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Black students' suit claims racist abuse
May 19 2005 10:38PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four black students claimed in a civil rights lawsuit Thursday that officials haven't done enough to quell racist slurs and graffiti by white supremacists at a suburban high school.
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FAA at fatal La. hot air balloon accident
May 19 2005 10:34PM (CT)
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration arrived Thursday at the site of a hot air balloon crash that killed two occupants in view of horrified onlookers.
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Parks' sex offenders stance draws concern
May 19 2005 10:32PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Bob Levan bought season passes to Six Flags Great America for his daughters and their best friend, but he is worried he won't be able to ride the roller coasters with them because he is a convicted sex offender.
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Chess tournament draws worldwide players
May 19 2005 10:21PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - About 2,000 chess players gathered Thursday for a $500,000 open chess tournament _ the richest purse attracting the largest turnout of any open chess tourney in the world, organizers said.
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FBI: Phila. police commissioner wore wire
May 19 2005 10:19PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The city's top cop donned a hidden microphone in 2002 to secretly record conversations with one of the targets of the FBI's sweeping probe of government corruption in Philadelphia, an agent revealed Thursday during a trial.
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Colo. woman sues Rockies over loss of leg
May 19 2005 10:17PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A woman who lost a leg following an escalator accident at Coors Field is suing the Colorado Rockies, the escalator manufacturer and the baseball stadium municipal district for more than $700,000.
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School sued so paper can run items on gays
May 19 2005 10:16PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Student journalists sued their Bakersfield high school district Thursday in an effort to keep the school's principal from censoring student newspaper articles on homosexuality.
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Man ruled out as suspect in Idaho deaths
May 19 2005 10:07PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Detectives who questioned a man in the killings of three people ruled him out as a suspect Thursday and said they still had no idea where two children missing from the family's home were.
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Suspect charged in Kansas bank heist
May 19 2005 10:02PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Federal charges were filed Thursday against a man accused in a bank robbery in which people were forced to strip to their underwear and taken hostage. The accused gunman was later shot while allegedly trying to commandeer a plane.
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Texas judge orders man jailed on holidays
May 19 2005 10:00PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A man who admitted driving drunk when he hit and killed a 10-year-old boy has been ordered by a judge to spend Christmas Day, New Year's Day and the child's birthday in jail for the next 10 years.
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Gay-marriage opponents in Calif. seek ban
May 19 2005 9:57PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gay marriage opponents Thursday filed a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage and strip domestic partners of most spousal benefits.
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Convicted Iowa priest hired by Diocese
May 19 2005 9:54PM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to using a church computer to download child pornography has been hired to perform maintenance duties at the Davenport Diocese.
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Ohio court won't punish lawyers over vote
May 19 2005 9:41PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ending one of the last fights from the contentious 2004 presidential campaign, Ohio's top judge on Thursday declined to punish four attorneys who had challenged the results in court.
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Sen. Kennedy kin on stand in Clinton case
May 19 2005 9:41PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A brother-in-law of Sen. Edward Kennedy testified in federal court Thursday against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former national finance director, who is accused of lying to regulators about the cost of a lavish Hollywood fundraiser.
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Calif. to ban political ads on cell phones
May 19 2005 9:32PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Politicians would be barred from text messaging cell phone and pager users with unwanted campaign ads under legislation approved Thursday by the California Assembly.
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City of Boston to lift American Indian ban
May 19 2005 9:26PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Legislature on Thursday repealed a 330-year-old law that barred American Indians from entering Boston and has long irked area tribes _ even though it hasn't been enforced.
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Victim bites criminal, supplying evidence
May 19 2005 9:24PM (CT)
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - A sexual assault victim provided authorities with DNA evidence against her attacker by biting off a piece of his finger and holding it in her mouth until she could contact police, officials said.
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Nurse pleads guilty in diluted shot case
May 19 2005 9:13PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A nurse accused of going around a college campus and giving students watered-down flu shots at $20 each pleaded guilty Thursday to dispensing a drug without a prescription.
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NYC firefighter in chair assault fired
May 19 2005 8:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A firefighter charged with bashing a colleague in the face with a metal chair on New Year's Eve 2003 has been fired, the department said Thursday.
