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Jet slides off Chicago runway; boy dies
Dec 8 2005 11:50PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A jetliner trying to land in heavy snow slid off a runway, crashed through a fence and slid into a busy street, hitting one vehicle and pinning another beneath it.
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Passenger: Alpizar was agitated at gate
Dec 8 2005 11:20PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The passenger shot to death by air marshals in Miami had been agitated before boarding the plane and was singing "Go Down Moses" as his wife tried to calm him, a fellow passenger said Thursday.
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Family asks that hostage's life be spared
Dec 8 2005 11:07PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - The family of a man shown as a hostage on an insurgent video asked his captors Thursday to spare his life as U.S. officials worked to confirm whether the Iraqi group had killed him.
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New Orleans chief says 60 officers fired
Dec 8 2005 11:04PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city has fired 60 police officers and suspended more than 25 others who didn't show up for duty in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the city's police chief said Thursday as officials worked their way through a long list of disciplinary hearings.
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San Francisco suspends officer over video
Dec 8 2005 10:03PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A police officer who produced videos parodying life on the force was suspended Thursday after the mayor and police chief blasted the vignettes as racist, sexist and homophobic.
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Inmate's fate in Schwarzenegger's hands
Dec 8 2005 9:47PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Lawyers for Stanley Tookie Williams pleaded for his life before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday, five days before the founder of the murderous Crips gang _ now a peace activist _ is scheduled to be executed.
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Panda goes public, revs marketing machine
Dec 8 2005 9:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Zoo's 5-month-old panda cub, Tai Shan, has already become a big draw for the park even though Thursday was the first time lucky ticket holders were able to see him in person.
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Boy testifies about foster home with cages
Dec 8 2005 8:47PM (CT)
NORWALK, Ohio (AP) - A boy whose parents are accused of making their special-needs adopted children sleep in cages testified Thursday that the couple forced him to live in the bathroom as punishment for urinating in his enclosed bed.
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Toledo wants neo-Nazis, protesters out
Dec 8 2005 8:46PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - City leaders asked a judge on Thursday to block a neo-Nazi group and counter protesters from rallying anywhere beyond a downtown government building's grounds this weekend.
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Judge wants ex-teacher's plea deal changed
Dec 8 2005 8:16PM (CT)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - A hitch has developed in a plea deal agreed to by a former teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old student, a spokesman for the prosecutor said Thursday.
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Florida passes Medicaid overhaul
Dec 8 2005 8:10PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Medicaid recipients in some Florida counties will be shifted into private managed care plans under a bill approved Thursday by the Legislature.
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Energy Dept. completes nuke site cleanup
Dec 8 2005 7:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - The Energy Department declared the cleanup of Rocky Flats completed Thursday, the first former nuclear weapons site to be totally remediated.
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AP Poll: Lawmakers' standing drops
Dec 8 2005 7:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Indictments, investigations and a congressman's guilty plea for taking millions in bribes have left most Americans convinced that political corruption is a deeply rooted problem, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
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N.Y. appeals court rejects gay marriage
Dec 8 2005 7:38PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A state appeals court Thursday threw out a ruling that would have allowed gay couples to marry in New York City, saying it is not the role of judges to redefine the terms "husband" and "wife."
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Union supporters picket White House
Dec 8 2005 7:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of union members picketed the White House Thursday but did not succeed in delivering a petition addressed to President Bush urging him to protect workers' rights and pass labor-friendly legislation.
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Six-nation drug ring broken up, DEA says
Dec 8 2005 7:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal drug agents said Thursday that they have broken up a drug trafficking and money laundering ring that had been operating in the United States and five other countries, seizing more than $7 million, two tons of cocaine and 500 pounds of marijuana.
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Tulane laying off 230 faculty members
Dec 8 2005 6:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Staggered by Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University announced Thursday that it is laying off about 230 faculty members, dropping some sports and eliminating several undergraduate programs, including electrical engineering and computer science.
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Democrats may caucus between Iowa, N.H.
Dec 8 2005 5:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats considering changes in the presidential primary calendar were sent a draft proposal on Thursday that would place one or two caucuses after Iowa and before New Hampshire's leadoff primary.
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Soldier injured in Iraq gets to keep dog
Dec 8 2005 5:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Severely injured when her Humvee was bombed in Iraq, Air Force Tech Sgt. Jamie Dana awoke in a military hospital and cried out for Rex, her bomb-sniffing dog.
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U.S. may yet deport acquitted ex-professor
Dec 8 2005 4:48PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Federal authorities hit with a stunning defeat in a terrorism case against a former Florida college professor are considering deporting him instead of retrying him.
