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Specter: FBI investigating senate aide
Oct 11 2006 11:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has acknowledged the FBI is looking into allegations that one of his aides illegally helped her lobbyist husband get federal dollars for his clients.
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Honolulu teacher charged in drug case
Oct 11 2006 11:56PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A teacher accused of arranging drug sales while at school was charged with selling crystal meth to an undercover officer, officials said Wednesday.
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Lidle, 2nd person die in NYC plane crash
Oct 11 2006 11:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 40-story apartment building Wednesday, killing the pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the sidewalks and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.
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Woman who lied about rape gets prison
Oct 11 2006 11:52PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A woman who lied about getting pregnant through date rape and abandoned her newborn in a trash bin was sentenced to prison for the statutory rape of the baby's father, her 12-year-old cousin.
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Plane in NYC crash had safety parachute
Oct 11 2006 11:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The plane that crashed into the side of a high-rise apartment building Wednesday comes equipped with a parachute designed to be triggered by the pilot in case of an aerial mishap, but there was no evidence the feature was used.
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Yankees pitcher dies in NYC plane crash
Oct 11 2006 11:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 40-story apartment building Wednesday, killing the pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the sidewalks and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.
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Jets scramble after NYC plane crash
Oct 11 2006 11:40PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The military sent dozens of fighter jets Wednesday to patrol the skies over New York, Washington, and other U.S. and Canadian cities minutes after a small plane crashed into a New York City high-rise.
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Employees sue Santa Barbara paper
Oct 11 2006 11:16PM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - A former reporter for the embattled Santa Barbara News-Press sued the paper Wednesday, claiming it failed to keep accurate time records and stiffed employees out of overtime pay.
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Grace Slick dedicates Virgin America jet
Oct 11 2006 11:01PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rock icon Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane was on hand Wednesday to dedicate Virgin America Inc.'s new corporate headquarters and an aircraft named after the legendary 1960's band.
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Texas man sentenced for terrorist deals
Oct 11 2006 10:55PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A former computer company executive was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for conspiring to launder money for an official of the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
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Mo. chief's son charged with playing cop
Oct 11 2006 10:39PM (CT)
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. (AP) - A suburban St. Louis police chief's son was charged with impersonating an officer, more than a week after being arrested for sporting police clothes and pulling motorists over in his dad's unmarked police car.
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Damaged Alaska highway traps residents
Oct 11 2006 10:33PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Floodwaters damaged a 66-mile stretch of highway so severely that the road could be closed as long as a week, blocking Valdez from the rest of Alaska, state officials said Wednesday.
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Ga. daycare owner charged with DUI
Oct 11 2006 10:24PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A daycare center owner was charged with driving drunk while at the wheel of a van with about a dozen children aboard, authorities said.
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Plea deal ends Hells Angels case in Nev.
Oct 11 2006 10:22PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The federal racketeering trial of 11 Hells Angels motorcycle club members came to a sudden end Wednesday after six defendants accepted plea deals to reduce charges stemming from a deadly casino brawl.
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Husband accuses wife in son's death
Oct 11 2006 10:20PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A sobbing Tim Holland took the stand Wednesday in the murder trial of his wife, describing how he found their 7-year-old adopted son in his bedroom with no heartbeat or pulse one night last year.
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Businessman guilty in slayings of 4
Oct 11 2006 10:10PM (CT)
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - A former businessman was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the 1997 shootings of four people in a factory where he had lost his job.
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Amish school in Pa. to be razed Thursday
Oct 11 2006 9:57PM (CT)
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) - The Amish school where a gunman shot 10 girls last week, killing five of them, is expected to be demolished Thursday, a fire department official said.
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O'Connor is guest judge on appeals panel
Oct 11 2006 9:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor appeared on a three-judge federal appeals panel Wednesday, adding an ingredient to the mix for lawyers set to argue five cases.
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S.C. mom charged with killing twin boys
Oct 11 2006 9:36PM (CT)
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) - A mother told police she smothered her twin 9-month-old boys because they were crying in her bed and then she went back to sleep, authorities said Wednesday.
