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Ky. police stop van, find boy at the wheel
Dec 10 2005 11:58PM (CT)
FLEMINGSBURG, Ky. (AP) - Police got a surprise when they stopped a van following a hit-and-run crash on Kentucky's Mountain Parkway: A 7-year-old boy was at the wheel, sitting on his father's lap.
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Reverse thrusters eyed in Midway accident
Dec 10 2005 11:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The reverse thrusters that should have slowed a Southwest Airlines jetliner before it slid off a runway and into a busy street didn't immediately kick in when the pilots tried to deploy them, federal investigators said Saturday after interviewing the crew.
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NYC transit union authorizes subway strike
Dec 10 2005 10:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City transit workers voted Saturday to authorize a strike that could shut down bus and subway service at the height of the holiday shopping season.
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'Integrity' tops Web dictionary's lookups
Dec 10 2005 9:13PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - In a year filled with political wrangling, natural disasters and pop culture curiosities, Americans turned to Merriam-Webster to help define it all.
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Three bodies found in southern Florida
Dec 10 2005 8:30PM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The bodies of two men washed ashore in southern Florida and the body of a woman was found floating in the surf Saturday, officials said.
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Texas Guard troops back after year in Iraq
Dec 10 2005 8:22PM (CT)
WACO, Texas (AP) - About 3,000 troops from a Texas National Guard unit returned home Saturday after nearly a year in Iraq, rushing into the arms of family members after the largest deployment of state guardsmen since World War II.
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Professor says was forced out over comment
Dec 10 2005 7:48PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A college professor who drew sharp criticism for comments deriding Christian fundamentalists over "intelligent design" said he was forced out as chairman of the university's religious studies department.
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Neo-Nazis rally in Ohio without violence
Dec 10 2005 7:24PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Members of a neo-Nazi group staged a rally at City Hall on Saturday, two months after plans for an earlier march set off a four-hour riot in which a mob attacked businesses and police.
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Transit union authorizes NYC subway strike
Dec 10 2005 6:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Members of a union representing New York City transit workers voted Saturday to authorize a strike if an agreement isn't reached before their contract expires at midnight Thursday.
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Police officer killed in Bronx shootout
Dec 10 2005 6:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A young police officer dying from a bullet to his chest shot two burglars early Saturday, one of them identified as an actor who played a misfit mobster on "The Sopranos."
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San Quentin deals with life near death row
Dec 10 2005 3:54PM (CT)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - After trading traffic and the celebrity culture of Los Angeles for an apartment on a one-lane road skimming San Francisco Bay, Liz Siegel was slightly annoyed to learn that an out-of-towner had parked his SUV in her assigned space one recent Saturday.
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Va.'s first lady back in childhood home
Dec 10 2005 3:11PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Anne Holton was a girl when her family left the governor's mansion in 1974. Thirty-two years later, she will be the first child resident of the 192-year-old building to live in it again as first lady. Her husband, Democrat Tim Kaine, will be sworn in as governor Jan. 14.
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As boomers age, legacy doubts surface
Dec 10 2005 12:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - They partied and protested, then grew up to dominate America with their chutzpah and sheer numbers. Yet now, as the oldest of the baby boomers prepare to turn 60, there are glimmers of doubt within this "have it all" generation about how they will be judged by those who come next.
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Hunter dangles upside down for 8 hours
Dec 10 2005 7:44AM (CT)
MOUNT HOLLY, Ark. (AP) - A hunter suffered hypothermia and kidney damage after becoming entangled in his deer stand and dangling upside down 30 feet above the ground in sleet for 8 1/2 hours.
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N.C. Marine barracks helps wounded troops
Dec 10 2005 6:04AM (CT)
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - From the first day of boot camp, a Marine is part of a team, rarely serving or fighting alone. That ends when a Marine is severely injured in combat and rushed from the field for medical care. Those without family to care for them at home can find themselves alone with no place to go.
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Calif. suit may set integration precedent
Dec 10 2005 6:01AM (CT)
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - When Michael Winsten and his wife, Cheryl, moved here four years ago, they expected their young children eventually would attend the high school down the hill, about a 3 1/2-mile bike ride from their home.
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Actress Jean Parker dies at 90
Dec 10 2005 5:16AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jean Parker, the lovely brunette star of "Sequoia," "Little Women," "The Ghost Goes West" and other hit films of the 1930s and '40s, has died. She was 90.
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Suit over R.I. police shooting rejected
Dec 10 2005 3:50AM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A police department's training was not to blame for the death of an off-duty black officer, who was fatally shot by two white colleagues, a federal jury ruled.
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Blood drive aims to ID Bosnia war victims
Dec 10 2005 3:48AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Sevko and Vahida Bektic haven't seen their fathers since the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst slaughter of civilians in Europe since World War II.
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Historians: Past eras were worse than now
Dec 10 2005 3:40AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Terrorist attacks, a war in Iraq and natural disasters aren't so bad compared to other tough times in America's past, from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War, history professors say.
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Katrina destroys once great wine cellar
Dec 10 2005 3:34AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the dark, dank recesses of what was once one of the great wine cellars of the world, the fabled bottles sit. The 1870 Lafite Rothschild, the Chateau Moutons, Chateau Magaux _ fine wines with enormous price tags, or at least they were.
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Phony story planted to boost donations
Dec 10 2005 1:58AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - It was a heart-wrenching story: A 10-year-old boy named John, separated from his mother since the hurricane, was living with other foster children in an emergency shelter, and he had one Christmas wish _ to go home.
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Teen charged with rigging exploding pens
Dec 10 2005 1:51AM (CT)
ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) - A 17-year-old student accused of rigging pens to explode as revenge for being expelled was charged with nine felonies Friday for blasts that injured three people, authorities said.
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Report slams medical response to Katrina
Dec 10 2005 1:46AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The federal government's medical response to Hurricane Katrina was bungled by a lack of supplies and poor communication, according to a congressional report released Friday.
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