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School newspaper apologizes for caption
Nov 11 2005 11:49PM (CT)
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - A newspaper apologized and fired a copy editor for posting an online photo of a girls' soccer team that suggested one of the players was a lesbian.
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Wash. school rescinds ban on rosary beads
Nov 11 2005 10:41PM (CT)
CHELAN, Wash. (AP) - A high school has rescinded a rule that prohibited students from wearing rosary beads a week after administrators prohibited them as symbols of potential gang involvement.
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Trial of teen tied to Minn. shootings shut
Nov 11 2005 10:33PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A teen accused in connection with school shootings that left 10 people dead on an Indian reservation will be tried behind closed doors, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Donors offer Mich. town's students tuition
Nov 11 2005 9:59PM (CT)
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - In one of the biggest and boldest such programs in the nation, an anonymous group of benefactors is offering college scholarships for at least the next 13 years to nearly all of Kalamazoo's high school graduates.
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Anglican bishops urge U.S. church split
Nov 11 2005 9:59PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - An international panel of Anglican archbishops called upon a gathering of their conservative American counterparts Friday to split from the rest of the U.S. Episcopal Church.
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Reputed mobster's antics anger prosecutor
Nov 11 2005 9:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A reputed mobster being held under house arrest while awaiting trial was filmed for a TV comedy cavorting with topless dancers, visiting posh restaurants and trying to break into a church, prosecutors charged.
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NYPD to test explosive detectors in subway
Nov 11 2005 9:55PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police next week plan to roll out another anti-terrorism tool designed to stop bombers from attacking the city's subway system: portable explosive detection devices sometimes used at airports.
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Mich. AG releases voicemail tied to claim
Nov 11 2005 9:45PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Attorney General Mike Cox released a voicemail Friday of what he says is a threat from an associate of Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant attorney who plans to challenge him in 2006.
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Once wrongly jailed man faces slay charge
Nov 11 2005 9:06PM (CT)
CHILTON, Wis. (AP) - A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit will be charged with killing a woman whose vehicle was found near his home, a prosecutor said Friday.
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Oyster harvesting returns to Louisiana
Nov 11 2005 9:01PM (CT)
HOPEDALE, La. (AP) - Oystermen have returned to the bays of southeast Louisiana. The hurricane-ravaged industry celebrated a victory Friday when two boats arrived at the Old Hopedale Seafood Plant and unloaded hundreds of sacks of oysters.
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Millionaire benefits Montana wildlife
Nov 11 2005 8:57PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - LeRoy Beckman went to secondhand stores for hearing aids and heated only one room of his small Montana house. He got around in an old panel truck, favored bib overalls and found Social Security adequate in his old age.
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Miss. park tells Katrina evacuees to pay
Nov 11 2005 8:56PM (CT)
McCOMB, Miss. (AP) - Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in their own travel trailers in a south Mississippi state park are being billed for campsite rental, but some are angry because they thought the federal government was paying the fees.
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Schwarzenegger drops nurse-staffing fight
Nov 11 2005 8:52PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ended a yearlong fight with California nurses over hospital staffing levels after a bitter feud that escalated when he boasted, "I'm kicking their butts."
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Mass. Democrats angered by 'KKK' joke
Nov 11 2005 7:47PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Mitt Romney was introduced at a Washington luncheon as the head of a state run by the "modern-day KKK ... the Kennedy-Kerry Klan," drawing rebukes from Democrats and Romney himself.
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Justice Dept. threatens to sue Ill. school
Nov 11 2005 7:21PM (CT)
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Federal prosecutors are threatening to sue Southern Illinois University over three small graduate school scholarship programs aimed at women and minorities, saying they were discriminatory.
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Man shot to death at Vt. police station
Nov 11 2005 5:52PM (CT)
BARRE, Vt. (AP) - A man was shot to death inside the town police station after pulling a knife on an officer who was photographing and fingerprinting him, authorities say.
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Crips founder seeks to reopen case
Nov 11 2005 5:31PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang later nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-violence efforts, is trying to head off execution by asking the California Supreme Court to reopen his case.
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Campaign phone-jamming case to go to trial
Nov 11 2005 5:14PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A former national Republican Party official will stand trial on charges he conspired to jam Democratic get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002, a federal judge said.
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Suspect flees from Atlanta jail
Nov 11 2005 4:34PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A handcuffed suspect in an alleged child prostitution ring ran out an open garage door at the troubled Fulton County Jail, sparking a brief manhunt months after another inmate fled from the county courthouse and allegedly killed four people.
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Man guilty in N.J. murder-dismemberments
Nov 11 2005 4:09PM (CT)
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - A former nurse was convicted of murdering and dismembering two men whose body parts were dumped along New Jersey highways in the 1990s.
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U.S., Canada loosen aviation restrictions
Nov 11 2005 3:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States and Canada announced Friday that they have agreed to loosen restrictions on cargo and passenger flights between the two countries.
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Conservatives in Iowa urge Alito support
Nov 11 2005 3:40PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Conservative activists in Iowa have a message for 2008 presidential hopefuls: Oppose Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito at your own political peril.
