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Mass slaying trial in Florida begins
Sep 5 2006 11:13PM (CT)
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - Defense attorneys argued Tuesday that a man charged with killing four people at a central Florida factory in 1997 did not have enough time to carry out the murders.
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Separated twin needs another surgery
Sep 5 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Kendra Herrin, who was separated from her twin sister last month in a 26-hour operation, will undergo additional surgery Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Smoke slows air attack on wildfire
Sep 5 2006 11:08PM (CT)
BIG TIMBER, Mont. (AP) - Heavy smoke slowed firefighters battling a 280-square-mile wildfire Tuesday, and also prompted air-quality warnings for much of the western portion of the state.
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Search for N.Y. convict prompts caution
Sep 5 2006 11:05PM (CT)
FREDONIA, N.Y. (AP) - With an escaped convict suspected of killing one trooper and wounding two others still on the run, the first day of school in rural western New York Tuesday meant recess in the classroom, no outdoor sports practice and armed state troopers searching vehicles.
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Son killed in head-on crash with dad
Sep 5 2006 11:04PM (CT)
PEMBINE, Wis. (AP) - A man drove into oncoming traffic and struck his father's car, killing himself and seriously injuring his father in northeastern Wisconsin, the sheriff's department said Tuesday.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra CEO named
Sep 5 2006 10:56PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The executive director of the Seattle Symphony has been named president and chief executive officer of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the BSO announced Tuesday.
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34 hurt in bus rollover in Massachusetts
Sep 5 2006 10:52PM (CT)
AUBURN, Mass. (AP) - A bus traveling from New York to Boston rolled over on an interstate off-ramp Tuesday, injuring 34 people, authorities said.
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Flashlight body search violated rights
Sep 5 2006 10:50PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man convicted of possessing cocaine after a police officer found drugs by shining a light down the suspect's pants should get a new trial because the search was unreasonable, a North Carolina appellate court ruled Tuesday.
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Nevada man pleads guilty to child abuse
Sep 5 2006 10:36PM (CT)
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A man accused of locking two of his stepchildren in a bathroom and starving them for several years pleaded guilty Tuesday to false imprisonment and abuse charges.
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Feds bust counterfeit shoe ring
Sep 5 2006 10:33PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal agents have seized thousands of pairs of fake Nike sneakers and charged six men in what is being called one of the largest smuggling rings in recent history.
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Ky. pulls old air packs from inspectors
Sep 5 2006 10:28PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Some of Kentucky's mine inspectors are not equipped with the emergency air packs needed to legally enter underground mines, though state officials won't say how that will affect coal mine inspections.
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Mother sues county in foster child death
Sep 5 2006 10:25PM (CT)
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) - The mother of a 3-year-old developmentally disabled child who died in foster care filed a $5 million lawsuit Tuesday against county officials, the foster parents and the agency that placed the boy.
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Harris wins Fla. GOP Senate nomination
Sep 5 2006 10:21PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris overcame a campaign ridiculed even by her own party to easily claim the GOP nomination for the Senate on Tuesday, and Rep. Jim Davis held a narrow lead in the race for the Democratic nomination to succeed popular Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Chinese warships to visit Pearl Harbor
Sep 5 2006 10:02PM (CT)
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - Chinese warships are scheduled to sail into Pearl Harbor on Wednesday for exercises with the U.S. military _ the first visit by a Chinese navy ship to a U.S. state in six years.
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Sixth named storm forms in Atlantic
Sep 5 2006 9:55PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Florence formed far out in the open Atlantic on Tuesday, and forecasters said it will probably become a hurricane.
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2004 memo warned of Ky. air staffing
Sep 5 2006 9:50PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Nearly two years before the fatal crash of Comair Flight 5191, a control tower supervisor at the Lexington airport reported staff shortages that "can cost lives."
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Wiretap program justified, lawyer says
Sep 5 2006 9:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A government lawyer used a dramatic scenario of a nuclear attack on Washington to illustrate his arguments Tuesday in defense of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program.
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Company aims to help online game safety
Sep 5 2006 9:06PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Online computer gamers who spend countless hours slaying monsters and battling other virtual foes are now facing more worldly threats, including online predators and scammers who want to swipe their game accounts.
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Bush plans to meet with automakers
Sep 5 2006 8:31PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - President Bush and leaders of the Big Three automakers plan to meet after the November election to discuss the state of the U.S. auto industry, the White House said Tuesday.
