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Plaintiffs win $6.7M in car seat suit
Jul 25 2007 11:47PM (CT)
LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) - A jury on Wednesday ordered car seat maker Evenflo Co. to pay nearly $6.7 million to the parents of a 4-month-old Montana boy who died of head injuries in a July 2000 crash.
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Manhattan retaining wall collapses
Jul 25 2007 11:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A retaining wall at a construction site where blasting work was being done collapsed Wednesday night, forcing several hundred residents to evacuate a nearby apartment building. No injuries were immediately reported.
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No mass memorials at Fort Lewis base
Jul 25 2007 10:58PM (CT)
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - Fort Lewis will hold individual memorials for fallen soldiers rather than a monthly mass ceremony, which had sparked outrage earlier this year, the commanding general of the Army base's I Corps said Wednesday.
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DEA raids 10 LA pot clinics
Jul 25 2007 10:52PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal agents raided 10 marijuana clinics Wednesday, the same day city leaders introduced a measure calling for an end to the crackdown on the dispensaries allowed under state law.
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Calif. hospital settles transplant suit
Jul 25 2007 10:42PM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - The UCI Medical Center agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle 35 lawsuits brought by former liver transplant candidates at the hospital or their relatives, the lawyer for most of the plaintiffs said Wednesday.
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Woman accused of hitting kids indicted
Jul 25 2007 10:19PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A woman accused of repeatedly hitting her two young children on a flight from San Francisco to Denver has been indicted on assault and interference charges.
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Ill. student accused of terrorist threat
Jul 25 2007 10:13PM (CT)
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A college fraternity president and aspiring rapper who was accused of threatening a "murderous rampage" similar to April's deadly shooting spree at Virginia Tech pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
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Ill. student accused of terrorist threat
Jul 25 2007 10:13PM (CT)
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A college fraternity president and aspiring rapper who was accused of threatening a "murderous rampage" similar to April's deadly shooting spree at Virginia Tech pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
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Ill. student accused of terrorist threat
Jul 25 2007 10:13PM (CT)
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A college fraternity president and aspiring rapper who was accused of threatening a "murderous rampage" similar to April's deadly shooting spree at Virginia Tech pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
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Feds propose land for endangered sheep
Jul 25 2007 10:12PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - More than 400,000 acres of wildlands in the Eastern Sierra Nevada should be made protected habitat for an endangered mountain sheep rebounding from the threat of extinction, the federal government said Wednesday.
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Dog who searched for WTC survivors dies
Jul 25 2007 10:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A black Labrador who became a national canine hero after burrowing through white-hot, smoking debris in search of survivors at the World Trade Center site died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
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Dog who searched for WTC survivors dies
Jul 25 2007 10:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A black Labrador who became a national canine hero after burrowing through white-hot, smoking debris in search of survivors at the World Trade Center site died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
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Dog who searched for WTC survivors dies
Jul 25 2007 10:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A black Labrador who became a national canine hero after burrowing through white-hot, smoking debris in search of survivors at the World Trade Center site died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
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Defense expert calls Clarkson a suicide
Jul 25 2007 9:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A forensic pathologist testifying for the defense said Wednesday that the actress Phil Spector is accused of killing shot herself, and that a medical examiner was "hasty" in calling her death a homicide.
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Defense expert calls Clarkson a suicide
Jul 25 2007 9:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A forensic pathologist testifying for the defense said Wednesday that the actress Phil Spector is accused of killing shot herself, and that a medical examiner was "hasty" in calling her death a homicide.
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Defense expert calls Clarkson a suicide
Jul 25 2007 9:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A forensic pathologist testifying for the defense said Wednesday that the actress Phil Spector is accused of killing shot herself, and that a medical examiner was "hasty" in calling her death a homicide.
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Defense expert calls Clarkson a suicide
Jul 25 2007 9:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A forensic pathologist testifying for the defense said Wednesday that the actress Phil Spector is accused of killing shot herself, and that a medical examiner was "hasty" in calling her death a homicide.
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Wildfires threaten homes in Montana
Jul 25 2007 9:48PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Helicopters and air tankers joined firefighters working to save homes from a fast-moving brush fire in Montana as dozens of wildfires scorched the West on Wednesday.
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No repair done before reservoir collapse
Jul 25 2007 9:46PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Supervisors at a hydroelectric plant never approved requests to fix water-level sensors at the Taum Sauk reservoir before its collapse sent a torrent of water into a state park, a company engineer testified Wednesday.
