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N.D. gov. to seek unprecedented 3rd term
Sep 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Gov. John Hoeven, who won re-election with more than 70 percent of the vote in 2004, wants to become the first governor in North Dakota history to be elected to a third term.
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Topps Meat Co. recalls hamburgers
Sep 25 2007 11:41PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A meat company is voluntarily recalling some of its hamburgers after a cluster of illnesses in the Northeast caused by E. coli bacteria, officials said Tuesday.
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Suicidal gunman reported at U. Wisconsin
Sep 25 2007 11:27PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Police searched areas of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday evening for a suicidal man they said was trying to provoke a shootout with authorities.
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Worker crushed at Port of Oakland
Sep 25 2007 11:26PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Workers at the nation's fourth-largest port stayed off the job Tuesday, bringing the loading and unloading of ships to a halt, after a longshoreman was crushed to death by a shipping container, officials said.
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Nike designs shoe for American Indians
Sep 25 2007 11:15PM (CT)
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) - Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.
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Nike designs shoe for American Indians
Sep 25 2007 11:15PM (CT)
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) - Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.
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Nike designs shoe for American Indians
Sep 25 2007 11:15PM (CT)
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) - Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.
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Review doesn't halt Texas executions
Sep 25 2007 11:14PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said it would review whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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Polygamist leader convicted in Utah
Sep 25 2007 11:12PM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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2 rescued boaters charged, crew missing
Sep 25 2007 11:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Two men who had been plucked from a life raft near Cuba were charged Tuesday after the boat they had rented was found adrift in the Bahamas, its four crew members missing.
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Man guilty in killings he can't remember
Sep 25 2007 10:32PM (CT)
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Nearly four years after two real estate agents were stripped, robbed and shot in their suburban Atlanta office, a jury convicted a man Tuesday who told police he likely murdered the women but couldn't remember if he did.
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W.Va. orders mines to reinforce seals
Sep 25 2007 10:19PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Underground coal mine operators must strengthen or replace dense foam blocks that seal off abandoned areas under new state regulations approved Tuesday in response to a deadly explosion that killed 12 miners last year.
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Leaders pledge restraint on gay bishops
Sep 25 2007 10:07PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Episcopal leaders, pressured to roll back their support for gays to keep the world Anglican family from crumbling, affirmed Tuesday that they will "exercise restraint" in approving another gay bishop and will not authorize prayers to bless same-sex couples.
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Leaders pledge restraint on gay bishops
Sep 25 2007 10:07PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Episcopal leaders, pressured to roll back their support for gays to keep the world Anglican family from crumbling, affirmed Tuesday that they will "exercise restraint" in approving another gay bishop and will not authorize prayers to bless same-sex couples.
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Little Rock Nine mark 50th anniversary
Sep 25 2007 10:06PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The Little Rock Nine, who as students were escorted by federal soldiers into the all-white Central High School because they were black, marveled at the celebrity-like fanfare they received on the 50th anniversary of the event Tuesday. But they cautioned that racial divides still exist.
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Little Rock Nine mark 50th anniversary
Sep 25 2007 10:06PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The Little Rock Nine, who as students were escorted by federal soldiers into the all-white Central High School because they were black, marveled at the celebrity-like fanfare they received on the 50th anniversary of the event Tuesday. But they cautioned that racial divides still exist.
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Little Rock Nine mark 50th anniversary
Sep 25 2007 10:06PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The Little Rock Nine, who as students were escorted by federal soldiers into the all-white Central High School because they were black, marveled at the celebrity-like fanfare they received on the 50th anniversary of the event Tuesday. But they cautioned that racial divides still exist.
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Tropical Storm Karen forms in Atlantic
Sep 25 2007 9:56PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Karen early Tuesday in the open Atlantic Ocean, where it posed no immediate threat to land, and a new tropical depression formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
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Tagger attacks famed Crystal Cathedral
Sep 25 2007 9:44PM (CT)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - A graffiti tagger struck the landmark Crystal Cathedral shortly after the church held a community festival, doing tens of thousands of dollars in damage, a church spokesman said Tuesday.
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Planes grounded over equipment failure
Sep 25 2007 9:36PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Communications equipment failed Tuesday at a regional air-traffic control center, shutting down all airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and causing a ripple effect across the country that grounded dozens of passenger and cargo flights.
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Planes grounded over equipment failure
Sep 25 2007 9:36PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Communications equipment failed Tuesday at a regional air-traffic control center, shutting down all airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and causing a ripple effect across the country that grounded dozens of passenger and cargo flights.
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New leads in search for Fossett
Sep 25 2007 9:35PM (CT)
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Relying on new leads from Air Force experts, crews looking for famed aviator Steve Fossett plan to comb a rugged area near Death Valley by air and foot, authorities said Tuesday.
