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Firefighters beat back wildfire near L.A.
Sep 30 2005 11:25PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hundreds of people were allowed to return home Friday as firefighters gained ground against a 20,000-acre wildfire that cast such a smoky haze over the city that drivers turned on their headlights in the middle of the day.
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More details emerge in N.Y. mosque sting
Sep 30 2005 11:14PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Two Muslim men caught up in an anti-terrorism sting operation pleaded innocent Friday as details emerged about 10 new charges against them.
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Season's 19th tropical depression forms
Sep 30 2005 10:50PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The season's 19th tropical depression formed over the far eastern Atlantic Ocean on Friday but posed no immediate threat to land.
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Ex-Ill. gov. says he won't run again
Sep 30 2005 10:23PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Jim Edgar, the popular two-term Illinois governor who had become the GOP's perennial dream candidate since leaving office in 1999, said Friday he will not seek elected office again.
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White House condemns Bennett's remarks
Sep 30 2005 10:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.
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N.J. to give $12.5M to boys found starving
Sep 30 2005 10:05PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey has agreed to give $12.5 million to four boys allegedly starved by their adoptive parents, state officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Dogs found shot to death in 2 La. schools
Sep 30 2005 10:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - More than a dozen dead dogs _ many of them shot to death _ were found in two schools in St. Bernard Parish, officials said Friday.
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New Orleans welcomes back more residents
Sep 30 2005 10:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The sounds of power saws and wood chippers filled parts of New Orleans on Friday as the French Quarter and other neighborhoods that were spared the worst of Hurricane Katrina were officially reopened to residents, a month after the storm hit.
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FDNY chaplain resigns after 9/11 remarks
Sep 30 2005 10:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The fire department's new Muslim chaplain abruptly resigned Friday after saying in a published interview that he believes something other than al-Qaida hijackers brought down the World Trade Center.
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Court halts $15B O'Hare expansion plan
Sep 30 2005 10:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A $15 billion expansion of O'Hare Airport designed to ease some of the nation's worst flight delays was halted by an appeals court Friday just hours after it received the go-ahead from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Man in custody in Chicago-area deaths
Sep 30 2005 9:29PM (CT)
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - A man arrested on an outstanding warrant was being questioned Friday in Wisconsin in the deaths of two men and two women whose bodies were found in an upscale suburban Chicago home.
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Ky. governor's ex-chief of staff charged
Sep 30 2005 8:46PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A special grand jury examining alleged political hiring by Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration on Friday indicted his former chief of staff and a representative of his local outreach office.
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Japan rethinking plan for Security Council
Sep 30 2005 7:31PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Japan has warned Congress that U.S. legislation seeking to withhold United Nations dues could lead Japanese lawmakers to take similar action, possibly resulting in the loss of millions of dollars to the world body, a Japanese diplomat said Friday.
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Ga. trailer park attacks kill five
Sep 30 2005 7:30PM (CT)
TIFTON, Ga. (AP) - Five men were killed and at least six other people were wounded in what appeared to be a string of robberies targeting Hispanic immigrants at trailer parks in and around the city early Friday, authorities said. Two suspects were being sought.
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Mardi Gras chiefs: Show will go on in 2006
Sep 30 2005 6:56PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Inside a sprawling riverside warehouse, the giant figures of Elvis, Yoda and Chuckie look ready to roll. But The Mummy, the Wicked Witch and Dracula will need some repair work.
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Officials: Problems in bus blast not known
Sep 30 2005 6:22PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Federal and state officials said Friday they had no way of knowing the severity of financial and mechanical problems at the company that operated a bus that caught fire last week near Dallas, killing 23 nursing home evacuees.
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50 children, adults hurt in NYC bus crash
Sep 30 2005 5:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A school bus overturned on a Bronx expressway Friday, injuring dozens of children and adults returning from a teacher's funeral, authorities said.
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Ranchers still waiting for disaster cash
Sep 30 2005 5:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Livestock producers around the country are still waiting for agricultural disaster payments Congress approved a year ago to help them deal with an ongoing drought.
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NOAA finds no oil yet in Gulf fish samples
Sep 30 2005 5:42PM (CT)
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The first samples of fish taken from the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Katrina showed no exposure to spilled oil, government scientists said Friday.
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Mo. judge gets 28 mos. for soliciting
Sep 30 2005 5:28PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A former municipal court judge who admitted funding a gambling habit with money she solicited from attorneys who practiced before her was sentenced Friday to 28 months in prison.
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Harvard endowment cracks $25 billion
Sep 30 2005 4:28PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University's riches have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news came amid signs that the world's wealthiest university is struggling to find a permanent CEO for its in-house money management company.
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Judge gives feds deadline for salmon plan
Sep 30 2005 4:27PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A federal judge Friday gave federal agencies one year to come up with a new plan to keep threatened and endangered salmon from getting killed by the government's hydroelectric dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers.
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Jesuit official rips expected ban on gays
Sep 30 2005 4:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A top Jesuit official is raising objections about an upcoming Vatican document that's expected to reinforce Roman Catholic teaching that gays are not welcome in the priesthood, while some U.S. leaders of men's religious orders are considering a trip to Rome to express their opposition.
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Hurricane victims' mail forwarded to them
Sep 30 2005 4:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Each penny increase in the price of gasoline costs the Postal Service $8 million, and that will drive mailing costs higher, the postmaster general said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Post-Katrina real estate rush hits Gulf
Sep 30 2005 3:29PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Rubble piles bear "For Sale" signs. Homes without roofs are being sold as-is. Placards announcing "We Buy Houses, Cash!," are posted on corners throughout middle-class neighborhoods.
