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Step-grandmother held in Ore. boy's death
Jul 2 2005 11:50PM (CT)
ESTACADA, Ore. (AP) - The step-grandmother of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing for three days was charged with murder Saturday after leading police to his body in the wooded foothills of the Cascades.
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Parishioners celebrate church's reopening
Jul 2 2005 11:43PM (CT)
WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - Parishioners who had camped out in their church around-the-clock for 10 months to protest the Boston Archdiocese's decision to close it celebrated Saturday as the church formally reopened.
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Experts don't expect more cases of mad cow
Jul 2 2005 11:33PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - After the first discovery of mad cow in the United States in 2003, some 700 head of cattle were killed as a precaution. Fears were high that Washington state's cattle market would crater. Federal government experts suggested the industry nationwide could lose $15 billion and others speculated it would not be surprising if a couple dozen infected animals were found. A year and a half later, experts say they have better information about the brain-destroying illness.
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Lava dome falls into Mount St. Helens
Jul 2 2005 11:30PM (CT)
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. (AP) - A large part of the growing lava dome on Mount St. Helens fell Saturday, sending an ash plume above the crater rim, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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NOW marches in support of abortion rights
Jul 2 2005 11:26PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Chanting "Not the church, not the state; women must choose their fate," hundreds of members of the National Organization for Women rallied for abortion rights Saturday as President Bush prepares to select a new U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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Idaho girl found; brother feared dead
Jul 2 2005 11:18PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - More than six weeks after she disappeared from a home where family members were bludgeoned to death, an 8-year-old girl was found safe Saturday, sharing a meal with a registered sex offender at a Denny's restaurant in her hometown.
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Minn. lawmakers on holiday amid shutdown
Jul 2 2005 10:47PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota lawmakers left for the holiday weekend with the state government still partly shut down and no deal on a new budget or even a temporary spending plan to restart it.
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Calif. AG urges court on gay marriage
Jul 2 2005 9:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's attorney general on Friday urged the state Supreme Court to decide whether gay marriage is permitted under the state constitution.
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Suspect in Idaho case had abuse history
Jul 2 2005 8:47PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The man arrested Saturday with a missing 8-year-old girl had spent more than a decade in prison for sexually assaulting a boy at gunpoint and had a Web site that called for lighter sentencing of sex offenders, officials said.
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Kansas high court may keep schools closed
Jul 2 2005 7:44PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Supreme Court said Saturday it will consider keeping schools closed because state legislators have failed to comply with the court's demand that they spend more money on public schools.
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Michigan aims to block spam sent to kids
Jul 2 2005 7:34PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Parents can now sign up for what Michigan officials say is the nation's first registry aimed at keeping spammers from sending children inappropriate e-mail. The new law bans sending messages to children related to such things as pornography, illegal or prescription drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, firearms or fireworks. Parents and schools will be able to register children's e-mail addresses.
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Flower girl, limo driver killed in crash
Jul 2 2005 7:11PM (CT)
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) - A 7-year-old who had been a flower girl at her aunt's wedding a few hours earlier was killed Saturday when the limo she was riding was hit head-on by an alleged drunken driver, police said.
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State troopers hurt in Texas training
Jul 2 2005 4:44PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Three-dozen state trooper recruits have suffered concussions since 1997 in the same boxing training program that led to a recent trainee's death, and another has been paralyzed since he was punched 17 years ago, newspapers reported Saturday.
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Nine-year-old boy falls to death from ride
Jul 2 2005 4:09PM (CT)
HIGHLAND, Ind. (AP) - A 9-year-old boy died after falling more than 25 feet from the gondola of a rotating carnival ride during a Fourth of July festival at a town park.
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Report: Egyptian imam was a CIA informant
Jul 2 2005 4:06PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A radical Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped from Italy by the CIA once provided the American spy agency with valuable information about Islamic militants in Albania, according to a published report.
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Ohio to launch largest voucher program
Jul 2 2005 3:38PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio is more than tripling the size of its school voucher program, making it the nation's largest since the practice of using public money for private school tuition was found constitutional three years ago.
