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Utah van rollover kills one, injures 14
Oct 11 2005 11:25PM (CT)
MOAB, Utah (AP) - A minivan crammed with 16 people rolled over Tuesday in southeastern Utah, killing one passenger and injuring 14 others, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
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Colo. highways reopen; snowstorm kills 3
Oct 11 2005 11:21PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Crews worked to restore power to thousands of customers and dozens of schools remained closed Tuesday, a day after a storm blasted Colorado with up to 30 inches of snow.
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NYC officials question subway hoax reports
Oct 11 2005 11:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police officials questioned reports on Tuesday that an alleged subway bomb plot that spread fear through the city was a hoax.
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Terror suspect confesses to Bush plot
Oct 11 2005 11:21PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A U.S. citizen accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush said in a videotaped confession that he was motivated by hatred of American support for Israel.
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Jury convicts mother in water death
Oct 11 2005 11:06PM (CT)
PROVO, Utah (AP) - A woman who forced her 4-year-old adopted daughter to drink a large amount of water as punishment was convicted Tuesday in the child's death.
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Power outage hits parts of downtown L.A.
Oct 11 2005 10:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A blackout hit downtown government buildings, Chinatown and adjacent areas Tuesday, but backup power kept key parts of City Hall and police headquarters running. It was the third significant electrical failure in the city since mid-September.
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Papers show Couey begged to avoid jail
Oct 11 2005 10:31PM (CT)
INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) - The sex offender accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford pleaded with a detective not to send him to prison because he claimed it would not help him, according to documents released Tuesday.
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Special Forces suicides raise questions
Oct 11 2005 10:26PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Chief Warrant Officer William Howell was a 15-year Army Special Forces veteran who had seen combat duty all over the world. Sgt. 1st Class Andre McDaniel was a military accountant. Spc. Jeremy Wilson repaired electronics.
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Mehlman defends GOP appeal for black votes
Oct 11 2005 10:12PM (CT)
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - The national Republican Party chairman on Tuesday defended the GOP's outreach to black voters, days after his Democratic counterpart questioned how he could make such an appeal in view of the Bush administration's tepid response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Mehlman defends GOP appeal for black votes
Oct 11 2005 10:11PM (CT)
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - The national Republican Party chairman on Tuesday defended the GOP's outreach to black voters, days after his Democratic counterpart questioned how he could make such an appeal in view of the Bush administration's tepid response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Calif. court hears gay fertility case
Oct 11 2005 9:56PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A California appeals court heard arguments Tuesday in the case of a woman who sued her doctors after they refused to artificially inseminate her, allegedly because she is gay.
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City to make Hollywood club a firehouse
Oct 11 2005 9:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The City Council voted Tuesday to transform a historic Hollywood nightclub _ where an unknown Marilyn Monroe held her first wedding reception _ into a fire station.
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Corzine leads N.J. governor's race poll
Oct 11 2005 9:48PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's governor's race has tightened, with Republican businessman Doug Forrester gaining ground on Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine, according to a new poll.
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NASA Jet Propulsion Lab plans layoffs
Oct 11 2005 9:46PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory plans to lay off between 5 percent and 8 percent of its work force as a result of fiscal belt-tightening, officials said.
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Teen fires gun in Mo. school; none hurt
Oct 11 2005 9:26PM (CT)
FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) - A high school student was arrested Tuesday after he donned a mask and fired a shotgun into a restroom ceiling, prompting a brief lockdown at the school, authorities said. No one was injured when the shot was fired around 8 a.m.
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Ky. soccer goalie, 17, hit by ball, dies
Oct 11 2005 9:13PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A high school soccer goalie died Tuesday morning after a ball was kicked into his throat during a game the night before.
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Testimony: Ryan awarded low-digit plates
Oct 11 2005 9:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Campaign contributors were rewarded with low-digit license plates when George Ryan was secretary of state, his former right-hand man testified Tuesday, but he said he wasn't aware of anyone giving Ryan money in exchange for favors from the office.
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Iowan gets death penalty in drug slayings
Oct 11 2005 7:40PM (CT)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A drug dealer convicted of killing five people _ including two children _ to protect his methamphetamine operation was sentenced Tuesday to die by lethal injection, becoming the first person in more than 40 years to receive a death sentence in Iowa.
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Wife's trial opens in murder of therapist
Oct 11 2005 7:35PM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A woman who stabbed her wealthy husband, allegedly in self-defense, spoke long before the killing about how she wanted him dead, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday as her first-degree murder trial got under way.
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Air Force steps back from 'code of ethics'
Oct 11 2005 7:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force has withdrawn from use by its chaplain service a code of ethics that endorsed the practice of evangelizing military service members who are not affiliated with any specific religion.
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Search on for 4 missing in eastern floods
Oct 11 2005 7:26PM (CT)
ALSTEAD, N.H. (AP) - Where Sally and Tim Canfield's home once stood, there is only open land. Their home was washed away by floodwaters, and two days after the rains subsided, their family found no trace of them.
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Airman missing for 58 years laid to rest
Oct 11 2005 7:01PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - An Army airman who was missing for 58 years was laid to rest Tuesday in his hometown of Haverhill, Mass., six years after the wreckage of his plane was found in the mountains of Panama.