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Hawaii creates state marine refuge
Sep 30 2005 3:09PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii has banned fishing around the tiny islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, home to endangered Hawaiian monk seals and sea turtles.
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Judge: Deaf, mute incompetent for trial
Sep 30 2005 2:09PM (CT)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - A deaf, mute, illiterate Salvadoran charged with capital murder in the slaying of a teenage girl was incompetent to stand trial because he has practically no communication skills, a judge ruled.
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ex-worker in rampage blamed bosses
Sep 30 2005 2:07PM (CT)
NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. (AP) - A fired worker who shot three factory managers, killing one, before committing suicide mailed a letter hours before the shooting that blamed his old bosses for his child pornography conviction, police said Friday.
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2 bodies found outside Yosemite
Sep 30 2005 2:02PM (CT)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - The bodies of two tourists were found in the wreckage of their rental car in a steep ravine outside the park, authorities said Friday.
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Couple in court for Tenn. guard shooting
Sep 30 2005 12:52PM (CT)
KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) - A prison guard testified Friday that he emptied his revolver and then grabbed his dying partner's gun to try to stop a "Bonnie and Clyde"-style escape by an inmate and his wife. The judge then ordered the couple's murder case to go forward.
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Court keeps stuttering study lawsuit alive
Sep 30 2005 12:41PM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday kept alive a lawsuit filed by orphans who claimed lifelong psychological suffering after unwittingly becoming subjects of a University of Iowa stuttering experiment in the 1930s.
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La. likely to lose $1B in tax revenue
Sep 30 2005 12:33PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana is expected to lose at least $1 billion in tax revenue this year because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and that is only the beginning of what could be a permanent hit to the state budget, economists told lawmakers Friday.
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Court: Neb. went too far on sentencing
Sep 30 2005 12:24PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - State lawmakers went too far during a 2002 special session when they changed the minimum penalty for first-degree murder to life in prison without parole, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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No hazard found after N.J. chlorine leak
Sep 30 2005 11:51AM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A release of chlorine gas inside a chemical plant Friday morning led authorities to close a busy highway during rush hour, but they later determined there had been no danger to the public.
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Boyfriend gets probation for beating
Sep 30 2005 11:32AM (CT)
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - A teenager accused of hitting his pregnant girlfriend in the belly with a baseball bat and causing her to miscarry has been placed on probation and ordered to perform community service at a pregnancy crisis center over his lawyer's objections.
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Ex-NIH worker guilty in anthrax case
Sep 30 2005 11:22AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A former analyst for the National Institutes of Health pleaded guilty to making an anthrax threat against a county agency during a tax dispute.
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Medical helicopter crashes in Puget Sound
Sep 30 2005 10:00AM (CT)
EDMONDS, Wash. (AP) - A medical helicopter returning to its base with a pilot and two nurses aboard crashed into Puget Sound, apparently killing all three people, authorities said.
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Manager dies days after plant shooting
Sep 30 2005 9:58AM (CT)
NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. (AP) - One of the three cosmetics plant managers shot this week by a former employee died Friday, police said.
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Army in worst recruiting slump in decades
Sep 30 2005 9:57AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army is closing the books on one of the leanest recruiting years since it became an all-volunteer service three decades ago, missing its enlistment target by the largest margin since 1979 and raising questions about its plans for growth.
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Abu Ghraib ruling may further tarnish U.S.
Sep 30 2005 8:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Photographs showing U.S. soldiers tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison tarnished America's reputation when they were released last year, with some critics of the U.S.-led occupation citing the scandal as vindication.
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Billy Goat Tavern to open in D.C.
Sep 30 2005 6:38AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Billy Goat Tavern, a local institution made famous by the "Cheezborger, Cheezborger" sketch on "Saturday Night Live," is setting up shop in the nation's capital.
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Conn. to offer civil unions on Oct. 1
Sep 30 2005 6:28AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut joins Vermont on Saturday as the only states offering same-sex civil unions, but the day may pass with only a few raised glasses of champagne as the first gay couples exchange vows.
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Police: Teen caught own killing on tape
Sep 30 2005 6:08AM (CT)
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - Seth Hammes was filming in the woods when his camcorder recorded the crack of gunshots, the 17-year-old's screams and the voice of the alleged shooter, promising help that never came.
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Texas man who survived Rita feels lucky
Sep 30 2005 3:18AM (CT)
SABINE PASS, Texas (AP) - When the eye of Hurricane Rita made landfall over this Gulf Coast community, 81-year-old Amos Dondee was here, riding out the storm in a back room of the Boot Scoot Bar.
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Texas death toll from Rita rises to 100
Sep 30 2005 2:09AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The death toll from Hurricane Rita's assault on Texas has risen to about 100, but most of the victims died before the hurricane struck, either while preparing for the storm or fleeing from it, authorities said Thursday.
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Honore: La. coast's comeback years away
Sep 30 2005 2:02AM (CT)
CAMERON, La. (AP) - The coastline of southwestern Louisiana will take years to restore after Hurricane Rita unearthed graves, ripped apart levees and infected farmland with saltwater, the commander of the military relief effort said Thursday.
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Doctor says he won't aid deaths on parole
Sep 30 2005 1:32AM (CT)
LAPEER, Mich. (AP) - If released from prison, former doctor Jack Kevorkian says he'll still campaign to legalize assisted suicide but won't resume helping people to die that way.
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Amtrak train derails in eastern Missouri
Sep 30 2005 12:39AM (CT)
BLACKWELL, Mo. (AP) - An Amtrak train carrying 103 people derailed in eastern Missouri after apparently striking boulders on the tracks from a rockslide, officials said Thursday. About 20 people sustained minor injuries.
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