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Accusations vs. son shock Oral Roberts
Oct 9 2007 11:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Oral Roberts was blind-sided by allegations that the university he founded was being exploited by his son and daughter-in-law, the aging televangelist said Tuesday in his first public comments on the case.
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Accusations vs. son shock Oral Roberts
Oct 9 2007 11:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Oral Roberts was blind-sided by allegations that the university he founded was being exploited by his son and daughter-in-law, the aging televangelist said Tuesday in his first public comments on the case.
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Study examines public, private schools
Oct 9 2007 11:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Low-income students who attend urban public high schools generally do just as well as private-school students with similar backgrounds, according to a study being released Wednesday.
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Exotic dancer worker's comp upheld
Oct 9 2007 11:12PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana appeals court upheld a worker's compensation award Tuesday for an exotic dancer who was injured while performing on a pole at a strip club.
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4 plead not guilty in Hamptons art heist
Oct 9 2007 11:11PM (CT)
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Three men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to stealing paintings worth $500,000 from a Hamptons estate and burning down the mansion _ and artworks worth another $1 million inside _ to cover up the crime.
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Gov't may buy thousands of Miss. homes
Oct 9 2007 10:45PM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The federal government is considering buying out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi coast and remaking the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone, raising anxieties that it could destroy the waterfront lives many residents are struggling to rebuild after Katrina.
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Gov't may buy thousands of Miss. homes
Oct 9 2007 10:45PM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The federal government is considering buying out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi coast and remaking the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone, raising anxieties that it could destroy the waterfront lives many residents are struggling to rebuild after Katrina.
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Gov't may buy thousands of Miss. homes
Oct 9 2007 10:45PM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - The federal government is considering buying out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi coast and remaking the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone, raising anxieties that it could destroy the waterfront lives many residents are struggling to rebuild after Katrina.
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31 treated in Mo. bus crash
Oct 9 2007 10:35PM (CT)
LESTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) - A school bus carrying a high school volleyball team overturned Tuesday, and all 31 people aboard were taken to hospitals, officials said.
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Devlin pleads to kidnapping, sodomy
Oct 9 2007 10:17PM (CT)
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The horror faced by two boys abducted in rural Missouri was revealed Tuesday in court, where their captor pleaded guilty and prosecutors said a video showing him torture one of them underlines why he should die in prison.
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Devlin pleads to kidnapping, sodomy
Oct 9 2007 10:17PM (CT)
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The horror faced by two boys abducted in rural Missouri was revealed Tuesday in court, where their captor pleaded guilty and prosecutors said a video showing him torture one of them underlines why he should die in prison.
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Devlin pleads to kidnapping, sodomy
Oct 9 2007 10:17PM (CT)
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - The horror faced by two boys abducted in rural Missouri was revealed Tuesday in court, where their captor pleaded guilty and prosecutors said a video showing him torture one of them underlines why he should die in prison.
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Wis. AG: Deputy shot himself 3 times
Oct 9 2007 10:17PM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - An off-duty sheriff's deputy who killed six people apparently shot himself three times, with the last shot hitting him in the right side of the head, the state attorney general said Tuesday.
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Wis. AG: Deputy shot himself 3 times
Oct 9 2007 10:17PM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - An off-duty sheriff's deputy who killed six people apparently shot himself three times, with the last shot hitting him in the right side of the head, the state attorney general said Tuesday.
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Wis. AG: Deputy shot himself 3 times
Oct 9 2007 10:17PM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - An off-duty sheriff's deputy who killed six people apparently shot himself three times, with the last shot hitting him in the right side of the head, the state attorney general said Tuesday.
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Noose found at Teachers College in NYC
Oct 9 2007 10:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A black professor discovered a hangman's noose on her office door at Teachers College at Columbia University on Tuesday, and police said they were investigating the case as a possible hate crime.
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Tapes reveal LBJ on Marshall, Vietnam
Oct 9 2007 9:59PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lyndon B. Johnson showed his intensity over Vietnam War negotiations and calculated the public response to his nomination of the first black justice for the Supreme Court in 1967 telephone recordings released Tuesday.
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No survivors in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 9:49PM (CT)
WHITE PASS, Wash. (AP) - Searchers combing through wreckage Tuesday found the last three victims among 10 killed when their plane crashed in Washington's rugged central Cascade Range on their way home from a skydiving event.
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No survivors in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 9:49PM (CT)
WHITE PASS, Wash. (AP) - Searchers combing through wreckage Tuesday found the last three victims among 10 killed when their plane crashed in Washington's rugged central Cascade Range on their way home from a skydiving event.
