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N.M. governor heads to N. Korea nuke talks
Oct 13 2005 11:39PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton presidency, is heading overseas next week for talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear arms program.
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Kerry criticizes Calif. union dues proposal
Oct 13 2005 11:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that a ballot initiative on union dues backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could end up depriving working people of having a say in politics.
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Historic unit reactivated for Iraq mission
Oct 13 2005 11:19PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - The 101st Airborne Division on Thursday reactivated a historic unit whose actions during World War II were the subject of the book "Band of Brothers."
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Katrina evacuees uncertain of destinations
Oct 13 2005 11:17PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - After five weeks of sharing a convention-hall-turned-bedroom with hundreds of other Hurricane Katrina evacuees, Perry Bernard is finally getting a new address. But it may look a lot like the old one.
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Woman charged in pregnant neighbor attack
Oct 13 2005 11:16PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A woman clubbed her pregnant neighbor over the head with a baseball bat, drove her to the woods and cut her belly with a knife in an attempt to steal her baby, police say.
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Opening celebrated at Clintons' Ark. home
Oct 13 2005 10:52PM (CT)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Three decades later, Marie Clinton Bruno was thrilled to return to the house where she watched Bill and Hillary Clinton get married.
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AP releases full New Orleans beating video
Oct 13 2005 10:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press on Thursday released the full video of police officers beating a retired teacher as they tried to arrest him on New Orleans' Bourbon Street.
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Child hoping to catch bug in jar shot dead
Oct 13 2005 10:43PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - An 8-year-old boy who stepped outside to try to catch an insect in a jar was killed in a hail of gunfire, and his adult cousin was wounded.
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Teen dead in Pa. crash survived 2002 wreck
Oct 13 2005 10:39PM (CT)
HUGHESVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl killed in a traffic accident Thursday had survived a similar crash in 2002 that killed her brother.
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Mexico, U.S. plan to fight border violence
Oct 13 2005 10:32PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Law enforcement from the United States and Mexico have formed a partnership aimed at quelling drug-related violence on the border.
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Northeast rivers overflow, roads submerged
Oct 13 2005 10:12PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A seventh straight day of rain across much of the soggy Northeast trapped motorists, delayed airline flights and sent streams surging over their banks Thursday.
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Poll shows residents weigh return to Gulf
Oct 13 2005 10:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Four in 10 residents of New Orleans who sought Red Cross help after Hurricane Katrina say they don't expect to return home _ an exodus that could dramatically change that city, a poll of those hurricane survivors found.
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Ex-N.Y. state official indicted for fraud
Oct 13 2005 9:43PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The former top officer of a state entrepreneurial program is accused of scheming to defraud the state and federal government of millions of dollars, according to a federal indictment announced Thursday.
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French firm to pay $17M to Armenian heirs
Oct 13 2005 8:42PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A French life insurance company has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by descendants of Armenians killed 90 years ago in the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
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$7B cleanup at Rocky Flats said finished
Oct 13 2005 6:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The contractor hired to clean up the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant declared the $7 billion, 10-year project completed Thursday, a major milestone in the conversion of the site to a wildlife refuge.
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Bar owners, angry about curfew, to defy it
Oct 13 2005 6:31PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - French Quarter bar owners plan to challenge the city's midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew the only way New Orleans knows how: with a party.
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Civil rights pioneer Vivian Jones dies
Oct 13 2005 6:22PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace's infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" in 1963, died Thursday. She was 63.
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Reputed mob figure vanishes mid-trial
Oct 13 2005 5:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A reputed mobster facing a five-year prison term in a waterfront corruption case disappeared in the middle of his trial, prompting speculation that he had instead received a Mafia-imposed death penalty.
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Soldier arrested in Fort Campbell shooting
Oct 13 2005 5:37PM (CT)
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A soldier was arrested after firing five shots at a group of comrades during their morning workout Thursday, the Army said. No one was wounded, said Cathy Gramling, a Fort Campbell spokeswoman.
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Convicted airman sentenced to death
Oct 13 2005 5:28PM (CT)
MACON, Ga. (AP) - An airman was sentenced to death Thursday for killing a fellow airman and his wife at their home at Robins Air Force Base.
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Landmark cafe in New Orleans set to reopen
Oct 13 2005 4:38PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - After the longest break in its 153-year history, Cafe Du Monde will once again fill New Orleans' Jackson Square with the luscious smell of beignets and rich, chicory-laced coffee.
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Farrakhan hopes rally inspires movement
Oct 13 2005 3:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says he wants this weekend's gathering on the National Mall to be the start of a long-range movement to empower minorities, not just a one-day event.
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Elections daunting task for New Orleans
Oct 13 2005 3:40PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - How do you hold city elections when half your polling places are destroyed? How do you inform voters when they are scattered across the country? And how, in the middle of so much confusion, do you guard against fraud?
