|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Some Olympic victims won't face Rudolph
Aug 21 2005 9:43PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Some 300 seats were set aside so victims of the deadly bombing at the 1996 Olympics and two other blasts could join others in court to see Eric Rudolph sentenced to life behind bars.
|
|
|
Baez performs for Crawford war protesters
Aug 21 2005 8:34PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Iraq war protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch got some support Sunday night from a prominent figure in the anti-Vietnam war movement: folk singer Joan Baez.
|
|
|
Family says Coretta Scott King improving
Aug 21 2005 8:16PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Coretta Scott King is slowly recovering from a stroke that had left her unable to walk and barely able to speak, and she has been singing with a speech therapist, her daughter said Sunday.
|
|
|
Kin grieve as Vietnam GIs remains returned
Aug 21 2005 8:13PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - No bugler will sound taps and no guns will be fired in salute for the burial of the recently identified remains of an Army captain lost during the Vietnam War.
|
|
|
50 years later, ex-internees get diplomas
Aug 21 2005 7:46PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Amid tears and their grandchildren's shouts of glee, 58 Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps during World War II received diplomas Sunday, finally earning recognition from the communities they were forced to leave more than half a century ago.
|
|
|
Hawaiians revive lava sledding tradition
Aug 21 2005 7:32PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - As a boy growing up in a poor family on Hawaii's Big Island, Tom "Pohaku" Stone found entertainment barreling down grassy slopes aboard ti leaves and banana stumps.
|
|
|
Man's rampage wounds police chief
Aug 21 2005 7:28PM (CT)
CAVALIER, N.D. (AP) - A man being served with a protection order shot his way past police, set fire to the courthouse and jail _ then returned as the fires raged and shot the police chief, officials said.
|
|
|
Taser goes on offensive with campaign
Aug 21 2005 7:10PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - It lasts just one second, but the 50,000-volt shock that made the Taser stun gun a household name sparks a yowl of surprise in its target and an uncontrollable spasm.
|
|
|
Report: Dallas prosecutors excluded blacks
Aug 21 2005 5:30PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - As recently as 2002, Dallas County prosecutors were excluding eligible blacks from juries at more than twice the rate they turned down whites, a newspaper reported Sunday.
|
|
|
Radio host and Gotti to meet in courtroom
Aug 21 2005 5:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - For years, radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa routinely denigrated late mob boss John Gotti and his cohorts as murderers, drug dealers, degenerates. His tone was so strident, prosecutors say, that Gotti's son ordered an attack on the motormouthed founder of the Guardian Angels.
|
|
|
Closure slow in missing S.C. woman's case
Aug 21 2005 5:17PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - On the day police announced they had arrested the man who killed Tamika Huston, Rebkah Howard was reminded of the effect her niece had on other people.
|
|
|
Crash kills 2 spectators at Ill. raceway
Aug 21 2005 4:50PM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, Ill. (AP) - A race car crashed into the stands at a southern Illinois track, killing two spectators and injuring six others people, officials said. The driver also was hurt.
|
|
|
Ferry rescues man in Lake Michigan
Aug 21 2005 4:44PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A ferry rescued a man clinging to a seat cushion in Lake Michigan nearly two hours after his boat capsized almost 20 miles from shore Sunday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
|
|
|
Woman to question sons in her murder trial
Aug 21 2005 4:43PM (CT)
ORINDA, Calif. (AP) - In the midst of a bitter divorce, Susan Polk says, she split for Montana, determined to get away from her abusive husband. "I didn't plan on coming back and killing him," she explains from behind a window in the county jail. But kill him she did _ stabbing a paring knife repeatedly into his body in a rage.
|
|
|
Thunderbirds cancel show after mishap
Aug 21 2005 4:39PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Air Force Thunderbirds canceled an aerial performance Sunday, a day after two of the group's F-16s touched each other in midair, sending an object from one of the planes plummeting into Lake Michigan.
|
|
|
Inmate homicide, suicide rates decline
Aug 21 2005 4:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inmate death rates for suicide, homicide and AIDS are showing substantial declines in jails and state prisons, the government says. The trend reflects improved medical care and closer attention to separating violent criminals from other offenders.
