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Criminal probe opened in Bay oil spill
Nov 11 2007 11:32PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The entire crew of the cargo ship that sideswiped a bridge, causing San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades, has been detained as part of a criminal investigation, a Coast Guard official said Sunday.
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Criminal probe opened in Bay oil spill
Nov 11 2007 11:32PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The entire crew of the cargo ship that sideswiped a bridge, causing San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades, has been detained as part of a criminal investigation, a Coast Guard official said Sunday.
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Criminal probe opened in Bay oil spill
Nov 11 2007 11:32PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The entire crew of the cargo ship that sideswiped a bridge, causing San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades, has been detained as part of a criminal investigation, a Coast Guard official said Sunday.
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Thrown rock helps nab escaped convict
Nov 11 2007 11:16PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Helena Prerelease Center employee, hearing something rustling in the bushes, threw a rock at a shrub.
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Man rewarded for helping capture inmate
Nov 11 2007 11:13PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A homeless man whose tip led to the capture of an escaped prisoner accused of fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy was called a hero on Sunday and given thousands of dollars in assistance.
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Police: Man sold hallucinogens in candy
Nov 11 2007 11:06PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly selling hallucinogenic mushrooms hidden inside chocolate bunnies and ducks and other drugs, authorities said.
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Guns linked to Pancho Villa auctioned
Nov 11 2007 9:18PM (CT)
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) - Three guns linked to Pancho Villa were auctioned for nearly $29,000, apparently less than what organizers expected the firearms tied to the Mexican revolutionary to fetch.
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New visa may aid boy in teacher sex case
Nov 11 2007 8:26PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A 13-year-old illegal immigrant who fled to his native Mexico amid a sex scandal with his schoolteacher could be eligible to return to the United States under a new visa the government started granting the week before he disappeared.
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Cause celebres cross line into heroism
Nov 11 2007 5:25PM (CT)
WINSTON, Ga. (AP) - A crowd gave a hero's welcome to a 20-year-old freed from a 10-year prison sentence imposed on him for having underage sex in a hotel room at a New Year's Eve party.
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Thieves with bouquet rob NYC woman, 80
Nov 11 2007 5:25PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Robbers posed as flower deliverymen to get into an 80-year-old woman's apartment and steal at least $60,000 in savings her husband kept in cash, the victims and police said.
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Mo. woman arrested in kidnapping hoax
Nov 11 2007 5:22PM (CT)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - A woman who sent text messages to her family claiming she had been abducted was charged Sunday afternoon with making a false police report after she was found unharmed at an acquaintance's house.
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Megachurch took in $69 million in 2006
Nov 11 2007 10:52AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - An Atlanta megachurch took in $69 million in 2006, according to a financial statement the church's minister released in response to a Senate investigation into him and five other well-known televangelists.
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Loyalty a factor in heroism
Nov 11 2007 10:44AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An infantryman charges a pillbox in the face of enemy fire. A firefighter rushes up the stairwell of a burning skyscraper as office workers flee. A teacher shields her student from a schoolyard gunman with her body.
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Loyalty a factor in heroism
Nov 11 2007 10:44AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An infantryman charges a pillbox in the face of enemy fire. A firefighter rushes up the stairwell of a burning skyscraper as office workers flee. A teacher shields her student from a schoolyard gunman with her body.
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Loyalty a factor in heroism
Nov 11 2007 10:44AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An infantryman charges a pillbox in the face of enemy fire. A firefighter rushes up the stairwell of a burning skyscraper as office workers flee. A teacher shields her student from a schoolyard gunman with her body.
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Loyalty a factor in heroism
Nov 11 2007 10:44AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An infantryman charges a pillbox in the face of enemy fire. A firefighter rushes up the stairwell of a burning skyscraper as office workers flee. A teacher shields her student from a schoolyard gunman with her body.
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Protesters arrested at Washington port
Nov 11 2007 7:01AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - At least a dozen people were arrested as demonstrators rallied to protest military cargo shipments arriving from Iraq at the port in the state capital.
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Teacher sex abuse cases reveal patterns
Nov 11 2007 6:32AM (CT)
LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) - Back in August, the rumor around Lexington Middle School was that 25-year-old math teacher Kelsey Peterson had a boyfriend _ a 13-year-old former student. People had complained to administrators three months earlier that Peterson spent too much time hanging out with the kids. When new complaints reached administrators linking her to the student in August, her principal gave her a verbal warning, but that was it.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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Offerings still pile up for Vietnam Vets
Nov 11 2007 4:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead.
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6 workers injured in blast on Navy ship
Nov 11 2007 12:57AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - An explosion in the hull of a Navy cruiser during routine maintenance injured six workers on Saturday, one of them critically, authorities said.
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Chicago Episcopals pick moderate bishop
Nov 11 2007 12:55AM (CT)
WHEELING, Ill. (AP) - A moderate church leader, the Rev. Jeffrey Lee, was elected the 12th Bishop of Chicago at the diocese convention on Saturday over seven other candidates, one of them an openly lesbian priest.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger has thigh surgery
Nov 11 2007 12:53AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent surgery Saturday to remove a metal plate and cables from his leg, a spokesman said.
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Officer a suspect in missing wife case
Nov 11 2007 12:16AM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Kathleen Savio tried to get someone to believe that her life was in danger. She told authorities, who charged her with domestic battery instead of her husband Drew Peterson. Savio told her family that if she died, no matter what it looked like, her death would be no accident.
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Officer a suspect in missing wife case
Nov 11 2007 12:16AM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Kathleen Savio tried to get someone to believe that her life was in danger. She told authorities, who charged her with domestic battery instead of her husband Drew Peterson. Savio told her family that if she died, no matter what it looked like, her death would be no accident.
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Officer a suspect in missing wife case
Nov 11 2007 12:16AM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Kathleen Savio tried to get someone to believe that her life was in danger. She told authorities, who charged her with domestic battery instead of her husband Drew Peterson. Savio told her family that if she died, no matter what it looked like, her death would be no accident.
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Officer a suspect in missing wife case
Nov 11 2007 12:16AM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Kathleen Savio tried to get someone to believe that her life was in danger. She told authorities, who charged her with domestic battery instead of her husband Drew Peterson. Savio told her family that if she died, no matter what it looked like, her death would be no accident.
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Officer a suspect in missing wife case
Nov 11 2007 12:16AM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Kathleen Savio tried to get someone to believe that her life was in danger. She told authorities, who charged her with domestic battery instead of her husband Drew Peterson. Savio told her family that if she died, no matter what it looked like, her death would be no accident.
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