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2 Calif. men indicted in Katrina fraud
Oct 6 2006 11:53PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two men were indicted Friday on charges of bilking winners of online auctions out of $150,000 by making them think their money would go to Hurricane Katrina relief organizations, authorities said.
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Illegal immigrants sue Wendy's
Oct 6 2006 11:50PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A group of illegal immigrants who worked for Wendy's International Inc. is suing the restaurant chain because the company fired them after discovering it had missed a deadline for joining a federal program that would have helped them attain legal status.
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Neb. deputy arrested in school threat
Oct 6 2006 11:49PM (CT)
BASSETT, Neb. (AP) - A rookie sheriff's deputy was arrested in connection with a school shooting threat that led to public school lockdowns in three counties earlier this week, officials said Friday.
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Bandidos leader sentenced to 20 months
Oct 6 2006 11:47PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The president of the Bandidos motorcycle club was sentenced to 20 months in prison Friday in a deal that will allow him to retain his position in the organization.
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Calif. man beaten to death in jail
Oct 6 2006 10:57PM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - A man awaiting trial on child pornography charges was fatally beaten by fellow jail inmates, a sheriff's spokesman said Friday.
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Marine base seeks missing laptop
Oct 6 2006 10:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A laptop computer loaded with personal information on 2,400 residents of the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base has been lost, authorities said Friday.
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Small plane crashes in Ga. neighborhood
Oct 6 2006 10:53PM (CT)
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) - A small plane crashed near a residential street Friday morning, killing three of the four people aboard after it apparently clipped a power line during takeoff, authorities said.
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Amish schoolgirl hoped to spare others
Oct 6 2006 10:45PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - Under a cold, steady drizzle, the Amish drove in horse and buggy to a farmland cemetery Friday to bury the last of five girls shot to death by an intruder as new details emerged of heroism inside their schoolhouse.
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11th rape victim found on reservation
Oct 6 2006 10:33PM (CT)
WHITERIVER, Ariz. (AP) - Officials have found an 11th victim of a rapist on the Fort Apache Reservation who poses as a police officer before he attacks girls and young women.
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Third E. coli death confirmed in Neb.
Oct 6 2006 10:14PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An elderly woman who died in late August was infected with E. coli after eating fresh spinach, bringing to three the number of people who have perished in a nationwide outbreak of the bacteria, health officials said Friday.
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Pentagon to probe Gitmo beatings claim
Oct 6 2006 10:00PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - The Pentagon said Friday that it will investigate a Marine's sworn statement that guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as a common practice.
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Iowa company recalling ground beef
Oct 6 2006 9:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Iowa company is recalling about 5,200 pounds of ground beef products distributed from seven states because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, the government said Friday.
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Chemicals, fire force N.C. evacuation
Oct 6 2006 9:44PM (CT)
APEX, N.C. (AP) - More than 17,000 people were urged to stay out of their homes until at least Saturday after a thunderous series of explosions and a raging fire at a hazardous-waste disposal plant released a plume of thick black smoke and a yellow cloud of noxious gases.
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Sailor testifies about killing of Iraqi
Oct 6 2006 9:41PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Navy corpsman testified Friday that Marines in his patrol seized an Iraqi civilian from his home, threw him into a hole and put at least 10 bullets in his head and chest after growing frustrated in their search for an insurgent.
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Judge frees 4 inmates without lawyers
Oct 6 2006 9:40PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A judge upset by the backlog of cases since Hurricane Katrina decided to release four New Orleans inmates from jail Friday and postpone their trials until they can get adequate representation from the spread-thin public defender's office.
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Serial killer admits to Ind. slayings
Oct 6 2006 9:03PM (CT)
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - A mentally retarded man told a judge Friday he raped and killed five women and a teenage girl more than a decade ago, prosecutors said.
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Judge: Doctor a conscientious objector
Oct 6 2006 8:57PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday that the Army was wrong to deny a doctor's application for conscientious objector status, and ordered that she be discharged.
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Flood evacuations ordered in Va.
Oct 6 2006 8:56PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Flooding prompted evacuation orders Friday in the same neighborhood for the second time in a little more than a month, the mayor's office said.
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4 kids found dead, man admits slayings
Oct 6 2006 8:53PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Four children were found dead in a public housing complex Friday after a man walked into police headquarters and said he had killed his family.
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Church fire damages 4 Memphis buildings
Oct 6 2006 8:49PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Fire swept through a historical downtown church early Friday, collapsing its steeple and flicking off embers that ignited three other buildings. Arson was not suspected, a fire official said.
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Clinton deal cuts school snack foods
Oct 6 2006 8:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In some schools _ ever on the watch for unhealthy junk food _ students may have to do some extra walking to find their favorite candy bar thanks to the latest nutrition deal struck by former President Clinton.
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O'Connor to sit on appeals panel
Oct 6 2006 6:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will wear the black robe again next week when she joins a federal appellate court panel in Manhattan to hear arguments on five cases.
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College students sue over coed move
Oct 6 2006 6:33PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A group of students at Randolph-Macon Woman's College sued the school Friday, challenging its decision to begin admitting men next fall.