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No survivors in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 9:49PM (CT)
WHITE PASS, Wash. (AP) - Searchers combing through wreckage Tuesday found the last three victims among 10 killed when their plane crashed in Washington's rugged central Cascade Range on their way home from a skydiving event.
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Wrongly imprisoned man freed in Texas
Oct 9 2007 9:46PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who spent a dozen years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, the third inmate to be released because of problems with the Houston Police Department's crime lab.
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Wrongly imprisoned man freed in Texas
Oct 9 2007 9:46PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who spent a dozen years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, the third inmate to be released because of problems with the Houston Police Department's crime lab.
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Wrongly imprisoned man freed in Texas
Oct 9 2007 9:46PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who spent a dozen years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, the third inmate to be released because of problems with the Houston Police Department's crime lab.
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Girl, 4, dies of fall into Grand Canyon
Oct 9 2007 9:36PM (CT)
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) - A 4-year-old girl was killed Tuesday when she slipped off the edge of the Grand Canyon and fell several hundred feet.
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Defendant faked pregnancy, witnesses say
Oct 9 2007 9:28PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A husband testified Tuesday he believed his wife had given birth and never suspected the baby she showed him had been crudely cut from another woman's womb.
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Tenn. school fight over 'Jena 6' T-shirt
Oct 9 2007 9:13PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A student is suing her suburban Nashville school district for the right to wear a T-shirt with the words "Free the Jena Six," a reference to the black students in a Louisiana town accused of beating a white classmate.
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Media barred from Utah mine probe
Oct 9 2007 8:58PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the news media's request for access to the government's investigation of a deadly mining disaster.
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Utah police say man may regret remarks
Oct 9 2007 7:44PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A man who made a public plea for a hit-and-run driver to take responsibility for his wife's death probably will regret those remarks, police said Tuesday.
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Black pastors step up in HIV/AIDS fight
Oct 9 2007 7:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Black ministers called on the federal government Tuesday to declare HIV/AIDS among blacks a public health emergency and proposed legislation to address the disease in their community.
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Defense contractor's bribery trial opens
Oct 9 2007 7:33PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A defense contractor accused of bribing former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham relied on the congressman to bully Pentagon employees into paying for unsatisfactory work, a federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.
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Defense contractor's bribery trial opens
Oct 9 2007 7:33PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A defense contractor accused of bribing former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham relied on the congressman to bully Pentagon employees into paying for unsatisfactory work, a federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.
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Report faults LAPD in May 1 clash
Oct 9 2007 7:29PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Police Department report Tuesday blamed its own policies, training and commanders for fueling a club-swinging melee at an immigration rally in which police beat demonstrators and reporters to the ground.
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Report faults LAPD in May 1 clash
Oct 9 2007 7:29PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Police Department report Tuesday blamed its own policies, training and commanders for fueling a club-swinging melee at an immigration rally in which police beat demonstrators and reporters to the ground.
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Report faults LAPD in May 1 clash
Oct 9 2007 7:29PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Police Department report Tuesday blamed its own policies, training and commanders for fueling a club-swinging melee at an immigration rally in which police beat demonstrators and reporters to the ground.
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Are big-city marathons getting too big?
Oct 9 2007 7:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - There are young ones, old ones, thin ones and fat ones. Some show up in chicken suits, others in G-strings. There are highly trained athletes, of course, but also many people who look like a starting line is, well, the last place they should be.
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Are big-city marathons getting too big?
Oct 9 2007 7:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - There are young ones, old ones, thin ones and fat ones. Some show up in chicken suits, others in G-strings. There are highly trained athletes, of course, but also many people who look like a starting line is, well, the last place they should be.
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Are big-city marathons getting too big?
Oct 9 2007 7:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - There are young ones, old ones, thin ones and fat ones. Some show up in chicken suits, others in G-strings. There are highly trained athletes, of course, but also many people who look like a starting line is, well, the last place they should be.
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Bush pushes Congress on 'No Child' law
Oct 9 2007 7:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Tuesday that he's open to new ideas for changing the "No Child Left Behind" education law but will not accept watered-down standards or rollbacks in accountability.
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Police: 2 dead, 2 wounded at tire shop
Oct 9 2007 7:22PM (CT)
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - A gunman shot a woman to death and wounded two men at a tire shop Tuesday, then apparently killed himself, police said.
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Camp death accused: We followed policy
Oct 9 2007 7:06PM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Boot camp guards and a nurse charged with killing a teenage boy testified Tuesday that a videotaped altercation with him seemed like a common case of an offender refusing to exercise _ until he became quiet and limp.
