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Jury finds tasered elderly woman guilty
Nov 17 2005 11:39PM (CT)
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - A jury found a 76-year-old woman guilty Thursday of trespassing and resisting police in an incident that ended with an officer zapping her with a stun gun.
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Man guilty in Fla. girl's rape, killing
Nov 17 2005 11:31PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - A mechanic with a long criminal record was convicted Thursday of kidnapping, raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a car-wash security camera.
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Judge releases contents on mayor's laptop
Nov 17 2005 11:22PM (CT)
RITZVILLE, Wash. (AP) - A judge on Thursday granted a newspaper's request to make public gay-themed material from Spokane Mayor James E. West's City Hall laptop computer, but placed restrictions on the release of images from a gay-oriented Web site.
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Reiner closes in on Calif. ballot measure
Nov 17 2005 10:54PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Film director and Democratic activist Rob Reiner has collected more than a million signatures to get an initiative on the June ballot that would fund preschool for all California children.
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Hunter gets probation for Calif. wildfire
Nov 17 2005 10:48PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A deer hunter, after a tearful courtroom apology, was sentenced Thursday to five years probation for starting a wildfire that killed 15 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.
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Ex-Sen. Gramm testifies in Ryan trial
Nov 17 2005 9:54PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former presidential hopeful Phil Gramm testified Thursday that he never approved thousands of dollars in consulting payments to former Gov. George Ryan's daughters and staff in return for Ryan's endorsement.
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Soldier says he lied to get lighter term
Nov 17 2005 9:33PM (CT)
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) - A soldier convicted of murdering unarmed Iraqis testified Thursday that he falsely implicated his platoon leader in one of the slayings so that he could get a lighter prison sentence.
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Two indicted in 1983 slayings in Texas
Nov 17 2005 9:20PM (CT)
HENDERSON, Texas (AP) - Two men were indicted Thursday on murder charges in the slayings of five people who were abducted from a fast food restaurant in East Texas more than two decades ago.
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Cost of U.N. renovation rises $400 million
Nov 17 2005 9:19PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A review of ways to cut the cost of a long-overdue renovation of U.N. headquarters instead found that the project will need $400 million more than expected because of delays and inflation, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Iowa prison escapee captured in Illinois
Nov 17 2005 9:07PM (CT)
FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) - A convicted murderer who escaped from an Iowa prison this week by using a homemade grappling hook to scale a 30-foot limestone wall was captured Thursday in Illinois. A second inmate remained at large.
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Guns in home of suspect in Pa. killings
Nov 17 2005 8:40PM (CT)
LITITZ, Pa. (AP) - Police seized 54 guns from the home of an 18-year-old man charged with killing his girlfriend's parents and fleeing the state with her, according to court documents filed Thursday.
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FEMA says it will work out refugee housing
Nov 17 2005 8:14PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Federal and state officials tried to ease fears Thursday that thousands of Louisiana hurricane refugees in Texas would be left homeless again after Dec. 1 when FEMA has said it will stop paying their hotel and motel bills.
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Defense: College al-Qaida suspect a patsy
Nov 17 2005 8:11PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An American college student accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush was falsely implicated by terrorists looking for a patsy in Saudi Arabia, a defense lawyer suggested Thursday at the student's trial on terrorism charges.
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Groom, 15, says relationship consensual
Nov 17 2005 8:05PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy who wed the 37-year-old mother of one of his friends said the relationship was consensual and he's in love with her.
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Ex-Klan leader denied bond during appeal
Nov 17 2005 7:43PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of manslaughter for orchestrating the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers has again been denied bond while he appeals his case.
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Poll: More Americans want domestic focus
Nov 17 2005 7:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The public's belief that the United States should mind its own business internationally has reached levels not seen since after the Cold War ended more than a decade ago, a poll found.
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Court denies L.A. Archdiocese privacy bid
Nov 17 2005 7:35PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The state Supreme Court has upheld an appeals court ruling that forces the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese to turn over the personnel files of two former priests accused of molestation.
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7 share Mega Millions jackpot in Calif.
Nov 17 2005 7:31PM (CT)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A secretary and six laboratory workers at Kaiser Permanente held the winning ticket for the $315 million Mega Millions jackpot _ but they still came into work, a company spokeswoman said.
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Prison officials doubt killer's redemption
Nov 17 2005 6:58PM (CT)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - As murderer and Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams tries to stave off execution next month, California prison officials have launched an unusual counterattack against the notion that he has redeemed himself behind bars.
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Texas GOP reaches deal on donations
Nov 17 2005 6:33PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Republican Party agreed Thursday to stop spending corporate donations as it sometimes did during 2002 state campaigns, and prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges under state election laws.
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Woman arrested in Halloween bank holdup
Nov 17 2005 5:46PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A woman is being held for investigation in four bank holdups, including one on Halloween in which a robber dressed as a witch vanished in the smoke of an exploding dye pack, police said.
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Atlanta street may be named for Rosa Parks
Nov 17 2005 5:41PM (CT)
JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) - The street names in suburban Atlanta's Clayton County pay homage to the Old South and the Lost Cause: Robert E. Lee Drive. Old Dixie Highway. And Tara Boulevard, named for the plantation home in "Gone With the Wind."
