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NYC girl, 9, pleads guilty to manslaughter
Oct 7 2005 11:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 9-year-old girl pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Friday, admitting she fatally stabbed her 11-year-old playmate after a tug-of-war over a rubber ball went sour.
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Fire in Kansas sends 19 to hospitals
Oct 7 2005 11:15PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Fire destroyed a Kansas apartment building Friday, sending 19 people to the hospital and forcing some tenants to jump to safety from the second and third floors. Three people were missing after the blaze at the Boardwalk Apartments.
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Big Easy leaders upset over cleanup jobs
Oct 7 2005 10:51PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - They clear rotten seafood from stinking restaurant freezers, wash excrement from the floors of the Superdome, rip out wads of soaked insulation. The work is hot, nasty and critical to the recovery of New Orleans.
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Man convicted in Ohio missing girl case
Oct 7 2005 10:49PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio man was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for his role in the 1999 disappearance of a young girl as the girl's parents pleaded in court for him to reveal where she was buried.
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NYC mayor defends publicizing threat
Oct 7 2005 10:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police chief insisted Friday they did the right thing by going public with a terrorist threat to bomb the New York subway, brushing aside suggestions from Washington that they overreacted to information of dubious credibility.
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Engineers: New cause of New Orleans flood
Oct 7 2005 9:51PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Much of the city flooded not because water rushed over the tops of levees, but because two of the storm barriers that ring New Orleans actually shifted and then collapsed, a team of independent engineers said Friday.
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Schwarzenegger signs supplement use bill
Oct 7 2005 9:40PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday signed a bill barring high school athletes from using certain nutritional supplements, a year after he vetoed similar legislation.
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Shootings at Pa. strip mall leave 3 dead
Oct 7 2005 8:49PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man fatally shot his ex-wife inside his car at a strip mall, then drove with the body to another shopping center parking lot where he shot and killed one of her friends before killing himself, police said.
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NYC girl, 9, pleads guilty to manslaughter
Oct 7 2005 8:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 9-year-old girl pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Friday, admitting she fatally stabbed her 11-year-old playmate after a tug-of-war over a rubber ball went sour.
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Capsized boat group said bigger than usual
Oct 7 2005 7:56PM (CT)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - The captain of a boat that capsized last weekend, killing 20 elderly tourists on a fall foliage tour, said Friday he had a larger group on board than usual.
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Bus company in fatal fire ordered off road
Oct 7 2005 7:49PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Federal officials on Friday ordered the immediate shutdown of a company that operated a bus involved in a fire last month that killed 23 elderly hurricane evacuees along a Texas highway.
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Women picket new Victoria's Secret display
Oct 7 2005 7:01PM (CT)
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A new lingerie display in a Victoria's Secret storefront has attracted not just long glances, but also protesters and allegations the chain is promoting lesbianism and sadomasochism.
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Air Force Academy's No. 3 gets new job
Oct 7 2005 6:16PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Air Force Academy announced Friday that its No. 3 commander is leaving the school, one month after he was cleared of an allegation that he used his position to proselytize non-Christian cadets.
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New Orleans mayor makes pitch for gambling
Oct 7 2005 5:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor C. Ray Nagin on Friday said he wants to allow Las Vegas-style gambling in the city's larger hotels as a way to jump-start the economy after Hurricane Katrina.
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Police kill armed man, hostage in Fla.
Oct 7 2005 5:46PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Police officers shot and killed a man and the woman he was holding hostage early Friday after he fired a sawed-off shotgun at them, police said.
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Man charged in deaths of 4 people in Ill.
Oct 7 2005 5:24PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Prosecutors charged a man with first-degree murder Friday in the shotgun slayings of an ex-girlfriend, her baby and two other people.
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Water taxi that flipped in Md. too heavy
Oct 7 2005 4:37PM (CT)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A water taxi that capsized last year in the Baltimore Harbor, killing five passengers, was 700 pounds overweight when it flipped in a sudden storm, according to federal documents released Friday.
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Chrysler recalling about 583,000 vehicles
Oct 7 2005 4:28PM (CT)
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group said Friday that it would voluntarily recall about 300,000 vehicles with a potential defect that could prevent the driver from placing the transmission in "park."
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Recall of Spokane mayor heads to Dec. vote
Oct 7 2005 4:05PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Mayor Jim West, embroiled in a City Hall sex scandal, will face a recall election in December after opponents gathered enough signatures to put his fate on the ballot.
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Former Haiti officer acquitted of charges
Oct 7 2005 3:17PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A former senior Haitian police official was acquitted Friday of charges he took bribes to let Colombian drug lords move cocaine through the island nation and into the United States.
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La. police car theft charges investigated
Oct 7 2005 3:17PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - State authorities are investigating allegations New Orleans police officers broke into a dealership and made off with nearly 200 cars _ including 41 new Cadillacs _ as Hurricane Katrina closed in.
