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Hunter guilty in Hmong's death
Oct 5 2007 11:58PM (CT)
MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) - A jury on Friday found a white former sawmill worker guilty in the shooting and stabbing death of a Hmong immigrant with whom he crossed paths while both were hunting squirrels in the northern Wisconsin woods earlier this year.
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Incarcerated prosecutor commits suicide
Oct 5 2007 11:56PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to molest a 5-year-old girl committed suicide in his cell Friday in federal prison, authorities said.
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3 presumed dead in medical plane crash
Oct 5 2007 11:42PM (CT)
ALAMOSA, Colo. (AP) - A medical plane slammed into a mountainside Friday, leaving three people dead amid the wreckage, authorities said.
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El Salvador fugitive arrested in Calif.
Oct 5 2007 11:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former lawmaker from El Salvador wanted in his country on money laundering charges was arrested Friday in Southern California, authorities said.
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Sam's Club beef recalled after illnesses
Oct 5 2007 11:21PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Sam's Club warehouse chain pulled a brand of ground beef patties from its shelves nationwide after four children who ate the food, produced by Cargill Inc., developed E. coli illness, company and health officials said Friday.
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Reports: Man questioned in guard deaths
Oct 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Investigators searching for a robber who fatally shot two armored car guards servicing an ATM brought in a man for questioning Friday, police said.
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Reports: Man questioned in guard deaths
Oct 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Investigators searching for a robber who fatally shot two armored car guards servicing an ATM brought in a man for questioning Friday, police said.
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Reports: Man questioned in guard deaths
Oct 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Investigators searching for a robber who fatally shot two armored car guards servicing an ATM brought in a man for questioning Friday, police said.
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Reports: Man questioned in guard deaths
Oct 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Investigators searching for a robber who fatally shot two armored car guards servicing an ATM brought in a man for questioning Friday, police said.
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Reports: Man questioned in guard deaths
Oct 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Investigators searching for a robber who fatally shot two armored car guards servicing an ATM brought in a man for questioning Friday, police said.
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Reports: Man questioned in guard deaths
Oct 5 2007 11:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Investigators searching for a robber who fatally shot two armored car guards servicing an ATM brought in a man for questioning Friday, police said.
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Cops: Mom tries to kill girl, then self
Oct 5 2007 10:52PM (CT)
LONG HILL, N.J. (AP) - A woman tried to strangle her 10-year-old daughter in a wildlife refuge and then stabbed herself to death after mistakenly believing the girl was dead, authorities said Friday.
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Tenn. to appeal ruling on executions
Oct 5 2007 10:22PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee's attorney general plans to appeal a federal judge's finding that the state's method of lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Jena mayor calls song inflammatory
Oct 5 2007 10:15PM (CT)
JENA, La. (AP) - A video in which rapper-actor Mos Def asked students around the country to walk out Oct. 1 to support the "Jena Six" escaped comment by this town's mayor. But when John Mellencamp sang, "Jena, take your nooses down," he took issue.
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Federal judge stays war objector trial
Oct 5 2007 10:07PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A federal court judge has temporarily blocked a court-martial scheduled for an Iraq war objector based at Fort Lewis.
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Gorbachev tours Lower 9th Ward
Oct 5 2007 9:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement, but his first view of the devastated Lower 9th Ward inspired a momentary return to his socialist past.
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Gorbachev tours Lower 9th Ward
Oct 5 2007 9:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement, but his first view of the devastated Lower 9th Ward inspired a momentary return to his socialist past.
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Gorbachev tours Lower 9th Ward
Oct 5 2007 9:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement, but his first view of the devastated Lower 9th Ward inspired a momentary return to his socialist past.
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Gorbachev tours Lower 9th Ward
Oct 5 2007 9:43PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement, but his first view of the devastated Lower 9th Ward inspired a momentary return to his socialist past.
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1 dead in Calif. highway plane crash
Oct 5 2007 9:31PM (CT)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - A small plane crashed early Friday on a California freeway median, killing one person in the aircraft and slowing rush-hour traffic, fire officials said.
