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Federal agent among 3 shot at Md. mall
Nov 18 2006 11:51PM (CT)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - An off-duty Secret Service agent was shot after intervening in a fight in a shopping mall food court Saturday evening, and he returned fire, wounding the shooter, police said.
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Plea deals pile up for accused Marines
Nov 18 2006 10:51PM (CT)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - In the beginning, there were eight. A squad of seven Marines and a Navy corpsman charged with kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man, a crime described by a prosecutor as especially brutal.
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Report: Crane operator had drug history
Nov 18 2006 10:44PM (CT)
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) - The operator of a construction crane that collapsed, struck three buildings and led to a man's death has a history of drug use, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Nintendo launches Wii, challenging Sony
Nov 18 2006 10:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Nintendo's quirky new video game console, the Wii, goes on sale Sunday, just two days after the launch of the rival PlayStation 3 from Sony turned violent at some stores. The release of the Wii is expected to be less dramatic, mainly because Nintendo has made sure to have a lot more units available than Sony could muster.
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1 killed, 1 injured in fan bus accident
Nov 18 2006 10:41PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - One person was killed and another critically injured in an accident involving a bus carrying Kansas State University fans to Saturday's football game at the University of Kansas, police said.
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Immigrants in limbo 5 years after 9/11
Nov 18 2006 10:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a small meeting room with a view of ground zero, 40 stories below, the woman from Ecuador sat with her attorney, holding a crumpled white napkin that she used to dab her eyes.
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iPod glow leads to lost mushroom picker
Nov 18 2006 10:19PM (CT)
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - An iPod screen glowing in the middle of the night from thick underbrush led rescuers to a mushroom picker lost in the woods.
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Tucson's Catholic bishop emeritus dies
Nov 18 2006 9:56PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Bishop emeritus Manuel D. Moreno, the son of a migrant farmworker who rose to became the nation's sixth Hispanic bishop and led the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson for 21 years, has died. He was 75.
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Armed patient dies in Ill. standoff
Nov 18 2006 9:09PM (CT)
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - An armed gunman died after he opened the door to his suburban Chicago hospital room at the end of a 4 1/2 hour standoff Saturday and pointed his gun at police, who opened fire, authorities said.
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Brother slay suspect accused in sex case
Nov 18 2006 7:54PM (CT)
LODI, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man accused in the 1972 slaying of his 6-year-old brother is now facing sexual assault and child pornography charges in a separate case.
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9/11 autopsy guidelines plan abandoned
Nov 18 2006 7:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An effort to create standard autopsy guidelines that could document a link between toxic air at ground zero and deaths of 9/11 rescue workers has been abandoned by the federal government amid concerns the information collected could be misinterpreted.
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WTC's Freedom Tower starts to take shape
Nov 18 2006 7:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Seventy trucks rolled into ground zero Saturday to pour the concrete base of the signature skyscraper at the new World Trade Center, creating the first visible signs of the long-delayed tower.
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Families get $91M in frozen Cuban assets
Nov 18 2006 7:08PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a bank to turn over $91 million in frozen Cuban assets to two families who won damages against the Cuban government for executing their relatives more than 40 years ago.
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Dead man could be linked to Neb. deaths
Nov 18 2006 7:04PM (CT)
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - Authorities were looking into whether a man who killed himself amid an investigation into his ex-wife's death also killed several Nebraska prostitutes.
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Ohio man seeks mom lost in German camps
Nov 18 2006 6:48PM (CT)
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) - Sixty years after his mother disappeared from the refugee camps of postwar Germany, Sol Factor hopes a vast archive of Nazi documents provides clues that might lead to a reunion, or at least answers.
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Boot camp for new govs at W.Va. resort
Nov 18 2006 6:23PM (CT)
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) - Immigration topped the agenda Saturday as the nation's newly elected governors came together at a retreat aimed at giving them a few pointers on how to run a state.
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Cause of Neb. frat house fire probed
Nov 18 2006 6:01PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Fire investigators worked through the night but still had not determined early Saturday what started a blaze at a fraternity house that killed one student and left three others critically injured.
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Coretta Scott King, MLK rest together
Nov 18 2006 5:17PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Ten months after her death, Coretta Scott King is in her final resting place next to her husband, slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jay-Z in NYC, 4th of 7 concerts in 1 day
Nov 18 2006 4:45PM (CT)
ABOARD JAY-Z'S JET (AP) - Jay-Z is celebrating his return to the game with a seemingly impossible trek: seven 30-minute concerts around the country in one day. He hit up Atlanta and Philadelphia and was in Washington and New York on Saturday afternoon. The Associated Press is along for the ride with the recently unretired rapper, whose comeback album, "Kingdom Come," will be released Tuesday.