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Chicago police to disband elite unit
Oct 9 2007 6:54PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Police Department will disband an elite drug and gang unit under state and federal investigation for allegations ranging from armed violence and home invasion to kidnapping and plotting a murder-for-hire, officials said Tuesday.
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Jury out on ex-head of Texas Southern
Oct 9 2007 6:53PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Jurors deliberated all day Tuesday with no verdict in the case of Texas Southern University's former president, who is accused of spending more than $500,000 of school money to lavishly furnish and decorate her homes.
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4th arrest in football player's death
Oct 9 2007 6:40PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fourth man was charged with murder in the shooting of a football player on the University of Memphis campus during a botched robbery, authorities said.
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4th arrest in football player's death
Oct 9 2007 6:40PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fourth man was charged with murder in the shooting of a football player on the University of Memphis campus during a botched robbery, authorities said.
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4th arrest in football player's death
Oct 9 2007 6:40PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fourth man was charged with murder in the shooting of a football player on the University of Memphis campus during a botched robbery, authorities said.
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4th arrest in football player's death
Oct 9 2007 6:40PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fourth man was charged with murder in the shooting of a football player on the University of Memphis campus during a botched robbery, authorities said.
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Lesbian couple seeks R.I. divorce
Oct 9 2007 6:37PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A lesbian couple married in Massachusetts should have the same right as heterosexual couples to divorce in their home state of Rhode Island, lawyers for the women told the state's highest court Tuesday.
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N.J. missing mayor was seeking treatment
Oct 9 2007 6:22PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The mystery of this gambling resort town's missing mayor appeared to be close to a conclusion Tuesday, with a request before a judge to declare his office vacant.
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Warm winter expected
Oct 9 2007 6:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's winter forecast includes some bad news _ continued dry conditions in an arc sweeping from the Southeast across the Gulf States and into the Southwest.
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Minneapolis bridge at center of battle
Oct 9 2007 6:09PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The crumpled steel beams and shattered concrete of the Interstate 35W bridge are gone from the Mississippi River. These days, it's the process of replacing the span that's in disarray.
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Minneapolis bridge at center of battle
Oct 9 2007 6:09PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The crumpled steel beams and shattered concrete of the Interstate 35W bridge are gone from the Mississippi River. These days, it's the process of replacing the span that's in disarray.
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Minneapolis bridge at center of battle
Oct 9 2007 6:09PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The crumpled steel beams and shattered concrete of the Interstate 35W bridge are gone from the Mississippi River. These days, it's the process of replacing the span that's in disarray.
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'Dear Abby' says she's for gay marriage
Oct 9 2007 6:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For years, rumblings have surfaced on the Internet, conjecture about her casual references to "sexual orientation" and "respect." Now, Dear Abby is ready to say it flatly: She supports same-sex marriage.
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'Dear Abby' says she's for gay marriage
Oct 9 2007 6:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For years, rumblings have surfaced on the Internet, conjecture about her casual references to "sexual orientation" and "respect." Now, Dear Abby is ready to say it flatly: She supports same-sex marriage.
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'Dear Abby' says she's for gay marriage
Oct 9 2007 6:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For years, rumblings have surfaced on the Internet, conjecture about her casual references to "sexual orientation" and "respect." Now, Dear Abby is ready to say it flatly: She supports same-sex marriage.
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OC bishop faces contempt of court
Oct 9 2007 6:08PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A judge began criminal contempt-of-court proceedings Tuesday against the Roman Catholic bishop of Orange County in a highly unusual hearing that marks the first time a U.S. bishop could face jail time in the church sex abuse scandal.
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OC bishop faces contempt of court
Oct 9 2007 6:08PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A judge began criminal contempt-of-court proceedings Tuesday against the Roman Catholic bishop of Orange County in a highly unusual hearing that marks the first time a U.S. bishop could face jail time in the church sex abuse scandal.
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OC bishop faces contempt of court
Oct 9 2007 6:08PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A judge began criminal contempt-of-court proceedings Tuesday against the Roman Catholic bishop of Orange County in a highly unusual hearing that marks the first time a U.S. bishop could face jail time in the church sex abuse scandal.
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AP Poll: Unease grows over US economy
Oct 9 2007 5:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A growing number of people say the economy is the nation's top problem, with the less educated among the most worried, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed Tuesday.
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House passes child safety bills
Oct 9 2007 4:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Highchairs, cribs and other durable infant products would be sold with a postage-paid registration card so consumers would be informed quickly of recalls, under legislation the House passed Tuesday.
