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Ex-Intel CEO donates $26M to N.Y. college
Oct 26 2005 11:25PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - After fleeing Soviet domination of his native Hungary in 1956, Andy Grove found himself at his uncle's New York City apartment with no money and limited prospects for continuing the education he had started in Budapest.
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Danforth criticizes Christian sway in GOP
Oct 26 2005 11:23PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former Sen. John Danforth said Wednesday that the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the Republican Party and dividing the country.
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Judge OKs bond for father in terror case
Oct 26 2005 11:12PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday approved the release of a father charged in a terrorism probe with his son, despite acknowledging the older man is potentially dangerous and likely to flee if released.
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U.N.: 2,000 firm gave Iraq illicit funds
Oct 26 2005 11:03PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - More than 2,000 companies made about $1.8 billion in illicit payments to Saddam Hussein's government through extensive manipulation of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, according to key findings of a U.N.-backed investigation.
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New tropical depression forms in Caribbean
Oct 26 2005 10:46PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A new tropical depression formed late Wednesday in the southwestern Caribbean, and forecasters said it could become Tropical Storm Beta in the coming days.
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Woman sees husband off to war, gets fired
Oct 26 2005 10:22PM (CT)
CALEDONIA, Mich. (AP) - A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war with an Indiana National Guard unit has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure.
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Schwarzenegger vows to rein in spending
Oct 26 2005 10:20PM (CT)
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Wednesday that legislators could push California into a nightmarish era of higher taxes and runaway spending unless voters endorse his proposal to place tighter controls on the state budget.
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Gov. Bush takes blame for slow Wilma aid
Oct 26 2005 10:02PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush took the blame Wednesday for frustrating delays at centers distributing supplies to victims of Hurricane Wilma, saying criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was misdirected.
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Jury faults Port Authority in '93 WTC bomb
Oct 26 2005 10:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury ruled Wednesday that the Port Authority was negligent in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 _ a long-awaited legal victory for victims of an attack that killed six people and injured 1,000 eight years before terrorists brought down the center's twin towers.
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Burned body found in Miss. is Ill. student
Oct 26 2005 10:01PM (CT)
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - A body found in a burned-out chicken coop in Mississippi has been identified as that of an Illinois college student who disappeared two weeks ago, authorities said Wednesday.
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Early nor'easter dumps mounds of snow
Oct 26 2005 10:00PM (CT)
MAYNARD, Mass. (AP) - An early nor'easter fed by Hurricane Wilma dumped heavy rain and up to 20 inches of wet snow from New England to West Virginia, knocking out power to tens of thousands, closing schools and elevating rivers.
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Chertoff urges Wilma victims to be patient
Oct 26 2005 10:00PM (CT)
ABOVE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday asked victims of Hurricane Wilma to have patience for relief efforts as he surveyed crumpled boats, shattered mobile homes and snaking lines of cars at fuel stations along the storm's path.
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La. AG subpoenas 73 in hospital deaths
Oct 26 2005 10:00PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana attorney general's office subpoenaed 73 employees of Memorial Hospital on Wednesday as part of its investigation of deaths at hospitals and nursing homes in the New Orleans area during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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White is the new orange for pumpkins
Oct 26 2005 9:59PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - These pumpkins look like something scared THEM. Eerie-looking white pumpkins _ naturally white, not painted _ are finding their way into more and more homes this Halloween season.
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None hurt after 20-ton Yosemite rockslide
Oct 26 2005 9:58PM (CT)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Lodging that had been shut down after a 20-ton rockslide forced hundreds of visitors to relocate was reopened on Wednesday, park officials said.
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Wreckage of plane, 2 victims found in Nev.
Oct 26 2005 9:58PM (CT)
JARBIDGE, Nev. (AP) - The wreckage of a small plane missing since a California man and his daughter took off in it from Jackpot on Aug. 31 was found Wednesday on a rugged mountain in the wilderness of northeast Nevada.
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Ex-Ala. governor indicted in conspiracy
Oct 26 2005 8:58PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Former Gov. Don Siegelman was charged Wednesday in a "widespread racketeering conspiracy" that includes allegations he took a bribe from former hospital executive Richard Scrushy for a key state appointment.
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Driver in Rita bus fatal to aid fed probe
Oct 26 2005 8:11PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A driver facing negligent homicide charges in a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients during the Hurricane Rita evacuation agreed Wednesday to help federal investigators.
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Ill. governor defends hiring practices
Oct 26 2005 8:04PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich defended the state's hiring practices Wednesday as a federal inquiry into the matter widened, and said he had nothing to hide.
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N.M. treasurer quits as impeachment looms
Oct 26 2005 8:03PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's indicted state treasurer resigned Wednesday shortly after lawmakers began considering whether he should be impeached.
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Ruling prompts Chicago firefighter exam
Oct 26 2005 6:16PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - In an attempt to hire younger firefighters and satisfy a judge's ruling that its old eligibility list discriminated against blacks, Chicago will hold its first fire department entrance exam in more than a decade.
