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Malibu residents survey the fire damage
Nov 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Residents began making their way back along winding canyon roads Sunday to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire a day earlier that scorched thousands of acres of hillside and 53 houses.
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Malibu residents survey the fire damage
Nov 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Residents began making their way back along winding canyon roads Sunday to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire a day earlier that scorched thousands of acres of hillside and 53 houses.
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Malibu residents survey the fire damage
Nov 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Residents began making their way back along winding canyon roads Sunday to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire a day earlier that scorched thousands of acres of hillside and 53 houses.
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Malibu residents survey the fire damage
Nov 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Residents began making their way back along winding canyon roads Sunday to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire a day earlier that scorched thousands of acres of hillside and 53 houses.
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Malibu residents survey the fire damage
Nov 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Residents began making their way back along winding canyon roads Sunday to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire a day earlier that scorched thousands of acres of hillside and 53 houses.
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Malibu residents survey the fire damage
Nov 25 2007 11:55PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Residents began making their way back along winding canyon roads Sunday to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire a day earlier that scorched thousands of acres of hillside and 53 houses.
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2 dead in Minnesota plane crash
Nov 25 2007 11:28PM (CT)
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) - A small plane crashed at Faribault Municipal Airport on Sunday, killing at least two people and shutting down the airport for rest of the night.
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Student dragged to death behind truck
Nov 25 2007 11:19PM (CT)
NEWPORT, Wash. (AP) - A 45-year-old man persuaded a 17-year-old to drive off in a pickup truck with the teen unaware he was dragging another man, who later died, authorities said Sunday.
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Thanksgiving travelers return home
Nov 25 2007 9:06PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend swarmed airports Sunday, but for the most part without the long lines and delays many had feared.
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Dioxin spot in Mich. could be worst ever
Nov 25 2007 8:52PM (CT)
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - A find of dioxin at the bottom of the Saginaw River could be the highest level of such contamination ever discovered in the nation's rivers and lakes, according to a federal scientist involved in cleanup efforts downstream from a Dow Chemical Co. plant.
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'Baby Grace' mystery leads to Texas pair
Nov 25 2007 8:47PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A man and woman who never reported her toddler missing have been arrested by investigators searching for the identity of a girl whose body washed ashore in a storage bin in Galveston Bay.
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Ex-black militant becomes Eagle Scout
Nov 25 2007 6:16PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Years before civil rights activist Cleveland Sellers got caught up in the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, he was on the path to the elite rank of Eagle Scout _ until his paperwork was lost.
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Fla. tribal leaders' spending questioned
Nov 25 2007 5:35PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Leaders of the Seminole Tribe of Florida _ the first U.S. tribe to offer high-stakes gambling _ have spent millions of dollars from the group's vast casino income on themselves and their relatives, according to a report.
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Plan revived for FDR memorial in NYC
Nov 25 2007 3:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.
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Plan revived for FDR memorial in NYC
Nov 25 2007 3:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.
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Plan revived for FDR memorial in NYC
Nov 25 2007 3:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.
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Old maps given new life on the Internet
Nov 25 2007 3:27PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians.
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Old maps given new life on the Internet
Nov 25 2007 3:27PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians.
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Report: Ind. lawmaker has lung cancer
Nov 25 2007 1:44PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Six-term Democratic Rep. Julia Carson has told a newspaper she has terminal lung cancer but did not say if she intends to hold onto her seat or seek a seventh term.
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AP IMPACT: Piracy fight makes enemies
Nov 25 2007 12:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michael Gaertner worried he could lose his company. A group called the Business Software Alliance was claiming that his 10-person architectural firm was using unlicensed software.
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Islamic academy in Virginia on defensive
Nov 25 2007 7:14AM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Its most virulent critics have dubbed it "Terror High," and 12 U.S. senators and a federal commission want to shut it down.
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Monkey meat at center of NYC court case
Nov 25 2007 7:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat.
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Monkey meat at center of NYC court case
Nov 25 2007 7:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat.
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Monkey meat at center of NYC court case
Nov 25 2007 7:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat.
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Monkey meat at center of NYC court case
Nov 25 2007 7:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver hospitalized
Nov 25 2007 7:11AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 86-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized.
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Faith tested at Oral Roberts University
Nov 25 2007 7:10AM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Back in 1963, when evangelist Oral Roberts built a university on Tulsa's southern outskirts and put his name on it, he believed he was taking orders from God.
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National Heritage Areas catching on
Nov 25 2007 7:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every region of the country has its own piece of Americana that locals brag about to visitors. Increasingly, they are asking Congress to help spread the word through a little-known federal program that designates National Heritage Areas.
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National Heritage Areas catching on
Nov 25 2007 7:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every region of the country has its own piece of Americana that locals brag about to visitors. Increasingly, they are asking Congress to help spread the word through a little-known federal program that designates National Heritage Areas.
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National Heritage Areas catching on
Nov 25 2007 7:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every region of the country has its own piece of Americana that locals brag about to visitors. Increasingly, they are asking Congress to help spread the word through a little-known federal program that designates National Heritage Areas.
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National Heritage Areas catching on
Nov 25 2007 7:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every region of the country has its own piece of Americana that locals brag about to visitors. Increasingly, they are asking Congress to help spread the word through a little-known federal program that designates National Heritage Areas.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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Colleges cope with bigger classes
Nov 25 2007 7:08AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - On weekday mornings, the Cristol Chemistry Building at the University of Colorado is a hive of activity. Every hour, hundreds of laptop-toting students file in and out of its theater-style lecture halls, where classes are scheduled back to back.
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AP: Firefighters help in war on terror
Nov 25 2007 7:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people's privacy.
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Wisconsin company recalls beef products
Nov 25 2007 12:06AM (CT)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - A company voluntarily recalled nearly 96,000 pounds of ground beef products after two people were sickened, possibly by the E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday.
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