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Mom urges maximum sentence in hit-and-run
Nov 4 2005 11:59PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The sobbing mother of two young boys killed in a hit-and-run accident last year urged a judge Friday to sentence the driver, an elementary school dance teacher, to the maximum three years in prison.
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TV station apologizes to Schwarzenegger
Nov 4 2005 11:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A television station apologized to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Friday after discovering that several Democratic activists were in its audience for a voter forum.
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Science project causes bomb scare in Pa.
Nov 4 2005 11:13PM (CT)
PERRYOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) - A bomb squad blew up a metal pipe that had a battery, wires, rope and an electrical switch, only to realize it was an eighth-grade science project.
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Abercrombie pulls T-shirts on complaints
Nov 4 2005 10:21PM (CT)
NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) - Abercrombie & Fitch Co. said Friday that it will stop selling several T-shirts that a group of teenage girls found offensive.
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Four charged in plan to send China secrets
Nov 4 2005 10:07PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An engineer and Chinese television director are among four people indicted on charges of stealing secret documents on Navy warships and trying to smuggle them to China, prosecutors said Friday.
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Search on for Texas death row inmate
Nov 4 2005 9:50PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Authorities searched for a death row inmate Friday who slipped off his handcuffs, changed into street clothes and bluffed his way out of jail by flashing a fake ID badge with a photo of himself.
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Man who killed four at S.C. job executed
Nov 4 2005 9:34PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A man was executed Friday for killing four workers at a lawnmower parts plant in 1997 out of revenge for being fired from the factory.
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N.H. Democrats shopping early for '08
Nov 4 2005 9:07PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Counting the days to 2008, New Hampshire Democrats are shopping for the ideal presidential candidate _ and finding plenty to check out in person.
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Governors chafe at greater military role
Nov 4 2005 9:07PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Several governors are fuming over a Bush administration suggestion that the active military take a greater role in disaster response, calling it an attempt to usurp state authority over National Guard units.
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Carter: Democrats too focused on abortion
Nov 4 2005 9:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Carter says the Democratic Party has become too closely associated with abortion rights and has strayed too far from religious people.
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Judge upholds Oregon gay marriage ban
Nov 4 2005 9:00PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A judge on Friday upheld a gay marriage ban adopted by Oregon voters last year, rejecting claims that the amendment made too many changes at once and interfered with local government.
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Mayor: Sever thumbs of graffiti artists
Nov 4 2005 8:58PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
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Closing arguments on 'intelligent design'
Nov 4 2005 8:15PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A lawyer for eight families urged a federal judge on Friday to overturn a policy that requires the discussion of "intelligent design" in biology classes, saying it improperly promotes religion in schools.
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Charles, Camilla see Katrina's devastation
Nov 4 2005 8:08PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, flew into New Orleans on Friday for a brief glimpse of the ravaged city and a chance to meet a few of the hundreds of thousands of residents whose lives were turned upside-down by Hurricane Katrina.
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Army bids farewell to highest-ranking loss
Nov 4 2005 7:09PM (CT)
HINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - More than 200 soldiers, family and friends attended funeral services Friday to pay tribute to Army Col. William Wesley Wood, the highest ranking member of the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq.
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Louisiana faces hefty storm recovery bill
Nov 4 2005 6:48PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana anticipates a $3.7 billion bill to repay the federal government for its share of the hurricane recovery, far exceeding anything the governor had previously expected.
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Doctor of ferry pilot in crash gets probation
Nov 4 2005 6:09PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The former doctor of a Staten Island ferry pilot who passed out before a crash that killed 11 people was sentenced to a year's probation Friday for hiding the pilot's medical problems from the Coast Guard.
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Illinois man charged with killing four
Nov 4 2005 5:55PM (CT)
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A man was charged Friday with murdering his parents, sister and brother-in-law, whose bodies were found in an upscale home in suburban Chicago.
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Police raid poker game in Baltimore
Nov 4 2005 4:59PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Police broke up a poker game at a private club, arrested 95 people and seized $25,000 in what they called the city's biggest gambling raid since Prohibition.
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Conn. woman sentenced for sex offense
Nov 4 2005 4:27PM (CT)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A woman was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for having repeated sexual contact with her daughter's 8-year-old playmate, once sending him a love letter that said "I want you!"
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Selection of judge in Delay case stands
Nov 4 2005 4:18PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' chief justice said Friday his decision to appoint a Democrat to preside over Republican Rep. Tom DeLay's campaign-finance case stands, despite prosecutors' objections to the justice's political connections.
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Clinton: Hillary would be better president
Nov 4 2005 4:09PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Former President Clinton said in an interview Friday that he believes his wife would do a better job than he did in the nation's highest office.
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Crowds cheer N.Y. funeral home drug raid
Nov 4 2005 4:05PM (CT)
GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Neighbors cheered and sang the "Cops" theme after police raided a funeral home they say doubled as a crack house.
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Reporters facing courtroom challenges
Nov 4 2005 3:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Already under fire, reporters protecting their sources' identities are facing further challenges in the CIA leak case and in a lawsuit brought by former nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.
