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California man linked to casino shootout
Dec 4 2005 11:04PM (CT)
STATELINE, Nev. (AP) - A California man with a previous drug arrest was identified Sunday as the gunman killed in a shootout with sheriff's deputies inside Harrah's Tahoe casino, but what set off the shooting remained a mystery.
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Open season starting on N.J. black bears
Dec 4 2005 11:02PM (CT)
VERNON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey hunters take to the woods Monday for a controversial season aimed at thinning the state's growing population of black bears, whose hungry foraging has frightened suburban residents.
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Catholic Church in Pa. against old suits
Dec 4 2005 10:41PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Roman Catholic Church officials in Pennsylvania say a proposal to let sexual-abuse victims file lawsuits decades after they were abused would be "fundamentally unfair" and could financially ruin dioceses across the state.
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Family of N.H. children will visit Ohio
Dec 4 2005 10:23PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The mother of two children who were shot to death and buried by their father 2 1/2 years ago plans to visit the shallow Ohio grave where their bodies were finally found last week.
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GOP to address weakneses in Virginia
Dec 4 2005 10:18PM (CT)
HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) - Alarmed that Virginia's once solidly Republican suburbs _ among the nation's fastest growing areas _ voted Democratic in last month's governor's race, the state GOP will study what went wrong.
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New Orleans mayor asks residents to return
Dec 4 2005 10:15PM (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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Hearing set for officer charged in abuse
Dec 4 2005 9:49PM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - Capt. Christopher M. Beiring was the man in charge of jail guards when two prisoners died and countless others were assaulted at a detention center in Afghanistan in 2002.
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Americans let contractors do decorating
Dec 4 2005 9:39PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The last thing John Gendron wants to do during the holidays is climb high on his steep-pitched roof to hang a wreath from his chimney. These days, he doesn't have to. Instead, he hires a contractor to put one wreath on his chimney and two others high on the house, and to hang Christmas lights on his home and in the crabapple trees in his front yard.
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Drug testing coming to TV wrestling
Dec 4 2005 7:09PM (CT)
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Following the death of one of pro wrestling's biggest stars, World Wrestling Entertainment says it is starting random drug testing to detect illicit drugs, steroids and prescription drug abuse among its performers.
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Man may be freed after conviction tossed
Dec 4 2005 6:16PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man who spent nine years behind bars for his mother's murder before his conviction was thrown out could leave prison as early as Monday, though prosecutors are appealing and say they will retry him if they lose.
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U.N. official: I heard of firing via AP
Dec 4 2005 6:05PM (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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Parents: Shooting suspect acting strangely
Dec 4 2005 5:49PM (CT)
LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) - The parents of a man charged with the execution-style slayings of three people said he had been acting strangely in the days before the attacks.
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Mass. Maritime Academy fires president
Dec 4 2005 5:40PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Maritime Academy's board of trustees voted Sunday to fire its president, Admiral Richard Gurnon, just six months after he was appointed to run the state-funded naval training college.
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Baltimore schools face financial struggles
Dec 4 2005 2:50PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - David Guth was ready and eager for swim team practice until he learned that his high school's pool had been shut down by the state health department.
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Boston store ceases sale of 'snitch' shirt
Dec 4 2005 10:08AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A clothing store owner agreed Saturday to stop selling "Stop Snitching" T-shirts amid concerns the message was intimidating murder witnesses during a surge in violent crime.
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E-mails show how Katrina swamped La. gov.
Dec 4 2005 8:48AM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - As looters and Hurricane Katrina floodwaters ravaged New Orleans, Gov. Kathleen Blanco's top aides were inundated with requests from around the world, from celebrities, dignitaries and people whose relatives were trapped in the city, according to newly released documents.
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Authorities arrest suspected balloon thief
Dec 4 2005 5:09AM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities have arrested a man they say stole a hot-air balloon from a Knox County home and then broke into another residence where he forced the family there to feed him.
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N.C. military town mourns fallen Marines
Dec 4 2005 3:21AM (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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Feds abandon plans to ban alcohol at refuge
Dec 4 2005 2:28AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Federal officials scaled back conservation plans for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, abandoning proposals to ban alcohol among campers and limit the number of shells hunters could carry.
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Trackers search for missing Oregon hiker
Dec 4 2005 1:34AM (CT)
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Professional trackers are searching for an Oregon man who has been missing for more than three weeks, after apparently embarking on a difficult hike in a Hawaiian canyon.
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Blast fails to fell tallest S.D. building
Dec 4 2005 12:44AM (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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