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Shooting suspect expelled from college
Sep 29 2007 11:57PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware State University student accused of shooting two others has been expelled, university officials said.
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Woman dies after airport arrest
Sep 29 2007 11:54PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A woman late to her plane became irate, was put in handcuffs and was later found dead in a holding cell, police said. Authorities were investigating Saturday if the woman choked herself while trying to get free from the handcuffs.
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Wounded vets also suffer financial woes
Sep 29 2007 11:48PM (CT)
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - He was one of America's first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
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Wounded vets also suffer financial woes
Sep 29 2007 11:48PM (CT)
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - He was one of America's first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
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Wounded vets also suffer financial woes
Sep 29 2007 11:48PM (CT)
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - He was one of America's first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
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Wounded vets also suffer financial woes
Sep 29 2007 11:48PM (CT)
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - He was one of America's first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
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Bill Clinton hosts celebs for NYC talk
Sep 29 2007 11:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - After getting hundreds of pledges to tackle the world's problems at his philanthropic summit this past week, former President Bill Clinton did what any good host would: He threw a party.
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Jenna Bush begins national book tour
Sep 29 2007 9:58PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Jenna Bush looked poised as she stepped to the podium, but she couldn't quite hide the butterflies as she stood before an eager bookstore crowd Saturday to introduce her new book, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope."
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Jenna Bush begins national book tour
Sep 29 2007 9:58PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Jenna Bush looked poised as she stepped to the podium, but she couldn't quite hide the butterflies as she stood before an eager bookstore crowd Saturday to introduce her new book, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope."
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Ground search on for missing adventurer
Sep 29 2007 9:57PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Dozens of searchers set off into the rugged Nevada backcountry Saturday after analysts scanning radar and satellite images spotted what may be clues to the whereabouts of missing adventurer Steve Fossett.
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Duke apologizes to lacrosse players
Sep 29 2007 9:54PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Duke University President Richard Brodhead apologized Saturday for not better supporting the men's lacrosse team and their families after three players were falsely accused in last year's highly publicized rape scandal.
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Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons
Sep 29 2007 8:19PM (CT)
HARDWICK, Ga. (AP) - Razor wire topping the fences seems almost a joke at the Men's State Prison, where many inmates are slumped in wheelchairs, or leaning on walkers or canes.
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Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons
Sep 29 2007 8:19PM (CT)
HARDWICK, Ga. (AP) - Razor wire topping the fences seems almost a joke at the Men's State Prison, where many inmates are slumped in wheelchairs, or leaning on walkers or canes.
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Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons
Sep 29 2007 8:19PM (CT)
HARDWICK, Ga. (AP) - Razor wire topping the fences seems almost a joke at the Men's State Prison, where many inmates are slumped in wheelchairs, or leaning on walkers or canes.
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Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons
Sep 29 2007 8:19PM (CT)
HARDWICK, Ga. (AP) - Razor wire topping the fences seems almost a joke at the Men's State Prison, where many inmates are slumped in wheelchairs, or leaning on walkers or canes.
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Simpson judge and lawyers to meet
Sep 29 2007 6:34PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Prosecutors and defense attorneys representing O.J. Simpson and his co-defendants are scheduled to meet privately on Monday with a justice of the peace to schedule a preliminary hearing for the six men.
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Idaho woman charged in 1980s slaying
Sep 29 2007 6:03PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Police arrested a 61-year-old woman and charged her with a killing they say took place nearly three decades ago but went undiscovered until now.
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Civil War-era letters auctioned in S.C.
Sep 29 2007 4:25PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - For months, 11 folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox' sports utility vehicle. Then he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
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Civil War-era letters auctioned in S.C.
Sep 29 2007 4:25PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - For months, 11 folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox' sports utility vehicle. Then he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
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Civil War-era letters auctioned in S.C.
Sep 29 2007 4:25PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - For months, 11 folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox' sports utility vehicle. Then he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
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Ground beef recall expanded across U.S.
Sep 29 2007 4:00PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The Topps Meat Co. on Saturday expanded its recall of frozen hamburger patties to include 21.7 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria that sickened more than a dozen people in eight states.
