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LA firefighter settles harassment suit
Sep 21 2007 10:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The city will pay $1.43 million to settle claims by a black firefighter who said he suffered harassment and discrimination after co-workers served him spaghetti laced with dog food, officials announced Friday.
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Televangelist Rex Humbard dies at 88
Sep 21 2007 10:46PM (CT)
ATLANTIS, Fla. (AP) - The Rev. Rex Humbard, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Friday, a family spokeswoman said. He was 88.
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SF supervisor pleads not guilty to fraud
Sep 21 2007 10:33PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco supervisor accused of attempting to extort $80,000 from a group of fast-food business owners pleaded not guilty Friday and was released on $1 million bail.
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It's a girl for Salma Hayek
Sep 21 2007 10:30PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Salma Hayek has given birth to a baby girl, Valentina Paloma Pinault, her publicist announced Friday.
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La., Miss. dodge tropical weather
Sep 21 2007 10:24PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A tropical depression came ashore in the Florida panhandle Friday, sparing coastal Louisiana and Mississippi the first serious brush with tropical weather since two hurricanes laid waste to the area in 2005.
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Judge denies request to free Jena teen
Sep 21 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana. Mychal Bell's request to be freed while an appeal is being reviewed was rejected at a juvenile court hearing, effectively denying him any chance at immediate bail, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because juvenile court proceedings are closed.
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Judge denies request to free Jena teen
Sep 21 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana. Mychal Bell's request to be freed while an appeal is being reviewed was rejected at a juvenile court hearing, effectively denying him any chance at immediate bail, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because juvenile court proceedings are closed.
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Judge denies request to free Jena teen
Sep 21 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana. Mychal Bell's request to be freed while an appeal is being reviewed was rejected at a juvenile court hearing, effectively denying him any chance at immediate bail, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because juvenile court proceedings are closed.
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Judge denies request to free Jena teen
Sep 21 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana. Mychal Bell's request to be freed while an appeal is being reviewed was rejected at a juvenile court hearing, effectively denying him any chance at immediate bail, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because juvenile court proceedings are closed.
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2 students shot at Delaware State Univ.
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.
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2 students shot at Delaware State Univ.
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.
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2 students shot at Delaware State Univ.
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.
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2 students shot at Delaware State Univ.
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.
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2 students shot at Delaware State Univ.
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.
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2 students shot at Delaware State Univ.
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.
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MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
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MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
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MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
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MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested
Sep 21 2007 10:01PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
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Law banning horse slaughter upheld
Sep 21 2007 9:34PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The nation's last horse slaughtering plant could be forced to permanently close after a federal appeals court Friday upheld an Illinois law prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human consumption.
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Baby cribs recalled after 3 deaths
Sep 21 2007 9:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs have been recalled after three children became entrapped and suffocated. The recall was announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday, more than two years after a California lawyer says he alerted the federal agency about a 9-month-old who died in a faulty crib.
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Miami Cubans skeptical of Castro on TV
Sep 21 2007 9:17PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Cubans in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood expressed a mixture of skepticism and disappointment Friday at Fidel Castro's first appearance on Cuban television in three months.
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Miami Cubans skeptical of Castro on TV
Sep 21 2007 9:17PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Cubans in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood expressed a mixture of skepticism and disappointment Friday at Fidel Castro's first appearance on Cuban television in three months.
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Fla. man says he was Tasered over Quran
Sep 21 2007 8:57PM (CT)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Four police officers are under investigation after a man accused them of using a Taser on him three times when he wouldn't take his hand off a Quran hidden under his shirt, a police spokesman said Friday.
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Conn. gov bans parole for some inmates
Sep 21 2007 8:48PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. M. Jodi Rell banned parole on Friday for all Connecticut inmates serving prison time for violent offenses following a string of crimes police say were committed by parolees.
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Columbia U. to let Iran president speak
Sep 21 2007 8:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia University planned Friday to go forward with a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the city mobilized security to protect him from protests during his New York visit.
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Columbia U. to let Iran president speak
Sep 21 2007 8:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia University planned Friday to go forward with a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the city mobilized security to protect him from protests during his New York visit.
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NASA revives probe to study black holes
Sep 21 2007 8:10PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA on Friday resurrected a mission to launch a high-energy X-ray telescope into orbit to conduct a black hole census.