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Defense lawyer off serial shooter case
Sep 5 2006 8:18PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The lawyer representing one of the men accused in the city's serial shootings said Tuesday his office will not be involved in the case and has asked the judge to appoint a new defense team. He would not say why.
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Charges dropped in Mich. cell phone case
Sep 5 2006 8:07PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A federal judge threw out conspiracy and money laundering charges Tuesday against three Texas men once accused of plotting a terror attack on Michigan's iconic Mackinac Bridge.
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N.D. city councilman back from Iraq
Sep 5 2006 7:56PM (CT)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - City Council member Mike McNamara has returned from Iraq, where he was serving when elected and then attended council meetings by telephone.
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Karr's lawyer wants speedy trial
Sep 5 2006 7:40PM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - The lawyer for former JonBenet Ramsey slaying suspect John Mark Karr asked a Sonoma County judge on Tuesday to hear his client's case on child pornography charges as soon as possible.
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4 killed in Maine rampage
Sep 5 2006 7:33PM (CT)
NEWRY, Maine (AP) - A cook was charged Tuesday with shooting and dismembering the owner of a bed-and-breakfast and killing three other people in a grisly Labor Day weekend crime spree that shocked people across the Maine countryside.
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Saudi princess reaches plea deal
Sep 5 2006 7:33PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A Saudi Arabian princess pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating immigration laws but no longer faces charges of forcing two Indonesian women to be her domestic servants under a deal with prosecutors.
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Detroit cancels school amid strike
Sep 5 2006 7:25PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Public Schools officials canceled classes until further notice Tuesday, the eighth day of a teachers strike.
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Polygamist leader back in Utah
Sep 5 2006 7:13PM (CT)
HURRICANE, Utah (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was flown back to Utah on Tuesday to face felony sex charges involving the arranged marriage of an underage girl to an older man.
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Jury selection starts in nightclub fire
Sep 5 2006 7:00PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Jury selection began Tuesday for the highly anticipated trial of one of the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 100 people three years ago.
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Petition seeks O.J.'s publicity rights
Sep 5 2006 6:38PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The father of murder victim Ron Goldman asked a court Tuesday to give him the publicity rights to the name, image and likeness of O.J. Simpson, who has failed to pay a $33.5 million judgment in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit.
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Judge awards $3M to mob victim family
Sep 5 2006 5:54PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge awarded $3.1 million Tuesday to the family of a man who was killed by fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, ruling that the federal government is liable for the man's death because his identity was leaked to Bulger by a rogue FBI agent.
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Schwarzenegger to veto health care bill
Sep 5 2006 5:29PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday he will veto a universal health care bill that is headed for his desk, saying the measure would set up a "vast new bureaucracy" that would be too expensive.
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Feds want longer sentence for fundraiser
Sep 5 2006 4:57PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A prominent GOP fundraiser who pleaded guilty to funneling $45,000 to President Bush's re-election campaign should get more prison time than originally recommended because he made other illegal contributions to candidates in Ohio, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Ex-Michael accuser says own dad hit him
Sep 5 2006 3:39PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A man who as a teenager accused Michael Jackson of molesting him and won a $20 million settlement from the pop singer now has won an appellate ruling on his claim that he was attacked by his own father.
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Huge NYC housing complex on the market
Sep 5 2006 3:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a city where the average one-bedroom apartment rents for well over $2,000 a month, residents of a huge rent-stabilized complex are joining forces with some city leaders in an effort to buy their development to keep it affordable.
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Nursing home owners sue over Katrina
Sep 5 2006 2:52PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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Thrift shopping in fashion
Sep 5 2006 2:33PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - For 14-year-old Audrey Sanders, clothes shopping has little to do with the mall. She'd much rather go to secondhand stores to buy shirts, scarves, jewelry and jeans. Her shoes might be a cheap pair of flats, spray painted with jewels added on.
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Woman gets probation in deadly ATV crash
Sep 5 2006 2:02PM (CT)
DOUGLAS, Ga. (AP) - A woman convicted of driving under the influence in a crash that killed five children on an all-terrain vehicle was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation.
