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Ill Va. teen: 'I'm feeling wonderful'
Oct 9 2006 11:34PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The ill teenager who won a court fight to forgo chemotherapy is coming home to Virginia this week, feeling energetic and hopeful that five weeks of an alternative treatment will help him defeat cancer.
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New Orleans restores street signs
Oct 9 2006 11:29PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A few signs of recovery emerged along the streets of New Orleans Monday _ thanks to crews who restored signage knocked down during Hurricane Katrina.
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Guardsman wounds man in New Orleans
Oct 9 2006 11:29PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two Louisiana National Guard soldiers shot at a man suspected of wielding a weapon Monday, the first time any guard member patrolling the city has opened fire, officials said.
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Flooding in Va. triggers fuel spill
Oct 9 2006 11:20PM (CT)
FRANKLIN, Va. (AP) - Flooding following weekend downpours triggered a spill at a fuel distributor Monday, while officials closed downtown and evacuated at least 70 residents. No injuries were reported.
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Mild temblor shakes San Diego County
Oct 9 2006 11:13PM (CT)
OCOTILLO WELLS, Calif. (AP) - A mild earthquake rocked a remote corner of northeastern San Diego County on Monday, but there were no reports of any damage, authorities said.
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Threat diverts N.J.-bound flight to Ohio
Oct 9 2006 11:05PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A Cincinnati commuter flight bound for Newark, N.J., diverted to Cleveland's airport Monday night after a passenger made threatening remarks, a Continental Airlines spokeswoman said.
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Coroner: Ky. children's throats slit
Oct 9 2006 10:23PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Four children whose father is accused of killing them had their throats slit with a hunting knife, the Jefferson County coroner said Monday.
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Police: Man held immigrant girl captive
Oct 9 2006 10:17PM (CT)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A 14-year-old girl smuggled across the Texas-Mexico border by her stepfather ostensibly to attend school was instead held captive and sexually abused by him, authorities said Monday.
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Maine supermarket evacuated
Oct 9 2006 9:29PM (CT)
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A supermarket was evacuated Monday night after customers complained of nausea, difficulty breathing and vomiting.
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Allen, Webb spar in final TV debate
Oct 9 2006 9:16PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican Sen. George Allen and Democratic challenger Jim Webb sparred over familiar issues from the Iraq war to taxes Monday night in the final televised debate in Virginia's tight, closely watched U.S. Senate race.
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Scarlett Johansson: 'I'm not promiscous'
Oct 9 2006 9:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Scarlett Johansson says that while monogamy might go against instinct, she's happy in her relationship with boyfriend and recent "Black Dahlia" co-star Josh Hartnett.
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Student fires gun in Mo. middle school
Oct 9 2006 9:04PM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Fascinated by the Columbine bloodbath, a 13-year-old boy in a dark green trenchcoat and mask carried an assault rifle into his school Monday, pointed it at students and fired a shot into a ceiling before the weapon jammed, authorities said. No one was hurt.
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Herald Square Macy's evacuated in fire
Oct 9 2006 8:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A small garbage fire at Macy's flagship store on Monday forced hundreds to evacuate, but no injuries were immediately reported, authorities said.
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LA's Koreatown reacts to nuclear test
Oct 9 2006 8:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In cafes, restaurants and barbershops across the city's vast Koreatown, the conversations Monday centered on one topic _ North Korea's claimed nuclear test and what will happen next.
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Doctor arrested in wife's cyanide death
Oct 9 2006 8:10PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A fugitive doctor charged in the cyanide poisoning death of his wife was arrested in Cyprus and will be brought back to the United States to face trial, the FBI said Monday.
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Judge lets child porn defendant walk
Oct 9 2006 8:09PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An Avon man who had been found with scores of images of child pornography on his computer and videos of children being violently raped has avoided prison time.
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La. governor set to ease insurance costs
Oct 9 2006 8:07PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The governor proposed a $1 billion plan Monday to ease the post-hurricane insurance burden on Louisiana homeowners by sending them refund checks to cover recent rate increases.
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Church bells toll for Pa. Amish victims
Oct 9 2006 8:07PM (CT)
GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - Church bells tolled across Amish country Monday morning in memory of five young girls who were shot to death in their tiny, one-room schoolhouse a week earlier.
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King papers to go on display in Atlanta
Oct 9 2006 8:06PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 78th birthday in January will feature a gift to the city: the first public viewing of more than 10,000 of his documents, notes and other personal items.
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Sisters accused in N.M. bus attack
Oct 9 2006 8:05PM (CT)
BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) - Two teenage sisters were charged with battery and disorderly conduct after a videotaped attack on a fellow student on a school bus, police said Monday.
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Alaska villages reject Venezuela oil
Oct 9 2006 8:04PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.
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Mistrial in Florida A&M hazing case
Oct 9 2006 7:52PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the hazing trial of five Florida A&M University fraternity members after the jury said it was perplexed by an undefined legal term and unable to reach a verdict.
