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Housing inspectors inundated after Katrina
Nov 5 2005 11:56PM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Deep in the muck and mold that was Greg Herman's home, a volunteer church crew works to clear his property in preparation for rebuilding. Closer to downtown, Peggy Gibson's small home stands ready for contractors, if she can find the money.
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Blanco slashes La. spending by $431M
Nov 5 2005 11:55PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Struggling with a huge post-hurricane deficit, Gov. Kathleen Blanco slashed state spending by $431 million Saturday, but even with the cuts, Louisiana still faces a budget shortfall of about half a billion dollars.
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Escaped Texas inmate may have had help
Nov 5 2005 11:53PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The search for a death row inmate who walked unnoticed out of a Texas county jail become a nationwide manhunt Saturday as authorities investigated whether he had help making the brazen escape.
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La. lawmakers hold session on storm relief
Nov 5 2005 11:40PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers have just over two weeks to chart their hurricane-ravaged state's future, from rewriting building codes to weighing tax breaks to changing how employment benefits are calculated, and then answering the big question: how to pay for it all.
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Charles, Camilla tour Calif. organic farm
Nov 5 2005 10:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, examined produce at a farmers market and mingled with locals at an organic farm near San Francisco on Saturday as their U.S. tour moved to California.
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JDL member imprisoned in bomb plot killed
Nov 5 2005 10:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Jewish Defense League activist imprisoned for his role in a plot to bomb a California mosque and the office of a Lebanese-American congressman was killed at a federal prison in Phoenix, an FBI spokesman said Saturday.
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'Protected status' sought for Pakistanis
Nov 5 2005 10:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - South Asian advocacy groups are urging Congress and the Bush administration to grant Pakistanis in the United States a chance to delay deportation to their earthquake-ravaged homeland until the recovery from the disaster is further along.
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Judge aims to prevent dead voters in N.J.
Nov 5 2005 9:26PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A judge concerned about the potential for voter fraud in Tuesday's election has ordered the state to compile the names of all adult New Jersey residents who have died since 1985.
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Episcopals duck vote on same-sex blessings
Nov 5 2005 9:13PM (CT)
MANSFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Representatives of Episcopal congregations in Massachusetts sidestepped a vote on whether to endorse a report that condemns appointments of gay bishops and calls on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada to enact a moratorium on same-sex blessings.
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Group wants to set minimum hunting age
Nov 5 2005 8:52PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Md. (AP) - John Wagner was 5 when he killed his first deer with one shot from a .223-caliber rifle. He is now standing in the living room of his family home and recalling with mounting excitement how last December he trained the cross hairs on the 75-pound doe as she paused beneath a tree house where he and his father waited.
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Men admit to attack in probe of sheriff
Nov 5 2005 8:11PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Two men with ties to an indicted sheriff pleaded guilty to witness tampering and admitted beating up and biting a state trooper as payback for his role in the investigation.
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Small jet crashes in Houston, killing two
Nov 5 2005 7:46PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A small jet crashed Saturday at one of the city's airports after being instructed to take off quickly because of an incoming airliner. Both people on the jet were killed.
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Xavier struggles to survive post-Katrina
Nov 5 2005 4:42PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Warped wooden floors and ruined desks have been stripped out of Xavier University's main campus building. Its 4,000 students are scattered across the nation. Half the faculty and staff have been laid off.
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Black leaders question NAACP on Prop. 78
Nov 5 2005 11:47AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The pharmaceutical industry has spent $76.5 million to line up support for its prescription drug initiative on next week's ballot _ and some of the money is causing a rift among black leaders.
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Mayor: Sever thumbs of graffiti artists
Nov 5 2005 11:19AM (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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Surfers: New Calif. road will kill waves
Nov 5 2005 10:51AM (CT)
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - It's called Trestles. It means surfing. For decades the surf break with the odd name south of here has been legend, one that wave riders say is a creation of natural interactions between land and ocean that make it one of the best _ if not the best _ on the nation's coastline.
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Reporters facing courtroom challenges
Nov 5 2005 8:08AM (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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Officials 'embarrassed' by death row escape
Nov 5 2005 7:24AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Harris County officials blamed "100 percent human error" for the escape of inmate Charles Victor Thompson as jurors and his victims' relatives worried the convicted killer would come after them.
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Conservatives eye Calif. churches in vote
Nov 5 2005 5:09AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - With support from religious groups and megachurches, backers of the abortion initiative on Tuesday's ballot plan a substantial push this weekend to motivate millions of Christian voters to the polls.
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Woman gets house arrest in Fla. hit-and-run
Nov 5 2005 4:30AM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A former elementary school dance teacher was sentenced to two years of house arrest early Saturday for speeding away after her car hit and killed two young brothers.
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Judge weighs evolution arguments in Pa.
Nov 5 2005 3:19AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge is contemplating whether the mandatory teaching of "intelligent design" improperly promotes religion in schools, after the historic evolution trial drew to a close.
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Louisiana faces hefty storm recovery bill
Nov 5 2005 1:07AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana is expecting a $3.7 billion bill from the federal government for the state's share of the hurricane recovery, far exceeding anything the governor had anticipated.
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MDA camp needn't use disabled volunteers
Nov 5 2005 12:05AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Muscular Dystrophy Association does not have to allow volunteers with the disability to work at one of its camps.
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Ex-Klansman gets 14 years in pipe bomb sting
Nov 5 2005 12:01AM (CT)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a former Ku Klux Klansman to 14 years in prison Friday for making pipe bombs and selling them to an undercover informant who said they would be used to kill illegal immigrants.
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