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NY City Council votes on student phones
Jul 25 2007 9:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The City Council voted Wednesday to support children's right to carry cell phones outside of public schools hoping to give their parents a boost in the fight to allow them inside.
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House moves to free Border Patrol agents
Jul 25 2007 9:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Wednesday approved a move by conservative Republicans to try to set free two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug dealer.
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Threat forces plane to return to Seattle
Jul 25 2007 8:58PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A man who had missed his flight Wednesday said there was a bomb aboard the plane, forcing it to return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport even though authorities did not believe the threat was legitimate, an airport spokeswoman said.
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U.S. attorney won't prosecute lawyer
Jul 25 2007 8:46PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A U.S. attorney on Wednesday declined a federal judge's request to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney on allegations of criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute.
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Domestic violence law upheld under ban
Jul 25 2007 8:24PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Unmarried couples can be prosecuted under Ohio's domestic violence laws even though the state bans gay marriages, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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Gas tanks explode at Dallas facility
Jul 25 2007 8:15PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Flaming debris rained onto a busy highway during a series of explosions at a gas facility near the city's dense downtown area, injuring three people and rattling windows and buildings blocks away.
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Conn. suspects showed no violent signs
Jul 25 2007 8:12PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - State officials are re-examining their policies after learning two convicted burglars out on parole are accused of killing three family members during a home invasion and arson.
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Conn. suspects showed no violent signs
Jul 25 2007 8:12PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - State officials are re-examining their policies after learning two convicted burglars out on parole are accused of killing three family members during a home invasion and arson.
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Conn. suspects showed no violent signs
Jul 25 2007 8:12PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - State officials are re-examining their policies after learning two convicted burglars out on parole are accused of killing three family members during a home invasion and arson.
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Cops: No plan to reinstate ex-officer
Jul 25 2007 8:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city's police superintendent has no plans to overturn the firing of a former officer cleared this week in the videotaped beating a retired school teacher after Hurricane Katrina, a department spokesman said Wednesday.
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Lawmakers may investigate Spitzer staff
Jul 25 2007 8:02PM (CT)
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - The Republican state Senate leader, the target of politically motivated tracking by state police, said Wednesday that a Senate committee with subpoena power may investigate whether it was Gov. Eliot Spitzer who was pulling the strings.
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Lawmakers may investigate Spitzer staff
Jul 25 2007 8:02PM (CT)
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - The Republican state Senate leader, the target of politically motivated tracking by state police, said Wednesday that a Senate committee with subpoena power may investigate whether it was Gov. Eliot Spitzer who was pulling the strings.
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Ark. journalists demand open executions
Jul 25 2007 7:43PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Several journalists sued the state prisons chief Wednesday, demanding he let witnesses see the entire execution process and not just when poison flows into condemned inmates.
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Retirees fight U.S. over border wall
Jul 25 2007 7:27PM (CT)
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) - Herbert and Shirley-Ann Leu were thinking landscaping, not politics, when they built an 85-foot-long concrete wall in their backyard.
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La. AG wants Katrina death files opened
Jul 25 2007 7:10PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's attorney general, denied an indictment against a doctor he alleged murdered patients at a New Orleans hospital days after Hurricane Katrina hit, asked a judge Wednesday to unseal documents that he says back up his claims.
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FBI: Air Force mechanic threatened base
Jul 25 2007 7:05PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An aircraft mechanic sent e-mails claiming he would detonate explosives at a Utah air force base and kill six hostages if the U.S. did not remove all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, authorities said Wednesday.
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Therapist gets 45 years for abusing kids
Jul 25 2007 6:47PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former respiratory therapist was sentenced to more than 45 years in prison Wednesday for sexually preying upon some of the most defenseless patients at the hospital where he worked: children so sick they couldn't speak out.
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Therapist gets 45 years for abusing kids
Jul 25 2007 6:47PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former respiratory therapist was sentenced to more than 45 years in prison Wednesday for sexually preying upon some of the most defenseless patients at the hospital where he worked: children so sick they couldn't speak out.
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Therapist gets 45 years for abusing kids
Jul 25 2007 6:47PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former respiratory therapist was sentenced to more than 45 years in prison Wednesday for sexually preying upon some of the most defenseless patients at the hospital where he worked: children so sick they couldn't speak out.
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Paper gives Goldman Sachs letter to FBI
Jul 25 2007 6:11PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee newspaper is cooperating with authorities and has given the FBI a letter it received that threatened New York investment firm Goldman Sachs.
