|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Police shoot man at Las Vegas airport
Jun 27 2006 11:51PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police shot and wounded a man at the city's airport Tuesday after he grabbed a 3-year-old boy at knifepoint and sprinted through a security checkpoint, authorities said.
|
|
|
'Railroad Killer' put to death in Texas
Jun 27 2006 11:50PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A train-hopping serial killer linked to at least 15 murders near railroad tracks around the country said "I deserve what I am getting" before he was executed Tuesday night.
|
|
|
News agency apologizes to Ariz. candidate
Jun 27 2006 11:37PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A Spanish news agency apologized for a report that described a Republican gubernatorial candidate's proposed work program for illegal immigrants as "concentration camps."
|
|
|
Tenn. halts execution of convicted killer
Jun 27 2006 11:34PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court judge granted a stay of execution to a convicted murderer Tuesday, two hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in what would have been the state's second execution in 45 years.
|
|
|
Judge: Fla. banned books must stay for now
Jun 27 2006 10:51PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The Miami-Dade County school district must keep a series of banned children's books until arguments in a legal challenge can be heard next month, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
|
|
|
Explosion rocks Ga. motel, killing one
Jun 27 2006 10:45PM (CT)
BREMEN, Ga. (AP) - An explosion that was apparently caused by a gas leak rocked a motel Tuesday, killing at least one person and raising fears that two others were trapped in the rubble, authorities said.
|
|
|
Spokeswoman: Official earned his raises
Jun 27 2006 10:17PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A former federal official gained nearly $24,000 in salary raises for the four years he was under criminal investigation because his work during that time was satisfactory, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
|
|
|
Pilot killed in F-18 fighter identified
Jun 27 2006 10:14PM (CT)
LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) - The man killed during an F-18 fighter jet training exercise was a 25-year-old U.S. Marine Corps pilot, officials said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Mid-Atlantic region braces for more rain
Jun 27 2006 10:13PM (CT)
LAUREL, Md. (AP) - Workers pumped water from the IRS headquarters' flooded basement Tuesday and mopped up at other government buildings Monday after heavy rain swamped the nation's capital.
|
|
|
Ex-judge denies using sex device in court
Jun 27 2006 9:54PM (CT)
BRISTOW, Okla. (AP) - A former county judge testified Tuesday that he kept a sexual device under his courtroom bench but called it a gag gift and denied ever using it, saying to have done so in open court "defies common sense."
|
|
|
La. hotel guard shoots man after argument
Jun 27 2006 9:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A man was shot and critically wounded Tuesday by a security guard at a hotel after the two argued about who had served in the toughest branch of the military, police said.
|
|
|
Prosecution ends in Chicago patronage trial
Jun 27 2006 9:15PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday that city officials violated a ban on patronage hiring and "handed out 5,000 jobs" in their zeal to build an army of campaign workers.
|
|
|
Andrea Yates sobs in court during video
Jun 27 2006 9:07PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates sobbed as prosecutors played a crime-scene videotape in court Tuesday showing her 7-year-old son floating dead in a bathtub and the bodies of her four younger children laid out on a bed.
|
|
|
Fighter jets collide; 1 pilot dies, 1 hurt
Jun 27 2006 8:55PM (CT)
FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif. (AP) - Two Navy fighter jets collided Monday over a military base, killing one pilot and injuring another, authorities said.
|
|
|
32 large fires burning in 8 western states
Jun 27 2006 8:37PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - More than 1,000 firefighters fought lightning-sparked blazes that had burned more than 80,000 acres across northern Nevada by Tuesday, putting just about every available piece of equipment and firefighter on the lines.
|
|
|
Lawyer says accused Marine defended family
Jun 27 2006 8:21PM (CT)
SALEM, Mass. (AP) - An Iraq war veteran who was named Marine of the Year was defending his family when he fired his shotgun into a parking lot toward early morning revelers and injured two of them, his attorney said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Coast Guard cadet acquitted of rape
Jun 27 2006 8:11PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A Coast Guard Academy cadet was acquitted of rape but convicted of several other crimes Tuesday in the first court-martial of a student in the school's 130-year history.