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Help sought recovering Iraq artifacts
Nov 11 2005 3:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More help is needed from Iraq's neighbors, particularly Iran and Turkey, to recover thousands of antiquities looted from Baghdad's National Museum during the battle for the city in 2003, says the U.S. investigator leading the search.
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N.Y. ex-school administrator pleads guilty
Nov 11 2005 3:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former assistant superintendent at a Long Island school district where auditors uncovered $11.2 million in thefts pleaded guilty in a deal that will send her to prison for up to nine years and force her to repay $4 million.
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Wash. Medal of Honor winner dies at 79
Nov 11 2005 2:53PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Robert Eugene Bush, who received a Medal of Honor for bravery in tending to the wounded while under enemy fire at Okinawa, has died at age 79.
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Man accused of killing wife for insurance
Nov 11 2005 2:52PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A journalist accused of poisoning his wife by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze told a friend he planned to spend his life insurance money on a house and a BMW convertible, according to prosecutors.
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4-year-old says goodbye to slain mother
Nov 11 2005 1:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Clutching a goodbye card, a 4-year-old girl whose tragic story captured the city's collective heart attended a funeral Mass on Friday for her mother, whose battered body was found in a landfill.
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Fla. prosecutor's killer dies in prison
Nov 11 2005 12:57PM (CT)
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - A man on death row for murdering a prosecutor 17 years ago has died of natural causes, leaving some close to the victim lamenting that he was never executed.
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6 fired after rape at Fla. detention center
Nov 11 2005 11:17AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Six juvenile detention center employees were fired and five others disciplined after police said a mentally retarded boy was raped by a sex offender who was allegedly assigned to bathe and change his diaper.
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Protesters try to remove Maine peace flags
Nov 11 2005 10:24AM (CT)
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) - Protesters led by a veterans post tried to remove a flag display placed by peace activists at a veterans cemetery, and five were charged with criminal trespass.
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Edmund Fitzgerald wreck remembered
Nov 11 2005 9:00AM (CT)
WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (AP) - Deborah Champeau-Felder stood silently as the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald clanged in memory of her father, one of 29 mariners who perished when the ore carrier sank in a vicious Lake Superior storm 30 years ago.
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Poll: Consumers less worried about economy
Nov 11 2005 8:54AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer confidence emerged from a funk. With gasoline prices moderating, people are feeling better _ but not ebullient _ about the economy's prospects and their own.
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Police arrest 846 Mich. sex offenders
Nov 11 2005 8:17AM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Police made 846 arrests during a statewide roundup of people accused of violating the requirements of Michigan's sex offender registry law, authorities say.
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Police arrest 846 Mich. sex offenders
Nov 11 2005 8:15AM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Police made 846 arrests during a statewide roundup of people accused of violating the requirements of Michigan's sex offender registry law, authorities say.
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Suit filed over hurricane housing aid
Nov 11 2005 8:01AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Russell Hayward's home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, but because he spent his federal relief money on things like clothes and towels, he's been told he will not receive temporary housing assistance.
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Miss. children pen moving letters to GIs
Nov 11 2005 7:08AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The handwritten pages of the book are decorated with carefully drawn flags and little traced hands. They contain prayerful wishes and innocent questions.
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Ex-Times reporter's conscience is clear
Nov 11 2005 7:02AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Judith Miller, the reporter who left The New York Times amid criticism of her actions in a CIA leak probe and reporting on weapons of mass destruction, says there was "not really much" she would have done differently.
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Crime victims often marooned in Alaska
Nov 11 2005 6:57AM (CT)
KOTZEBUE, Alaska (AP) - Susan Jones knew she had to leave her remote southeast Alaska village when she came home to find her husband clutching his loaded rifle.
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Religion in the news
Nov 11 2005 6:36AM (CT)
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. (AP) - For Bob and Theresa Cudequest, devout but busy Roman Catholics, technology truly is a blessing.
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'Band of brothers' seek to honor captain
Nov 11 2005 6:12AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - In 1944, a young Navy band of brothers engaged in an epic sea battle and made naval history when they sank the Japanese battleship Fuso. Now, the aging crew is waging another battle _ to honor their captain.
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Ex-wildfire chief accused of setting fires
Nov 11 2005 5:08AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The former commander of an elite wildfire team that battled the largest blaze in Arizona history and aided in recovery efforts at the World Trade Center is accused of starting two fires last year, federal prosecutors said.
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Clinton calls impeachment egregious abuse
Nov 11 2005 5:02AM (CT)
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Former president Bill Clinton called Congress' impeachment of him an "egregious" abuse of the Constitution and challenged those who say history will judge him poorly because of his White House tryst with Monica Lewinsky.
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Pat Robertson warns Pa. town of disaster
Nov 11 2005 2:48AM (CT)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster may strike there because they "voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching intelligent design.
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Fumes send Colo. plant workers to hospital
Nov 11 2005 12:43AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Fumes from chemicals mixed by a maintenance crew sent seven factory workers to hospitals Thursday and forced 150 to evacuate, officials said.
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Ex-councilman sentenced in strip club scam
Nov 11 2005 12:10AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A judge sentenced a former city councilman to nearly two years in prison Thursday for a scheme to overturn a ban on touching dancers at strip clubs but ordered a new trial for another council member convicted in the same scandal.
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