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Six brought up on ecoterror charges
Dec 8 2005 4:41PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Six people were arrested in a string of ecoterrorism attacks in the Pacific Northwest dating to 1998 _ four fires that caused millions in damage and the toppling of an 80-foot power transmission tower, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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DNA tests free man in prison 25 years
Dec 8 2005 3:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge Thursday freed an inmate whose claims of innocence in a kidnapping and rape went unheeded for nearly a quarter of a century, until DNA evidence proved him right.
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Katrina changes states' take on security
Dec 8 2005 3:41PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Whether they're concerned about terrorism or earthquakes, state lawmakers gathered for a national conference say that the government shortcomings exposed by Hurricane Katrina demand a new look at disaster preparedness across the country.
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Four plead guilty to killing homeless man
Dec 8 2005 3:32PM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Four teenagers who fatally beat a homeless man for fun and then brought others to see the body pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and conspiracy.
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Tropical Storm Epsilon peters out
Dec 8 2005 2:12PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Epsilon petered out over the Atlantic on Thursday, perhaps bringing an end to the record-breaking hurricane season more than a week late.
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State schools turn to part-time professors
Dec 8 2005 2:11PM (CT)
MONMOUTH, Ore. (AP) - Time off? What's that? Melinda Marie Jette, an adjunct professor at Western Oregon University, is teaching four courses this semester, and on the three days a week she has no classes, she grades papers, works on her own research and applies for tenure-track jobs.
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Train derailment causes Northeast delays
Dec 8 2005 12:46PM (CT)
EDGEWOOD, Md. (AP) - Two freight train cars carrying scrap iron derailed Thursday morning, delaying rail traffic along the busy Northeast Corridor for two hours during the morning rush hour.
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Appeals court to hear Mumia Abu-Jamal case
Dec 8 2005 12:10PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court has agreed to hear an appeal from death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther convicted in the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia police officer.
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Religion news in brief
Dec 8 2005 12:02PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - About 10,000 people participated in a ceremony for the creation of a new Roman Catholic diocese, the first in more than 30 years in Vietnam, in another sign of thawing relations between the communist government and the Holy See.
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Religion today
Dec 8 2005 12:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The prestigious Jewish Theological Seminary has sponsored dialogues with all sorts of American religious and ethnic groups over the past 67 years, but never with evangelical Protestants _ until last week.
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Ex-presidents announce Katrina grants
Dec 8 2005 9:56AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former Presidents Bush and Clinton announced $90 million worth of grants Wednesday from the money they've raised to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Chicagoans lament city's physical changes
Dec 8 2005 7:11AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - To former Mayor Jane Byrne, Chicago's elevated trains are more than a mode of transport. They are one of the things that make Chicago distinctive.
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Mich. officer accused of zapping partner
Dec 8 2005 7:07AM (CT)
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) - A police officer has been charged with using a Taser on his partner during an argument over whether they should stop for a soft drink.
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Cop accused of using Taser on his partner
Dec 8 2005 6:01AM (CT)
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) - A police officer has been charged with using a Taser on his partner during an argument over whether they should stop for a soft drink.
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Child killer gets renowned attorney
Dec 8 2005 5:14AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - An attorney who argued that "television intoxication" led his client to kill an elderly neighbor in 1977 has taken over the defense of convicted child killer Lionel Tate.
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Ann Coulter cuts university speech short
Dec 8 2005 5:10AM (CT)
STORRS, Conn. (AP) - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos and jeers, and decided to hold a question-and-answer session instead.
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WWII internment of Alaska Aleuts recounted
Dec 8 2005 3:50AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Mary Bourdukofsky, an Alaska Native, was at home on rugged St. Paul Island one Sunday in the summer of 1942 when her husband rushed breathlessly through the door from his weekly baseball game.
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Conn. governor signs campaign finance bill
Dec 8 2005 12:50AM (CT)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. M. Jodi Rell, flanked by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers, signed legislation Wednesday that imposes strict limits on campaign contributions and establishes a voluntary publicly funded election system.
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Discipline of pharmacists spark complaint
Dec 8 2005 12:43AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Walgreen Co. engaged in religious discrimination by "effectively firing" three Illinois pharmacists who refused to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception, a public-interest group alleged Wednesday.
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Calif. GOP seeks explanation from gov
Dec 8 2005 12:04AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Republican Party loyalists want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to explain his decision to hire a prominent Democrat as his chief of staff.
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Woman convicted for posting threat on AOL
Dec 8 2005 12:04AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A 32-year-old woman was convicted for posting a death threat on an Internet message board connected to the Terry Schiavo case, authorities said Wednesday.
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