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NYC plane crash survivor: A 'miracle'
Oct 12 2006 11:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A woman in a high-rise apartment hit by New York Yankee Cory Lidle's plane survived after her housekeeper saw the aircraft coming and rushed in from another room to get her out, a relative of the resident said Thursday.
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Snow knocks out power around Buffalo
Oct 12 2006 11:13PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A rare early October snowstorm downed tree limbs and toppled power lines Thursday night, leaving nearly more than 155,000 customers without electricity.
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Third convicted in Cuban smuggling case
Oct 12 2006 11:12PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A third man was convicted Thursday for his role in a Cuban smuggling venture that resulted in a woman's death, but a jury cleared him of manslaughter charges that could have resulted in a life sentence.
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Gallaudet students blockade D.C. campus
Oct 12 2006 11:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gallaudet University students blocked access to campus for a second day Thursday, escalating their protest against an incoming president they say lacks the skills to lead the nation's only liberal arts university for the deaf and hearing impaired.
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Not guilty plea in toddler death
Oct 12 2006 11:00PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A suspected gang member pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in the point-blank shooting of a toddler near her family's driveway.
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Ky. city council extends smoking ban
Oct 12 2006 10:42PM (CT)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The city council in the largest city of one of the nation's top tobacco-producing states voted Thursday to extend its smoking ban to cover almost all public buildings.
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Jury selection begins in terrorism trial
Oct 12 2006 10:23PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Jury selection began Thursday in the trial of two men charged with bankrolling terrorism aimed at toppling Israel's government.
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Sheriff: Man wanted 'hit' on unborn baby
Oct 12 2006 10:13PM (CT)
COLVILLE, Wash. (AP) - A man tried to hire someone to kill his unborn child after learning his ex-girlfriend was pregnant and about to give birth, Stevens County Sheriff Craig Thayer said Thursday.
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Minn. town loses gas heat for night
Oct 12 2006 10:09PM (CT)
BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) - About 15,000 residents braced for sub-freezing temperatures on Thursday after a problem with the town's natural gas system required it to be shut off.
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O.J. Simpson seeks dismissal of suit
Oct 12 2006 10:07PM (CT)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - O.J. Simpson has asked a California court to dismiss a lawsuit seeking the publicity rights to his name, image and likeness to pay millions of dollars owed to relatives of his slain ex-wife and her friend.
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Pilot avoids federal charge
Oct 12 2006 10:07PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Federal prosecutors dropped a charge against a Southwest Airlines co-pilot who was removed from a plane in July after a security screener smelled alcohol.
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High-rise searched for airplane parts
Oct 12 2006 9:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators and workers in hard hats gathered up the scorched pieces of New York Yankee Cory Lidle's shattered plane at a luxury high-rise Thursday in a floor-by-floor sweep for clues to why the aircraft crashed.
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Judge, not jury, sought in murder case
Oct 12 2006 9:56PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man accused of strangling his pregnant girlfriend last year waived his right to jury trial Thursday, hoping a judge would better understand his explanation and convict him of a lesser charge.
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Air patrols tighten security over cities
Oct 12 2006 9:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Moments after the single-engine plane slammed into the New York City high-rise, military and other federal officials were on a conference call assessing the situation. Minutes later, fighter aircraft were circling at least a half-dozen cities, prepared to shoot down airborne intruders.
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Officer convicted in Md. inmate death
Oct 12 2006 9:37PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A former correctional officer was conficted Thursday in the beating and stomping death of an inmate at a troubled jail.
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NYC utility praises its work in blackout
Oct 12 2006 9:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A utility that was heavily criticized after a summer power failure left about 100,000 residents in the dark for 10 days praised itself in a report on the blackout released Thursday.
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Flying like life for Lidle's instructor
Oct 12 2006 9:00PM (CT)
LA VERNE, Calif. (AP) - Flying was life itself for Tyler Stanger, a flight instructor whose skills at the controls, honed since he was a teenager, inspired confidence among friends including New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.
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N.C. lottery head guilty of mail fraud
Oct 12 2006 8:45PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former state lottery commissioner, accused of failing to disclose his work for a leading supplier of scratch-off lottery tickets, was convicted of federal mail fraud charges Thursday.
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Worker killed at Minn. plant
Oct 12 2006 8:41PM (CT)
FORBES, Minn. (AP) - A pair of electrical explosions ignited a fire at an iron ore processing plant Thursday, killing one worker and injuring another, authorities said.
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Guilty plea in Kuwait bribery case
Oct 12 2006 8:29PM (CT)
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A former employee of the Army Corps of Engineers pleaded guilty Thursday to taking almost $50,000 in bribes from a Kuwaiti real estate agent while working to get apartments for U.S. personnel, officials said.