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Minority enrollment up at U. of Michigan
Oct 26 2005 4:28PM (CT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Minority enrollment at the University of Michigan, which dropped after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated its undergraduate admissions policy, is bouncing back.
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Clinton accusers tour his library
Oct 26 2005 4:18PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Two women who once accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct toured his presidential library Wednesday on a trip paid for by the publisher of a book critical of Clinton and his wife Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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States may get teacher quality extension
Oct 26 2005 2:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Parents have been promised that kids will get a highly qualified teacher in every core class this year. Now it's clearer what will happen if they don't.
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Hard drive from missing prosecutor found
Oct 26 2005 2:19PM (CT)
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - The hard drive from a laptop computer belonging to a missing prosecutor has been found in the Susquehanna River but was damaged and may not yield any clues to his whereabouts, authorities said.
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Florida farmers staggered by Wilma
Oct 26 2005 1:45PM (CT)
IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) - Shoppers can expect to pay much more for tomatoes and peppers, especially in grocery stores along the East Coast, for the next two months because Hurricane Wilma flooded fields and tore through crops in Florida.
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Woman charged with obstructing justice
Oct 26 2005 1:29PM (CT)
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors have charged a social worker with obstructing justice by helping a teenager get an abortion, which authorities say resulted in the destruction of DNA evidence investigators wanted for a statutory rape case.
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Displaced La. students see good and bad
Oct 26 2005 1:15PM (CT)
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - Accustomed to low and flat New Orleans, Tameka Noel finds herself huffing and puffing as she walks the hilly campus of Amherst College near the Berkshire Mountains. And though it's just October, it already feels like winter to her.
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Hispanic audience questions Schwarzenegger
Oct 26 2005 1:10PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a group of Spanish-speaking voters he opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and defended his veto of a bill that would have granted driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
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Miami airport reopens after hurricane
Oct 26 2005 11:54AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Miami International Airport reopened to domestic flights Wednesday for the first time since Hurricane Wilma, but the biggest carrier there only expected to operate about half its flights. West Palm Beach's airport also opened, but Fort Lauderdale's was still closed.
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N.J. crossing guard killed by colleague
Oct 26 2005 11:13AM (CT)
PARK RIDGE, N.J. (AP) - A crossing guard was struck and killed in front of a high school by another crossing guard on his way to work, police said.
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Pregnant woman who was cut gives up baby
Oct 26 2005 11:13AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A woman who was attacked in an alleged attempt to steal her fetus had planned an adoption, and her newborn son is now with his adoptive parents, their attorney said.
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Rosa Parks' bus draped in black as tribute
Oct 26 2005 10:42AM (CT)
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Visitors streamed into the Henry Ford museum for a glimpse of the bus that officials say was the historic one Rosa Parks rode, now draped with purple-and-black crepe to mark her death.
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UCLA's corpse donation program to reopen
Oct 26 2005 10:20AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A corpse donation program at the University of California, Los Angeles, will be reopening soon with new controls ordered as the result of a body-selling scandal.
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Sister hopes airman's body is her brother
Oct 26 2005 9:07AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jeanne Pyle hopes she may finally find out what happened to her brother, who has been missing since his military plane crashed during World War II.
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Maryland Lt. governor running for Senate
Oct 26 2005 4:08AM (CT)
LARGO, Md. (AP) - Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, Maryland's first black elected statewide official, is officially running for the U.S. Senate.
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Missionaries in Venezuela reassigned
Oct 26 2005 3:45AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is reassigning its missionaries in Venezuela to other Spanish-speaking countries, a church spokesman said.
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Colorado wrestles with tax limits
Oct 26 2005 3:42AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The campaign over whether to loosen Colorado's strict tax limits has spun into silliness as the Nov. 1 election nears, prompting one official to parachute out of a plane for the cameras to dramatize the state's falling economic fortunes.
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Rare Asian gull shows up in Vermont
Oct 26 2005 3:16AM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, Vt. (AP) - A black-tailed gull, normally found around the seas of Japan or along China's northeast coast, has turned up on the shores of Lake Champlain.
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Amtrak train delayed by bomb threat
Oct 26 2005 1:47AM (CT)
WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) - An Amtrak train from Boston to Washington was delayed for more than two hours Tuesday evening as law enforcement investigated a bomb threat, authorities said.
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Man convicted for two Mo. murders executed
Oct 26 2005 1:14AM (CT)
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - A man convicted of killing two sisters who authorities said were pushed from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge was executed early Wednesday.
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Ex-President Bush reminisces on politics
Oct 26 2005 12:46AM (CT)
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush reminisced about his political life Tuesday and said at a fundraiser that he has enjoyed working with former President Clinton.
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Philadelphia city councilman indicted
Oct 26 2005 12:05AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A city councilman was indicted on federal fraud and bribery charges Tuesday, five days after he was talked down from the City Hall observation deck.
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