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AP: Whites on top of Katrina insurance
Oct 24 2006 11:56PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Littles and the Kitchens watched helplessly as Hurricane Katrina battered their homes. Both families waited patiently for an insurance adjuster to settle their losses. And both were sorely disappointed with the outcome.
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Rock climber falls to death in Yosemite
Oct 24 2006 11:16PM (CT)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - A renowned rock climber was killed when he fell 500 feet after taking a new route up a rock face, a park spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Rock climber falls to death in Yosemite
Oct 24 2006 11:15PM (CT)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - A renowned rock climber was killed when he fell 500 feet after taking a new route up a rock face, a park spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Fla. lawmaker's phone message probed
Oct 24 2006 11:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A state legislator acknowledged leaving a profanity-laced message that included a racial slur on a colleague's voice mail, and said he will seek counseling to control his temper, especially when drinking.
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6 elevators at Ohio State fail tests
Oct 24 2006 11:15PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Six dormitory elevators failed safety tests conducted by Ohio State University after a freshman was pinned and killed by an elevator in his residence hall, university officials said Tuesday.
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L.A. police allege homeless dumping
Oct 24 2006 11:10PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into suspected dumping of homeless people on Skid Row after police witnessed ambulances leaving five people on a street there during the weekend.
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Fla. lawmaker's phone message probed
Oct 24 2006 10:58PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A state legislator acknowledged leaving a profanity-laced message that included a racial slur on a colleague's voice mail, and said he will seek counseling to control his temper, especially when drinking.
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Family feud delays CIA flier's funeral
Oct 24 2006 10:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A feud among relatives of the CIA pilot known as "Earthquake McGoon" _ one of the first two Americans killed in the Vietnam conflict _ has scuttled plans for burial in his native New Jersey this weekend, a nephew said Tuesday.
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Tests at WTC site reveal no toxins
Oct 24 2006 10:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Workers spent several days digging through World Trade Center debris recently in a search for human remains before health officials tested the air and soil, officials said Tuesday.
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Man says he wants to forgive police
Oct 24 2006 10:14PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A biracial man who sued a group of police officers he accuses of beating him outside a house party said Tuesday he's struggling to forgive them.
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More 9/11 remains found at ground zero
Oct 24 2006 10:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg acknowledged Tuesday that the city pushed for a swift cleanup at the World Trade Center but said the fast pace was an effort to return remains to victims' families quickly.
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Ohio executes cult leader for 5 killings
Oct 24 2006 9:50PM (CT)
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A religious cult leader was executed Tuesday for murdering a family of five followers who were taken one at a time to a barn, bound and shot to death. The youngest was a girl just 7 years old.
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Candidate says he won't quit if charged
Oct 24 2006 9:27PM (CT)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - A Republican congressional candidate whose campaign was linked to an intimidating letter sent to Hispanic voters said Tuesday he would not quit the race if he is charged with a crime.
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Tenn. fire chief charged with arson
Oct 24 2006 9:24PM (CT)
TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The city's fire chief and three volunteer firefighters, including the chief's grandson, were charged Tuesday with setting a string of fires in vacant buildings over the past two years.
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Man convicted of killing ex-reporter
Oct 24 2006 9:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man was convicted of murder Tuesday in the beating of retired New York Times journalist David Rosenbaum, who was mugged last January while out for a late stroll in his quiet neighborhood.
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Big Dig repair inspector questioned
Oct 24 2006 9:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A consulting firm that is being investigated in a fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse was ordered to stop helping inspect repairs Tuesday, shortly after news reports revealed that the state had hired it for the job.
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Judge backs dad on boy's circumcision
Oct 24 2006 9:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge in a case closely watched by those who oppose circumcision sided Tuesday with a divorced man who did not want his 9-year-old son to undergo the procedure.
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Investigators reach mine blast scene
Oct 24 2006 8:59PM (CT)
TREMONT, Pa. (AP) - A team of state and federal investigators on Tuesday reached the scene of a deadly underground mine accident and began piecing together the cause of an explosion that killed a veteran coal miner.
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Alleged burglar dies in cemetery crash
Oct 24 2006 8:53PM (CT)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A man who had apparently burglarized a home and stolen a car died a short time later when he crashed into a cemetery's locked gate, police said.
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Michael J. Fox plunges into election
Oct 24 2006 7:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The symptoms of Parkinson's disease that all but ended Michael J. Fox's acting career are making him a powerfully vulnerable campaign pitchman for five Democrats who support stem cell research.
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Panel says lake pact should be scrapped
Oct 24 2006 6:58PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A landmark U.S.-Canadian pact to clean up the Great Lakes has run its course after more than 30 years and should be scrapped in favor of a more modern strategy, a panel of officials from both nations said Tuesday.