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Two thyroid cancer victims win $500,000
May 19 2005 8:43PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A federal jury awarded more than $500,000 Thursday to two thyroid cancer victims who blamed their disease on radiation from the government's Hanford nuclear installation, which made plutonium for bombs for four decades.
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U.S. weighs consolidating bomb materials
May 19 2005 8:36PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - To guard against terrorists storming a U.S. weapons lab and setting off a crude nuclear device, the Bush administration is considering consolidating much of the nation's plutonium and bomb-grade uranium at a few highly secure sites, including concrete bunkers in Idaho.
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FBI opens probe of inmate's beating death
May 19 2005 8:29PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the beating death of a detainee at a long-troubled jail that has been criticized for crowded conditions, a spokesman for the bureau said Thursday.
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Md. governor removes appointee over slur
May 19 2005 8:26PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Thursday removed the chairman of a judicial nominating committee who came under fire for using the term "wetbacks" in a Web log posting.
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LA train crash suspect pleads not guilty
May 19 2005 8:24PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The man accused of causing a collision of two commuter trains that killed 11 people and injured nearly 200 pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and arson charges.
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Fla. doctor convicted in pill trafficking
May 19 2005 8:23PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A doctor accused of running a "pill mill" was convicted Thursday of drug trafficking but acquitted of first-degree murder in a patient's fatal overdose.
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Unique oral history project goes on tour
May 19 2005 8:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A grandson asked his granddad what made him most proud. A paramedic talked about washing bottles as a kid so he could buy cocoa. A sister told of being so close to her brother "sometimes I think I am him."
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Study: Foster youth hurt by early exits
May 19 2005 8:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Young people who leave the foster care system at age 18 _ the time when most traditionally "age out" of the system _ are much more likely to be unemployed and not in school than those who continue to receive state support into early adulthood, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.
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Army schedules abuse hearing for England
May 19 2005 8:17PM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The Army scheduled a hearing for next week to decide whether to court-martial Pfc. Lynndie England in the Iraqi prisoner abuse case, Fort Hood officials said Thursday.
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Texas executes second killer in two days
May 19 2005 7:53PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - In the state's second execution in as many days, a former mechanic was put to death Thursday for robbing and fatally shooting a man.
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Report: Calif. diocese tried to hide abuse
May 19 2005 7:44PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Leaders of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange scripted public statements to hide sexual misconduct involving a priest and a choir teacher, according to a newspaper account of sealed documents that were accidentally released.
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Husband of suspect in Wendy's case jailed
May 19 2005 7:40PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The husband of a woman accused of planting a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili was extradited Thursday and booked into jail.
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Cuban charged with entering U.S. illegally
May 19 2005 7:36PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A Cuban militant whose presence in the United States opened the government to allegations it was sheltering a terrorist was charged Thursday with entering this country illegally _ a move that could lead to his deportation.
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Officer guilty of sending arms from Iraq
May 19 2005 7:28PM (CT)
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - A military judge Thursday found an Air Force officer guilty of illegally shipping a small arsenal of automatic weapons and hundreds of other war souvenirs home from Iraq.
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Reports: Letourneau, Fualaau to wed Friday
May 19 2005 7:24PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil _ the father of her two youngest children _ will be married Friday night, "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" reported Thursday.
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Ground zero cultural center plans unveiled
May 19 2005 7:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The planned cultural center at the World Trade Center site will house a visual arts area devoted to drawing, a visitor's hub and a center focusing on the global struggle for freedom, according to plans unveiled Thursday.
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Building under renovation collapses in NYC
May 19 2005 7:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A three-story building under renovation collapsed Thursday to a pile of rubble, injuring 11 construction workers, one critically, officials said.
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Fayetteville Observer columnist suspended
May 19 2005 6:48PM (CT)
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A columnist for The Fayetteville Observer has been suspended for one week for failing to properly attribute material appearing in his columns, the newspaper said.
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N.Y. agency to comply on record searches
May 19 2005 6:45PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Driven by a court ruling, a state agency has formally ended its 30-year practice of allowing the subjects of Freedom of Information Law requests to help decide what public records should be released.
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N.Y. agency to comply on record searches
May 19 2005 6:24PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Driven by a court ruling, a state agency has formally ended its 30-year practice of allowing the subjects of Freedom of Information Law requests to help decide what public records should be released.