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Former Pa. death row inmate dies
Oct 11 2005 6:54PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man freed after spending more than five years on Pennsylvania's death row has died of medical problems that he claimed went untreated in prison.
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La. governor cool to hotel casino proposal
Oct 11 2005 6:37PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday she disagrees with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's idea to revitalize the devastated city with gambling revenue.
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Mo. groups propose stem cell amendment
Oct 11 2005 6:36PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A coalition of researchers and patients groups proposed a constitutional amendment Tuesday to protect stem cell research in Missouri, where anti-abortion activists have tried to outlaw a particular type of research they say amounts to the taking of a human life.
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Jet stolen from Fla. ends up in Ga.
Oct 11 2005 6:31PM (CT)
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A 10-passenger charter jet that was reported stolen from St. Augustine, Fla., was found at an airport some 350 miles away near Atlanta, and authorities were attempting to figure out who had flown it there.
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Supreme Court won't hear Cianci's appeal
Oct 11 2005 6:10PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by former Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. to review his corruption conviction, likely exhausting the appeals process for the city's longtime leader.
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U.N. urges boost in development aid
Oct 11 2005 6:01PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The world's poorest countries receive the same level of international aid for development projects now as they did in 1990, and an increase is essential to meet the U.N. target of cutting extreme poverty by half by 2015, the U.N. economic chief said Tuesday.
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Corps finishes pumping out New Orleans
Oct 11 2005 5:55PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday that it has finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks ago and then swamped again by Hurricane Rita.
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First Oklahoma lottery tickets go on sale
Oct 11 2005 5:48PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma will become the 41st state to offer a lottery when 1,200 businesses start selling instant tickets Wednesday morning.
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Man, 20, arrested in Kan. fire; three died
Oct 11 2005 5:46PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A 20-year-old resident of an apartment complex where three people died in a fire last week was charged Tuesday with setting the blaze.
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Jesse Jackson organizes La. job effort
Oct 11 2005 5:10PM (CT)
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - About 200 people including New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina rolled into this suburb on buses Tuesday, seeking to share in government jobs to rebuild the city.
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Beaten New Orleans man revisits scene
Oct 11 2005 4:58PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Robert Davis stood at the corner of Bourbon and Conti streets in the French Quarter and stared in disbelief at the brown stain on the sidewalk.
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Deal protects part of world's oldest reef
Oct 11 2005 3:33PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A 71-acre section of 450 million-year-old rock that is believed to be part of the world's oldest coral reef will be preserved and opened to the public, officials announced Tuesday.
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Texas bus driver charged in girl's death
Oct 11 2005 2:51PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A school bus driver was charged with murder and negligent homicide for hitting a fourth-grader as she rode her bike across a street, killing her.
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Workers blast bridge segment in S.C. river
Oct 11 2005 2:26PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Workers on Tuesday used explosives to send a 500-foot segment of an aging bridge plunging into the water, one of two spans replaced by the futuristic Ravenel Bridge, the longest one of its kind in North America.
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Selsky named AP's chief of Caribbean news
Oct 11 2005 11:06AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Andrew Selsky, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Colombia, has been named chief of Caribbean news in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Radar problem delays Boston flights again
Oct 11 2005 10:21AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Flights into Logan International Airport were delayed again Tuesday as federal officials worked for a second day to fix a malfunctioning radar system.
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Sex offender's wife in child custody fight
Oct 11 2005 8:39AM (CT)
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Melissa WolfHawk, due to give birth any day now, lives in fear that her baby will be taken from her _ by the government. The county child-welfare agency believes her child won't be safe because her husband is a sex offender who spent more than a decade in prison for rape in a case involving two teenage girls.
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Custody discussed for abandoned girl
Oct 11 2005 7:57AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The grandmothers of a little girl found abandoned on the streets of Queens discussed custody arrangements for the preschooler Monday, the first time the pair had seen each other since the alleged murder of the child's mother.
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Fear still with kids long after Katrina
Oct 11 2005 7:06AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Brooke Anderson tries not to think about the storm that wrecked her hometown of Gulfport. Now living in Jackson with her father, the 11-year-old went a week without a shower or clean water to brush her teeth after Hurricane Katrina. She went to bed scared each night, trying to sleep in the oppressive heat.
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New Orleans police struggle with upheaval
Oct 11 2005 6:52AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Their homes are gone, their families scattered, their reputations sliding by the day. Home for most New Orleans police officers is a cramped cruise ship, and work is 12- to 14-hour days in a wrecked city. When time off does come along, there is nowhere to go and no one to spend it with.
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N.C. novelist appeals conviction
Oct 11 2005 5:47AM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A novelist sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of his wife has filed an appeal alleging he was wrongfully convicted.
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Texas Congressman Kevin Brady arrested
Oct 11 2005 4:19AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - U.S. Rep Kevin Brady was arrested and charged with driving under the influence while in South Dakota, according to a published report.
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Watergate building sold for $86.5 million
Oct 11 2005 3:33AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Watergate office building that was the site of the infamous burglary in 1972 of the Democratic National Committee office has been sold.
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