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FBI: No new probe of Orangeburg Massacre
Nov 29 2007 11:55PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The FBI will not reinvestigate the deaths of three black men killed during a civil rights protest because the state troopers involved were acquitted of all charges nearly 40 years ago, according to a report published online Thursday.
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Police accused of protecting their own
Nov 29 2007 11:49PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - Eighteen times in two years, Bolingbrook police were called to fellow officer Drew Peterson's home because of trouble between husband and wife. But Peterson's wife could never get authorities to arrest him. In fact, she was the only one ever charged.
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Miss. student's body found; ex charged
Nov 29 2007 11:34PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The ex-boyfriend of a Jackson State University student led police to her decomposing body in the woods off a quiet street Thursday and was charged with murder, authorities said.
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School to perform play NAACP had opposed
Nov 29 2007 11:31PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A high school that canceled an upcoming performance of a play over complaints that the original title of the Agatha Christie novel on which it is based is racially offensive has decided the show will go on, with some changes.
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Obese man granted 2nd adoption hearing
Nov 29 2007 11:19PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man who says he was not allowed to adopt a child because he is obese and underwent gastric bypass surgery to lose weight attended a second adoption hearing on Thursday.
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Missing student's body apparently found
Nov 29 2007 11:09PM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday.
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Missing student's body apparently found
Nov 29 2007 11:09PM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday.
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Missing student's body apparently found
Nov 29 2007 11:09PM (CT)
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) - A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday.
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Pastor: Ex-cop's missing wife feared him
Nov 29 2007 11:06PM (CT)
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) - The wife of a former police officer told a clergy member months before she disappeared that she feared her husband, a church official said Thursday, echoing comments the woman's sister made soon after she vanished.
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DNA samples OK for nonviolent felons
Nov 29 2007 11:03PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that collecting DNA evidence from nonviolent drug offenders doesn't violate their privacy rights.
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Feds want Kerik's lawyer disqualified
Nov 29 2007 11:00PM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Thursday asked the judge in the case against former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to consider disqualifying Kerik's lawyer, saying he has a potential conflict of interest because he could be called as a witness.
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Carbon monoxide sickens 40 Tex. students
Nov 29 2007 10:38PM (CT)
KILGORE, Texas (AP) - A faulty boiler leaked carbon monoxide in a college residence hall for women, sickening at least 40 students, a school spokesman said.
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Disney employee dies after fall at park
Nov 29 2007 10:31PM (CT)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - A Disney employee who fell off a ride platform at Animal Kingdom and hit her head died Thursday, authorities said.
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New plea entered in Wiesel attack
Nov 29 2007 10:04PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A New Jersey man accused of stalking Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel and dragging him off a hotel elevator has changed his plea back to not guilty by reason of insanity, prosecutors said Thursday.
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Stun gun used on pregnant woman in Ohio
Nov 29 2007 10:02PM (CT)
TROTWOOD, Ohio (AP) - The FBI is investigating whether a policeman violated a pregnant woman's civil rights when he used a stun gun to subdue her, authorities in this Dayton suburb said Thursday.
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Suspended student sues Regent University
Nov 29 2007 9:50PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Regent University law student who was suspended for posting an unflattering photo of school founder Pat Robertson on the Internet sued the university and Robertson on Thursday.
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Last NY death row inmate gets life term
Nov 29 2007 9:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York's last inmate on death row was resentenced Thursday to life without parole for the execution-style killings of five employees at a Wendy's restaurant.
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3 Wis. ex-officers sentenced in beating
Nov 29 2007 8:55PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Three white former police officers were sentenced to long prison terms Thursday for the off-duty beating of a biracial man, an attack that outraged the city and sent protesters into the streets.
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Second teen charged in Chicago attacks
Nov 29 2007 8:50PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Police charged a second teenager Thursday in a succession of armed robberies that authorities say ended in the fatal shooting of a University of Chicago graduate student from Senegal.
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Man pleads guilty in sex extortion
Nov 29 2007 8:33PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A man accused of luring lonely hearts on the Internet to engage in secretly videotaped sex that he and his then-girlfriend used as blackmail pleaded guilty Thursday to grand larceny and conspiracy charges.
