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BYU prof. let go for gay marriage stance
Jun 13 2006 10:51PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - Brigham Young University has decided not to rehire a part-time instructor because he publicly opposed the Mormon church's stand against marriage for same-sex couples.
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Man named suspect in Nev. judge shooting
Jun 13 2006 10:18PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Police searched Tuesday for a pawn shop owner wanted in the slaying of his estranged wife and declared him a suspect in the sniper shooting of a judge who handled the couple's pending divorce.
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Alberto brings rain, gusty winds to Fla.
Jun 13 2006 10:14PM (CT)
CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) - The first tropical storm of the hurricane season was less than advertised Tuesday, bringing rain, gusty winds and some thigh-high street flooding to Florida's Gulf Coast without blowing up into the hurricane forecasters feared.
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40 arrested at L.A. urban garden eviction
Jun 13 2006 9:47PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to make room for a warehouse Tuesday, touching off a furious protest in which actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels. More than 40 people were arrested.
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Parents: Expert says attack 'pleasurable'
Jun 13 2006 9:35PM (CT)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The parents of a severely disabled woman suing a Colorado Springs school district over a sexual assault at a high school said the district has refused to mediate a civil lawsuit as one of its experts called the attack "pleasurable" for the woman.
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Ill. officials negotiate for remains
Jun 13 2006 9:13PM (CT)
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - Historic preservation officials said they began negotiating Tuesday with the new owner of a long-vacant home where the remains of 33 American Indians were found.
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Panel recommends firing Colo. professor
Jun 13 2006 9:05PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A University of Colorado committee recommended on Tuesday firing a professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," citing repeated research misconduct.
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Developer pulls Calif. golf project plan
Jun 13 2006 8:29PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The developer of a high-profile golf project backed by actor Clint Eastwood withdrew its proposal Tuesday, saying it would address environmental concerns and resubmit it for state approval.
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Christian reform school sues Mo. workers
Jun 13 2006 8:09PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Christian reform school sued over the state's removal of 115 students whom officials said they were trying to protect from abuse.
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National Guard to work U.S.-Mexico border
Jun 13 2006 7:58PM (CT)
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (AP) - More than 1,000 National Guard troops will be working at the U.S.-Mexico border by Thursday under President Bush's plan to free up immigration agents, officials said.
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Crews work to contain wildfire in Ariz.
Jun 13 2006 7:32PM (CT)
HEBER, Ariz. (AP) - Crews worked to contain a 5,000-acre wildfire that was within a mile of two subdivisions, authorities said Tuesday.
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Police: Gunman likely wrote found letter
Jun 13 2006 6:59PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The gunman who killed six people and himself at a rave party was likely the author of a letter that complains about the rave scene and says in part, "This hippy stuff has to end," police said Tuesday.
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Colo. governor threatens special session
Jun 13 2006 6:17PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Colorado's governor threatened Tuesday to call a special legislative session unless the state Supreme Court reverses its "arrogant" decision to kill a November ballot measure that would ask voters to deny most state services to illegal immigrants.
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Former Atlanta mayor sentenced to prison
Jun 13 2006 6:13PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Former Mayor Bill Campbell, who presided over one of the most prosperous and dynamic periods in Atlanta history, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $6,300 for tax evasion.
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Southern Baptists elect Page as president
Jun 13 2006 6:12PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - The Southern Baptist Convention elected Frank Page its new president Tuesday, choosing a pastor who had said that it would take a "miracle" for him to win and heralding a new direction for the denomination.
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AFL-CIO leaflet gets presidents mixed up
Jun 13 2006 5:14PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A union-prepared leaflet claims that a Republican candidate for governor used his influence to win a tax break benefiting his company that was "signed into law by President Bush in 1997."
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Court orders Taft to hand over documents
Jun 13 2006 4:12PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Gov. Bob Taft to hand over documents related to the state's troubled insurance fund for injured workers so it could decide whether to make them public.
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Poll: U.S. in Iraq clouds Mideast stability
Jun 13 2006 3:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The presence of U.S. troops in Iraq is a greater threat to Mideast stability than the government in Iran, according to a poll of European and Muslim countries.
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Mistaken ID victim said to start talking
Jun 13 2006 3:29PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The survivor of a van crash who was wrongly identified as a college classmate has started talking, laughing and is beginning to understand that family and friends believed for more than a month that she had been killed in the wreck, according to a family Web log.
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AFL-CIO plans investment in La. projects
Jun 13 2006 3:16PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The AFL-CIO plans to invest $700 million in housing and other projects to help rebuild this city left staggered by housing shortages and other infrastructure problems after Hurricane Katrina.
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Mom sent to prison for making child steal
Jun 13 2006 3:05PM (CT)
LAKE HARMONY, Pa. (AP) - A judge sentenced a woman to prison for making her 6-year-old daughter steal a volunteer fire company's fundraising jar, a crime that netted the family $1.85.
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Pa. woman sentenced for 'stealing' house
Jun 13 2006 2:10PM (CT)
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A would-be home buyer with less than a dollar in her bank account was sentenced to up to two years in prison for using fake documents to get a mortgage on a $328,000 home.
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1st trial in lobbying scandal goes to jury
Jun 13 2006 1:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal court jury began deliberations Tuesday morning on whether former Bush administration official David Safavian concealed from ethics officials and investigators that he assisted Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff's efforts to obtain two government properties.
