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Crews start work on drenched Northeast
Oct 16 2005 11:55PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Emergency and utility crews across the Northeast worked Sunday to repair the damage caused by several days of rain and floods, but strong winds continued to cause problems.
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Survey of NYC restaurants to be released
Oct 16 2005 11:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Gramercy Tavern and Le Bernardin are still the kings of cuisine in New York, according to the 2006 Zagat Survey of New York City restaurants that will be released Monday.
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Neighbors: Neo-Nazis had no right to march
Oct 16 2005 9:49PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - In the days leading up to a white supremacist march, ministers pleaded with residents to stay calm and community leaders organized peace rallies. Authorities even delayed releasing the route so protesters wouldn't know where the group planned to march.
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Hurricane victims still in shelters
Oct 16 2005 9:31PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - More than 4,500 hurricane victims moved out of shelters over the weekend, lowering the total remaining to just over 11,000.
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4 adults, 1 child killed in Wis. bus crash
Oct 16 2005 9:21PM (CT)
OSSEO, Wis. (AP) - A bus carrying high school students home from a band competition crashed into a tractor-trailer that had jackknifed on the interstate early Sunday, killing five people, including the band director and his 11-year-old granddaughter, officials said.
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Wife of TV legal analyst found slain
Oct 16 2005 9:10PM (CT)
LAFAYETTE, Calif. (AP) - The wife of prominent defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz was found slain in the entryway of the couple's San Francisco Bay area home, authorities said Sunday.
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Delta towns cope with Katrina evacuees
Oct 16 2005 8:59PM (CT)
MIDNIGHT, Miss. (AP) - Like many towns across the Southern Delta, Midnight is little more than a faded general store, a towering cotton gin, a Baptist church and shotgun homes scattered along a few narrow streets.
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Armenian pontiff: Settlement a first step
Oct 16 2005 8:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two recent insurance settlements for descendants of Armenians killed 90 years ago by the Turkish Ottoman Empire are a first step toward international recognition that the bloodshed was an act of genocide, the Armenian pontiff Catholicos Aram I said Sunday.
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Tourists return to Big Easy after Katrina
Oct 16 2005 7:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jeanie Reavis has come for Mardi Gras and Jazzfest and Creole Christmas, dozens of trips to the city she loves. She will head to New Orleans again Monday, undeterred by the destruction she witnessed on her TV screen from 700 miles away. She says she has to.
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Seattle plane crash victims were students
Oct 16 2005 6:53PM (CT)
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A weekend plane crash near Seattle killed two students from a special school for teenagers interested in careers in the aviation industry, school officials said.
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Cayman Islands braces for tropical storm
Oct 16 2005 6:37PM (CT)
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) - A tropical storm warning was in effect Sunday for the Cayman Islands as a tropical depression moved through the Atlantic on a path that could threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week as a hurricane, forecasters said.
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Explosion rocks Houston refinery
Oct 16 2005 6:24PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - An explosion set fire to a Houston refinery Sunday as workers tried to restart gasoline-producing equipment that had been shut down since Hurricane Rita.
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Temblor hits off San Diego coast
Oct 16 2005 5:15PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - An underwater earthquake with a magnitude 4.9 struck off the Southern California coast Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Institute of Technology.
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Obese man dies in mobile home fire in Mo.
Oct 16 2005 3:10PM (CT)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - A fire destroyed a mobile home, killing a 600-pound, homebound man who could not be moved out in time despite the efforts of neighbors and firefighters.
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L.I. principal nixes school's senior prom
Oct 16 2005 2:15PM (CT)
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Brother Kenneth M. Hoagland had heard all the stories about prom-night debauchery at his Long Island high school: Students putting down $10,000 to rent a party house in the Hamptons. Pre-prom cocktail parties followed by a trip to the dance in a liquor-loaded limo. Fathers chartering a boat for their children's late-night "booze cruise."
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Colorado residents challenge mining laws
Oct 16 2005 1:40PM (CT)
CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (AP) - The ruddy slopes of 12,392-foot Mount Emmons loom over this town, drawing hikers, backcountry skiers and snowshoers. But to residents such as Jim Starr, they also stand for what is wrong with the nation's antiquated mining laws.
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Lack of interoperability hampers agencies
Oct 16 2005 11:41AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Police and other emergency agencies responding to Hurricane Katrina were plagued by the same communications problems exposed by the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, yet a solution is still considered years away.
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Farrakhan blasts federal Katrina response
Oct 16 2005 8:22AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Railing against the delayed relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Saturday that the federal government should be charged with "criminal neglect of the people of New Orleans."
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Couple finishes 4,900-mile walk across US
Oct 16 2005 5:26AM (CT)
POINT REYES, Calif. (AP) - A husband-and-wife team reached the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after a 4,900-mile cross-country hike, becoming the first to backpack the transcontinental American Discovery Trail in one continuous trek.
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Dental records used to ID Katrina victims
Oct 16 2005 5:14AM (CT)
ST. GABRIEL, La. (AP) - The three tiny pieces of film were crucial. Side by side on a light box, the X-rays matched perfectly with the digital images on the computer screen, down to each filling, crown and bridge.
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Bigfoot conference in Texas draws hundreds
Oct 16 2005 3:31AM (CT)
JEFFERSON, Texas (AP) - Next to a lifelike replica of a giant ape head, the believers milled around tables Saturday covered with casts of large footprints, books about nature's mysteries and T-shirts proclaiming "Bigfoot: Often Imitated, Never Invalidated."
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