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Doctor questions politics in indictment
Nov 4 2007 7:47PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A nationally renowned medical examiner has asked a federal judge to determine whether an 84-count indictment against him was politically motivated.
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Audit: Feds paid too much in evacuations
Nov 4 2007 7:13PM (CT)
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) - A medical transport service overcharged the federal government nearly $2 million to evacuate sick or injured people during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a government audit found.
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New England coast cleans up after storm
Nov 4 2007 5:59PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Several thousand coastal residents from Massachusetts to Maine faced a second night without power Sunday, and at least two house fires were indirectly blamed on the remnants of Hurricane Noel.
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Denver nightclub shooting kills 1
Nov 4 2007 4:08PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Someone opened fire outside a nightclub early Sunday, killing one person and wounding seven others, police said.
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Hearing set Monday for runaway teacher
Nov 4 2007 3:55PM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) - The teacher accused of fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old boy after reports surfaced that they were having sex was popular but strict with kids who got in trouble, middle school students said Sunday.
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Texas bird-watching hotspot recovering
Nov 4 2007 3:18PM (CT)
HIGH ISLAND, Texas (AP) - This bump on the flat Texas coast, one of the nation's premier bird-watching meccas where thousands of people from around the world are lured each year, took a direct hit from the tiny but intense Hurricane Humberto.
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New trial for Harvard grad student
Nov 4 2007 3:07PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A former Harvard graduate student goes on trial a second time Monday in the stabbing death of an 18-year-old hotel cook, but this time the defense can bring up violence in the dead man's past to support their self-defense arguments.
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Ky. gov candidates trade ethics charges
Nov 4 2007 1:23PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's race for governor between Democrat Steve Beshear and Gov. Ernie Fletcher looked like it would focus on the ethics of the Republican incumbent, who spent much of his first term battling a hiring scandal.
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Donors bid millions NOT to rename school
Nov 4 2007 12:37PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - When he became dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business in 2002, Michael Knetter went looking for a big donor, someone who would give $50 million in exchange for putting their name on the school.
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Ohio team still recovering from wreck
Nov 4 2007 12:12PM (CT)
BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) - Every day, Bluffton University baseball coach James Grandey looks at the banners hanging on the outfield fence in left field, staring at five names and numbers. Sometimes, he's joined by his wife and their 10-month-old daughter.
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Earlier World Trade Center threatened
Nov 4 2007 10:19AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Historians are trying to save a lower Manhattan building that is "a rare surviving relic" of New York's 19th-century world trade center but is due to be demolished to make way for a new hotel.
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Warrant in Philadelphia cop slaying
Nov 4 2007 10:11AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police identified a suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest on Sunday in the shooting death of an officer who walked in on a robbery at a doughnut shop.
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Vehicle crashes into cafe, killing 2
Nov 4 2007 9:38AM (CT)
FAIRVIEW, Mich. (AP) - A driver ran off the road and crashed into a cafe, killing two people and injuring five others, police said.
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Police search for missing Illinois woman
Nov 4 2007 9:12AM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - State police sent divers into a retention pond Friday near the home of a suburban Chicago police sergeant whose wife disappeared Sunday and whose former wife was found dead in her bathtub in 2004.
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Massive pileup closes California freeway
Nov 4 2007 7:42AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - More than 100 cars and trucks crashed on a fog-shrouded freeway Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, the California Highway Patrol said.
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Massive pileup closes California freeway
Nov 4 2007 7:42AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - More than 100 cars and trucks crashed on a fog-shrouded freeway Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, the California Highway Patrol said.
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Massive pileup closes California freeway
Nov 4 2007 7:42AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - More than 100 cars and trucks crashed on a fog-shrouded freeway Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, the California Highway Patrol said.
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Massive pileup closes California freeway
Nov 4 2007 7:42AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - More than 100 cars and trucks crashed on a fog-shrouded freeway Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, the California Highway Patrol said.
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Cargill Inc. recalls tainted beef
Nov 4 2007 3:41AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The giant agribusiness company Cargill Inc. said Saturday it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
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Final residents return after wildfires
Nov 4 2007 1:24AM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - The last group of residents evacuated because of a fire that destroyed 16 houses in Orange County were allowed to return home on Saturday, authorities said.
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Tanker rams, damages light tower off NYC
Nov 4 2007 12:08AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An oil tanker slammed into a light tower off Staten Island on Saturday that helps watch over the main shipping lanes to New York Harbor, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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