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Columbine memorial opens
Sep 21 2007 8:06PM (CT)
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Hundreds of people gathered under blue autumn skies Friday to dedicate an expansive hillside memorial to the Columbine High School massacre victims, after more than eight years of money struggles and occasional disputes.
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Columbine memorial opens
Sep 21 2007 8:06PM (CT)
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Hundreds of people gathered under blue autumn skies Friday to dedicate an expansive hillside memorial to the Columbine High School massacre victims, after more than eight years of money struggles and occasional disputes.
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Columbine memorial opens
Sep 21 2007 8:06PM (CT)
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Hundreds of people gathered under blue autumn skies Friday to dedicate an expansive hillside memorial to the Columbine High School massacre victims, after more than eight years of money struggles and occasional disputes.
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NY changes rules for licenses
Sep 21 2007 8:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York will allow illegal immigrants who have a valid foreign passport to get a driver's license, with a goal of bringing "people out of the shadows" into American society, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Friday.
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Wildfire destroys 6 Wash. state homes
Sep 21 2007 7:53PM (CT)
WHITE SALMON, Wash. (AP) - A wildfire pushed by strong winds blowing through a gorge destroyed five homes on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River and a sixth closer to the water, authorities said.
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Forbes doubles Bloomberg wealth estimate
Sep 21 2007 7:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is apparently even richer than anyone realized. Forbes magazine's annual list of richest Americans is estimating his wealth at twice the number it gave last year, vaulting him to the rank of 25 with a fortune estimated at $11.5 billion.
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Dentist who raped girl returned to Md.
Sep 21 2007 7:43PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A dentist who fled before he was sentenced four years ago for raping a 15-year-old patient was returned to Maryland on Friday, five months after his arrest in Mexico.
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Judge rules against Tenn. executions
Sep 21 2007 7:38PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge's ruling this week that Tennessee's lethal injection procedure could cause excruciating pain is yet another blow to the three-drug cocktail used by every state that executes the condemned by injection.
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Aldrin's notes sell for nearly $180,000
Sep 21 2007 7:38PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Buzz Aldrin's handwritten card with a Bible verse that the Apollo 11 astronaut planned to broadcast from the moon fetched nearly $180,000 at an auction of space memorabilia.
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Aldrin's notes sell for nearly $180,000
Sep 21 2007 7:38PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Buzz Aldrin's handwritten card with a Bible verse that the Apollo 11 astronaut planned to broadcast from the moon fetched nearly $180,000 at an auction of space memorabilia.
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Spector jury deliberates again
Sep 21 2007 7:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Phil Spector murder trial jury spent more than four hours in deliberations Friday with new instructions issued by the judge to try to break their 7-5 deadlock. But the panel did not reach a verdict and went home for the weekend 45 minutes early.
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Judge rules in execution doctor case
Sep 21 2007 7:22PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The North Carolina Medical Board overstepped its authority by threatening to punish physicians for participating in executions, a judge ruled Friday, striking down a policy that effectively triggered a moratorium on the state's death penalty.
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Boy, 10, accused of setting fatal fire
Sep 21 2007 7:21PM (CT)
GREENVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A 10-year-old boy who lived in a home where his mother, sister and three other children died in a fire has confessed to setting the blaze, police said Friday.
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Pa. woman gets life in husband's death
Sep 21 2007 7:20PM (CT)
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A woman who hired her drug-dealing lover to kill her wealthy husband on the Ohio Turnpike two years ago was sentenced to life in prison Friday.
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McGreevey ordered to hike spouse support
Sep 21 2007 7:08PM (CT)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey was ordered Friday to more than double the amount of support he pays to his estranged wife.
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Utah sect leader's rape trial near end
Sep 21 2007 6:56PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Authorities who claim the leader of a polygamous sect committed rape by coercing a 14-year-old girl to marry her cousin are persecuting him because of his religion, a defense attorney said Friday before the case was given to the jury.
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Utah sect leader's rape trial near end
Sep 21 2007 6:56PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Authorities who claim the leader of a polygamous sect committed rape by coercing a 14-year-old girl to marry her cousin are persecuting him because of his religion, a defense attorney said Friday before the case was given to the jury.
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Utah sect leader's rape trial near end
Sep 21 2007 6:56PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Authorities who claim the leader of a polygamous sect committed rape by coercing a 14-year-old girl to marry her cousin are persecuting him because of his religion, a defense attorney said Friday before the case was given to the jury.
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6th Simpson co-defendant surrenders
Sep 21 2007 6:37PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The sixth and final man sought in the armed robbery case against O.J. Simpson has surrendered in court.
