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Simpson named suspect in armed robbery
Sep 14 2007 11:53PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter to his legal saga.
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Simpson named suspect in armed robbery
Sep 14 2007 11:53PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter to his legal saga.
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Simpson named suspect in armed robbery
Sep 14 2007 11:53PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter to his legal saga.
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Simpson named suspect in armed robbery
Sep 14 2007 11:53PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter to his legal saga.
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Simpson named suspect in armed robbery
Sep 14 2007 11:53PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter to his legal saga.
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Simpson named suspect in armed robbery
Sep 14 2007 11:53PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter to his legal saga.
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Cleanup begins after Hurricane Humberto
Sep 14 2007 11:27PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Utility crews restored electricity Friday to half of the homes and businesses left without power after Hurricane Humberto, while experts estimated total damages from the storm would cost less than $500 million.
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Ole Miss suspends frat for one year
Sep 14 2007 10:19PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A University of Mississippi fraternity has been suspended for a year after a black student said he was the victim of a racial slur and a physical assault at a party, school officials said Friday.
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NYC carriage horse breaks loose, dies
Sep 14 2007 10:12PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - One of the horses that pulls carriages around Central Park died Friday after breaking loose and running into a tree, police said. No people were injured.
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Campgrounds evacuated near Calif. fire
Sep 14 2007 9:57PM (CT)
FAWNSKIN, Calif. (AP) - A wind-driven wildfire burned at least 200 acres of brush and timber in the San Bernardino National Forest on Friday, forcing the evacuation of several campgrounds.
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Migrant deaths ahead of record pace
Sep 14 2007 9:48PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Deaths along much of the Arizona-Mexico border are ahead of the record pace set two years ago despite tightened border security expected to discourage migrants from crossing, a border county medical examiner said.
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McGreevey: Wife's demands excessive
Sep 14 2007 9:47PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - James McGreevey says that he cannot afford the perks he and his estranged wife enjoyed while he was governor, and that she is not entitled to continue to live the lifestyle of a first lady at his expense.
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Teen bride describes her wedding day
Sep 14 2007 9:35PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Teen bride describes her wedding day
Sep 14 2007 9:35PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Teen bride describes her wedding day
Sep 14 2007 9:35PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Teen bride describes her wedding day
Sep 14 2007 9:35PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Surgeries suspended at Ill. VA hospital
Sep 14 2007 9:02PM (CT)
MARION, Ill. (AP) - The Department of Veterans Affairs has suspended all inpatient surgeries at its medical center here after an uptick in the number of post-surgical deaths, and two top hospital officials have been reassigned.
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Feds investigate Mass. Indian tribe
Sep 14 2007 8:55PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Federal agents are seeking an American Indian tribe's records in an investigation into how millions of investors' dollars were spent as the group fought for the right to build a casino, a tribal spokeswoman said Friday.
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Officer resigns over YouTube videos
Sep 14 2007 8:53PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A city patrol officer who posted a series of homemade videos disparaging blacks, Jews, Cubans and illegal immigrants on YouTube.com resigned Friday, the mayor's office said.
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California may ease parole rules
Sep 14 2007 8:44PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California, struggling with a burgeoning prison population, could soon give early freedom from supervision to thousands of nonviolent parolees by ferreting out those least likely to commit new crimes, prison officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Man pleads guilty in pot muffin case
Sep 14 2007 8:35PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A former student accused of delivering marijuana-laced muffins to a high school teacher's lounge pleaded guilty Friday.
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Assault-weapon attacks on rise in Miami
Sep 14 2007 8:10PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The spray of bullets that killed a police officer and hurt three others this week came from something increasingly common on this city's streets: a high-powered assault weapon, fast becoming the gun of choice for gang members and violent criminals.
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3rd fatal crash at Nev. air races
Sep 14 2007 8:02PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Two airplanes collided Friday at the Reno National Championship Air Races, killing one pilot and injuring another in the third fatal crash at the event in four days.
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Elections set to fill seat of Ohio rep.
Sep 14 2007 7:48PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Ted Strickland on Friday set Nov. 6 and Dec. 11 as the dates for special primary and general elections to pick a successor to U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor, a Republican who died earlier this month.
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Details emerge in S.C. explosives case
Sep 14 2007 7:32PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A college student indicted on explosives charges may be released from custody on bond and under such conditions as 24-hour electronic monitoring, a judge ruled Friday at a hearing that also revealed details on the allegations.
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Spector jury ends week of deliberations
Sep 14 2007 7:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The jury in record producer Phil Spector's murder trial ended a week of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict.
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Attorneys spar over Skakel's trial bid
Sep 14 2007 7:17PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A man who implicated two friends in a murder that sent Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to prison may have made up the claim to sell a play about the case, prosecutors said Friday.
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Teen's conviction tossed in La. beating
Sep 14 2007 7:08PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A state appeals court on Friday threw out the only remaining conviction against one of the black teenagers accused in the beating of a white schoolmate in the racially tense north Louisiana town of Jena.