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Correction: DuPont-Donations story
Sep 5 2006 1:59PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - In a Sept. 1 story about campaign donations accepted by Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the state Ethics Commission had found Lynch showed poor judgment and the appearance of impropriety when he accepted several donations from people with business relationships to DuPont Co., the subject of a state lawsuit over lead paint.
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Child molestation case rocks the Ozarks
Sep 5 2006 1:11PM (CT)
WASHBURN, Mo. (AP) - Turning their backs on the isolated religious commune in the rugged Ozarks where many had grown up, a group of members fled with only the clothes on their back, trudging several miles down a gravel road to the nearest phone to call friends or family for help.
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Las Vegas locals crash the casino pools
Sep 5 2006 1:02PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Your pool: Five feet of lukewarm water, floating dead bugs, a blow-up mattress, you and a can of beer. Their pool: A two-acre oasis of chilled liquid, heavenly bodies all around, and something fruity in a glass.
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Feds look at congressman and a land deal
Sep 5 2006 12:57PM (CT)
REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) - Federal investigators probing Rep. Jerry Lewis' ties to lobbyists are looking into a land deal that put nearly 41 pristine acres in the congressman's neighborhood off-limits to developers, The Associated Press has learned.
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Jordanian 5th candidate for U.N. post
Sep 5 2006 12:55PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Jordan's U.N. Ambassador Prince Zeid al Hussein announced his candidacy Tuesday to succeed Kofi Annan as the next U.N. secretary-general, becoming the first Muslim to enter the race.
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Flight passenger sent to mental hospital
Sep 5 2006 11:46AM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A woman whose actions aboard a London-to-Washington flight provoked a security scare will be held indefinitely at a residential mental health facility in New Hampshire, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Infant trapped underwater revived by cop
Sep 5 2006 10:51AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A baby who was trapped underwater for nearly five minutes after her mother's SUV was hit and flipped over into a water-filled ditch was revived by a police sergeant.
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Pet python kills man in Indiana
Sep 5 2006 10:27AM (CT)
LANESVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A 14-foot pet python crushed its owner to death, authorities said Tuesday after finding the snake loose in a southern Indiana shed with the man's body.
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Lung problems common after WTC recovery
Sep 5 2006 9:56AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 70 percent of recovery workers who responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center suffered lung problems during or after their work at ground zero, a new health study released Tuesday shows.
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Orphans get vacations, and maybe more
Sep 5 2006 9:18AM (CT)
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) - Dima, an outgoing 13-year-old from a Latvian orphanage, liked a lot of things about his five weeks in the U.S. this summer: bananas, volleyball and "soooo beautiful girls."
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Hurricane leftovers cause minor flooding
Sep 5 2006 8:47AM (CT)
SAN JACINTO, Calif. (AP) - Flash flooding triggered mudslides that trapped vehicles in Southern California as the fading remnants of Hurricane John dumped rain on parts of the Southwest.
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Remnants of Hurricane John reach U.S.
Sep 5 2006 7:46AM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Heavy rain flooded roads in the Southwest on Monday as the rapidly weakening remnants of Hurricane John spread across the border from Mexico, where up to 20 inches had fallen on parts of the Baja Peninsula.
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Jogger trapped in Fla. swamp for 4 days
Sep 5 2006 7:41AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A missing runner was rescued from a Florida swamp after spending four days stuck in the muck with only the waist-deep water to drink.
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No signs of pro-immigrant voter boom
Sep 5 2006 6:51AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - During the spring protests that brought hundreds of thousands to the streets, Hispanic immigrants chanted a promise and a threat to politicians: "Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote."
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Calif. coach arrested for player assault
Sep 5 2006 5:51AM (CT)
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - An assistant youth football coach was arrested for felony child abuse after allegedly rushing the field and assaulting a boy on the opposing team, police said.
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N.Y. prosecutors want lawyer punished
Sep 5 2006 3:54AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors seeking a 30-year prison term for a lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists have called her behavior "flagrant abuse of her profession" ahead of next month's sentencing hearing.
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Ex-mayor among over 60 prize winners
Sep 5 2006 2:44AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode and the father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl are among the inaugural winners of $100,000 prizes being awarded Tuesday to Americans over 60 who devised innovative ways to address tough social problems.
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Poll: Online viewers shun lengthy videos
Sep 5 2006 1:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - You won't find Vanita Butler sitting in front of her computer watching a full-length movie or television show, even though she's an avid viewer of video on the Internet.
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