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Five dead in head-on wreck in Texas
Oct 18 2005 11:22PM (CT)
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) - A car slammed head-on Tuesday morning into a sign support along a freeway south of Houston and burst into flames. Killed were a man and four children, apparently members of the same family.
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Witness describes nude therapy sessions
Oct 18 2005 11:15PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The owners of a home for the mentally ill required residents to work in the nude and perform sex acts on each other, a former resident testified Tuesday.
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Idaho prosecutor won't copy video images
Oct 18 2005 11:03PM (CT)
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Prosecutors are refusing to make copies of graphic video images and photos found in a Jeep used by a suspected killer, saying they're too disturbing.
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NYC bridge partially reopens after fire
Oct 18 2005 10:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A smoky three-alarm fire closed a major bridge over the East River on Tuesday afternoon, and five firefighters suffered minor injuries battling the blaze.
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Ex-intel officer pleads guilty in exports
Oct 18 2005 10:28PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A former Navy intelligence officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally exporting military aircraft parts overseas, saying he acted on behalf of a convicted Pakistani arms dealer.
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Child burned in Yellowstone hot spring
Oct 18 2005 10:11PM (CT)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - A 6-year-old boy was severely burned when he tripped and fell into a hot spring while walking off a trail with his father, the National Park Service said Tuesday.
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Hurricane Wilma strengthens; Fla. gets set
Oct 18 2005 10:03PM (CT)
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - Having seen what Katrina and other storms have done in the past year or so, Floridians began buying water and canned goods Tuesday after watching Wilma strengthen into a hurricane.
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Officials: Calif. wine storage fire arson
Oct 18 2005 9:56PM (CT)
VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) - A warehouse fire that destroyed about $100 million worth of rare vintage wines was deliberately set, authorities said Tuesday.
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Mount Washington beats two snow records
Oct 18 2005 9:53PM (CT)
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) - The rest of New Hampshire may be reveling in fall foliage, but atop Mount Washington, it's a winter wonderland of 12-foot drifts.
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Red Cross admits error on motel numbers
Oct 18 2005 9:52PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Conceding that its staff misinterpreted data, the American Red Cross said Tuesday that only about 200,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees were now being housed in hotels and motels nationwide, not more than 600,000 as the agency reported last week.
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Tunnels under Baltimore's harbor reopen
Oct 18 2005 9:50PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A sketchy threat to blow up vehicles full of explosives prompted authorities Tuesday to close one of the busy tunnels underneath Baltimore's harbor and partially shut down the other. One person who may have been connected to the threat was arrested on immigration charges, a law enforcement official said.
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Engineers work to ease Mass. dam pressure
Oct 18 2005 9:38PM (CT)
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Engineers struggled to ease pressure on a battered 173-year-old wooden dam Tuesday and prevent a collapse that could send a wall of water crashing through this town of 50,000.
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Defense doctor backs terror suspect story
Oct 18 2005 8:49PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A U.S. citizen accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush bore strong signs that he was tortured while in Saudi custody, a doctor testified Tuesday.
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Hmong kin get more than $40G over burial
Oct 18 2005 8:44PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Three members of a Hmong family were awarded $40,000 Tuesday from a cemetery accused of burying their matriarch in a grave that contained someone else's bones, a situation the family said was repulsive and an affront to their religion.
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Guardian named for 'Milkshake Murder' kids
Oct 18 2005 8:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The sister of an investment banker killed in what became known as the "milkshake murder" was made guardian Tuesday of her dead brother's three wealthy children.
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Police seek clues in 'Gatsby' slaying
Oct 18 2005 8:37PM (CT)
SANDS POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Homicide detectives searched for clues Tuesday in the slaying of a young woman whose battered body was found amid the mansions and millionaires of this Long Island community that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
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Jurors reject Texas prison rape lawsuit
Oct 18 2005 7:49PM (CT)
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Six prison officials were found not liable Tuesday in a federal lawsuit claiming they violated a gay convict's constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment by ignoring his pleas for protection from inmate rapes.
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Judith Miller calls for federal shield law
Oct 18 2005 7:44PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller defended her decision to go to jail to protect a source and told a journalism conference Tuesday that reporters need a federal shield law so that others won't face the same sanctions.
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Appeals court allows Hatfield to sue Times
Oct 18 2005 7:27PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed a former Army scientist to proceed with a libel lawsuit against The New York Times that claims one of the paper's columnists unfairly linked him to the 2001 anthrax killings.
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Kurds seek damages from Saddam in U.S.
Oct 18 2005 7:14PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two Kurds living in the United States have sued Saddam Hussein in federal court, asking compensation for Kurds who were subjected to genocidal attacks in Iraq in the 1980s.
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Lawsuit demands visa for immigrant victims
Oct 18 2005 6:35PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lawyers for undocumented immigrants who've been victims of violent crimes sued the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday for failing to issue protective visas that Congress created five years ago.
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Calif. long-distance service, 911 restored
Oct 18 2005 6:16PM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - An equipment problem knocked out long-distance telephone service and parts of the 911 system for tens of thousands of residential and business customers in several Southern California cities Tuesday, officials said.
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Ill. police probe botched funeral claim
Oct 18 2005 5:50PM (CT)
ALTON, Ill. (AP) - Police are investigating a widow's complaint that a funeral home failed to properly prepare or clothe her late husband, leaving his body in a casket under a bloody sheet.
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Scores of greyhounds die in W. Va. fire
Oct 18 2005 5:34PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A faulty ceiling fan sparked a fire that killed 73 greyhound racing dogs at a private kennel, the state fire marshal's office said Tuesday.
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Wilma now a hurricane, may threaten Fla.
