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Gunman kills Ga. police officer, himself
Aug 11 2005 11:34PM (CT)
PINE LAKE, Ga. (AP) - A man shot a police officer to death Thursday following a traffic stop in suburban Atlanta, then ran inside a post office and apparently killed himself, authorities said.
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Counter-Clinton Library group folds
Aug 11 2005 11:30PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A group that had hoped to build two museums to rebut the displays at the Clinton Presidential Library is folding.
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Schwarzenegger to rock with Rolling Stones
Aug 11 2005 11:27PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Concert tickets for major acts are costly, but $100,000 to see the Rolling Stones? If you're a fan of the legendary rock band and Arnold Schwarzenegger, that's the price to join the California governor in a luxury box at the Stones' Aug. 21 show in Boston.
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Bridges withdraws from Colo. gov. race
Aug 11 2005 11:27PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A wealthy Democrat withdrew from the 2006 Colorado governor's race on Thursday, saying he did not "have the skills or the stomach to be an effective politician."
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FDNY releasing Sept. 11 papers, recordings
Aug 11 2005 11:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - After years of legal battle, the Fire Department of New York is releasing thousands of documents offering a detailed and intimate look at the heroism and missteps behind its response to the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack.
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Fugitives' cabbie never suspected couple
Aug 11 2005 11:16PM (CT)
NEWPORT, Ky. (AP) - Mike Wagers was his usual chatty self during the nearly two-hour cab ride. He passed the time talking about "nonsensical things" with his passengers, and even called a buddy and had him check the Internet for a cheap motel for the couple.
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Louisville council bans workplace smoking
Aug 11 2005 11:08PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Leaders in this city long associated with the tobacco industry voted Thursday to adopt a limited ban on smoking but backed away from a more comprehensive proposal that would have prohibited lighting up in all public buildings.
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Jonesboro angry school shooter may go free
Aug 11 2005 11:06PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A teenager who helped shoot and kill five people during a school yard rampage at his middle school reached his 21st birthday Thursday and was expected to walk out of a federal detention center.
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Denver library yanks Spanish books
Aug 11 2005 11:03PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Library workers are pulling thousands of Spanish-language comic books from the shelves following complaints of pornographic and violent content while officials determine whether some books should be permanently removed.
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Washington lobbyist Abramoff charged
Aug 11 2005 10:49PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key figure in investigations involving House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on fraud charges arising from a 2000 deal to buy casino boats.
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Mont. firefighters emerge from flames
Aug 11 2005 10:35PM (CT)
ALBERTON, Mont. (AP) - Three firefighters who hunkered beneath emergency shelters as a wildfire burned over them emerged safely from the flames, officials said Thursday.
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Man arrested at Okla. airport with device
Aug 11 2005 10:29PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Federal agents arrested a college student after finding a small explosive device in his baggage as he passed through an airport security checkpoint.
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FBI warns police of possible terror attack
Aug 11 2005 10:27PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The FBI has warned police that al-Qaida cells might use fuel trucks as weapons to attack Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, but officials stressed Thursday the warning was based on uncorroborated intelligence.
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Oklahoma man executed for 1994 slaying
Aug 11 2005 10:09PM (CT)
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - A man was executed Thursday for killing his ex-girlfriend in 1994 in a jealous rage that prosecutors said claimed three other lives, including the woman's two children.
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Kentucky woman dies trying to rescue cat
Aug 11 2005 9:58PM (CT)
PEWEE VALLEY, Ky. (AP) - A woman who escaped a fire in her home was killed Thursday when she went back into the burning building to save her cat, authorities said.
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Ariz. eyes polygamist town school control
Aug 11 2005 9:46PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona is seeking financial control of a school district serving a polygamist community, alleging "systematic and egregious mismanagement" that included a $200,000 airplane purchase and a landscaping contract worth more than $100,000.
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Va. judge says parts of DWI laws illegal
Aug 11 2005 9:19PM (CT)
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A district judge has ruled that key components of Virginia's drunken driving laws are unconstitutional, citing a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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Japanese-American WWII veteran honored
Aug 11 2005 9:03PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The only Japanese-American believed to have flown over Japan during World War II is receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, the third highest of the U.S. Army's decorations.
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Cruise boat crew rescues swimming dog
Aug 11 2005 8:38PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A bartender and a tour-boat engineer helped rescue a dog named Tucker swimming alone in the middle of Lake Champlain while the boat's passengers watched.
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Archdiocese wants closed churches' assets
Aug 11 2005 7:44PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Vatican has ruled the Boston Archdiocese is not automatically entitled to the assets of closed parishes, although archdiocesan officials said Thursday they believe the decision will not apply to most of the churches that have been closed.
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Ground Zero museums hit planning snags
Aug 11 2005 7:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - One of two proposed museums at the World Trade Center site that came under criticism from victims' families is looking to move elsewhere and another devoted to freedom must satisfy redevelopment officials with more detailed plans, a rebuilding official said Thursday.
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Lutherans nearing key vote on gays' role
Aug 11 2005 5:25PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - With gays pleading for acceptance, delegates to a national meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America debated Thursday whether to approve ordination for partnered gays and to give pastors leeway in ministering to same-sex couples. Conservatives warned a change would irreparably damage the church.
