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Evidence offers insight into Unabomber
Nov 28 2006 11:54PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - To evade authorities chasing him, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski kept shoes with smaller soles attached to the bottom in his reclusive Montana cabin, according to evidence released 10 years after his capture.
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Ex-pastor accused of money murder plot
Nov 28 2006 11:48PM (CT)
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - A former Stanislaus County pastor was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border on suspicion of murder for allegedly causing a car accident that killed an 85-year-old man in a scheme to inherit his trust fund.
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Mayor meets with family of slain groom
Nov 28 2006 11:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg met Tuesday with the family of the man who was killed on his wedding day in a barrage of police gunfire as he left his bachelor party, and investigators questioned a third civilian witness.
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Arson to be ruled out in group home fire
Nov 28 2006 11:25PM (CT)
ANDERSON, Mo. (AP) - Investigators expect to rule out arson as the cause of a fire that killed 10 people at a group home for the elderly and mentally ill, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
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Judge strikes down Bush on terror groups
Nov 28 2006 11:24PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
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S.C. slaying suspect arrested
Nov 28 2006 10:53PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Authorities, acting on an anonymous tip, arrested a slaying suspect on Tuesday who ran through an elementary school without incident while fleeing police, Richland County deputies said.
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Documents outline sex abuse allegations
Nov 28 2006 10:39PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Leaders in the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese withheld information about the extent of sexual abuse allegations against half a dozen priests and helped them stay in the ministry, according to secret files released by a judge Tuesday.
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Report: Los Alamos security flawed
Nov 28 2006 9:41PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory was "seriously flawed" when a worker removed classified documents later found in her home during a drug bust, the Department of Energy's inspector general has concluded.
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New charges in Hollywood wiretaps case
Nov 28 2006 9:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former phone company employee acquitted in September of perjury has been indicted by a federal grand jury on similar charges stemming from the wiretapping case against Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
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Philly mayor's brother indicted
Nov 28 2006 9:35PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The older brother of Mayor John F. Street was indicted Tuesday, accused of using his last name to convince companies he could get them lucrative city contracts and failing to pay taxes on $2 million of income.
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Trial begins in 'caged kids' case
Nov 28 2006 9:31PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - A couple on trial for putting some of their 11 adopted children in cages are guilty only of loving them, a defense attorney said Tuesday in his opening statement.
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Police say mother microwaved her baby
Nov 28 2006 9:27PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.
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Police say mother microwaved her baby
Nov 28 2006 9:27PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.
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Police say mother microwaved her baby
Nov 28 2006 9:27PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.
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Police say mother microwaved her baby
Nov 28 2006 9:27PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.
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Police say mother microwaved her baby
Nov 28 2006 9:27PM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven. China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.
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Van crash in Colo. kills 4, police say
Nov 28 2006 8:59PM (CT)
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A minivan that authorities suspect was being used to smuggle illegal immigrants crashed on a highway Tuesday, killing four people and putting 10 in the hospital, police said. The driver fled on foot but was captured.
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Panel recommends firing gay fire chief
Nov 28 2006 8:31PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A city panel recommended Tuesday that officials fire Bonnie Bleskachek, the nation's first openly lesbian big-city fire chief, in the wake of firefighter lawsuits accusing her of harassment and discrimination.
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Suspect: Reports of T-day killing 'lies'
Nov 28 2006 7:38PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - One of two brothers charged in the shooting deaths of three in-laws during Thanksgiving dinner told a packed courtroom Tuesday that the accusations against him weren't true and that he acted in self-defense.
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5 Texas truck stop deaths reported
Nov 28 2006 7:33PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - When two bodies were found in a rig at a truck stop on the well-traveled route to Houston, some drivers figured it was an accident _ maybe carbon monoxide poisoning. When another body was discovered there weeks later, they called it a mystery.
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California sea lions attack humans
Nov 28 2006 7:02PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Tourists flock to Fisherman's Wharf for the seafood and the stunning views of San Francisco Bay, but for many visitors, the real stars are the dozens of playful, whiskered sea lions that lounge by the water's edge, gulping down fish.
