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Drought postpones Texas A&M bonfire
Nov 16 2007 11:40PM (CT)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - A huge off-campus bonfire Texas A&M University students light before the annual football game against their archrival was postponed this weekend because of drought conditions and a ban on outdoor burning.
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Mom: Web hoax led girl to kill herself
Nov 16 2007 11:31PM (CT)
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. (AP) - Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.
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Coast Guard points to spill ship's pilot
Nov 16 2007 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Coast Guard radars could not have clearly shown a cargo ship was dangerously close to the Bay Bridge, a spokesman said Friday, a day after investigators disclosed the vessel wasn't warned moments before it crashed in dense fog and spilled 58,000 gallons of oil.
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Coast Guard points to spill ship's pilot
Nov 16 2007 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Coast Guard radars could not have clearly shown a cargo ship was dangerously close to the Bay Bridge, a spokesman said Friday, a day after investigators disclosed the vessel wasn't warned moments before it crashed in dense fog and spilled 58,000 gallons of oil.
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Coast Guard points to spill ship's pilot
Nov 16 2007 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Coast Guard radars could not have clearly shown a cargo ship was dangerously close to the Bay Bridge, a spokesman said Friday, a day after investigators disclosed the vessel wasn't warned moments before it crashed in dense fog and spilled 58,000 gallons of oil.
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Coast Guard points to spill ship's pilot
Nov 16 2007 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Coast Guard radars could not have clearly shown a cargo ship was dangerously close to the Bay Bridge, a spokesman said Friday, a day after investigators disclosed the vessel wasn't warned moments before it crashed in dense fog and spilled 58,000 gallons of oil.
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Coast Guard points to spill ship's pilot
Nov 16 2007 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Coast Guard radars could not have clearly shown a cargo ship was dangerously close to the Bay Bridge, a spokesman said Friday, a day after investigators disclosed the vessel wasn't warned moments before it crashed in dense fog and spilled 58,000 gallons of oil.
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Jailer accused of sex with inmates
Nov 16 2007 11:22PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The son of an Illinois congressman is accused of having sexual contact with two female inmates and inappropriate contact with a third while working for the state Department of Corrections, officials announced Friday.
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Power lines blamed for San Diego fire
Nov 16 2007 11:12PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - California's state fire agency said Friday that sparking power lines ignited the largest of the wildfires that ravaged Southern California last month. The fire killed two people, burned over 300 square miles and destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
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Woman gets 20 years for kidnapping baby
Nov 16 2007 11:09PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A 22-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a days-old baby from a hospital maternity ward was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.
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NYC identifies 9/11 victim from WTC road
Nov 16 2007 11:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A second Sept. 11 victim was identified from human remains found underneath a service road at the World Trade Center site in the past year, officials said Friday.
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Gallaudet University taken off probation
Nov 16 2007 10:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf, has been taken off probation by its accrediting agency after a review of its enrollment and academic standards.
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Ex-jailer convicted of killing student
Nov 16 2007 10:19PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A former jailer was found guilty Friday of attacking a college student in her off-campus apartment, strangling her with a belt and stabbing her in the neck with two knives taken from her kitchen.
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Small quake shakes Southern Calif.
Nov 16 2007 10:09PM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - A magnitude-3.4 earthquake has shaken part of California's central coast, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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Suit against Mexican cardinal dismissed
Nov 16 2007 10:09PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday that accused Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera of conspiring with Roman Catholic officials in the United States to shelter a suspected pedophile priest.
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Atty.: $3.4M La. DA deal awaits approval
Nov 16 2007 10:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A multi-million dollar discrimination judgment that threatens to bankrupt the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office may be a step closer to being paid, an attorney for the plaintiffs said Friday.
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Mistrial declared in cat shooting trial
Nov 16 2007 10:01PM (CT)
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - The trial of a prominent birdwatcher accused of animal cruelty for shooting a cat ended in a mistrial Friday after jurors couldn't reach a verdict.
