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Man admits to raping friends' daughters
Nov 5 2007 11:43PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A 50-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to a series of rapes in which he used stun guns and chloroform to knock out the teenage daughters of his friends while they were home alone.
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Plea reached in file-sharing ID theft
Nov 5 2007 11:42PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A man charged with using online file-sharing programs such as LimeWire to commit identity theft pleaded guilty Monday in federal court.
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Man pleads in Nev. courthouse shooting
Nov 5 2007 11:21PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man accused of killing his wife and shooting the judge who was handling their bitter divorce reached a plea deal Monday, abruptly ending his trial.
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Police arrest S.C. mom in son's death
Nov 5 2007 11:16PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A mother who claimed a carjacker had smothered her 7-year-old son with a pillow was arrested Monday and charged with murdering the boy.
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Mass. doc pleads guilty in Medicare case
Nov 5 2007 11:15PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Robert Weiss had been told repeatedly his rare, blistering skin disease was untreatable _ until he found Dr. Abdul Razzaque Ahmed.
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Accused Neb. teacher appears in court
Nov 5 2007 11:03PM (CT)
EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) - A Nebraska middle school teacher accused of running away to Mexico with a 13-year-old to have sex with him appeared in court Monday to face criminal charges.
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Body recovered in area burned by fires
Nov 5 2007 10:50PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A man's body was found in an area frequented by illegal immigrants that was ravaged by recent wildfires, and his death may be the eighth directly attributed to the fires, authorities said Monday.
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Guardsmen accused of taking fire gifts
Nov 5 2007 10:02PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A military police company from the California National Guard has been sequestered pending an investigation into whether troops took donations intended for Southern California wildfire victims, Guard officials said Monday.
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Man shouts threats at Colorado Capitol
Nov 5 2007 9:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A man shouting threats was subdued and arrested at the state Capitol on Monday, less than four months after a trooper shot and killed an armed man inside the building, witnesses and authorities said.
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Defense contractor convicted of bribery
Nov 5 2007 9:17PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A defense contractor was convicted Monday of bribing disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, meals, trips and other gifts in exchange for nearly $90 million in Pentagon work.
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Sept. 11 firefighter memorial unveiled
Nov 5 2007 9:01PM (CT)
EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) - A bronze-and-steel sculpture of three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag amid the ruins of the World Trade Center is a reminder to "never give up," the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday at a dedication ceremony.
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Astronauts check wings for ride home
Nov 5 2007 8:47PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts surveyed the wings of their ship Monday to ensure a safe descent over the American heartland after leaving the international space station.
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Astronauts check wings for ride home
Nov 5 2007 8:47PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts surveyed the wings of their ship Monday to ensure a safe descent over the American heartland after leaving the international space station.
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Astronauts check wings for ride home
Nov 5 2007 8:47PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Shuttle Discovery's astronauts surveyed the wings of their ship Monday to ensure a safe descent over the American heartland after leaving the international space station.
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Critics decry U.S. food safety system
Nov 5 2007 8:36PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Peanut butter is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But chicken pot pies are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's responsibility. Frozen cheese pizzas _ FDA. But if there's pepperoni on them, USDA has jurisdiction, too.
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Critics decry U.S. food safety system
Nov 5 2007 8:36PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Peanut butter is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But chicken pot pies are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's responsibility. Frozen cheese pizzas _ FDA. But if there's pepperoni on them, USDA has jurisdiction, too.
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Critics decry U.S. food safety system
Nov 5 2007 8:36PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Peanut butter is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But chicken pot pies are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's responsibility. Frozen cheese pizzas _ FDA. But if there's pepperoni on them, USDA has jurisdiction, too.
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Critics decry U.S. food safety system
Nov 5 2007 8:36PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Peanut butter is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But chicken pot pies are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's responsibility. Frozen cheese pizzas _ FDA. But if there's pepperoni on them, USDA has jurisdiction, too.
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Critics decry U.S. food safety system
Nov 5 2007 8:36PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Peanut butter is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But chicken pot pies are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's responsibility. Frozen cheese pizzas _ FDA. But if there's pepperoni on them, USDA has jurisdiction, too.
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Trial in missing mom case delayed
Nov 5 2007 8:32PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The opening of the trial for a computer programmer accused of killing his wife _ whose body was never found _ was postponed Monday, and lawyers on both cases would not reveal the reason for the delay.
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NYC subway hero, lawyer settle lawsuits
Nov 5 2007 8:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A commuter hailed as a hero for saving a teenager who fell in front of a subway train has settled with his own lawyer over lawsuits they filed against each other.
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Servant testifies about alleged abuse
Nov 5 2007 7:36PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - An Indonesian servant for a millionaire couple accused of modern-day slavery testified Monday she was forced to eat her own vomit and was scalded with hot water for misdeeds such as sleeping late and pilfering food.
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Servant testifies about alleged abuse
Nov 5 2007 7:36PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - An Indonesian servant for a millionaire couple accused of modern-day slavery testified Monday she was forced to eat her own vomit and was scalded with hot water for misdeeds such as sleeping late and pilfering food.
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Servant testifies about alleged abuse
Nov 5 2007 7:36PM (CT)
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - An Indonesian servant for a millionaire couple accused of modern-day slavery testified Monday she was forced to eat her own vomit and was scalded with hot water for misdeeds such as sleeping late and pilfering food.
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Judge OKs Michigan Indian hunting deal
Nov 5 2007 7:35PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge signed an agreement between the state of Michigan and five Indian groups on Monday giving the tribes the power to issue their own hunting and fishing licenses and write their own regulations.
