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Dean: GOP will use immigration to divide
Dec 3 2005 11:40PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Republicans plan to use the vast problems caused by illegal immigration to try and divide Americans voting in next year's midterm election, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.
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Documents show Katrina's political storm
Dec 3 2005 11:30PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and thousands of people waited days amid the floodwater for rescue, a series of letters passed between the governor and the White House that reveal delays, claims that requests for federal help weren't received, and concerns on both sides about public relations.
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Union blames NYC in fire truck accident
Dec 3 2005 11:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The leader of New York City's firefighters union is blaming the city in part for the critical injuries suffered by a firefighter who tumbled out the door of a moving ladder truck.
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Rare December hurricane no threat to land
Dec 3 2005 11:00PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Epsilon, a rare December hurricane in a record-breaking season, moved out in the open Atlantic on Saturday, where it posed no threat to land.
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N.C. military town mourns fallen Marines
Dec 3 2005 10:56PM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The grim news that a roadside bomb killed 10 Marines in Iraq arrived at Camp Lejeune just days after President Bush outlined his strategy for victory, a speech delivered in the face of increasing calls to bring the troops home.
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Shootout at Tahoe casino kills one
Dec 3 2005 10:48PM (CT)
STATELINE, Nev. (AP) - A shootout across a high-stakes players lounge in Harrah's Tahoe casino killed one man, injured two sheriff's deputies and sent gamblers running for the doors Saturday afternoon, authorities and witnesses said.
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Autopsies confirm bodies as slain siblings
Dec 3 2005 10:14PM (CT)
HUDSON, Ohio (AP) - Two small bodies found buried off Interstate 80 with duct-tape crosses over them were identified Saturday as the New Hampshire siblings killed by their father 2 1/2 years ago, authorities announced.
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Annan to fire U.N. electoral official
Dec 3 2005 9:58PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to fire the highly regarded chief of the U.N. office that promotes free elections around the world for harassing staff and management failures, a U.N. official said.
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Man convicted of killing Miss. relatives
Dec 3 2005 9:10PM (CT)
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) - A jury convicted a former truck driver Saturday of killing three relatives who vanished from their home on Valentine's Day last year.
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Blast fails to fell tallest S.D. building
Dec 3 2005 8:47PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Thousands of spectators gathered Saturday to watch the demolition of the city's tallest building _ but the Zip Feed Mill tower was no pushover.
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Mass. justice sorry for 'red state' remark
Dec 3 2005 8:06PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts' chief justice has apologized for a remark she made about "red states" during a commencement speech last spring after a citizen complaint was filed with the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct.
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New Orleans mayor asks residents to return
Dec 3 2005 8:04PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Barbara Bonseigneur looked to her hometown mayor Saturday for a reason to return to New Orleans and help rebuild the battered city and home she fled ahead of Hurricane Katrina. She didn't get one.
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D-Day Museum reopens in New Orleans
Dec 3 2005 6:46PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National D-Day Museum, looted and vandalized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, reopened Saturday with a smaller staff but with its artifacts and exhibits intact.
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Death penalty sought in Precious Doe case
Dec 3 2005 3:17PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A prosecutor announced Saturday he would seek the death penalty against a man charged with beheading his 3-year-old stepdaughter, whose body was unidentified for nearly four years and was known only as "Precious Doe."
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Spokane mayor facing recall after sting
Dec 3 2005 3:06PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Mayor Jim West, a former Boy Scout executive and sheriff's deputy, says he no longer engages in gay sex and has stopped visiting Internet chat rooms.
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Defendant in woman's death was eyed in '87
Dec 3 2005 2:29PM (CT)
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) - When Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony Murphy heard that Frank Rizzo had been accused of killing his girlfriend while police surrounded her house, he couldn't help but think back to 1987.
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Former governor: Officials failed La.
Dec 3 2005 12:10PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Former Gov. Buddy Roemer says elected officials largely failed Louisiana residents during Hurricane Katrina and that, so far, Gov. Kathleen Blanco has produced more news conferences than action.
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Wyoming ponders what to do with surplus
Dec 3 2005 10:59AM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Gov. Dave Freudenthal has a problem his peers can only dream _ and maybe needle him _ about: $1.8 billion, burning a hole in the state's wallet.
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Fla. investigators: KKK behind 1951 blast
Dec 3 2005 10:56AM (CT)
MIMS, Fla. (AP) - New information points to four Ku Klux Klan members as almost certainly responsible for the unsolved murders of two civil rights activists who died when their home exploded in 1951, Florida officials say.
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FBI plants fake candidate in W.Va. race
Dec 3 2005 10:46AM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Thomas Esposito's campaign for the Legislature seemed to be following the usual pattern. The longtime Democratic mayor issued press releases, raised money and bought newspaper ads. Signs bearing his name popped up in yards around rural Logan County.
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Charges in death of Powerball winner's kin
Dec 3 2005 10:41AM (CT)
WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) - The body of the 17-year-old granddaughter of a Powerball jackpot winner was illegally hidden under a broken down van for weeks after she died of a drug overdose, police said.
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Ill. governor to appeal video game ruling
Dec 3 2005 7:12AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich vowed to appeal a federal judge's ruling that shot down a new Illinois law banning the sale of violent or sexual video games to minors.
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Alaskan erosion measured in skulls
Dec 3 2005 6:40AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Where an old graveyard once stood, coffins now jut from Akiak's eroded riverbank along the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska.
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Mall resurrects display of hurricane town
Dec 3 2005 6:13AM (CT)
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - The outcry was so intense after a suburban New Orleans mall removed a Christmas display of a miniature hurricane-ravaged town that the exhibit is going back up this weekend.
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U.S. nuke talks with N.Korea sidetracked
Dec 3 2005 4:52AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - American negotiator Christopher Hill is signaling North Korea there are limits to U.S. patience in trying to reach an agreement to end the insular regime's nuclear weapons programs in exchange for economic benefits and security assurances.
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Democrats lack unified position on Iraq
Dec 3 2005 2:23AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says it's time for U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq. Her top lieutenant, Rep. Steny Hoyer, says a precipitous pullout could be disastrous.
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Philly toddler brings crack to daycare
Dec 3 2005 1:53AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 2-year-old boy was removed from his family and his mother could face charges after the child handed his daycare teacher two packets of crack cocaine, and a search of his jacket pocket turned up nine more, police said.
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Man struck by car given jaywalking ticket
Dec 3 2005 1:49AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former secretary of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts received a $5 jaywalking ticket after he was hit by a car and critically injured while crossing a busy street.
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Wis. governor vetoes malpractice cap bill
Dec 3 2005 1:44AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed legislation that would have capped the amount of money medical malpractice victims could win in court for their pain and suffering, an issue that has been a political flash point in states across the country.
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Wis. governor vetoes malpractice suit bill
Dec 3 2005 1:44AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed legislation that would have capped the amount of money medical malpractice victims could win in court for their pain and suffering, an issue that has been a political flash point in states across the country.
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Man held in Ohio drops deportation fight
Dec 3 2005 12:21AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio man jailed for more than three years on government suspicions that he has terrorism connections is dropping his fight against deportation to his native Yemen.
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Ga. gov changes 'holiday' press release
Dec 3 2005 12:08AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - When it comes to Christmas, political correctness apparently only lasts about a half-hour in Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's office.
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