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Sex tape case focus back to Las Vegas
Sep 29 2007 3:43PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The search for the suspect in the videotaped sexual assault of a little girl was shifted Saturday from a rural county to Las Vegas, where the man was last known to live and where it's believed the chilling tape was made.
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Man arrested in purse-stealing tot case
Sep 29 2007 3:35PM (CT)
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) - A man who authorities say was seen on a surveillance video using his 4-year-old granddaughter to steal a purse from a boardwalk arcade worker was arrested Saturday in Connecticut, police said.
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Mich. lawmakers try to avoid shutdown
Sep 29 2007 3:26PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Lawmakers were trying Saturday to strike deals on tax increases and measures aimed at lowering health insurance costs for some public employees in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown.
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Pioneer baby boom community turns 60
Sep 29 2007 3:19PM (CT)
LEVITTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - In 1951, 7-year-old Louise Cassano couldn't imagine a better life than the one here, where she rode her bicycle past rows of cookie-cutter houses, kids held backyard campouts in makeshift tents and nobody locked their front doors.
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Delayed search for woman to be reviewed
Sep 29 2007 3:10PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A sheriff has ordered a review of the 911 calls made about a woman who spent more than a week missing before search crews found her trapped in the wreckage of her sport-utility vehicle.
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Delayed search for woman to be reviewed
Sep 29 2007 3:10PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A sheriff has ordered a review of the 911 calls made about a woman who spent more than a week missing before search crews found her trapped in the wreckage of her sport-utility vehicle.
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Airliner returns with cracked windshield
Sep 29 2007 2:47PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A bird cracked the windshield of an airliner, slightly injuring the co-pilot and forcing the plane to return to Philadelphia shortly after takeoff on Saturday, an aviation official said.
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Marines probed in alleged captive deaths
Sep 29 2007 1:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nearly three years after the battle of Fallujah earned Marines more Navy Cross medals for heroism than any other action in Iraq, prosecutors are investigating whether members of one squad killed a group of captured insurgents there.
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Man in Cruise extortion plot found dead
Sep 29 2007 10:43AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A man who agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise for the actor's stolen wedding photos was found dead in his home, authorities said.
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Tropical storm forms in open Atlantic
Sep 29 2007 6:39AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Melissa formed in the far eastern Atlantic early Saturday, becoming the 13th named storm of the hurricane season, but posed no immediate threat to land, forecasters said.
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Suspect in missing teen case extradited
Sep 29 2007 6:04AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A convicted sex offender suspected in the disappearance of a San Diego State University student was extradited from Florida to Los Angeles, where bail agents revoked his bond.
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Perry's rental home raising eyebrows
Sep 29 2007 2:48AM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The home sits on 3.25 acres and has pecan hardwood floors, a gourmet kitchen with granite and marble countertops, and an outdoor kitchen near the heated pool. It includes a subzero refrigerator, a balcony and an attic converted to a game room. It also has guesthouse.
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Body ID'd as missing Chicago woman's
Sep 29 2007 2:39AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A badly decomposed body found behind several vacant businesses in Calumet City this week is that of a Chicago woman reported missing nine days ago, authorities said Friday.
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Stranger posted bond for one of 'Jena 6'
Sep 29 2007 2:35AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - When a 17-year-old at the center of a civil rights controversy in a small Louisiana town left jail, he had a stranger to thank.
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Car slams into Wash. store; 1 injured
Sep 29 2007 12:58AM (CT)
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) - A driver rushing to beat someone else to a parking spot slammed into a department store Friday night, injuring a 14-year-old girl inside the building, police said.
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Shots fired at school; gunman caught
Sep 29 2007 12:10AM (CT)
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A student gunman held a high school drama class hostage Friday, firing shots and holding three of the students for more than an hour before police persuaded him to surrender, authorities said. No one was hurt.
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Shots fired at school; gunman caught
Sep 29 2007 12:10AM (CT)
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A student gunman held a high school drama class hostage Friday, firing shots and holding three of the students for more than an hour before police persuaded him to surrender, authorities said. No one was hurt.
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