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Suspect in 1982 Texas slaying found dead
Nov 4 2005 3:21PM (CT)
ROSENBERG, Texas (AP) - A man committed suicide in a cemetery, days after he failed a lie-detector test in the unsolved shooting death of his sister-in-law more than 20 years ago, authorities said.
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Annan cancels trip to Iran over remarks
Nov 4 2005 3:13PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has canceled a trip to Iran in response to increasing tension over the Iranian president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
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Philly voters to consider anti-graft bill
Nov 4 2005 1:57PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - For two tense hours last month, it looked as if a tragic new chapter in Philadelphia's long history of corruption was about to be written when a councilman under federal investigation climbed to the City Hall observation deck 500 feet above the street and set off a suicide scare.
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Vt. court backs Dean sealing some papers
Nov 4 2005 1:48PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The state Supreme Court ruled Friday that Howard Dean acted legally when he placed some of his gubernatorial papers under seal, a decision that drew fire when he ran for president.
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Indiana offers rewards for killing deer
Nov 4 2005 10:37AM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - State wildlife officials say they hope a new program will motivate hunters to donate venison to the poor while helping to curb the deer population.
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Man sentenced for spreading HIV
Nov 4 2005 10:28AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who had sex with women and teenage girls without warning them he had the AIDS virus was sent to prison Thursday by a judge who labeled him a "violent, self-absorbed outlaw."
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LA hospital ends liver transplant program
Nov 4 2005 9:32AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A hospital is ending its liver transplant program after officials acknowledged in September that doctors violated national standards by giving an organ to a man who was not among the neediest patients.
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Court won't re-hear anonymous sources case
Nov 4 2005 9:10AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided federal appeals court for a second time has rejected four journalists' appeal of a judge's order directing them to testify about their confidential sources as part of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee's lawsuit against the government.
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False accusations against police protected
Nov 4 2005 7:58AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Thursday nullified a California criminal law adopted after the Rodney King beating that made it unlawful for citizens to knowingly lodge false accusations against police officers.
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Californians consider abortion limits
Nov 4 2005 7:41AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Californians will decide whether to make it harder for girls to terminate pregnancies without their parents' knowledge, but recent polls suggest they will reaffirm voters' long-standing support for unfettered abortion access.
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Family loses home to storm, son to war
Nov 4 2005 7:33AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Just as she was trying to rebuild her own life after Hurricane Katrina, Elaine Oneto was told by military officials that her soldier son lost his in Iraq.
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Religion in the news
Nov 4 2005 6:41AM (CT)
CUB RUN, Ky. (AP) - A woman who left the Amish community years ago is refused service by an Amish thrift store owner. The shopper claims her civil rights have been violated; the owner says that serving someone excommunicated from the church would be a serious moral offense.
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Bolinas prepares for royal visit
Nov 4 2005 5:13AM (CT)
BOLINAS, Calif. (AP) - Note to Prince Charles: To get here this weekend, turn west at the lagoon and head toward the Pacific Ocean. The sign showing the way has been torn down by xenophobic locals. Repeatedly.
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Texas ministers mobilizing parishioners
Nov 4 2005 5:02AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Conservative ministers are hoping to mobilize their parishioners this weekend, just days ahead of a vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Texas.
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Wildfire forces evacutions in Colorado
Nov 4 2005 4:55AM (CT)
CONIFER, Colo. (AP) - A wildfire fanned by hurricane-force winds in central Colorado forced the temporary evacuation of 200 families.
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Wash. voters to decide on smoking ban
Nov 4 2005 4:40AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Smokers might have to walk down the block to light up if Washington voters approve one of the most restrictive statewide bans on indoor public smoking in the country.
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Expert: Fla. baby died of natural causes
Nov 4 2005 2:32AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A 6-month-old girl whose parents fed her only raw foods died of natural causes because of a compromised immune system _ not malnutrition, a medical expert testified in her parents' manslaughter trial.
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N.J. voters to mull need for Lt. governor
Nov 4 2005 1:49AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - What do New Jersey, Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming have in common? All have no lieutenant governor.
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New York City teachers ratify contract
Nov 4 2005 12:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Teachers in the nation's largest public school system have ratified a new contract with the city that gives them 15 percent raises over four years, union leaders announced Thursday.
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Race becomes issue in Md. Senate campaign
Nov 4 2005 12:38AM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A blogger's depiction of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in minstrel makeup has brought to the surface issues of race _ and fidelity to one's race _ as the Republican seeks to become Maryland's first black senator.
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Reservist on trial for prisoner abuse
Nov 4 2005 12:37AM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - An Army reservist at an Afghanistan detention center struck and taunted a detainee who may have been mentally disabled, a former soldier testified as a military trial began Thursday.
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Man who killed girl executed in Texas
Nov 4 2005 12:37AM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man was executed Thursday for the slaying of a 9-year-old girl who was abducted and raped in 1997 after attending a neighborhood barbecue.
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Peyote not harmful to American Indians
Nov 4 2005 12:23AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A study of the effects of peyote on American Indians found no evidence that the hallucinogenic cactus caused brain damage or psychological problems among people who used it frequently in religious ceremonies.
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