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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. dies
May 16 2007 11:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Yolanda King, the firstborn child of the first family of the civil rights movement, who honored that legacy through acting and advocacy, died late Tuesday. She was 51.
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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. dies
May 16 2007 11:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Yolanda King, the firstborn child of the first family of the civil rights movement, who honored that legacy through acting and advocacy, died late Tuesday. She was 51.
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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. dies
May 16 2007 11:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Yolanda King, the firstborn child of the first family of the civil rights movement, who honored that legacy through acting and advocacy, died late Tuesday. She was 51.
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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. dies
May 16 2007 11:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Yolanda King, the firstborn child of the first family of the civil rights movement, who honored that legacy through acting and advocacy, died late Tuesday. She was 51.
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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. dies
May 16 2007 11:10PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Yolanda King, the firstborn child of the first family of the civil rights movement, who honored that legacy through acting and advocacy, died late Tuesday. She was 51.
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Texas executes man in deputy death
May 16 2007 10:49PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Kansas prison escapee was executed Wednesday for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy who was trying to pull him over for stealing $22.50 worth of gasoline from a service station.
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Navy sued over sonar drills off Hawaii
May 16 2007 10:37PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Environmental groups sued the Navy on Wednesday to compel steps they believe would protect marine mammals when sailors use sonar to practice submarine hunting off Hawaii.
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Conn. to give exonerated man $5M
May 16 2007 10:36PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The Connecticut legislature voted unanimously Wednesday to give $5 million to a man imprisoned for more than 18 years for a rape he didn't commit, then gave him a standing ovation.
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Ill. officer pleads not guilty in attack
May 16 2007 10:07PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to beating a female bartender and to threatening to arrest bar employees in a failed attempt to suppress a video of the attack that has been viewed around the world.
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Woman survives 'internal decapitation'
May 16 2007 10:00PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Even her surgeon calls her a miracle. Shannon Malloy was critically injured Jan. 25 when a car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other internal organs remained intact.
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Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof
May 16 2007 9:53PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired.
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Vets: Army doing better on mental health
May 16 2007 9:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Army is making a "dramatic turn" in how it handles soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, a member of a veterans group investigating mental health care at Fort Carson said Wednesday.
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Rights group sues over terror watch list
May 16 2007 9:31PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Civil rights lawyers sued the Bush administration Wednesday over a Treasury Department terrorist watch list, asking a federal court to order the release of documents on the secretive program.
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Rain helps N.J. fire crews douse blaze
May 16 2007 9:25PM (CT)
LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - A rainstorm Wednesday night helped firefighters make significant progress against a blaze that apparently began when a military jet dropped a flare on a bombing range.
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Rain helps N.J. fire crews douse blaze
May 16 2007 9:25PM (CT)
LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - A rainstorm Wednesday night helped firefighters make significant progress against a blaze that apparently began when a military jet dropped a flare on a bombing range.
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Ex-college student spared death penalty
May 16 2007 9:08PM (CT)
TOWSON, Md. (AP) - A former college student who raped a woman he met on MySpace.com, beat her to death and disfigured her corpse to prevent her from being identified was spared the death penalty Wednesday.
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Couple plead not guilty to caging son
May 16 2007 9:03PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A couple pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they forced their 10-year-old son to sit in a dog cage and shocked him with a remote-controlled collar.
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DNA test IDs Sept. 11 victim
May 16 2007 8:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city has identified another Sept. 11 victim from remains that have been retested with new DNA technology during the past year.
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Court clears way for stem cell grants
May 16 2007 8:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court cleared the way for the state's stem cell research agency to distribute billions of dollars in grants when it turned back a last-ditch legal challenge Wednesday.
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Immigrants plan child care
May 16 2007 8:50PM (CT)
CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) - Increasingly fearful of getting swept up in a government raid, some illegal immigrants are drawing up legal instructions designating someone to take care of their children if the parents are jailed or deported.
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Acquitted soldier may face court-martial
May 16 2007 8:48PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - A military hearing opened Wednesday to determine whether a retired soldier acquitted in the 1980s of state murder charges should now face a court-martial in the same deaths.
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NTSB: Cruise ship drifted for 2 miles
May 16 2007 8:35PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Crew members of a cruise ship that hit a charted rock said they were trying to correct course when the bottom raked across a rocky shoal, federal investigators said Wednesday.
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Toddler's body found in Denver river
May 16 2007 8:26PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Searchers found the body of a 2-year-old Wednesday in the South Platte River, several miles downstream from where he was swept away from his mother during a flash flood.
