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Storm warning issued for Fla. peninsula
Oct 22 2005 11:56PM (CT)
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A hurricane warning was issued late Saturday for Florida's entire southern peninsula as residents streamed out of the Keys and coastal communities under mandatory evacuation orders, and state and federal officials prepared for the worst.
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Teen cancer patient to get alt. treatment
Oct 22 2005 11:41PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - The parents of a 13-year-old cancer patient who have been fighting the state over her medical treatment will be allowed to take her to Kansas to pursue intravenous Vitamin C treatment.
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Pa. military college to admit women
Oct 22 2005 11:23PM (CT)
WAYNE, Pa. (AP) - Valley Forge Military College, the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall.
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Amtrak locomotive catches fire in Iowa
Oct 22 2005 11:23PM (CT)
LOCKRIDGE, Iowa (AP) - An Amtrak locomotive caught fire Saturday, delaying the Chicago-bound train carrying 164 passengers but causing no serious injuries, authorities said.
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Ruling on clemency requests sought in Ill.
Oct 22 2005 11:23PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Robert Gayol spent five years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit. Then the real killers were caught, and Gayol was released to rebuild his life. Two years later, he's among hundreds of people in Illinois waiting for a pardon to officially clear his record and allow him to seek compensation from the state.
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Tropical Storm Alpha forms in Caribbean
Oct 22 2005 10:55PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season and marking the first time forecasters had to turn to the Greek alphabet for names.
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Crews finish building rock dam in Mass.
Oct 22 2005 9:11PM (CT)
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Working the rain Saturday, crews finished building a new rock dam and tore down the 173-year-old wooden one that had buckled after a week of heavy downpours and forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 residents.
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Eco-tourism site faces threat from Wilma
Oct 22 2005 5:26PM (CT)
EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. (AP) - This town that bills itself the "Stone Crab Capital of the World" never fully recovered from Hurricane Donna's devastation in 1960, when flood damage was so severe that the county government was moved 30 miles north to Naples.
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U.S. material wealth leads to clutter
Oct 22 2005 3:47PM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Karen Lowe looks a little lost, even in her own apartment. Board games and puzzles teeter over the hamster's cage. A green metal desk spills toys and papers like a jackknifed truck in what should be the dining room. Upstairs, a computer shoots wires like kudzu around her bedroom.
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Animal rescuers charged with cruelty
Oct 22 2005 3:22PM (CT)
GAMALIEL, Ark. (AP) - Two owners of an animal rescue operation were arrested after hundreds of dogs, some rescued from Hurricane Katrina, were found on the couple's property groveling for food among urine and feces, authorities said Saturday.
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Museum preserves WWII bomber from crash
Oct 22 2005 2:50PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - What remained of Hank Mascall's Army Air Corps cap was right where he said he left it _ in the nose of a World War II bomber that crash-landed and sank in a South Carolina lake 62 years ago.
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Humor helps Hurricane Katrina victims cope
Oct 22 2005 1:43PM (CT)
ARABI, La. (AP) - The grimy residue of receded floodwater covered the blue Chevrolet pickup parked outside a shattered two-story house, but the offer spray-painted on the vehicle in white overflowed with enthusiasm: "For Sale. Like New. Runs Great."
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Shakespeare play used to promote respect
Oct 22 2005 1:35PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A Hispanic boy who loves to act out scenes from "Don Quixote" dreams he has been transported back four centuries and finds himself face-to-face with his favorite writer's contemporary, William Shakespeare.
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Mo. jury convicts man in editor slaying
Oct 22 2005 12:16PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A jury convicted a man Friday of second-degree murder for killing a newspaper editor to get money for a post-Halloween night of underage drinking.
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Police probe Wash. high school 'hit list'
Oct 22 2005 10:16AM (CT)
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) - Police in this northwest Washington town on the Canadian border are investigating the discovery of a so-called "hit list" at Blaine High School.
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Tuskegee Airmen suit up, head to Iraq
Oct 22 2005 9:21AM (CT)
TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) - Lt. Col. Herbert Carter is 86 years old and ready for deployment. More than 60 years after his World War II tour with the pioneering black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Carter's new mission will be shorter, though no less courageous.
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S.F. mother placed on suicide watch
Oct 22 2005 8:34AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - With her head lowered and holding her public defender's hand, a young mother accused of dropping her three sons into San Francisco Bay pleaded innocent to three counts of murder.
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Historic lighthouse collapses in Florida
Oct 22 2005 7:34AM (CT)
LITTLE ST. GEORGE ISLAND, Fla. (AP) - A historic lighthouse has collapsed, a decade after a hurricane left it leaning at about a 10-degree angle.
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Taped rape defendants sentenced as adults
Oct 22 2005 6:26AM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The son of a former assistant sheriff and two other men will be sentenced as adults for the videotaped sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl.
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Court rules Kan. can't single out gay acts
Oct 22 2005 4:59AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law that punished underage sex more severely if it involved homosexual acts, saying "moral disapproval" of such conduct is not enough to justify the different treatment.
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Teen charged in as adult in Calif. killing
Oct 22 2005 4:03AM (CT)
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - A teenager described by former classmates as a brooding nonconformist with an interest in the occult was charged as an adult in the murder of the wife of a prominent defense attorney.
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Frozen airman may be listed on Calif. tomb
Oct 22 2005 2:14AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - For nearly 60 years, the names of a pilot and three crew members who died when their plane crashed into an icy peak have been etched on a military gravestone. During that time, however, most of their actual remains have rested on a lonely mountain.
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NYPD officer convicted in shooting death
Oct 22 2005 1:27AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A police officer who shot and killed an unarmed African immigrant after a serpentine chase inside a warehouse was convicted Friday of criminally negligent homicide.
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Arrests likely in Katrina patient deaths
Oct 22 2005 1:17AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - More arrests are likely as authorities investigate at least 140 patient deaths at nursing homes and hospitals during and after Hurricane Katrina, including allegations that some patients may have been euthanized, the Louisiana attorney general's office said Friday.
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Authorities seize sex offender's newborn
Oct 22 2005 12:32AM (CT)
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Child-welfare authorities seized a newborn from a hospital Friday and placed the baby in a foster home because his father is a convicted sex offender.
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