|
|
|
Ellison pulls plug on $115M Harvard gift
Jun 27 2006 7:33PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has decided not to give Harvard University a planned gift of $115 million, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Ex-trucker convicted of murdering women
Jun 27 2006 6:12PM (CT)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - A jury convicted a former trucker Tuesday in the sadistic slayings of four women, one of whose breasts he cut off and took with him to a sheriff's office when he confessed.
|
|
|
Marine won't face prosecution for video
Jun 27 2006 5:55PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A corporal who sang in a homemade video about killing members of an Iraqi family didn't violate military law and won't be court-martialed, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Man convicted in detective's killing
Jun 27 2006 5:45PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A man who was left alone with a detective during an interrogation was convicted of murder Tuesday for shooting the officer with his own gun last year inside police headquarters.
|
|
|
Elks leader dies in building collapse
Jun 27 2006 5:33PM (CT)
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) - The leader of an Elks Club who went upstairs to memorize a speech for an initiation ceremony was found dead in the rubble of the brick lodge Tuesday after the century-old building collapsed.
|
|
|
Texas community mourns death of soldier
Jun 27 2006 3:33PM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The mother of a soldier whose body was found mutilated in Iraq sobbed with her cheek against his sealed, flag-shrouded coffin Tuesday, looking at the crucifix above it and asking repeatedly in Spanish, "Why? ... Why my son?"
|
|
|
Mistaken victim doesn't recall caretakers
Jun 27 2006 3:07PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The severely injured young woman mistaken for a schoolmate who was killed in a van crash does not remember the other girl's parents, who sat by her hospital bed for weeks before learning that she wasn't their daughter, her relatives say.
|
|
|
Prosecutors drop charges in 7-story fall
Jun 27 2006 2:55PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors dropped a trespassing charge against a 21-year-old California woman who plunged seven stories from a building shortly after being released by police.
|
|
|
Beer blockade seeks to end tribal drinking
Jun 27 2006 2:47PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - In a desperate effort to fight the ravages of alcoholism on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, leaders of the Oglala Sioux tribe are threatening to set up roadblocks Wednesday and stop members from bringing in beer bought at four outlying stores.
|
|
|
Red Cross criticizes itself over Katrina
Jun 27 2006 2:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Overwhelmed volunteers, inflexible attitudes and inadequate anti-fraud measures are among the many shortcomings acknowledged by the American Red Cross in a candid and comprehensive new report assessing its response to Hurricane Katrina.
|
|
|
Americans rank No. 1 in patriotism survey
Jun 27 2006 1:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - When it comes to national pride, Americans are No. 1, according to a survey of 34 countries' patriotism. Venezuela came in a close second in the survey, released Tuesday by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
|
|
|
Teachers are selling study guides online
Jun 27 2006 1:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For all those teachers who take work home at night, creating lessons they hope kids will like, the reward is a good day in class. Now there could be another payoff: cash. Teachers are selling their original lectures, course outlines and study guides to other teachers through a new Web site launched by New York entrepreneur Paul Edelman.
|
|
|
Montana man's suicide bullet kills girl
Jun 27 2006 1:24PM (CT)
EUREKA, Mont. (AP) - A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year-old girl when the bullet traveled through his head and struck her in the chest, authorities said.
|
|
|
School now won't name center for Capano
Jun 27 2006 1:23PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - After a torrent of criticism from parents and alumni, a Roman Catholic high school announced that plans to name a building in honor of one of Delaware's most notorious families in exchange for $1 million have been dropped.
|
|
|
Defense: Money may figure in Hamdania case
Jun 27 2006 12:57PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - Lawyers for some of the seven Marines and a Navy medic charged with murdering an Iraqi man are questioning the credibility of their Iraqi accusers, suggesting they may have been motivated by money or sympathy for the insurgents.
|
|
|
Ga. library to bring back Spanish fiction
Jun 27 2006 12:40PM (CT)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Faced with public protests, the public library board in a county with a large Hispanic population is expected to restore the funding it cut for Spanish-language fiction.