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Anti-Bush protesters arrested near UN
Sep 25 2007 9:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush's speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
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Anti-Bush protesters arrested near UN
Sep 25 2007 9:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush's speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
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Anti-Bush protesters arrested near UN
Sep 25 2007 9:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush's speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
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Journalists honor slain Calif. editor
Sep 25 2007 9:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The slain editor of a newspaper that served the Bay Area's black community was named Journalist of the Year by a chapter of a national journalism organization.
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Former Alaska lawmaker guilty of bribery
Sep 25 2007 9:13PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A former state legislator was convicted Tuesday of trading his legislative influence for bribes from a company that was seeking to profit from a proposed natural gas pipeline.
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Former Alaska lawmaker guilty of bribery
Sep 25 2007 9:13PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A former state legislator was convicted Tuesday of trading his legislative influence for bribes from a company that was seeking to profit from a proposed natural gas pipeline.
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Atheist soldier revises lawsuit
Sep 25 2007 8:54PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Attorneys for a soldier who claims he has been harassed for being an atheist amended his lawsuit Tuesday after the military said it couldn't find the officer initially listed as a defendant.
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Rep. seeks probe in Coast Guard nooses
Sep 25 2007 7:46PM (CT)
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - Nooses were left in a black Coast Guard cadet's bag and in the office of a white officer who conducted race relations training after the incident, leading a congressman to call Tuesday for a thorough military investigation.
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Copy of Magna Carta to be sold
Sep 25 2007 7:31PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A 13th-century copy of the Magna Carta, a milestone of English freedom, will be offered for sale in New York in December, Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday.
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Suit tossed vs. judge who banned words
Sep 25 2007 7:15PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against a state judge who barred anyone from saying "rape" or "victim" during a criminal trial, ruling Tuesday that the accuser failed to prove that he should intervene.
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Tagger damages Rev. Schuller's cathedral
Sep 25 2007 7:08PM (CT)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - An unidentified tagger did tens of thousands of dollars of damage to the landmark Crystal Cathedral and its buildings, a church spokesman said Tuesday.
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Minor quake shakes Southern California
Sep 25 2007 6:35PM (CT)
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) - A minor earthquake shook part of Southern California on Tuesday, with no injuries or damage reported.
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Hurricane recovery program short on cash
Sep 25 2007 5:48PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A state program to help homeowners with hurricane damage will run out of money by year's end unless Congress steps in to fill the gap, an official said Tuesday.
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RI school to pay in free speech dispute
Sep 25 2007 4:35PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A public college will pay $5,000 to a women's group that filed suit claiming its free speech rights were violated when campus police removed signs that read "Keep your rosaries off our ovaries."
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Brother of former NO mayor pleads guilty
Sep 25 2007 4:33PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The brother of a former New Orleans mayor pleaded guilty Tuesday to three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal tax returns.
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Lincoln penny to get a birthday redesign
Sep 25 2007 4:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A penny for your thoughts will have extra meaning in 2009 _ the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln penny.
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SF mayor suspends embattled supervisor
Sep 25 2007 4:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday temporarily ousted a San Francisco city supervisor accused of shaking down small business owners having permit problems.
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Lawsuit: Scholar kept from US over views
Sep 25 2007 4:03PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Bush meets with Iraqi prime minister
Sep 25 2007 3:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iraq is shouldering its responsibilities in pushing ahead with national reconciliation, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday after a meeting with President Bush, who pledged his continued support for the struggling government.
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Poll: Americans more negative on Islam
Sep 25 2007 1:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Negative opinions about Islam are on the rise, Mormons are viewed as Christian but different and Pope Benedict XVI trails his predecessor in popularity, a poll of Americans released Tuesday said.
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Cruel and unusual? High Court to decide
Sep 25 2007 1:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country.
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Katrina-related Houston homicides drop
Sep 25 2007 1:42PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Hurricane Katrina evacuees have been victims or suspects in less than half as many Houston homicides as they were at this point last year, a drop that officials say corresponds to fewer evacuees living in local housing.
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Ky. inmate challenges execution method
Sep 25 2007 1:41PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Ralph Baze admits he shot a sheriff and a deputy 15 years ago in eastern Kentucky. But he doesn't want his death sentence carried out with the three-drug formula commonly used in lethal injections across the nation.
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Paroled NY sex offender arrested in NC
Sep 25 2007 1:39PM (CT)
YAPHANK, N.Y. (AP) - A paroled sex offender linked to the notorious case of a girl who was kidnapped and hidden in a dungeon more than a decade ago has been arrested in North Carolina after vanishing from New York, police said.
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Parents seek limits on inflight movies
Sep 25 2007 1:34PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Prompted by parents' complaints about sex and violence in inflight movies, two congressmen introduced legislation Tuesday calling for airlines to create kid-friendly zones on planes.
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Macon mayor divides his city
Sep 25 2007 1:33PM (CT)
MACON, Ga. (AP) - Jack Ellis was elected Macon's first black mayor amid high hopes he would bring the city together. Instead he has divided it with one move after another _ trips to Africa at taxpayer expense, his conversion to Islam, his reaching out to Venezuela's anti-American president.
