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Feds probe deadly Coney Island plane crash
May 22 2005 11:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal investigators on Sunday were examining the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed on a beach in Coney Island, killing all four people on board, including two high school students who were going to graduate on Tuesday.
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Iowa mother helps nap Internet predator
May 22 2005 9:38PM (CT)
GARNER, Iowa (AP) - A mother posed as her daughter on the Internet and helped police nab a man who was trying to solicit the 14-year-old for sex, authorities said.
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N.Y. audit: Sex offenders getting Viagra
May 22 2005 9:36PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Scores of convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders in New York have been getting Viagra paid by Medicaid for the last five years, the state's comptroller said Sunday.
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Psychiatrists may push for gay marriage OK
May 22 2005 9:32PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group approved a statement Sunday urging legal recognition of gay marriage. If approved by the association's directors in July, the measure would make the American Psychiatric Association the first major medical group to take such a stance.
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Pension scandal curbs San Diego services
May 22 2005 9:31PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Sandi Lehan bought her first home in December, but she worries she'll soon be unable to afford it. A new union contract proposed as the city struggles with a costly pension scandal could cut her police officer's pay as much as $500 a month, she says.
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Giuliani gives graduation speech in Vt.
May 22 2005 9:30PM (CT)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) - Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani delivered the commencement address Sunday at a school where his selection as graduation speaker touched off angry debate and led to the resignation of the student newspaper's editor after the paper ran a photo likening Giuliani to Adolf Hitler.
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High school's lone senior graduates
May 22 2005 9:29PM (CT)
OUTLOOK, Mont. (AP) - Jamie Gatz took center stage at her high school commencement and tailored the ceremony to her liking, choosing burgundy and sky blue as the colors for the Class of 2005. Gatz didn't have to compromise, and didn't have any rivals for the title of valedictorian. The young lady from a farm in northeastern Montana was the lone graduate in the weekend ceremony.
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Boy rescued after climbing in toy machine
May 22 2005 9:29PM (CT)
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - A crane vending machine can be frustrating enough when you're trying to snatch a little stuffed toy from its steely clutches. Imagine if the prize it's denying you is your own 3-year-old son.
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U.N. official calls U.S. 'ungainly giant'
May 22 2005 8:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Secretary General Kofi Annan's chief of staff called the United States an "ungainly giant" that only plays by its own rules, criticizing the U.N.'s largest donor in unusually strong terms Sunday.
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Judge in Wash. election case called fair
May 22 2005 8:50PM (CT)
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - Prosecutors, attorneys and state officials agree that the judge who will decide whether to nullify the 2004 Washington governor's election is hardworking and fair.
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Wash. election battle heads for courtroom
May 22 2005 8:45PM (CT)
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - In a nondescript courtroom in this small farming town, America's electoral system is about to stand trial. The battle over Washington's contested governor's election touches on many of the questions that divide this country between rural and urban, Republican and Democrat, red and blue _ and echoes frustrations of the past two presidential elections.
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Poll: Most want thorough check of judges
May 22 2005 8:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About four in five Americans want the Senate to thoroughly examine the president's nominees to be federal judges _ an attitude shared by a majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents questioned in a new poll. The rest say those nominees should get the benefit of the doubt and get approved by the Senate without much scrutiny, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday. The widespread desire for an aggressive role by the Senate is one of the few aspects o
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Newsweek retools policies about sources
May 22 2005 8:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Newsweek has adopted new policies for the use of anonymous sources, a week after retracting a report that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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Fla. girl, 8, found alive after kidnapping
May 22 2005 8:12PM (CT)
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) - An 8-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted and buried under rocks in a trash bin was found alive Sunday by an officer searching a landfill, authorities said. A teenager was charged with attempted murder.
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Home in deadly fire was gathering spot
May 22 2005 7:33PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Media Carter's house in a low-income neighborhood in east Cleveland was a place where neighborhood kids often stopped by to chat or eat dinner.
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Man charged with kidnap, rape of 2 girls
May 22 2005 7:27PM (CT)
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) - A man kidnapped two girls from their homes while their parents slept, took them to a construction site and raped them before sending them home, threatening to kill their families if they said anything, authorities said.
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Ex-Guantanamo prisoner was troubled youth
May 22 2005 5:33PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A former Guantanamo prisoner says he battled shyness, loneliness and suicide attempts before discovering Islam on a backpacking trip through Europe, according to a handwritten biography that paints a picture of a troubled London youth.
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Original suspect in Ind. slaying released
May 22 2005 4:45PM (CT)
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (AP) - A man charged with murdering a 10-year-old girl after falsely confessing to the crime was released from jail, one day after prosecutors charged another man in the slaying.
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Diplomats at odds over nuclear strategy
May 22 2005 2:43PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - After 21 days at a near-standstill, a global conference to toughen controls on nuclear arms enters its final week with prospects dimming for agreement on new ways to keep the ultimate weapons out of more hands.
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Iraqi family starts new life in N.D.
May 22 2005 12:49PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - The Iraqi woman had been in hiding with her children since her husband was pulled from his truck and shot in front of one of his sons. This weekend, they began a new life, brought to America with help from soldiers who befriended the slain man and were tormented by the idea that their relationship contributed to his death.
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Mom whose kids died in wreck loses twins
May 22 2005 11:10AM (CT)
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - A couple who wanted to become parents again after their two children were killed by a hit-and-run driver have lost their unborn twins due to complications with the pregnancy.
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Diocese auctions land to pay abuse claims
May 22 2005 8:50AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - More than 80 properties owned by the Catholic Diocese of Tucson were auctioned off Saturday in hopes of raising $3.2 million toward an eventual settlement to pay clergy sex abuse claims.
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American Indians protest tribal ouster
May 22 2005 8:47AM (CT)
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - More than 100 American Indians ousted from their casino-owning tribes joined hands Saturday to protest what they called money grabs by tribal leaders through disenrollment.
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Buglers scarce for veterans' funerals
May 22 2005 5:38AM (CT)
BATH, N.Y. (AP) - It began with three haunting notes from a teenage girl. A second bugler, about 100 yards down the road, picked up the tune. And then a third. More than 850 buglers, trumpeters and other horn players fanned out Saturday along 41 miles of roads in rural western New York and performed a cascading rendition of taps to highlight the scarcity of buglers at veterans' funerals.
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NYC abandons plan to ban subway photography
May 22 2005 5:09AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A proposal to ban cameras in subways to prevent terrorism has been dropped by police and transit officials. The move comes a year after city transit officials came up with the idea to forbid photography, videotaping and filming in subway stations.
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Texas may add life without parole option
May 22 2005 4:36AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - In Texas, the state that leads the nation in executions, lawmakers are considering an option already available in all but one other death penalty state: life without parole. Death penalty opponents think a sentence that would ensure murderers never get back on the streets would make a death sentence less appealing.
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Air Force task force admits omission
May 22 2005 4:36AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A task force investigating religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy acknowledged Saturday it did not meet with two outspoken critics. The Air Force task force began a review last week of reports that evangelical Protestants were harassing cadets of other faiths, and is to report Monday to the acting secretary of the Air Force, Michael Dominguez.
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Jury: Muslims' rights weren't violated
May 22 2005 4:05AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal jury has found that a Chicago suburb didn't violate the civil rights of a Muslim group that claims city officials conspired to foil its plans to turn a vacant church into a mosque and school.
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Saudis rank lowest in women's rights issues
May 22 2005 1:53AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Saudi Arabia ranked last in a study of women's rights in Middle Eastern and North African countries and was the only one of 16 nations surveyed that had no constitutional guarantees of equal protection for females, according to a report released Saturday.
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