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Forest Service admits logging mistake
Aug 24 2005 11:53PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - The Forest Service admitted Wednesday to making a "serious" mistake that allowed the logging of 17 acres inside a rare tree reserve as part of the salvage harvest of timber burned by a fire in 2002.
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Few Calif. voters back governor's measures
Aug 24 2005 11:48PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California voters are showing little enthusiasm for two of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's three special election proposals, according to a poll that also reveals continuing discontent with the governor's job performance.
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JFK tape recording declassified
Aug 24 2005 11:41PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Top advisers to President John F. Kennedy warned him in 1963 that if he pledged to defend India against any attack by China, the United States would likely have to use nuclear weapons to enforce the commitment, according to a newly declassified tape recording.
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Commutation sought for woman on death row
Aug 24 2005 11:15PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Lawyers for a death row inmate asked the Texas parole board Wednesday to commute her sentence and stop the lethal injection that would make her only the third woman executed in the state since the Civil War.
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Closing arguments open in transgender slay
Aug 24 2005 11:15PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - A prosecutor asked jurors Wednesday to imagine the last, frightening moments of life for a transgender teenager who was allegedly murdered by three male companions after they learned she was biologically male.
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Tropical Storm Katrina nears Florida
Aug 24 2005 10:59PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A hurricane warning was issued for the southeast Florida coast late Wednesday and people were advised to take safety precautions in advance of a late Thursday strike by a growing Tropical Storm Katrina.
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Wal-Mart suspect said mentally disturbed
Aug 24 2005 10:37PM (CT)
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - A man accused of gunning down two Wal-Mart employees in a store parking lot _ reloading and continuing to fire into the men after they fell _ didn't appear to know either victim and had no known vendetta against the company, authorities said.
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Officers sue over use of hair drug tests
Aug 24 2005 10:35PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The seven police officers swore they didn't use cocaine, yet their hair tested positive for the drug. The officers _ all of them black _ were promptly fired or suspended.
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'Peace Mom' returns to Texas war protest
Aug 24 2005 10:14PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - A woman whose son was killed in Iraq returned to Texas on Wednesday to resume her anti-war protest near President Bush's ranch after a weeklong absence to care for her ailing mother.
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Northwest flight diverted in Montana
Aug 24 2005 9:53PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Northwest Airlines flight traveling from Minneapolis to Bozeman Wednesday was diverted to Billings because of a mechanical problem.
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Denver library nixes 4 Spanish book series
Aug 24 2005 9:52PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Denver Public Library has canceled its subscription to four Spanish-language adult comic books after complaints that the series contain sexually explicit illustrations.
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Witness at Md. fires trial says he lied
Aug 24 2005 9:51PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A prosecution witness who allegedly told investigators that an arson suspect had a "big" plan to set something ablaze to gain notoriety for his gang recanted on the stand Wednesday at the federal trial.
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Robertson apologizes for Chavez remarks
Aug 24 2005 9:50PM (CT)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, only hours after he denied saying Chavez should be killed.
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Mo. ex-schools chief sentenced in stealing
Aug 24 2005 8:48PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A former school superintendent who stole money from his northwest Missouri district to feed his gambling habit was sentenced Wednesday to three years and six months in prison.
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Judge sets bail at $250K for 12-year-old
Aug 24 2005 8:41PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A juvenile court judge shocked prosecutors by setting bail at $250,000 for a 12-year-old boy charged with firing a gun in the city.
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Wash. high court OKs mayor recall effort
Aug 24 2005 8:14PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a petition to recall embattled Spokane Mayor James E. West can proceed.
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Northeast states to reduce emissions
Aug 24 2005 7:52PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Officials of nine Northeastern states have reached a preliminary agreement on an initiative to freeze power plant greenhouse gas emissions at current levels and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Mass. sets gay marriage convention date
Aug 24 2005 7:43PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - State legislators voted Wednesday to hold a Constitutional Convention next month to debate a proposed amendment that would replace gay marriage in Massachusetts with Vermont-style civil unions.
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Judge overturns award in smoke shop raid
Aug 24 2005 7:17PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a jury's decision to award more than $300,000 to a Narragansett Indian tribe member who was injured when state police raided the tribe's smoke shop.
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Nineteen Fort Bliss soldiers hospitalized
Aug 24 2005 7:04PM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - Nineteen soldiers were taken to an Army hospital Wednesday after they were exposed to fumes while cleaning a training area at Fort Bliss.
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Appeals court OKs Jerry Falwell Web site
Aug 24 2005 6:53PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The owner of a Web site critical of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's views on homosexuality did not violate trademark laws by using a misspelling of the evangelist's name as the site's domain name, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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FBI probing alleged U.S. Islamic leader
Aug 24 2005 6:15PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The FBI has launched an inquiry into the activities of a grocery store owner who is allegedly the U.S. leader of a radical Islamic group banned in parts of Europe and the Middle East, authorities said.
