|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Colorado governor vetoes gay-rights bill
May 27 2005 11:36PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Gov. Bill Owens vetoed a bill Friday that would have outlawed workplace discrimination against gays. But he allowed a measure to take effect extending protection to gays under Colorado's hate crimes law.
|
|
|
Suspect still perched atop Atlanta crane
May 27 2005 10:49PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A homicide suspect remained perched on an 18-story construction crane for a third day Friday, holding police at bay and causing a spectacle in the city's entertainment district.
|
|
|
U.N. nuke conference offers no new action
May 27 2005 10:37PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A monthlong conference to toughen global controls on nuclear arms ended Friday with nothing to show for its four weeks of divisive work.
|
|
|
Ohio official resigns amid coin scandal
May 27 2005 10:36PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The director of Ohio's workers' compensation bureau resigned under pressure Friday over the disappearance of at least $10 million worth of rare coins that the agency had bought as an investment.
|
|
|
Former aide to Sen. Clinton acquitted
May 27 2005 10:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The former national finance director for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign was acquitted Friday of lying to the government about a lavish 2000 Hollywood fundraising gala.
|
|
|
Son of Minn. state lawmaker killed in Iraq
May 27 2005 10:28PM (CT)
ST. PAUL (AP) - The son of a Minnesota state senator was killed in Iraq when his helicopter was shot down, officials said. It was the second tour in Iraq for Chief Warrant Officer Matt Lourey, 41, who flew helicopters with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division _ though his mother, Sen. Becky Lourey, and other relatives opposed the war and had tried to talk him out of it.
|
|
|
Half of Americans planning summer vacation
May 27 2005 10:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Half of Americans plan to take a vacation trip this summer, and many more say they would if they had the time and the money, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll found.
|
|
|
Man run over by erratic driver released
May 27 2005 10:15PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An aspiring rapper who survived a terrifying accident in which he was run over by a speeding car left the hospital Friday, and was already plotting how to spin his 15 minutes of fame into a rap career. Among his ideas: a rap CD titled "Mow Me Down."
|
|
|
Neb. suspect eludes police in bridge jump
May 27 2005 9:56PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A man being pursued by police because he was driving a car linked to several burglaries jumped out of the moving vehicle and leaped off a bridge into the Missouri River _ and survived.
|
|
|
Bias lawsuit filed against Colo. company
May 27 2005 9:52PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a racial discrimination lawsuit Friday against a company where a noose was allegedly hung over a chalk outline of a body in the work area of a black employee.
|
|
|
Lawsuit: Authorities conspired vs. inmate
May 27 2005 9:45PM (CT)
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A former Illinois death row inmate whose double-murder conviction was overturned in 2004 filed a lawsuit Friday alleging authorities conspired to frame him and another man still serving a life sentence in the case.
|
|
|
Fla. child-rape suspect in U.S. illegally
May 27 2005 9:33PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A teenager charged with raping an 8-year-old girl and leaving her for dead at an abandoned landfill is in the United States illegally _ status that escaped notice despite three arrests, officials said.
|
|
|
Indigenous groups demand world interest
May 27 2005 9:32PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Turban-clad tribesmen and monks in saffron robes joined indigenous groups from around the world Friday in demanding that their home countries and the United Nations take their interests into account in the push to spread education and eradicate poverty.
|
|
|
First-ever Seattle heat warning issued
May 27 2005 9:32PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Make that an iced coffee. While the Northeast was bidding farewell to unseasonable temperatures in the 40s, residents of the northwest corner of the nation dusted off the sunscreen and shorts Friday as the National Weather Service issued its first-ever heat advisory for Seattle.
|
|
|
Marines in NYC for Fleet Week visit WTC
May 27 2005 9:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of troops here for Fleet Week took time off Friday to attend two events to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks _ one a very public show of strength, the other quiet and private.
|
|
|
Navy SEAL acquitted of abusing Iraqi
May 27 2005 9:20PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A military jury acquitted a Navy SEAL lieutenant Friday of beating an Iraqi prisoner who later died. Jurors deliberated about three hours before finding Lt. Andrew K. Ledford not guilty of all charges.
|
|
|
Diocese says it can't use parishes to pay
May 27 2005 9:18PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane said Friday it does not own 81 parish churches and nearly 100 other assets _ and cannot use them to pay alleged victims of sexual abuse by priests.