Oct 18 2005 3:33PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Wilma strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday on a path that could threaten storm-battered Florida, tying the record for the most hurricanes to form in an Atlantic season.
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Official of Iraq-linked charity sentenced
Oct 18 2005 3:28PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A Jordanian was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for helping to operate an unregistered charity that sent money to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions.
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Blanco pledges Katrina accountability
Oct 18 2005 3:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco pledged Tuesday to have auditors auditing auditors to ensure "transparent and wide open" accountability for billions of dollars in federal aid to rebuild her hurricane-devastated state.
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Lottery jackpot reaches $340 million
Oct 18 2005 3:03PM (CT)
HURRICANE, W.Va. (AP) - With $340 million up for grabs in the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, people trekked to a small-town West Virginia convenience store to buy their tickets Tuesday in the apparent belief that lightning can strike twice in the same place.
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Biloxi families live in rubble of homes
Oct 18 2005 1:57PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - In the poorest of neighborhoods here, people sleep outside with no running water or power. They live among starving cats, rotting heaps of garbage and constant, buzzing flies. The bathroom is anywhere and everywhere. The filth is inescapable.
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Congress probes mixed signals in NYC scare
Oct 18 2005 1:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two federal anti-terrorism employees have had their security clearances yanked in an investigation into whether they sent e-mails that tipped off friends and family about possible attacks on the New York City subway system, officials said Tuesday.
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Texas student pleads insanity in killing
Oct 18 2005 1:36PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A college student who claimed he stabbed and slashed his piano professor more than 200 times because he thought she was a robot intent on killing him pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder Tuesday.
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Lawyers for Hamas suspect cite torture
Oct 18 2005 1:28PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Attorneys for a man accused of laundering millions of dollars for terrorist activities say Israeli authorities tortured him to elicit a handwritten confession more than a decade ago.
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Sept. 11 museum to have 'immersive' feel
Oct 18 2005 1:20PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Visitors to the Sept. 11 memorial museum could relive the 2001 terrorist attacks in an "immersive" area that surrounds them with pictures of the falling towers, the sounds of police sirens and the last words of some of those who died at the World Trade Center.
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Woman hit with turkey gives teen 2nd chance
Oct 18 2005 12:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A teen who severely injured a woman by tossing a 20-pound turkey through her car windshield was sentenced to six months in jail after his victim requested a light sentence.
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Nation's murder rate hits 40-year low
Oct 18 2005 11:28AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's murder rate declined last year for the first time in four years, dropping to the lowest level in 40 years. Experts said local rather than national trends were mostly responsible.
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Powerball winner won't be only beneficiary
Oct 18 2005 11:22AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - If someone wins the estimated $340 million Powerball jackpot on Wednesday, he or she won't be the only one who will benefit from the record prize.
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Many had access to Horowitz home in Calif.
Oct 18 2005 8:32AM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - Despite fearing for their safety, criminal defense lawyer Daniel Horowitz and his wife allowed easy access to the sprawling hillside compound they were building _ even posting a note on the gate that explained how to open it.
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Calif. thunderstorms trigger mudslides
Oct 18 2005 8:18AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A spectacular series of thunderstorms rolled through Southern California, bringing walnut-sized hail and bursts of heavy rain that triggered mudslides and shut down the main highway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Global violence has decreased, U.N. says
Oct 18 2005 8:12AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Armed conflicts have declined by 40 percent since the end of the Cold War primarily because the United Nations was finally able to launch peacekeeping and conflict-prevention operations around the world, according to a new study.
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Toyota recalls record 1.27M vehicles
Oct 18 2005 7:53AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling about 1.27 million cars in the largest-ever single recall of vehicles in Japan in order to repair defective headlight switches, a government official said Tuesday.
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'Intelligent Design' advocate testifies
Oct 18 2005 6:17AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A biochemistry professor who is a leading advocate of "intelligent design" testified Monday that evolution alone can't explain complex biological processes and he believes God is behind them.
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Texas man who fled Hurricane Rita killed
Oct 18 2005 5:58AM (CT)
WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) - A Texas man who fled Hurricane Rita was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt while visiting relatives in Maryland, police said.
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La. unveils panel charged with rebuilding
Oct 18 2005 5:00AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The president of Xavier University and a former chairman of CNN will lead Gov. Kathleen Blanco's advisory commission for Louisiana's recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Second quake rattles Palm Springs area
Oct 18 2005 3:43AM (CT)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - A light earthquake rattled the desert around Palm Springs early Tuesday just hours after a smaller temblor hit the area, authorities said. There were no reports of damage from either quake, police said.
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Small Texas town fearful after slayings
Oct 18 2005 3:38AM (CT)
PAMPA, Texas (AP) - This small agricultural community in the Texas Panhandle is typically a quiet place, with the upcoming harvest or latest high school football game often the talk of the town's 18,000 residents.
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Teams comb forests for military ordnance
Oct 18 2005 3:33AM (CT)
MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST, Wyo. (AP) - From the Indian wars to the Cold War, the government used 100 square miles here as a military target and training range, firing rifles, mortars and artillery.
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Lawsuits on N.D. derailment to hit courts
Oct 18 2005 3:29AM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - For Tom Lundeen and his family, the deadly white mist that enveloped much of their city nearly four years ago has in a sense never really dissipated.
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Toledo leaders examine simmering problems
Oct 18 2005 2:39AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A feud between neighbors _ one white, one black _ over a dented car and kids trampling on a yard simmered all summer, eventually touching off a riot that has shaken this blue-collar city.
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Small quake rattles Palm Springs area
Oct 18 2005 1:11AM (CT)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - A small earthquake rattled the desert just northwest of Palm Springs on Monday, but caused no injuries or damage, authorities said.
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