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Redistricting proposal draws ire in Calif.
Jul 20 2005 11:57PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Three civil rights groups and two legislative committees have jumped into a fight over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to change the way legislative and congressional districts are drawn in California.
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Man arrested for harassing Mont. governor
Jul 20 2005 11:44PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A man wielding a baseball bat was arrested after he allegedly showed up at the governor's mansion and made verbal threats after the state's first lady opened the door.
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Doctor liable for leaving tool in patient
Jul 20 2005 11:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge found a physician negligent in a medical malpractice lawsuit accusing the doctor of losing a surgical needle in a patient's abdomen and then closing the opening after he couldn't find it.
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Missouri man wins $2.7M for lung injuries
Jul 20 2005 10:59PM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A former popcorn plant worker who claimed his respiratory illness came from a harmful chemical used to make butter flavoring has been awarded about $2.7 million in damages.
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Fatal shooting in Fla. ruled self-defense
Jul 20 2005 10:56PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The fatal shooting of two men by a tenant they were trying to evict was ruled self-defense because one of them was brandishing a gun and a chain, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Wildfire forces evacuations near Denver
Jul 20 2005 10:23PM (CT)
KIOWA, Colo. (AP) - A fast-moving wildfire forced the evacuation of about 50 homes near Denver on Wednesday as flames blackened a landscape of rolling grasslands and ponderosa pines.
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Schwarzenegger still getting big donations
Jul 20 2005 10:23PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may be slumping in the polls and beset by conflict-of-interest charges, but the governor's fund-raising team continues to bring in sizable donations, including a $1 million contribution this month.
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Authorities disrupt counterfeit ID ring
Jul 20 2005 10:21PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Federal authorities said Wednesday they had disrupted a far-flung ring that made counterfeit immigration and identification documents, and they hope to extradite the alleged leader from Mexico.
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Death toll up to 18 in Phoenix heat wave
Jul 20 2005 10:13PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A record heat wave has led to the deaths of 18 people, most of them homeless, leaving officials scrambling to provide water and shelter to the city's transient population.
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Denver pit bull owners in a panic over ban
Jul 20 2005 10:12PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A few weeks ago, two police cars and two animal control vehicles pulled up at the home of Stef'ny Steffan looking for her beloved 4-year-old pit bull, Xena. Seven officers hauled the animal off to the city shelter, putting her on death row. Xena became an outlaw after Denver won a court fight and reinstated one of the toughest pit-bull bans in the nation.
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Border chief reaches out to volunteers
Jul 20 2005 9:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The top U.S. border enforcement official said Wednesday that his agency is exploring ways to involve citizen volunteers in creating "something akin to a Border Patrol auxiliary" _ a significant shift after a high-profile civilian campaign this spring along the Arizona-Mexico border.
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Judge orders auction of JFK's sailboat
Jul 20 2005 9:35PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A judge has ordered the federal government to auction off a sailboat once owned by President Kennedy, with the proceeds to be split between the government and a part owner.
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Shoppers ordered from mall due to package
Jul 20 2005 9:28PM (CT)
WEST NYACK, N.Y. (AP) - The discovery of a small package with wires sticking out of it prompted the evacuation of thousands of people Wednesday from a mall north of New York City.
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NYC police seek to educate public
Jul 20 2005 9:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Beware the mass transit rider with clenched fists. Or one nervously patting down his clothes. Or one who reeks of cologne.
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Adoption group reverses Catholic policy
Jul 20 2005 8:51PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A Christian adoption agency said Wednesday that its Mississippi affiliate has reversed a policy that had barred the placement of children with Roman Catholic couples.
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Accused molester was former teacher
Jul 20 2005 8:35PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in a resort hotel elevator this week is a former middle school teacher who has faced groping allegations in the past.
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Murder charges dropped against soldier
Jul 20 2005 8:19PM (CT)
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) - A military judge allowed prosecutors to drop murder charges against an Army sergeant accused in the deaths of two fellow soldiers, but he sentenced the man to 12 years in prison on drug charges Wednesday.
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Brain-dead woman's fetus reaches milestone
Jul 20 2005 7:52PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A brain-dead pregnant woman on life support has reached the milestone in her pregnancy where doctors believe the baby could realistically survive outside the womb, giving her family renewed hope about the devastating ordeal.
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Sister recounts Elizabeth Smart abduction
Jul 20 2005 7:47PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Fearful the man would come back and take her too, Mary Katherine Smart quietly remained in bed for two hours until she got up the courage to tell her parents that her sister had been kidnapped.
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Texas weathers Emily with little damage
Jul 20 2005 7:40PM (CT)
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) - Hurricane Emily pushed turbulent waves onto this resort island, bent palm trees and rocked some parked cars Wednesday, but the storm wound up being nothing more than an inconvenience for many residents in South Texas.
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Montana gov. talked up as 2008 contender
Jul 20 2005 7:35PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Gov. Brian Schweitzer sits in his Capitol office, scanning a recent Roll Call article in which pundits float his name as a possible presidential contender. They say the "rancher-politician from Big Sky Country" might be the Democrats' "best shot to take back the White House." Schweitzer tosses the article aside. "These people are kooky," he says.
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Oregon lawmakers step up fight vs. meth
Jul 20 2005 7:04PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon would become the first state to require a prescription for many types of cold medicines under a bill overwhelmingly passed Wednesday by the House as part of an attack on methamphetamine.