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Texas law students chastised for party
Oct 12 2006 8:20PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A group of first-year law students at the University of Texas at Austin has been chided by the dean for participating in a "Ghetto Fabulous"-themed costume party and posting pictures from it online.
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Pipeline blast kills 3 off La.
Oct 12 2006 8:18PM (CT)
JEANERETTE, La. (AP) - A tugboat pushing two barges hit an offshore natural gas pipeline Thursday, causing an explosion that killed three people, left three missing and sent flames shooting 100 feet high, the Coast Guard said.
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Mich. father admits lying to police
Oct 12 2006 8:02PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A day after Tim Holland testified that his wife killed their 7-year-old adopted son, defense attorneys attacked his credibility Thursday by focusing on lies he told the police and public.
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33 Katrina victims still unidentified
Oct 12 2006 7:28PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The bodies of 65 Hurricane Katrina victims, of which just half have been identified, remain unclaimed more than a year after the storm, the Orleans Parish coroner said Thursday.
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Images released of missing Vt. student
Oct 12 2006 7:14PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - As the investigation into the disappearance of a University of Vermont senior entered its sixth day, police on Thursday released still video images of the woman and the man she was last seen walking with, saying he is a "significant focus" of the investigation.
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Former President Ford has medical tests
Oct 12 2006 7:13PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Gerald Ford, the nation's oldest living former president, was in a hospital Thursday and undergoing medical tests, his office said.
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AWOL soldier gets 3 months' confinement
Oct 12 2006 7:07PM (CT)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - A Fort Bragg paratrooper who says he left his military base because he disagreed with the U.S. mission in Iraq was sentenced to three months of confinement after pleading guilty Thursday to going absent without leave.
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NYC flight path comes under scrutiny
Oct 12 2006 7:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A day after the fiery plane crash that killed Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, politicians expressed alarm that, five years after Sept. 11, small aircraft are still allowed to fly right up next to the New York skyline.
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Cause of N.C. chemical fire unknown
Oct 12 2006 6:48PM (CT)
APEX, N.C. (AP) - The exact cause of a chemical fire that prompted evacuations will probably never be known because much of the evidence was destroyed in the blaze, federal investigators said Thursday.
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Dad charged in son's Mo. school shooting
Oct 12 2006 6:29PM (CT)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - The father of a 13-year-old who fired a shot inside his school in a bloodless shooting was arrested Thursday and charged with being a felon in possession of a gun, authorities said.
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Site of Amish schoolhouse shooting razed
Oct 12 2006 6:27PM (CT)
NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) - Ten days after the Amish schoolhouse shootings, a demolition crew using heavy equipment tore down the bloodstained building Thursday and obliterated nearly all traces of the place where five girls were killed.
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Court sides with immigrants on Medicaid
Oct 12 2006 6:13PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland may not cut off Medicaid benefits to needy pregnant women and children who are legal immigrants until the constitutionality of the move is tested in the courts, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.
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Hoax blamed for N.M. schools lockdown
Oct 12 2006 5:48PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Three Albuquerque schools were locked down and SWAT teams searched the area around a middle school Thursday before an eighth-grader admitted she lied about seeing a man with a knife on campus, police said.
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Investigators seek clues in Lidle crash
Oct 12 2006 5:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators and workers in hard hats gathered up the scorched pieces of New York Yankee Cory Lidle's shattered plane at a luxury high-rise Thursday in a floor-by-floor sweep for clues to why the aircraft crashed.
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Study examines Midwest election coverage
Oct 12 2006 5:21PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An average of 36 seconds per broadcast is all that election coverage has warranted on local evening news in nine top Midwestern markets since Labor Day, a study released Thursday found.
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Tex. man gets 7 years for terrorist deal
Oct 12 2006 5:16PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A businessman was sentenced Thursday to nearly seven years in prison for having financial ties to a high-ranking terrorist and for making illegal computer exports to countries that support terrorism.
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Vatican OKs resignation of Iowa bishop
Oct 12 2006 5:13PM (CT)
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - The Vatican announced the bishop of Davenport's retirement Thursday, two days after the Roman Catholic diocese filed for bankruptcy amid dozens of lawsuits alleging priest sex abuse.
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Little Rock school board mostly black
Oct 12 2006 5:11PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - For the first time since federal troops escorted nine black students into Central High School 49 years ago, the Little Rock school board has a black majority.
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Woman gets 4-month term for bid-rigging
Oct 12 2006 5:09PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A participant in a bid-rigging scheme was sentenced to four months in prison Thursday and was praised for helping secure the conviction of former Gov. George Ryan.