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Huge industrial fire burning in Phoenix
Sep 14 2007 6:57PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A voracious blaze that started in stacks of wooden pallets Friday spread to trailers and warehouses, toppled power lines and produced a plume of smoke visible for miles as crews tried to contain it, officials said. No injuries were reported.
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Tenn. governor commutes death sentence
Sep 14 2007 6:21PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Two days after Tennessee's first electrocution in 47 years, Gov. Phil Bredesen commuted the death sentence Friday of a man convicted in a fatal armed robbery.
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2 charged in death of their father, 85
Sep 14 2007 6:17PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Two men have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of their 85-year-old father who police found bound to a chair with a leather dog leash and sitting in his own waste, authorities said Friday.
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$300K donated to mine victims' families
Sep 14 2007 6:15PM (CT)
HUNTINGTON, Utah (AP) - More than $300,000 has been donated to the families of the nine men who died inside the Crandall Canyon mine last month, the mayor said.
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Ex-Gov. Shaheen joins N.H. Senate race
Sep 14 2007 6:12PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen has been leading the polls for next year's Senate race. On Friday, she announced that she's actually running.
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Fossett search stretches into 12th day
Sep 14 2007 6:10PM (CT)
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) - Volunteers have searched and re-searched an area nearly twice the size of New Jersey for missing millionaire Steve Fossett, and now, they're planning to search it again.
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TV writer high bidder on Vick notes
Sep 14 2007 6:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A television writer and producer paid $10,200 for what an animal rights group said are notes from football star Michael Vick's speech apologizing for a dogfighting scandal.
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Televangelist's husband speaks out
Sep 14 2007 6:04PM (CT)
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Televangelist Juanita Bynum's husband said Friday he and his wife spent the night together the day before she says he beat her, and it had boosted his hopes for reconciliation.
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Ex-N.O. mayor's brother has plea deal
Sep 14 2007 5:57PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The brother of a former New Orleans mayor has reached a plea deal on tax charges, more than three years after federal agents stormed his French Quarter home, his attorney and a prosecutor said Friday.
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FBI: New pics may be on-the-run gangster
Sep 14 2007 5:24PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The gait is similar. So are the hand mannerisms. The sunglasses and baseball cap look right, too. But is it on-the-run gangster James "Whitey" Bulger?
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U.N. extends Yugoslav prosecutor's term
Sep 14 2007 5:21PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council on Friday extended the term of the Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor until the end of the year despite Russian accusations that her work has been politicized.
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Female airman won't face court-martial
Sep 14 2007 5:06PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Charged with committing indecent acts after refusing to testify against a man she had accused of rape, only to see those charges later dropped, a female airman said Friday that she is no longer sure about a career in the Air Force.
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Guilty plea plan denied in student slay
Sep 14 2007 4:57PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A judge Friday rejected a planned guilty plea from a man accused of strangling a college student, saying the defendant's request to be sentenced by a jury wasn't allowed under state law.
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Racer in parade tragedy seeks bankruptcy
Sep 14 2007 4:46PM (CT)
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - A drag racer being sued for millions of dollars after his car plowed into a parade crowd, killing six people and injuring dozens more, has filed for bankruptcy protection, records show.
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Judge to stay on New Orleans bridge case
Sep 14 2007 4:46PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The judge presiding over the case of seven police officers accused of a fatal post-Katrina shooting has no conflict that would prevent a fair trial and can stay on the case, another judge ruled Friday.
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Rare Mormon book up for bid
Sep 14 2007 4:43PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra _ the birthplace of the Mormon religion _ will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction.
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Exec: Workers helped on senator's home
Sep 14 2007 4:32PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - In the latest sign of corruption problems for Republicans, a corporate executive testified Friday that his employees worked for months to remodel the Alaska home of Sen. Stevens.
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Exec: Workers helped on senator's home
Sep 14 2007 4:32PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - In the latest sign of corruption problems for Republicans, a corporate executive testified Friday that his employees worked for months to remodel the Alaska home of Sen. Stevens.
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Mother pleads guilty to kidnapping twins
Sep 14 2007 4:13PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A mother charged with kidnapping her young twin children from their adoptive parents and fleeing to Canada pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of international parental kidnapping.
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Gates raises prospect of more troop cuts
Sep 14 2007 4:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday raised the possibility of cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by the end of next year, well beyond the cuts President Bush has approved.
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Police: Man sets off his own booby trap
Sep 14 2007 3:59PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A man tired of burglars nearly blew off his hand when bomb-like devices he set around his house exploded in his presence instead, authorities said.
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Gates says US defeat would be a disaster
Sep 14 2007 3:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that a U.S. defeat in Iraq would be "disastrous" and President Bush's strategy deserves bipartisan support in Congress.