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NYC residents see fire after plane crash
Oct 11 2006 9:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Drutman was talking on the telephone when he felt his apartment building shake. Then he heard the explosion and saw fiery chunks of metal fly past his window.
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Blagojevich adviser indicted on charges
Oct 11 2006 8:50PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A top adviser and fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich was charged in a federal indictment, unsealed Wednesday, with scheming to collect millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies seeking to do business with the state.
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Defense in Duke rape case seek notes
Oct 11 2006 8:28PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Defense attorneys in the Duke University lacrosse rape case said the prosecutor's office has failed to hand over details of any statements from the accuser or handwritten notes from investigators.
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Lawyer: Duncan will admit to 4 slayings
Oct 11 2006 8:27PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Lawyers for Joseph Edward Duncan III said Wednesday he will admit to the murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene in Montana and to killing three of the boy's relatives in Idaho if prosecutors will drop the death penalty option.
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Woman survives two days in crashed van
Oct 11 2006 8:19PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A married couple missing since Monday was found in an overturned van in a ravine off a major highway, and the wife was the only survivor.
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Mixed reviews of Iraq death toll study
Oct 11 2006 6:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush says he doesn't believe it. Some experts have a problem with it. But several others say it seems sound.
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Ex-U.S. Sen. Pryor has heart surgery
Oct 11 2006 6:00PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - David Pryor, a two-term Arkansas governor and three-term U.S. senator, had successful quadruple bypass surgery Wednesday after checking himself into a hospital with chest pains this week, doctors said.
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Man charged in Chicago family slayings
Oct 11 2006 5:30PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A man was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday in the deaths of his mother, grandmother and uncle, whose battered bodies were found scattered throughout their South Side home, authorities said. Police believe money was the motive.
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American in al-Qaida videos charged
Oct 11 2006 5:04PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The charge of treason was used for the first time in the United States' war on terrorism Wednesday, filed against a California man who appeared in propaganda videos for al-Qaida.
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Plane crash brings back awful memories
Oct 11 2006 4:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Even in a place accustomed to the murmur of terror alerts, a city that has accepted its subways and skyscrapers as targets, where you can almost block out roaring jets and blaring sirens these days, the news sent adrenaline racing.
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Police kill errant emu in Ill.
Oct 11 2006 4:22PM (CT)
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) - Police shot and killed an emu after fearing that the flightless ostrich relative, wandering around for three days near a highway, would cause an accident.
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Report: 5 states use dogs inside prisons
Oct 11 2006 4:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Five U.S. state prison systems allow the use of trained attack dogs to control inmates, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Wednesday.
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Boy faces assault charge in Mo. shooting
Oct 11 2006 4:18PM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - The 13-year-old boy who fired a single shot from an assault rifle inside a middle school was charged as a juvenile Tuesday in the bloodless shooting.
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River crests at near-record level in Va.
Oct 11 2006 4:17PM (CT)
FRANKLIN, Va. (AP) - Swollen by torrential weekend rainfall, the Blackwater River crested Tuesday at nearly a record level, flooding parts of the city with four feet of water and submerging some cars up to their rooftops. No injuries were reported.
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Calif. encourages bringing worms to work
Oct 11 2006 3:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Next to a copy machine on the 10th floor of the city's public works building sits a plastic bin filled with worms wriggling in rotting lettuce. Public servants walk by without even glancing at the box or the note above it: "Quiet please. Worms at work."
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Atty: Inmate signs escape plot in blood
Oct 11 2006 3:33PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A man charged with killing four people in a shooting rampage that began in a courthouse used his own blood to sign letters that detailed his plot to escape from a county jail with another inmate, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Problems at jail where 6 inmates escaped
Oct 11 2006 3:20PM (CT)
LA VILLA, Texas (AP) - There were too few guards and too many beds at a privately run South Texas jail where six inmates escaped last month, and some of the guards were unlicensed, an emergency state inspection conducted days after the jail break has found.
