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Auditors reproach Calif. charter schools
Aug 9 2006 11:41PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A chain of charter schools overcharged the state more than $57 million over three years, reimbursed its top executives for expensive SUVs and paid thousands of dollars for employee parties at Disneyland, a state audit released Wednesday found.
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NYC mayor takes trip underground
Aug 9 2006 10:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, wearing a hard hat and knee-high galoshes, traveled 550 feet below city streets on Wednesday to mark the end of excavation for an 8 1/2-mile water tunnel and witness the final gouge into Manhattan bedrock.
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Big Dig memo writer fired over resume
Aug 9 2006 10:55PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A former Big Dig safety official who said he wrote a memo warning of problems in a tunnel where a woman was killed in a ceiling collapse was fired Wednesday, according to his lawyer.
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3 Egyptian students taken into custody
Aug 9 2006 10:06PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Three Egyptian students who were being sought for failing to turn up for an exchange program at Montana State University were taken into custody Wednesday, more than a week after they arrived in the United States.
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Ore. sailor charged with espionage
Aug 9 2006 10:06PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A sailor accused of taking a Navy laptop containing classified information and peddling its contents to foreign governments is being held for possible court-martial, the military Wednesday.
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Baby sleeping in Ind. parents' bed dies
Aug 9 2006 10:01PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - An infant sleeping in his parents' bed died after his 1-year-old sister accidentally rolled onto him, authorities said.
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Wyo. to sue over feds wolf management
Aug 9 2006 9:58PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The state will sue the federal government for rejecting Wyoming's request to take over management of its gray wolves, which prey on livestock, officials said Wednesday.
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2 held on terror charges in Ohio
Aug 9 2006 9:44PM (CT)
MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.
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Circus show is raunchy, funny, intimate
Aug 9 2006 9:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The warped burlesque circus show "Absinthe" is Cirque du Soleil's younger sister _ more brash, less inhibited and more naked.
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Video shows adults using kids to steal
Aug 9 2006 9:10PM (CT)
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) - A woman turned herself in to police Wednesday after a store surveillance video captured footage of two small children sneaking behind display cases to steal thousands of dollars in jewelry, apparently on instructions from their mother and grandmother.
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Ill. teen sentenced in dice shooting
Aug 9 2006 9:05PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A 13-year-old boy convicted of fatally shooting a man at a sidewalk dice game was sentenced Wednesday to juvenile jail until he turns 21.
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Panel finds fault with Florida autopsies
Aug 9 2006 8:59PM (CT)
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) - The medical examiner who performed a disputed autopsy on a teenager who died at a boot camp for juvenile offenders was negligent in performing at least 35 of nearly 700 autopsies reviewed, state officials said Wednesday.
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Alaska freezes hiring over oil shutdown
Aug 9 2006 8:58PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Frank Murkowski imposed a state hiring freeze Wednesday because of the millions of dollars in revenue Alaska is losing as a result of the Prudhoe Bay oil field shutdown, and said he would support hearings into BP's maintenance practices.
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Killings prompt more police at Ind. fair
Aug 9 2006 8:58PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A spate of violence in Indianapolis that has left 13 people dead in a week prompted authorities to increase security at the Indiana State Fair as the 12-day event got under way Wednesday.
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Wis. man dies after pounding on window
Aug 9 2006 8:57PM (CT)
MERRIMAC, Wis. (AP) - A 32-year-old man banging on a window to get people's attention died when the glass shattered and cut a major artery in his arm, the Sauk County Sheriff's Department said.
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Fla. officer apologizes for comments
Aug 9 2006 8:52PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A high-ranking sheriff's officer apologized Wednesday for insensitive comments he and other officers made about demonstrators after a free speech summit in 2003 in Miami.
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Pastor's wife wants statements tossed
Aug 9 2006 8:52PM (CT)
SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Attorneys for a minister's wife accused of killing her husband in their small-town parsonage asked a judge Wednesday to throw out her statements to police, claiming she was arrested illegally.
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Man gets 30-year sentence in Va. death
Aug 9 2006 8:51PM (CT)
MATHEWS, Va. (AP) - An amateur photographer was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison in the death of a college student whose body was found in a shallow grave with the help of photos on the man's Web site.
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2 testify CIA questioner beat detainee
Aug 9 2006 8:49PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An ex-CIA contractor charged with beating an Afghan detainee who later died hit the man with a flashlight and kicked in him the groin with enough force to lift him off the ground, witnesses testified Wednesday.
