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Police: Girl reported missing may be dead
Nov 18 2005 11:35PM (CT)
AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Police used dogs to search for the body of a missing 6-year-old girl Friday, a day after authorities said they believe the child had been killed and that her father and his girlfriend were "persons of interest" in the case.
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Calif. wildfire spreads to 4,000 acres
Nov 18 2005 10:59PM (CT)
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - Pushed by fierce Santa Ana winds, a 4,000-acre wildfire crept toward about 200 large, ridge-top homes Friday, prompting a voluntary evacuation.
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Judge sets bail for engineer in spy case
Nov 18 2005 10:58PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge set bail at $300,000 Friday for a Chinese-American engineer accused of stealing U.S. military secrets, but ordered his younger brother held until another hearing later this month.
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Atheist now sues to take motto off money
Nov 18 2005 10:54PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) - An atheist who has spent four years trying to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from being recited in public schools is now challenging the motto printed on U.S. currency because it refers to God.
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Leaders: Hispanic Katrina workers unpaid
Nov 18 2005 10:51PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - The head of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights group visited the hurricane-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast on Friday to investigate claims that immigrant workers are living in squalor and being cheated out of wages.
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Police cite video in Pa. abduction case
Nov 18 2005 10:43PM (CT)
LITITZ, Pa. (AP) - An 18-year-old man accused of kidnapping his girlfriend and killing her parents was videotaped discussing plans to conduct an armed raid on another family's home and kill people inside, according to court documents released Friday.
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Tropical Storm Gamma forms near Honduras
Nov 18 2005 10:35PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Gamma _ the 24th storm of the busiest hurricane season on record _ formed Friday off the coast of Central America, and forecasters said it could threaten Florida by the beginning of next week, perhaps as a hurricane.
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125 illegal workers found at Wal-Mart site
Nov 18 2005 9:49PM (CT)
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - An immigration raid at a Wal-Mart distribution center under construction led to the arrests of 125 illegal workers, all of whom will be deported, federal officials said Friday.
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75-year-old man charged in 1968 killing
Nov 18 2005 9:47PM (CT)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - A 75-year-old man was arrested at a group home and charged Friday with murdering a night watchman during a robbery at a car dealership nearly 40 years ago.
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Jury: Ex-colonel responsible for murder
Nov 18 2005 9:47PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A federal jury Friday held a former Salvadoran Army colonel responsible for murder and torture during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s and ordered him to pay $6 million in damages.
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Escaped Iowa prison inmate caught in Mo.
Nov 18 2005 9:37PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The second of two inmates who used a homemade grappling hook to escape from prison was captured Friday after four days on the run, and Gov. Tom Vilsack suspended at least one state employee in connection with the breakout.
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Army engineers: Levee warnings unreported
Nov 18 2005 9:28PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Engineers responsible for monitoring the levees that failed following Hurricane Katrina were never told that canal water had been pooling in yards beside a flood wall months before the storm, an Army Corps of Engineers manager said Friday.
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Police: Fla. man killed wife, son, self
Nov 18 2005 9:04PM (CT)
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man stabbed and strangled his wife, then started a fire that killed the couple's 2-year-old son and himself, police said.
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Boston Archdiocese, prosecutors OK deal
Nov 18 2005 8:09PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Archdiocese avoided federal charges Friday by agreeing to be more open about priests' backgrounds as part of a settlement with prosecutors investigating whether the church transferred a priest without revealing past accusations that he "fooled around with kids."
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram TV critic resigns
Nov 18 2005 7:49PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's television critic resigned after editors identified instances of apparent plagiarism in his work over a two-year period, the newspaper said Friday.
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Democrat: FEMA not using rent-free units
Nov 18 2005 7:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the nation's largest home lenders offered 1,500 housing units for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency has so far failed to put families into any of them, a Democratic congressman said Friday.
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Fla. teen shot to death outside McDonald's
Nov 18 2005 7:12PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A high school senior was shot to death outside a fast-food restaurant after fistfights broke out among youths who had gathered there after school, authorities said. An 18-year-old man was arrested Friday.
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Clinton: Iraq debate should spurn insults
Nov 18 2005 6:52PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Clinton said Friday that the debate between Republicans and Democrats about the Iraq war should go on _ without personal attacks.
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Ga. fifth-graders asked to test park rides
Nov 18 2005 5:24PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - More than 1,100 exhibitors representing the $29 billion-a-year amusement industry snapped to attention Friday when a group of clipboard-toting fifth-graders marched in.