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UN pledges strong response to sex abuse
Jul 25 2007 6:09PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A top U.N. official pledged Wednesday to bolster measures to prevent U.N. peacekeeping forces from acting inappropriately following allegations that Moroccan peacekeepers sexually abused girls in Ivory Coast.
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La. airport to reopen traffic control
Jul 25 2007 6:02PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Permanent air traffic control service is set to resume for the first time since Hurricane Katrina at an airport near downtown New Orleans.
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Mo. man kills knife-wielding grandson
Jul 25 2007 5:50PM (CT)
AVA, Mo. (AP) - A man shot and killed his grandson Wednesday morning after the teenager began stabbing him and his wife, authorities said.
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5 die in Alaska sightseeing plane crash
Jul 25 2007 5:08PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A sightseeing plane crashed in the mountains of Misty Fiords National Monument, killing the pilot, two sisters and their husbands on a side trip from an Alaska cruise, state troopers said Wednesday.
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Cooling system explodes in UCLA building
Jul 25 2007 4:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The cooling system of a building at the University of California, Los Angeles, exploded Wednesday, damaging two underground levels of a nanotechnology center, authorities said.
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Condoms for seniors _ citizens, that is
Jul 25 2007 4:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - While volunteers passed out cups of Jell-O to the white-haired lunch crowd at a senior center, another group was distributing something that didn't quite fit amid the card games and daily gossip: condoms.
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Fire set by boy playing with lighter
Jul 25 2007 4:54PM (CT)
BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) - A 7-year-old boy playing with a lighter Wednesday started an apartment fire that killed two children and their baby sitter, officials said.
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Fired Colo. professor sues university
Jul 25 2007 4:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A professor who was fired after comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi sued the school Wednesday, saying officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to free speech.
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Fired Colo. professor sues university
Jul 25 2007 4:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A professor who was fired after comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi sued the school Wednesday, saying officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to free speech.
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Girl, 12, dies after softball accident
Jul 25 2007 4:36PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A 12-year-old softball player was knocked unconscious when a ball hit her in the head during practice, and she died a day later, police and family said.
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Rain brings water to Lake Okeechobee
Jul 25 2007 3:54PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - While South Florida's drought problems are far from over, summer rain has begun to replenish Lake Okeechobee in the heart of the Everglades after an 18-month dry spell led to severe restrictions, officials said Wednesday.
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DNA identified latest 9/11 victim
Jul 25 2007 3:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - DNA experts have identified the remains of a 42-year-old brokerage executive who died on Sept. 11, 2001, officials said Wednesday.
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Students help restore Shaker barn
Jul 25 2007 2:28PM (CT)
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. (AP) - Taller than the trees and built to last ages, the Shakers' stone barn towered over the rolling fields east of the Hudson River and symbolized the religious group's tireless industry.
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Children's hospital therapist sentenced
Jul 25 2007 2:07PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former children's hospital respiratory therapist was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years and 8 months in prison for molesting five disabled children and taking pornographic photographs of others in a crime several of the victims' families described as their worst nightmares.
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Franken mounts a serious campaign
Jul 25 2007 2:05PM (CT)
OTSEGO, Minn. (AP) - Al Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" comic running for the Senate, will tell a joke when the material is there, like the day President Bush underwent a colonoscopy and transferred power temporarily to Dick Cheney.
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Military bases see a baby boom
Jul 25 2007 2:04PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Army Spc. John Luckey and his wife, Kerry, already had five children and no plans for more when he came home from a year's duty in Iraq. But there was romance in the California air when the entire family went on a vacation to see the giant redwoods.
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College libraries not just books
Jul 25 2007 1:27PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Like schools around the country, Rhodes College has made a refreshing discovery about libraries: They can do a lot more for a campus than just store books.
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NYC cop sentenced in DWI death
Jul 25 2007 1:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former police officer was sentenced to prison Wednesday for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk and speeding in the wrong direction in a closed lane of the Queensboro Bridge.
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NY Gov's aides refused investigators
Jul 25 2007 1:09PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Two top aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer refused to be interviewed in an investigation of alleged misuse of state police to track a top GOP lawmaker, however they acknowledged they should have done more to avoid "the appearance of impropriety," according to a sworn statement.
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NY Gov's aides refused investigators
Jul 25 2007 1:09PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Two top aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer refused to be interviewed in an investigation of alleged misuse of state police to track a top GOP lawmaker, however they acknowledged they should have done more to avoid "the appearance of impropriety," according to a sworn statement.
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Tenn. raids Teamsters amid union rivalry
Jul 25 2007 12:42PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State investigators raided a Teamsters office during an inquiry into a feud between rival unions that had been vying to represent Nashville police.
