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S.F. mayor defends handling of police video
Dec 14 2005 11:58PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday defended his handling of a police video that showed a white officer driving over a black homeless woman and poked fun at racial stereotypes, amid criticism that he was hasty in condemning the clips.
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Donald Trump sued by real estate brokers
Dec 14 2005 11:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump faces a lawsuit by three real estate brokers who say he still owes them $1.3 million from the profitable sale of land and apartments he owned in Manhattan.
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Police charge man in Pa. trooper's death
Dec 14 2005 11:31PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police charged a man with criminal homicide Wednesday night, accusing him of fatally shooting a state trooper during a traffic stop and with stealing the trooper's gun.
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Northeast emissions talks break down
Dec 14 2005 11:21PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Talks broke down Wednesday among state officials trying to reach an agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the Northeast.
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N.Y. judge awards Freud's grandson $168,000
Dec 14 2005 11:17PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The grandson of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was awarded $168,000 on Wednesday in a case against Swiss banks accused of betraying their Holocaust-era customers in favor of the Nazis.
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Ind. man faces 4 murder charges in killings
Dec 14 2005 11:05PM (CT)
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A man accused of killing his family told police he beat and strangled his wife and killed their three young daughters after the couple argued about household chores, according to court documents.
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Convicted hitman, 77, executed in Miss.
Dec 14 2005 10:58PM (CT)
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) - A 77-year-old convicted hitman was executed Wednesday, becoming the oldest person in the nation put death since capital punishment was reinstated nearly three decades ago.
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Reservoir fails in Ozarks; three injured
Dec 14 2005 10:54PM (CT)
LESTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) - The stone retaining wall around a huge mountaintop reservoir in the Ozarks collapsed before daybreak Wednesday, releasing a billion-gallon torrent of water that swept away at least two homes and several vehicles and critically injured three children, authorities said.
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Katrina evacuee graduates in Texas
Dec 14 2005 10:42PM (CT)
BRYAN, Texas (AP) - The high school diploma Constance Harrison earned Wednesday was much more than a milestone. It was a victory over the hurricane that destroyed her home, scattered her family and sent her life into chaos.
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Condemned Texas prisoner describes escape
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - A condemned prisoner who got a taste of freedom last month when he escaped from a county jail said Wednesday his flight was worth it even though he was caught after three days on the run.
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NYC could face transit strike Friday
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's what it could look like: Bicyclists darting through never-ending traffic jams. Swarms of commuters trudging over the Brooklyn Bridge in their sneakers in the freezing cold. Tourists stranded during the height of the Christmas season. Broadway shows with half-empty theaters.
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Accused man says he hit jogger with his car
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
DANIELSON, Conn. (AP) - A man charged with kidnapping a jogger told investigators he accidentally hit her with his car and tied her up only because he was trying to hide the body, found in a shed owned by a "Sesame Street" performer, authorities said Wednesday.
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Idaho suit over illegal immigration tossed
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a southwest Idaho county's lawsuit against local employers accused of hiring illegal immigrants _ an attempt to recoup money the county says it has spent on the workers.
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America's charities impressed by donors
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Donor fatigue? Not this year. Even after the outpouring of donations for the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, holiday giving is robust this season and 2005 could well set an overall record, U.S. charity officials are reporting.
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Truck-train crash in Utah kills driver
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An Amtrak train collided with a semitrailer on Wednesday in southeastern Utah, killing the truck driver and injuring several Amtrak passengers, authorities said.
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Man, three kids die in Ariz. trailer fire
Dec 14 2005 10:39PM (CT)
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) - Flames engulfed a mobile home in a suburb west of Phoenix early Wednesday, killing an infant, two other children and a man, police said.
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Suspects sought in Boston homicides
Dec 14 2005 9:39PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Investigators were searching for suspects in the city's bloodiest crime in a decade after four men were fatally shot in a basement that neighbors said doubled as practice space for a rap group.
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Former President Ford returns to work
Dec 14 2005 8:23PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former President Ford spent several hours at his office Wednesday, a day after returning from a brief hospital stay for routine medical tests.
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Mich. affirmative action still in limbo
Dec 14 2005 8:17PM (CT)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - In a raucous meeting drowned out by protesters, the state election board deadlocked Wednesday over whether to put a proposed ban on some affirmative action programs on the November ballot _ despite a court order to do so.
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Judge: Case Western rampage not terrorism
Dec 14 2005 8:16PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A judge dismissed a terrorism charge Wednesday during the trial of a former graduate student accused of a seven-hour shooting rampage at Case Western Reserve University, but 196 other counts remain, including murder.
