must forge a stronger alliance with the public on the need for open government policies, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley said Saturday.
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Brooklyn Bridge reopens after truck scare
May 14 2005 5:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for about two hours Saturday afternoon after discovering an unoccupied truck on the bridge's Brooklyn side.
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Missing N.M. toddler found safe in Mexico
May 14 2005 4:22PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - For Kristi Black's family and friends, it was a day to grieve and a day to rejoice. Hours after they gathered to pay their last respects to the murdered teenager, federal authorities announced they had found her missing 16-month-old son in Mexico.
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Truck discovery shuts down Brooklyn Bridge
May 14 2005 4:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for about two hours Saturday afternoon after discovering an unoccupied truck on the bridge's Brooklyn side.
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Benefit boost helps soldiers' survivors
May 14 2005 3:53PM (CT)
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - Stacey Sammis was devastated when she learned her husband, a Marine Corps helicopter pilot, had been killed in Iraq. She was insulted when she received only $6,000 as a military death benefit. Sammis eventually received another $6,000 when the military's "death gratuity" was doubled later in 2003. Last week, she learned she would be getting more.
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Government pledges action for D.C. scare
May 14 2005 3:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is pledging to take serious action against the pilot whose small plane strayed over Washington last week, leading to the panicked evacuations of the White House, the Capitol and the Supreme Court.
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DePaul dispute has blogs buzzing
May 14 2005 2:45PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A longtime DePaul University instructor who argued with pro-Palestinian students at a campus activities fair last fall no longer works for the school. That much is not in dispute.
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Legacy of gay marriage ruling mixed
May 14 2005 12:10PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Opponents saw it as a huge blow to the American family. Supporters looked on it as a moment of liberation. The first legal gay marriages in Massachusetts were a pivotal moment in America's culture wars. A year later, the legacy is mixed _ they remain legal here, and civil unions have been legalized in neighboring Connecticut, but a dozen states were propelled to prohibit same-sex weddings.
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N.M. governor criticizes GOP Congress
May 14 2005 11:03AM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - States, not the Republican-controlled Congress, are leading the way in resolving problems confronting Americans, Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson said Saturday.
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Man gets life sentence for killing family
May 14 2005 10:58AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A civil engineer who admitted killing his wife and two children by beating them with a frying pan and suffocating them has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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Witness: soldier didn't mistreat prisoners
May 14 2005 7:06AM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The second soldier to go on trial in the Abu Ghraib scandal never participated in the prisoner abuse she's accused of, a prosecution witness testified.
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New Vatican enforcer criticized over abuse
May 14 2005 4:58AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Archbishop William Levada, who catapulted Friday into the most influential Vatican post ever held by an American, has a track record of upholding Roman Catholic policies while deftly handling controversy. But his appointment as the chief enforcer of church doctrine was sharply criticized by clerical sex abuse victims, who say he's done a poor job of dealing with the crisis. Levada countered that his experience with the issue is an advantage for the church.
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Deputies apologize for L.A. shooting
May 14 2005 4:57AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ten sheriff's deputies who fired 120 rounds at an unarmed driver at the end of a chase in a quiet neighborhood appeared with a lawyer who apologized to residents on their behalf, but said the officers had acted to capture a suspect who "deserved and needed to be stopped."
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Calif. judge sides with conservationists
May 14 2005 4:47AM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A judge has sided with conservationists trying to block construction of thousands of homes north of Lake Tahoe, saying a local development plan "builds in opportunities to create environmental mischief" and violates California law.
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Progress slow in Cincinnati neighborhood
May 14 2005 3:49AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - William Howell stands in a fenced-in parking lot in a neighborhood scarred by riots four years ago, and points to a small boarded-up church.
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Marines urged to drop Iraq murder charges
May 14 2005 3:03AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Murder charges against a Marine Corps lieutenant who fatally shot two Iraqis during a search for a terrorist hideout should be dropped because key witnesses and evidence failed to back up the accusation, an investigating officer has recommended.
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Fence from grassy knoll up for auction
May 14 2005 2:45AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Conspiracy theorists and collectors, take note: A section of fencing from the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas' Dealey Plaza is going up for auction.
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Wisconsin group drops cat-killing plan
May 14 2005 2:45AM (CT)
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - A month after Gov. Jim Doyle said a plan to allow hunters to shoot stray cats was making Wisconsin a laughingstock, the public advisory group that raised the issue decided Friday to let it die.
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Fallen law enforcement officers honored
May 14 2005 2:45AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of law enforcement officers, their families, friends and the nation's new attorney general gathered Friday for a candlelight vigil to remember and pay respects to officers who died in the line of duty.
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Finger traced to woman who blamed Wendy's
May 14 2005 2:33AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - It took eight weeks, but investigators finally know where the finger came from that a woman claimed she found in her bowl of Wendy's chili.
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Counselors fired after death at Ga. camp
May 14 2005 12:07AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Five counselors at a state-run camp for troubled youngsters have been fired and a sixth resigned after a 13-year-old boy died while being restrained.
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