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UNLV ex-coach's son seeking state office
Dec 1 2005 11:59PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The son of former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian on Thursday announced his candidacy for secretary of state in Nevada.
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Jurors: Death for Fla. girl's killer
Dec 1 2005 11:53PM (CT)
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Jurors recommended the death penalty Thursday for a mechanic convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was taped by a surveillance camera and broadcast worldwide.
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Court orders Schwarzenegger to remove video
Dec 1 2005 11:46PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A judge Thursday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to remove a state-produced video that was intended to look like an objective news report from a government Web site.
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3 sailors hurt in apparent suicide attempt
Dec 1 2005 11:42PM (CT)
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A sailor who was apparently trying to commit suicide Thursday shot and wounded himself and two superiors as they struggled for the gun in an effort to stop him, the base commander said.
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N.C. gov denies clemency for inmate
Dec 1 2005 11:39PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A man who killed his wife and father-in-law awaited lethal injection early Friday in the nation's 1,000th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977.
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Gulf Coast homeowners' mortgages come due
Dec 1 2005 11:31PM (CT)
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Like many homeowners around here, Janet Kisling owes a pile of debt on little more than a pile of debris. She has a $1,000-a-month mortgage on a home that is uninhabitable.
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N.Y. philanthropist's plane goes missing
Dec 1 2005 11:15PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A plane piloted by a well-known New York philanthropist went missing off the coast of Nantucket on Thursday afternoon, his wife and federal authorities said.
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Residents return to New Orleans Ninth Ward
Dec 1 2005 10:58PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A husband and wife who waited three months to see what Hurricane Katrina did to their neighborhood finally returned Thursday to find their blue, wood-frame house sitting in the front yard, three feet off its foundation.
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GOP governors hold line on Iraq
Dec 1 2005 9:36PM (CT)
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - Heading into a tough election year, Republican governors attending their annual meeting voiced strong support Thursday for President Bush's stand on the Iraq war and played down his lapsed popularity.
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Texas groups seek Ralph Reed casinos probe
Dec 1 2005 9:16PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Three watchdog groups asked Thursday for an investigation of former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed, who worked with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to press state officials to shut down two Texas tribal casinos.
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Feds search office of Mich. candidate
Dec 1 2005 9:14PM (CT)
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Federal agents who took payroll and other documents from the offices of prominent trial lawyer Geoffrey Fieger were seeking evidence of campaign finance violations from the 2004 presidential campaign, Fieger and his attorney said Thursday.
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Exhibit marks 1955 Montgomery bus boycott
Dec 1 2005 8:51PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A Smithsonian Institution exhibit featuring a collage of photos, quotes and historical text that chronicle the Montgomery bus boycott goes on view this week as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the landmark protest.
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Emily the stowaway cat lands in Wisconsin
Dec 1 2005 8:47PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Emily the cat is back _ after flying home in the lap of luxury. The curious cat who wound up traveling to France in a cargo container touched down at the Milwaukee airport on Thursday, greeted by her family and a horde of reporters.
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Montgomery marks Rosa Parks anniversary
Dec 1 2005 8:44PM (CT)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - About 2,000 children marched arm-in-arm Thursday, singing "We Shall Overcome" as this once-segregated city marked the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man.
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U. Penn. drops action over naked photos
Dec 1 2005 8:42PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The University of Pennsylvania dropped disciplinary charges Thursday against a student who posted photos on the Web of a naked couple apparently having sex in front of a dorm room window.
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Va. university president comes under fire
Dec 1 2005 8:34PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Insulting alumni and donors probably isn't the best way to show that you are trying to improve your university's national profile, as the president of the University of Richmond has found.
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University cancels class on creationism
Dec 1 2005 8:18PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A University of Kansas course devoted to debunking creationism and intelligent design has been canceled after the professor who planned to teach it caused a furor by sending an e-mail mocking Christian fundamentalists.
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Man arrested in slaying of Ill. student
Dec 1 2005 7:58PM (CT)
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - A 27-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the slaying of an Illinois college student whose body was found in a burned-out Mississippi chicken coop.
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Correction: Barrett-Firearms story
Dec 1 2005 7:50PM (CT)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - In a Nov. 25 story about Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc., The Associated Press reported erroneously that .50-caliber rifles were used to penetrate the armor of Iraqi tanks from a mile away during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Such rifles were used against Iraqi armored personnel carriers, but military experts say they could not penetrate tank armor from that distance.
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Correction: New Orleans Murders story
Dec 1 2005 7:37PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In an Aug. 18 story about crime in New Orleans, The Associated Press, relying on information from a University of New Orleans criminologist, erroneously reported that university researchers conducted an experiment in 2004 in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon and that no one called to report the gunfire.
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Drug dealer convicted in 'favor' killing
Dec 1 2005 7:37PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A drug dealer was convicted Thursday of a murder that a drug kingpin claimed to have ordered as a favor to a prominent defense attorney.
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British expert to run D.C. art museum
Dec 1 2005 7:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paul Greenhalgh admires at least one of architect Frank Gehry's soaring, swooping designs of buildings clad in sheet metal, a taste that may not endear him to some supporters of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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Conn. campaign finance law draws opponents
Dec 1 2005 6:03PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Legislators passed one of the nation's toughest campaign finance laws Thursday, a move aimed at renewing confidence in the state's leadership after a corruption scandal that sent former Gov. John G. Rowland to prison.
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Bank heist suspect's friend pleads guilty
Dec 1 2005 5:36PM (CT)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Less than three weeks after his arrest, the boyfriend of the accused "cell phone bandit" admitted in court Thursday that he helped plan and pull off four bank robberies in northern Virginia.