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2 killed in Iowa balloon crash
Nov 16 2007 9:40PM (CT)
COULTER, Iowa (AP) - A helium-powered balloon hit a power line and crashed onto a north-central Iowa cattle pasture Friday, killing two men and injuring a third, a sheriff said.
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2 killed in Iowa balloon crash
Nov 16 2007 9:40PM (CT)
COULTER, Iowa (AP) - A helium-powered balloon hit a power line and crashed onto a north-central Iowa cattle pasture Friday, killing two men and injuring a third, a sheriff said.
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Grand jury probes death of ex-cop's wife
Nov 16 2007 9:30PM (CT)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Authorities searching for a former police officer's wife plan to question a man who says he was there when the officer first saw the body of his previous wife, the man said Friday.
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Police: Gas price war leads to shooting
Nov 16 2007 9:12PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A price war between competing gas stations apparently led to one gas station operator shooting another on Friday, police said.
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FAA reassures travelers after near-miss
Nov 16 2007 9:06PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Air traffic control errors like the one that almost caused two airliners to collide near Chicago this week remain extremely rare and staffing levels are adequate despite controllers' complaints of fatigue and overwork, a federal aviation official said Friday.
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Court deals blow to wiretapping case
Nov 16 2007 8:53PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday dealt a near-fatal blow against an Islamic charity's lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program, concluding that a key piece of evidence is protected as a state secret.
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No charges in fatal Ala. bus crash
Nov 16 2007 8:45PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A criminal investigation into the deadly wreck of a school bus that plunged 40 feet from an overpass last year was closed without any charges, authorities said Friday.
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Nurses' strike drags on in Appalachia
Nov 16 2007 8:15PM (CT)
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) - Jerry Blevins has stood for weeks on a picket line with his fellow nurses, thinking about his mortgage, his tearful wife, his four children.
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Nurses' strike drags on in Appalachia
Nov 16 2007 8:15PM (CT)
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) - Jerry Blevins has stood for weeks on a picket line with his fellow nurses, thinking about his mortgage, his tearful wife, his four children.
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Nurses' strike drags on in Appalachia
Nov 16 2007 8:15PM (CT)
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) - Jerry Blevins has stood for weeks on a picket line with his fellow nurses, thinking about his mortgage, his tearful wife, his four children.
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Nurses' strike drags on in Appalachia
Nov 16 2007 8:15PM (CT)
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) - Jerry Blevins has stood for weeks on a picket line with his fellow nurses, thinking about his mortgage, his tearful wife, his four children.
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1 dead in Mont. prison worker bus crash
Nov 16 2007 7:59PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A bus carrying Montana State Prison employees to work struck a deer and overturned Friday morning, killing one person and injuring more than two dozen others, a state Corrections Department spokesman said.
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Man shot by agents appears in court
Nov 16 2007 7:57PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An admitted Mexican drug smuggler shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents who were convicted in the shooting made his first appearance on marijuana charges Friday in federal court.
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Atty: Woman wasn't told donor was a risk
Nov 16 2007 7:55PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.
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Atty: Woman wasn't told donor was a risk
Nov 16 2007 7:55PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.
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Atty: Woman wasn't told donor was a risk
Nov 16 2007 7:55PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.
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Atty: Woman wasn't told donor was a risk
Nov 16 2007 7:55PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said.
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Kerry vows to disprove Swift boat claims
Nov 16 2007 7:48PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman's offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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State official knew of Blackwater link
Nov 16 2007 6:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The credibility of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard took another hit Friday with the revelation that his brother called a congressional oversight committee to contradict Krongard's sworn testimony before the panel.
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Md. schools get tough on vaccinations
Nov 16 2007 5:56PM (CT)
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Two months into the school year, more than 2,000 students in this suburban county outside the nation's capital had yet to get the shots they needed to attend class. So the school system decided it was through playing nice.