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Self-deception often part of prison love
Aug 11 2005 4:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - One woman married serial killer Ted Bundy after his conviction. A prison psychologist, jilting her husband, fell in love with an inmate and helped him escape. And this week, a former prison nurse stands accused of killing a guard on behalf of a convicted robber she had married while he was behind bars.
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Monsignor named as 'other man' in divorce
Aug 11 2005 3:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Roman Catholic monsignor named in court papers as "the other man" in a divorce case resigned Thursday as rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York archdiocese said.
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Security Council extends U.N. Iraq mission
Aug 11 2005 3:50PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security Council extended the U.N. mission in Iraq for another year Thursday, reaffirming efforts to promote a national dialogue aimed at fostering political stability.
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Fake news abounds, but vigilance on rise
Aug 11 2005 2:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - With its official-looking BBC News banner, the Web site looked real enough, but the sick tale it told seemed too preposterous to be true.
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Seventeen-year-old escort found dead
Aug 11 2005 2:37PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Ashley Burg left her tough city neighborhood in hopes of building a more stable life with a relative in suburban New Jersey, and earning a high school diploma.
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Reform Jewish leader addresses Lutherans
Aug 11 2005 12:39PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism, speaking at a time of heightened tension between Protestants and Jews over Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, urged a national Lutheran meeting Thursday not to "demonize" the Jewish state.
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Religion news in brief
Aug 11 2005 11:59AM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The head of the 17.5 million-member Anglican Church of Nigeria has denounced the Church of England's new policy on partnerships for gay clergy and laity, and wants world Anglicanism to discipline its mother church unless it recants.
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Religion today
Aug 11 2005 11:58AM (CT)
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) - Like many in the Episcopal Church, parishioners at St. John's are divided over the issue of gay clergy. But here, the rift has split the congregation in two.
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No blood, tissue on knife at Peterson home
Aug 11 2005 11:34AM (CT)
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - No blood or human tissue has been discovered on a 10-inch knife reportedly found at the home where convicted murderer Scott Peterson lived, authorities said.
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Boy who strangled Ga. girl sentenced
Aug 11 2005 11:17AM (CT)
CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) - A boy who strangled his 8-year-old neighbor when he was 12 was sentenced Thursday to an indefinite stay in a residential center to get treatment for behavioral disorders, depression and anger management.
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Clues sought in pre-Central Park village
Aug 11 2005 11:14AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Archaeologists are digging with electronic fingers into the soil of Central Park to learn more about Seneca Village, a vanished 19th-century settlement of poor folks _ blacks, Irish immigrants and others _ that existed before the park landscapers arrived in the 1850s.
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Dozens oppose plan to divert Utah water
Aug 11 2005 10:39AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Dozens of people from western Utah and Nevada protested at the federal building here against a proposal to take groundwater from their remote desert region and send it to thirsty, growing Las Vegas.
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Records show poor concrete in Big Dig
Aug 11 2005 10:19AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - State police searched the offices of the Big Dig's largest concrete supplier in June and found evidence of faked records that hid the poor quality of concrete delivered for the massive highway project, Attorney General Tom Reilly said.
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Two arrested in 1970 officer's death
Aug 11 2005 10:14AM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Two men, one of them a retired teacher, were arrested in the 1970 death of a Berkeley police officer that authorities have linked to the Black Panthers.
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Sen. Leahy: Roberts ads a waste of money
Aug 11 2005 7:28AM (CT)
MIDDLESEX, Vt. (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat assailed advocacy-group commercials for and against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, suggesting they won't sway senators weighing his confirmation.
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Seven soldiers from Pa. killed in Iraq
Aug 11 2005 7:12AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Seven National Guard soldiers from Pennsylvania have been killed in Iraq in less than four days, a toll that Gov. Ed Rendell said "brings home the crushing reality of this war."
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Company to sell trips around the moon
Aug 11 2005 7:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon. The price of a round-trip ticket: $100 million.
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Texas becomes a majority-minority state
Aug 11 2005 6:50AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state.
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Highway bill sends billions to bike trails
Aug 11 2005 6:09AM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - When Erika Sass moved here from Washington state, she had a choice of how to get to work: hop in the car and drive 15 minutes or get on her bike and pedal an hour.
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Truck carrying explosives blows up in Utah
Aug 11 2005 5:54AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A tractor-trailer carrying 35,500 pounds of explosives overturned and exploded on a Utah highway, injuring at least 19 people.
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Levada to answer questions on priest abuse
Aug 11 2005 4:43AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The American archbishop stepping down to become the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog will waive diplomatic immunity and answer questions about clergy sex abuse.
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Lutherans to vote on policy about gays
Aug 11 2005 4:34AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - With a critical vote on the role of gays in the church just days away, Lutheran leaders told a national assembly that deep disagreement over what the Bible says about homosexuality need not split their denomination.
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Cell phone bells not happy sound for many
Aug 11 2005 1:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The complaints are familiar and frequent: People on cell phones talk too loud, they use them at inappropriate times, and they just don't seem to care if they are bothering anyone.
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Wildfire season arrives in Northwest
Aug 11 2005 12:53AM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Fire managers in the Pacific Northwest warned that the spring's heavy rains wouldn't prevent the summer wildfire season _ only delay it.
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Fire breaks out at BP subsidiary in Texas
Aug 11 2005 12:29AM (CT)
ALVIN, Texas (AP) - A small explosion and fire forced the evacuation Wednesday night of employees at a chemical plant owned by a subsidiary of BP.
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