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Cunningham's wife to pay $1.6M in taxes
Oct 6 2006 6:33PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The estranged wife of disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham will pay $1.6 million in back taxes and penalties for her role in the bribery scandal that landed him in prison, according to a settlement filed Friday.
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DNA frees 21-year prisoner
Oct 6 2006 6:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man who spent 21 years behind bars for the rape of a police officer's wife was freed Friday after being cleared by DNA testing.
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Gallaudet students block campus building
Oct 6 2006 6:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Protests over Gallaudet University's choice for president of the school for the deaf escalated Friday as about 200 students blocked access to a campus building.
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Fla. botulism linked to carrot juice
Oct 6 2006 5:37PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Investigators believe botulism toxin from bottled carrot juice paralyzed a woman, the fourth person thought to be poisoned by bacteria in the drink.
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Manufacturer defends air packs as safe
Oct 6 2006 5:24PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The manufacturer of the emergency air packs used during the Sago Mine disaster said Friday that its products are safe, despite new government tests suggesting the devices are prone to damaged air hoses and other problems.
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French saint's heart makes U.S. debut
Oct 6 2006 4:53PM (CT)
MERRICK, N.Y. (AP) - In life, St. John Vianney was a revered 19th-century French clergyman who was said to be blessed with the ability to read the hearts of worshippers. In death, his own heart has become an object of worship.
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Mo. lawmaker wounded on duty in Iraq
Oct 6 2006 3:28PM (CT)
PARKVILLE, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri state lawmaker stationed in Iraq was shot in the lung by a sniper while on patrol, a family spokesman said Friday.
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Men have body-image worries too
Oct 6 2006 3:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - That guy in the Abercrombie & Fitch ad doesn't have a head, but does it really matter? His upper body is as sculpted as Michelangelo's David _ all chiseled muscle, washboard abs and not a follicle of chest hair.
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4 relatives killed in Va.; man charged
Oct 6 2006 2:09PM (CT)
GAINESBORO, Va. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies Friday arrested the ex-boyfriend of a 19-year-old woman who was found shot to death along with her toddler son, father and a nephew in their rural Virginia home.
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Ex-detective gets 6 years in narc case
Oct 6 2006 1:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Admitting that he was driven by greed, a former detective who stole cash and drugs from dealers, then resold the drugs on the street, was sentenced to six years in prison.
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Boy gets 6 years in school shooting plot
Oct 6 2006 1:45PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy prosecutors described as the masterminded of a failed plot to shoot up a suburban school was sentenced Friday to six years in prison.
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Former cult leader seeks parole release
Oct 6 2006 12:57PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, is seeking immediate release from parole supervision because he has advanced cancer and wants to "die with dignity," his lawyers said Friday.
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Post-Sept. 11 death benefits disputed
Oct 6 2006 12:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As the World Trade Center burned, Glenn Winuk rushed to the scene from his law office to offer his skills as a veteran paramedic. He died with surgical gloves on and a medic's bag at his side. A card in his wallet identified him as a volunteer firefighter.
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NYC woman charged with conning man, 85
Oct 6 2006 12:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A teen age vixen conned an 85-year-old man out of as much as a $1 million during a two-year relationship, and he may not have been her only victim, Queens prosecutors said. Louis Bruno of Queens said he met Natasha Marks two years ago outside a Waldbaum's supermarket when she was 18 and he was 83. Bruno was hooked after Marks flirted with him and complimented his jacket.
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Air Force punishes 5 in Del. plane crash
Oct 6 2006 12:24PM (CT)
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Five Air Force crewmen have been disciplined for their roles in an April cargo plane crash that investigators have blamed on human error, military officials said Friday.
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Gay marriage advocates vow to appeal
Oct 6 2006 7:29AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay marriage advocates vowed to appeal a state appeals court ruling upholding California's ban on same-sex weddings _ a decision that would be a critical defeat for their cause if it stands.
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Manhattan Project building preserved
Oct 6 2006 4:53AM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Even as a secret community that gave birth to the atomic bomb morphed into a bustling government-lab town, many of its most historic sites remained tucked away from view.
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Judge dismisses Karr's kid porn charges
Oct 6 2006 4:10AM (CT)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - After two months behind bars in Colorado and California, John Mark Karr walked free when a judge dismissed child pornography charges against the former JonBenet Ramsey slaying suspect.
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Civil rights icon still needed at 85
Oct 6 2006 3:21AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Joseph Lowery was looking forward to retiring from the civil rights movement, trading marches and speeches for life as a grandfather and golfer.
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Doctor: Man killed self after crime spree
Oct 6 2006 2:46AM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A man who killed himself in a standoff with Florida lawmen after leaving a trail of bloodshed across the Southeast was grappling with financial and romantic turmoil, authorities said.
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80-year-old paroled on crack charges
Oct 6 2006 12:57AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - An 80-year-old man convicted of dealing crack cocaine was paroled Thursday after spending three nights in jail.
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Thousands nationwide protest Bush
Oct 6 2006 12:46AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape in front of the White House on Thursday amid a nationwide day of protest against the president.
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Girl grabbed, taped, tossed from car
Oct 6 2006 12:04AM (CT)
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (AP) - A 10-year-old girl riding her bicycle was snatched by a man on Thursday, stuffed into a car, bound with tape and driven around before being dumped on a street, police said.
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