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Moderate earthquake rattles Bay Area
Oct 30 2007 11:55PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A moderate earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay area Tuesday night, rattling homes and nerves, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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LA fire started by boy with matches
Oct 30 2007 11:29PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A boy playing with matches started a fire in north Los Angeles County that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week, authorities said Tuesday.
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Both sides rest in Wilkes bribery trial
Oct 30 2007 10:53PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their cases Tuesday in the trial of a defense contractor without calling as a witness the disgraced former congressman he is accused of bribing.
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Dispute over estimated $500M to drag on
Oct 30 2007 10:12PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The legal grappling between deep-sea explorers and the Spanish government over an estimated $500 million in sunken treasure could drag on for another year or more, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
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Former SD legislator on trial for rape
Oct 30 2007 10:04PM (CT)
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A former state lawmaker was wrong to tell two foster daughters he could help them make money by selling their reproductive eggs, but his physical examinations of the girls did not amount to rape, his defense lawyer said Tuesday as the trial opened.
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Methodist transgender minister may stay
Oct 30 2007 10:00PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A council of the United Methodist Church has decided to allow a transgender minister to retain his job, but it stopped short of addressing whether a change of gender violates the denomination's rules.
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Warplane drops fake practice bomb
Oct 30 2007 9:57PM (CT)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A small, inert training bomb fell Tuesday from a fighter jet that was heading to an air station, the Navy said. No one was hurt.
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Judge in Fort Dix case criticizes flier
Oct 30 2007 9:09PM (CT)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A court-appointed lawyer for a defendant accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix said Tuesday that a campaign mailer suggesting that his wife, a political candidate, might be sympathetic to terrorists could taint the jury pool.
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Wildfires may lead to stringent rules
Oct 30 2007 9:00PM (CT)
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (AP) - Dr. Jorge Llorente became irritated recently when the fire department kept rejecting his plans to landscape his hacienda-style home with jacarandas and avocado trees.
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Wildfires may lead to stringent rules
Oct 30 2007 9:00PM (CT)
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (AP) - Dr. Jorge Llorente became irritated recently when the fire department kept rejecting his plans to landscape his hacienda-style home with jacarandas and avocado trees.
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Calif. firefighters want Marines' help
Oct 30 2007 8:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - State firefighters want the Marines to commit to battling California wildfires after confusion over flight rules and the availability of military aircraft left some helicopters grounded early on in last week's deadly blazes.
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NC fire survivor recounts narrow escape
Oct 30 2007 8:32PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Fallon Sposato awoke to a blaring alarm and smoke seeping into the first-floor bedroom of the beach house where she and 12 friends had been partying just hours earlier. With her lungs and eyes burning, she ran with her boyfriend through the smoke-filled house, assuming her friends were already outside.
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NC fire survivor recounts narrow escape
Oct 30 2007 8:32PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Fallon Sposato awoke to a blaring alarm and smoke seeping into the first-floor bedroom of the beach house where she and 12 friends had been partying just hours earlier. With her lungs and eyes burning, she ran with her boyfriend through the smoke-filled house, assuming her friends were already outside.
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NC fire survivor recounts narrow escape
Oct 30 2007 8:32PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Fallon Sposato awoke to a blaring alarm and smoke seeping into the first-floor bedroom of the beach house where she and 12 friends had been partying just hours earlier. With her lungs and eyes burning, she ran with her boyfriend through the smoke-filled house, assuming her friends were already outside.
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Sheriff charged with accepting bribes
Oct 30 2007 8:26PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Orange County's sheriff has been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for political favors and pressing a witness to lie as authorities investigated whether he used his office to enrich himself.
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Adviser guilty in Ohio investment loss
Oct 30 2007 8:04PM (CT)
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - An investment adviser to the state agency for injured workers was convicted Tuesday of fraud charges connected to the loss of $216 million in a high-risk hedge fund, becoming the 20th person convicted in a wide-reaching scandal.
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S.F. cancels Halloween street party
Oct 30 2007 7:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - City officials want the hundreds of thousands of people who usually flock to an annual Halloween street party here to stay home or go elsewhere after several episodes of violence in recent years.
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NAACP disavows hate crime march in W.Va.