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Feds evacuate Hanford nuclear workers
Aug 24 2005 6:14PM (CT)
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - The U.S. Energy Department evacuated some workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation Wednesday because of a suspected breach in a container, but initial surveys detected no radioactive contamination, officials said.
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Md. police chief fights drugs on 2 fronts
Aug 24 2005 6:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm has a special understanding of the city's drug problem: His 36-year-old stepdaughter is an addict living on the streets.
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NIH worker pleads not guilty in threat
Aug 24 2005 4:45PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A National Institutes of Health employee pleaded not guilty Wednesday to allegations she made an anthrax threat against a county agency during a tax dispute.
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Coast Guard halts search for lost Cubans
Aug 24 2005 4:36PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday for 31 Cubans believed thrown into the Straits of Florida when their boat capsized during an apparent smuggling run to the United States.
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Judge overturns rapper boy's expulsion
Aug 24 2005 1:55PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered a school district to readmit a 14-year-old student expelled for writing violent, profane rap lyrics, finding that his songs didn't amount to "true threats" against the school and so were protected by the First Amendment.
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Coroner: Hollywood producer, daughter die
Aug 24 2005 1:49PM (CT)
CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. (AP) - A Hollywood producer who was found dead in a car with his young daughter had apparently suffered a heart attack and fallen on top of the girl, suffocating her, according to a coroner's report.
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Officers sue over use of hair drug tests
Aug 24 2005 1:18PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The seven police officers swore they didn't use cocaine, yet their hair tested positive for the drug. The officers _ all of them black _ were promptly fired or suspended.
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Calif. man said depressed before shootings
Aug 24 2005 1:12PM (CT)
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - A man who shot and killed four relatives before killing himself this week had been depressed over his own financial and medical problems, police said Wednesday.
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Judge ordered to rethink Vt. case ruling
Aug 24 2005 12:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court has ordered a lower court judge to reconsider his decision to dismiss a lawsuit that claims police used excessive force when they killed a knife-wielding man inside a Vermont church.
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Former journalist William Eaton, 74, dies
Aug 24 2005 12:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - William J. Eaton, a Pulitzer-prize winning Washington and foreign correspondent whose friendly curiosity about the impact the pending dissolution of the Soviet Union was having on ordinary Russians enlivened his reports from Moscow, is dead at 74.
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Washington city sets nuclear-free policy
Aug 24 2005 12:42PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state's capital city has banned anything related to nuclear weapons, a measure critics said could open the city to lawsuits.
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Idaho prosecutors to seek death penalty
Aug 24 2005 10:59AM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a convicted sex offender accused of binding and killing three people in a scheme authorities say was designed to enable him to abduct two children for sex.
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Rafts, helicopter aid flooded Arizona
Aug 24 2005 10:22AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Storms dumped up to 4 inches of rain Tuesday across southern Arizona, flooding washes and waterways and forcing evacuations of some 46 people in the Tucson area, including a mother and two children rescued by a helicopter.
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Interrogator pleads guilty in Afghan case
Aug 24 2005 9:06AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Apologizing for embarrassing the Army, a military intelligence interrogator admitted he abused an Afghan detainee who later died.
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Three civilian NASA pilots are honored
Aug 24 2005 7:56AM (CT)
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - Three civilian NASA pilots who flew the X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space in the 1960s have received their astronaut wings, an honor originally given only to military pilots.
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Arkansas official may have marrow match
Aug 24 2005 6:52AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Lt. Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, who dropped out of next year's governor's race because of a blood disorder, has found a potential match for a blood marrow transplant, health care officials said.
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Troops' gravestones have Pentagon slogans
Aug 24 2005 6:49AM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts.
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Court says tribe can prosecute activist
Aug 24 2005 6:40AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court has ruled that American Indian activist Russell Means can be prosecuted in a Navajo tribal court even though he's not a tribal member.
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Anti-war protesters cheer Salt Lake mayor
Aug 24 2005 3:53AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An outspoken Democrat in one of the most conservative states in the nation, Mayor Ross "Rocky" Anderson's days are rarely dull.
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Families angered by crosses at war protest
Aug 24 2005 3:16AM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Nearly 600 white wooden crosses in perfectly straight rows stretch down the narrow road leading to President Bush's ranch, a sea of names in the grassy ditch. Lt. Seth Dvorin. Sgt. David W. Johnson. Daniel Torres. Casey Sheehan.
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Free land in the heartland draws newcomers
Aug 24 2005 1:18AM (CT)
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) - Here in the heartland, the prairie homesteading tradition lives again. Land _ that coveted, crowded, pricey possession in America's hot spots _ can be had these days for nothing in a growing number of Great Plains communities.
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