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WWII troop ship arrives in Indiana
Oct 3 2005 11:55PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - With aging veterans lining the deck, a World War II troop landing ship chugged up the Ohio River on Monday, heading to a new assignment as part of a war history museum.
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Search ends with 964 Katrina dead in La.
Oct 3 2005 10:42PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The search for Hurricane Katrina victims has ended in Louisiana with a death toll at 964, but more searches will be conducted if someone reports seeing a body, a state official said Monday.
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Firefighters race forecast in Calif. fires
Oct 3 2005 10:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Firefighters scrambled Monday to mop up hot spots from three Southern California wildfires before an expected return of high winds that could rekindle smoldering embers.
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Probe: Tour boat didn't have required crew
Oct 3 2005 10:36PM (CT)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - A tour boat that capsized on a New York lake, killing 20 people, did not have the required number of crew members aboard, leading state regulators to suspend licenses for all five vessels belonging to the company that operated the tour, officials said Monday.
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Thousands seek 24 Mont. bison hunt permits
Oct 3 2005 10:06PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - More than 6,000 people, most of them Montana residents, have applied for 24 licenses to hunt the state's bison for the first time in 15 years, wildlife officials said Monday.
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19 health care facilities probed in La.
Oct 3 2005 10:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A total of six hospitals and 13 nursing homes in Louisiana are under investigation in the deaths of dozens of elderly patients following Hurricane Katrina, state Attorney General Charles Foti said Monday.
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Father: Oklahoma U. bomber not political
Oct 3 2005 10:03PM (CT)
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - The father of a University of Oklahoma student who committed suicide outside a packed football stadium using explosives said Monday his son didn't intend to harm anyone else or push a political agenda.
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Bridge to Fla. Keys shut after fatal crash
Oct 3 2005 9:47PM (CT)
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) - The Seven Mile Bridge leading into the lower Florida Keys was closed Monday by a fiery tanker crash that killed two drivers.
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Seattle passes stricter strip-club rules
Oct 3 2005 9:09PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The City Council on Monday approved some of the strictest adult-entertainment regulations of any big city in the country, banning lap dances and the tipping of dancers in their G-strings.
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Miss. lawmakers OK casino move to dry land
Oct 3 2005 8:47PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he'll sign a bill this week to let hurricane-battered coastal casinos move a short distance onto dry land.
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Thrashing, screaming, heroism on N.Y. lake
Oct 3 2005 8:41PM (CT)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - The captain of the Ethan Allen was cheerfully pointing out sites along Lake George during a perfectly placid day when the tour boat began to pitch and elderly passengers were thrown overboard.
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Judge rules priest likely killed 2 in Wis.
Oct 3 2005 8:40PM (CT)
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) - A judge ruled Monday that a Roman Catholic priest who hanged himself in December almost certainly killed two people at a funeral home more than three years ago.
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Plan to show Confederate flag draws heat
Oct 3 2005 8:39PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An organizer of a planned memorial to honor Confederate soldiers who died at an Illinois prison camp says the rebel flag will be displayed at the memorial's dedication, despite opposition.
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Ark. court school probe faults lawmakers
Oct 3 2005 7:55PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Special investigators for the state Supreme Court released a scathing report Monday, saying legislators reneged on a promise to make public education Arkansas' top spending priority.
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Aide to former Illinois governor testifies
Oct 3 2005 7:40PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The onetime top aide to ex-Gov. George Ryan testified Monday that a lobbyist helped computer companies land millions of dollars in state contracts while raising political funds for Ryan.
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NYC law now covers domestic partnerships
Oct 3 2005 7:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed legislation Monday extending the protections of the city's human rights laws to domestic partnerships, including both same-sex and unmarried heterosexual couples.
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Miers backed gay civil rights
Oct 3 2005 7:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers went on record favoring equal civil rights for gays when she ran for Dallas city council, and she said the city had a responsibility to pay for AIDS education and patient services.
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NYC teachers union gets new contract
Oct 3 2005 5:56PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The public school teachers union reached a contract agreement with the city that gives them 15 percent raises over four years, officials said Monday, ending an impasse that threatened the nation's largest school system with a strike.
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Cleaning fridge is hated post-Katrina task
Oct 3 2005 5:16PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Once, before the floods, the refrigerator held savory breakfasts, midnight leftovers, cold beer. Now it's a box of horrors in the kitchen.
