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Ore. lawmaker to resign after drug ticket
Oct 14 2005 11:40PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A state lawmaker who was cited for possession of methamphetamine discovered by police after she was rammed by a car is resigning.
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Fugitive arrested in Dallas murder
Oct 14 2005 11:23PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The nine-month search for a man wanted in the abduction and slaying of a Dallas restaurateur ended with an arrest in a Mexican resort town Friday.
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High court blocks prison abortion order
Oct 14 2005 11:17PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge's ruling that ordered Missouri prison officials to drive a pregnant inmate to a clinic on Saturday for an abortion.
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Wis. governor vetoes 'conscience clause'
Oct 14 2005 10:42PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's governor vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed health care workers to opt out of a half-dozen procedures, including withdrawing a person's feeding tube and using embryonic stem cells, on religious or moral grounds.
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Office of Hawaiian Affairs faces lawsuit
Oct 14 2005 10:41PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Five Native Hawaiians have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Office of Hawaiian Affairs illegally spends money meant only for those who are at least 50 percent Hawaiian.
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Wash. deputies in fake chase suspended
Oct 14 2005 10:22PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Three Spokane County sheriff's deputies accused of staging a phony high-speed chase as a prank have been placed on administrative leave and may face criminal charges, Sheriff Mark Sterk said Friday.
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La. lawmakers face devastating budget cuts
Oct 14 2005 10:12PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The governor's budget chief gave lawmakers a grim scenario Friday of spending cuts that could force thousands of state employees out of work, slash health services and devastate education as the state tries to balance a budget with a $1.5 billion-plus deficit.
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Experts decry decline of good etiquette
Oct 14 2005 10:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' fast-paced, high-tech existence has taken a toll on civility. From road rage in the morning commute to high decibel cell-phone conversations that ruin dinner out, men and women behaving badly have become the hallmark of a hurry-up world.
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Northeast slogs through 8th day of rain
Oct 14 2005 10:05PM (CT)
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) - Toilets backed up with sewage, military trucks plowed through headlight-high water to rescue people, and swans glided down the streets as rain fell for an eighth straight day around the waterlogged Northeast on Friday.
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Group starts move to get converts, voters
Oct 14 2005 10:02PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A new coalition dedicated to converting thousands to Christianity and getting thousands more on voter registration lists got its start Friday with a tightly scripted rally that resembled a revival meeting.
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Groups threaten to boycott American Girl
Oct 14 2005 9:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - American Girl, manufacturer of a highly popular line of dolls and children's books, has become the target of conservative activists threatening a boycott unless the toy maker cuts off contributions to a youth organization that supports abortion rights and acceptance of lesbians.
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Pregnant woman IDs Pa. neighbor in attack
Oct 14 2005 9:44PM (CT)
FORD CITY, Pa. (AP) - A pregnant woman whose belly was slashed with a razor knife in an attempt to steal her baby identified the attacker as her next-door neighbor, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Maine woman and her dog rescued from well
Oct 14 2005 9:35PM (CT)
LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine (AP) - A woman who fell 12 feet into a well while trying to rescue her dog was pulled to safety after her disabled husband had to crawl down a road to call for help, officials said.
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Man faces murder charge in 1973 shooting
Oct 14 2005 9:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A suspect was charged Friday with murder in the death last year of a man who had been shot 32 years earlier during a racial dispute.
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Ore. property compensation law overturned
Oct 14 2005 9:19PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A judge on Friday struck down a voter-approved law that required state and local governments to compensate landowners if regulations lower their property values.
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2 planes collide in Ohio, killing four
Oct 14 2005 9:18PM (CT)
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - Two small airplanes collided Friday over northeast Ohio and crashed in a field, killing four men, the State Highway Patrol said.
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Richardson heads to North Korea for talks
Oct 14 2005 9:09PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is heading to North Korea next week for talks aimed at persuading that country to give up its nuclear arms program.
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Edmund N. Bacon, city planner, dies at 95
Oct 14 2005 8:43PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Edmund N. Bacon, a renowned city planner whose vision transformed postwar Philadelphia and whose influence continued to shape the look and feel of the nation's fifth-largest city, died Friday. He was 95.
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Woman Gets 10 Years in Idaho Teen Scalping
Oct 14 2005 8:42PM (CT)
IDAHO CITY, Idaho (AP) - A Caldwell woman who scalped a teenage friend for lying was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for felony aggravated battery.