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Mom accused of swinging baby as weapon
Oct 9 2006 7:48PM (CT)
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.
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Lawmaker fires back at Montana governor
Oct 9 2006 6:25PM (CT)
BOZEMAN (AP) - A Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for comments he made to a newspaper here about the lawmaker's belief that the planet is not millions of years old.
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Richardson urges diplomacy on N. Korea
Oct 9 2006 6:23PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador who has parleyed with North Korea, is urging diplomacy in dealing with an announcement by North Korea that it had set off an underground nuclear test.
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Search on for remaining recalled lettuce
Oct 9 2006 5:46PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The company that recalled its lettuce after irrigation water tested positive for E. coli scrambled Monday to locate 250 remaining cartons of the greens, which could be scattered across seven Western states.
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Body of missing boater found near Miami
Oct 9 2006 5:37PM (CT)
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) - A boater on Monday found the body of a man missing since a deadly collision on the water during South Florida's annual Columbus Day regatta, officials said.
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Baltimore cardinal in car crash in Italy
Oct 9 2006 5:31PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Roman Catholic Cardinal William Keeler was hospitalized in Italy after a car crash that killed a retired priest and injured another American clergyman, the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Monday.
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Ca. prosecutor to be taken off rape case
Oct 9 2006 3:35PM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - An appeals court has removed a prosecutor from trying a rape suspect because she wrote a crime novel about a remarkably similar case.
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Va. mother trying to `unadopt' boy
Oct 9 2006 3:26PM (CT)
LORTON, Va. (AP) - A woman is taking the unusual step of trying to unadopt her 15-year-old son, saying she learned of his troubled past only after he molested two younger children.
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Rapes trigger fear on Ariz. reservation
Oct 9 2006 2:14PM (CT)
FORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. (AP) - A man in a dark shirt and hat emblazoned POLICE has raped 10 girls and a young woman after "arresting" them _ a string of attacks that has made people on the reservation suspicious of even the real officers investigating the case.
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Punk venue CBGB's closing after 33 years
Oct 9 2006 1:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched in the even dingier Bowery neighborhood. The band onstage, four guys in leather jackets and torn jeans, was the Ramones. McNeil sat at a nearby table, watching their set with Lou Reed.
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LA mayor opens tourism office in China
Oct 9 2006 1:28PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, on a trip to China, opened a first-of-its-kind city tourism office in Beijing on Monday that he hopes will encourage travel to his hometown and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into its economy.
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Blanco aims to send out insurance checks
Oct 9 2006 1:27PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Monday announced a plan to ease homeowners' post-hurricane insurance burden by sending them state checks next year with money raised by selling off what remains of the 1998 tobacco settlement.
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Police search for missing Vt. student
Oct 9 2006 1:24PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Police on Monday searched for a 21-year-old University of Vermont student, whose disappearance after a night out with friends was considered suspicious and possibly an abduction.
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Authorities brace for new wave of fraud
Oct 9 2006 12:59PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Hurricane Katrina battered Raquel Romero's home, but she figures the house took a worse beating from the contractor she hired to repair the damage.
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Student fires gun in Mo. middle school
Oct 9 2006 11:40AM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A 13-year-old student fired an AK-47 into the ceiling at his middle school Monday morning after confronting a pair of students and administrators, telling them, "please don't make me do this," officials said.
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Indiana library destroyed by arson
Oct 9 2006 11:27AM (CT)
WILLIAMSPORT, Ind. (AP) - An arson fire destroyed the 4-year-old public library in this northwestern Indiana town, investigators said Monday.
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Ind. truck stop evacuated after threat
Oct 9 2006 9:26AM (CT)
SPICELAND, Ind. (AP) - For the second time in about two months, an Interstate 70 truck stop was evacuated because of a bomb threat and suspicious package.
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Injured diabetic makes it out of crash
Oct 9 2006 7:59AM (CT)
MONSON, Mass. (AP) - A diabetic driver survived for four days on Wheat Thins and dew after crashing his SUV into thick brush on his way home from work.
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Loan could determine rail project's fate
Oct 9 2006 4:08AM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Opponents are trying to reroute one of the largest railroad track expansions in a century, claiming it threatens the Mayo Clinic and its patients and staff.
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Mental health treatment by video
Oct 9 2006 2:34AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Psychiatrists, often in need and hard to find in rural areas, are increasingly turning to video to treat their far-flung patients, illustrating one of the latest growth areas of telemedicine.
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Salmon fishing is back on Maine river
Oct 9 2006 2:29AM (CT)
EDDINGTON, Maine (AP) - Just two decades ago, anglers from as far away as Japan and South Africa would wait their turns along the Penobscot River for a chance to cast a line at what many regard as the king of game fish.
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E. coli fears prompt recall of lettuce
Oct 9 2006 12:37AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California's Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there was recalled Sunday over concerns about E. coli contamination.
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