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Tenn. men accused of vigilante justice
Sep 14 2007 2:46PM (CT)
HELENWOOD, Tenn. (AP) - Everybody in this little mountain community knew that Timothy Carl Chandler had been arrested on child pornography charges. It was in the newspaper and all over the TV news.
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Tenn. men accused of vigilante justice
Sep 14 2007 2:46PM (CT)
HELENWOOD, Tenn. (AP) - Everybody in this little mountain community knew that Timothy Carl Chandler had been arrested on child pornography charges. It was in the newspaper and all over the TV news.
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Diary: Benoit grieved fellow wrestler
Sep 14 2007 2:08PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Journal entries written by wrestler Chris Benoit show he was wracked with grief and preoccupied with death after his best friend died in 2005, according to a lawyer representing Benoit's father.
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Oilman's lawyers fight court use of book
Sep 14 2007 2:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The government played dirty when it photocopied a Texas oilman's address book, including an entry for a notorious oil dealer pardoned by President Clinton, his lawyers say in a bid to ban the book's use at his oil-for-food conspiracy trial.
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Reagan's chef turns out meals at NYU
Sep 14 2007 12:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The eats just got a whole lot better at New York University with the hiring of President Reagan's personal cook to turn out 100,000 meals and snacks a day.
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Florida senator's son gets probation
Sep 14 2007 12:17PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The 31-year-old son of Sen. Bill Nelson was sentenced Friday to two years of probation, drug and alcohol treatment, community service and an anger management class for pushing a police officer after his father's re-election party.
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Holocaust survivors reunite with vet
Sep 14 2007 10:30AM (CT)
HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - Carrol "Red" Walsh didn't know what to expect when his patrol came across a train stopped along a hillside during the U.S. Army's dash across northern Germany in the final, chaotic days of World War II.
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Holocaust survivors reunite with vet
Sep 14 2007 10:30AM (CT)
HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - Carrol "Red" Walsh didn't know what to expect when his patrol came across a train stopped along a hillside during the U.S. Army's dash across northern Germany in the final, chaotic days of World War II.
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Armstrong Foundation claims infringement
Sep 14 2007 6:44AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Lance Armstrong Foundation has sued a man, alleging his animal charity's pet collars infringe on the foundation's trademark yellow LiveStrong wristbands.
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Murder conviction tossed in bizarre plot
Sep 14 2007 6:02AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal magistrate overturned the murder conviction of a man who killed a business owner 25 years ago in a bizarre plot to take over Marin County and turn it into a modern-day Camelot.
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Philly seeks 10,000 men to guard streets
Sep 14 2007 5:24AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The city's embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 black men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.
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Powerball win: Fantasy or nightmare?
Sep 14 2007 5:24AM (CT)
MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. (AP) - In his darkest moments, Jack Whittaker has sometimes wondered if winning the nearly $315 million Powerball game was really worth it.
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Powerball win: Fantasy or nightmare?
Sep 14 2007 5:24AM (CT)
MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. (AP) - In his darkest moments, Jack Whittaker has sometimes wondered if winning the nearly $315 million Powerball game was really worth it.
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Decision in torture case upsets churches
Sep 14 2007 5:23AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.
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Decision in torture case upsets churches
Sep 14 2007 5:23AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.
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Sex attacker who apologized is released
Sep 14 2007 5:23AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A man who sexually assaulted a fellow University of Virginia student then apologized to her two decades later as part of the Alcoholics Anonymous program was released Thursday after serving less than six months of an 18-month sentence.
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Tropical Storm Ingrid forms
Sep 14 2007 5:22AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Ingrid became the ninth storm of the Atlantic hurricane season Thursday when it formed in the open ocean, The National Hurricane Center said.
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Bail mulled for man linked to terrorism
Sep 14 2007 5:21AM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a man accused of giving money and military gear to his terrorist brother is a "danger to the community." Not necessarily San Jose, where he lives, but the Philippines, where the extremists he's accused of helping operate.
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Suspect in Fla. police shooting killed
Sep 14 2007 5:05AM (CT)
CUTLER BAY, Fla. (AP) - A gunman opened fire on four Miami-Dade County police officers during a traffic stop Thursday, killing one and injuring the other three. Police killed the suspect hours later, authorities said.
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Indian group blasts meteorite sale
Sep 14 2007 4:34AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony with the meteorite in its home at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Indian group blasts meteorite sale
Sep 14 2007 4:34AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony with the meteorite in its home at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Cops have suspect in hanging of girl, 6
Sep 14 2007 4:29AM (CT)
CORSICANA, Texas (AP) - A 6-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted was found hanged inside her family's garage, and authorities on Thursday described her mother's boyfriend as the primary suspect.
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Guide indicted in Russian hunting trip
Sep 14 2007 3:58AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A hunting guide has been indicted on a charge of importing antlers and horns from game that was illegally hunted in Russia, but his billionaire client was cleared of charges, lawyers said.
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