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Ex-guards, nurse charged in camp death
Nov 28 2006 6:44PM (CT)
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Seven former guards at a juvenile boot camp were charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child Tuesday in the videotaped pummeling of a 14-year-old boy who later died _ a case that led to the dismantling of Florida's military-style detention system for young offenders.
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Man pleads guilty in plan to aid Taliban
Nov 28 2006 6:34PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston man pleaded guilty after he and a Pakistani living illegally in the United States were charged with conspiring to join the Taliban and fight against U.S. forces, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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7 miners face discipline in fatal fire
Nov 28 2006 6:18PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Seven miners in charge of ensuring safety requirements at an underground coal mine should be disciplined for violations that contributed to a fatal fire in January, state mine officials said Tuesday.
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Cleric wants talks about married priests
Nov 28 2006 5:52PM (CT)
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) - A former Roman Catholic archbishop from Africa, excommunicated for installing four married clergy as bishops, said Tuesday he will ordain more married clerics in his crusade against the Vatican's celibacy policy for priests.
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Man who won BTK defamation lawsuit dies
Nov 28 2006 5:15PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The man who successfully sued a television station for naming him as a suspect in the BTK serial killings has died, a month after a jury awarded him $1.1 million.
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Police: Pa. explosion was suicide try
Nov 28 2006 5:03PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) - An explosion that leveled a house and sparked a fire that gutted a neighboring home was the result of a suicide attempt, police said.
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Police: Pa. explosion was suicide try
Nov 28 2006 5:03PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) - An explosion that leveled a house and sparked a fire that gutted a neighboring home was the result of a suicide attempt, police said.
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Police: Pa. explosion was suicide try
Nov 28 2006 5:03PM (CT)
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) - An explosion that leveled a house and sparked a fire that gutted a neighboring home was the result of a suicide attempt, police said.
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Police: Girl lit mom's bed, stole car
Nov 28 2006 4:40PM (CT)
PERU, Ind. (AP) - A 12-year-old girl sick of doing chores set fire to her sleeping mother's bed and took off in the family car to fake the abduction of herself and her two younger siblings, authorities said Tuesday.
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Police: man bound, set on fire in NYC
Nov 28 2006 4:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Firefighters extinguished an apartment blaze only to discover the body of a man who had been bound with duct tape before being set aflame, police said Tuesday.
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Man warns woman he was hired to kill her
Nov 28 2006 4:24PM (CT)
ALLEN, Texas (AP) - A woman found a stranger in her bedroom, but the man said he was there to warn her that he had been hired to kill her, police said.
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Ill. gov's greeting cards raise eyebrows
Nov 28 2006 4:05PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Just weeks before Election Day, Jen and Andrew Fitzgibbon got a card from Gov. Rod Blagojevich congratulating them on the birth of their new baby.
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Businesses complain of nuisance suits
Nov 28 2006 3:48PM (CT)
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - The bathrooms in the country club were opulent, with marble floors and antique furniture. But months after purchasing the club, the owners gutted them.
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Service for woman killed in cop shootout
Nov 28 2006 2:20PM (CT)
EAST POINT, Ga. (AP) - Friends and relatives packed the small chapel of a funeral home Tuesday to remember the 88-year-old woman killed in a shootout with plainclothes police who broke down the door of her home.
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Service for woman killed in cop shootout
Nov 28 2006 2:20PM (CT)
EAST POINT, Ga. (AP) - Friends and relatives packed the small chapel of a funeral home Tuesday to remember the 88-year-old woman killed in a shootout with plainclothes police who broke down the door of her home.
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Service for woman killed in cop shootout
Nov 28 2006 2:20PM (CT)
EAST POINT, Ga. (AP) - Friends and relatives packed the small chapel of a funeral home Tuesday to remember the 88-year-old woman killed in a shootout with plainclothes police who broke down the door of her home.
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Service for woman killed in cop shootout
Nov 28 2006 2:20PM (CT)
EAST POINT, Ga. (AP) - Friends and relatives packed the small chapel of a funeral home Tuesday to remember the 88-year-old woman killed in a shootout with plainclothes police who broke down the door of her home.