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Study: Voting harder in some states
Oct 12 2006 4:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Some states have enacted laws that make it harder to vote instead of correcting ballot problems that have plagued various parts of the country since the 2000 election, according to a study released Thursday.
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Mugger convicted in actress' slaying
Oct 12 2006 4:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A mugger was convicted of murder Thursday in the slaying of an aspiring actress who was shot after she shoved him and talked back during a holdup.
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Fla. man charged with locking up son, 9
Oct 12 2006 3:59PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A father was arrested and charged with keeping his 9-year-old son locked in a bedroom for much of the past three years and watching his every move with surveillance cameras.
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La. judge who set low bonds is suspended
Oct 12 2006 3:51PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A judge who earlier drew a reprimand for expunging convicts' records was suspended after complaints that he set bonds too low for suspects in violent crimes, the state's high court said Thursday.
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Youth coach gets prison in beaning case
Oct 12 2006 3:42PM (CT)
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A youth baseball coach convicted of trying to pay a child to bean an autistic teammate so he couldn't play was sentenced Thursday to one to six years in prison.
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Doonesbury creator starts military blog
Oct 12 2006 3:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Though often bitterly critical of the war on Iraq in his comic strip "Doonesbury," creator Garry Trudeau now is offering readers a chance to get a closer, mostly unfiltered view of troops' experiences in their own words.
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Ex-AP correspondent Frank Crepeau dies
Oct 12 2006 3:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Frank Crepeau, a veteran foreign correspondent for The Associated Press who mixed a warm and winning wit with tenacious reporting as he covered the declining Soviet bloc and war-torn Middle East, died in New York on Wednesday following a stroke, his family said. He was 74.
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Judge says abducted girl, 9, can testify
Oct 12 2006 2:13PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A girl who survived a massacre at her family's home last year is competent to testify in the trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III, which begins next week, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Robber's wish to go to prison granted
Oct 12 2006 1:46PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man who couldn't find steady work came up with a plan to make it through the next few years until he could collect Social Security: He robbed a bank, then handed the money to a guard and waited for police.
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Wildfires expose ancient artifacts
Oct 12 2006 12:51PM (CT)
DESCANSO, Calif. (AP) - An oak tree was still burning nearby when Margaret Hangan made her way across a wildfire-scorched landscape and spotted to her delight a set of flat-topped granite boulders that served as kitchen counters in an ancient village 2,000 years ago.
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Fla. orange forecast lowest in 16 years
Oct 12 2006 12:35PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Florida is expected to have its smallest orange crop in 16 years because of a winter cold snap and lingering hurricane stress, the federal government said Thursday.
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Feds bar use of firefighting jumbo jet
Oct 12 2006 12:31PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal safety rules are preventing wider use of a major advance in firefighting _ a jumbo jet modified to drop 10 times more flame retardant than the typical air tanker.
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Autopsies: Boat in crash was airborne
Oct 12 2006 12:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Autopsies following a deadly collision during a Columbus Day regatta suggested that a powerboat was traveling so fast that it was airborne when it struck a broken-down boat being towed.
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Woman who lied about rape gets prison
Oct 12 2006 11:44AM (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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Religion news in brief
Oct 12 2006 11:04AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Leaders of America's Orthodox Christian churches, meeting jointly for only the third time, agreed to form a pastoral practices commission on "bringing coherence and unity to our expression of Orthodoxy."
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Court won't hear ex-nun's bias claims
Oct 12 2006 11:03AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A federal appeals court stood by its decision to refuse to hear the claim of a former Catholic university chaplain that she was forced out for helping expose allegations of priest misconduct.
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Group challenges Ga. sex offender law
Oct 12 2006 10:34AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Opponents of a Georgia law that cracks down on where sex offenders can live are launching a new offensive to block a provision that could evict offenders who live within 1,000 feet of churches.
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Grace Slick dedicates Virgin America jet
Oct 12 2006 9:19AM (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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Businessman guilty in slayings of 4
Oct 12 2006 9:06AM (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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Poll: N.J. senate race still tight
Oct 12 2006 5:35AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The race between Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez and Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr. remains virtually deadlocked with less than four weeks remaining before Election Day, a new poll shows.
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Ariz. lawmaker under fire for e-mail
Oct 12 2006 3:24AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A state lawmaker who wants to reinstate a 1950s federal deportation program known as "Operation Wetback" is under fire again for sending supporters information from a white separatist group.
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Employees sue Santa Barbara paper
Oct 12 2006 12:14AM (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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