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Teen accused of killing her grandfather
Jul 21 2005 11:53PM (CT)
CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) - A 16-year-old girl was accused of fatally stabbing her grandfather early Thursday, a day after she was released from juvenile detention in connection with another knife attack.
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Ind. woman charged with killing her sons
Jul 21 2005 11:43PM (CT)
DYER, Ind. (AP) - Police charged a woman with two counts of murder Thursday, accusing her of beating her two sons to death with a 10-pound dumbbell because she thought they would be better off in heaven.
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Spokane mayor to resume chemotherapy
Jul 21 2005 11:28PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Embattled Spokane Mayor James E. West, already fighting a sex scandal and a recall effort, will resume chemotherapy after lesions were discovered on his liver, the mayor said.
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Tropical Storm Franklin forms off Florida
Jul 21 2005 10:59PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Franklin, the sixth named storm of the busy hurricane season, formed Thursday, and was expected to meander in the western Atlantic off Florida for at least the next few days, forecasters said.
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Judge asked to probe corruption papers
Jul 21 2005 10:54PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A federal prosecutor asked a judge Thursday to determine how three documents under seal were released to newspapers reporting on a public corruption probe involving the city's former mayor.
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Housecleaner charged in Ill. slayings
Jul 21 2005 10:20PM (CT)
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) - A former housecleaner was charged Thursday in the slayings of a pastor and his daughter, whose bludgeoned and bound bodies were discovered after a fire in their suburban home, police said Thursday.
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Housecleaner charged in Ill. slayings
Jul 21 2005 10:16PM (CT)
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) - A former housecleaner was charged Thursday in the slayings of a pastor and his daughter, whose bludgeoned and bound bodies were discovered after a fire in their suburban home, police said Thursday.
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Police to check bags on NYC subways
Jul 21 2005 10:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police will begin random searches of bags and packages carried by people entering city subways, officials announced Thursday after a new series of bomb attacks in London.
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Feds shut down drug-smuggling tunnel
Jul 21 2005 9:57PM (CT)
LYNDEN, Wash. (AP) - Federal agents have shut down an elaborate, 360-foot drug-smuggling tunnel dug underneath the U.S.-Canadian border _ the first such passageway discovered along the nation's northern edge, officials said Thursday.
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Wildfire threatens remote Utah town
Jul 21 2005 9:26PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Residents of a remote town in southwestern Utah voluntarily evacuated their homes Thursday ahead of a wildfire that blackened more than 800 acres.
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Mich. teen gets prison time for threats
Jul 21 2005 9:11PM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A teenager accused of plotting a massacre at his suburban Detroit high school was sentenced Thursday to at least 4 1/2 years in prison for threatening terrorism and amassing an arsenal in his home.
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Redistricting measure off Calif. ballot
Jul 21 2005 8:46PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A judge kicked Arnold Schwarzenegger's redistricting measure off the special election ballot Thursday, a crushing blow for a proposition that was held up as a centerpiece of the governor's campaign to reform state government.
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Accused 'Mafia cops' leave jail on bail
Jul 21 2005 8:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two former police detectives accused of moonlighting as killers for the Mafia walked free on $5 million bail each Thursday as a defense lawyer said he would seek dismissal of the charges.
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Democratic fundraising up sharply from '04
Jul 21 2005 8:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats raised $86.3 million in the first half of this year, beating their total for the same period in 2003 by more than 50 percent. Republican fundraising increased slightly over the same nonelection-year periods.
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Poll: Roberts' abortion stance of interest
Jul 21 2005 8:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just over half of all Americans _ and a solid majority of women _ want to know John Roberts' position on abortion before the Senate votes on whether to elevate him to the Supreme Court.
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Chicago trucker pleads guilty in scandal
Jul 21 2005 8:10PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The former head of a trucking company that earned an average of $325,000 a year from a scandal-plagued city program pleaded guilty Thursday to mail fraud and admitted paying off officials in the city water department.
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Woman, child die in fall Boston high-rise
Jul 21 2005 7:59PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A woman holding her baby daughter jumped from a window of her high-rise apartment Thursday, crashing 17 floors to their deaths, police said.
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Two hurt in ATV accident after funeral
Jul 21 2005 7:55PM (CT)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Two mourners who rode an all-terrain vehicle to the service for a man killed in an ATV accident were injured in a similar accident as they were leaving.
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Judge throws out deportation case
Jul 21 2005 7:49PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A judge on Thursday threw out the deportation case against four young people who were taking part in a high school science competition near the Canadian border when the government found out they were brought to the U.S. illegally as toddlers.
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Family, friends mourn Gen. Westmoreland
Jul 21 2005 7:49PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Retired Gen. William Westmoreland was remembered during a brief funeral Thursday for his attainments both in and out of uniform, and as a proud Southerner with a sense of humor.
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Pa. congressman acknowledges affair
Jul 21 2005 7:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa., admitted in court papers filed Thursday that he had an affair with a Maryland woman for five years, but he denied abusing her, as she claimed in a $5.5 million civil suit.
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Kia recalling Sedona minivans
Jul 21 2005 7:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Kia Sedona is the subject of its second recall notice in three months because of potential problems with a throttle cable that could lead to a crash.
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Teen wants visits with 'Munchausen' mom
Jul 21 2005 6:47PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A teenage girl whose mother was imprisoned for deliberately making her so ill that she was hospitalized 200 times asked a judge Thursday to allow visits between them.
