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Top US war boss: We can't ignore Iran
May 27 2007 11:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Sunday that Iran is a major player in the region that cannot be ignored but that the United States has no intention of leaving, as Iran would like to see happen.
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Report: Wildfire brings policy questions
May 27 2007 11:04PM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A blaze that killed five federal firefighters last year has emboldened those who question the cost of saving the ever expanding number of homes on the fringe of wilderness.
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Whales move toward ocean as skin tested
May 27 2007 10:24PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean on Sunday after lingering for a week near a bridge about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
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3 dead in New Jersey home fire
May 27 2007 9:52PM (CT)
SPOTSWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Fire tore through a home in this northern New Jersey town early Sunday, killing three people inside, police said.
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3 dead in New Jersey home fire
May 27 2007 9:52PM (CT)
SPOTSWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Fire tore through a home in this northern New Jersey town early Sunday, killing three people inside, police said.
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Journalist who covered civil rights dies
May 27 2007 9:27PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.
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Rains strand 1,500 Oklahoma campers
May 27 2007 9:14PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Heavy rains pounded central Oklahoma on Sunday, sending swollen rivers and creeks over their banks and stranding hundreds of campers who came for the holiday weekend at a popular park.
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Instructor who took cell phone cleared
May 27 2007 5:57PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A special prosecutor could not have had worse timing for telling a judge he'd cleared him of theft for taking a college student's ringing cell phone during a class.
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Chicago cop arrested for alleged beating
May 27 2007 4:58PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A police officer has been arrested in the off-duty beating of a 15-year-old high school student, the Chicago Police Department said Sunday.
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Ala. terror Web site angers activists
May 27 2007 4:53PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.
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Clinton: Consider all in problem-solving
May 27 2007 3:32PM (CT)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton told Middlebury College graduates Sunday they must consider everyone when they try to find solutions for the world's problems.
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Clinton: Consider all in problem-solving
May 27 2007 3:32PM (CT)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton told Middlebury College graduates Sunday they must consider everyone when they try to find solutions for the world's problems.
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Philly to tour guides: Yo! Get it right
May 27 2007 2:41PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Tour guides will show you this historic city on foot, trolley or double-decker bus, in a horse-drawn carriage, while riding a Segway or even as you blow a kazoo on a boat with wheels.
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Ban on commercial whaling likely to stay
May 27 2007 2:10PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Despite passing a symbolic resolution to overturn a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling last year, it is unlikely that there will be enough support to formally end it when the International Whaling Commission meets here Monday.
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Texas babysitter facing execution
May 27 2007 1:59PM (CT)
GATESVILLE, Texas (AP) - A neighbor in a suburban Austin neighborhood appeared to be the perfect babysitter for Eryn Baugh's infant son and his 2-year-old sister.
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N.Y. village birthplace of Memorial Day
May 27 2007 1:28PM (CT)
WATERLOO, N.Y. (AP) - Like almost everyone in this village, pharmacist Henry Welles joined the jubilant crowds at welcome-home parades for Civil War soldiers in 1865. It got him thinking that a solemn day to memorialize those who didn't make it back alive also was needed.
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Stun gun use on mentally ill questioned
May 27 2007 1:13PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Advocates for the mentally ill are questioning Houston police officers' use of stun guns on suspects with mental problems, many of whom were unarmed and then never charged with a crime.
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Widows of Wiccan vets to dedicate graves
May 27 2007 1:11PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Since Korean War veteran Jerome Birnbaum died in 2005, his grave in a pagan cemetery had been marked with only a pile of stones and U.S. flags.
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Kevorkian release nears after 8 years
May 27 2007 7:55AM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes." His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states. But as he prepares to leave prison June 1 after serving more than eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence in the death of a Michigan man, Kevorkian will find that there
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3 killed in plane crash at N.C. resort
May 27 2007 7:51AM (CT)
BURNSVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A small plane trying to land Saturday at a private mountain airstrip hit two planes on the ground, killing three people, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Gays flock to Fla. Panhandle for holiday
May 27 2007 7:50AM (CT)
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Souvenir shops lining this sugary white Panhandle beach display Confederate flag beach towels, window decals and T-shirts. Hooters and other bars fly POW-MIA, Marine and Navy flags and cater to the sailors and Marines from the nearby base. Vacationing Southern families usually fill the hotels and condominiums in this slice of paradise long nicknamed "The Redneck Riviera." But every Memorial Day they mostly stay away as this town becomes more like trendy Miami Beach _
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Sleuth hired to find missing dachshund
May 27 2007 1:46AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gus the dog was living a luxe lifestyle: He had his own agent and was training for work as an advertising model. That is, until the rare, cream-colored dachshund disappeared a few weeks ago. Now the dog's owners have hired a publicist and a private detective, and they've papered several Westchester County towns with posters promising a $2,500 reward.
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