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Weakened Ernesto sloshes across Florida
Aug 29 2006 11:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto sloshed rather than slammed ashore _ surprising forecasters by failing to strengthen Tuesday as it approached Florida and providing relief to hurricane-weary residents.
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No death penalty for Marine widow
Aug 29 2006 11:17PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Prosecutors said Tuesday they would not seek the death penalty for a woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband to cash out his military life insurance policy.
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Utah reporter fired for plagiarism
Aug 29 2006 11:16PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A reporter who covered higher education for Utah's largest newspaper has been fired after being accused of plagiarism.
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Pa. paper seeks to quash subpoena
Aug 29 2006 11:15PM (CT)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A newspaper hopes to persuade the state Supreme Court to reverse an order that it surrender two more reporters' computer hard drives.
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Ivy League prof faces child sex charges
Aug 29 2006 11:12PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An Ivy League professor has been arrested for the third time in 11 years on child sex charges, in this case over video that allegedly shows him engaging in sex acts with boys.
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California Assembly OKs L.A. school plan
Aug 29 2006 11:10PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state Assembly on Tuesday approved a plan to give Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa certain oversight authority over the city's school district, which the mayor has made a cornerstone of his inaugural term.
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Wildfires burn Calif. home, 2,000 acres
Aug 29 2006 11:09PM (CT)
REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) - A wildfire erupted quickly in the southern San Bernardino National Forest on Tuesday, burning a home and prompting the evacuation of a tiny mountain community.
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Congressional ex-aide sentenced
Aug 29 2006 11:08PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A former aide to Rep. Lloyd Doggett was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday to stealing $168,000 from the congressman's campaign.
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Striking teachers in Ind. may lose jobs
Aug 29 2006 11:03PM (CT)
GARY, Ind. (AP) - School district administrators warned striking teachers they could be fired if they do not return to their classrooms by Thursday.
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Woman recounts gang-rape horror in Haiti
Aug 29 2006 11:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - One of three women who claim she was gang-raped by soldiers loyal to a former Haitian strongman testified Tuesday that one attack took place as her five small children watched.
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New Orleans remembers Katrina with style
Aug 29 2006 10:56PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The first anniversary of the biggest calamity to befall this city was marked Tuesday with a moment of silence, wreath-layings, the tolling of bells and, in true New Orleans fashion, a wailing jazz funeral through the potholed streets for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Ill. teen gets 53 years for killing girl
Aug 29 2006 10:55PM (CT)
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) - A teenager was sentenced to 53 years in prison Tuesday for killing a new schoolmate who showed interest in boys she had dated.
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Prosecutor: We could not ignore Karr
Aug 29 2006 10:48PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The prosecutor in the JonBenet Ramsey case Tuesday defended her decision to bring John Mark Karr halfway around the world to Colorado for investigation, saying it was difficult to separate fact from fantasy in his lurid account because every detail of the slaying is public knowledge.
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Deals would add slot machines in Calif.
Aug 29 2006 10:34PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced agreements Tuesday that would allow two of California's richest Indian tribes to vastly expand the number of slot machines in their casinos. In return, the tribes would pay the state billions.
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Man charged in deaths of 7 prostitutes
Aug 29 2006 10:31PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A man suspected of killing seven prostitutes over the past five years was charged with murder Tuesday, and police said he is a suspect in as many as 14 deaths in the city since 1999.
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Hemingway home is the cat's meow
Aug 29 2006 10:29PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - The many cats that roam the grounds of the Ernest Hemingway home include Ivan, Frances and Charley _ all kittens born during the destructive hurricane season of 2004.
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Israeli agents to don disguises at trial
Aug 29 2006 10:15PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Two Israeli security agents expected to testify at the trial of two men accused of fundraising for the Palestinian militant group Hamas may wear disguises and use aliases on the witness stand, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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Judge to rule soon on wiretap lawsuit
Aug 29 2006 9:58PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A federal judge suggested Tuesday that he would try to keep alive a lawsuit that challenges President Bush's domestic wiretapping program, while taking steps not to disclose classified information.