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Toddler's body found in Denver river
May 16 2007 8:26PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Searchers found the body of a 2-year-old Wednesday in the South Platte River, several miles downstream from where he was swept away from his mother during a flash flood.
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War critic's soldier son killed in Iraq
May 16 2007 8:21PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Andrew Bacevich repeatedly railed against the Iraq war in op-ed columns and interviews, calling it a "catastrophic failure." But the Boston University professor rarely, if ever, said that his son was serving in the conflict.
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Newsday columnist dies of cancer at 39
May 16 2007 7:51PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Lauren Terrazzano, a Newsday reporter who chronicled her three-year bout with lung cancer in a column, has died. She was 39.
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Newsday columnist dies of cancer at 39
May 16 2007 7:51PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Lauren Terrazzano, a Newsday reporter who chronicled her three-year bout with lung cancer in a column, has died. She was 39.
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Bible classes subject of school lawsuit
May 16 2007 7:47PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Two advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a West Texas school district on behalf of eight parents who say a Bible course violates their religious liberty.
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NYPD Republican convention papers shown
May 16 2007 7:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - They were among the more colorful protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention _ a tuxedo-wearing performance art troupe called Billionaires for Bush.
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Calif.'s wayward whales are injured
May 16 2007 7:14PM (CT)
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Two humpback whales that made a 90-mile river journey from San Francisco to the outskirts of Sacramento have injuries that appear to have come from a propeller, marine experts said Wednesday.
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Calif.'s wayward whales are injured
May 16 2007 7:14PM (CT)
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Two humpback whales that made a 90-mile river journey from San Francisco to the outskirts of Sacramento have injuries that appear to have come from a propeller, marine experts said Wednesday.
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Groups fight Texas town immigration rule
May 16 2007 7:01PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Opponents of a voter-approved ordinance banning landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants asked a court Wednesday to halt its enforcement, alleging the law is unconstitutional.
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Hearings sought in Ethiopian detention
May 16 2007 6:56PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - An attorney for the family of a New Jersey man being held in Ethiopia for alleged ties to Islamic militants is calling for congressional hearings to determine what the U.S. government is doing to help him.
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No charges over Calif. campaign letter
May 16 2007 6:48PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state attorney general's office said Wednesday it will not charge a former congressional candidate whose campaign mailed letters warning immigrants against voting.
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S.C. Senate passes abortion compromise
May 16 2007 6:35PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Women seeking an abortion in South Carolina would be able, but not required, to view an ultrasound first under a compromise bill that received approval Wednesday in the state Senate.
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Report raises concerns over LA police
May 16 2007 6:15PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal monitor overseeing reforms at the Los Angeles police department says a violent clash at a pro-immigration rally raised questions about the progress of officer training.
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Court keeps mother off birth certificate
May 16 2007 6:05PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A surrogate mother who has no genetic connection to the baby she is carrying does not have to be listed as the mother on a birth certificate, Maryland's highest court ruled Wednesday.
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Documents shed light on Fort Dix suspect
May 16 2007 6:01PM (CT)
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - One of the six men charged last week in a suspected plot to attack soldiers at Fort Dix told the others how to make bombs and gave them weapons, authorities said in a legal filing Wednesday.
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New Orleans pilots raise safety concerns
May 16 2007 5:46PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city's Lakefront Airport has long been the preferred airfield for business executives and celebrities because it avoids crowds of commercial passengers and offers easy access to downtown.
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Strippers protest curbs on exotic club
May 16 2007 5:45PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Strippers held up a banner from the Ohio House balcony on Wednesday to protest a bill that would ban patrons from touching dancers.
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16 cities to go green under Clinton plan
May 16 2007 5:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Sixteen cities around the world will get financing to "go green" by renovating buildings they own with technology designed to cut carbon emissions, former President Clinton announced Wednesday.
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16 cities to go green under Clinton plan
May 16 2007 5:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Sixteen cities around the world will get financing to "go green" by renovating buildings they own with technology designed to cut carbon emissions, former President Clinton announced Wednesday.
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16 cities to go green under Clinton plan
May 16 2007 5:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Sixteen cities around the world will get financing to "go green" by renovating buildings they own with technology designed to cut carbon emissions, former President Clinton announced Wednesday.
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Hometown mourns Falwell
May 16 2007 5:05PM (CT)
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - There was a time, before Jerry Falwell became a household name, when Lynchburg was just Lynchburg _ a small industrial city known for factories and mills.
