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Los Alamos develops underground radio
Aug 2 2006 10:33PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed an underground radio designed to locate trapped miners or help emergency crews communicate with each other during disasters.
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Heat, humidity combine to torture East
Aug 2 2006 10:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Record-breaking heat and oppressive humidity made people across the eastern half of the country miserable Wednesday and sent tourists in the nation's capital scrambling for relief in the cool marble halls of Capitol Hill.
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Light quake hits San Francisco Bay area
Aug 2 2006 10:29PM (CT)
GLEN ELLEN, Calif. (AP) - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday night, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported.
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High winds blow trucks off Kan. highway
Aug 2 2006 10:25PM (CT)
WILSON, Kan. (AP) - Powerful storms slammed central Kansas with winds up to 100 mph Wednesday, downing trees, snapping utility poles and sweeping several vehicles off Interstate 70, authorities said.
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Mont. residents return after fire
Aug 2 2006 9:49PM (CT)
ST. MARY, Mont. (AP) - Residents and visitors were allowed to return to this gateway community Wednesday night after authorities said a fire along the eastern edge of Glacier National Park no longer posed an immediate threat.
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Contractor claims Big Dig warning a fake
Aug 2 2006 9:44PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A memo written by a Big Dig safety officer warning superiors at his construction company that parts of a tunnel ceiling could collapse appears to be a fake, the company said Wednesday.
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5 killed in crash on Indiana interstate
Aug 2 2006 8:30PM (CT)
BRISTOL, Ind. (AP) - A semitrailer plowed into vehicles stopped in a construction zone on an interstate highway, killing the truck driver and four members of a family, police said Wednesday.
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Calif. prison audit finds waste, abuse
Aug 2 2006 8:19PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's prison system has such lax spending practices on health care that a urologist was able to charge $2,036 an hour to treat inmates and an orthopedic surgeon billed the state for 30 hours of work for a single day, according to an audit released Wednesday.
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Former Bush aide expected to plead guilty
Aug 2 2006 8:07PM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A former White House adviser will plead guilty to misdemeanor theft, and both the prosecution and defense will ask that he serve no time in jail, according to a published report.
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Hatred of Fidel Castro shaped South Fla.
Aug 2 2006 7:57PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Miami's Cubans loathe Fidel Castro with such passion that the mere suggestion he was near death this week had them dancing in the streets. But for all their hatred of the Cuban dictator, perhaps no other figure has shaped their lives _ and South Florida's culture and politics _ more than he has.
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Pa. addicts paid big bucks to shoplift
Aug 2 2006 7:36PM (CT)
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) - Shoplifting rings paid heroin addicts as much as $2,000 a day to hit retail stores, using eBay as a conduit for resale, a state official said.
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Fired DJ files defamation suit
Aug 2 2006 7:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former radio disc jockey fired after he threatened a rival's young daughter in on-air rants filed a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a city councilman who called the DJ a pedophile.
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Power outage affects LA civic buildings
Aug 2 2006 6:19PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 20-minute outage Wednesday cut power to many downtown civic buildings, including City Hall and the police department's headquarters, officials said.
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Methadone pioneer Vincent Dole dies at 93
Aug 2 2006 6:16PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Dr. Vincent P. Dole, whose research in the 1960s established that methadone could be used to treat heroin addiction, died Tuesday. He was 93.
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Woman's death sentence thrown out
Aug 2 2006 6:14PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the death sentence of the first woman condemned since the state resumed executions in 1999.
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Judge delays Padilla terror trial
Aug 2 2006 6:10PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge reluctantly agreed Wednesday to delay the trial of al-Qaida suspect Jose Padilla and two alleged confederates on terrorism charges until early next year after defense lawyers insisted they cannot be ready any earlier.
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Charges dropped in sisters' deaths
Aug 2 2006 5:53PM (CT)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - Charges have been dropped against a woman who was convicted and imprisoned for 10 years in the deaths of two elderly sisters.
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N.Y. nuclear plant's sirens malfunction
Aug 2 2006 5:51PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Sirens that would alert 300,000 people to an emergency at a nuclear plant were out of service for more than six hours Wednesday while most residents slept.
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Daily newspaper buys Florida State paper
Aug 2 2006 5:26PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The daily newspaper in Florida's capital city announced Wednesday that it has bought the student-run newspaper at Florida State University.
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Armed teen surrenders after bank standoff
Aug 2 2006 5:17PM (CT)
EAST THETFORD, Vt. (AP) - An armed 16-year-old walked into a bank, took two employees hostage and demanded to speak to a mental health counselor before surrendering Wednesday, authorities said.
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Medic faces court-martial in killing
Aug 2 2006 5:16PM (CT)
FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) - An Army medic charged with killing a fellow soldier during a night of heavy drinking in Iraq will face a court-martial on a charge of premeditated murder, officials said Wednesday.
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Defective air packs found in mines
Aug 2 2006 5:01PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Inspections of Kentucky's underground mines uncovered 134 defective breathing devices, state regulators announced Wednesday.
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Defense contractor pleads guilty
Aug 2 2006 4:56PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A military contractor that manufactures fiber optic connectors for Army communication systems and Patriot missile launchers pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges Wednesday, admitting it submitted falsified product tests to the Defense Department.
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House explodes in Illinois, killing 2
Aug 2 2006 4:49PM (CT)
CARLINVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A powerful explosion destroyed a house early Wednesday, killing a woman and her young grandson and seriously burning two of her sons, officials said.
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Missing Katrina victims center closing
Aug 2 2006 4:42PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana officials said Wednesday that they are closing the center created to find residents missing after Hurricane Katrina.