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Body in car trunk in N.J. may be mobster
Dec 1 2005 5:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A body believed to be that of a mobster who vanished during his waterfront corruption trial was found in the trunk of a car parked behind a diner in New Jersey.
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Tropical Storm Epsilon turns from Bermuda
Dec 1 2005 5:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Epsilon on Thursday began to turn away from Bermuda, but could still stir up dangerous surf around the island, forecasters said.
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Mass. doctors split on girl's life support
Dec 1 2005 4:54PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Doctors are split over whether the state should remove the feeding tube from a comatose 11-year-old girl who was allegedly beaten by her adoptive mother and stepfather.
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Cities show gains in math, less in reading
Dec 1 2005 4:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just like students nationwide, children in major U.S. cities are getting better in math but struggling to improve in reading, a new federal snapshot shows.
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FBI seeks to stop jewel thieves
Dec 1 2005 4:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jewel thieves in hooded sweat shirts have knocked over nearly five dozen stores from New Hampshire to North Carolina in the past two-and-a-half years, eluding capture with an efficient operation that has netted $5.1 million in men's watches, chains, bracelets and rings, the FBI said Thursday.
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Suspect in 10 killings gets death for one
Dec 1 2005 4:02PM (CT)
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A suspected serial killer was sentenced to death Thursday for the rape and murder of an Alabama woman, whose slaying led authorities to link him to more than 10 other killings.
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Report finds Hanford costs may skyrocket
Dec 1 2005 2:38PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A plant that is being constructed to turn radioactive waste from the Hanford nuclear weapons installation into glasslike logs could costs billions of dollars more than first estimated and take an additional four years, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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Contempt charge upheld vs. court reporter
Dec 1 2005 2:36PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - An appeals court upheld a contempt citation Thursday for a court reporter who says her cancer treatment kept her from finishing transcripts from hearings and trials in 10 criminal cases.
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Studies confirm New Orleans levees' flaws
Dec 1 2005 2:31PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Government engineers performing sonar tests at the site of a major levee failure confirmed that steel reinforcements barely went more than half as deep as they were supposed to, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said Wednesday.
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Dangling Colo. window washers rescued
Dec 1 2005 2:16PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Firefighters rescued two window washers who were clinging desperately to their scaffold as strong winds slammed the platform repeatedly into the side of a downtown high-rise.
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Former gorilla handlers settle lawsuit
Dec 1 2005 1:34PM (CT)
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Two animal handlers who say they were fired for refusing to expose their breasts to a 300-pound gorilla have settled their lawsuit against the Gorilla Foundation on undisclosed terms.
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Former insurance mogul gets 10 years
Dec 1 2005 12:05PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge sentenced a former insurance tycoon to 10 years in prison for siphoning money from his brokerage firm to finance his lavish lifestyle.
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Religion news in brief
Dec 1 2005 12:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The new Greek Orthodox patriarch of the Holy Land believes Israel is refusing to recognize his elevation in order to extort his support for a controversial land lease to Jewish groups in east Jerusalem, a church official said.
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Girl dies playing tag at Ark. school
Dec 1 2005 11:26AM (CT)
GRAVETTE, Ark. (AP) - A second-grade girl collapsed in a physical education class and later died _ just one day after two other children in the same school died in a house fire.
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Katrina, Rita kids light Rockefeller tree
Dec 1 2005 10:37AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was set aglow with 30,000 colored lights at a joyful ceremony Wednesday featuring children displaced by Hurricane Katrina, singer Harry Connick Jr. and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Ill. pharmacists withhold emergency pill
Dec 1 2005 5:50AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Walgreen Co. said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule.
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Two children die in Wis. house fire
Dec 1 2005 4:53AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A house fire has killed two young siblings whose home had six smoke detectors that were not working, officials said.
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3 plead not guilty to supporting terrorism
Dec 1 2005 4:24AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A Washington, D.C., cab driver, a Florida doctor and a Bronx jazz musician have pleaded not guilty to charges they conspired to help terrorist organizations.
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W.Va. nursing home honors 4 centenarians
Dec 1 2005 4:13AM (CT)
MARMET, W.Va. (AP) - Catherine Reed has no secrets to share about how to live to be 100. But the longtime schoolteacher, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, says: "I don't smoke. I don't drink. I just live."
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Wisconsin city to build Civil War museum
Dec 1 2005 3:45AM (CT)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Not a single Civil War battle ever took place in Wisconsin. Nevertheless, officials hope to make this city halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago home to a $15 million Civil War museum.
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Schwarzenegger names Dem chief of staff
Dec 1 2005 3:11AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday took the first step to shaking up his administration after his resounding special election failure, appointing a longtime Democratic activist as his chief of staff.
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Calif. court denies clemency for Williams
Dec 1 2005 1:56AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to halt the scheduled execution of convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang founder who became an anti-gang activist while in prison and whose supporters claim has redeemed himself.
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Kan. abortion doctor not to blame in death
Dec 1 2005 12:31AM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - An abortion doctor who has been the target of protests for years has been cleared by state regulators in the death of a mentally retarded Texas woman who received a late-term abortion at his clinic.
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Two charged in slaying of young father
Dec 1 2005 12:23AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A car donated to a young father who gained national attention through a People magazine profile helped nab two men suspected of killing him, police said.
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Houston janitors form union
Dec 1 2005 12:08AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A group of Houston janitors on Wednesday celebrated their formation of a union, part of one of the largest successful labor organizing efforts in the private sector in Texas.
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