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Bad pet food may have killed nearly 350
Nov 29 2007 8:27PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - More than 300 dogs and cats may have died earlier this year as a result of eating contaminated pet food, a survey released Thursday shows.
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Report: Boy who refused transfusion dies
Nov 29 2007 8:15PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion that might have helped him, the boy died, a newspaper reported.
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Blast injures 7 at Georgia metals plant
Nov 29 2007 8:09PM (CT)
MANCHESTER, Ga. (AP) - An explosion rocked a metals plant in west Georgia early Thursday, injuring seven people, authorities and witnesses said.
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3 dead after New Jersey boat capsizes
Nov 29 2007 8:03PM (CT)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A boat capsized about five miles from shore, killing the three fishermen on board, authorities said Thursday.
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Oil spill fuels debate in ship industry
Nov 29 2007 7:42PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Eric Robinson stepped onto the bridge of the container ship Horizon Pacific and peered at a computer monitor depicting San Francisco Bay. Ship icons blipped clearly in the virtual water, but the meaning of some of the other symbols was murky.
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Oil spill fuels debate in ship industry
Nov 29 2007 7:42PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Eric Robinson stepped onto the bridge of the container ship Horizon Pacific and peered at a computer monitor depicting San Francisco Bay. Ship icons blipped clearly in the virtual water, but the meaning of some of the other symbols was murky.
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Oil spill fuels debate in ship industry
Nov 29 2007 7:42PM (CT)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Eric Robinson stepped onto the bridge of the container ship Horizon Pacific and peered at a computer monitor depicting San Francisco Bay. Ship icons blipped clearly in the virtual water, but the meaning of some of the other symbols was murky.
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Ex-teacher pleads not guilty in sex case
Nov 29 2007 7:38PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A former teacher accused of fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old former student pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges of crossing a border to have sex with a minor.
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Iraqi contractors frozen out of U.S.
Nov 29 2007 7:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of Iraqis whose support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq has put them and their families in grave danger at home are being excluded from a new fast-track system aimed at speeding up refugee resettlement in the United States for American allies, officials said Thursday.
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Wis. man faces charges in miscarriages
Nov 29 2007 7:29PM (CT)
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - Authorities charged a married man Thursday with slipping his girlfriend an abortion drug that caused her to miscarry twice.
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Chicago mayor chooses new police chief
Nov 29 2007 7:05PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard Daley picked a Philadelphia FBI official on Thursday as Chicago's next top cop to lead a department tarnished by allegations of police misconduct and abuse.
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Alleged Nazi guard appeals deportation
Nov 29 2007 7:02PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Thirty years after federal officials first sought to revoke John Demjanjuk's citizenship, a lawyer for the former autoworker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard argued Thursday that a deportation order against his client should be thrown out.
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Alleged Nazi guard appeals deportation
Nov 29 2007 7:02PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Thirty years after federal officials first sought to revoke John Demjanjuk's citizenship, a lawyer for the former autoworker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard argued Thursday that a deportation order against his client should be thrown out.
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Alleged Nazi guard appeals deportation
Nov 29 2007 7:02PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Thirty years after federal officials first sought to revoke John Demjanjuk's citizenship, a lawyer for the former autoworker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard argued Thursday that a deportation order against his client should be thrown out.
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Rodney King sprayed with shotgun pellets
Nov 29 2007 6:57PM (CT)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Rodney King, whose videotaped police beating in 1991 led to deadly rioting when the officers involved were acquitted, was shot on a street corner, but his wounds were not life-threatening, police said.
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Arrest made in NYC suburb cross burning
Nov 29 2007 6:27PM (CT)
HAWTHORNE, N.Y. (AP) - A white man suspected of burning a cross in a black family's yard in a New York City suburb was arrested Thursday and charged with a hate crime.
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FBI arrests Penn student in cyber attack
Nov 29 2007 5:54PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A University of Pennsylvania student and a New Zealand hacker hijacked a university computer server last year, the FBI charged Thursday, part of an investigation into cyber-attacks called "botnets."