|
|
|
U.S. Forest Service suspends whistleblower
May 27 2005 8:15PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service has suspended an agency official who complained that some of its managers ignored environmental laws and rules for the spraying of pesticides and weed-killers on forests.
|
|
|
Man to return to Chicago, face rape charge
May 27 2005 8:04PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A man who jumped bail and fled to Europe after he was charged with taking part in a videotaped rape returned to Illinois on Friday after surrendering overseas, authorities said.
|
|
|
Cell phones can be a lifeline for migrants
May 27 2005 8:02PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The 23 illegal immigrants were lost in the southern Arizona desert, where the temperatures had soared to more than 100 degrees. They were running out of water, running out of time.
|
|
|
Va. woman charged in attempted poisoning
May 27 2005 8:00PM (CT)
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - A woman was charged with attempted poisoning for allegedly applying an equine anti-inflammatory drug to the riding helmet of a woman with whom she was feuding, police said.
|
|
|
12 hurt when semi hits church van in Ind.
May 27 2005 7:55PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A semitrailer slammed into a church van at an intersection Friday, injuring the van's 11 passengers and the truck driver.
|
|
|
Tenn. lawmaker placed under house arrest
May 27 2005 7:54PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A judge ordered that a state senator be placed under house arrest Friday over the objections of prosecutors, who played a video of the lawmaker watching an undercover agent count out $10,000 and an audiotape of him threatening a potential witness.
|
|
|
N.Y. court rules mayor will face trial
May 27 2005 7:11PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The village mayor who challenged New York law by attempting to marry gay couples last year will face trial, the state's highest court ruled Friday.
|
|
|
Judge OKs initial train crash deal in S.C.
May 27 2005 6:38PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A judge approved a settlement Friday that would reimburse residents and businesses affected by the country's deadliest train wreck involving hazardous material in nearly three decades.
|
|
|
New leader says Gold Star may change rules
May 27 2005 6:17PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A rule preventing non-citizens from joining the American Gold Star Mothers Inc. after they lose a son or daughter in the U.S. armed forces could eventually be changed, the incoming president said Friday after the group received complaints over an immigrant woman who was shut out.
|
|
|
Judge OKs Utah polygamous church request
May 27 2005 5:53PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A judge on Friday approved the state's request for independent parties to temporarily take control of a polygamous sect's assets.
|
|
|
Judge extends oil-for-food probe deadline
May 27 2005 5:39PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A federal judge issued a third restraining order Friday that gives the U.N. oil-for-food probe another 2 1/2 weeks to work out a deal with a former investigator over the fate of thousands of documents he took with him when he quit.
|
|
|
Accused bank robber charged in hijack try
May 27 2005 5:07PM (CT)
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - The man accused of robbing a bank and forcing hostages to go to an airport in their underwear has been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to commandeer an aircraft for his getaway.
|
|
|
Nev. kids' stabbing suspect pleads guilty
May 27 2005 4:45PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man charged with brutally stabbing two little girls in a trailer while their parents were out gambling entered a surprise guilty plea Friday.
|
|
|
'Billgrimage' aids Clinton birthplace fund
May 27 2005 4:41PM (CT)
HOPE, Ark. (AP) - Six months after the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library in Little Rock, the director of a museum in Clinton's birthplace is seeing a new tourism phenomenon: the "Billgrimage."
|
|
|
Crowds, delays plague start of holiday
May 27 2005 4:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Anyone who took an early flight for a Memorial Day getaway has already gotten a taste of what summer air travel will be like: full planes, crowded airports and weather delays.
|
|
|
Saddam exhibit includes lifelike mannequin
May 27 2005 3:51PM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - When U.S. troops pulled Saddam Hussein from the hole in which he was hiding, the dictator was gaunt, dirty and disheveled, with a bushy beard, matted hair and a glazed-over look. It was not Saddam's best look, but it is how he will be remembered by the soldiers who collared him.
|
|
|
Table tradition honors lost Vietnam vets
May 27 2005 3:17PM (CT)
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) - The table is set with a white tablecloth, a black napkin and white candle, and a plate with only a slice of lemon and salt. An empty chair leans against the table.
|
|
|
Mich. family of burned baby gets $8.25M
May 27 2005 1:28PM (CT)
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - A jury awarded $8.25 million Friday to a family whose child was badly burned as a premature baby when his hospital bedding caught fire.