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Baltimore may monitor stop-frisk tactic
Nov 17 2005 5:09PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The mayor called for better police record-keeping and training after a newspaper reported that officers stopped and frisked citizens thousands of times but reported only 11 such stops to state authorities in the past year.
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Cindy Sheehan found guilty of misdemeanor
Nov 17 2005 4:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq War protester Cindy Sheehan and 26 other peace activists were found guilty Thursday of protesting without a permit near the White House.
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Ney campaign to pay fine over payments
Nov 17 2005 4:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bob Ney's re-election campaign was fined $2,000 Thursday for failing to properly record two payments last November totaling more than $83,000.
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Priest gets 20 years in 1970s sodomy
Nov 17 2005 2:52PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for sodomizing a boy in the church rectory during the 1970s. The Rev. Thomas Graham, 72, was convicted in August.
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Ford Motor recalling SUVs, pickups and vans
Nov 17 2005 1:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ford Motor Co. is recalling about 235,000 pickups, vans and sport utility vehicles from the 2006 model year because of potential problems with the windshield wiper motor.
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Missing Fla. teen found, police say
Nov 17 2005 1:12PM (CT)
HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) - A convicted sex offender accused of abducting a 17-year-old girl apparently shot and killed himself and the girl escaped uninjured Thursday after police pulled over the car they were in, authorities said.
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Religion news in brief
Nov 17 2005 12:02PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A Swedish Pentecostal pastor charged with hate speech for denouncing homosexuality as a "cancerous tumor" defended his views in the country's highest court, saying gay sex was as aberrant as pedophilia.
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Religion today
Nov 17 2005 12:01PM (CT)
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - More than a quarter century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has finally been translated into Gullah, the creole language spoken by slaves and their descendants for generations along the sea islands of the Southeast coast.
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Atlanta group wants to honor Rosa Parks
Nov 17 2005 11:25AM (CT)
JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) - A group of residents asked to rename a street for the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks that is now called Tara Boulevard, after the plantation in "Gone With the Wind."
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House Democrat wants immediate Iraq pullout
Nov 17 2005 10:55AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An influential House Democrat who voted for the Iraq war called Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, another sign of growing unease in Congress about the conflict.
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Pa. principal resigns after shaming girl
Nov 17 2005 10:43AM (CT)
ELIZABETH, Pa. (AP) - An elementary school principal resigned after parents denounced her for parading an 8-year-old girl from class to class after a classmate falsely accused her of stealing $5.
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Difficultly identifying Katrina's dead
Nov 17 2005 8:56AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nearly three months after Hurricane Katrina swept through south Louisiana, 321 bodies lie nameless and unclaimed in a makeshift morgue. Another 200 have been identified, but no one can locate the families among refugees scattered across the nation.
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Texas town adopts corporate name
Nov 17 2005 7:46AM (CT)
DISH, Texas (AP) - Back in the 1950s, Hot Springs, N.M., was renamed Truth or Consequences, N.M., after a popular quiz show. During the dot-com boom of 2000, Halfway, Ore., agreed to become Half.com for a year.
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Quake hits northwest of San Francisco
Nov 17 2005 6:09AM (CT)
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A small earthquake hit about 80 miles north of San Francisco early Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, a sheriff's official said.
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Designer donates sneakers for border run
Nov 17 2005 4:04AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The high-top sneakers cost $215 at a San Diego boutique, but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Family that fled Katrina gets pet dog back
Nov 17 2005 3:58AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - As Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, Ann Gadel and her family crammed into a small car and fled north. But there was no room for Daisy, a 70-pound boxer-Doberman mix.
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Documents show Nixon deception on Cambodia
Nov 17 2005 3:21AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Determined to win re-election, the Nixon administration sought ways to use former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa for its campaign in 1972, the year after President Nixon pardoned the union leader, newly released documents show.
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African masks on display at Smithsonian
Nov 17 2005 3:19AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Masks _ some ferocious, some benign, some just funny _ are known to every tourist in Africa as a traditional form of local art, made of wood, skins, hair, teeth.
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Chinese cook convicted in mutiny case
Nov 17 2005 12:56AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A Chinese cook was convicted Wednesday of killing the captain and first mate of a Taiwanese fishing boat on international waters.
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N.Y. school construction officials charged
Nov 17 2005 12:40AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six officials of the agency that oversees New York City school construction have been charged with accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, authorities said Wednesday.
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CEO at Calif. hospital placed on leave
Nov 17 2005 12:37AM (CT)
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - A hospital placed its chief executive on temporary leave Wednesday, less than a week after the government stopped funding liver transplants there because of reports of substandard care.
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Judge dismisses suit over O'Hare expansion
Nov 17 2005 12:19AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for the city to resume buying properties in the path of a planned expansion at O'Hare International Airport aimed at reducing some of the nation's worth flight delays.
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State panel removes LA county judge
Nov 17 2005 12:10AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A state agency removed a judge from the bench Wednesday, concluding that he engaged in "a shocking abuse of power" that led to the wrongful conviction and two-day jail stay for a woman challenging a traffic infraction.
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Man executed for Christmas Eve killings
Nov 17 2005 12:02AM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - An inmate was executed Wednesday evening for a Christmas Eve killing spree 12 years ago that left a man and two of his children dead.
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