|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ex-agency head indicted on more felonies
Aug 3 2005 11:54PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A former state Transportation Cabinet commissioner tried to influence a witness and shredded or altered evidence, a grand jury charged in a 21-count felony indictment Wednesday.
|
|
|
Man charged in 1996 murder of his wife
Aug 3 2005 11:46PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man whose wife disappeared in 1996 was arrested on charges of second-degree murder Wednesday after he was flown out of Mexico with FBI agents.
|
|
|
Boy Scout Jamboree comes to close
Aug 3 2005 11:32PM (CT)
BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) - The tent city that houses the National Scout Jamboree every four years at Fort A.P. Hill vanished overnight as the event came to a close Wednesday.
|
|
|
Calif. fire report faults escape routes
Aug 3 2005 11:12PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters failed to give themselves enough escape routes while battling a wildfire in the Stanislaus National Forest last fall, according to a report by state and federal investigators Wednesday. Three firefighters were injured and one was killed.
|
|
|
Nearly 5,000 who fled Hawaii fires go home
Aug 3 2005 10:59PM (CT)
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii (AP) - Nearly 5,000 people ordered to flee their homes because of a huge brush fire on Hawaii's Big Island were allowed to return Wednesday, finding their property dusted with a layer of ash but otherwise undamaged.
|
|
|
Commuter train snaps electric line
Aug 3 2005 10:55PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Many Amtrak and commuter trains were stopped Wednesday night when a commuter train snapped an electric line, cutting off power to the trains, transit officials said.
|
|
|
Panel backs Wash. pregnant divorce judge
Aug 3 2005 10:51PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - In a case that outraged women's rights groups and prompted a change in state law, an appeals court has sided with a judge who voided a woman's divorce because she was pregnant.
|
|
|
Law license of ex-bank regulator suspended
Aug 3 2005 10:45PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A former federal banking regulator has been suspended from practicing law because of his felony conviction for lying about his role in a political fundraiser.
|
|
|
Mo. DJs fired after comments about police
Aug 3 2005 10:36PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A hip-hop radio station said Wednesday it has fired two of its radio personalities after an on-air discussion last month of ways to fight police officers.
|
|
|
Bill Clinton talks with black journalists
Aug 3 2005 10:33PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Former President Clinton spoke to a cheering, applauding crowd of hundreds Wednesday as he addressed the nation's largest and oldest minority journalism organization.
|
|
|
Rep. Harris says papers doctored photos
Aug 3 2005 10:32PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Congresswoman Katherine Harris, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat next year, has again accused some newspapers of doctoring photos to distort her makeup as a way to poke fun at her.
|
|
|
Calif. gov. to return Indian donation
Aug 3 2005 10:09PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will return a $50,000 donation from a partner in a tribal casino project after The Associated Press raised questions about the governor's pledge to limit political contributions, an aide said Wednesday.
|
|
|
NYPD reveals details of London attack
Aug 3 2005 9:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The suicide bombers cooked up their explosives using mundane items like hydrogen peroxide. They stored them in a fancy commercial refrigerator that was out of place in their grimy apartment. And cell phones were likely used to set the bombs off.
|
|
|
Boy, 7, dies on water ride at N.Y. park
Aug 3 2005 9:44PM (CT)
RYE, N.Y. (AP) - A 7-year-old boy was found dead in the water of a boat ride at an historic amusement park Wednesday after he didn't emerge from a tunnel, authorities said.
|
|
|
Ohio battalion loses 19 Marines in 2 days
Aug 3 2005 9:12PM (CT)
BROOK PARK, Ohio (AP) - The rash of violence in Iraq this week has taken an especially brutal toll on a Marine battalion based in this working-class town: Nineteen members from the unit were killed over two days.
|
|
|
Calif. girl, 11, avoids felony trial
Aug 3 2005 9:10PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - An 11-year-old girl who threw a rock at a boy during a water balloon fight escaped jail time Wednesday on a felony assault with a deadly weapon charge after lawyers worked out a deal in the emotionally charged case.
|
|
|
Lightning kills Boy Scout at Utah camp
Aug 3 2005 9:09PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A bolt of lightning killed a 15-year-old Boy Scout and injured three others while they slept in a log shelter during a violent storm.
|
|
|
26 years later, DNA clears man of rapes
Aug 3 2005 9:07PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A man who spent 26 years behind bars as Florida's "Bird Road Rapist" was released from prison Wednesday after DNA evidence cleared him in two of the attacks and cast doubt on whether he was responsible for any of the crimes.
|
|
|
Poll: Support for space shuttle hits low
Aug 3 2005 9:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The percentage of Americans who think the space shuttle program is worth continuing has dropped in a CBS News poll to its lowest level in two decades.
|
|
|
Memphis mayor says he won't rename parks
Aug 3 2005 8:24PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The mayor of Memphis on Wednesday rejected calls to rename three parks that honor the Confederacy, saying the city should focus on being part of the New South and stop worrying about remnants of the Old South.
|
|
|
Shuttle repair astronaut dreamed of flight
Aug 3 2005 8:22PM (CT)
MORAGA, Calif. (AP) - The astronaut who pulled off the first inflight repair of a shuttle's underside designed homemade aircraft as a boy and dreamed of flying in outer space, people in his hometown said Wednesday.
|
|
|
Bolton following advice from Shultz
Aug 3 2005 8:18PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - John Bolton, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has a reputation for being outspoken, said Wednesday he's following the advice of former Secretary of State George Shultz and listening instead of talking.
|
|
|
Idaho slay suspect probed in 1997 murder
Aug 3 2005 8:01PM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A convicted sex offender accused of murdering three people in Idaho and killing one of the two children authorities said he abducted from the home is now being investigated in the 1997 kidnapping death of a 10-year-old California boy.