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Ark. education battle headed back to court
May 19 2005 6:04PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas believed it settled a long-running fight over school funding last year, but nearly a quarter of the state's school districts were back in court Thursday accusing the Legislature of neglecting education.
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Jeb Bush builds on GOP base as Fla. gov.
May 19 2005 4:54PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - No, Gov. Jeb Bush didn't get his way this spring on class size or Terri Schiavo. But even his political foes admit he has had a remarkably effective run over the past seven years if he ever wants to follow his father and his brother into the White House.
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Fay Vincent resigns board seat in protest
May 19 2005 4:34PM (CT)
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent resigned from several church institutions and refused an honorary degree to protest an editor's removal at a Roman Catholic magazine.
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Calif. nun may face hit-and-run charges
May 19 2005 4:27PM (CT)
REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) - A nun may be charged with felony hit-and-run for leaving the scene of a car accident she caused in which a woman suffered a broken arm, police said.
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Panel suggests cameras for Ga. courthouse
May 19 2005 4:23PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Courtroom surveillance cameras and proper restraints for inmates were recommended Thursday among ways to improve security at the courthouse that was the site of a shooting rampage two months ago.
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3 ex-Oakland police officers acquitted
May 19 2005 4:17PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A retrial of three former police officers accused of beating and framing suspects produced no convictions Thursday, with the jury deadlocking on most counts and issuing acquittals for the others.
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Jury asks Falwell about church donation
May 19 2005 3:38PM (CT)
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A federal grand jury investigating the mayor of Lynchburg has questioned the Rev. Jerry Falwell about $32,500 that his ministry gave to the mayor's church.
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U.N. talks of strengthening nuke treaty
May 19 2005 3:31PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Delegates from 188 nations started serious discussions Thursday on strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after spending nearly three weeks of their monthlong conference bogged down in procedural wrangling.
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4 jailed on suspicion of child sex abuse
May 19 2005 3:27PM (CT)
PONCHATOULA, La. (AP) - A minister and members of his "cult-like" following are suspected of sexually molesting as many as two dozen children _ as well as dogs and cats _ at their church, authorities say.
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Lawyers: Bush slay plot suspect tortured
May 19 2005 2:54PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Two doctors who examined a Virginia man accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush have concluded that he was tortured while in Saudi custody, according to defense lawyers.
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Maine airport has key role in terror war
May 19 2005 2:33PM (CT)
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A few years ago, during the air-rage era, Bangor International Airport was known as the place where unruly passengers were dropped off. Now, in the post-Sept. 11 era, it plays a role in the war against terrorism.
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Jury seated for ex-professor terror trial
May 19 2005 2:11PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A jury was seated Thursday for the trial of a former college professor accused of supporting Palestinian terrorists. But his lawyers said they will continue to press to have the case moved out of Tampa.
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Ex-baggage screener in Detroit convicted
May 19 2005 1:53PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A man who was discharged from the Air Force amid allegations he expressed sympathy for Osama bin Laden was found guilty Thursday of lying to get a job as a baggage screener at the Detroit airport.
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Indonesia quake victim has surgery in Mo.
May 19 2005 1:28PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - An 8-year-old girl whose home was damaged by an Indonesian earthquake has successfully undergone surgery on a birth defect to remove an unsightly bulge between her eyes that seemed to swallow up her nose, a surgeon said Thursday.
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Inmate's organ donor wish poses quandary
May 19 2005 1:23PM (CT)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A death row inmate's request that his execution next week be delayed so he can be an organ donor for his ailing sister isn't the first time a condemned man has tried to donate an organ. But the issue of a condemned inmate donating an organ does raise ethical concerns.
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Two Houston police officers fired
May 19 2005 1:16PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Two Houston police officers were fired after they were accused of downloading nude photographs of a suspected drunken driver from her camera phone.
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Spokane panel may seek mayor resignation
May 19 2005 11:50AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The City Council will vote on whether to demand the resignation of Mayor James West, who has been accused of offering city jobs to men he met in gay online chat rooms.
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Religion news in brief
May 19 2005 11:32AM (CT)
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Members of the Pentecostal religious community in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have been harassed and beaten this month, the group's leader said.