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Police kill man who shot 5 at law firm
Oct 5 2007 9:21PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - Anger over a divorce settlement may have driven a 63-year-old Baptist deacon to shoot five people in a law office, killing two, then exchange gunfire with police during a standoff, authorities said Friday.
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Police kill man who shot 5 at law firm
Oct 5 2007 9:21PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - Anger over a divorce settlement may have driven a 63-year-old Baptist deacon to shoot five people in a law office, killing two, then exchange gunfire with police during a standoff, authorities said Friday.
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Police kill man who shot 5 at law firm
Oct 5 2007 9:21PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - Anger over a divorce settlement may have driven a 63-year-old Baptist deacon to shoot five people in a law office, killing two, then exchange gunfire with police during a standoff, authorities said Friday.
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Background checks at NASA lab blocked
Oct 5 2007 9:18PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday approved a request by some NASA workers to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information that they allege amounts to an invasion of privacy.
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Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U.
Oct 5 2007 9:18PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."
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Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U.
Oct 5 2007 9:18PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."
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Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U.
Oct 5 2007 9:18PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."
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Victim called conscious during Caesarean
Oct 5 2007 9:14PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The day after a Missouri woman was killed and a baby cut from her womb, the woman accused of killing her was showing off a newborn as her own, several acquaintances testified Friday.
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Victim called conscious during Caesarean
Oct 5 2007 9:14PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The day after a Missouri woman was killed and a baby cut from her womb, the woman accused of killing her was showing off a newborn as her own, several acquaintances testified Friday.
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Prosecutor says Devlin will plead guilty
Oct 5 2007 8:13PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping two Missouri boys, one of whom was missing for more than four years, will plead guilty next week to kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual assault, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Prosecutor says Devlin will plead guilty
Oct 5 2007 8:13PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping two Missouri boys, one of whom was missing for more than four years, will plead guilty next week to kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual assault, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Brooklyn man convicted of gay attack
Oct 5 2007 8:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury convicted a Brooklyn man of manslaughter and on hate crimes charges Friday for an attack on a gay victim at a remote city beach that led to the victim's death.
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Woman sentenced in yacht killings
Oct 5 2007 7:22PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A woman convicted for her role in a plot to kill a wealthy couple for their yacht was sentenced Friday to two life terms in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Police surround robbery suspect
Oct 5 2007 7:06PM (CT)
LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) - Police believe they found the body of a man who had robbed a bank and shot a security guard on Friday, authorities said.
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Funeral for colorful La. sheriff
Oct 5 2007 6:58PM (CT)
WESTWEGO, La. (AP) - Thousands of people paid their respects Friday to longtime Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, the popular, controversial Chinese-American lawman whose flag-draped casket was escorted from a suburban auditorium to the strains of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."
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Funeral for colorful La. sheriff
Oct 5 2007 6:58PM (CT)
WESTWEGO, La. (AP) - Thousands of people paid their respects Friday to longtime Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, the popular, controversial Chinese-American lawman whose flag-draped casket was escorted from a suburban auditorium to the strains of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."
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Funeral for colorful La. sheriff
Oct 5 2007 6:58PM (CT)
WESTWEGO, La. (AP) - Thousands of people paid their respects Friday to longtime Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, the popular, controversial Chinese-American lawman whose flag-draped casket was escorted from a suburban auditorium to the strains of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."
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Appeals court lets Sept. 11 suits resume
Oct 5 2007 6:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals panel on Friday agreed that lawyers can resume their work on behalf of thousands of workers who say they were not properly protected as they cleaned up the World Trade Center site after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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APME votes on its leadership
Oct 5 2007 6:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two incumbents and seven new members were elected Friday to the governing board of directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors by the group's membership.
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Dedication at NYC African Burial Ground
Oct 5 2007 6:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands of African slaves, it was also a day of regret.