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Kan. 'tribe' accused of membership scam
Sep 21 2007 6:25PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A group that claims to be an American Indian tribe has been indicted for selling memberships to immigrants who were told they would become U.S. citizens, federal prosecutors said Friday.
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Tightrope walker looks to cross Falls
Sep 21 2007 6:15PM (CT)
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) - For more than 40 years, visitors to this tourist town have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his place as Niagara Falls' most famous funambulist.
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Admitted Mich.-Texas serial killer dies
Sep 21 2007 6:14PM (CT)
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) - A confessed serial killer who police said may have been responsible for dozens of deaths died Friday, a little more than a week after he received a second life sentence, authorities said.
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Group works to change Hemingway home image
Sep 21 2007 6:09PM (CT)
KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) - Ernest Hemingway's final home in this central Idaho mountain town _ with its astonishing array of the author's personal possessions _ is perhaps the most enigmatic, and certainly the least visited, of the houses the Nobel Prize winner once owned. As a result it's mostly remembered as the place where the writer killed himself in the main entryway with a shotgun in 1961.
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Anglican head downplays split over gays
Sep 21 2007 5:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The archbishop of Canterbury indicated Friday that the Episcopal Church isn't on the brink of losing its place in the world Anglican fellowship, despite the uproar over Episcopal support for gay clergy.
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Anglican head downplays split over gays
Sep 21 2007 5:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The archbishop of Canterbury indicated Friday that the Episcopal Church isn't on the brink of losing its place in the world Anglican fellowship, despite the uproar over Episcopal support for gay clergy.
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Anglican head downplays split over gays
Sep 21 2007 5:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The archbishop of Canterbury indicated Friday that the Episcopal Church isn't on the brink of losing its place in the world Anglican fellowship, despite the uproar over Episcopal support for gay clergy.
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Protests over Rumsfeld at Stanford
Sep 21 2007 5:53PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of Stanford University students, faculty and alumni are protesting the conservative Hoover Institution's decision to appoint former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow.
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Holocaust survivor's neighbor was Nazi
Sep 21 2007 5:47PM (CT)
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Nathan Gasch and Martin Hartmann lived next door to each other for four years in a quiet retirement community called Leisure World.
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Sept 11 claims moved to federal court
Sep 21 2007 4:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 300 workers who want to sue the city for illnesses or injuries suffered at ground zero will have their claims heard in federal court, a state appeals panel has ruled.
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Plane crashes into interstate in Florida
Sep 21 2007 4:46PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A small plane with only the pilot on board crashed Friday afternoon onto Interstate 95 shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, authorities said. The pilot suffered serious injuries, but no one was hurt on the ground.
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New safety rules for WTC building
Sep 21 2007 4:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of an abandoned ground zero skyscraper where two firefighters died said Friday it will fix hazardous stairwells, clear out combustible debris and make several other safety changes.
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Small plane crashes into NC restaurant
Sep 21 2007 4:17PM (CT)
CLAYTON, N.C. (AP) - A small plane plowed into the front entrance of a barbecue restaurant Friday, killing one person, believed to be the pilot.
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Doctors to separate conjoined twins
Sep 21 2007 4:14PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital said they would attempt to separate 2-year-old twin girls who are conjoined at the chest and abdomen. Surgery on Yurelia and Fiorella Rocha-Arias of San Jose, Costa Rica, is expected to take place in late November, after their skin has been stretched to cover the large gap where they have been connected.
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Doctors to separate conjoined twins
Sep 21 2007 4:14PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital said they would attempt to separate 2-year-old twin girls who are conjoined at the chest and abdomen. Surgery on Yurelia and Fiorella Rocha-Arias of San Jose, Costa Rica, is expected to take place in late November, after their skin has been stretched to cover the large gap where they have been connected.
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Ill. congressman won't run for 8th term
Sep 21 2007 4:06PM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller, recently named one of the most corrupt members of Congress by a watchdog group, announced Friday that he will not seek an eighth term.
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Iran president will get royal treatment
Sep 21 2007 4:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk, Fidel Castro delivered torturously long rants, Yasser Arafat showed up wearing a holster and Hugo Chavez called President Bush the "devil."
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Muslim fundraiser awaits Texas verdict
Sep 21 2007 2:44PM (CT)
BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - To his family, Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan is a passionate champion for the poor who lost two years of his life to an overzealous government.
