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Wiccan wants town to pay her legal bills
Aug 14 2005 10:52PM (CT)
GREAT FALLS, S.C. (AP) - A small South Carolina town is facing a hefty legal bill after losing a battle over whether it should stop using Jesus Christ's name in prayers before council meetings.
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Tropical storm moves away from East Coast
Aug 14 2005 10:44PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Irene strengthened into a hurricane Sunday, but turned away from the East Coast and posed no threat to land, forecasters said.
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Rain floods streets, homes in West Texas
Aug 14 2005 10:43PM (CT)
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - Two days of heavy rain flooded streets and sent creeks out of their banks in parts of West Texas on Sunday, forcing several high-water rescues in Midland, where some streets were under three feet of water.
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Crews fighting Wash. wildfire hit snag
Aug 14 2005 10:19PM (CT)
POMEROY, Wash. (AP) - Darcy Brenner was out of town when the wildfire began. She returned home two days later to find nothing left but a cement foundation and twisted metal.
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Proposed panhandling ban draws Ga. protest
Aug 14 2005 10:01PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Dozens of opponents of a proposed ban on panhandling near downtown hotels and tourists sites gathered on the steps of City Hall late Sunday for an all-night protest ahead of Monday's expected vote.
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Security cameras proliferate in Manhattan
Aug 14 2005 8:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six could be seen peering out from a chain drug store on Broadway. One protruded awkwardly from the awning of a fast-food restaurant. A supersized, domed version hovered like a flying saucer outside Columbia University.
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Rock slides force Colo. highway shutdown
Aug 14 2005 8:49PM (CT)
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Engineers and geologists were trying to stabilize the side of a mountain Sunday after three rock slides in less than 24 hours spilled onto an interstate.
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Thousands fill church for 'Justice Sunday'
Aug 14 2005 8:19PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - America's most powerful judges are "unelected, unaccountable and arrogant," Focus on the Family founder James Dobson told the thousands of people who packed a Nashville church for "Justice Sunday II," a rally televised for broadcast to churches across the country.
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Atlanta Boy Scouts try to overcome scandal
Aug 14 2005 7:51PM (CT)
BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Towering pines, shimmering lakes, bike trails, target shooting and cookouts. For Julian White, Boy Scout camp in the north Georgia mountains is a world away from his life on the streets of Atlanta.
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Marine accused of firing on crowd in Mass.
Aug 14 2005 7:35PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - A veteran recently named "Marine of the Year" for his service in Iraq was charged with attempted murder after firing a shotgun from his apartment window as a group of noisy revelers stood outside a nightclub, police said.
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Package found in D.C. hotel not a bomb
Aug 14 2005 7:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A major downtown hotel was evacuated for more than an hour Sunday after a suspicious package was discovered in the basement, but police bomb technicians found nothing dangerous inside it.
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Couple must pay daughter's medical bill
Aug 14 2005 7:12PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A couple convicted of reckless homicide in their newborn daughter's death must pay the hospital bill for another daughter who was kept in intensive care for 75 days despite their religious objections, an appeals court ruled.
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Two who escaped S.C. jail nabbed in Fla.
Aug 14 2005 6:37PM (CT)
COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Two men who escaped from a South Carolina jail while awaiting sentencing on federal bank robbery charges were arrested on a Florida beach after a three-week manhunt, authorities said Sunday.
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U.S. Jews pray for friends in Israel
Aug 14 2005 6:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - American Jews gathered in front of the United Nations on Sunday to pray for friends abandoning their homes in the Gaza Strip as part of an historic withdrawal ending Israel's 38-year occupation of the territory.
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Texas man to be retried on murder charge
Aug 14 2005 6:16PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned the murder conviction of a black man accused of killing a white hotel clerk during a robbery cited a manual that instructed prosecutors on how to exclude minorities from Texas juries.
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Wis. rulings prompt businesses to fight
Aug 14 2005 5:01PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Businesses are preparing to launch a $2 million campaign to fight a series of state Supreme Court rulings they fear are making Wisconsin an easier place to sue doctors and manufacturers.