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Prosecutor: Fla. group was terror cell
Nov 29 2007 5:51PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A construction worker commanded a homegrown terrorism cell that sought an "unholy alliance" with al-Qaida to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb several FBI offices, a federal prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments at the group's trial.
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Police: 3 fatally shot in apparent hit
Nov 29 2007 5:43PM (CT)
EASTON, Pa. (AP) - Intruders burst into a home early Thursday and shot a man and two women to death in a suspected "gangland hit," authorities said.
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What they'll be wearing in prison in '08
Nov 29 2007 5:19PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Prison-guard models showed off a new look Thursday that's bound to be a hit among their colleagues: casual, comfortable and with lots of flexibility to handle their stab-resistant protective vests.
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Ark. lawmaker apologizes for e-mail
Nov 29 2007 5:06PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas legislator apologized Thursday for an e-mail in which he wrote that "we are being outpopulated by the blacks" and "we are being overrun" by illegal immigrants.
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Plane with gear problem lands safely
Nov 29 2007 5:03PM (CT)
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) - A single-engine plane that had reported trouble with its landing gear safely touched down Thursday on one wheel.
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Kentucky bill would raise age of consent
Nov 29 2007 4:45PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Reacting to the case of a high school band teacher accused of having sex with a student, a Kentucky lawmaker has become the latest state legislator to propose changing a law governing the age of consent.
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FEMA to close post-Katrina trailer parks
Nov 29 2007 4:39PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Dozens of Hurricane Katrina victims still living in FEMA trailer parks will have to find new housing by Friday, as the agency works to shutter the temporary facilities it set up after the 2005 storm.
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Woman sues tabloid over Kennedy stories
Nov 29 2007 3:52PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A woman and her son have sued The National Enquirer, claiming the supermarket tabloid fabricated stories that said she gave birth to a son fathered by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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Real estate agents warn about thieves
Nov 29 2007 2:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Real estate agents have standard advice for homeowners planning their first open house: Hire a cleaning service. Drop the pets off with a neighbor. And lock up your valuables because you never know who may be stopping by.
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Sheriff: 2 deputies made 'fatal mistake'
Nov 29 2007 2:24PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Two sheriff's deputies didn't follow procedure as they tried to stop a stolen vehicle and were struck and killed by a deputy in a patrol car chasing the suspects, the sheriff said Thursday.
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Anti-Semitic church drops Nazi symbols
Nov 29 2007 2:21PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - An anti-Semitic church formed by white supremacists has abandoned its neo-Nazi imagery, such as swastikas, to make its message more palatable, a change that a leading Jewish group called an attempt to "sanitize hatred."
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Religion news in brief
Nov 29 2007 12:01PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Twelve-foot-high crosses along state highways honoring deceased Utah troopers are not an illegal public endorsement of religion, a judge has ruled.
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Religion today
Nov 29 2007 12:01PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor is giving away most of his books. He's gathering copies of all his sermons _ about 2,000 of them _ for an archive. He has already sent his Presidential Medal of Freedom to an Atlanta school for display there.
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Oklahoma man charged in gay man's death
Nov 29 2007 11:58AM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An alleged white supremacist has been charged with murdering a gay man in what officials say may have been part of a gang initiation.
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Ohio house fire kills woman, 3 children
Nov 29 2007 10:50AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A fire started by a candle swept through a two-story house, killing a woman and three children, fire officials said.
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Ohio house fire kills woman, 3 children
Nov 29 2007 10:50AM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A fire started by a candle swept through a two-story house, killing a woman and three children, fire officials said.
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Former Rep. Henry Hyde dies at 83
Nov 29 2007 10:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions, has died. He was 83.
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Former Rep. Henry Hyde dies at 83
Nov 29 2007 10:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions, has died. He was 83.
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Joggers hit by car win $50M settlement
Nov 29 2007 10:02AM (CT)
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) - Stacy Neria used to run six miles a day, six days a week _ but she never trained on Sundays out of deference to her husband and to God.