Oct 30 2007 7:17PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The NAACP said Tuesday it does not support a hate crime awareness march that will raise money for a black woman who says she was tortured by six whites.
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Minn. woman shot after answering Web ad
Oct 30 2007 6:04PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A 24-year-old woman applying for a baby-sitting gig told her roommate that a person who placed the online ad "seemed kind of strange." But she went to the home anyway, thinking she might meet a couple needing her help.
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Expert: Miami group ready for holy war
Oct 30 2007 5:53PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A group of men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower were in the final stages of forming a homegrown terrorist cell dedicated to waging an Islamic holy war before they were arrested, a prosecution terrorism expert testified Tuesday.
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NYC mayor takes heat over 'hero' remark
Oct 30 2007 5:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - City police unions and the family of a dead police detective who worked on Sept. 11 cleanup called Tuesday for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize for saying the officer is "not a hero" because his death was ruled unrelated to the toxic debris.
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New Orleans district attorney to resign
Oct 30 2007 5:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - District Attorney Eddie Jordan, criticized for his response to New Orleans' growing crime problem and stung by a $3.7 million discrimination verdict against his office, said Tuesday that he will resign.
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New Orleans district attorney to resign
Oct 30 2007 5:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - District Attorney Eddie Jordan, criticized for his response to New Orleans' growing crime problem and stung by a $3.7 million discrimination verdict against his office, said Tuesday that he will resign.
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New Orleans district attorney to resign
Oct 30 2007 5:47PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - District Attorney Eddie Jordan, criticized for his response to New Orleans' growing crime problem and stung by a $3.7 million discrimination verdict against his office, said Tuesday that he will resign.
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No charges for Tasered Fla. student
Oct 30 2007 5:34PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The University of Florida student stunned by a police Taser and arrested after his fervent, videotaped outburst at an event with Sen. John Kerry won't go to court if he stays out of trouble during 18 months of probation, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Judge steps out of Jena Six news case
Oct 30 2007 5:00PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A judge has disqualified himself from hearing a request from news media to open juvenile court proceedings for a black teenager charged with beating a white classmate in Jena, a case that has drawn thousands of protesters.
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Candidate promises to clean up Philly
Oct 30 2007 4:56PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Nutter, the man who is nearly certain to be Philadelphia's next mayor, promises to reduce gun violence, launch an all-out crackdown on no-bid contracts and offer $10,000 tax breaks to companies that hire convicts.
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Candidate promises to clean up Philly
Oct 30 2007 4:56PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Nutter, the man who is nearly certain to be Philadelphia's next mayor, promises to reduce gun violence, launch an all-out crackdown on no-bid contracts and offer $10,000 tax breaks to companies that hire convicts.
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Candidate promises to clean up Philly
Oct 30 2007 4:56PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Nutter, the man who is nearly certain to be Philadelphia's next mayor, promises to reduce gun violence, launch an all-out crackdown on no-bid contracts and offer $10,000 tax breaks to companies that hire convicts.
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Marine shooting tribunal delayed
Oct 30 2007 4:44PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A Marine Corps legal tribunal called to investigate the killing of as many 19 Afghan civilians this year has been delayed until early December, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Lawyers close in ex-prosecutor's trial
Oct 30 2007 4:40PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A former federal prosecutor and an ex-State Department investigator wanted so badly to win convictions in the nation's first major terrorism trial after the Sept. 11 attacks that they broke the law themselves, a government attorney said Tuesday.
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Bomb threat cancels Vicente Fox event
Oct 30 2007 4:19PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A bomb threat forced the cancellation of a reception for former Mexican president Vicente Fox, police said. No bomb was found.
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Open government advocates honored
Oct 30 2007 4:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg, Associated Press chief executive Tom Curley and Washington Post columnist Colbert King were honored Tuesday for their role in promoting open government and First Amendment rights.
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30 years later, woman's body exhumed
Oct 30 2007 4:11PM (CT)
WEATHERLY, Pa. (AP) - Authorities on Tuesday exhumed the body of a pregnant woman whose dismembered remains were stuffed in suitcases and tossed over a bridge more than 30 years ago.