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San Diego councilman quits after felony
Jul 21 2005 6:44PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A city councilman announced his resignation Thursday, three days after he was convicted of federal corruption charges in a failed scheme to overturn San Diego's ban on touching dancers at strip clubs.
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Court orders sale of Unabomber's writings
Jul 21 2005 5:05PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court Thursday ordered the government to sell Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's writings and other materials seized in 1996 from his Montana cabin, and use the proceeds to compensate his victims.
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Gov't backs off idea of civilian patrol
Jul 21 2005 3:52PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it has no plans to enlist citizen volunteers to help patrol U.S. borders, one day after the agency's top border enforcement official said he was exploring such an idea.
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Relentless heat in Phoenix kills 18
Jul 21 2005 2:00PM (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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Deputies shoot man sought in robberies
Jul 21 2005 1:58PM (CT)
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - A serial robbery suspect who sported a tattoo saying "Blue eyed Devil" was shot to death by police after he allegedly assaulted a deputy, carjacked an SUV and held up a pet store.
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Psychologist applies for probation
Jul 21 2005 1:39PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A prominent eating disorder expert who collapsed in a supermarket after allegedly inhaling propellant from whipped cream cans applied for a special form of probation Thursday.
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Teens charged with calling in ferry threat
Jul 21 2005 12:56PM (CT)
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) - Four teenagers hoping to extend a weekend together on Nantucket phoned in a threat to the island's ferry operator, stranding more than 150 people in the resulting security scare, authorities said.
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Last of WWII Comanche code talkers dies
Jul 21 2005 12:32PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Charles Chibitty, the last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II, has died. He was 83.
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Soccer coach sentenced in referee beating
Jul 21 2005 11:59AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) - A former soccer coach who beat a referee bloody during a game for 8- and 9-year-olds was sentenced to 30 days of work service and ordered to attend anger management classes.
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Police: Florida couple buried alive
Jul 21 2005 11:30AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A couple whose bodies were found in a shallow grave in southern Georgia were buried alive, and four people face murder and other charges, police said Thursday.
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Religion news in brief
Jul 21 2005 11:06AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An Australian scientist who wrote a book saying DNA evidence contradicts ancestry claims in the Book of Mormon faces disciplinary action in a separate case that could bring excommunication from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Religion today
Jul 21 2005 11:04AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson was the second in the nation to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of sex abuse claims against priests, and now it looks to be the first one to emerge.
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Amtrak to resume Acela service to Boston
Jul 21 2005 10:38AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amtrak will resume Acela Express train service to Boston this weekend for the first time since pulling the high-speed fleet out of operation in April after discovering cracks in many of the trains' brake discs.
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Va. county backs construction limits
Jul 21 2005 10:08AM (CT)
LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - Officials in one of the fastest growing counties in the country have endorsed growth controls that would block the construction of tens of thousands of homes in an area feeling the pressure of sprawl from Washington.
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One arrested in Dartmouth student's death
Jul 21 2005 9:04AM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - One man was arrested and another was being sought in the fatal shooting of an Ivy League student who returned home this summer to help homeless women and children.
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Brain-damaged patient delivers baby
Jul 21 2005 8:59AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A severely disabled, brain-damaged woman who was discovered to be pregnant while living in a nursing home has given birth to an apparently healthy baby girl, authorities said.
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Woman killed in gang crossfire in L.A.
Jul 21 2005 7:49AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 63-year-old woman was fatally shot while waiting for a bus, probably killed by a stray bullet from a nearby gang-related shooting, police said.
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Chicago politicians divided on Gay Games
Jul 21 2005 7:37AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The five Republicans on the county board withdrew their names from a routine proclamation welcoming the 2006 Gay Games to Chicago.
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Denver pit bull owners in a panic over ban
Jul 21 2005 6:35AM (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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Fatal shooting in Fla. ruled self-defense
Jul 21 2005 6:34AM (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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Pa. dad who hit referee receives probation
Jul 21 2005 6:34AM (CT)
READING, Pa. (AP) - A man who punched a referee over a call involving his son at a football game for 5- to 8-year-old boys was sentenced to one year of probation.
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Murder charges dropped against soldier
Jul 21 2005 6:22AM (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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Oregon lawmakers approve anti-meth bill
Jul 21 2005 6:10AM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The state House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that would make Oregon the first state to require a prescription for certain cold medicines, the latest attempt to curb methamphetamine production.
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Texas weathers Emily with little damage
Jul 21 2005 5:47AM (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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Gov. Huntsman: Utah offers jobs, diversity
Jul 21 2005 4:12AM (CT)
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Rapid population growth and more diversity are changing conservative Utah and sparking new economic opportunities, the governor said.
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Filibuster forces special session in Texas
Jul 21 2005 3:17AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Gov. Rick Perry called lawmakers back for another special session starting Thursday because they were unable to finalize an agreement on a school funding plan.
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Group sues to replace green parking meters
Jul 21 2005 1:45AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Stuart Smith can put up with bars and shops selling sex toys in the 19th-century buildings neighboring his carefully restored townhouse in the French Quarter. But he and other residents of the city's historic neighborhoods cannot abide the "garish" new parking meters _ tall green monoliths located in the middle of each block _ that have replaced the traditional meters marking individual spaces.
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