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Panel says Miami police overreacted
Aug 2 2006 3:55PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Police officers indiscriminately used stun guns, tear gas and other weapons and unlawfully arrested and searched protesters during demonstrations three years ago at the free-trade conference, a city panel said Wednesday.
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Appeals court slams energy regulators
Aug 2 2006 2:38PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court ordered energy regulators Wednesday to consider ordering stiffer penalties for power companies that manipulated the market and caused blackouts during the 2000-2001 energy crisis.
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Man charged in Seattle shooting rampage
Aug 2 2006 2:04PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The man accused in last week's shooting rampage at the Jewish Federation office that left one woman dead was charged Wednesday with nine felony counts, including violation of the state's hate-crime law.
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Judge keeps Astor court files closed
Aug 2 2006 1:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge Wednesday put off for a month a decision on a request by news organizations to reopen court files detailing a bitter family squabble over the care of 104-year-old philanthropist Brooke Astor.
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Former Pa. legislator ordered to jail
Aug 2 2006 12:42PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A former legislator accused of concocting a bizarre fake anthrax plot to smear a constituent was ordered jailed Wednesday to serve a sentence for having aides do campaign work on state time.
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Defense contractor pleads to fraud
Aug 2 2006 12:17PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A military contractor that manufactures fiber optic connectors for Army communication systems and Patriot missile launchers pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges Wednesday, admitting it submitted falsified product tests to the Defense Department.
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7 injured in N.Y. house explosion
Aug 2 2006 12:07PM (CT)
LAKE GROVE, N.Y. (AP) - Seven people were injured, two critically, when a gas leak caused an explosion and fire, police said Wednesday.
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Woman burns husband with cooking oil
Aug 2 2006 11:29AM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - A woman fled with her two children after severely burning her husband with hot cooking oil as he slept, authorities said.
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Storm prompts tourists' evacuation
Aug 2 2006 10:47AM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Tourists evacuated two small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Chris gained strength in the eastern Caribbean and was expected to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
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Hurricane watch issued in the Caribbean
Aug 2 2006 10:07AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The Bahamian government has issued a hurricane watch in the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. The watch issued at 11 a.m. EDT means that hurricane conditions of winds of at least 74 mph are possible within 36 hours.
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Ind. teen charged in deadly car crash
Aug 2 2006 8:42AM (CT)
JASPER, Ind. (AP) - An 18-year-old was charged with reckless homicide after authorities said he crashed a pickup into a tree while under the influence of marijuana, killing his 16-year-old sister and two other teens.
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L.A. officials back $258M jail plan
Aug 2 2006 8:10AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County will build space for 2,000 more inmates and reopen an old women's facility under a $258 million plan to ease overcrowding and violence in county jails.
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Cuban exiles ponder life after Castro
Aug 2 2006 8:04AM (CT)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - The calls to Radio Mambi came from as far away as Europe: Cuban exiles were euphoric over Fidel Castro's illness and wanted to share their joy with the AM station known as the voice of Miami's Cuban community.
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Mich. judge to leave the bench
Aug 2 2006 6:48AM (CT)
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - A suburban Detroit judge who was filmed shopping, working out at a gym and visiting a spa during repeated absences from the bench last winter says she will leave at year's end.
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Immigrants sue over citizenship delays
Aug 2 2006 5:54AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ten Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants sued the government Tuesday, alleging officials let their U.S. citizenship applications linger indefinitely by delaying background checks.
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Man in video game slayings gets life
Aug 2 2006 4:43AM (CT)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - A man who said he swung a baseball bat but denied killing any of the six victims in a dispute over an Xbox video game system will spend the rest of his life in prison, a judge decided Tuesday.
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Aid worker, kidnapped in Haiti back home
Aug 2 2006 4:22AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The 70-year-old aid worker who may have charmed his kidnappers in Haiti into releasing him two weeks ago is back at home, still unsure why he was freed without a ransom payment.
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La. alligators have few places to nest
Aug 2 2006 4:20AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Every fall, hunters string up baited lines in Louisiana's swamps and marshes and carry out a custom that has been practiced for generations: The alligator hunt.
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Girl scout leader accused of stealing
Aug 2 2006 3:52AM (CT)
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) - A Girl Scout leader has been charged with stealing $5,000 raised by a central Ohio troop through cookie sales and other fundraisers.
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John 'Junior' Gotti willing to testify
Aug 2 2006 3:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - John "Junior" Gotti, according to his attorneys, is willing to do the unthinkable: Take the witness stand and testify about his life in the Mafia.
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Tree carvings depict Basque sheepherders
Aug 2 2006 3:12AM (CT)
FEATHERVILLE, Idaho (AP) - Some carvings are rousing political slogans. Others depict sexual exploits. And like modern graffiti, a great many merely note for posterity that Joe, Jose, or, most likely, Joxe, "was here."
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Suburban Cleveland county on shaky ground
Aug 2 2006 2:34AM (CT)
MENTOR, Ohio (AP) - A corner of suburban Cleveland has become the earthquake capital of Ohio, shaking on average every two weeks since New Year's Day and making people wonder: What's next?
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Vail Resorts to switch to wind power
Aug 2 2006 2:06AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Vail Resorts said it will buy enough wind-generated electricity to replace all the power used by its five ski areas and more than 135 other stores, lodges and offices.
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Apartment building fire kills 4 in Neb.
Aug 2 2006 1:19AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Residents climbed out of windows and dropped children two or three stories into the arms of rescuers to save them from an apartment fire Tuesday that killed four people.
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