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Wyo. town strains to house tornado victims
Aug 14 2005 4:36PM (CT)
WRIGHT, Wyo. (AP) - Aid workers and volunteers descended on this small coal-mining town Sunday to offer help in the wake of a tornado that killed two people and left about 85 families homeless.
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Wyo. woman killed in Utah in 1st skydive
Aug 14 2005 3:51PM (CT)
OGDEN, Utah (AP) - A woman died making her first skydive _ a tandem jump with her instructor, who was seriously injured in the fall, authorities said.
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Texas tribe flounders after casino shuts
Aug 14 2005 3:38PM (CT)
YSLETA DEL SUR PUEBLO, Texas (AP) - Jose Lopez Jr. had to start working as a tribal dancer at age 9, in part to make money for his struggling family.
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Minn. divers recover plane lost in 1958
Aug 14 2005 2:37PM (CT)
SPICER, Minn. (AP) - Divers recovered a single engine military plane that crashed into Green Lake during fog nearly 47 years ago, killing a Minnesota National Guard pilot.
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Man outed on radio show to receive $270K
Aug 14 2005 2:35PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco man who says he was devastated after he was identified as gay on a national Spanish-language radio show will be paid $270,000 by Univision Radio, an arbitrator has ruled.
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Judge: Frat could face torture charges
Aug 14 2005 2:29PM (CT)
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A judge raised the possibility that four fraternity members could be charged with torture in the death of a 21-year-old pledge, comparing the alleged hazing death to the torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers.
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Smoke rises over Civil War cannon sales
Aug 14 2005 2:13PM (CT)
GROTON, N.Y. (AP) - Since 1994, Bruce Stiles has coaxed towns from Nebraska to New Hampshire to sell their Civil War cannons, iron and bronze sentinels that have graced cemeteries and parks for a century or more.
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N.J. areas want Revolution recognition
Aug 14 2005 2:13PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - They may not be as famous as the battles of Trenton and Princeton, but folks in southern New Jersey want their Revolutionary War sites to be recognized, too.
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Bulgarian in N.H. drowns, maybe in stunt
Aug 14 2005 1:01PM (CT)
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) - A 21-year-old Bulgarian student who apparently drowned in the Connecticut River may have been participating in a Dartmouth student tradition known as the Ledyard Challenge.
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Ind. man kills dog in dispute with woman
Aug 14 2005 10:39AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A man stabbed a dog to death during a dispute with a woman and threw the carcass at officers who arrived after the woman called police, police said.
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Ohio mourns 3 more victims of Iraq attack
Aug 14 2005 9:11AM (CT)
POWELL, Ohio (AP) - Motorcycles roared their engines Saturday to herald the funeral procession of Marine Sgt. Justin Hoffman, one of 14 Marines killed last week in the deadliest roadside bombing since U.S. troops invaded Iraq.
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Normal life over for protesting mother
Aug 14 2005 5:45AM (CT)
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Before her son was killed in Iraq, before she began a peace vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch, before she became an icon of the anti-war movement and the face of grieving mothers, there was a time when Cindy Sheehan's life was, by all appearances, incredibly normal.
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Sept. 11 archives show heroism amid chaos
Aug 14 2005 3:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Radio communication broke down. Commanders lost contact with their squads. Noise and dust obscured the senses. One paramedic likened it to being in an infantry unit overrun by enemy troops. Yet, in the confusion at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, firefighters and emergency medical technicians improvised, and kept working.
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Family loses 3 girls in Ind. lake tragedy
Aug 14 2005 1:59AM (CT)
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. (AP) - The family of two girls who drowned while playing in a lake lost a third daughter Saturday, a 14-year-old who had been pulled from the lake barely alive after trying to save her sisters.
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Man leads police to skeletal remains
Aug 14 2005 1:58AM (CT)
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - A convicted bank robber led police to a set of skeletal remains believed to be those of Tamika Huston, a woman he once dated who had been missing for over a year.
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Soldier pleads guilty to smuggling cocaine
Aug 14 2005 1:51AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A Fort Bliss soldier has pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine into the United States from Colombia using military aircraft, a post spokeswoman said Saturday.
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Retired N.M. judge, wife found dead
Aug 14 2005 12:35AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A retired state district judge and his wife were found dead in their home Saturday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide.
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