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Search on after gunman wounds Nev. judge
Jun 12 2006 11:43PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A family court judge was shot and wounded as he stood near a third-floor courthouse window Monday, and police were looking for man suspected in a slaying across town who had appeared before the judge in a divorce case.
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Alberto strengthens, threatens Fla. coast
Jun 12 2006 11:29PM (CT)
CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) - More than 20,000 people along Florida's Gulf Coast were ordered to clear out Monday as Alberto _ the first tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season _ unexpectedly picked up steam and threatened to come ashore as a hurricane.
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Polk murder case closing arguments begin
Jun 12 2006 10:47PM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A suburban housewife acting as her own attorney in her first-degree murder trial told jurors Monday that even if they conclude she is "crazy as a bedbug" they should find that she killed her therapist husband in self defense.
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Missing Aviation Week writer found dead
Jun 12 2006 10:30PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The body of an award-winning journalist who had been missing more than a week was found Monday in a wrecked car that plunged off a mountain road, officials said.
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Hoax suspected in missing boaters report
Jun 12 2006 9:58PM (CT)
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A distress call from nine people aboard a boat sinking in the Atlantic Ocean might have been a hoax, the Coast Guard said Monday.
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Man killed in steel pit may have fainted
Jun 12 2006 9:56PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A foundry worker who died when he fell into a pit and had molten steel poured on him might have had an illness that caused him to faint, an investigator said Monday.
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Former import-export company CEO convicted
Jun 12 2006 9:36PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A former import-export company executive who claimed to have a God-given gift for making deals was found guilty Monday of cheating ministers and their congregants out of about $65 million.
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Calif. judge overturns firearm sales ban
Jun 12 2006 9:27PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A California judge on Monday overturned a voter-approved city law that banned handgun possession and firearm sales, siding with gun owners who said the city did not have the authority to prohibit the weapons.
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Katrina evacuee arrested in killing
Jun 12 2006 9:06PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A Hurricane Katrina evacuee who police called one of the Houston area's "most wanted killers," has been arrested in Louisiana on charges of killing a fellow evacuee in a robbery, police said Monday.
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Bag prompts airport shutdown, evacuation
Jun 12 2006 8:38PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A food writer's bag containing recording equipment, honey, an oyster shell and seasoning rub was blamed for a three-hour shutdown and evacuation of Tallahassee's airport Monday, authorities said.
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Ariz. inmate sues 'Dateline' over assault
Jun 12 2006 8:22PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - An inmate is suing "Dateline NBC" and the Arizona Department of Corrections, claiming he was assaulted in prison after the television show labeled him a "snitch."
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Court urged to protect CIA detention info
Jun 12 2006 8:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Citing national security, a government lawyer told a federal appeals court Monday that the CIA should not be forced to reveal whether it has been given authority to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists in overseas jails.
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Judge rejects atheist's lawsuit
Jun 12 2006 8:08PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit from an atheist who said having the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins and dollar bills violated his First Amendment rights.
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Defense seek evidence in wiretapping case
Jun 12 2006 8:05PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Defense attorneys for a private investigator accused of eavesdropping on Hollywood celebrities scolded federal prosecutors Monday for not turning over evidence.
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Wife indicted for Tenn. minister's death
Jun 12 2006 8:00PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - The wife of a minister who was shot to death in his church's parsonage was indicted Monday on a charge of premeditated murder.
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Jury convicts Wisonsin official of fraud
Jun 12 2006 7:59PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Jurors convicted a state purchasing official of fraud charges Monday, agreeing with federal prosecutors that she illegally steered a contract to a company with ties to Gov. Jim Doyle.
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Agency warns cheesesteak joint over policy
Jun 12 2006 7:57PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An English-only ordering policy at one of the city's most famous cheesesteak joints drew a warning Monday from officials who threatened to file a discrimination complaint.
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Ex-convict found guilty in 1996 rapes
Jun 12 2006 7:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A serial sex offender who raped actress Kelly McGillis nearly 25 years ago was convicted Monday of raping and robbing two other women in their home in 1996.
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Bredesen signs health care legislation
Jun 12 2006 6:40PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Phil Bredesen signed health care legislation on Monday designed to help cover Tennessee's more than 600,000 uninsured workers.
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Judge KOs initiative on waste shipments
Jun 12 2006 6:25PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A federal judge on Monday struck down a voter-approved initiative that bars the government from sending radioactive waste to the most contaminated nuclear site in the nation.
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Searchers recover pilot's body from lake
Jun 12 2006 6:18PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - Searchers on Monday recovered the body of a pilot whose plane crashed in Utah Lake during a storm last week with two other men aboard.
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Mich. teen said hiding after Mideast trip
Jun 12 2006 6:14PM (CT)
CARO, Mich. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to visit a man she met on MySpace.com was in seclusion to escape the attention surrounding her travels, an attorney for the girl's family said Monday.
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Southern Baptists look to boost membership
Jun 12 2006 6:01PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - There are more than 16.2 million Southern Baptists worshipping in the U.S., but as leaders of America's largest Protestant denomination gather this week, they are worried about how to attract new members.
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Colo. court rules against ballot measure
Jun 12 2006 3:38PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that a proposal to deny most state services to illegal immigrants cannot appear on the November ballot.