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Maine man pleads guilty to killing 4
Oct 9 2007 4:02PM (CT)
PARIS, Maine (AP) - A former cook pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing four people during a bloody four-day rampage in western Maine's ski country, but said he couldn't explain why he did it.
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Group accuses US of al-Qaida video leak
Oct 9 2007 3:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The director of a group that monitors Islamic militant Web sites said the government leaked an Osama bin Laden video that was passed along to senior U.S. officials on condition that they keep it secret. She claimed the leak rendered certain intelligence-gathering capabilities ineffective.
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Brain found in bag near Richmond, Va.
Oct 9 2007 3:43PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A brain was found in a bag near an apartment complex Tuesday morning, but it wasn't clear if it was human or animal, police said. It was discovered in an area next to a suburban Richmond apartment complex under construction and near a mall, Richmond police spokeswoman Karla Peters said.
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Bynum's husband holds 'last call sale'
Oct 9 2007 3:28PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Less than two months after his arrest on a wife-beating charge, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III is offering a steep discount on DVDs of his million-dollar wedding to televangelist Juanita Bynum and a book they wrote together.
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No survivors likely in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 2:15PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event.
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No survivors likely in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 2:15PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event.
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No survivors likely in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 2:15PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event.
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No survivors likely in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 2:15PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event.
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New fire-retardant gel can save homes
Oct 9 2007 1:50PM (CT)
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) - It was the most intense fire ever recorded in the Black Hills National Forest, but nearly all homes coated with a slimy gel were saved while dozens of houses nearby burned to the ground.
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New fire-retardant gel can save homes
Oct 9 2007 1:50PM (CT)
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) - It was the most intense fire ever recorded in the Black Hills National Forest, but nearly all homes coated with a slimy gel were saved while dozens of houses nearby burned to the ground.
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No survivors likely in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 1:08PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event.
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No survivors likely in Wash. plane crash
Oct 9 2007 1:08PM (CT)
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Rescuers searched the rugged Cascade Mountains Tuesday for the last victims of a plane crash that likely killed 10 people flying home from a skydiving event.
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Victims of Wis. shootings were young
Oct 9 2007 9:17AM (CT)
CRANDON, Wis. (AP) - The victims of an off-duty deputy's shooting spree were students or graduates of Crandon High School, and had gathered for pizza and movies on homecoming weekend.
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Shipwreck found off Alaskan coast
Oct 9 2007 8:59AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A private dive team has discovered the wreckage of an American ship that sank off the south-central Alaska coast 139 years ago.
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1 killed, 3 hurt in N.M. balloon crash
Oct 9 2007 6:10AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - One of hundreds of balloons in town for a festival tipped after snagging a utility line, sending a woman plummeting at least 70 feet to her death.
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Ore. teacher wants to take gun to school
Oct 9 2007 6:06AM (CT)
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - High school English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to work because she fears her ex-husband could show up and try to harm her. She's also worried about a Columbine-style attack.
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Ore. teacher wants to take gun to school
Oct 9 2007 6:06AM (CT)
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - High school English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to work because she fears her ex-husband could show up and try to harm her. She's also worried about a Columbine-style attack.
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Study: Tasers safe for police to use
Oct 9 2007 6:03AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Tasers and similar stun guns, increasingly popular among law enforcement agencies nationwide, are generally safe for police to use, according to new research.
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Study: Tasers safe for police to use
Oct 9 2007 6:03AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Tasers and similar stun guns, increasingly popular among law enforcement agencies nationwide, are generally safe for police to use, according to new research.
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Study: Tasers safe for police to use
Oct 9 2007 6:03AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Tasers and similar stun guns, increasingly popular among law enforcement agencies nationwide, are generally safe for police to use, according to new research.
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$600K pledged for Louisiana pet shelter
Oct 9 2007 5:03AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - An animal rights group has pledged $600,000 to build an emergency animal shelter at a prison in case of future evacuation or natural disaster.
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Former Ariz. TB patient leaves country
Oct 9 2007 4:28AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A man with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis who had been confined to a hospital jail unit for nearly a year has left the country, his attorney said.
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SoCal farmers to face water woes in 2009
Oct 9 2007 2:49AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officials of Southern California's major water wholesaler say deliveries to the region's agricultural customers will be cut by nearly a third next year and residents are likely to face rate hikes in 2009 because of a statewide shortage.
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Fire breaks out in Jersey City building
Oct 9 2007 12:56AM (CT)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - A fire broke out Monday night near the top of a high-rise luxury condominium building under construction, prompting evacuations and disrupting light rail service close to the heart of the city's financial district.
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