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Crews save 6 homes from Ariz. wildfire
Jun 10 2006 11:54PM (CT)
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) - Firefighters saved six homes in a northwestern Arizona community that were evacuated Saturday after an 11,000-acre wildfire came within a quarter mile of the houses.
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Survey: 24 percent between 18-50 tattooed
Jun 10 2006 11:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A sun shines on Dan Yu's back, alongside a swimming koi fish. A tree soon may grow on his arm. "Your body's an empty canvas, so you almost want to continue to add to it," said Yu, 28, as he showed off his tattoos.
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Records for 150,000 Colo. voters missing
Jun 10 2006 11:12PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Records containing personal information on more than 150,000 voters are missing at city election offices, and officials are trying to determine if the files were lost, moved or stolen.
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Lawyer: Marine denies Haditha massacre
Jun 10 2006 10:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The lawyer for a sergeant who led a squad of Marines during an incident that left civilians dead in Haditha, Iraq, says his client insists his unit was following military rules of engagement, did not intentionally target any civilians and did not try to cover up what it had done.
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1st tropical depression heads toward Fla.
Jun 10 2006 9:47PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tropical depression in the Caribbean headed toward Florida on Saturday and was expected to become the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Bouncer charged in fatal beating in NYC
Jun 10 2006 9:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A nightclub employee accused of fighting with a 19-year-old patron who later died was charged with assault Saturday, the latest deadly case involving workers at city nightspots.
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L.A. tree-sitter Hill comes down to earth
Jun 10 2006 7:02PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Famous tree-sitter Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down to earth Saturday at an urban garden that is under threat of development. Hill ended 19 days aloft in a walnut tree and also broke a 26-day water-only fast.
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King plans to carry out nonviolence legacy
Jun 10 2006 6:53PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told a teen audience Saturday that she intends to do more to carry on the legacy of nonviolence espoused by her parents.
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Union soldiers return to Mass. for burial
Jun 10 2006 6:51PM (CT)
BOURNE, Mass. (AP) - A fife and drum band led a hearse carrying the remains of six Union soldiers to the Massachusetts National Cemetery, where they were buried Saturday 145 years after they died in the Civil War.
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Mississippians hold annual picnic in N.Y.
Jun 10 2006 6:50PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - There were piles of catfish and hushpuppies in Central Park Saturday as hundreds of Mississippians celebrated their home state and encouraged Northeasterners to aid its recovery from Hurricane Katrina by paying the state a visit.
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Father of dead marine in midst of dispute
Jun 10 2006 5:31PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Edward Davis Jr. simply wanted to hold a memorial service in his church for his son, who was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb in late April.
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Southern Baptist meeting may cause sparks
Jun 10 2006 5:30PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - It's been years since moderate Baptists went their own way following the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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'MySpace' teen returns home from Mideast
Jun 10 2006 5:29PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A 16-year-old girl who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew to the Mideast to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has returned to Michigan.
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Ariz. AG: Fugitive polygamist has returned
Jun 10 2006 5:28PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Arizona's attorney general believes polygamist leader Warren Jeffs recently returned to perform more marriages involving underage girls in his church's community along the Utah-Arizona state line.
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KKK stages rally at Civil War battlefield
Jun 10 2006 5:20PM (CT)
SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) - Members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups rallied Saturday at the Antietam National Battlefield, believed to be the first time a group was given permission to demonstrate at the site of the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
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Ebersol's son honored with ballfields
Jun 10 2006 4:06PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - On the day his son would have turned 16, NBC sports chairman Dick Ebersol joined Boston dignitaries in a joyous and tearful dedication of three new baseball fields as "Teddy Ebersol's Red Sox Fields."
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Wildfire prompts 6 evacuations in Ariz.
Jun 10 2006 1:42PM (CT)
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) - Six homes were evacuated Saturday in a northwest Arizona community after winds pushed a section of an 8,600-acre wildfire to within a quarter mile of the houses.
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Father turns in son accused in attack plot
Jun 10 2006 1:12PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - The father of a man accused of plotting to bomb an abortion clinic said he felt he had no choice but to contact police about his son's activities.
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Negroponte's Vt. history lesson flawed
Jun 10 2006 1:01PM (CT)
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) - It was his work that drew protests when the national intelligence director spoke at a commencement, but it's his history lesson that has raised eyebrows.
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Escaped bull startles Maine neighborhood
Jun 10 2006 11:55AM (CT)
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - A one-ton rodeo bull escaped from a pen, setting off a chase that involved police and a horseback rider before the animal was captured in a backyard.
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More BASE-jumping laws unlikely in Idaho
Jun 10 2006 10:18AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The jumpers leaping from the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls free-fall for three seconds before releasing their parachutes during a 486-foot descent.
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Son says he killed, dismembered mother
Jun 10 2006 9:39AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A teenager says he killed and slowly dismembered his mother over several days at the urging of a 50-year-old man he says was sexually abusing him.
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Yiddish devotees fight to save language
Jun 10 2006 9:09AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Itche Goldberg and Jason Rubin are separated in age by 82 years, but they're linked by a common passion for an ancient Jewish language that threatens to slip into obscurity.
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NYC man convicted of hate-crime attack
Jun 10 2006 3:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury's decision to convict a white man of assault as a hate crime for pummeling a black man over the head with a baseball bat sends a clear message against bigotry, prosecutors said.
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NYC takeover of schools gets mixed reviews
Jun 10 2006 2:11AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Four years after taking control of New York's struggling school system, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has earned praise from many education observers across the country. The mayor of Los Angeles is using New York as a model for his push to take over that city's school system. But in Bloomberg's own city, the reviews are far less flattering.
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