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La. to get $23.9M charter school grant
Jun 12 2006 2:29PM (CT)
BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) - The charter school movement, already bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated public schools in and around New Orleans, got another boost Monday: Federal officials announced a $23.9 million grant to create new charter schools in the state.
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U.S. defends warrantless domestic spying
Jun 12 2006 2:16PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The government's warrantless domestic spying faced its first courtroom test Monday, with the Bush administration arguing that the program is well within the president's authority but that proving it would require revealing state secrets.
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Test blasts conducted at former WTC site
Jun 12 2006 2:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Construction crews set off test explosions Monday at the site for the Freedom Tower, producing muffled blasts where the World Trade Center once stood.
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Motorcycle-van collision kills 5 in Pa.
Jun 12 2006 1:55PM (CT)
LINDEN, Pa. (AP) - A motorcycle slammed into a minivan, knocking it on its side and sparking an explosion that killed all four people inside and the motorcyclist, police said.
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Part of charge vs. ex-Bush official tossed
Jun 12 2006 1:18PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge dismissed part of one criminal charge against a former official in the Bush administration Monday, as the first trial in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal moved toward a conclusion.
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Plane crash in Florida kills 1, injures 1
Jun 12 2006 1:15PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A small plane crashed into an island neighborhood south of downtown on Monday, setting a home ablaze, killing one person and seriously injuring another, authorities said.
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Power of crossover voting may not be huge
Jun 12 2006 1:11PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's practice of letting people vote in the primary of their choice has long generated the belief that large numbers of voters from one party could change the outcome in the other party's primary.
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Missing Md. publisher presumed dead
Jun 12 2006 12:53PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A publisher and former diplomat who disappeared while sailing alone on Chesapeake Bay was presumed dead Monday after two days of searching turned up nothing but his empty sailboat, authorities said.
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Utah is ranked No. 1 for volunteering
Jun 12 2006 12:42PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah residents volunteer more often and give more of their time than people in any other state, according to a national report released Monday.
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Sept. 11 memorial to be redesigned
Jun 12 2006 12:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When a jury chose a Sept. 11 memorial design from more than 5,000 entries, the panel praised it for the "powerful, yet simple" use of reflecting pools to represent the destroyed World Trade Center. More than two years later, nothing is simple about the memorial, called "Reflecting Absence," which was sent back for a redesign after contractors concluded that it could cost nearly $1 billion.
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Plane crashes into house in Florida
Jun 12 2006 12:22PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - One person was killed and another seriously injured after a small plane crashed Monday into a home in an upscale neighborhood south of Tampa, authorities said.
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Judge tosses lawsuit over Pa. lawmaker pay
Jun 12 2006 12:11PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Monday that sought to ban the tactics the Legislature used to give itself a pay raise in the middle of the night last summer.
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Boy burned at Yellowstone out of hospital
Jun 12 2006 12:00PM (CT)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - The 6-year-old boy who was burned after he slipped and fell into water from a geyser in the Old Faithful area on Saturday has been treated and released from the burn center at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City.
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Suspicious package shuts down Fla. airport
Jun 12 2006 11:25AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Authorities closed the Tallahassee Regional Airport for about three hours Monday and the facility was evacuated after a suspicious package was identified at a security checkpoint.
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Not much remains in Texas town hit by Rita
Jun 12 2006 6:35AM (CT)
SABINE PASS, Texas (AP) - Viola Fairchild is 77, limps because of a bad knee and takes seven blood pressure pills a day since Hurricane Rita flattened the house where she lived for 58 years and raised four kids.
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Canadian terrorism suspects head to court
Jun 12 2006 5:18AM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Fourteen Muslim terror suspects faced bail hearings Monday after being arrested in an alleged plot to blow up buildings in Canada and carry out other terror attacks.
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Bishop Wuerl gives final Pittsburgh mass
Jun 12 2006 5:17AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Bishop Donald Wuerl thanked Roman Catholics throughout southwestern Pennsylvania for their support during a special farewell Mass before he departs to become archbishop of Washington, D.C.
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Some Ohio families refuse to claim bodies
Jun 12 2006 5:11AM (CT)
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Thomas Tellis died in March, but his cremated remains are still waiting to be claimed at a Canton funeral home. Shortly after the 89-year-old's death, investigators located Tellis' daughter, but the woman, who was born out of wedlock and raised by another man, refused to claim Tellis' body.
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Columbine memorial nears groundbreaking
Jun 12 2006 3:42AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Darrell Scott, whose daughter, Rachel, was among those killed at Columbine High School, is hopeful that a memorial to that event will prevent future tragedies.
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Meth takes a toll on Indian reservations
Jun 12 2006 1:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leah Fyten believes every family on her South Dakota reservation has been affected by methamphetamine use. The drug has torn apart these families, led to increases in crime and bumped mortality rates. And now, the director of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Housing Authority says, it's affecting the reservation's already desperate housing situation.
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Crews save 6 homes from Ariz. wildfire
Jun 12 2006 12:43AM (CT)
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) - Crews concentrated Sunday on building fire lines around a 12,637-acre wildfire complex near this northwestern Arizona city and beefing up containment efforts in an area where the blaze had once threatened six homes.
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