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Dry South: Corps cuts flow from Ga. lake
Nov 16 2007 5:43PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal biologists signed off on a plan Friday to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-state water fight as the Southeast contends with a historic drought.
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Dry South: Corps cuts flow from Ga. lake
Nov 16 2007 5:43PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal biologists signed off on a plan Friday to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-state water fight as the Southeast contends with a historic drought.
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Dry South: Corps cuts flow from Ga. lake
Nov 16 2007 5:43PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal biologists signed off on a plan Friday to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-state water fight as the Southeast contends with a historic drought.
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Va. high court blocks sale of artworks
Nov 16 2007 5:41PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday halted financially ailing Randolph College's plans to sell four paintings at auction this month, including a work by early 20th century master George Bellows.
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New atty gen shows political savvy
Nov 16 2007 5:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just a week into the job, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has shown he knows how to stroke political detractors.
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New atty gen shows political savvy
Nov 16 2007 5:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just a week into the job, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has shown he knows how to stroke political detractors.
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Feds raid 'Liberty Dollar' HQ in Ind.
Nov 16 2007 5:09PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Federal agents raided the headquarters of a group that produces illegal currency and puts it in circulation, seizing gold, silver and two tons of copper coins featuring Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
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Atlanta may have to drink the dregs
Nov 16 2007 5:04PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - With drought tightening its grip on the Southeast, the Atlanta area's reservoirs are almost down to the dregs _ the dirtier, more bacteria-laden water close to the bottom _ and it's going to require more aggressive and more expensive purification.
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Fla. sheriff gets prison for corruption
Nov 16 2007 4:40PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The former head of the largest sheriff's office in Florida was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Friday after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges.
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Homeless camp at New Orleans city hall
Nov 16 2007 3:45PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The homeless of New Orleans have left the city's shelters and gutted buildings to set up camp on the mayor's doorstep.
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Fla. newspaper fights sex charge
Nov 16 2007 3:39PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - For years, the back pages of the Orlando Weekly were filled with ads for naughty nurses, sultry coeds and girls with come-hither names like "Rush" and "Roxie."
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(Correction: Marines Haditha story)
Nov 16 2007 2:58PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - In a story Friday about a U.S. serviceman who was due to answer charges of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan of Fredericksburg, Va., was convicted of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. He was not.
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Following fish, from sea to dinner table
Nov 16 2007 2:49PM (CT)
POINT LOOKOUT, N.Y. (AP) - The journey starts at the dock here, on Long Island, about an hour's drive east of Manhattan. And it all comes back to Point Lookout, too.
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Following fish, from sea to dinner table
Nov 16 2007 2:49PM (CT)
POINT LOOKOUT, N.Y. (AP) - The journey starts at the dock here, on Long Island, about an hour's drive east of Manhattan. And it all comes back to Point Lookout, too.
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Following fish, from sea to dinner table
Nov 16 2007 2:49PM (CT)
POINT LOOKOUT, N.Y. (AP) - The journey starts at the dock here, on Long Island, about an hour's drive east of Manhattan. And it all comes back to Point Lookout, too.
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Ex-Md. lawmaker gets 7 years for bribery
Nov 16 2007 2:43PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a former lawmaker Friday to seven years in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a construction company executive in return for securing state contracts.
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Ex-Md. lawmaker gets 7 years for bribery
Nov 16 2007 2:43PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a former lawmaker Friday to seven years in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a construction company executive in return for securing state contracts.
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Marine officer arraigned in Haditha case
Nov 16 2007 2:38PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - The highest-ranking U.S. serviceman to face a combat-related court-martial since the Vietnam War was arraigned Friday on charges of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis, including women and children.
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Indians protest on Okla. centennial
Nov 16 2007 2:20PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Chanting "no justice, no peace," American Indians and their supporters marked the state's centennial Friday with a march on the state Capitol to denounce the events that led to Oklahoma's statehood.
