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Caribbean leaders pushing for free trade
Dec 5 2005 11:57PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Caribbean civic and industry leaders eager to maintain free-trade momentum are pushing for business, environmental and political reforms during an annual meeting here this week.
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Man struck by car, ticketed later dies
Dec 5 2005 11:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A 73-year-old man who received a $5 jaywalking ticket after he was struck by a car later died from his injuries, police said Monday.
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Ohio bill would restrict elections officer
Dec 5 2005 11:35PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's chief elections officer would no longer be able to hold two jobs seemingly at odds _ counting votes and backing candidates _ under changes to an election-reform bill made public Monday.
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Kan. professor attacked along rural road
Dec 5 2005 11:25PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A college professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he derided Christian conservatives said he was beaten by two men along a rural road early Monday.
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Hearing set for officer charged in abuse
Dec 5 2005 10:50PM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - The only officer charged in an investigation into prisoner abuse in Afghanistan was overseeing inexperienced soldiers and his repeated requests for more training were refused, his lawyer said Monday.
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Civil rights leader to retire from ministry
Dec 5 2005 10:42PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who worked with the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight against segregation, said he will retire from the ministry but will not stop fighting racial injustice.
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Md. inmate executed for 1991 murder
Dec 5 2005 10:24PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A condemned inmate was executed Monday for the fatal shooting of a woman that was witnessed by her grandchildren at a Baltimore County shopping center in 1991.
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Man pleads guilty, mentally ill in killing
Dec 5 2005 10:05PM (CT)
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A man charged with killing a co-worker seven years after he allegedly heard the victim tell a racist joke pleaded guilty but mentally ill on Monday.
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Hurricane-force winds sweep across Colorado
Dec 5 2005 9:59PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Hurricane-force winds swept across Colorado on Monday, tipping over tractor-trailers ahead of a cold front expected to bring bone-chilling temperatures.
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Menendez changes plans, meets Corzine
Dec 5 2005 9:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Rep. Robert Menendez cut short a trip to Puerto Rico to meet with New Jersey Gov.-elect Jon Corzine, who is expected this week to name a successor to serve the remainder of his Senate term.
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Expert: Ryan pals overcharged Ill. on rents
Dec 5 2005 9:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The state paid more than $900,000 over the market rate to rent three buildings from friends of George Ryan, a real estate appraiser said at the former governor's racketeering and fraud trial on Monday.
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Power outage hits downtown Tulsa
Dec 5 2005 9:32PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Water from a broken pipe flooded an underground electrical vault and knocked out power Monday to major buildings in downtown Tulsa.
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Watergate reporters argue for anonymity
Dec 5 2005 9:23PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate conspiracy story with, perhaps, the most famous source in journalism history, said Monday it's especially important to protect such sources now.
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Communications break down during Conn. scare
Dec 5 2005 8:52PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut homeland security officials were not informed until more than two hours after a series of bomb threats prompted the evacuation and shutdown of the state's 45 courthouses, authorities acknowledged Monday.
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San Diego mayor restores motto to Web site
Dec 5 2005 8:36PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Jerry Sanders was sworn in as mayor of California's second-biggest city Monday and restored the title of "America's Finest City" to San Diego's Web site in his first official act.
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Dean questions commitment to Iraq strategy
Dec 5 2005 8:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Chairman Howard Dean on Monday likened the war in Iraq to Vietnam and said, "The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong," comments that drew immediate fire from Republicans.
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Suicide threat postpones teen's hearing
Dec 5 2005 8:23PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A hearing that could mean a return to prison for convicted killer Lionel Tate, once the youngest person in modern U.S. history sentenced to life behind bars, was postponed Monday after he sent the judge a letter threatening suicide.
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Hearing to weigh church ownership claims
Dec 5 2005 8:20PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Archdiocese of Portland, the first in the country to file for bankruptcy because of abuse settlements, is at the heart of a debate that could affect future claims by alleged victims of priest sex abuse.
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Tree decorated by Okla. students removed
Dec 5 2005 8:00PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Christmas tree that elementary school students decorated with discarded lottery tickets was removed from the state Capitol over the weekend after a lawmaker complained it was inappropriate.