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Aircraft crashes into Manhattan building
Oct 11 2006 2:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A small aircraft crashed into a high-rise on the Upper East Side, setting off a fire and startling New Yorkers, police said. There were conflicting reports on whether the aircraft was a small plane or a helicopter.
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Va. man charged in school bomb threats
Oct 11 2006 12:48PM (CT)
CULPEPER, Va. (AP) - A man has been charged with making telephone bomb threats that led authorities to close every school and daycare facility in Culpeper County for a day, authorities said Wednesday.
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Ky. judge OKs new sex offender limits
Oct 11 2006 12:10PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Hours after a judge upheld a new state law, deputies in at least one Kentucky county arrested convicted sex offenders Wednesday for allegedly violating new restrictions on how close they may live to schools and other places where children gather.
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Still no breaks in UVM student vanishing
Oct 11 2006 11:38AM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Baffled despite three days of intensive searching and interviews, investigators probing the disappearance of a University of Vermont senior dispatched volunteers Wednesday to look for clues in the area where she was last seen.
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3 horses mauled by dog at Md. farm
Oct 11 2006 10:57AM (CT)
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - At least one dog mauled three horses at a farm, and the most severely injured, a miniature foal, may not survive, authorities and the horses' owner said.
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Ohio prosecutor charged with indecency
Oct 11 2006 9:49AM (CT)
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) - A city prosecutor was charged with indecency after a security camera caught him walking around naked in a government building after business hours.
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Body exhumed in Nevada death probe
Oct 11 2006 8:19AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The body of the second husband of slain Nevada state Controller Kathy Augustine was exhumed Tuesday so investigators can seek evidence that would show if he also died as a result of foul play.
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Dozen children hurt in NY bus crash
Oct 11 2006 7:36AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - About a dozen children were slightly injured Wednesday morning when their school bus was rear-ended by another vehicle in a chain reaction crash.
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Odds and Ends
Oct 11 2006 6:46AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The voicemail system on Ohio's toll-free Medicaid line has been referring callers to a service not covered by Medicaid: a phone sex business.
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Schwarzenegger winning celebrity race
Oct 11 2006 6:29AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Want to know who's ahead in the California governor's race? Follow the celebrities. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's double-digit edge in the polls makes him the favorite in November, but he's already clobbered Democratic rival Phil Angelides in another very public measure: Star wattage.
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CEO of Sovereign Bancorp resigns
Oct 11 2006 6:21AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jay Sidhu, who turned Sovereign Bancorp Inc. from a small savings and loan into an $89 billion financial powerhouse, resigned Wednesday amid criticism of a deal he engineered with a Spanish bank that bypassed shareholder approval.
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Gunman killed girls quickly after call
Oct 11 2006 6:00AM (CT)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - The Amish schoolhouse gunman opened fire on his 10 hostages just moments after demanding authorities get off the property, giving state troopers no time to try to save the girls, according to investigators and 911 transcripts released Tuesday.
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Agreement gives all Libyan kids laptops
Oct 11 2006 5:39AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported in Wednesday's editions.
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UW instructor compares Bush to Hitler
Oct 11 2006 4:39AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A university instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks likens President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy for his course.
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Diocese in Iowa files for bankruptcy
Oct 11 2006 4:35AM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - After paying out more than $10.5 million to resolve dozens of sex abuse claims and now facing a new set of lawsuits, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Study seeks lower student diabetes risk
Oct 11 2006 4:02AM (CT)
SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) - They winced while their blood was drawn and fidgeted as the blood pressure cuff tightened. But the sixth-graders were excited about becoming test subjects in a nationwide diabetes study, if only to score the $50 gift card being offered.
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Roberts, Angelou among Quills winners
Oct 11 2006 2:45AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It was the second annual Quills Awards, a night on the town for the publishing industry. Caroline Kennedy made a special appearance, Fantasia Barrino belted out "Summertime," and Donald Trump and Harry Connick, Jr. were among the presenters at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Ex-police officer charged with sex crime
Oct 11 2006 1:49AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A retired police sergeant and former television reporter was charged with having a sexual encounter with two 12-year-old boys in a cruise ship spa, authorities said.
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