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Amid probe, 3 San Diego officials resign
May 16 2005 11:30PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Three officials linked to San Diego's pension fund scandal have resigned amid deepening federal probes into the city's troubled finances, a city official said Monday in a letter.
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Petition to recall Spokane mayor rejected
May 16 2005 11:30PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Prosecutors have rejected an effort to recall Mayor James West, who has been accused of offering city jobs to men he met in gay online chat rooms, officials said Monday.
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Source: Ill. governor's office subpoenaed
May 16 2005 11:30PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office has received subpoenas from a grand jury investigating allegations that his chief fundraiser traded jobs for campaign contributions, a source close to the investigation said Monday.
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Colorado professor submits report in probe
May 16 2005 11:24PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A University of Colorado professor facing possible dismissal after being accused of plagiarism and lying about his American Indian heritage denied the allegations again in a report he submitted Monday to a committee investigating his actions.
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Harman guilty on 6 Abu Ghraib abuse counts
May 16 2005 11:20PM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A military jury on Monday convicted the second soldier to be tried in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, returning guilty verdicts on all but one of the seven charges she faced for her role in the abuse of Iraqi inmates.
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Trucker charged in theft of Basquiat work
May 16 2005 11:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A trucker was charged Monday with stealing a $1.5 million painting from a warehouse at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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Lawsuit accuses priest, church in abuse
May 16 2005 11:08PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A man filed a lawsuit Monday alleging he was molested by a priest as an altar boy in 1982 and that church officials knew the priest had sexually abused other boys in the past.
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Rugby coach beaten unconscious in Calif.
May 16 2005 10:53PM (CT)
ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) - A girls rugby coach was beaten until he was bloody and unconscious during a weekend match, and police are seeking criminal charges against as many as 10 people.
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Chicago mother charged with murdering son
May 16 2005 10:53PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman was charged Monday with strangling her 4-year-old son after he disobeyed her instruction to stay home while she left to do laundry, police said.
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Harvard reaches out to women scientists
May 16 2005 10:42PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard President Lawrence Summers committed his university Monday to spending $50 million over the next decade on a range of programs _ from mentoring to child care to late-night transport _ aimed at improving the climate for women scientists, many of whom were angered by his remarks that questioned female aptitude for top-level math and science.
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Newsweek retracts story on Quran abuse
May 16 2005 10:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
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Two killed in Tenn. small airplane crash
May 16 2005 10:36PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A single-engine airplane crashed Monday near a small airport, killing the teenage pilot and passenger, authorities said.
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Calif. vows to reform youth prisons
May 16 2005 10:24PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged Monday to house juvenile delinquents in smaller groups with more staff and to provide the youths with better treatment, counseling and schooling.
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Md. inmate dies after fight with guards
May 16 2005 10:22PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - An inmate at an overcrowded and long-troubled jail died after a fight with guards. An attorney for his family said he was beaten and stomped to death in his cell.
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High court won't revive race riot lawsuit
May 16 2005 10:03PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by hundreds of people affected by a 1921 race riot that reduced the city's then-thriving black community of Greenwood to ashes.
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Lawyer for derides Jesse Jackson comments
May 16 2005 9:58PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawyer for sheriff's deputies who fired 120 rounds at an unarmed driver rejected on Monday the Rev. Jesse Jackson's contention that the shooting was a hate crime.
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Amusement park manager convicted in death
May 16 2005 9:56PM (CT)
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An amusement park manager was convicted of reckless homicide Monday in the death of a woman who fell from a ride last year, but he avoided a murder conviction.
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Another bad hurricane season predicted
May 16 2005 9:52PM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The Atlantic Seaboard and the Gulf Coast could be in for another bad hurricane season, one of the government's top forecasters said Monday.
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Analyst supports Schwarzenegger debt plan
May 16 2005 9:49PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A plan by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to use some $4 billion in unanticipated tax money to pay off debt and reduce borrowing won approval Monday from the state's nonpartisan legislative analyst.