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Immigrants in limbo 5 years after 9/11
Nov 18 2006 3:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The woman was widowed when her husband died in the terrorists' attack on the World Trade Center, whose twin towers once would have been seen from the windows of the meeting room where she sits with her attorney.
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Tearful Foley says he disappointed dad
Nov 18 2006 3:32PM (CT)
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley sobbed Saturday as he delivered a eulogy at his father's grave, alluding to his resignation from Congress amid a sex scandal as disheartening to his dad.
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Devoted sister loses 2 brothers to war
Nov 18 2006 1:55PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - When she was 7 and her brothers were 5 and 3, their mother pulled up to a convenience store, shooed them out and called their father to come get them.
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Ex-fugitive says he's abused in jail
Nov 18 2006 12:52PM (CT)
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - Former fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, suspected of killing one state trooper and wounding two others while on the run, says he is being mistreated by jail guards because of his notoriety.
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Judge bars N.Y. Times in libel defense
Nov 18 2006 12:12PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled The New York Times may not rely on information from a columnist's confidential sources in its defense against a libel lawsuit filed over the newspaper's coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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NYC mom improving after rescuing kids
Nov 18 2006 11:42AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A woman was recovering Saturday from skin graft surgery for burns she suffered when she rescued her 4-week-old twin sons and two other children from a fire in their apartment, then went back to save a fifth child.
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Montana politician changes parties
Nov 18 2006 11:09AM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana state senator has officially changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, breaking a tie to give his new party a 26-24 advantage.
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'60 Freeway Slayer' convicted in murders
Nov 18 2006 10:59AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man nicknamed the "60 Freeway Slayer" could face the death penalty after being convicted Friday in the 1993 and 1994 strangulations of six women.
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Rampage kin sue dead killer's family
Nov 18 2006 10:25AM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Survivors of a father and daughter shot to death by a disturbed neighbor in a cape and helmet who later turned his gun on himself are suing the killer's family, the dealer who sold him the weapon and a support group.
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Girl dismissed from lifting class sues
Nov 18 2006 6:37AM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An Anderson County teenager has filed a lawsuit over her temporary dismissal from a weightlifting class by a principal who feared male students might try to rape her.
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Man faces homicide charges in wildfire
Nov 18 2006 6:26AM (CT)
VISALIA, Calif. (AP) - A man accused of starting three small wildfires in a remote Central Valley canyon, one of which led to a plane crash that killed two people, has been arrested, authorities said.
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Survivors go through N.C. tornado rubble
Nov 18 2006 6:21AM (CT)
RIEGELWOOD, N.C. (AP) - Survivors picked through the rubble of their flattened homes Friday after a tornado killed eight people in this riverside town, the area hardest hit by a devastating storm system that later swept through the Northeast.
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Violence mars PlayStation 3 launch
Nov 18 2006 6:19AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting for the new PlayStation 3 game system to go on sale early Friday and shot one man who refused to give up his money, authorities said.
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Secret Santa reveals his identity
Nov 18 2006 6:10AM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - For 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets every December quietly giving people money. He started with $5 and $10 bills. As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at a time, to people in thrift stores, diners and parking lots. So far, he's anonymously given out about $1.3 million. It's been a long-held holiday mystery: Who is Secret Santa?
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Evidence in deadly arson remains unclear
Nov 18 2006 6:08AM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Prosecutors who charged a man with setting a wildfire that killed five firefighters say they have overwhelming evidence against him, despite the difficulty of proving arson cases.
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Taser incident at UCLA under review
Nov 18 2006 6:00AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An attorney who was part of a review of excessive force complaints following the Rodney King beating will investigate a UCLA police officer's use of a Taser on an Iranian-American student, the school said Friday.
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More charges in Ariz. serial shootings
Nov 18 2006 5:36AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities filed more charges Friday against two men accused in a series of shootings that killed seven people in the Phoenix area, including five counts of murder against one of the men.
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Police phase out 10-4, other radio codes
Nov 18 2006 4:19AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Anyone who ever played cops-and-robbers as a kid, listened to a police scanner or watched TV shows such as "Dragnet" or "Adam-12" knows that "10-4" and other codes beginning with 10 are radio cop-speak for "OK," or "officer down" or "burglary in progress."
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Activists to question NSA surveillance
Nov 18 2006 4:18AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Thirteen anti-war activists cited in July for protesting outside the National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade plan to use their trial to question the agency's monitoring of nonviolent groups.
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School named for civil rights figure
Nov 18 2006 4:18AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Officials honored an often neglected figure of the civil rights movement by naming a building for a woman who played a key role in the lawsuit that struck down school segregation.
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