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Database seeks to lower firefighter deaths
Sep 17 2005 11:51PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - It's a scene that plays out in firehouses every day: Firefighters return from a blaze or rescue call and talk about a close call that could have injured or killed someone. The International Association of Fire Chiefs wants firefighters nationwide to learn from such stories through the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System.
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Rescuers find 76-year-old man in Big Easy
Sep 17 2005 11:37PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Day after day, for more than two weeks, the 76-year-old man sat trapped and alone in his attic, sipping from a dwindling supply of water until it ran out. No food. No way out of a house ringed by foul floodwaters.
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Two dead in Chicago train derailment
Sep 17 2005 11:33PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A commuter train derailed Saturday on Chicago's South Side, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, some of them critically.
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Ophelia bypasses Mass. with little effect
Sep 17 2005 11:06PM (CT)
CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) - Tropical Storm Ophelia rushed past southeastern Massachusetts with little effect on Saturday, piling waves 19 feet high well offshore but sparing Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod from damaging wind and rain.
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Allen: Mayor's return plan 'problematic'
Sep 17 2005 10:33PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A weakened levee system and a lack of drinkable tap water will make it "extremely problematic" to follow the New Orleans mayor's timeline for allowing residents to return to the evacuated city, the head of the federal disaster relief effort said Saturday.
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Images released of Pa. bank robber
Sep 17 2005 10:13PM (CT)
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Recently released images of a pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank, then was killed by a bomb fastened around his neck, suggest he was unaware of any threat to his life, according to the FBI.
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Cajun party revives La. locals' spirits
Sep 17 2005 9:37PM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Their homes are bursting with guests. Their schools are overwhelmed. Traffic has been at a standstill for three weeks since thousands of New Orleans hurricane evacuees arrived in search of shelter. But Lafayette, the capital of Cajun country, still knows how to party.
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Miss. starts burying hurricane victims
Sep 17 2005 9:13PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The people who loved James Moultrie Jr. had nearly three weeks to grieve, waiting for the day the streets would be clear enough to bury the man they called "Shine Dog." But Saturday, at the doors of New Community Missionary Baptist Church, they hesitated.
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Annan urges world leaders to fight terror
Sep 17 2005 8:01PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan, armed with what he called the most significant blueprint for reform in the United Nations' history, said Saturday the 191 member states should quickly create new human rights and peacebuilding machinery and address the growing risks of nuclear proliferation and "catastrophic terrorism."
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Allen: La. repopulation plan problematic
Sep 17 2005 6:35PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A weakened levee system and a lack of drinkable tap water will make it "extremely problematic" to follow the New Orleans mayor's timeline for allowing residents to return to the evacuated city, the head of the federal disaster relief effort said Saturday.
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Evacuees question La. governor on housing
Sep 17 2005 6:02PM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Hurricane evacuees swarmed around Gov. Kathleen Blanco and peppered her with questions Saturday as she visited a shelter, asking when they could return home and inquiring about transitional housing.
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Military may play bigger relief role
Sep 17 2005 1:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil.
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New Orleans funeral home struggling
Sep 17 2005 1:39PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - For 116 years, it has been the job of Kathleen Rhodes Astorga's family to provide comfort and studied composure. But in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, that steadiness is being shaken.
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Annan defends U.N. summit achievement
Sep 17 2005 11:08AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. chief on Saturday defended the world summit's achievements on United Nations reform and help for the poor, telling the annual General Assembly debate that leaders did more at one time than ever before in 60 years of U.N. history.
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Commuter train derails in Chicago
Sep 17 2005 10:27AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A commuter train derailed Saturday morning on Chicago's South Side, a police spokeswoman said.
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After 55 years, vet to get Medal of Honor
Sep 17 2005 7:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tibor Rubin kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II.
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Son of Florida Gov. Bush arrested
Sep 17 2005 7:32AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said.
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Hmong man found guilty in hunter deaths
Sep 17 2005 7:25AM (CT)
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) - A jury convicted an Asian immigrant of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of six deer hunters, rejecting his claims that he fired in self-defense after being shot at and taunted by racial slurs.
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Ill. governor denies wrongdoing
Sep 17 2005 6:40AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted Friday that he is not connected to corruption at a teachers pension fund and that he does not tolerate misconduct by anyone who works for him.
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Mississippi begins massive Katrina cleanup
Sep 17 2005 6:38AM (CT)
D'IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) - In a sandy construction site on the outskirts of town, more than a dozen trucks wait their chance to unload tree limbs and feed a huge bonfire that will burn from dawn until dusk every day for months.
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Judge blocks new anti-abortion law in Mo.
Sep 17 2005 6:37AM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new state law further restricting abortions, saying it would have forced an end to the procedure in part of Missouri.
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Post-Katrina, overpreparedness will be norm
Sep 17 2005 6:34AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Ophelia was no Katrina. But in a post-Katrina world, the hurricane's mere existence was enough to provoke a pumped-up state and federal response.
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New Orleans' cemeteries mostly intact
Sep 17 2005 6:33AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Katrina has transformed the legendary New Orleans cemeteries, known as "cities of the dead," into a brown landscape of muck and stench. But fears that floodwaters would send large numbers of coffins and corpses floating away from their crypts were largely unfounded.
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Mayors agree to disaster plan review order
Sep 17 2005 3:10AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Big-city mayors fearing the next Hurricane Katrina-size disaster agree a federal review of their emergency plans is a good idea _ just as it was years ago.
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Harry S. Truman statue design unveiled
Sep 17 2005 2:09AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Give 'em a hello, Harry. Organizers of a drive to place a statue of Harry S. Truman outside historic Union Station unveiled the winning design Friday, showing the 33rd president raising his trademark Homburg hat in a wave.
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Fraternities face pressure to clean up
Sep 17 2005 1:33AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A year after a freshman pledge died of alcohol poisoning at the University of Colorado, fraternities are again recruiting fresh-faced 18-year-olds _ but this time against the school's wishes, and under a cloud of fear that one more scandal could shut them down.
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N.M. treasurer, ex-treasurer arrested
Sep 17 2005 12:19AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's state treasurer and his predecessor were charged Friday with racketeering, accused of steering state business to investment advisers in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks.
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