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Judges in Neb. give convicted killer death
May 16 2005 9:42PM (CT)
GERING, Neb. (AP) - A three-judge panel unanimously agreed to the death penalty for a man who killed a 15-year-old newspaper carrier in Nebraska two years ago.
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Abu Ghraib whistleblower wins JFK award
May 16 2005 8:41PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Army soldier who blew the whistle on abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq received a special John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Monday, an award that recognizes acts of political courage.
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Army charges three more in Afghan assault
May 16 2005 8:38PM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - Three more soldiers have been accused of assaulting detainees in 2002 at an Afghanistan detention facility where two Afghans died, Army officials said Monday.
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Probe said to give sensitive info to Annan
May 16 2005 8:37PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. oil-for-food probe violated the confidentiality of a witness by passing sensitive information about him to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his lawyer in preparation for a recent report, a former investigator claimed.
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Medal of Honor winner dies in San Antonio
May 16 2005 7:38PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Jose M. Lopez, a World War II veteran who was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly killing more than 100 German soldiers in a single skirmish, died Monday. He was 94.
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Revocation of grandparent visit law sought
May 16 2005 7:29PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A lawyer for a man who wants to limit his son's contact with the boy's grandmother argued Monday that a state law guaranteeing visitation rights to grandparents doesn't give enough weight to a parent's best judgment.
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Few jurors dismissed in terror case so far
May 16 2005 6:35PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Most potential jurors in the federal trial of a former state university professor charged with aiding a Palestinian terrorist group said they could fairly decide his fate Monday, the first day of jury selection.
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Prosecutor in Detroit terror case quits
May 16 2005 6:13PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The chief federal prosecutor in a Detroit terrorism case that fell apart because of prosecutorial misconduct resigned on Monday.
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Md. senator faints at Rodino's funeral
May 16 2005 6:05PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland fainted Monday while attending a funeral for former Rep. Peter Rodino Jr., a colleague during the Watergate investigation.
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Religious leaders agree on role of Mary
May 16 2005 5:59PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A group of Roman Catholic and Anglican leaders studying the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said Monday that after years of talks they have agreed that Catholic teachings on the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary into heaven are consistent with Anglican interpretations of the Bible.
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Lincoln Park Zoo probed after deaths
May 16 2005 5:33PM (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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Unions criticize AFL-CIO leadership
May 16 2005 5:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of organized labor's largest unions criticized the AFL-CIO's leadership Monday, contending the federation's proposal for organizing new workers is too little, too late.
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Muslim charity officer pleads not guilty
May 16 2005 5:24PM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A former officer of a defunct Islamic charity pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of lying to authorities investigating the group's alleged ties to terrorist organizations.
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Ex-Fla. Dem chief to run for governor
May 16 2005 5:23PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Scott Maddox, former chairman of Florida's Democratic Party, entered the race Monday to succeed Republican Gov. Jeb Bush.
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ACLU challenges abstinence-only program
May 16 2005 5:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the federal government has improperly used taxpayer dollars to fund Christian religious activities in a nationwide program called the Silver Ring Thing that uses music and comedy skits to promote premarital abstinence among teens.
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Mass. acceptance for married gays grows
May 16 2005 5:18PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A year after the tumult of last May, when gays lined up at city halls across Massachusetts to exchange vows and celebrated with the popping of champagne corks, many of the same-sex couples have settled into the patterns of married life.
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Jury recommends death for girl's killer
May 16 2005 5:18PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A jury Monday decided a factory worker should get the death penalty for killing Samantha Runnion, a 5-year-old girl who was seized kicking and screaming outside her home in a case that stirred outrage and led to stronger efforts to rescue abducted children.
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Obstacles can stop efforts to reuse bases
May 16 2005 5:18PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Regional planners saw a great chance to open a much needed commercial airport in Southern California after the sprawling El Toro Marine Corps Air Station closed in 1999. But six years later, the base 50 miles south of Los Angeles is in limbo.
