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Former conjoined twin begins walking
Sep 25 2005 11:58PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Clarence Aguirre, one of the conjoined Filipino twins who survived a long series of delicate surgeries to separate him from his brother has begun walking.
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Memorial honors late Sen. Paul Wellstone
Sep 25 2005 11:41PM (CT)
EVELETH, Minn. (AP) - Admirers of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone paused Sunday to dedicate a six-acre memorial here, just 2,000 feet from the site where Wellstone's plane crashed in 2002 near the end of his campaign for a third term.
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Gulf Coast emerges from battering by Rita
Sep 25 2005 11:32PM (CT)
PERRY, La. (AP) - For the storm-shattered Gulf Coast, the images were all too familiar: Tiny fishing villages in splinters. Refrigerators and coffins bobbing in floodwaters. Helicopters and rescue boats making house-to-house searches of residents stranded on the rooftops.
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Georgia governor calls for school holiday
Sep 25 2005 10:54PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The governor's request that Georgia public schools take two "snow days" and close to conserve fuel did not sit well with parents who had to scramble to find baby sitters and day care for their children.
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Philly cardinal acknowledges pain of abuse
Sep 25 2005 9:51PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Cardinal Justin Rigali acknowledged the "pain and suffering" of those who had been abused by priests, but also lashed out at a grand jury report that he said unjustly criticized his predecessors and other members of the diocese.
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Hurricane exposes evacuation problems
Sep 25 2005 9:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 14-hour lines of traffic fleeing Houston _ complete with cars that ran out of gas _ show that four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, it is difficult to evacuate a major metropolitan area.
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Mayor aims to reopen parts of New Orleans
Sep 25 2005 8:45PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The mammoth tasks of restoring power to much of New Orleans and removing heaps of debris, interrupted when Hurricane Rita rammed the Gulf Coast, resumed Sunday as the mayor pushed his plan to reopen parts of the city this week.
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Houston comes back to life after hurricane
Sep 25 2005 7:46PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Airlines resumed service and cars flowed easily over freeways as Houston flickered back to life Sunday, avoiding at least for now a repeat of the gridlock that plagued the evacuation before Hurricane Rita.
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Hurricane Jeanne recalled year later
Sep 25 2005 7:44PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Florida residents struck by last year's hurricanes were still rebuilding their lives Sunday as the first anniversary of Hurricane Jeanne passed.
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Elderly sisters survive hurricanes, fire
Sep 25 2005 7:30PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Edna Briant remembers lying on concrete, praying that her back wasn't broken, screaming for someone to rescue her 84-year-old sister from the burning bus that carried them and dozens of other nursing home patients away from the predicted path of Hurricane Rita.
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Rita landfall spot reduces loss of life
Sep 25 2005 6:08PM (CT)
SABINE PASS, Texas (AP) - As Texans watched Hurricane Rita _ at one point a terrifying Category 5 storm _ spinning in the Gulf, they didn't see a best-case scenario. The storm was on track to slam Galveston and drench flood-prone Houston.
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Military launches hurricane rescue effort
Sep 25 2005 5:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Navy and Air Force teams battled high winds and heavy rain to rescue people from Hurricane Rita's aftermath, and now lawmakers must decide how to give the Pentagon a bigger role in natural disasters without trampling on state's rights.
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U.S. crime rate holds at 30-year low
Sep 25 2005 5:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's crime rate was unchanged last year, holding at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.
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Hundreds rally in D.C. for U.S. troops
Sep 25 2005 4:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after tens of thousands protested against the war in Iraq.
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Worshippers gather in Texas after Rita
Sep 25 2005 2:49PM (CT)
TYLER, Texas (AP) - Reaching into a white plastic bag Sunday, pastor Michael W. Massar pulled out a broken tree limb _ a symbol of Hurricane Rita.
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Richardson: Wen Ho Lee was 'mistreated'
Sep 25 2005 1:40PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who was held in solitary confinement for nine months was "badly treated," Gov. Bill Richardson acknowledges in his new autobiography.
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Programs seen as boost to storm response
Sep 25 2005 12:49PM (CT)
WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) - He helped set up an airport shelter after Sept. 11 and coordinated the response to a crippling ice storm. He's been a volunteer firefighter, worked as an EMT and did first aid in the mountains of New Mexico. And Brad Hubbard has academic credentials, too, about to complete a four-year program in crisis and disaster management.
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Big Easy to be childless city for months
Sep 25 2005 12:35PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Even after the latest hurricane crisis eases, and downtown businesses along with French Quarter topless bars reopen, life in New Orleans will be far from normal. Among the somber distinctions: For months to come this will be an almost childless city.
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Oklahoma girl, alleged abductor found dead
Sep 25 2005 9:54AM (CT)
ADA, Okla. (AP) - A teenager who was abducted as she left school last week was found shot to death Saturday along with a man her mother had once dated. Authorities said it appeared to be a murder-suicide.
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Probe begins into deadly Texas bus blast
Sep 25 2005 8:16AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Federal investigators sought clues Saturday in the burned-out remnants of a bus that exploded in a traffic jam and killed 24 elderly evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita.
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Minor earthquake shakes northern Maine
Sep 25 2005 7:22AM (CT)
AYERS JUNCTION, Maine (AP) - A minor earthquake shook a small region in northern Maine, officials said. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
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Corporal punishment disputes up in N.Y.
Sep 25 2005 6:30AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Formal complaints of corporal punishment in New York classrooms more than doubled over the past five years, with 4,223 accusations reported in 2004, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
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Anti-war demonstrators march on Washington
Sep 25 2005 2:35AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting "Peace now" in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion.
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Fla. college police officer fatally shot
Sep 25 2005 2:02AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A university police officer working with the state to curb underage drinking was shot to death by an Orlando police officer outside the Citrus Bowl Saturday as fans were arriving for a football game, authorities said.
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Judge grants delay in Md. sniper trial
Sep 25 2005 1:22AM (CT)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A judge has granted a delay for the trial of John Allen Muhammad in the six Maryland deaths linked to the 2002 Washington-area sniper spree.
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Rita's victims wealthier than Katrina's
Sep 25 2005 1:21AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Rita smashed into a region that is wealthier, more mobile and much less densely populated than the one devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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