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Statue of Liberty's crown to stay closed
Aug 9 2006 8:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tourists won't be climbing back up to the Statue of Liberty's crown. That's the word from the National Park Service to lawmakers, some of whom have been fighting to reopen the crown following the 2001 terror attacks.
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Study: Katrina recovery is a mixed bag
Aug 9 2006 8:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city is showing signs of rebirth nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, but a lack of health care and other services and a dearth of affordable housing could stymie a full recovery, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Fire crews try to protect Wash. cabins
Aug 9 2006 7:48PM (CT)
WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) - Fire crews worked Wednesday to protect summer cabins in north-central Washington after two large wildfires merged and continued to grow.
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Formerly conjoined twins recovering
Aug 9 2006 7:25PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A day after the 26-hour surgery that separated their 4-year-old conjoined daughters, Jake and Erin Herrin said they were overwhelmed by their reunion with Kendra and Maliyah.
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Libya, D.C. resolve water dispute
Aug 9 2006 7:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Libya has settled a water bill dispute with the District of Columbia, which had refused service as the north African country reopened embassy properties in the city for the first time in 25 years.
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Trees are stripped for medicinal bark
Aug 9 2006 7:08PM (CT)
DANIEL BOONE NATIONAL FOREST, Ky. (AP) - The 20-foot tree stands half naked, much of the bark stripped from its trunk. It has only months to live. "It doesn't know it's dead," says U.S. Forest Service botanist David Taylor, pointing to the healthy leaves overhead.
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Lawyer targets Duke lacrosse prosecutor
Aug 9 2006 7:03PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - The chairman of the Durham County Republican Party said Wednesday he would launch a write-in campaign against the district attorney prosecuting three Duke University lacrosse players charged with rape.
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Civil rights leader McCullough dies
Aug 9 2006 6:58PM (CT)
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - Robert McCullough, who led a group of black students in a landmark 1961 civil rights protest, choosing to serve jail time on a chain gang for the crime of sitting at a whites-only lunch counter, has died. He was 64.
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Ill. gov. backs emergency contraception
Aug 9 2006 6:32PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he would find a way to make emergency contraception available in Illinois without a prescription if the federal government keeps its strict guidelines for the morning-after pill.
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Groups seek tests of FEMA trailers
Aug 9 2006 6:00PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - International charity Oxfam America and the Mississippi NAACP on Wednesday called for an independent contractor to test FEMA trailers for elevated formaldehyde emissions.
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Embattled La. lawmaker gets competition
Aug 9 2006 5:34PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A string of challengers jumped into the race Wednesday against Rep. William Jefferson, whose Washington office was raided by the FBI amid a federal bribery investigation.
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Physicist James Van Allen dies at 91
Aug 9 2006 5:32PM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Physicist James A. Van Allen, a leader in space exploration who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the Earth that now bear his name, died Wednesday. He was 91.
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McKinney's future unsure after loss
Aug 9 2006 5:28PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Following Rep. Cynthia McKinney's second ouster from office in four years, some are closing the book on her political future.
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Utah teen a prime suspect in mom's death
Aug 9 2006 5:16PM (CT)
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) - A teenager was the prime suspect in the death of his mother after the woman's body was found in her own freezer, police said Wednesday.
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Payroll fraud charges for dock workers
Aug 9 2006 4:53PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Twenty people have been indicted as part of a widespread investigation into allegations of payroll and unemployment fraud involving the Boston longshoremen's union, including five workers who put children as young as 2 on the payroll, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Iranian president criticizes Bush
Aug 9 2006 4:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized President Bush for failing to respond to his overture made in a letter in May, warning that "those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate."
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Pa. police search lawmaker's house
Aug 9 2006 3:56PM (CT)
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Police on Wednesday searched a state senator's home for evidence in the investigation of a teenage neighbor who was killed with a gun belonging to the lawmaker.
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Katrina victims still waiting for aid
Aug 9 2006 2:37PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Theone Watts is pulling waterlogged drywall out of her modest brick home, determined to gut and rebuild. So far, she is doing it with little government help.
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Lightning injures 3 at Fort Bragg
Aug 9 2006 1:36PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Three soldiers were injured by lightning that struck a nearby tree during a Special Forces training session.
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Coast Guard to allow religious clothing
Aug 9 2006 12:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Coast Guard is changing its regulations to allow religious head coverings such as skullcaps, but Sikh turbans still will be excluded, officials said Wednesday.