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Man accused of killing Alzheimer's patient
Oct 13 2005 3:15PM (CT)
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) - A nursing home resident has been charged with murdering an elderly Alzheimer's patient by picking her up and throwing her on her head after she wandered into his room.
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Big Easy officials aim to rebuild schools
Oct 13 2005 2:50PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The pungent smell of mold seeps out of broken windows at Louis Armstrong Elementary School, where toppled desks lie under overturned bookcases, all caked with layers of potentially toxic mud.
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Katrina spawns thousands of fraud cases
Oct 13 2005 2:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Katrina has spawned a second big flood that is surging well beyond the Gulf Coast: thousands of cases and complaints alleging fraud.
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Child dies when boat capsizes off Fla.
Oct 13 2005 1:41PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A 6-year-old Cuban boy died early Thursday after the speedboat he was being smuggled on capsized as the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept it, trapping him underneath, authorities said.
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Deception behind transplant switch fatal
Oct 13 2005 12:44PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A high school principal who had been first in line for a liver transplant died less than a year after an organ improperly went to someone else and records were faked to cover the switch, a published report said.
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Fla. court to hear gay student's lawsuit
Oct 13 2005 12:34PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A student's lawsuit alleging he was expelled from his Christian high school after telling a chaplain he is gay is headed for the state's Supreme Court.
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Religion news in brief
Oct 13 2005 11:02AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Amid intense debate over how public schools teach evolution, a University of Kansas museum is planning a major, two-year exhibit designed to teach visitors about the theory.
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Religion today
Oct 13 2005 11:00AM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - There are few better places to get a glimpse of what 21st century Christianity looks like than Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Robert Shapiro's son dies at L.A. hospital
Oct 13 2005 9:26AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The 24-year-old son of O.J. Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro died at a hospital after being found unconscious, and the coroner's office said he had tested positive for amphetamines.
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Civil rights pioneer hospitalized in Ga.
Oct 13 2005 8:45AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace's infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" in 1963, was in critical condition Thursday at an Atlanta hospital.
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Philadelphia moves to end homelessness
Oct 13 2005 7:39AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - City officials announced a 10-year plan to eradicate homelessness in Philadelphia after meeting with advocates and others trying to best tackle the problem.
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Couples on east, west coasts wait to wed
Oct 13 2005 5:22AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Couples in the Northeast are hearing wedding bells later than men and women elsewhere in the country _ especially Utah, where younger newlyweds are the norm.
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Lawmakers seek support for military kin
Oct 13 2005 4:45AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - After Gay and Fred Eisenhauer learned their son had been killed while serving in Iraq in May, the couple traveled to the cargo area at Lambert Airport in St. Louis to get his body.
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Aid groups' readiness help quake effort
Oct 13 2005 4:08AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Relief groups confronting the devastation from last week's earthquake in Kashmir have at least one thing in their favor: Many have worked in that very region for years, long ago positioning warehouses nearby with stocks of blankets, tents and cooking kits.
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Lower turnout expected in Calif. election
Oct 13 2005 3:51AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Despite raising tens of millions of dollars in campaign donations, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his opponents will likely be preaching to selective audiences as they try to mobilize voters for the November special election.
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Liberians in US await homeland poll results
Oct 13 2005 3:47AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - As Liberians cast their ballots for the country's first postwar president, Theresa Gildersleve prepared a meal of cassava leaf in her Staten Island kitchen and fretted about her native country's future.
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New club at Princeton promotes chastity
Oct 13 2005 3:24AM (CT)
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - The students who started one of Princeton University's newest clubs remember the awkward moment when they realized they were in the minority: while watching a play called "Sex on a Saturday Night."
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Prosecutors seek BTK killer restrictions
Oct 13 2005 1:34AM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A judge recommended Wednesday that BTK killer Dennis Rader receive treatment as a sexual offender while he serves the rest of his life in prison for 10 murders.
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LA Archdiocese papers may rush settlements
Oct 13 2005 1:33AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Newly released documents detailing sex abuse allegations against Roman Catholic priests could help speed hundreds of lawsuits toward settlement as the Los Angeles Archdiocese faces potentially damaging developments on other fronts in the abuse crisis.
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States aim to protect poor from heat bills
Oct 13 2005 1:27AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - With fuel bills expected to rise sharply this winter, states are setting aside extra money for the poor, dispensing energy-conservation tips and pleading for federal aid to help Americans keep the heat on when the weather turns cold.
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Mobile homes, campers wait at FEMA sites
Oct 13 2005 12:48AM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - More than 9,000 mobile homes and campers meant for the victims of Hurricane Katrina are sitting unused at government staging areas while displaced families continue to live out of tents and shelters.
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Arkansas mother gives birth to 16th child
Oct 13 2005 12:28AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again. Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.
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