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NJ court axes new death penalty rules
Oct 24 2006 6:56PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey prosecutors no longer have to prove a defendant is mentally fit to be executed, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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3 men found dead in Ohio house
Oct 24 2006 6:48PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Three men were found dead inside a boarded-up house Tuesday, the latest in a wave of killings that has plagued the city in recent weeks, police said.
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Abramoff figure argues for no jail time
Oct 24 2006 6:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A congressman and a former House aide have written letters in support of former Bush administration official David Safavian, who is trying to avoid jail time in the Jack Abramoff investigation.
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UMW demands safer coal mines
Oct 24 2006 5:33PM (CT)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Dozens of West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal miners protested at a federal mine safety office Tuesday, demanding stronger safety measures and better enforcement.
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Judge throws out Fla. exit poll limit
Oct 24 2006 3:45PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a Florida law that prohibits exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place, finding there was no evidence that such surveys were disruptive or threatened access to voting.
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Shopping cart falls, breaks woman's neck
Oct 24 2006 3:42PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A shopping cart that had been hoisted atop a supermarket flagpole by pranksters fell on a store employee and broke her neck.
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Jewish 'wall' raises environmental fears
Oct 24 2006 2:03PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Orthodox Jews who want to use a strand of fishing line several miles long to create a symbolic religious enclosure are getting entangled in a dispute with beachfront residents and California environmentalists, who fear the string will snag birds and spoil the ocean view.
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5 bodies pulled from Rio Grande in Texas
Oct 24 2006 1:42PM (CT)
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - The bodies of four men and a woman _ all believed to be illegal immigrants who drowned in the notoriously treacherous Rio Grande while trying to slip into the United States _ were pulled from the rain-swollen river.
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Off-shore leases on hold in Louisiana
Oct 24 2006 12:47PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The federal government has agreed to halt oil and natural gas lease sales off the Louisiana coast until environmental studies determine whether drilling degrades the coastline, the Department of the Interior announced Tuesday.
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Virginia ballot glitch chops names
Oct 24 2006 12:35PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - U.S. Senate candidate James H. "Jim" Webb has lost his last name on electronic ballots in three Virginia cities where election computers can't cope with long names.
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Laotian immigrants win $55M lottery
Oct 24 2006 12:30PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A woman who grew up in a Laotian orphanage in the turbulent 1960s and '70s says she plans to donate part of a $55 million lottery jackpot she and her husband won to the people who raised her.
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Ohio teachers get pre-election bonuses
Oct 24 2006 9:46AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The first federal bonuses to reward teachers who raise student test scores have gone to four of Ohio's biggest, poorest and most academically challenged districts _ where teacher pay is already well above the state average.
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Ohio executes cult leader
Oct 24 2006 9:34AM (CT)
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Ohio executed a religious cult leader Tuesday for murdering a family of five followers he thought were not enthusiastic enough about his teachings.
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Calif. freeway killings trial begins
Oct 24 2006 9:20AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The voice on the phone taunted police, "better catch me before I kill again," and described the location where officers could find the body.
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Amnesia sufferer reunited with fiancee
Oct 24 2006 9:09AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - An amnesia sufferer who had been searching for his identity for more than a month was back in Washington state with his fiancee on Tuesday, but he still doesn't remember his past life or what happened, his mother said.
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Ex-fire official gets jail for DUI crash
Oct 24 2006 7:58AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former high-ranking Fire Department official who admitted drinking at least six beers before getting into his truck and running into and killing a man has been sentenced to three months in jail.
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Late passenger pleads to airport threat
Oct 24 2006 6:55AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Florida college student pleaded guilty to calling in a phony bomb threat to the Long Beach Airport after he arrived too late to board his plane.
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Chicago voter info vulnerable to hackers
Oct 24 2006 6:27AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The city is investigating a security glitch in its elections Web site that hackers could have used to swipe Social Security numbers and the personal information of about 1.3 million voters, officials said.
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Harris, Nelson end up agreeing on much
Oct 24 2006 5:08AM (CT)
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - Republican Rep. Katherine Harris, badly needing to score points against Sen. Bill Nelson during their first TV debate, ended up agreeing with the Democratic incumbent almost as much as she differed with him.
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Clinton unfazed by reported 'ugly' words
Oct 24 2006 2:10AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wasn't fazed by a report that her Republican challenger John Spencer said she was unattractive in her youth and must have had "millions of dollars" of plastic surgery.
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Wyo. opponent says incumbent made threat
Oct 24 2006 12:14AM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Thomas Rankin, the Libertarian running for Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat, said Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., threatened to slap him after a televised debate.
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