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Small jet goes off runway into N.J. bay
May 16 2005 5:03PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A small corporate jet landing in Atlantic City ran off the runway when its brakes failed, careering into a bay. None of the four people on board was seriously injured.
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Reputed immigrant-smuggler Ping on trial
May 16 2005 4:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The woman allegedly behind a 1993 voyage that ended in the deaths of 10 illegal Chinese immigrants in the waters off New York went on trial Monday, accused of running a human smuggling ring out of a Chinatown storefront.
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IRS allows PETA to keep tax-exempt status
May 16 2005 4:37PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will retain the tax-exempt status offered to nonprofit groups after the Internal Revenue Service reviewed the animal-rights organization, a PETA attorney said Monday.
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Divers recover remains from 1972 drowning
May 16 2005 2:14PM (CT)
WHITEFISH, Mont. (AP) - Divers searched a lake where a 14-year-old boy drowned 33 years ago, and his brother recognized a pair of eyeglasses among the items pulled from the water.
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Animal rights activist awaits trial
May 16 2005 2:01PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - In 1997, two figures clad in black slipped through the northern Wisconsin pines and let hundreds of minks out of their cages. Nearly eight years later, a man identified by authorities as one of those figures, Peter Daniel Young, is about to be brought to Wisconsin for trial on federal charges in a case that could open a window on the radical animal-rights movement, which federal authorities regard as a growing terrorist threat.
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Jury selection begins in ex-prof's trial
May 16 2005 1:24PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - One potential juror was dismissed after he mentioned Sept. 11 and another when she said she has a bias, as jury selection began Monday in the trial of a former state university professor who is charged with aiding a Palestinian terrorist group.
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Mother charged in hanging death of son
May 16 2005 12:41PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman was charged with first-degree murder Monday for allegedly hanging her 4-year-old son to death by wrapping a sheet from a bunk bed around his neck, authorities said.
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Albom review finds problems with quotes
May 16 2005 11:26AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A review of more than 600 columns by Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom turned up no pattern of inaccuracies but did find the best-selling author sometimes used quotes from other news outlets without credit, the paper reported Monday.
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Ore. transient killed outside nightclub
May 16 2005 11:14AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A transient standing a block away from an argument died early Sunday when a stray bullet struck him in the chest, city police said.
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Ore. bill speeds up lost-at-sea rulings
May 16 2005 11:11AM (CT)
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) - A few months after the death of her 21-year-old son at sea in late 2001, Newport attorney Michele Eder contacted the state medical examiner's office, looking for his death certificate.
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Four killed in plane crash in Colorado
May 16 2005 10:49AM (CT)
OURAY, Colo. (AP) - Four members of a Chino, Calif., family were killed when their Cessna 210 crashed on Whitehouse Mountain in southwestern Colorado.
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Small jet goes off runway into bay in N.J.
May 16 2005 10:47AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A small corporate jet landing in Atlantic City ran off the runway when its brakes failed, careening into a bay. None of the four people on board _ rescued by a boater and some residents _ were seriously injured.
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Court: Jury should decide R.I. chase case
May 16 2005 10:33AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a lawsuit filed by a woman whose car was struck by a stolen flatbed tow truck being chased by police should be heard by a jury.
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Man accidentally shot at Pa. gun show
May 16 2005 10:26AM (CT)
MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A visitor to a gun show was shot in the shin by a gun that was supposed to be unloaded, authorities said.
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Georgetown traffic officer struck by SUV
May 16 2005 10:24AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A well-known volunteer police officer who directs traffic at a busy Georgetown intersection was fighting for his life Saturday after he was struck my a sport-utility vehicle and rushed to George Washington University Hospital in critical condition, a District of Columbia police spokesman said.