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Teen charged in homeless man's death
Oct 30 2007 4:05PM (CT)
ABILENE, Texas (AP) - A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the beating death of a homeless man, and police are seeking a second suspect.
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1 convicted of hiding nuke-plant problem
Oct 30 2007 4:01PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A federal jury convicted a former nuclear plant worker Tuesday of concealing the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor. A second defendant was acquitted.
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Aquarium conserves water during drought
Oct 30 2007 3:51PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere _ even at the aquarium. In the name of conservation, the Georgia Aquarium, home of the world's largest fish tank, has emptied some of its watery displays.
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NYC dentist gunned down at playground
Oct 30 2007 3:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police are investigating whether the slaying of a man who was shot to death in a playground in front of his 5-year-old daughter was related to the bitter custody battle with his wife over the child.
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More than $8.5M goes to Va. Tech victims
Oct 30 2007 1:44PM (CT)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech has distributed more than $8.5 million in donations to aid victims of the mass killings on campus in April, school leaders said Tuesday.
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Ex-Duquesne student pleads guilty
Oct 30 2007 1:32PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A former Duquesne University student pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that she helped her armed friends get into a school dance the night five basketball players were shot and wounded.
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Vietnamese rebound in New Orleans
Oct 30 2007 1:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The view from Kinh Nguyen's front door these days is nothing like the "abandoned cemetery" she saw upon returning to her New Orleans neighborhood two months after Hurricane Katrina.
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High school libraries offer coffee shops
Oct 30 2007 12:51PM (CT)
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Even before the bell rings each morning, students at Centennial High School are lined up to get into the library. But they aren't necessarily looking for books.
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Astronauts spot rip on solar panel
Oct 30 2007 11:52AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process that ended with elation when the beam's giant solar panels began to unfurl.
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Astronauts spot rip on solar panel
Oct 30 2007 11:52AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process that ended with elation when the beam's giant solar panels began to unfurl.
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Astronauts spot rip on solar panel
Oct 30 2007 11:52AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process that ended with elation when the beam's giant solar panels began to unfurl.
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Astronauts spot rip on solar panel
Oct 30 2007 11:52AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process that ended with elation when the beam's giant solar panels began to unfurl.
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Astronauts spot rip on solar panel
Oct 30 2007 11:52AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process that ended with elation when the beam's giant solar panels began to unfurl.
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Crash kills trucker, snarls Calif. road
Oct 30 2007 10:13AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A big rig slammed into a cement median and burst into flames early Tuesday, killing the driver and causing severe traffic jams.
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Man pleads not guilty in Conn. invasion
Oct 30 2007 10:05AM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - One of two men accused of killing a woman and her two daughters during a home invasion in a wealthy community pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
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Suspect pleads guilty in boys' deaths
Oct 30 2007 9:25AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A final suspect has pleaded guilty in the shooting deaths of two boys who police say were slain in a botched robbery.
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Crooks may be cause of dangerous leak
Oct 30 2007 8:59AM (CT)
HERNDON, Ky. (AP) - Burglars may have caused the chemical leak that led to the evacuation of an elementary school and residents, and they may have suffered chemical burns, officials say.
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Police: Man tried to burn S.F. landmark
Oct 30 2007 7:57AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man accused of prematurely torching the Burning Man festival's namesake effigy in August has been arrested on suspicion of trying to set fire to an historic cathedral, police said.
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Couple arrested on suspicion of DUI
Oct 30 2007 6:40AM (CT)
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) - A married couple _ first the husband, then his wife _ were arrested within hours, each on suspicion of drunken driving.
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1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories'
Oct 30 2007 5:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.
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1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories'
Oct 30 2007 5:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.
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1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories'
Oct 30 2007 5:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.
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1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories'
Oct 30 2007 5:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.
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1 in 10 schools are 'dropout factories'
Oct 30 2007 5:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America.
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Heroics saved firefighters in SoCal fire
Oct 30 2007 5:29AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A week after flames engulfed Southern California, several firefighters are trying to forget the screams that pushed them to make a heroic rescue.
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Texas becomes top pecan producer in US
Oct 30 2007 2:38AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico pecan producers went nuts when initial estimates showed the state was No. 1 in pecan production for the first time, beating out the usual top producers, Georgia and Texas.
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