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Parents-to-be learn pregnancy is failing
May 19 2005 10:34AM (CT)
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - A couple who are trying to become parents again after losing their two children to a hit-and-run driver in 2003 have been told their new pregnancy is failing.
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Ill. man agrees to settle libel lawsuit
May 19 2005 10:30AM (CT)
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - A football player's father agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused him of calling the high school coach a "buffoon" and "incompetent" during a successful effort to get him fired.
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Utah teen seeks to block pedophile parole
May 19 2005 10:07AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A teenage girl who has fought parole for the grandfather accused of molesting her 11 years ago said Thursday that she was almost too upset to testify when he finally admitted the sexual abuse last week.
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Truck slams into Minn. sheriff's deputy
May 19 2005 7:39AM (CT)
LITTLE CANADA, Minn. (AP) - A sheriff's deputy helping a woman along a busy highway was slammed by a pickup truck but escaped with only minor injuries.
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Drunk driving defendant sobs at sentencing
May 19 2005 7:18AM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A drunk driver being sentenced for a fatal crash sobbed and expressed remorse on the witness stand _ then made a nasty remark to the victim's daughter as he was leaving the courtroom.
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Report: Muslim world largely anti-American
May 19 2005 7:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It suggested the U.S. burnish its image with a change in tone and by publicizing aid programs.
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Awe marks Mount St. Helens anniversary
May 19 2005 6:56AM (CT)
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. (AP) - Hundreds of tourists, foresters and government officials reflected with humility and awe Wednesday on the 25th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which killed 57 people and turned day to night across eastern Washington.
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Paul Keene, organic farmer, dies at 94
May 19 2005 6:37AM (CT)
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Paul K. Keene, a former missionary who founded one of the nation's oldest organic farms and proved that growing natural foods can be good business, has died. He was 94.
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Trump sounds off on World Trade Center
May 19 2005 6:37AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - To Donald Trump, the proposals for the replacement for the World Trade Center look like a junkyard. His solution? Rebuild the twin towers, more or less.
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Poll: Hispanics back new L.A. mayor
May 19 2005 6:13AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Antonio Villaraigosa attracted substantial support from Hispanics, Democrats, liberals and younger voters to be elected mayor of the nation's second-largest city, an exit poll shows.
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Lawsuit seeks to stop killing of wild pigs
May 19 2005 5:29AM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Calif. (AP) - A man filed a lawsuit to stop the killing of thousands of wild pigs on Santa Cruz Island, a project meant to save the endangered foxes that also live there.
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Exhibit honors John Paul II's efforts
May 19 2005 5:21AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The late Pope John Paul II once said it was necessary for Christians and Jews to be "first a blessing to one another," and many credit the pontiff with bringing followers of each faith closer.
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N.M. puts finishing touch on Po'pay statue
May 19 2005 5:08AM (CT)
JEMEZ PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) - He is an unlikely looking revolutionary, his only armor a deerskin cloak draped over his bare chest, his sole weapon a knotted rope.
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Murder charges sought against Marine
May 19 2005 4:22AM (CT)
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A prosecutor seeking murder charges against a Marine officer who fatally shot two Iraqis during a search for a terrorist hideout has criticized a report that recommends no court-martial in the case.
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Pit bull mauls 2-year-old girl to death
May 19 2005 4:20AM (CT)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - The dog, a pit bull named Brutus, was wild-eyed when the firefighters walked into the house. They watched it _ the hair on its neck standing on end _ ram the door like a bull.
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Tons of debris bagged in coastal cleanup
May 19 2005 4:11AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Cigarettes and food wrappers were the most common types of trash plucked from beaches in a worldwide coastal cleanup last year, statistics show.
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Feds to restrict off-road vehicles in West
May 19 2005 3:43AM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - For decades, off-road vehicle enthusiasts have been mostly free to roam federal forests and rangelands. Those freewheeling days could be numbered, though.
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Troops back from Iraq relate to veterans
May 19 2005 3:20AM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - When Josh Krook came home from Iraq, he had to contend with a struggling marriage at the same time he was haunted by memories of people dying in a war zone.
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Baltimore mayor slams governor
May 19 2005 12:07AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The mayor Wednesday accused Gov. Robert Ehrlich of "cowardly abuse of power," saying he's using a dirty tricks campaign to keep alive rumors of the mayor's alleged infidelity.
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