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Caring Hall of Fame inducts 12 for efforts
Dec 5 2005 7:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - With 12 children, Mary Ann Wright had plenty of uses for her $236 monthly Social Security check. But one night in 1980, Wright said she was inspired to feed the hungry. Taking her check, Wright purchased Thanksgiving dinner for 300 homeless people, and for the next two years continued to use her payments to feed the hungry.
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Cafe stirs debate over kids' behavior
Dec 5 2005 7:46PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Dan McCauley had seen one too many kids at his cafe lying on the floor in front of the counter, careening off the glass pastry case, coming perilously close to getting their fingers pinched in the front door. So he posted a sign: "Children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices."
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Woman's obsession led to children's grave
Dec 5 2005 7:40PM (CT)
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio woman who found the bodies of two missing New Hampshire children said Monday she had been searching with her dog for months on a personal mission that her friends and family considered an obsession.
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Jurors partly undecided in professor trial
Dec 5 2005 7:29PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Jurors in the terrorism conspiracy trial of a former college professor and three others announced Monday they were deadlocked on some charges.
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LAPD officer won't be charged in killing
Dec 5 2005 7:26PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A police officer will not face charges in the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy who rammed a stolen vehicle into a patrol car after a short chase, prosecutors announced Monday.
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Army drops charges in killing of Iraqis
Dec 5 2005 7:08PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Army dropped murder charges Monday against an officer accused of giving soldiers in his platoon permission to kill two Iraqi civilians.
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More than 50 black bears killed in N.J.
Dec 5 2005 6:30PM (CT)
VERNON, N.J. (AP) - As opponents turned out to denounce them, hunters killed more than 50 bears Monday at the start of a state-authorized hunt aimed at thinning New Jersey's burgeoning bear population.
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Crews rescue worker from Md. water tower
Dec 5 2005 6:09PM (CT)
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) - Emergency crews rescued a man who fell ill Monday while doing maintenance on a 200-foot water tower at an Air Force base near the nation's capital.
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Miss. jury: Man should die for killings
Dec 5 2005 5:46PM (CT)
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) - A jury decided Monday that a truck driver who killed a couple and their toddler son in anger over a lost inheritance should get the death penalty.
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Oregon highway reopens after rock slide
Dec 5 2005 5:33PM (CT)
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (AP) - Boulders as large as cars tumbled down a cliff in northwest Oregon, striking at least two vehicles and temporarily blocking a major highway.
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Md. arson mastermind gets nearly 20 years
Dec 5 2005 4:30PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - The mastermind of an arson spree that destroyed or damaged dozens of homes under construction outside Washington was sentenced Monday to nearly 20 years behind bars. Two other men were also sent to prison.
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Conn. bird lovers defend parakeets' nests
Dec 5 2005 1:52PM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Julie Cook came home from work Wednesday night to find utility crews tearing down a parakeet nest from a pole and taking the birds away to be killed.
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New Orleanians work to save historic homes
Dec 5 2005 1:51PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Clytie Julien lost $60,000 worth of uninsured antiques to Hurricane Katrina, but she is intent on saving her most valuable possession: her roughly 80-year-old Victorian house in the city's historic Broadmoor neighborhood.
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16-year-old wins science scholarship
Dec 5 2005 11:50AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A 16-year-old California boy won a premier high school science competition Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could help in the design of airplane wings.
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Accused fights to keep girl on life support
Dec 5 2005 8:46AM (CT)
WESTFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Photos hanging on Allison Avrett's living room wall show her daughter Haleigh as a smiling little girl with brown bangs hanging over her squinting eyes.
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Church in Pa. says allowing suits unfair
Dec 5 2005 7:12AM (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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Former Oregon gov. considering comeback
Dec 5 2005 7:02AM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Shortly before former Gov. John Kitzhaber left office, he said the state had become ungovernable because excessive partisanship was standing in the way of real solutions to problems like a growing lack of access to health care.
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Miss. may improve transportation system
Dec 5 2005 3:16AM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Even before Hurricane Katrina, the transportation system along the Mississippi Gulf Coast was a hodgepodge of crowded roads, insufficient evacuation routes and dangerous intersections where rail lines crossed busy roads.
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Law professor elected to Harvard board
Dec 5 2005 1:32AM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A Georgetown University Law professor who specializes in biomedical ethics was elected to become a member of Harvard's top governing board, the university announced.
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