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AG dismisses charge in Kan. school plot
Aug 3 2006 11:57PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas attorney general has dismissed the most serious charge against one of five teenagers accused of planning to attack their high school, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Six Marines charged in Iraq assault
Aug 3 2006 11:53PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Six Marines accused of injuring civilians in the Iraqi village of Hamdania in April were charged Thursday with assault.
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Heat wave claims at least 27 deaths
Aug 3 2006 11:43PM (CT)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - The searing heat wave that scorched the East and Midwest for nearly a week finally showed signs of breaking on Thursday, leaving behind scattered power outages and at least 27 deaths.
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Nazi-era victims can sue German firms
Aug 3 2006 11:34PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Victims of Nazi-era crimes can sue for additional money from German companies that paid $2.5 billion into a reparation fund for U.S. claims, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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La. school board drops single sex plan
Aug 3 2006 10:45PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A southeastern Louisiana school board on Thursday dropped plans to segregate two middle schools by sex, six days before the start of school and one day after a 13-year-old girl and her parents took the issue to court.
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Ex-jailer executed in Texas boy's death
Aug 3 2006 10:22PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Proclaiming his innocence, a former county jail officer was executed Thursday for raping and smothering his girlfriend's 3-year-old son.
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Texas officials fear dam may burst
Aug 3 2006 10:18PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - The rain-swollen Rio Grande River threatened to push through an earthen dam and cause flooding in El Paso, prompting evacuation orders for residents, officials said.
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School fire races through Eskimo village
Aug 3 2006 10:18PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A school in a remote Eskimo village caught fire Thursday and the blaze quickly grew out of control, engulfing several homes and buildings and forcing 250 people to flee.
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N.Y. police arrest Malcolm X's grandson
Aug 3 2006 9:53PM (CT)
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - Malcolm X's grandson was arrested Thursday after punching a doughnut shop window, sending shattered glass onto two patrons, police said.
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Family: death was suicide in Afghanistan
Aug 3 2006 8:56PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - One of two brothers who died while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan committed suicide, family and military officials said Thursday.
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Exiles weighing possible return to Cuba
Aug 3 2006 8:41PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Jesus Perez Valiente rafted to Florida's shores three years ago, seeking freedom, opportunity and an escape from the food rationing and other hardships that are part of everyday life in communist Cuba.
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NYC judge dismisses Aruba teen suit
Aug 3 2006 8:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A lawsuit that claimed a Dutch college student was responsible for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba last year was dismissed Thursday by a judge who said it should not have been filed here.
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Sept. 11 memorial construction to resume
Aug 3 2006 7:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Construction on the Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero will resume this month after several weeks of delays caused by a redesign to cut its price in half.
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N.C. gov. sets up innocence commission
Aug 3 2006 6:21PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Inmates in North Carolina who claim they were wrongly convicted got a new avenue of appeal Thursday as Gov. Mike Easley signed a law creating a state innocence commission described as the first of its kind in the nation.
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1 killed in crash of homemade plane
Aug 3 2006 5:59PM (CT)
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) - An experimental, homemade plane crashed into a golf course just after takeoff Thursday morning, killing the pilot, a federal official said.
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Former Atlanta mayor ordered to prison
Aug 3 2006 5:42PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected former Mayor Bill Campbell's request to remain free pending appeal of his tax evasion conviction and ordered him to start serving his 2 1/2-year prison sentence.
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Ariz. death linked to serial killer case
Aug 3 2006 4:55PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The death of a woman who was gunned down while walking has been linked to a serial killer believed responsible for dozens of random shootings across metropolitan Phoenix, police said Thursday.
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Former trooper pleads in gambling case
Aug 3 2006 4:40PM (CT)
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) - A former New Jersey state trooper pleaded guilty Thursday to helping run a gambling ring and promised to help authorities with their case against former hockey star Rick Tocchet and others.
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Government fights records request
Aug 3 2006 3:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Government lawyers are fighting a reproductive rights group's request for copies of White House e-mails and other records about the morning-after contraceptive Plan B.