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Dedication at NYC African Burial Ground
Oct 5 2007 6:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands of African slaves, it was also a day of regret.
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Dedication at NYC African Burial Ground
Oct 5 2007 6:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands of African slaves, it was also a day of regret.
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Dedication at NYC African Burial Ground
Oct 5 2007 6:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands of African slaves, it was also a day of regret.
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O.J.'s Rolex a fake, ordered returned
Oct 5 2007 6:09PM (CT)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - O.J. Simpson is getting his fake Rolex watch back. The timepiece, seized earlier this week by attorneys for Fred Goldman, was ordered returned to the former football star after it was determined to be a knockoff made in China.
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Tenn. man kills self at council meeting
Oct 5 2007 6:06PM (CT)
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A barber who killed himself at a City Council meeting Thursday hadn't seemed suicidal during a private meeting three weeks earlier, the mayor said Friday.
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Marshals arrest N.H. tax evaders
Oct 5 2007 5:12PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - After months of monitoring a couple convicted of tax evasion, all U.S. marshals needed to get inside their fortress-like home was a little deception.
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Marshals arrest N.H. tax evaders
Oct 5 2007 5:12PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - After months of monitoring a couple convicted of tax evasion, all U.S. marshals needed to get inside their fortress-like home was a little deception.
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Marshals arrest N.H. tax evaders
Oct 5 2007 5:12PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - After months of monitoring a couple convicted of tax evasion, all U.S. marshals needed to get inside their fortress-like home was a little deception.
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Wright plane replica damaged in crash
Oct 5 2007 5:07PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A replica of the Wright brothers' plane crashed Friday during a demonstration to mark the 102nd anniversary of the aviation pioneers' historic flight.
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Teen suspects in burning of homeless man
Oct 5 2007 4:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A homeless man was critically injured Friday after he was set on fire outside a church where he had bedded down for the night.
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Texas canyon was a geological rush job
Oct 5 2007 4:56PM (CT)
CANYON LAKE, Texas (AP) - Geologic time has a different meaning when it comes to Canyon Lake Gorge. You could say it dates to around the end of the Enron era.
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Afghan drug lord gets more than 15 years
Oct 5 2007 4:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Afghan drug lord accused of plotting to poison U.S. neighborhoods with heroin was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison Friday.
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Jury gives $6.1M to woman in strip hoax
Oct 5 2007 4:48PM (CT)
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who was forced to strip for a search in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer reporting a theft.
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Jury gives $6.1M to woman in strip hoax
Oct 5 2007 4:48PM (CT)
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who was forced to strip for a search in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer reporting a theft.
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Stamps honor distinguished journalists
Oct 5 2007 4:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Five journalists who covered the most tumultuous of 20th century times are being honored by the Postal Service.
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Atlantic City mayor drops out of sight
Oct 5 2007 3:57PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Under federal investigation for embellishing his Army service in Vietnam, a groggy-sounding Mayor Robert Levy called in sick at City Hall, climbed into his city-issued Dodge Durango and seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth.
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Duke lacrosse players sue Nifong, city
Oct 5 2007 3:52PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Three former Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape filed a sweeping federal lawsuit Friday that could return the sensational case to a courtroom, suing disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong, the city of Durham and the police detectives who handled the investigation.
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Duke lacrosse players sue Nifong, city
Oct 5 2007 3:52PM (CT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Three former Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape filed a sweeping federal lawsuit Friday that could return the sensational case to a courtroom, suing disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong, the city of Durham and the police detectives who handled the investigation.
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Yacht marooned after Fla. storm to move
Oct 5 2007 3:38PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Looking like Noah's Ark after the flood, a sleek, 158-foot yacht driven aground by a hurricane lies just offshore, mired for most of the past two years in a dispute with the government over how to free it without doing too much damage to the seagrass.
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2nd doctor testifies about teen's death
Oct 5 2007 3:16PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - The medical examiner who performed a second autopsy on a teen who died after a boot-camp altercation defended his findings on the witness stand Friday and said it didn't take a doctor to figure out the boy did not die of natural causes.