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D.C. cabbie gets 15 years in terror case
Jul 25 2007 12:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Washington, D.C., cab driver who admitted he attended training camps in Pakistan was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison after he was portrayed as eager to serve a terrorist group.
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Judge: Sudan owes USS Cole families $8M
Jul 25 2007 11:38AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Sudan to pay nearly $8 million to the families of 17 sailors killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole.
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NYC cabbies turn up strike-talk volume
Jul 25 2007 11:16AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A group representing thousands of taxi drivers said Wednesday it will idle cabs in September if the city goes ahead with a plan to require installation of GPS tracking systems.
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Psychology giant Albert Ellis dies
Jul 25 2007 10:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - He came to psychology almost by happenstance, after friends began turning to him for guidance. But Albert Ellis would become one of the most important figures in modern psychology, once ranked by his peers as more influential than Sigmund Freud.
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BSU star gets threats, hires security
Jul 25 2007 8:58AM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Boise State University football player who scored the winning points in the Fiesta Bowl, then proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television, says he has hired security for their wedding because of racial threats.
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Former Ga. front-runner concedes
Jul 25 2007 8:32AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Republican Paul Broun was ready to be sworn in as the newest member of Congress after his opponent declined a recount, despite the narrow, 394-vote difference between them.
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Police: Man says chopped up pal in panic
Jul 25 2007 8:26AM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A man charged with improperly disposing of a corpse claims he chopped up his friend's body, stuffed the parts in a metal drum and rolled it into a river in a panic after the friend died of a drug overdose, police said.
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Refugees cause worry about Mich. economy
Jul 25 2007 7:47AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The area in southeast Michigan where 2,000 Iraqi refugees are expected to resettle already has 169,000 people out of work. Some fear the influx will push the state's unemployment rate even higher.
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Man dies trapped between elevator, gate
Jul 25 2007 7:35AM (CT)
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An elderly man died of a heart attack after he became trapped between an elevator and a security gate in a medical building, authorities said.
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Neighbors fear for future of Ga. plant
Jul 25 2007 3:51AM (CT)
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Surrounded by four housing projects in one of Augusta's rougher neighborhoods, the Castleberry's Food Co. plant has become a beacon for jobs, food and a sense of hope in its impoverished community.
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Neighbors fear for future of Ga. plant
Jul 25 2007 3:51AM (CT)
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Surrounded by four housing projects in one of Augusta's rougher neighborhoods, the Castleberry's Food Co. plant has become a beacon for jobs, food and a sense of hope in its impoverished community.
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Burned bodies found near Calif. pot raid
Jul 25 2007 2:50AM (CT)
INDEPENDENCE, Calif. (AP) - The burned bodies of two people were found near a marijuana plantation where police discovered 50,000 plants and arrested five people this month, authorities said.
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Woman sued Castro in father's death
Jul 25 2007 2:49AM (CT)
BELFAST, Maine (AP) - A woman has sued Fidel Castro, alleging that the Cuban leader caused the wrongful death of her pilot father after he was shot down over Cuba and imprisoned in 1963 while on a covert mission.
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Plane festival keeps controllers on toes
Jul 25 2007 2:18AM (CT)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - Michael Sparks believed this summer would be his last as an air traffic controller. The 26-year veteran thought he'd seen it all.
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Plane festival keeps controllers on toes
Jul 25 2007 2:18AM (CT)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - Michael Sparks believed this summer would be his last as an air traffic controller. The 26-year veteran thought he'd seen it all.
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Plane festival keeps controllers on toes
Jul 25 2007 2:18AM (CT)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - Michael Sparks believed this summer would be his last as an air traffic controller. The 26-year veteran thought he'd seen it all.
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Plane festival keeps controllers on toes
Jul 25 2007 2:18AM (CT)
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - Michael Sparks believed this summer would be his last as an air traffic controller. The 26-year veteran thought he'd seen it all.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Californians burn rubber on new freeway
Jul 25 2007 1:58AM (CT)
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - The last stretch of brand-new freeway that California is likely to see for years opened Tuesday with motorists vying for position and the inevitable traffic jam.
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Calif. fruit, nuts score a hit in China
Jul 25 2007 1:49AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - China's booming economy has spelled trouble for many U.S. farmers who have lost market share to low-cost Chinese imports.
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Judge: Spying lawsuits can proceed
Jul 25 2007 12:15AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday declined to dismiss lawsuits filed by five states seeking information on a federal government warrantless wiretap program, keeping the cases alive pending an appeals court decision.
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