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Inside the red tape of Hurricane Katrina
Sep 25 2007 1:29PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nearly 2,000 pages spell out in excruciating detail something that is plain to Virgil Tiller but not the Federal Emergency Management Agency: His school was destroyed and needs to be rebuilt.
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Feds used ruse in terror case
Sep 25 2007 1:27PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Investigators used a ruse to question a man later charged with aiding terrorists, an FBI agent testified Tuesday at a hearing over admissibility of the conversation and a search of the defendant's luggage.
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Burning trash truck closes I-95 in Pa.
Sep 25 2007 1:15PM (CT)
RIDLEY PARK, Pa. (AP) - Busy Interstate 95 and rail lines used by Amtrak and commuter trains were shut down Tuesday because a loaded trash truck crashed and caught fire, spilling burning debris from a bridge.
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France calls for 'firmness' toward Iran
Sep 25 2007 1:04PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The French president said Tuesday the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program will only be resolved with a combination of "firmness and dialogue," while Germany's leader threatened tougher sanctions if the country refuses to cooperate.
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France calls for 'firmness' toward Iran
Sep 25 2007 1:04PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The French president said Tuesday the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program will only be resolved with a combination of "firmness and dialogue," while Germany's leader threatened tougher sanctions if the country refuses to cooperate.
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France calls for 'firmness' toward Iran
Sep 25 2007 1:04PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The French president said Tuesday the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program will only be resolved with a combination of "firmness and dialogue," while Germany's leader threatened tougher sanctions if the country refuses to cooperate.
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Voter IDs on Supreme Court agenda
Sep 25 2007 1:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter the poor and minorities from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections.
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Cubans walk out during Bush U.N. speech
Sep 25 2007 1:00PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Cuba's foreign minister walked out of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in protest of President Bush's speech in which he said the "long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end" on the communist island.
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Amazon spins up digital music store
Sep 25 2007 10:23AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with more than 2 million songs, all without copy-protection technology.
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Calif. gov opposes investments in Iran
Sep 25 2007 9:51AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will sign legislation to end state investment in companies that do business with Iran.
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Judge OKs suit over child assaults
Sep 25 2007 9:24AM (CT)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge says a lawsuit can proceed on allegations that negligence by school officials led to the sexual assaults on four boys at an elementary school.
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U.S. sues Ill. over immigration law
Sep 25 2007 8:07AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Bush administration is suing Illinois over a new state law it says complicates federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
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Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
Sep 25 2007 7:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is addressing the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday after defending Holocaust revisionists and raising questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown at Columbia University.
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Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
Sep 25 2007 7:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is addressing the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday after defending Holocaust revisionists and raising questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown at Columbia University.
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Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
Sep 25 2007 7:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is addressing the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday after defending Holocaust revisionists and raising questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown at Columbia University.
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Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
Sep 25 2007 7:04AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is addressing the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday after defending Holocaust revisionists and raising questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown at Columbia University.
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Iraq leader: U.S., Iraq share same goal
Sep 25 2007 6:51AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Iraq is the "tip of the bayonet" in the fight against terror, the country's prime minister said ahead of a meeting with President Bush, stressing that the same group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks was behind the destruction of the minarets of a revered Iraqi Shiite shrine.
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Feds announce largest steroid crackdown
Sep 25 2007 6:26AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Federal authorities announced the largest crackdown on illegal steroids in the nation's history, arresting more than 120 people and raiding dozens of labs that manufactured growth hormone for sale on the black market.
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Feds announce largest steroid crackdown
Sep 25 2007 6:26AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Federal authorities announced the largest crackdown on illegal steroids in the nation's history, arresting more than 120 people and raiding dozens of labs that manufactured growth hormone for sale on the black market.
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Pamela Bach booked for LA fender bender
Sep 25 2007 5:28AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Hasselhoff's ex-wife, Pamela Bach, turned herself in for booking on a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge stemming from a fender-bender in North Hollywood.
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Nursing home, relatives settle Rita suit
Sep 25 2007 5:20AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The families of all 23 nursing home patients who died in a bus explosion as they fled Hurricane Rita have settled their lawsuits against the nursing home that evacuated them, lawyers said.
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Guard killed in Texas prison escape
Sep 25 2007 4:34AM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Two inmates classified as minimum security prisoners bolted from a work detail after wresting weapons from a pair of guards, trading gunfire with officers, stealing a truck and running down a guard who was on horseback, killing her.
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Ahmadinejad seeks to soothe critics
Sep 25 2007 1:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.
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Ahmadinejad seeks to soothe critics
Sep 25 2007 1:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.
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Ahmadinejad seeks to soothe critics
Sep 25 2007 1:55AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.
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Navy copter crashes in Guam; 1 killed
Sep 25 2007 1:25AM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed late Monday during a training mission on Guam, killing one of four people on board, the Navy said.
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