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Weather improves at California fires
Oct 27 2007 11:50PM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather helped firefighters make strong gains on many of the wildfires burning across Southern California on Saturday, but officials remained guarded about what the rest of the weekend might bring.
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Weather improves at California fires
Oct 27 2007 11:50PM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather helped firefighters make strong gains on many of the wildfires burning across Southern California on Saturday, but officials remained guarded about what the rest of the weekend might bring.
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Weather improves at California fires
Oct 27 2007 11:50PM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather helped firefighters make strong gains on many of the wildfires burning across Southern California on Saturday, but officials remained guarded about what the rest of the weekend might bring.
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Weather improves at California fires
Oct 27 2007 11:50PM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - Cooler weather helped firefighters make strong gains on many of the wildfires burning across Southern California on Saturday, but officials remained guarded about what the rest of the weekend might bring.
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Thousands call for swift end to Iraq war
Oct 27 2007 11:28PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in Iraq as they marched through downtown on Saturday, chanting and carrying signs that read: "Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die" or "Drop Tuition Not Bombs."
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Thousands call for swift end to Iraq war
Oct 27 2007 11:28PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in Iraq as they marched through downtown on Saturday, chanting and carrying signs that read: "Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die" or "Drop Tuition Not Bombs."
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Thousands call for swift end to Iraq war
Oct 27 2007 11:28PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in Iraq as they marched through downtown on Saturday, chanting and carrying signs that read: "Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die" or "Drop Tuition Not Bombs."
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Report: Grand jury probing Copperfield
Oct 27 2007 11:01PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that magician David Copperfield raped and threatened a Washington state woman at his estate in the Bahamas, a newspaper reported.
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Fingerpointing over grounded helicopters
Oct 27 2007 10:56PM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - State and federal officials on Saturday blamed each other for allowing nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters to sit idle while deadly wildfires ravaged Southern California, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to improve the state's response to battling wildfires.
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Fingerpointing over grounded helicopters
Oct 27 2007 10:56PM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - State and federal officials on Saturday blamed each other for allowing nearly two dozen water-dropping helicopters to sit idle while deadly wildfires ravaged Southern California, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to improve the state's response to battling wildfires.
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Tropical depression forms in Atlantic
Oct 27 2007 10:32PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The 16th tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Saturday, prompting storm warnings in Haiti and a watch in Cuba.
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Californians endure 7 days of wildfires
Oct 27 2007 6:22PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Ready for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they knew, until seven days of fury began a week ago.
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Californians endure 7 days of wildfires
Oct 27 2007 6:22PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Ready for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they knew, until seven days of fury began a week ago.
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La. mayor: state may take over DA office
Oct 27 2007 5:24PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin says the state could take over the New Orleans district attorney's office as early as Monday as the agency faces a multimillion-dollar civil judgment.
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Antioch board delays vote on future
Oct 27 2007 5:13PM (CT)
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) - Antioch College board members postponed a decision Saturday on whether to reverse their decision to temporarily close the college, telling about 200 alumni, faculty and students that they'll continue debating for several more days.
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Army: Black soldiers wronged in POW case
Oct 27 2007 3:07PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Black soldiers court-martialed 63 years ago in the rioting death of an Italian prisoner of war at Fort Lawton were unfairly denied access to their attorneys and investigative records and should have their convictions overturned, the U.S. Army said Friday.
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Piles of old money found in Pa. home
Oct 27 2007 2:27PM (CT)
WINDBER, Pa. (AP) - Talk about throwing away money. Piles of old coins worth as much as $200,000 were found in a long-abandoned home, including scores that the owner had apparently thrown down a hole in the wall.
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County shuts schools to disinfect
Oct 27 2007 2:20PM (CT)
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An eastern Kentucky school district with one confirmed case of antibiotic-resistant staph infection plans to shut down all 23 of its schools Monday, affecting about 10,300 students, to disinfect the facilities.
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Ex-NYC Mayor Dinkins has appendectomy
Oct 27 2007 1:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Mayor David Dinkins underwent an emergency appendectomy but on Saturday was "doing well," a family friend said.