|
|
|
Soldier acquitted of killing unarmed Iraqi
May 27 2005 1:07PM (CT)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - An Army soldier has been cleared of killing an unarmed Iraqi he said he shot to save a fellow soldier. Staff Sgt. Shane Werst, 32, was acquitted Thursday by a jury of four soldiers and two officers. He had faced a maximum of life in prison without parole for the premeditated murder charge.
|
|
|
Ky. tries to stop human waste in streams
May 27 2005 12:58PM (CT)
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) - Visitors need only follow the stench and the gurgling sound to find a pipe belching human waste into the river outside this Kentucky coal town.
|
|
|
Runaway bride could surrender next week
May 27 2005 10:48AM (CT)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A warrant has been issued for runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, but officials don't expect her to report to police while undergoing psychiatric treatment.
|
|
|
Alzheimer victim sold 11 organs
May 27 2005 9:19AM (CT)
PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - A music store manager was charged Thursday with exploiting a woman with Alzheimer's disease who authorities say bought 11 organs from him over 18 months _ including four on a single day.
|
|
|
Iraq 'human shield' challenges fines
May 27 2005 9:19AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A peace activist who went to Iraq to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is challenging $8,000 in federal fines. Ryan Clancy, 28, filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department in federal court Thursday.
|
|
|
Many nuclear plants lack backup sirens
May 27 2005 8:29AM (CT)
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) - More than two dozen nuclear power plants across the country lack sirens that would warn of a nuclear emergency if electricity also was blacked out, according to a report by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
|
|
|
Beach access opens near Geffen home
May 27 2005 7:35AM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Twenty-two years after mogul David Geffen promised to let the public onto the beach near his mansion, a walkway was opened and activists savored their victory under the watchful eye of security cameras and a guard.
|
|
|
Bush-as-Groucho posters spark uproar
May 27 2005 7:03AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Posters that depicted President Bush with a Groucho Marx-style mustache and cigar were ordered torn down at a high school after a student complained.
|
|
|
Tests show no sign of children's blood
May 27 2005 6:54AM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Preliminary DNA tests showed no traces of the blood of two missing children in the home where three other people were slain, raising hopes that Dylan and Shasta Groene are still alive, officials said Thursday.
|
|
|
Religion in the news
May 27 2005 6:34AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A rare set of documents that are the basis for a new biography of David O. McKay, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the civil rights era, show that the LDS president studied the issue of elevating black men to leadership roles but ultimately balked at doing it.
|
|
|
Reparations bills pass in Calif. Senate
May 27 2005 5:59AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state Senate voted to formally apologize for the deportation of thousands of Mexican-Americans under a Depression-era program designed to create jobs for citizens.
|
|
|
Vatican takes action against nine priests
May 27 2005 5:57AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The Vatican took action against nine local priests accused of sexual abuse, defrocking one and barring eight others from the ministry. The priests, who served parishes in the Archdiocese of Detroit, have been on leave, Auxiliary Bishop Walter Hurley told the Detroit Free Press for its Friday editions.
|
|
|
Wildlife officials to kill 4,000 cormorants
May 27 2005 3:49AM (CT)
WALKER, Minn. (AP) - Chris Anderson is only half-joking when he offers a solution for the hungry cormorants that are eating the fish in Leech Lake _ and taking money out of his pocket. "Kill them all," he says of the voracious, predatory birds.
|
|
|
Sunshine may greet New Englanders Saturday
May 27 2005 2:34AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - After a week of blustery winds and chilly temperatures, residents in the wet Northeast had something to look forward to this weekend besides the Monday holiday: sun.
|
|
|
Air Force enforces 'religious respect'
May 27 2005 1:26AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Air Force has told its top commands worldwide to make sure officers don't use their positions to advance religious beliefs, following criticism of religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy.
|
|
|
University's diversity plan upsets faculty
May 27 2005 1:23AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A push for more diversity is causing a stir at the University of Oregon. Department heads across campus have castigated an early draft of a five-year plan, which would tie raises and promotions to "cultural competency" _ the ability to successfully work with people from all backgrounds _ and would give funding priority of new positions to departments that adhere to the university's diversity goals.
|
|
|
Military jets intercept plane in Calif.
May 27 2005 12:21AM (CT)
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) - A small plane that repeatedly ventured close to restricted air space at Edwards Air Force Base was intercepted by two F-15 fighter jets Thursday and escorted to a local airport. The FBI interviewed the pilot and a passenger, whose names were not released, and released them without charges after determining they were taking aerial photographs for a real estate business, officials said.
|
|
|
|
|
|