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1 dead, 13 injured in hit-and-run spree
Aug 29 2006 9:54PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The driver of a sport utility vehicle plowed across sidewalks and crosswalks throughout the city Tuesday, killing one man and injuring at least 13 people in a series of attacks on pedestrians and motorists, police said.
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FBI investigates popular artist Kinkade
Aug 29 2006 9:47PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The FBI is investigating artist Thomas Kinkade and company executives over allegations that they fraudulently induced investors to open galleries, then ruined them financially, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Fugitive polygamist arrested in Nevada
Aug 29 2006 9:43PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - After more than a year on the run and three months on the FBI's Most Wanted List, the charismatic leader of a polygamous sect was captured during a routine traffic stop and now faces charges he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men.
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Jack Kemp to campaign for Lieberman
Aug 29 2006 9:37PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - Jack Kemp will hit the campaign trail with a fellow former vice presidential candidate from another party: Sen. Joe Lieberman.
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Judge agrees to open part of Astor file
Aug 29 2006 9:33PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge agreed on Tuesday to partly open the court file in the family feud over the care of 104-year-old philanthropist Brooke Astor.
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Navy charges lawyer in secrets case
Aug 29 2006 9:32PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Navy lawyer has been charged with copying and transmitting secret information about Guantanamo Bay detainees to an unauthorized person.
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Duke lacrosse witness wins acquittal
Aug 29 2006 9:26PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A cab driver who has supported an alibi offered by one of the three Duke lacrosse players charged with rape was acquitted Tuesday of a three-year-old shoplifting charge.
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Anti-affirmative action proposal OK'd
Aug 29 2006 9:23PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday allowed an anti-affirmative action proposal to go before Michigan voters despite agreeing that it won a place on the November ballot through widespread fraud.
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Special elections set for DeLay's seat
Aug 29 2006 9:23PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 special election to temporarily replace resigned U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, a date that coincides with the general election.
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S.D. governor halts execution of killer
Aug 29 2006 9:17PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Gov. Mike Rounds halted South Dakota's first execution in 59 years just hours before it was scheduled Tuesday, saying the state law detailing how to administer lethal drugs is obsolete.
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Court asked to revisit gay marriage
Aug 29 2006 9:17PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Gay and lesbian couples on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its endorsement of Washington's gay marriage ban, saying the court's flawed reasoning ignored legal protections against sex discrimination.
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Tire blew before fatal Greyhound crash
Aug 29 2006 8:38PM (CT)
WESTPORT, N.Y. (AP) - Nineteen people remained hospitalized Tuesday after a Greyhound bus tumbled off an Adirondacks highway after apparently blowing a tire, officials said. The bus driver and four passengers were killed.
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Oklahoma uses new execution procedure
Aug 29 2006 8:29PM (CT)
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - A man condemned for the 1994 death of a woman during a burglary was executed Tuesday under a new state procedure that delivers a larger dose of anesthesia before the fatal drugs are administered.
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NTSB: Tower didn't notice deadly mistake
Aug 29 2006 8:18PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday.
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Misidentified wreck victim back in class
Aug 29 2006 8:04PM (CT)
UPLAND, Ind. (AP) - The woman misidentified for weeks as a fellow student who was killed in a traffic accident returned to her university classes Tuesday for the first time since the crash last spring.
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Prosecutor: Slain student tried to fight
Aug 29 2006 7:45PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A University of North Dakota student fought for her life when a convicted sex offender abducted her in a parking lot, raped her and killed her, a federal prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations Tuesday.