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Martinez attacks immigrant restrictions
Oct 14 2005 8:25PM (CT)
CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) - Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Senate, said Friday he was teaming up with the only black member of the chamber to introduce an immigration enforcement bill.
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Nursing home resident charged with murder
Oct 14 2005 8:11PM (CT)
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - A 66-year-old nursing home resident was charged with second-degree murder after police found skeletal remains buried outside a house she once owned.
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Colorado ski season opens to sunshine
Oct 14 2005 8:06PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The nation's ski season opened under sunny skies Friday, the sixth straight year Loveland Ski Area has been the first in the nation to open for continuous operation.
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Gates urges minorities to study computers
Oct 14 2005 7:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Calling computers fun, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday urged minority college students to consider careers in computer science.
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Court order obtained for Mo. rotting meat
Oct 14 2005 7:28PM (CT)
EXETER, Mo. (AP) - A rancid odor gripping this tiny southwest Missouri town prompted a judge Friday to order the cleanup of 250,000 pounds of meat left to rot at a shuttered chicken processing plant.
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Driver allegedly makes ill child leave bus
Oct 14 2005 7:11PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A school bus driver no longer has his job after he allegedly told a sick child to get off his bus. The diabetic child was left several blocks from his house the morning of Oct. 7, according to his mother, Leigh Nowning.
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Scientists try to ID bodies loosed in La.
Oct 14 2005 6:38PM (CT)
DELCAMBRE, La. (AP) - First the floodwaters dislodged massive burial vaults from the earth. Then the vaults yawned open, and out floated hundreds of coffins. And when the coffins opened, their contents drifted away, too.
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Fuller says differences got him fired
Oct 14 2005 6:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the past 10 months, Millard Fuller has been fired and sued by Habitat for Humanity, the home building charity he founded. Despite their estrangement, the two were linked in bronze Friday as part of a new national monument.
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Suspect in student death speaks to police
Oct 14 2005 6:09PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An amateur photographer considered a key suspect in the death of a college student has talked with police about his role in the case, his attorney says.
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Images of 600 years worth of popes shown
Oct 14 2005 6:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paintings and sculptures of popes from six centuries will make their only American appearance beginning Sunday at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center.
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New Orleans pushes back curfew to 2 a.m.
Oct 14 2005 6:01PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - French Quarter bar owners frustrated with the slow pace of recovery in New Orleans won a partial victory Friday when the city pushed back its curfew from midnight to 2 a.m., allowing a little more partying into the wee hours.
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Janklow asks court to restore law license
Oct 14 2005 5:48PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Former Rep. Bill Janklow, still on probation for a fatal car crash, said Friday he was sorry and asked the state Supreme Court to restore his law license.
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Three plead guilty in Calif. firebomb try
Oct 14 2005 5:37PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Three people pleaded guilty Friday in firebombing incidents linked to a shadowy group the FBI calls an eco-terrorist organization.
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Man getting tattoo in NYC falls down, dies
Oct 14 2005 5:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 28-year-old man getting a tattoo at a parlor in Brooklyn died after getting dizzy, falling headfirst into a glass case and cutting his neck, police said.
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Farrakhan calls for unity at D.C. rally
Oct 14 2005 5:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan asked blacks to focus on ways to help the nation's downtrodden as he prepared for a major gathering Saturday marking the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March.
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Unattended backpack closes rail station
Oct 14 2005 4:02PM (CT)
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - An unattended backpack prompted the evacuation of a commuter rail station and shut down nearby freeways Friday before authorities determined it was harmless.
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States team up on child support operation
Oct 14 2005 3:31PM (CT)
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Illinois and Iowa officials are teaming up to collect delinquent child support from parents who think they can escape their obligations by moving across the state line. It is the second such interstate operation in the nation.
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Wine warehouse fire ruins rare vintages
Oct 14 2005 3:12PM (CT)
NAPA, Calif. (AP) - Some in California wine country are reeling after a huge warehouse fire wiped out millions worth of rare vintages.
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Fake terror threats bedevil investigators
Oct 14 2005 2:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The tip last year from would-be FBI informant Tanveer Choudhry sounded frightening. Two brothers intent on killing Jews planned to hijack a pair of gasoline trucks and turn the Verrazano Narrows Bridge into an inferno, the Pakistani immigrant told agents. But before New Yorkers knew anything about it, investigators came to a familiar conclusion: The tipster was lying.