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Minn. pipeline fire sends oil soaring
Nov 29 2007 8:59AM (CT)
CLEARBROOK, Minn. (AP) - A fire at a major pipeline from Canada that feeds oil to the United States killed two workers and sent oil prices soaring before burning out Thursday morning, officials said.
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Father: Missing 2-year-old was loved
Nov 29 2007 8:46AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man believed to be the father of "Baby Grace," a 2-year-old girl whose body washed ashore in Texas, said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the girl's mother loved her, and he didn't believe she was capable of harming the little girl.
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Minn. pipeline fire sends oil soaring
Nov 29 2007 8:14AM (CT)
CLEARBROOK, Minn. (AP) - A fire at a pipeline from Canada that feeds oil to the United States killed two people and sent oil prices soaring before burning out Thursday morning, officials said.
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Roberts says God forced his resignation
Nov 29 2007 8:04AM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University that he did not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but that he did so because God insisted.
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Tobacco-deal lawyer indicted in Miss.
Nov 29 2007 7:41AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An attorney who helped negotiate a multibillion-dollar settlement against tobacco companies in the 1990s and has sued insurers over unpaid Hurricane Katrina claims was indicted Wednesday in a suspected scheme to bribe a Mississippi judge.
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O.J. Simpson's hearing a quiet affair
Nov 29 2007 7:36AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The "Special Event" signs placed around courthouse parking lots suggesting O.J. Simpson's court appearance might cause a frenzy of activity were hardly necessary.
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O.J. Simpson's hearing a quiet affair
Nov 29 2007 7:36AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The "Special Event" signs placed around courthouse parking lots suggesting O.J. Simpson's court appearance might cause a frenzy of activity were hardly necessary.
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O.J. Simpson's hearing a quiet affair
Nov 29 2007 7:36AM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The "Special Event" signs placed around courthouse parking lots suggesting O.J. Simpson's court appearance might cause a frenzy of activity were hardly necessary.
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NY man fights for anti-Osama plates
Nov 29 2007 7:31AM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A retired police officer is seeking a court order to force the state Department of Motor Vehicles to drop its demand that he return vanity license plates calling for the capture or death of Osama bin Laden.
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Broadway shows resume Thursday
Nov 29 2007 7:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night to end a strike and almost immediately return to the stage most of the two dozen plays and musicals that have been shut down for more than two weeks.
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Broadway shows resume Thursday
Nov 29 2007 7:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night to end a strike and almost immediately return to the stage most of the two dozen plays and musicals that have been shut down for more than two weeks.
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Broadway shows resume Thursday
Nov 29 2007 7:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night to end a strike and almost immediately return to the stage most of the two dozen plays and musicals that have been shut down for more than two weeks.
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Broadway shows resume Thursday
Nov 29 2007 7:03AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night to end a strike and almost immediately return to the stage most of the two dozen plays and musicals that have been shut down for more than two weeks.
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Fire at major US oil pipeline kills 2
Nov 29 2007 6:48AM (CT)
CLEARBROOK, Minn. (AP) - A deadly fire at a pipeline from Canada that feeds oil to the United States sent oil prices soaring Thursday.
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Flight attendant retires after 50 years
Nov 29 2007 3:23AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - When Patti Smart was hired as an Aloha Airlines stewardess 50 years ago, it was a different job for a different time.
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Story in Wash. dragging death questioned
Nov 29 2007 12:12AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A prosecutor cast doubt Wednesday on witness accounts that a teenager didn't realize he had dragged a college student behind his pickup truck for 13 miles.
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Chicago trucker guilty in deadly wreck
Nov 29 2007 12:08AM (CT)
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago truck driver was convicted Wednesday of reckless homicide charges for crashing his semitrailer into a tour bus in 2003, killing eight women.
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San Fran OKs ID card for immigrants
Nov 29 2007 12:05AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The mayor signed legislation Wednesday requiring the city to issue identification cards to undocumented immigrants and other residents who can't or won't apply for driver's licenses.
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