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Jewish group asks Bush to start war's end
Nov 18 2005 5:22PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - About 2,000 representatives of the Union for Reform Judaism asked the Bush administration Friday to provide a clear exit strategy for the war in Iraq and begin to bring some soldiers home in mid-December.
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Fashion writer is wanted in NYC assault
Nov 18 2005 4:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - He is not a killer, a mobster or a terrorist. But a bizarre sexual assault, a cat-and-mouse manhunt and a tabloid feeding frenzy have combined to make a failed fashion writer named Peter Braunstein the most wanted man in New York City.
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Pregnant woman on way to baby shower dies
Nov 18 2005 3:58PM (CT)
SALEM, N.H. (AP) - A pregnant woman driving to a surprise baby shower was killed in an auto accident along with her unborn child, officials said.
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Bride charged with molestation out of jail
Nov 18 2005 2:56PM (CT)
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A 37-year-old woman charged with child molestation after marrying her son's 15-year-old friend was released from jail Friday.
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4 dead, 2 hurt in Ohio apartment fire
Nov 18 2005 1:53PM (CT)
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) - Fire spreads through a third-story apartment before dawn Friday, killing four children and injuring two others, authorities said.
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Deal reached on Great Lakes protections
Nov 18 2005 1:52PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Negotiators for eight states and two Canadian provinces have reached an agreement aimed at preventing outsiders from raiding Great Lakes water.
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DNA helps prosecutors secure indictments
Nov 18 2005 12:37PM (CT)
HENDERSON, Texas (AP) - DNA evidence helped prosecutors win capital murder indictments in the slayings of five people who were kidnapped from a fast-food restaurant more than two decades ago.
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Fla. man may face death penalty
Nov 18 2005 11:07AM (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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L.A. prisoner killed in chow line
Nov 18 2005 10:53AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An inmate was stomped to death after he cut in front of two gang members in a dinner line at the Men's Central Jail, officials said.
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Calif. cabbie finds $350,000 in diamonds
Nov 18 2005 9:31AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Haider Sediqi didn't give much thought to the small, zippered pouch that a passenger forgot in his taxicab when he got out at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Calif. family of four wounded in shooting
Nov 18 2005 9:10AM (CT)
RUBIDOUX, Calif. (AP) - A woman, her two children and her mother were shot and wounded in their home, and police were searching Friday for the younger woman's husband or boyfriend.
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Woman charged with DUI in Chicago crash
Nov 18 2005 7:10AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A 29-year-old woman was charged Friday with drunken driving in a crash involving a church van that sent 14 adults and children to area hospitals, police said.
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Skateboarder convicted in son's death
Nov 18 2005 6:53AM (CT)
MURRIETTA, Calif. (AP) - Professional skateboarder Neil Heddings was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his son, while his girlfriend was convicted of second-degree murder and assault.
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Religion in the news
Nov 18 2005 6:38AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - He stepped into the middle of the clergy sex abuse crisis at Pope John Paul II's request, then was forced by the Boston Archdiocese's dire finances to do the wrenching work of closing dozens of parishes. Now, Archbishop Sean O'Malley is confronting another persistent woe _ decades of decline in enrollment at Roman Catholic schools.
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Calif. Highway Patrol Officer shot, killed
Nov 18 2005 6:13AM (CT)
WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) - A manhunt involving hundreds of officers was launched after a California Highway Patrol Officer was fatally shot during a traffic stop, authorities said
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Soldier says he lied to get lighter term
Nov 18 2005 5:32AM (CT)
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) - An Army officer accused of murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi civilian never ordered the victim's killing, a soldier said in a startling reversal of his testimony.
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Deer and people clash in Minnesota
Nov 18 2005 5:05AM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - So many deer inhabit the area around Pig's Eye Lake just east of St. Paul that one frustrated local official has compared them to unwanted vermin.
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Pa. may let hunters use ancient weapon
Nov 18 2005 4:54AM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - An ancient weapon that was apparently used as early as prehistoric times to slay woolly mammoths may soon be added to the arsenals of Pennsylvania hunters.
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N.C. man executed for 1990 murder of wife
Nov 18 2005 3:47AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man was executed early Friday by lethal injection for the 1990 stabbing death of his wife, despite the pleas of his four children who sought clemency for their father.
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