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Neil Armstrong speaks at Purdue ceremony
Oct 27 2007 12:32PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Although he typically shuns attention, former astronaut Neil Armstrong on Saturday addressed a crowd at the dedication of a new engineering building named for him at Purdue University, his alma mater.
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Neil Armstrong speaks at Purdue ceremony
Oct 27 2007 12:32PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Although he typically shuns attention, former astronaut Neil Armstrong on Saturday addressed a crowd at the dedication of a new engineering building named for him at Purdue University, his alma mater.
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Injured GI's brother becomes caregiver
Oct 27 2007 11:19AM (CT)
WOODLYN, Pa. (AP) - For years, brothers Pisey and Dara Tan had barely spoken to each other as they went their separate ways _ Pisey into the Army, Dara off to college.
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Inmates play major role in fire fight
Oct 27 2007 11:15AM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires.
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Inmates play major role in fire fight
Oct 27 2007 11:15AM (CT)
LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) - They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires.
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Activist seeks help for immigrants' kids
Oct 27 2007 11:04AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Experts say Nora Sandigo doesn't have a prayer in her bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the deportation of illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children.
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Boy, 5, killed by train in Texas
Oct 27 2007 10:34AM (CT)
WATAUGA, Texas (AP) - A 5-year-old boy playing on train tracks fell and then froze up when he heard a locomotive approaching, leaving him unable to move before the train struck and killed him, police said.
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Georgia court frees man in teen sex case
Oct 27 2007 5:48AM (CT)
FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) - During more than two years in state prison, Genarlow Wilson was confident that he would find justice and be set free. On Friday, the hopes of the young man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager finally became reality: The state's highest court ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Georgia court frees man in teen sex case
Oct 27 2007 5:48AM (CT)
FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) - During more than two years in state prison, Genarlow Wilson was confident that he would find justice and be set free. On Friday, the hopes of the young man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager finally became reality: The state's highest court ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Georgia court frees man in teen sex case
Oct 27 2007 5:48AM (CT)
FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) - During more than two years in state prison, Genarlow Wilson was confident that he would find justice and be set free. On Friday, the hopes of the young man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager finally became reality: The state's highest court ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Georgia court frees man in teen sex case
Oct 27 2007 5:48AM (CT)
FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) - During more than two years in state prison, Genarlow Wilson was confident that he would find justice and be set free. On Friday, the hopes of the young man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager finally became reality: The state's highest court ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Jury: Execution in stolen-baby case
Oct 27 2007 3:42AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - With a confession and DNA evidence linking her to the killing of a pregnant woman and the theft of her unborn child, Lisa Montgomery's trial focused not on whether she committed the crime but her sanity.
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Astronauts prepare to open station room
Oct 27 2007 3:06AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Their first wave of construction work successfully completed, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the international space station eagerly awaited their entrance Saturday into the latest addition to the orbiting complex.
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Astronauts prepare to open station room
Oct 27 2007 3:06AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Their first wave of construction work successfully completed, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the international space station eagerly awaited their entrance Saturday into the latest addition to the orbiting complex.
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Astronauts prepare to open station room
Oct 27 2007 3:06AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Their first wave of construction work successfully completed, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the international space station eagerly awaited their entrance Saturday into the latest addition to the orbiting complex.
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Astronauts prepare to open station room
Oct 27 2007 3:06AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Their first wave of construction work successfully completed, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the international space station eagerly awaited their entrance Saturday into the latest addition to the orbiting complex.
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Purging tribal rolls a national trend
Oct 27 2007 2:55AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Dennis Champlain's grandfather helped win federal recognition for the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Champlain himself has danced in tribal powwows and teaches his children that they are Narragansetts. Yet the Narragansetts say he is no longer a member of the tribe.
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Radical environmentalist pleads guilty
Oct 27 2007 2:34AM (CT)
EUGENE, Ore (AP) - An informant who helped convict many of the 10 radical environmentalists known as "The Family" pleaded guilty in federal court to arson and attempted arson.
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