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Elderly woman, girl find home in Houston
Oct 7 2005 2:55PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - When the TV is off and the only sounds in the neat, three-bedroom house come from the hum of the air conditioner and the gurgle of an aquarium, 89-year-old Nita LaGarde sometimes has to fight back tears as she falls asleep in her white wooden bed with clean linens.
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Former Chicago official pleads innocent
Oct 7 2005 1:52PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard M. Daley's former patronage chief pleaded not guilty Friday to violating Chicago's ban on political patronage hiring, claiming the federal charges don't even add up to a violation of the law.
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Ohio welcomes Marine Corps unit back home
Oct 7 2005 1:03PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A badly battered Marine Corps unit came home Friday to miles of welcoming neighbors, a sea of cheering family members and countless tearful kisses.
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Texas plastics plant explosions wound 11
Oct 7 2005 12:38PM (CT)
POINT COMFORT, Texas (AP) - Explosions rocked a plastics plant and injured 11 people in the latest of several fires and explosions at Texas industrial plants this year.
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Ga. locals criticize mayor on flying flag
Oct 7 2005 12:16PM (CT)
TIFTON, Ga. (AP) - A south Georgia mayor said Friday he will continue flying a Mexican flag at city hall for the six immigrant farmworkers slain in robberies _ despite complaints from residents.
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Kansas Supreme Court ousts county judge
Oct 7 2005 11:32AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ousted a county judge for viewing Internet pornography on his office computer.
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Calif. inmate found unfit to stand trial
Oct 7 2005 9:00AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An inmate accused of fatally stabbing one guard and injuring four others at a federal prison was declared mentally unfit to stand trial.
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ACLU sues over conditions at La. jail
Oct 7 2005 7:48AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A civil rights group filed court papers Thursday demanding access to the New Orleans city jail to investigate allegations that inmates were abandoned for days after Hurricane Katrina, without food or drinking water, in chest-high floodwaters with floating corpses.
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Three killed by tow truck in California
Oct 7 2005 7:44AM (CT)
VERNON, Calif. (AP) - A speeding tow truck lurched onto a sidewalk where a crowd was waiting for a bus, killing three people and injuring eight, authorities said.
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Wildfire season unexpectedly mild
Oct 7 2005 7:42AM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Despite early fears of a catastrophic wildfire season in the West, the season now ending has been relatively mild, fire officials say.
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Crews make progress against wildfires
Oct 7 2005 7:17AM (CT)
CALIMESA, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters battling a blaze that already has scorched more than 6,400 acres were facing more hot, dry weather early Friday, but they expected to contain the wildfire by the weekend.
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Mass. court hears gay marriage lawsuit
Oct 7 2005 6:22AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage will now decide whether same-sex couples from other states can marry here.
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Majority of dead Katrina victims nameless
Oct 7 2005 6:15AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Within weeks of the attack on the World Trade Center, the public knew a lot about many of the Sept. 11 victims _ their families, their jobs, their commute, even some of the intimate details of their final moments. The victims' families mobilized with remarkable effectiveness to make sure their loved ones were found and their stories told.
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Arizona smuggling law getting little use
Oct 7 2005 6:14AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Prosecutors in Arizona border counties say they've had trouble bringing cases under the state's new migrant smuggling law because it's hard to hold on to the illegal immigrants who are the witnesses to the crime. Since the law took effect nearly two months ago, it has led to only two prosecutions within the state's four border counties, the busiest illegal entry points on the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
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Vietnamese refugees finally reach the U.S.
Oct 7 2005 6:07AM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Sanh Nguyen and his family packed everything from their past life into just a few bags. But what they received when they arrived in California instantly became their most prized possession. It's called an I-94, the government form that proves they came here legally and the ticket to obtaining a green card next year. It's also the first document they've had in 16 years proving they belong anywhere at all.
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Body found at landfill likely missing mom
Oct 7 2005 6:05AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police said they believe a body recovered at a Pennsylvania landfill Thursday is the mother of a 4-year-old girl found abandoned and barefoot on a city street after dark.
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Annan blasted for keeping his ex-adviser
Oct 7 2005 5:52AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. employees union has criticized Secretary-General Kofi Annan for retaining his former chief-of-staff as an adviser despite accusations the aide authorized shredding three years of files on the corrupt oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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Va. OK's civil rights memorial design
Oct 7 2005 4:36AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A stone tablet ringed by bronze likenesses of civil rights leaders is the likely choice for a monument at Virginia's Capitol grounds.
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Public losing confidence on storm spending
Oct 7 2005 3:23AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are losing confidence that the federal government will wisely spend billions of dollars set aside for recovery from Hurricane Katrina, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
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