|
|
|
Harvard pays $26.5M over investment gripe
Aug 3 2005 7:33PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University has agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle a civil complaint about investments a professor and a former staff member made while working on a federal contract to help privatize Russia's post-Soviet economy, prosecutors said Wednesday.
|
|
|
Fire damages 9 buildings in Jersey City
Aug 3 2005 7:16PM (CT)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - A raging fire damaged nine buildings Wednesday afternoon in this city across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan, forcing dozens of people from their homes. Nine firefighters collapsed from heat exhaustion, authorities said.
|
|
|
Journalist killed in Iraq admired Kerouac
Aug 3 2005 6:37PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An American freelance journalist who was killed while reporting in Iraq had traveled without security as he toured the country writing about ordinary people struggling with the U.S. military presence.
|
|
|
Space shuttle chief's dad has faith in her
Aug 3 2005 6:09PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - If James Collins has little faith of late in his 79-year-old heart _ he's had 11 surgeries _ he's a true optimist when he contemplates the space shuttle Discovery's risky return to Earth.
|
|
|
Men convicted in Ga. sheriff-elect's death
Aug 3 2005 5:07PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal jury found two men guilty Wednesday of conspiracy in the 2000 slaying of a newly elected sheriff who was gunned down on orders from the man he defeated.
|
|
|
Court tosses Cherokee gay-marriage case
Aug 3 2005 4:20PM (CT)
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - A Cherokee Nation court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the tribe from giving its legal blessing to a lesbian couple's marriage.
|
|
|
Zoo staff discovers panda cub is a male
Aug 3 2005 2:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Zoo's giant panda cub still doesn't have a name, but at least caretakers now know its sex. Not that the zoo had a preference.
|
|
|
Civic leaders think city has too much art
Aug 3 2005 1:38PM (CT)
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (AP) - The artists discovered this village in the early 1900s and put up wooden cottages where they could paint the shoreline and the coastal pines. Then the art dealers arrived, with their silky scarves, their flute-filled soundtracks and their airy galleries.
|
|
|
Baby giant panda born at San Diego Zoo
Aug 3 2005 1:09PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 13-year-old giant panda gave birth to a cub at San Diego Zoo, but a second fetus died in the womb, officials said Wednesday.
|
|
|
Honda recalls minivans due to sensors
Aug 3 2005 12:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Honda Motor Co. will recall thousands of its Odyssey minivans amid concerns that potentially faulty sensors for the frontal air bag system could make a warning lamp on the instrument panel remain illuminated, the company said Wednesday.
|
|
|
Tancredo: Justice differs for immigrants
Aug 3 2005 12:04PM (CT)
HANAHAN, S.C. (AP) - Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo told law enforcement officers that illegal immigrants are held to lower standards by the justice system than Americans.
|
|
|
Man holding daughter killed in road rage
Aug 3 2005 11:12AM (CT)
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) - A man lifting his infant daughter out of his car was killed in an apparent case of road rage by a motorist "who obviously exploded" and shot him four times at close range in front of dozens of witnesses, authorities said.
|
|
|
Newspaper: Report documents church abuse
Aug 3 2005 10:51AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A grand jury documented assaults on children by more than 50 Philadelphia-area priests and harshly criticized Roman Catholic Church leaders for shielding abusers, but brought no criminal charges, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
|
|
|
Former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond dies at 83
Aug 3 2005 9:57AM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Bearded and barrel-chested, former Gov. Jay Hammond looked every bit the typical rugged Alaskan to the outside world. And he appeared to live that life as well, with a resume that included such jobs as pilot, trapper, wildlife biologist, hunting guide and commercial fisherman.
|
|
|
Board may let Janklow regain law license
Aug 3 2005 8:39AM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A former congressman who resigned after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter should regain his license to practice law next February, the state bar's disciplinary board recommended Tuesday.
|
|
|
Fla. first state to send cell Amber Alerts
Aug 3 2005 8:24AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's Amber Alert system is being expanded to cell phone customers, the first program of its kind in the nation, Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday.
|
|
|
2 NYC officials call for racial profiling
Aug 3 2005 8:21AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that police have been wasting time with random checks in efforts to prevent terrorism in the transit system.
|
|
|
W.Va. town tries to ban trucks on highway
Aug 3 2005 8:15AM (CT)
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) - Shopkeeper Trish Shunney wants visitors to see what she sees in this quaint tourist town: historic inns, art galleries, indulgent spas and the warm mineral springs that lured George Washington here more than two and a half centuries ago. She doesn't want them to choke on the exhaust of the more than 1,700 trucks a day that roll down the two-lane main street.
|
|
|
Stepfather charged in Precious Doe case
Aug 3 2005 8:06AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The stepfather of a girl whose decapitated body was long known only as "Precious Doe" has been indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder, prosecutors said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Admission policy changed at Hawaii schools
Aug 3 2005 5:56AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A 117-year-old policy of admitting only Native Hawaiians to the exclusive Kamehameha Schools amounts to unlawful racial discrimination, a federal appeals court has ruled.
|
|
|
Settlement reached to remove Mont. dam
Aug 3 2005 4:30AM (CT)
BONNER, Mont. (AP) - Officials said they reached a $100 million settlement for removing a century-old dam built where the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers meet, along with some of the toxic mud behind it.
|
|
|
Fla. oyster industry struggles to recover
Aug 3 2005 2:07AM (CT)
CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Dennis didn't just damage roads, homes and buildings when it charged across the Florida Panhandle last month. It also decimated the state's oyster industry.
|
|
|
Requirements for drivers license to change
Aug 3 2005 1:06AM (CT)
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) - Federal law will make county treasurer Paula Schneider do something that would be plain rude on the streets of this little town: treat friends as strangers.
|
|
|
|
|
|