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2 plead no contest in Ohio recount case
Nov 5 2007 7:29PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Two former election workers pleaded no contest Monday to rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a longer, more expensive hand recount of all votes.
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Minor earthquake reported in Utah
Nov 5 2007 7:21PM (CT)
EPHRAIM, Utah (AP) - A minor earthquake shook buildings Monday afternoon in central Utah but caused no damage or injuries, authorities said.
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Nuke plant worker no longer a suspect
Nov 5 2007 7:11PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities searched Monday for whoever planted a pipe bomb in a truck, triggering a lockdown at the nation's largest nuclear power plant, after concluding the vehicle's owner was no longer a suspect.
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Tennessee helicopter crash kills 3
Nov 5 2007 7:04PM (CT)
JAMESTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - A helicopter crashed Monday in a remote area near the Kentucky border, killing at least three people, officials said.
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Mexican drug kingpin gets life in prison
Nov 5 2007 7:04PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday for running the notoriously violent cartel that bears his family's name, which the judge said "will live in infamy."
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Ala. inmate with cancer loses appeal
Nov 5 2007 6:59PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A death row inmate who wants his cancer to kill him before the state can lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, but he still won't be executed "for months or years," a prosecutor said.
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Mich. man ordered tried in deaths of 2
Nov 5 2007 6:31PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A man suspected of killing several women in this city over several terrifying weeks was ordered Monday to stand trial on murder charges in two of the deaths and assault charges in a third attack.
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5 fall ill on US Airways flight
Nov 5 2007 6:25PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Five US Airways crew members were taken to a hospital Monday after becoming ill aboard a flight from Washington.
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Student attempts suicide at La. school
Nov 5 2007 6:18PM (CT)
RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) - A 13-year-old student shot himself in a suicide attempt at a private school in a New Orleans suburb Monday morning, officials said.
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Woman to testify on pregnant mom's death
Nov 5 2007 6:06PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A high school classmate of a suspended police officer who is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to helping dispose of the body and agreed to testify against him.
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Woman to testify on pregnant mom's death
Nov 5 2007 6:06PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A high school classmate of a suspended police officer who is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to helping dispose of the body and agreed to testify against him.
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Woman to testify on pregnant mom's death
Nov 5 2007 6:06PM (CT)
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A high school classmate of a suspended police officer who is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to helping dispose of the body and agreed to testify against him.
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NY mayor sorry about 'not a hero' remark
Nov 5 2007 5:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized Monday to the father of a police detective he had described last week as "not a hero" because of questions about his death following his work on the Sept. 11 World Trade Center cleanup.
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California sheriff pleads not guilty
Nov 5 2007 5:31PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A federal magistrate entered a not guilty plea Monday on behalf of the Orange County sheriff in a corruption case accusing him and others of pocketing nearly $700,000 in bribes and kickbacks.
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Pathologist probes Ariz. airport death
Nov 5 2007 5:17PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An independent pathologist hired by relatives of a New York woman who died in police custody during an airport layover has been able to examine key body parts not available in a previous autopsy, a lawyer for the family said Monday.
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Pearl's widow profiles courageous women
Nov 5 2007 4:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Adam Pearl wandered through his mother's Manhattan book-launch party last week, looking spiffy in a sweater vest and button-down shirt. It was logical that the 5-year-old was there, because his mom, Mariane Pearl, views her work as a dialogue of sorts with her little boy.
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Air Force suspends some F-15 flights
Nov 5 2007 4:21PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Air Force has suspended some F-15 flights, citing a possible structural failure discovered after one of the fighter jets crashed in central Missouri.
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Arrest in Halloween killing of NY guard
Nov 5 2007 4:10PM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) - An 18-year-old has been charged with murder in the Halloween shooting death of a security man who confronted egg-throwing vandals outside the building he was guarding, police said Monday.
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Md. court rejects sniper's appeal
Nov 5 2007 2:00PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad does not deserve a new trial in Maryland, a state appeals court ruled Monday in a sharply worded unanimous decision that compared Muhammad to Jack the Ripper.
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Military burial blocked due to killings
Nov 5 2007 1:58PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The burial planned Monday for a former Marine in a national cemetery was postponed after cemetery officials learned he was apparently in a double murder-suicide.
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Iraq vet loses 3 kids in car wreck
Nov 5 2007 11:08AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - All three young children of a wounded Iraq veteran and his wife have died following a car accident that happened on their way to visit their father in a hospital.
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Service for tot found in box on beach
Nov 5 2007 11:03AM (CT)
TIKI ISLAND, Texas (AP) - Residents held a memorial service for "Baby Grace," a young girl whose remains were discovered inside a storage box that washed ashore on Galveston Bay.
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Video shows teens vandalizing Fla. pond
Nov 5 2007 10:58AM (CT)
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) - Two 17-year-old boys face felony animal cruelty charges after a security video caught two suspects apparently vandalizing a koi fish pond with dishwashing detergent, authorities said.
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Power returns in New England after Noel
Nov 5 2007 10:01AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Power was being restored Monday to several thousand coastal residents from Massachusetts to Maine who lost electricity when the remnants of Hurricane Noel blew through the region over the weekend.
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Water limits bedevil Calif. farmers
Nov 5 2007 5:57AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A few years ago, the math seemed simple enough for Bruce Allbright: Plant several hundred acres of pistachio trees, add water when needed, then pick the money from the trees.
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Pitfalls loom for public market plans
Nov 5 2007 5:21AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Growing interest in seasonal and locally sourced foods has created a fanfare for indoor public markets, where heirloom tomatoes are sold alongside artisan breads and freshly pressed olive oil.
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