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Ex-cops convicted of mob hits bash lawyers
Jun 13 2006 1:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Wearing sharply tailored suits and sharing "Godfather"-style kisses in the courtroom, attorneys Bruce Cutler and Edward Hayes appeared a formidable defense team for two ex-NYPD detectives accused of moonlighting as hit men for the mob.
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Defense lawyers shut out by new secrecy
Jun 13 2006 1:17PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Witnesses testified under assumed names, the public was barred from the courtroom and part of the hearing was held in the judge's chambers, with defense lawyers shut out.
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Texas sandpit owner sees it as scuba park
Jun 13 2006 1:16PM (CT)
CLUTE, Texas (AP) - Into a giant sand pit where the remains of a mammoth and a saber-toothed tiger were discovered, some folks want to throw a bus, a couple of antique fire trucks and a space shuttle lookalike that once thrilled visitors at a now-defunct amusement park in Houston.
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Ex-Chicago city clerk gets 2-year term
Jun 13 2006 12:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's former city clerk was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for taking bribes in a scandal-plagued city program that awarded hauling jobs to trucking companies.
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N.C. doctor gets life for killing father
Jun 13 2006 12:15PM (CT)
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) - A judge sentenced a North Carolina doctor to life in prison for strangling his father, whose fingerless corpse was dumped along a rural road two years ago.
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Judge dismisses criminal charge vs. Grace
Jun 13 2006 11:57AM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A federal judge undercut the criminal prosecution of W.R. Grace & Co., ruling that prosecutors could not allege that the company and former top officials knowingly endangered miners and people in the town of Libby.
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NYC ex-cantor pleads guilty in sex assault
Jun 13 2006 10:28AM (CT)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The former cantor of a prominent New York synagogue pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a young relative starting when the boy was 3 years old.
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Denver teacher wins $100,000 award
Jun 13 2006 10:03AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A Denver teacher has won the first $100,000 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award, which is to be presented Tuesday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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Harvard plans improved tenure for women
Jun 13 2006 9:54AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University outlined plans Tuesday to expand child care and other faculty support, detailing how it would begin spending $50 million President Lawrence Summers committed last year to help women and minority employees.
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Small fire at Kennedy airport, no injuries
Jun 13 2006 9:53AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A small fire broke out early Tuesday in the basement of an airline terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport. There were no injuries, and the fire was almost completely extinguished by a sprinkler system, an airport spokesman said.
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Prosecutor: Hatred of whites made man kill
Jun 13 2006 9:25AM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A woman who was stabbed to death in a mall parking garage was targeted by a homeless convicted rapist who was planning a murder motivated by his "hatred of white people," a prosecutor said.
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Minnesota senate battle heats up
Jun 13 2006 9:16AM (CT)
BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) - As Travis Meyer grumbled about dropping $75 to gas up his pickup truck, Amy Klobuchar was there to suggest a solution: cast a vote for change in Washington by choosing me.
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Hoax suspected in missing boaters report
Jun 13 2006 8:01AM (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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Half of lost voter records found in Denver
Jun 13 2006 7:05AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - More than half of the 150,000 voting records reported missing from city election offices have been found, raising hopes that they were simply misplaced during a move in February, not lost or stolen.
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Missing Md. publisher presumed dead
Jun 13 2006 5:21AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The search for a publisher and former diplomat who disappeared while sailing the Chesapeake Bay turned into a recovery mission after rescue teams found only his empty sailboat.
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School sorry for Hitler yearbook quotes
Jun 13 2006 4:47AM (CT)
NORTHPORT, N.Y. (AP) - Two high school seniors picked quotations from Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" to appear under their high school yearbook pictures, prompting school officials to apologize.
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Sex offender apologizes for McGillis rape
Jun 13 2006 4:45AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A serial sex offender apologized for an attack on actress Kelly McGillis in the 1980s, hours after a jury convicted him of raping and robbing two women in their Manhattan home a decade ago.
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Hearings set for proposed biodefense lab
Jun 13 2006 4:27AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - To the Bush administration, a biodefense lab designed to test lethal agents including HIV, plague and anthrax is vital to national security. But area residents have visions of a biodisaster, and warn an accident could kill thousands.
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Polk murder case closing arguments begin
Jun 13 2006 4:14AM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A suburban housewife serving as her own attorney at her murder trial insisted in closing arguments that she was being framed, and had no choice but to kill her husband in self defense.
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12-year-old Iraqi girl gets new nose in LA
Jun 13 2006 3:48AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When 12-year-old Marwa Naim took off the bandage from her nose earlier this month, she smiled in a handheld mirror. Her face, damaged when a missile attack in Iraq caused her to lose part of her nose, was reconstructed.
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3 teens arrested in double killing, fire
Jun 13 2006 1:35AM (CT)
MARSHALL, Mo. (AP) - Three teenagers were arrested in the beating deaths of a couple in their 70s, whose bodies were found as firefighters battled an arson fire at their home.
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Eugene Soldier refuses to deploy to Iraq
Jun 13 2006 12:30AM (CT)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A 21-year-old woman who refused to deploy with her Army unit to Iraq for a second tour has been arrested and will be returned to Fort Lewis, Wash., Eugene police said Monday.
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2 bodies missing after plane crash found
Jun 13 2006 12:05AM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - Searchers on Monday recovered the bodies of two of the three men killed when their small plane crashed in Utah Lake during a storm last week.
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'Fajitagate': 2 SFPD officers to pay $46K
Jun 13 2006 12:03AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two police officers accused of beating two men in an argument over a bag of steak fajitas were ordered to pay a total of $46,000 to the victims in a civil judgment Monday.
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