|
|
|
Flight returns to Ky.; smoke in cockpit
Jun 27 2006 11:47AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Delta Connection flight made an emergency landing at the Louisville airport shortly after takeoff Tuesday after a flight attendant saw smoke inside the plane and smoke detector went off in a lavatory, officials said.
|
|
|
AP: Media had wide access in Vietnam War
Jun 27 2006 11:28AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The news media's ability to cover the Vietnam War without censorship was unlike anything that has been seen since, correspondents who covered that conflict for The Associated Press said during a reunion.
|
|
|
Three killed in crash on I-95 near Phila.
Jun 27 2006 11:10AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A trash truck smashed through a highway's median guard rail and collided with several oncoming vehicles Tuesday, killing three people and injuring several others.
|
|
|
Judge won't release Hoffa search affidavit
Jun 27 2006 9:34AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A U.S. district judge refused to order the release of an affidavit the FBI used to get a search warrant to dig for Jimmy Hoffa's remains at a southeastern Michigan horse farm.
|
|
|
Gotti says he'll leave NY if cleared
Jun 27 2006 8:44AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Facing his third trial on racketeering charges, the son of the late mob boss John Gotti says he will leave New York this time if he's exonerated.
|
|
|
Casket with military seal found in desert
Jun 27 2006 6:56AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - An empty casket with a military seal discovered in the desert turned out to have been thrown away by a mortuary after the family of the service member asked that the body be exhumed and cremated, authorities said.
|
|
|
Fewer teens having babies; more are poor
Jun 27 2006 6:18AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer teenagers are having babies or dropping out of high school since the start of the decade, but slightly more live in poverty with parents who don't work year round.
|
|
|
2 Ohio University graduates sue university
Jun 27 2006 5:50AM (CT)
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) - Two Ohio University graduates whose Social Security numbers were among 173,000 possibly stolen from school computers have filed a lawsuit, alleging their right to privacy has been violated.
|
|
|
Lawyer denies bungling 'Mafia cop' case
Jun 27 2006 5:23AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An attorney whose clients have included the late mob boss John Gotti and record producer Phil Spector took the witness stand to answer allegations he botched the defense of an ex-detective convicted of killing for the mob.
|
|
|
Black leaders kick off clergy conference
Jun 27 2006 4:20AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Prominent black leaders said they will work to combat Christian conservatives they say have used gay marriage and abortion to distract from larger moral issues such as the war, voting rights, affirmative action and poverty.
|
|
|
Released whooping cranes hatch 2 chicks
Jun 27 2006 4:06AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A pair of whooping cranes has hatched two chicks in central Wisconsin, marking the first young of the species to be hatched in the wild in the eastern United States in more than 100 years.
|
|
|
Jailed immigrants: Our families suffering
Jun 27 2006 3:59AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The five men knew their two-day walk across the Arizona desert could end with the Border Patrol swiftly returning them to Mexico.
|
|
|
Aryan Brotherhood trial in final weeks
Jun 27 2006 3:30AM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Convicted murderers, gang members and jailhouse informants have paraded past jurors for nearly four months in the federal government's racketeering case against the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.
|
|
|
N.J. Guard recruiters turn to educators
Jun 27 2006 3:14AM (CT)
FORT DIX, N.J. (AP) - They ride Black Hawk helicopters, fire mock assault rifles in combat simulators and can learn what it's like to drive a Humvee. Some are so excited they want pictures of themselves holding guns.
|
|
|
'Railroad Killer' still pains Ill. town
Jun 27 2006 3:00AM (CT)
GORHAM, Ill. (AP) - Freight trains clack dozens of times a day through this sleepy southern Illinois village, bringing life to the century-old town.
|
|
|
World Trade Center developer goes to court
Jun 27 2006 12:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The World Trade Center developer asked a court Monday to declare that a recent reshuffling of the rebuilding plan does not give insurers a loophole to back out of billions in payments on the destroyed twin towers.
|
|
|
|
|
|