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Atty: Sailor to plead guilty in spy case
Nov 28 2006 2:02PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A submarine crewman accused of stealing a Navy laptop and peddling its classified contents to an undisclosed foreign government plans to plead guilty next week to some of the six charges against him, his civilian lawyer said Tuesday.
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Inspectors stake out smuggled animals
Nov 28 2006 1:48PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Wildlife inspector Bryan Landry can spot threats everywhere at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A backpack carried off a flight from Nigeria contains plastic bags of meat from the bush that could harbor the lethal Ebola virus. Those salted duck eggs from South Korea, a delicacy not easily found here, could carry the dreaded bird flu. And the exotic birds taped to a passenger's legs and the pair of monkey paws concealed in a bag could harbor any one of several dise
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DA: LAPD shooting of child wasn't crime
Nov 28 2006 1:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The district attorney's office will not file charges against 11 police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a toddler during a gunbattle with her father last year.
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Malfunction possible in Ala. bus wreck
Nov 28 2006 1:15PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A car driver involved in the deadly crash of a school bus that nose-dived off an interstate overpass last week told investigators his steering system may have malfunctioned, a federal investigator said.
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Schools appeal ruling on No Child suit
Nov 28 2006 12:39PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - School districts in three states and the nation's largest teachers union asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a lawsuit challenging the way government-mandated programs are funded.
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Christian Coalition pres.-elect leaves
Nov 28 2006 12:17PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America has declined the job, saying the organization wouldn't let him expand its agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
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Md. deputy killed in car crash
Nov 28 2006 12:04PM (CT)
ABINGDON, Md. (AP) - A sheriff's deputy responding to an attempted suicide call was killed when his cruiser plunged 60 yards down an embankment, coming to rest in a creek bed, authorities said.
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Arrests made in Playstation shooting
Nov 28 2006 11:53AM (CT)
PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) - State police arrested two men Tuesday in the shooting of a man waiting in line to be one of the first to buy a PlayStation 3 game console.
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Imams stage airport 'pray-in' as protest
Nov 28 2006 11:28AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a "pray-in" demonstration Monday at Reagan Washington National Airport and asked an apology from US Airways for barring six Muslims from a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last week.
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Mother gets life for adopted son's death
Nov 28 2006 11:27AM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A woman who hit her 7-year-old adopted son on the head with a hammer and didn't seek help while the boy slowly died was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without possibility of parole.
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Snowstorms create Washington headaches
Nov 28 2006 10:31AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A storm that dumped as much as 2 feet of snow on some parts of Washington state turned freeways and city streets into icy gridlock and left thousands of people without power.
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N.J. bill: Rights for gays, siblings
Nov 28 2006 8:06AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Conservative groups in New Jersey are pushing a proposal that would grant the rights of marriage _ but not the title _ to gays, siblings and others involved in domestic partnerships. The plan comes in reaction to a landmark Supreme Court ruling last month that said gay couples in New Jersey should have access to the same rights and benefits as married couples. Whether to call those rights marriages, civil unions or something else was left up to lawmakers.
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'Nativity' booted from Ill. holiday fair
Nov 28 2006 8:05AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.
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Colo. subdivision OKs Christmas wreath
Nov 28 2006 7:02AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A subdivision has withdrawn its threat of $25 daily fines against a homeowner who put a Christmas wreath shaped like a peace sign on the front of her home.
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Donors and Princeton clash over donation
Nov 28 2006 4:14AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The family that in 1961 made one of the biggest donations in the history of academia to Princeton University wants their money back.
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FSU launches Seminole history class
Nov 28 2006 3:53AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida State University student Daniel Lee learned in fourth grade most of what he knew about the Seminole Indians, namesakes of his school's athletic teams. It wasn't much.
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Organizers say meditation brings peace
Nov 28 2006 2:23AM (CT)
MAHARISHI VEDIC CITY, Iowa (AP) - Meditator Stephen Cardinal believes this blip of a city in southeast Iowa could soon alleviate world strife.
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