|
|
|
Ohio Democrats mull governor impeachment
Aug 21 2005 4:07PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's House Democrats are considering impeachment proceedings against Republican Gov. Bob Taft, who pleaded no contest last week to four ethics violations.
|
|
|
Civil rights leader Rev. Leon Lowry dies
Aug 21 2005 3:13PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Rev. A. Leon Lowry, a prominent local civil rights leader who once taught Martin Luther King Jr. and led the desegregation of public facilities in Tampa, has died at 92.
|
|
|
Ala. gas station owner killed during theft
Aug 21 2005 1:23PM (CT)
FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) - A gas station owner was run over and killed when he tried to stop a driver from leaving without paying for $52 worth of gasoline, police said.
|
|
|
Slain Pa. woman's ex-boyfriend arrested
Aug 21 2005 11:49AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police discovered the remains of a missing pregnant woman and quickly arrested the father of her unborn child Saturday, ending an exhaustive, monthlong search.
|
|
|
San Francisco shuns retired USS Iowa
Aug 21 2005 11:49AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military accidents.
|
|
|
Delta plane lands after windshield cracks
Aug 21 2005 10:18AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Delta Air Lines flight headed to Ontario, Calif., from Atlanta landed here after the airplane's windshield cracked.
|
|
|
Fla. student found dead in underwater cave
Aug 21 2005 10:06AM (CT)
TRENTON, Fla. (AP) - A college student who apparently was snorkeling by himself at a north Florida spring was found dead in an underwater cave.
|
|
|
Shuttle Discovery home after Calif. detour
Aug 21 2005 9:29AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery arrived back at its home port Sunday atop a jumbo jet following a 5.8 million-mile journey through space _ the first by a shuttle in 2 1/2 years _ and then a jog across the country.
|
|
|
Man sentenced to 30 years in son's death
Aug 21 2005 7:58AM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A man who told friends he didn't want his 3-year-old son to become a sissy was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing the boy by slamming his head into a kitchen wall just weeks after the child's return home from foster care.
|
|
|
Ohio holds last of Marine funerals
Aug 21 2005 7:54AM (CT)
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) - As the 2-month-old son he never met quietly mouthed a pacifier, Marine Sgt. David Kreuter was remembered Saturday as a fun-loving adventurer, passionate about both the military and his family.
|
|
|
2 Northwest jets suffer mishaps in Detroit
Aug 21 2005 7:53AM (CT)
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - Four tires blew out on a Northwest Airlines jet as it landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Saturday, the first day of a mechanics strike at the airline. A second Northwest jet made an emergency landing at Detroit's Metro Airport a few hours later after flight attendants reported smoke in the cabin.
|
|
|
Patriotic camp counters peace mom protest
Aug 21 2005 7:51AM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - A patriotic camp with a "God Bless Our President!" banner sprung up downtown Saturday, countering the anti-war demonstration started by a fallen soldier's mother two weeks ago near President Bush's ranch.
|
|
|
Utah station refuses to air anti-war ad
Aug 21 2005 7:48AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son's death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch.
|
|
|
Jury: Parents share blame in son's attack
Aug 21 2005 5:55AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The parents of a teenager who stabbed a 13-year-old girl must bear most of the responsibility, jurors decided as they awarded $10 million to the injured victim and her family.
|
|
|
Miller beer holds 150th anniversary bash
Aug 21 2005 5:53AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - When it's Miller Time, Miller Brewing knows how to party. The nation's second-largest and oldest major brewer threw a 150th birthday bash Saturday with more than 100 descendants of the Miller family attending.
|
|
|
Montana parachuter lands in power lines
Aug 21 2005 4:40AM (CT)
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A power parachuter became tangled up in high voltage power lines, where he spent three hours hanging upside before he could be rescued.
|
|
|
Mystery novelist Dennis Lynds dies at 81
Aug 21 2005 12:36AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dennis Lynds, whose tautly written mysteries featuring the one-armed Dan Fortune were praised for reflecting contemporary political and social issues, has died. He was 81.
|
|
|
|
|
|