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Ill. airport area cuts buffer-zone options
Dec 14 2005 8:15PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Houses and businesses surrounding Midway International Airport severely limit the options for creating buffer zones or other safety measures to prevent accidents like last week's fatal runway skid, a city aviation official said.
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Boy, 6, killed by skidding plane, buried
Dec 14 2005 8:11PM (CT)
STEGER, Ill. (AP) - Airport accident victim Joshua Woods went to his grave Wednesday with a quarter in his coffin _ money a brother gave him so the 6-year-old could buy a gumball in heaven.
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Bus crash injures 17 in Los Angeles
Dec 14 2005 7:37PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A public transit bus and catering truck collided Wednesday morning at an intersection near downtown, injuring at least 17 people, authorities said.
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Wash. Democrats apologize for magnet
Dec 14 2005 7:26PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The state's Democratic chairman has apologized for a political gimcrack that parodied a popular Christian automobile adornment.
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Witness muddies 'Fatal Vision' convictions
Dec 14 2005 6:13PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Lawyers for a former Green Beret convicted in the 1970 slayings of his wife and daughters, a crime dramatized in the best seller and miniseries "Fatal Vision," say a new witness has come forward and the court should throw out his murder convictions.
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Four 'missing' in N.J. blast found alive
Dec 14 2005 5:21PM (CT)
BERGENFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Authorities who searched the rubble of a deadly apartment-complex explosion overnight for four missing tenants found them Wednesday, going about their normal business.
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Five La. schools reopen as charter schools
Dec 14 2005 2:40PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Five public schools that had been shut down since Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29 reopened Wednesday as charter schools, run independently of a city school system that has long been criticized as bloated, inefficient and corrupt.
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Macabre Christmas display makes statement
Dec 14 2005 2:35PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It's usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head?
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U.S. court to weigh evolution disclaimer
Dec 14 2005 2:34PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal appeals court is set to consider whether stickers on text books calling evolution a theory, not fact, were unconstitutional.
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Amish man lost thousands in sex scam
Dec 14 2005 2:32PM (CT)
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) - A 75-year-old Amish widower, afraid his church community would find out about him seeking sex from a prostitute, was scammed out of more than $67,000 from the prostitute and her boyfriend, a prosecutor says.
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'Katrina' dolphins to go to Bahamas
Dec 14 2005 12:41PM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Several dolphins that were swept out to sea by Hurricane Katrina will soon be reunited at a resort in the Bahamas.
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Four people shot dead in N.J. building
Dec 14 2005 12:22PM (CT)
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) - Four people were found shot to death early Wednesday morning in an after-hours club in the city's industrial section, the county prosecutor said.
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Mo. reservoir breach washes away homes, cars
Dec 14 2005 11:20AM (CT)
LESTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) - Water poured through a breach at a hydroelectric plant's rural reservoir in southeast Missouri on Wednesday morning, washing away homes and vehicles, authorities said.
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Iraq veteran charged in Calif. slaying
Dec 14 2005 10:37AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An Army National Guard sergeant who had just returned from Iraq has been charged with murder in the death of a college student more than five years ago, prosecutors said.
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Ark. woman sentenced in school bus fatality
Dec 14 2005 8:30AM (CT)
BENTON, Ark. (AP) - A woman who passed a stopped school bus and struck a boy with her car has been ordered to head to jail on every anniversary of the child's death for the next 10 years.
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Woman suspected in several ecoterror cases
Dec 14 2005 5:52AM (CT)
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A woman charged with damaging a transmission tower also is suspected in half a dozen other ecoterror crimes, including a firebombing at a Colorado ski resort, one of the costliest such crimes in the U.S.
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American Red Cross President resigns
Dec 14 2005 3:41AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - American Red Cross President Marsha Evans announced her resignation Tuesday because of friction with the board of governors, shortly before witnesses and lawmakers at a congressional hearing assailed the charity's response to Hurricane Katrina.
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3 found guilty in Baltimore firebombing
Dec 14 2005 12:18AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Three men were found guilty Tuesday of firebombing the home of an activist who repeatedly called police to report drug dealing.
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Mother charged in death of adopted child
Dec 14 2005 12:13AM (CT)
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) - A woman who adopted a baby from China nearly a year ago surrendered to authorities Tuesday on charges that she had killed the 20-month-old girl.
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LA man pleads guilty to pirating film
Dec 14 2005 12:12AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawfully posting a copy of "Star Wars: Episode III _ Revenge of the Sith" on the Internet the night before the film appeared in theaters.
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