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Muslims asked to scrutinize charities
Oct 14 2005 2:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - American Muslim leaders are advising people who want to send money to help victims of earthquake-ravaged South Asia to thoroughly research charities to avoid running afoul of U.S. terrorism laws.
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Kin of girl abandoned in NYC get custody
Oct 14 2005 2:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 4-year-old girl who stole the hearts of New Yorkers when she was found wandering the streets barefoot after her mother was slain was placed in the temporary custody of maternal relatives Friday.
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Killer pleads guilty to escape charge
Oct 14 2005 1:38PM (CT)
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - A twice-convicted killer who fled a life sentence 20 years ago and became a poet in Chicago pleaded guilty Friday to an escape charge and was sentenced to three more years.
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Man pleads guilty to fraud over Rembrandt
Oct 14 2005 12:44PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man who posed as a member of the Saudi royal family in an effort to sell a fake Rembrandt painting for $2.8 million has pleaded guilty to mail fraud.
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Big Easy students go to school in Houston
Oct 14 2005 12:31PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Far from the French Quarter, children driven from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina are doing their schoolwork amid reminders of home.
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Jet crashes off Fla. Keys; pilot rescued
Oct 14 2005 12:12PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A Navy jet crashed Friday off the Florida Keys and its pilot was rescued in the water after ejecting from the plane, the Coast Guard said.
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Crowds try to beat bankruptcy deadline
Oct 14 2005 12:00PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - More than 200 people lined up at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver on Friday, the last day to file for bankruptcy before a new law makes it harder for consumers to seek protection from debtors. The crowds filing bankruptcy claims broke records in Denver this week, and bankruptcy courts across the nation reported heavy traffic.
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Crowds try to beat bankruptcy deadline
Oct 14 2005 11:57AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - More than 200 people lined up at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver on Friday, the last day to file for bankruptcy before a new law makes it harder for consumers to seek protection from debtors. The crowds filing bankruptcy claims broke records in Denver this week, and bankruptcy courts across the nation reported heavy traffic.
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Man sentenced to prison for woman's death
Oct 14 2005 10:41AM (CT)
BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) - A carnival worker was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for the death of a 21-year-old woman whose body was discovered in a shallow grave more than a year after she disappeared.
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Child dies when boat capsizes off Fla.
Oct 14 2005 10:33AM (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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Man accused of punching out plane window
Oct 14 2005 8:09AM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A passenger punched out the interior pane of an airplane window on an American West flight from Las Vegas to Florida, authorities said.
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Boy hoping to catch bug in jar shot dead
Oct 14 2005 7:06AM (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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Apothecary artefacts put on auction block
Oct 14 2005 7:05AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - On the auction block: refined skunk oil, goose grease, a pack of medicinal cigarettes ("Promotes easier breathing") and empty bottles that once held cocaine, morphine and amphetamine multivitamins.
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AP releases full New Orleans beating video
Oct 14 2005 7:04AM (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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King Midas returns to Big Easy aquarium
Oct 14 2005 7:01AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - One New Orleans resident returned home with a thunderous splash. King Midas, a 300-pound sea turtle, slid back into his home Thursday at the New Orleans aquarium, one of a handful of creatures that survived Hurricane Katrina.
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Woman accused of jolting mom with stun gun
Oct 14 2005 6:49AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A woman has been charged with second-degree attempted murder in a nighttime attack on her 72-year-old mother, who was tied up, beaten and jolted with a powerful stun gun for hours, court documents say.
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Coast Guard tightens rules on tattoos
Oct 14 2005 5:48AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The Coast Guard has tightened its rules for tattoos for the first time in 30 years in response to the increased popularity of permanent body art.
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Napa man pleads not guilty to stabbings
Oct 14 2005 5:37AM (CT)
NAPA, Calif. (AP) - A 26-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a former beauty queen and her roommate last year has pleaded not guilty.
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Civil rights pioneer Vivian Jones dies
Oct 14 2005 2:49AM (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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Wis. school warns of lethal, common game
Oct 14 2005 12:25AM (CT)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - The death of a 13-year-old boy from what some call "the choking game" has alerted administrators about the popularity of the potentially lethal practice among some Appleton middle school and high school students.
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