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Feds raid New Orleans-area gun shop
May 16 2007 4:57PM (CT)
JEFFERSON, La. (AP) - Federal agents seized hundreds of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a suburban New Orleans gun store Wednesday, saying illegal sales helped fuel a burgeoning crime problem.
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Feds raid New Orleans-area gun shop
May 16 2007 4:57PM (CT)
JEFFERSON, La. (AP) - Federal agents seized hundreds of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a suburban New Orleans gun store Wednesday, saying illegal sales helped fuel a burgeoning crime problem.
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Feds raid New Orleans-area gun shop
May 16 2007 4:57PM (CT)
JEFFERSON, La. (AP) - Federal agents seized hundreds of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a suburban New Orleans gun store Wednesday, saying illegal sales helped fuel a burgeoning crime problem.
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Hezbollah speech not properly screened
May 16 2007 4:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Overseers of the United States government's Arabic-language satellite television network say a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was not screened for anti-Israel content before broadcast because no supervisor spoke Arabic.
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Jury acquits airman in base slaying
May 16 2007 4:18PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An airman was acquitted Wednesday of killing a U.S. servicewoman, who was beaten and stabbed at a military base in Iceland, to keep her from testifying against him in a theft case.
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Arrest made in S.C. missing officer case
May 16 2007 4:14PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A "person of interest" in the disappearance of a constable whose police cruiser was found in flames was arrested early Wednesday on a federal weapons charge in North Carolina, police said.
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170 New Yorkers' gay marriages upheld
May 16 2007 4:03PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The marriages of more than 170 gay couples from New York who wed in Massachusetts before last July are valid because New York had not yet explicitly banned same-sex marriages, a Massachusetts judge ruled.
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More students know their history, civics
May 16 2007 3:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More students are learning the basics when it comes to history and civics, but they aren't rising to the next level, national tests show.
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Fla. woman gets life for killing son
May 16 2007 3:13PM (CT)
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - A woman was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing her 7-year-old adopted son in a notorious 1995 child abuse case that forced sweeping changes in the state's child-protection system.
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Spector driver tells of fateful night
May 16 2007 2:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Phil Spector's chauffeur testified Wednesday that he fled after seeing his boss with a gun and the body of an actress inside the producer's home _ and feared he could have been shot himself.
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Spector driver tells of fateful night
May 16 2007 2:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Phil Spector's chauffeur testified Wednesday that he fled after seeing his boss with a gun and the body of an actress inside the producer's home _ and feared he could have been shot himself.
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Ga. swamp fire could burn for months
May 16 2007 2:24PM (CT)
FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) - Mark Ruggiero has 400 firefighters, 56 engines, 49 bulldozers and nine helicopters under his command. And that still won't be enough to snuff out the wildfires that have shrouded the Okefenokee Swamp in smoke and flame for the past month.
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Man pleads guilty to 3 N.Y. murders
May 16 2007 1:33PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A man prosecutors suspect of preying on more than a dozen women as the "Bike Path Rapist" pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering three women since 1990, including two whose bodies were found on bike paths.
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Man pleads guilty to 3 N.Y. murders
May 16 2007 1:33PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A man prosecutors suspect of preying on more than a dozen women as the "Bike Path Rapist" pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering three women since 1990, including two whose bodies were found on bike paths.
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Police: Buckling up not just for daytime
May 16 2007 12:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Police across the country plan to crack down on late-night motorists who don't buckle their seat belts during the weeks surrounding Memorial Day.
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Fort Drum mourns its missing soldiers
May 16 2007 11:02AM (CT)
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Drum soldiers said an ambush in Iraq that left four of their comrades dead and three missing will only work to unite America and strengthen the military's determination.
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Fort Drum mourns its missing soldiers
May 16 2007 11:02AM (CT)
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Drum soldiers said an ambush in Iraq that left four of their comrades dead and three missing will only work to unite America and strengthen the military's determination.
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Fort Drum mourns its missing soldiers
May 16 2007 11:02AM (CT)
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Drum soldiers said an ambush in Iraq that left four of their comrades dead and three missing will only work to unite America and strengthen the military's determination.
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Fort Drum mourns its missing soldiers
May 16 2007 11:02AM (CT)
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Drum soldiers said an ambush in Iraq that left four of their comrades dead and three missing will only work to unite America and strengthen the military's determination.
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Fort Drum mourns its missing soldiers
May 16 2007 11:02AM (CT)
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Drum soldiers said an ambush in Iraq that left four of their comrades dead and three missing will only work to unite America and strengthen the military's determination.