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Dems rally around Lieberman opponent
Aug 9 2006 11:50AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman, undaunted by his loss to an anti-war challenger in the Democratic primary, filed petitions Wednesday to get on the November ballot as an independent, while national Democrats threw their support to the man who beat him.
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Judge backs camping ban near Bush ranch
Aug 9 2006 11:35AM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked protesters from pitching tents or placing portable toilets near President Bush's ranch, ruling that roadside camping and parking bans are constitutional.
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In a first, woman in Navajo runoff
Aug 9 2006 11:35AM (CT)
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - For the first time, a woman has been chosen as one of two candidates facing off for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, whose reservation is the largest in the country.
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2 plead guilty to school plot charges
Aug 9 2006 11:24AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) - Two teens suspected of plotting an armed attack on their high school pleaded guilty Wednesday to reduced charges. Three others pleaded not guilty.
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4 arrested in online prostitution sting
Aug 9 2006 10:55AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Police have arrested four women in an investigation into prostitution ads that were posted on a popular Internet classifieds site.
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Zoo fined for animal deaths, attack
Aug 9 2006 10:53AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Lincoln Park Zoo has paid a $3,000 fine after federal authorities ruled it was to blame for a gorilla attack on a zookeeper and the deaths of several monkeys last year, officials said.
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Man freed from collapsed Ariz. building
Aug 9 2006 10:11AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Firefighters freed an injured construction worker trapped for hours under tons of concrete Tuesday after part of the city's old convention center abruptly collapsed during demolition work.
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Section of troubled Big Dig reopens
Aug 9 2006 9:56AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Drivers got a little relief Wednesday from the traffic tie-ups they have faced since a deadly ceiling collapse in Boston's Big Dig highway system: One ramp that had been closed for repairs reopened to the public.
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State dismisses bar attack complaints
Aug 9 2006 9:39AM (CT)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - The state has dismissed allegations by a gay man who said he was physically and verbally abused by paramedics who delayed his treatment after he was shot and attacked with a hatchet at a gay bar.
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Report: San Diego finances 'reckless'
Aug 9 2006 8:46AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The city recklessly and deliberately mismanaged its finances for years, exhibiting disregard for the law and becoming "Enron-by-the-Sea," according to consultants who investigated how it created a $1.4 billion pension fund shortfall.
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Sheriff refuses to release Gibson tapes
Aug 9 2006 6:06AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Audio and video tapes of Mel Gibson's drunken driving arrest are exempt from the California Public Records Act and won't be released, authorities said.
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Judge admonished for 'Go Seahawks' cheer
Aug 9 2006 4:17AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A state panel has disciplined a judge who ordered cheers in court for the Super Bowl-bound Seattle Seahawks before issuing a manslaughter sentence.
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Suspected Phoenix serial killers charged
Aug 9 2006 4:15AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Two men accused in a string of shootings in the Phoenix metropolitan area have been charged with murder and attempted murder.
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Arrest made after deadly Atlanta concert
Aug 9 2006 2:49AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A 24-year-old man has been charged with the death of another man during a fight over a baseball cap at a concert featuring the heavy metal band Korn.
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Lieberman foe a deep-pocketed novice
Aug 9 2006 2:42AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Ned Lamont, a multimillionaire businessman from well-heeled Greenwich, was unknown to most Connecticut Democrats when he announced his plans in March to challenge U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the primary election.
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Homeless in Mass. sue over library policy
Aug 9 2006 2:23AM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Robert Bombard has always been a voracious reader. He worked at the city library as a teenager and was a volunteer there as an adult. Even when he served two years in jail on a drug charge, he did his time working in the lockup's library.
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U.S. space program relic to be restored
Aug 9 2006 2:16AM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - In its glory days, the aluminum-and-steel hulk that sits outside the Alabama space museum was a training ground for astronauts who flew in America's first space station.
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Man charged in deadly Arizona SUV crash
Aug 9 2006 1:02AM (CT)
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities filed charges Tuesday against a man believed to be behind the wheel during a rollover crash that killed nine illegal immigrants and injured a dozen more.
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Tour bus slides off Alaska road, 11 hurt
Aug 9 2006 12:35AM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A tour bus ran off the road Tuesday, slid 25 feet down an embankment and overturned, injuring 11 people, police said.
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Infant found dead in vehicle in Texas
Aug 9 2006 12:21AM (CT)
LINDALE, Texas (AP) - An infant was found dead in a sweltering vehicle outside a small-town city hall Tuesday after being left there by one of the town's reserve police officers, authorities said.
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