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Drought causing problems in the Midwest
Jul 20 2005 7:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Lawns are turning brown. Flowers are wilting. Water levels are so low that ducks can stand in some rivers and streams. A drought that is stunting corn, rice and soybean crops across the nation's Farm Belt is also leading many communities in more urban parts of the Midwest to ban lawn-watering and urge homeowners to conserve.
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Pile of tires in Wis. burns for second day
Jul 20 2005 6:51PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - As a huge mound of tires burned for a second day at a southeastern Wisconsin recycling plant, health officials warned nearby residents Wednesday to stay indoors with windows closed to avoid billowing black smoke.
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L.A. Times editor John S. Carroll retires
Jul 20 2005 6:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Times editor John S. Carroll is retiring and will be succeeded by Dean Baquet, the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning managing editor, the newspaper announced Wednesday.
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Gerry Thomas, inventor of TV dinners, dies
Jul 20 2005 6:30PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Gerry Thomas, who changed the way Americans eat _ for better or worse _ with his invention of the TV Dinner during the baby boom years, has died at 83.
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Md. Man who killed boss dies at hospital
Jul 20 2005 6:12PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A former employee of a juice company shot and killed his former boss before pointing his shotgun at Baltimore police officers, who then killed the gunman, authorities said.
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Man sentenced for pre-inauguration threat
Jul 20 2005 6:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who threatened to blow up his van in front of the White House two days before President Bush's inauguration drew a 34-month prison term Wednesday from a judge who ordered him to stay away from the nation's capital, even after he's released.
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Marine Corps silver dollar unveiled
Jul 20 2005 6:07PM (CT)
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) - A 1945 photograph taken at Iwo Jima was memorialized in a commemorative coin released Wednesday celebrating the 230th anniversary of the Marine Corps.
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Fla. man arrested in killing, standoff
Jul 20 2005 6:06PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man fired shots into a van filled with children, critically wounding his girlfriend who was driving and killing her 13-year-old niece, then broke into an apartment and held two people hostage before surrendering Wednesday, police said.
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Africa Union optimistic on Council plan
Jul 20 2005 6:00PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The African Union is reasonably optimistic that it can reach agreement with Brazil, Germany, India and Japan on a plan to expand the Security Council that could win quick U.N. approval, Nigeria's foreign minister told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Pa. court strikes down delinquents law
Jul 20 2005 5:54PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A court on Wednesday overturned part of a Pennsylvania law that places Philadelphia delinquents in alternative schools rather than allowing them to quickly return to public school.
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Lawyers want contractor's charges dropped
Jul 20 2005 4:34PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Lawyers for a CIA contractor accused of beating an Afghan prisoner in 2003 asked a judge to dismiss the charges Wednesday, saying the government should not be allowed to prosecute him in civilian court.
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Zell Miller returns money to state of Ga.
Jul 20 2005 3:43PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Zell Miller said Wednesday he has paid $156,668 to the state to resolve questions about money he kept from an entertainment allowance he received when he was governor.
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Con Ed reaches settlement over death
Jul 20 2005 3:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Con Edison reached a settlement with the state Public Services Commission on Wednesday over the death of a woman electrocuted while walking her dogs, agreeing to spend $10.6 million on stray-voltage detectors and other safety programs.
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Oregon House votes on anti-meth measure
Jul 20 2005 3:04PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon would become the first state to require a prescription for many types of cold medicines under a bill overwhelmingly passed Wednesday by the House as part of an attack on methamphetamine.
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3 killed in crash of small plane in Texas
Jul 20 2005 2:22PM (CT)
SAGINAW, Texas (AP) - A small plane crashed between two houses and slid into a backyard fence Wednesday, bursting into flames and killing all three people aboard, authorities said.
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Day care director charged with molestation
Jul 20 2005 2:19PM (CT)
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - The former director of a church-run day care center has been charged with molesting 10 children, some of them during what investigators say was a twisted game of "Truth or Dare."
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Serial killer sentenced to death in Ariz.
Jul 20 2005 1:07PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A man was sentenced to death for luring five women to a camper, strangling them during sex and dumping their bodies around a neighborhood.
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Md. gov. says he'll examine country clubs
Jul 20 2005 12:37PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Robert Ehrlich said he would examine private clubs' membership policies when he schedules future fundraisers and encourage a country club where he held a recent event to integrate its membership.
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Man accused of hitting Vietnamese official
Jul 20 2005 10:57AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A Vietnamese immigrant is facing possible deportation after being arrested for allegedly punching a Vietnamese government official, who he says killed his father, during protests in Washington.
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Sen. Clinton has big lead in N.Y. poll
Jul 20 2005 10:50AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to sport a hefty lead over potential Republican challenger Jeanine Pirro in the 2006 Senate race, a statewide poll reported Wednesday.
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GOP, Dems court Hispanics at conference
Jul 20 2005 8:50AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Democratic and Republican leaders touted their parties' records on inclusion Tuesday, courting voters at the annual conference of a Hispanic civil rights group.
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S.D. gives new meaning to small gov't
Jul 20 2005 8:22AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - For about one-fourth of residents in this city of 1.3 million, there's no one to call about that nasty pothole or unsightly graffiti.
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DC Comics illustrator James Aparo dies
Jul 20 2005 3:11AM (CT)
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) - James N. Aparo, an illustrator for DC Comics for more than 30 years who drew Batman, the Green Arrow and other action heroes, has died.
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