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Fort Drum mourns its missing soldiers
May 16 2007 11:02AM (CT)
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Fort Drum soldiers said an ambush in Iraq that left four of their comrades dead and three missing will only work to unite America and strengthen the military's determination.
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Feds push terrorist label on arsonists
May 16 2007 10:37AM (CT)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Prosecutors trying to get a group of environmental activists declared terrorists for burning animal research, logging and other businesses outraged the defense in court by comparing the defendants to Klansmen.
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Judge allows autopsy on executed inmate
May 16 2007 10:00AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge ruled that the state can perform an autopsy on an executed inmate, despite his earlier objection that the procedure would conflict with his religious beliefs.
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Notre Dame basilica spire falls in storm
May 16 2007 9:39AM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A powerful storm toppled a small spire from the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart and left more than 16,000 people without power Wednesday.
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Notre Dame basilica spire falls in storm
May 16 2007 9:39AM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A powerful storm toppled a small spire from the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart and left more than 16,000 people without power Wednesday.
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Notre Dame basilica spire falls in storm
May 16 2007 9:39AM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A powerful storm toppled a small spire from the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart and left more than 16,000 people without power Wednesday.
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Notre Dame basilica spire falls in storm
May 16 2007 9:39AM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A powerful storm toppled a small spire from the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart and left more than 16,000 people without power Wednesday.
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2 trains derail, disrupt Amtrak in Wash.
May 16 2007 9:28AM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Two freight trains derailed in western Washington early Wednesday, disrupting Amtrak travel and spilling diesel fuel near a river a few miles upstream from the Nisqually Delta National Wildlife Refuge, officials said.
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New Orleans neighborhood rescues itself
May 16 2007 8:20AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Paul Pablovich was the very picture of a good neighbor as he shoveled debris off the curb and mowed other people's lawns in Lakeview, a middle-class section of town that was swamped with 15 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina and is now a patchwork of gutted and newly built homes.
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New Orleans neighborhood rescues itself
May 16 2007 8:20AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Paul Pablovich was the very picture of a good neighbor as he shoveled debris off the curb and mowed other people's lawns in Lakeview, a middle-class section of town that was swamped with 15 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina and is now a patchwork of gutted and newly built homes.
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New Orleans neighborhood rescues itself
May 16 2007 8:20AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Paul Pablovich was the very picture of a good neighbor as he shoveled debris off the curb and mowed other people's lawns in Lakeview, a middle-class section of town that was swamped with 15 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina and is now a patchwork of gutted and newly built homes.
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New Orleans neighborhood rescues itself
May 16 2007 8:20AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Paul Pablovich was the very picture of a good neighbor as he shoveled debris off the curb and mowed other people's lawns in Lakeview, a middle-class section of town that was swamped with 15 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina and is now a patchwork of gutted and newly built homes.
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N.Y. couple faces forced labor charges
May 16 2007 8:20AM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - A millionaire couple were arrested on federal charges that they kept two Indonesian women as slaves in their swank Long Island home for more than five years, beating and abusing them and paying them almost nothing.
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Workers sue owners of raided factory
May 16 2007 6:30AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A company targeted in an immigration raid in March tried to avoid paying overtime by making it appear workers were being paid by two separate companies, according to a lawsuit.
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Workers sue owners of raided factory
May 16 2007 6:30AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A company targeted in an immigration raid in March tried to avoid paying overtime by making it appear workers were being paid by two separate companies, according to a lawsuit.
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Ex-Philly pol wins Dem. mayoral primary
May 16 2007 4:02AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A former city councilman who promised to eradicate corruption at City Hall and crack down on gun violence fended off a big-spending businessman and two popular congressmen to win the Democratic nomination for mayor.
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Ex-Philly pol wins Dem. mayoral primary
May 16 2007 4:02AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A former city councilman who promised to eradicate corruption at City Hall and crack down on gun violence fended off a big-spending businessman and two popular congressmen to win the Democratic nomination for mayor.
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Report: Bono objects to penthouse smoke
May 16 2007 3:58AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Bono is grappling with a new version of the unforgettable fire, and it has nothing to do with his band's 1984 album: The rocker-activist is embroiled in a flap over fireplaces at his Manhattan apartment building.
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ZZ Top cancels European tour
May 16 2007 2:39AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - ZZ Top has canceled its European tour so a band member can undergo treatment for a benign growth in his inner ear that's affecting his hearing.
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Mayor who targeted illegals wins _ twice
May 16 2007 1:22AM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national attention by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday _ and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too.
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