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Pataki holds sex predators past sentences
Oct 3 2005 3:46PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Republican Gov. George Pataki has ordered state officials to keep some sexual predators locked up after their prison sentences are up, despite objections from those who say it may not be legal.
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Times-Picayune to return to New Orleans
Oct 3 2005 3:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Times-Picayune newspaper, which evacuated New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, announced Monday that it will resume printing in New Orleans within two weeks.
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Mich. town grieves after deadly accident
Oct 3 2005 2:08PM (CT)
TRENTON, Mich. (AP) - Francis Wrock had a lifelong love of boats. He built them, he enjoyed riding on them, and he would often talk about the importance of boat safety. Wrock, an 87-year-old retired mechanical engineer from Trenton, was one of 20 Michigan residents killed when a tour boat taking senior citizens on a cruise capsized Sunday on Lake George in New York's Adirondack Mountains.
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U.S. urges end to nuke project with Iran
Oct 3 2005 1:09PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In a veiled reference to Russia, the United States on Monday urged governments to end nuclear projects with Iran in light of a recent finding that Tehran is not complying with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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Bowles named president of UNC system
Oct 3 2005 1:07PM (CT)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Erskine Bowles, a former White House chief of staff who returned home to North Carolina only to lose back-to-back Senate bids, was selected Monday to be the next president of the state's 16-campus university system.
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Katrina slams outdoor industry in La.
Oct 3 2005 11:27AM (CT)
SLIDELL, La. (AP) - Before Katrina, heaven was as close as the back porch for Tony and Edith Nata. With a wood-frame house on stilts over Lake Pontchartrain, the couple fished without ever leaving home. Louisiana lived up to its "Sportsman's Paradise" nickname every day at sunset.
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Water receding from flash floods in Kansas
Oct 3 2005 10:29AM (CT)
GRANTVILLE, Kan. (AP) - A flash flood that stranded a freight train, washed out bridges and left one woman clinging to a corn stalk was beginning to recede, officials said.
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Outcry prompts Bennett to delay talk
Oct 3 2005 9:28AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Former Education Secretary William Bennett has postponed an appearance at the University of Cincinnati because of what he called a "willful distortion" of his remarks about aborting black babies.
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Churches in Mass. seek ban on gay marriage
Oct 3 2005 8:21AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Rev. Walter Waldron's homily usually earns a smattering of amens, but his latest talk from the pulpit at St. Patrick Church got him a round of applause. Waldron rallied support Sunday for a petition that calls for banning gay marriage in Massachusetts.
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Dictionary adds terms like chick flick
Oct 3 2005 5:59AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Go ahead, treat yourself. Check out the latest chick flick, get a bikini wax or enjoy an ice cream that might give you a brain freeze.
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Beleaguered Getty curator resigns
Oct 3 2005 5:58AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum has resigned after museum officials confronted her about a $400,000 personal loan she secured with help from one of the institution's main suppliers.
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High oil prices prompt new look at shale
Oct 3 2005 5:46AM (CT)
PARACHUTE, Colo. (AP) - The brush-covered landscape of buttes and desert just west of the Rockies, already dotted with oil and gas rigs, could be in store for another resource boom as the energy industry turns a fresh eye toward developing oil shale.
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Three dead in fire at New Jersey motel
Oct 3 2005 4:55AM (CT)
IRVINGTON, N.J. (AP) - A fast-moving fire roared through a motel catering to low-income people, killing three people and injuring some firefighters.
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Aviation buffs to mark Wrights' 1st flight
Oct 3 2005 3:40AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - When Wilbur Wright soared into the sky over Huffman Prairie on Oct. 5, 1905, it was pretty much a private showing. Only a few friends and some local farmers witnessed the historic event.
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Mississippi mulls fate of coastal casinos
Oct 3 2005 3:24AM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - In the churches that minister in the shadows of Biloxi's tattered casinos, religious opposition to gambling is colliding with the region's economic reality.
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U.S. family among injured in Bali bombings
Oct 3 2005 2:57AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The only Americans known to have been injured in the Indonesia suicide bombings were members of a Bay Area family who had just sat down for dinner when an explosion tore through a busy restaurant.
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