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Second slain Illinois girl laid to rest
May 16 2005 10:12AM (CT)
ZION, Ill. (AP) - Hundreds of mourners filed past the open casket of an 8-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park last week, shuffling by a picture of the beaming second-grader Sunday before her funeral. Laura Hobbs wore a red dress as she lay in a white coffin alongside a Barbie doll and a white teddy bear.
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Former Atlanta hostage gets much attention
May 16 2005 10:03AM (CT)
TAYLORS, S.C. (AP) - The woman who was held hostage by courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols has been getting offers for books, movies, speaking engagements and even marriage proposals.
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Trial resumes in Tenn. carnival-ride death
May 16 2005 9:55AM (CT)
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The manager of a Smoky Mountains amusement park pleaded his innocence to a jury that will decide if he committed murder in the fatal fall of a woman from a carnival ride.
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Okla. baby girl born at 11 ounces dies
May 16 2005 9:42AM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A baby girl who weighed 11 ounces at birth has died, a little more than three days after being delivered three months premature.
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Tailgate blamed for finger in chili claim
May 16 2005 9:07AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The finger that a woman claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili was severed in the tailgate of a truck during a work accident, an employee of an asphalt company said.
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N.J. college stunned at professor's views
May 16 2005 9:01AM (CT)
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) - Jordan Ingram always thought his history professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University was a little quirky. Jacques Pluss certainly had an unusual style, Ingram recalled. But Ingram, who is black, never thought his professor was a racist _ until after Pluss was fired.
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Priest denies gays' supporters communion
May 16 2005 8:59AM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest denied communion to more than 100 people Sunday, saying they could not receive the sacrament because they wore rainbow-colored sashes to church to show support for gay Catholics.
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N.C. teen charged with murdering parents
May 16 2005 8:38AM (CT)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - The decomposed bodies of a Chapel Hill couple might have been in their home as long as two weeks after they were shot in the head, a medical examiner said Sunday.
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Missing Ariz. teen's body found in grave
May 16 2005 8:21AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A 17-year-old boy who disappeared last year was killed during an argument with a friend and then buried at a cemetery, concealed in a woman's freshly dug grave, authorities said.
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Ex-NASA employee acquitted in shuttle case
May 16 2005 8:12AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former NASA employee was acquitted Friday of charges he failed to properly inspect the labor of contractors working on the space shuttle Discovery.
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Flawed data hinders death penalty analysis
May 16 2005 7:36AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - While state law requires the collection of data about Ohio's capital punishment system, the records are incomplete and often wrong, according to a review by The Associated Press. The result is information that makes analysis of that system difficult, countering a goal of lawmakers who hoped to use the data to make the system as fair as possible.
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Chiropractor in Botox probe gets license
May 16 2005 7:15AM (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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Collectors mean big business to USPS
May 16 2005 7:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Like any good businessman, David Failor works hard to understand his customers and make sure he has a product they will want to buy _ and maybe save. That's when his employer, the U.S. Postal Service, reaps a big profit. Stamps that are bought but not used mean $150 million to $200 million annually for the Postal Service.
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Evolution dominates campaign in Pa. town
May 16 2005 6:24AM (CT)
DOVER, Pa. (AP) - On opposite sides of town, two billboards for competing slates of school board candidates illustrate the deep divide here over the teaching of evolution and the origin of life.
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Officials: Ross case shows need for reform
May 16 2005 5:18AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Michael Ross spent the better part of 18 years on death row before being executed. He would have been there far longer had he not decided in October to end his appeals.
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Program gives kids intense view of slavery
May 16 2005 4:58AM (CT)
ALPINE, Ala. (AP) - The girl stares at the ground, the man looming beside her. Directly ahead is a path for escape. Others stand rigidly with eyes cast downward.
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Jesse Jackson: Calif. shooting a hate crime
May 16 2005 4:41AM (CT)
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson called the shooting of an unarmed driver by sheriff's deputies "a hate crime" after meeting with the man and his family.
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