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Storage rack recalled after baby's death
Nov 16 2007 1:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jetmax International Ltd. is recalling about 36,000 boy's and girl's storage racks with canvas totes after an 8-month-old boy died when he pulled on the storage rack and the top rail landed on the infant's neck, a government safety group says.
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Was someone inside imploded hotel?
Nov 16 2007 10:42AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Police searched the rubble of a demolished hotel in Houston Friday for any sign that someone may have been in the building when it was imploded.
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Senate blocks Iraq war money
Nov 16 2007 10:36AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal to pay for the Iraq war but require that troops start coming home.
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Rare robbery case brings cries of racism
Nov 16 2007 10:20AM (CT)
LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) - Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death _ but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.
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Rare robbery case brings cries of racism
Nov 16 2007 10:20AM (CT)
LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) - Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death _ but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.
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Rare robbery case brings cries of racism
Nov 16 2007 10:20AM (CT)
LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) - Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death _ but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.
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Rare robbery case brings cries of racism
Nov 16 2007 10:20AM (CT)
LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) - Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death _ but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.
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ACLU: Diplomats abuse household help
Nov 16 2007 10:11AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Some foreign diplomats abuse and exploit their household help while serving in the U.S., and one woman said she was forced to work up to 19 hours a day for a pittance, advocacy groups charge.
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Relatives sue over Gipp exhumation
Nov 16 2007 9:33AM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Relatives of George Gipp are suing another family member, ESPN and a sports writer over the exhumation of the football legend's body to determine whether he fathered a child out of wedlock.
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Bogus buyers steal at NYC apt. showings
Nov 16 2007 9:01AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Thieves posing as potential buyers took advantage of open house showings of high-end apartments to make off with a diamond ring and other valuables, police and a broker said.
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Man who wed teen wants charge dropped
Nov 16 2007 8:38AM (CT)
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - A man whose ceremonial marriage to a 14-year-old was the focus of a polygamous sect leader's trial asked a judge to dismiss a rape charge against him.
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Family of girl maimed by pool drain sues
Nov 16 2007 8:05AM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The family of a 6-year-old girl who lost part of her intestinal tract after sitting on an open drain in a wading pool is suing the pool manufacturer and the country club where the accident happened.
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Sheriff indicted for inmate-rent scheme
Nov 16 2007 7:24AM (CT)
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) - A southern Georgia sheriff faces federal charges accusing him of billing inmates for room and board and interfering with an FBI investigation of local judges.
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3 killed in central Texas plane crash
Nov 16 2007 5:29AM (CT)
ABILENE, Texas (AP) - A small plane crashed in central Texas, killing a flight instructor and two Italian flight students, authorities said.
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Woman charged in deaths of 2 bicyclists
Nov 16 2007 4:33AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The driver of a sport utility vehicle that struck and killed two bicyclists riding in a charity event last month has been charged with reckless homicide, authorities said.
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N.O. mayor to residents: Merci beaucoup
Nov 16 2007 3:59AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin thanked his city's residents for being here nearly 27 months after Hurricane Katrina and told hundreds gathered for a community dinner that their resilience helps send the message that New Orleans is coming back.
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N.O. mayor to residents: Merci beaucoup
Nov 16 2007 3:59AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin thanked his city's residents for being here nearly 27 months after Hurricane Katrina and told hundreds gathered for a community dinner that their resilience helps send the message that New Orleans is coming back.
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Highway truck tunnel reopens after crash
Nov 16 2007 1:54AM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - The southbound truck tunnel on Interstate 5 reopened Thursday, a month after a fiery crash killed three people and temporarily shut down the West Coast's main commercial route.
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Flyer told to change outfit poses nude
Nov 16 2007 12:59AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A 23-year-old college student who was told by a Southwest Airlines employee that her outfit was too revealing to fly is wearing even less on Playboy's Web site.
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Doctor to trial in autistic boy's death
Nov 16 2007 12:10AM (CT)
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) - A doctor was ordered on Thursday to stand trial on charges he caused the death of a 5-year-old autistic boy by incorrectly administering a controversial chemical treatment.
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