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Prosecutor: Boy was bound, left to die
Aug 29 2006 7:12PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The foster parents of a disabled 3-year-old boy wrapped him like a cocoon and left him for two days in a closet, where he died while they attended a family reunion, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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2 storm victims unknown, not unforgotten
Aug 29 2006 6:45PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Nobody knows the names of the men who were buried side by side in matching silver caskets on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Lawsuit filed in Big Dig tunnel collapse
Aug 29 2006 6:39PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The family of a woman killed in a Big Dig tunnel when 12 tons of concrete ceiling panels fell on her car filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and contractors that worked on the highway project.
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Polygamist leader charismatic, zealous
Aug 29 2006 6:34PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Warren Steed Jeffs is a tall, lanky, rather bookish-looking man who has cast a broad shadow across 10,000 members of his polygamy-practicing church.
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Family of 7 killed in small plane crash
Aug 29 2006 6:33PM (CT)
JACKSON, Ky. (AP) - The seven people who died in a small plane crash in the wooded mountains of eastern Kentucky were members of the same family: a Texas couple, their four children and the children's grandmother, federal officials said Tuesday.
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NASA presses ahead with launch plans
Aug 29 2006 3:50PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Five hours after starting space shuttle Atlantis on a slow crawl toward its hangar, NASA changed course Tuesday and sent it back to the launch pad, saying the forecast for Tropical Storm Ernesto had improved.
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Demolition of Potomac bridge wows crowd
Aug 29 2006 1:21PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A section of the obsolete Woodrow Wilson Bridge was brought down early Tuesday, the planned demolition set in motion by a longtime commuter who won a contest for the honor.
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Starr appeals 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case
Aug 29 2006 1:12PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Former Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Alaska's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case, a dispute involving a high school student, a banner and a tough school policy.
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Gag order requested in Ky. trial
Aug 29 2006 11:18AM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Federal officials should be barred from speaking publicly about the case of a former Army soldier charged with raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, defense attorneys argued.
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2 finalists for AP's Chairman's Prize
Aug 29 2006 10:57AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two finalists were announced Tuesday for The Chairman's Prize, an Associated Press staff award program designed to foster creative thinking, performance breakthroughs and entrepreneurial changes that affect the AP or the news industry.
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Search continues for Pa. lawmaker's son
Aug 29 2006 9:22AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The adult son of a Pennsylvania lawmaker was missing Tuesday after reportedly being abducted on a street at gunpoint in the hours before his mother and sister were shot and wounded in their home.
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Shuttle to be rolled inside for Ernesto
Aug 29 2006 8:58AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA decided Tuesday to begin rolling space shuttle Atlantis back into an assembly building as Tropical Storm Ernesto swirled toward Florida.
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Karr's description emotional, detailed
Aug 29 2006 5:53AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - He envisioned Johnny Depp playing him in a movie about how he killed JonBenet Ramsey, which he thought would make $1 billion. He explained that he liked little girls as long as they were no older than 10.
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WTC movie donates $1.3M to memorial
Aug 29 2006 3:30AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The producers of "World Trade Center" are donating $1.3 million to the Sept. 11 memorial, keeping a promise to give 5 percent of the film's opening weekend box office receipts to help build it.
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Demand for meningitis vaccine rises
Aug 29 2006 3:25AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - As move-in day for freshmen approached, Linda Echols took stock of health supplies at Swarthmore College and thought she had plenty of the latest meningitis vaccine.
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AP: Professor recalls leading cops to Karr
Aug 29 2006 3:13AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Michael Tracey says he could barely stand to listen as John Mark Karr described in graphic detail how he supposedly had sex with JonBenet Ramsey and then accidentally killed her.
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Milwaukee woman rescues butterflies
Aug 29 2006 2:33AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Barb Agnew ruffled the thin netting hanging in her flower shop, causing a monarch butterfly to descend far enough for her to gently clasp it. She then released it outside where it flitted about a hanging plant before disappearing in the gray sky, leaving her beaming like a proud mother.
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Study: Katrina survivors find resolve
Aug 29 2006 1:48AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - In a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, a new survey reveals that the traumatized survivors of Hurricane Katrina forged a surprisingly powerful inner strength that steeled them against suicidal despair.
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