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Burnout operations shield Ariz. community
Jul 2 2005 3:16PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Using fire to fight fire, crews said Saturday they had managed to protect a community that was in the path of the mammoth wildfire spreading through dry brush and grass in rugged central Arizona.
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Sentencing may shed light on BTK story
Jul 2 2005 2:45PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The courtroom confession by the BTK serial killer answered many questions haunting the families of his victims, who struggled for years with the horror of their loss and the mystery about who inflicted it. But Dennis Rader's chilling, emotionless narrative June 27 about the way he tortured, strangled, stabbed and shot his 10 victims was only one side of the story.
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Numbers of civil unions declining
Jul 2 2005 1:27PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - In the last six months of 2000, when Vermont was the only state in the nation recognizing anything resembling marriage for gays and lesbians, 1,709 couples were joined in civil unions.
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Gay Vt. couples celebrate anniversaries
Jul 2 2005 1:22PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Lois Farnham and Holly Puterbaugh were among the very first same-sex couples in the nation to be legally joined as spouses when Vermont's civil union law went into effect. They're happy to be celebrating their fifth anniversary _ but they still wish they could get married.
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Maryland won't hold new trial for priest
Jul 2 2005 12:15PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The state has decided not to retry a defrocked priest who won a reversal of his conviction for molesting a boy who later shot him, saying the priest probably would avoid prison time even if he were found guilty again.
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Record travel expected for July 4 weekend
Jul 2 2005 9:03AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Despite higher fuel prices, Americans by the tens of millions will hit the roads, ride the rails and take to the skies for the Fourth of July in what is expected to be the busiest three-day travel weekend in U.S. history.
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Army town stunned by Afghanistan deaths
Jul 2 2005 8:26AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - In the four years that Hunter Army Airfield has been deploying troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, John Judy has tattooed dozens of soldiers with crosses and banners in memory of fallen comrades. Still, the news that seven had died at once in the mountains of Afghanistan was tough for the tattoo artist to take.
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Coretta Scott King cancels appearances
Jul 2 2005 8:01AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., has canceled several public appearances in the past week, raising concerns about her health.
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Time surrenders documents to prosecutor
Jul 2 2005 6:40AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Time magazine and New York Times reporters, held in contempt for refusing to name sources, tried Friday to stay out of jail by arguing for home detention instead after Time Inc. surrendered its reporter's notes to a prosecutor.
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TV thief finds freedom frustrating
Jul 2 2005 5:43AM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Ga. (AP) - As hard as it was to spend 35 years in prison for stealing a black-and-white television, Junior Allen has found freedom frustrating, too. Despite extensive prison records in North Carolina, where he has spent more than half his life as inmate No. 0004604, Allen has been unable to establish his identity in rural Georgia, where he now lives with his sister, or in Alabama, where he was born 65 years ago to sharecropper parents.
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Calif. cops crack down on smuggling rings
Jul 2 2005 5:41AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Forty-five people were arrested during nighttime raids for allegedly conspiring to smuggle South Korean women into the United States to work as prostitutes at massage parlors and other businesses, authorities said.
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ATV makers push safety courses for teens
Jul 2 2005 5:26AM (CT)
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) - Keith Grundhauser spent hours tearing around a dusty parking lot on a big green ATV, shifting his weight from side-to-side through curves and leaning back hard during panic stops to keep the wheels on the ground. Now 19, he started riding all-terrain vehicles when most children were still stuck on bicycles. It wasn't until recently that he got formal training.
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Shark bites tourist's ankle in Florida
Jul 2 2005 5:25AM (CT)
BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) - A shark bit an Austrian tourist on the ankle Friday while he stood in chest-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, the state's third shark attack in a week.
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Marine who served in Vietnam retires
Jul 2 2005 5:25AM (CT)
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) - When he enlisted in the Marines in 1969, Randall Arnold had to fight his way past a friend to get to the recruiting office. Thirty-six years later, Master Sgt. Arnold had no regrets as he retired from the Corps as its last enlisted Vietnam War veteran.
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