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Father: Plot suspect not in 'right mind'
Jun 24 2006 11:22PM (CT)
BUNKIE, La. (AP) - The father of a man accused in a terrorism plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower said Saturday he was at a loss to explain how his son was suspected of leading such a group.
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Blaze blocks exit for some at Grand Canyon
Jun 24 2006 10:58PM (CT)
SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - A 15,500-acre wildfire in Grand Canyon National Park prompted officials to close several roads, blocking the exits for an unknown number of tourists on the North Rim on Saturday.
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Ohio governor declares flood emergency
Jun 24 2006 10:55PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Bob Taft on Saturday surveyed damage from two days of severe storms and declared emergencies in two northern Ohio counties.
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Caver's remains removed after 41 years
Jun 24 2006 10:53PM (CT)
DOLGEVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Rescuers on Saturday recovered the remains of an amateur explorer who died 41 years ago in a treacherous cavern, closing a memorable chapter in American caving history.
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College leader in apparent suicide jump
Jun 24 2006 10:18PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A University of California chancellor died Saturday in an apparent suicide jump from a 43-story apartment building, authorities said.
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Chicago teen charged in shooting is sued
Jun 24 2006 9:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A teenager who got a $2 million settlement from the city after he was wrongfully accused of murder at age 7 now faces a lawsuit on behalf of a man he's accused of shooting earlier this month.
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Returning Guardsmen worry on Iraq's future
Jun 24 2006 9:24PM (CT)
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.
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Critics decry immigrant detention push
Jun 24 2006 6:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers _ places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated.
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Utah tribe divided over nuclear waste
Jun 24 2006 5:56PM (CT)
SKULL VALLEY, Utah (AP) - Leon Bear, a stocky man in T-shirt and jeans, peers across the sagebrush-pocked valley where his ancestors once chased Pony Express riders and sees the future for his dwindling tribe.
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Ark. probes doctor after 10 patients die
Jun 24 2006 2:53PM (CT)
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) - A state agency is investigating a physician after 10 of his patients died from lethal mixtures of drugs or overdoses of prescription medicines.
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Pa. teen dies from fall in elevator shaft
Jun 24 2006 2:31PM (CT)
READING, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania teenager vacationing with his family at a resort hotel in Mexico fell to his death in an elevator shaft, according to relatives and U.S. authorities.
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Ex-Nets star Williams to open restaurant
Jun 24 2006 2:23PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Jayson Williams, the retired NBA star awaiting a retrial on a reckless manslaughter charge, plans to open a restaurant with his wife.
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Mass. nursing home struggles after floods
Jun 24 2006 1:08PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - The lobby of Mary Immaculate nursing home is gutted and all of the residents gone, forced out by last month's flooding.
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Prosecutor may postpone polygamy cases
Jun 24 2006 12:38PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A prosecutor is considering postponing or dropping cases against eight residents of a polygamous community charged with sex offenses involving marriages to underage girls because he is having trouble locating witnesses.
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New Orleans justice system struggles
Jun 24 2006 11:20AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Their faces glisten with sweat, their red-rimmed eyes stare ahead vacantly as they're herded into the sweltering room where another day of court is about to begin.
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FBI: Suspects sought help from al-Qaida
Jun 24 2006 11:17AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A plan hatched by seven men to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings was "more aspirational than operational," FBI officials said.
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Rev. Watson, who trained MLK, dies at 98
Jun 24 2006 10:08AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Melvin H. Watson, who helped train Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, has died. He was 98.
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Summer brings tragedy for children in cars
Jun 24 2006 9:52AM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - It's a scenario that's tragically repeated dozens of times a year: A parent places a toddler in the back seat of a vehicle on a hot day and later becomes distracted, leaving the child inside to swelter and die.
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Court bars info request on NSA wiretapping
Jun 24 2006 6:41AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday declined to force the government to turn over information on the National Security Agency's wiretapping program to a man charged in a terrorism case.
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Americans obsessed with their orchids
Jun 24 2006 5:53AM (CT)
BOLINAS, Calif. (AP) - They're temperamental, but tough. Sensitive, yet strong. They bloom infrequently, but beautifully. Some say figuring out how to make orchids thrive at home can be as challenging as raising kids. And like parents packing children off to camp, orchid lovers across the country are paying hundreds of dollars each month to professionals to take care of the plants when they're not in bloom.
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Man wanted in 2 deaths headed back to Nev.
Jun 24 2006 4:32AM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - After nearly two weeks on the run, a former pawn shop owner accused of killing his estranged wife and shooting the judge handling their divorce is headed back to Nevada.
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Schwarzenegger denies Bush troop request
Jun 24 2006 4:25AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week rejected a request from the Bush administration to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the governor's office confirmed Friday.
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Morehouse College to inherit King papers
Jun 24 2006 3:34AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A collection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers, manuscripts and books that was set for auction next week will instead be given to his alma mater, officials said.
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Ill. may create violent offender registry
Jun 24 2006 2:25AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Fresh out of prison, Kerry Skora would much rather be known as a murderer than a sex offender. The law said otherwise.
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Eminent domain battle ends in Conn. city
Jun 24 2006 1:46AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Two homeowners who had refused to leave their riverfront homes to make way for private development have reached a tentative agreement with the city of New London, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Friday.
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Gore 'not planning' 2008 White House run
Jun 24 2006 1:29AM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore got the same question at a hometown book signing Friday that he gets all over the world when pitching his documentary and book on global warming: Will he run for president in 2008?
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Oil tycoon's son E. Pierce Marshall dies
Jun 24 2006 12:56AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith over his father's oil fortune, has died, his spokesman said Friday. He was 67.
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3 plead guilty in N.Y. money-transfer case
Jun 24 2006 12:06AM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Three men pleaded guilty Friday to running an unlicensed money transfer business that sent $3.5 million from Yemeni-Americans living in western New York to relatives and others overseas, prosecutors said.
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Idaho man facing death penalty for murders
Jun 24 2006 12:01AM (CT)
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - Prosecutors said Friday they will seek the death penalty for a man accused of beheading his wife, then killing a woman and her 4-year-old daughter in a botched suicide-by-car accident attempt.
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