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Harvard mom wins appeals court victory
Oct 5 2007 1:44PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - An appeals court cleared the way Friday for a Harvard student to receive extra break time during a lengthy medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk for her infant daughter.
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Ind. airport evacuates to rescreen urn
Oct 5 2007 12:19PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Hundreds of travelers were evacuated from an airport and had to go through security a second time Friday after an urn with cremated remains was improperly screened, authorities said.
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S.C. economist pleads guilty in fraud
Oct 5 2007 11:58AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A former economist pleaded guilty Friday for his role in swindling investors out of an estimated $90 million, which authorities said he used to purchase a half-dozen homes, swanky cars and jewel-encrusted pens.
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Scholars weigh claims over Cuban assets
Oct 5 2007 10:53AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Americans looking to recoup Cuban assets seized after Fidel Castro took power in 1959 likely won't get the billions they hope to seek after Castro dies, a federally financed study concluded.
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Scholars weigh claims over Cuban assets
Oct 5 2007 10:53AM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Americans looking to recoup Cuban assets seized after Fidel Castro took power in 1959 likely won't get the billions they hope to seek after Castro dies, a federally financed study concluded.
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Bill Clinton envisions diplomatic role
Oct 5 2007 8:50AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Former President Clinton has said his wife wants him to lead efforts to rebuild the United States' tarnished reputation abroad _ if she is elected to the White House next year.
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Officer: Drop murder charges vs. Marine
Oct 5 2007 8:25AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - There is no dispute that Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and another Marine shot five men after a roadside bomb killed a member of their squad in Iraq, or that he led a house-to-house search that ended in the deaths of more civilians, including women and children.
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Student sentenced in NY golf-club crash
Oct 5 2007 7:41AM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A college student accused of ramming his luxury car into four people at an upscale golf club will spend up to seven years in prison.
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New e-mail scam: Hit-man threat
Oct 5 2007 5:33AM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - E-mail scams seek to separate people from their money by promising a share of unclaimed lottery riches, bounty from a dead fugitive, work-at-home schemes and other enticements.
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Woman finds fortune, turns it in
Oct 5 2007 5:32AM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday _ and immediately turned it in to authorities.
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Couple gives birth to third Oct. 2 baby
Oct 5 2007 5:11AM (CT)
MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) - It won't take much for Jenna and William Cotton to remember the birthday of the newest member of their family.
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Residents return after San Diego slide
Oct 5 2007 4:16AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Erinn and Alton McCormick had no idea when they bought their house in June that it sat directly beneath a weak hillside. On Thursday, they found it buried up to the roofline by a wall of earth and cracked asphalt studded with pieces of curb, eucalyptus and palm tree that used to be across the street.
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Fla. dad warns parents of online perils
Oct 5 2007 4:13AM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The father of a 15-year-old girl who was found safe 400 miles away from home a day after she ran away with a sex offender she met online had a message Wednesday for parents across America.
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Mice abundant in parts of Adirondacks
Oct 5 2007 3:04AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - At the general store on Canada Lake in the southern Adirondacks, mice were the talk of the town this summer.
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Owen Wilson returns to public eye
Oct 5 2007 1:41AM (CT)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Owen Wilson returned to the public eye Thursday night, making an appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Darjeeling Limited."
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N.J. arrests 41 child porn suspects
Oct 5 2007 12:53AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - More than three dozen people in New Jersey have been charged with sending child rape photos and videos over the Internet, officials said Thursday.
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Wis. poisoning trial delayed months
Oct 5 2007 12:27AM (CT)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - A judge delayed the trial of a man accused of killing his wife by poisoning her after a jail inmate claimed the man told him how he committed the crime.
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Video released in airport death case
Oct 5 2007 12:26AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Surveillance video released Thursday of a woman who died in police custody shows her running through an airport terminal, bowing abruptly as she appeared to yell and then resisting arrest as three officers try to control her.
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