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Mom, roommate accused of starving girl
Aug 3 2006 3:20PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A woman and her roommate were charged with starving the woman's 9-year-old daughter, who weighed just 42 pounds when she was found, was locked up all day and was forced to wear a filthy diaper, authorities said.
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Dad, 3 children die in N.Y. house fire
Aug 3 2006 3:14PM (CT)
HOOSICK, N.Y. (AP) - Fire tore through a home in this rural town, killing three children and their father, who had rushed back into the flames to try to save the youngsters, authorities said.
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Wounded CBS journalist out of hospital
Aug 3 2006 1:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - CBS News journalist Kimberly Dozier has been released from a rehabilitation hospital, where she had been recovering from critical injuries suffered during a May 29 car bomb attack in Iraq.
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Hatred of Fidel Castro shaped South Fla.
Aug 3 2006 1:27PM (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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Conjoined twins, 4, prepare for surgery
Aug 3 2006 1:20PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - They were born in a perpetual hug, their little bodies fused at the midsection so that they are practically face-to-face, and have grown into outgoing 4-year-olds who chatter away and finish each other's sentences.
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Court nixes verdict against beer vendor
Aug 3 2006 12:32PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - An appeals court on Thursday overturned a landmark $105 million verdict against a stadium vendor that sold beer to a drunken fan who later paralyzed a girl in an auto wreck.
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Religion news in brief
Aug 3 2006 11:03AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The leader of a network of conservative Episcopal dioceses says the global Anglican Communion will unravel unless the archbishop of Canterbury helps U.S. conservatives distance themselves from the Episcopal Church.
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Religion today
Aug 3 2006 11:00AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - An American minister and his companion snatched on their way to church. Franciscan friars abducted on a busy street. A Canadian pastor seized at gunpoint from his rural orphanage.
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Researchers revise down hurricane report
Aug 3 2006 10:54AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Hurricane researchers at Colorado State University said Thursday that this year's hurricane season won't be as bad earlier predicted and said a monster storm like Katrina is unlikely.
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Teen crashes into tree full of bees
Aug 3 2006 8:40AM (CT)
OSSIAN, Ind. (AP) - A teenage driver crashed into a hollow tree and stirred up tens of thousands of angry honey bees, creating a swarm that sent her and nine others to the hospital.
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One man killed outside L.A. nightclub
Aug 3 2006 8:34AM (CT)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) - A stabbing outside a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip left one man dead and another wounded, authorities said.
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Vietnamese activist returns to Calif.
Aug 3 2006 8:26AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The leader of a Vietnamese exile group returned to his home in California after being detained in South Korea for three months as the Vietnamese government made an unsuccessful attempt to extradite him.
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N.H. drops case against doctor
Aug 3 2006 7:20AM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The state Board of Medicine voted to dismiss its disciplinary case against a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself following brain surgery.
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In Ohio, Marines' deaths still felt
Aug 3 2006 6:12AM (CT)
BROOK PARK, Ohio (AP) - Their deaths shook a nation that had grown used to the slowly mounting U.S. military casualties in Iraq.
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Fast ruling sought in redistricting case
Aug 3 2006 4:56AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - With an election just around the corner, a three-judge federal panel was set Thursday to hear arguments about how to redraw southwest Texas congressional districts to restore minority voting power.
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Man says sex with kids a sacred ritual
Aug 3 2006 4:00AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit by Ga. student
Aug 3 2006 2:55AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a high school student who was suspended for writing about a dream in which a student shoots a math teacher.
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Litton loyalists try to keep legacy alive
Aug 3 2006 1:53AM (CT)
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) - To his followers, Jerry Lon Litton had Harry Truman's down-home sensibilities, Ronald Reagan's command of the public microphone and Bill Clinton's uncanny ability to connect through a simple handshake and smile.
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House explodes in Illinois, killing 2
Aug 3 2006 12:23AM (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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