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Alaska ends plan for 'bridge to nowhere'
Sep 21 2007 2:32PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Sarah Palin ordered state transportation officials Friday to abandoned the "bridge to nowhere" project that became a nationwide symbol of federal pork-barrel spending.
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Blogger 'exposes' annoying quote abuse
Sep 21 2007 2:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Isn't it "funny" how something can "really annoy" you for ages and then you discover via "the Internet" that the same thing "really annoys" thousands of "other people," too?
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Porn actor pleads not guilty to rape
Sep 21 2007 1:53PM (CT)
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - An Iraq war veteran featured in dozens of hard-core sex films been charged with raping a woman as she slept at a Washington State University sorority house.
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Ohio investment convictions hit 19
Sep 21 2007 1:37PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The former investment chief for Ohio's insurance fund for injured workers pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he failed to report gifts including meals and a sports ticket from a firm doing business with the agency.
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Ex-FEMA leader says feds may overreact
Sep 21 2007 1:08PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The former federal disaster chief widely denounced for his agency's reaction to Hurricane Katrina says the Bush administration would overreact and complicate things if another, similar calamity struck.
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Storm warnings issued along Gulf Coast
Sep 21 2007 1:05PM (CT)
EUSTIS, Fla. (AP) - Severe weather, including a tornado, damaged about 50 homes in central Florida, before the system became a tropical depression Friday and had parts of the Gulf Coast under tropical storm warnings.
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6 hurt as LA commuter train, car collide
Sep 21 2007 12:18PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A sport utility vehicle broadsided an MTA commuter train during the Friday morning rush hour, causing a fire and injuring six people in the second Gold Line crash in two weeks, authorities said.
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Prosecutor's arrest worries Florida town
Sep 21 2007 12:18PM (CT)
GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) - John D.R. Atchison _ federal prosecutor, married father of three _ was a respected figure who coached girls' softball and basketball in a park a few blocks from his home in this well-to-do beach community.
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Vegas priest pleads guilty to battery
Sep 21 2007 11:37AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest who smashed a wine bottle over the head of a woman in church pleaded guilty to felony battery with a deadly weapon.
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Family claims snake head found in beans
Sep 21 2007 11:32AM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa family filed a lawsuit seeking damages over a snake head they claim to have found in a can of green beans.
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Mortician lunges at niece's killer
Sep 21 2007 10:10AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A mortician who had to prepare his niece's body for burial lunged at her husband and had to be restrained by deputies as the man was being sentenced in his wife's stabbing.
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4 charged after S.C. prank victim dies
Sep 21 2007 10:07AM (CT)
GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) - Four people were charged with assault after authorities said they wrote sexually explicit statements on a 20-year-old man who passed out at a party and was later killed in a drunken driving crash.
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NY suit seeks to stop immigration raids
Sep 21 2007 8:35AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Immigration authorities violated Hispanic families' civil rights by raiding their homes without court warrants, sometimes bursting in before dawn to look for people who didn't live there, according to a federal lawsuit.
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Superferry opponents boo Hawaii governor
Sep 21 2007 8:34AM (CT)
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Opponents of the first passenger-vehicle ferry between major Hawaiian Islands greeted Gov. Linda Lingle with boos and interruptions as she tried to sell the project to residents of Kauai.
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UC Irvine chief apologizes to faculty
Sep 21 2007 2:58AM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - The embattled chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, avoided a public rebuke from faculty members, apologizing for withdrawing an offer to make a liberal legal scholar the dean of the university's new law school.
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UC Irvine chief apologizes to faculty
Sep 21 2007 2:58AM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - The embattled chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, avoided a public rebuke from faculty members, apologizing for withdrawing an offer to make a liberal legal scholar the dean of the university's new law school.
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State trooper praised at Amish shooting
Sep 21 2007 2:48AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The first state trooper to breach the Amish school where 10 girls were shot last year got inside by ripping out part of a window frame with his bare hands, helping save the lives of five of them, the state police chief said.
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Yellowstone snowmobiles may be reduced
Sep 21 2007 2:43AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Yellowstone National Park officials want to reduce the number of snowmobiles allowed each day in the park as part of its winter management plan, said a congressional aide briefed on the plan.
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Gulf coast dwellers eye developing storm
Sep 21 2007 1:31AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Gulf Coast residents kept a watchful eye and the oil industry began making preparations Thursday as forecasters warned that a weather system swirling over waters west of Florida could make landfall as a tropical storm over the weekend.
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