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Gang leader's memorial set for Dec. 20
Dec 16 2005 11:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A memorial service for Stanley Tookie Williams, the convicted killer who was executed earlier this week at San Quentin Prison, has been scheduled for Tuesday.
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Nursing home fined for pregnant patient
Dec 16 2005 11:55PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - State officials have fined a suburban Chicago nursing home $10,000 for failing to conduct a complete investigation into how a severely disabled, brain-damaged woman became pregnant.
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Suit blames Wash. state for doc's misdeeds
Dec 16 2005 11:52PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Eight women sued the state Health Department on Friday, alleging officials received complaints about a gynecologist for years but did not suspend his license until after he had abused scores of other patients.
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Man takes plea in transgender teen's death
Dec 16 2005 11:43PM (CT)
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - One of four men charged in the beating and strangulation of transgender teenager Gwen Araujo pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter Friday. A jury had previously deadlocked in his murder trial.
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Blunt wants utility to pay for breach
Dec 16 2005 11:34PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The state of Missouri expects a utility company to pay the full cost of damage from the collapse of its reservoir in southeast Missouri, a spokesman for Gov. Matt Blunt said.
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Teen found guilty in beating death
Dec 16 2005 11:06PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A jury found a 19-year-old guilty of reckless homicide Friday in the beating death of a mentally disabled veteran who police say was attacked by a band of youths on the Fourth of July last year.
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500,000-plus without power after ice storm
Dec 16 2005 11:03PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Widespread damage from a deadly ice storm left more than half a million customers still in the dark Friday night, and utility officials said the electricity might not be fully restored in parts of the Carolinas until Tuesday.
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Bomb remark causes Calif. plane evacuation
Dec 16 2005 10:53PM (CT)
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - A Southwest Airlines jet was evacuated Friday on a taxiway after flight attendants overheard a comment about a bomb, but a search of the plane found nothing.
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Suspect in New York sex attack captured
Dec 16 2005 10:45PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fugitive fashion writer wanted for questioning in the sexual attack on a woman in her New York apartment by a man posing as a firefighter was captured Friday at the University of Memphis, police said.
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NYC transit union, MTA to resume talks
Dec 16 2005 10:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city's bus and subway workers Friday put off a potentially crippling strike until at least next week, leaving a cloud of uncertainty hanging over New York at the height of the Christmas rush.
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Fla. base set to open new school on IEDs
Dec 16 2005 9:29PM (CT)
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - With more American soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan from hidden bombs, the military hopes a new advanced explosives school will help troops to detect and disarm the deadly devices.
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Body found, bringing Katrina toll to 1,321
Dec 16 2005 9:05PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The body of another Hurricane Katrina victim was found this week, bringing the number of verified deaths caused by the storm to 1,321.
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Death penalty sought in Pa. slayings
Dec 16 2005 9:01PM (CT)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A prosecutor said Friday he will seek the death penalty against a man already accused of shooting to death his 14-year-old girlfriend's parents, and announced he does not plan to charge the girl.
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Wis. fraternity faces $94,000 in fines
Dec 16 2005 8:54PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A University of Wisconsin fraternity faces more than $94,000 in fines over a Halloween party where fire inspectors counted more than 600 people in a mansion with a capacity of 99.
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Ex-NIMH worker sentenced in anthrax threat
Dec 16 2005 8:52PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A former National Institutes of Health employee was sentenced Friday to house arrest and probation after admitting she made an anthrax threat over a tax dispute.
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New Orleans evacuees skeptical of Bush vow
Dec 16 2005 8:51PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Bernadette Porche has been making monthly trips back to her beloved New Orleans to do repairs on her damaged house. But despite pleas from Mayor Ray Nagin and assurances from President Bush, she and other Katrina evacuees are not convinced the path is clear for a permanent return.
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Alleged Mo. Medicare scheme takes in $2.3M
Dec 16 2005 8:43PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Two doctors and several businessmen have been charged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bill Medicare for expensive motorized wheelchairs for patients who did not need or receive them, authorities said Friday.
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Lawyers want to question Vatican official
Dec 16 2005 8:40PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Attorneys for alleged victims of sex abuse asked a federal judge Friday to let them question a top-ranking Vatican official about a church doctrine that might permit him to lie under oath.
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19 nabbed in child prostitution crackdown
Dec 16 2005 8:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prostitution rings from New York to Hawaii forced more than 30 children as young as 12 to have sex at truck stops, hotels and brothels, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday, announcing a government crackdown.
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N.J. apartment blast victims identified
Dec 16 2005 8:21PM (CT)
BERGENFIELD, N.J. (AP) - A man who failed to pick up his daughter from school as expected has been identified as the third fatality from an explosion and fire that gutted an apartment building.
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LSU medical school running out of cash
Dec 16 2005 8:07PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana State University officials warned legislators Friday that the medical school will run out of cash by late February, but a top aide to Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she will find the money to keep the system going.
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U.N. deputy secretary-general to step down
Dec 16 2005 7:50PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Louise Frechette, the U.N.'s first deputy secretary-general who was strongly criticized for tolerating corruption in the oil-for-food program, will step down in April to join a research center in her native Canada, the U.N. announced Friday.
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FBI nabs reputed runaway mob enforcer
Dec 16 2005 7:48PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A reputed mob enforcer who has been the focus of a nationwide manhunt since federal prosecutors unsealed racketeering-murder charges against the alleged top echelon of the Chicago underworld was arrested Friday, the FBI announced.
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Cook faces charges after alleged soap dare
Dec 16 2005 7:40PM (CT)
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) - A Waffle House cook is facing charges after authorities say he dared a homeless man to drink industrial-strength dishwashing liquid. The drink sent Rex Leo to the hospital.
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Mo. archbishop cuts ties to Polish parish
Dec 16 2005 6:57PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke has excommunicated a priest and the board of directors of a traditionally Polish parish that resisted his efforts to put the parish's property and assets under his control.
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Indiana man gets life for teens' murders
Dec 16 2005 6:47PM (CT)
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - A man who killed three teenagers and buried their bodies in concrete in the basement of his northwest Indiana home was sentenced Friday to three consecutive life terms with no chance of parole.
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POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Murtha plea for party
Dec 16 2005 6:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee on Friday accused Democratic Rep. John Murtha of turning his anti-war stance into a fundraising ploy.
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Credentials of Va. journalists pulled
Dec 16 2005 6:28PM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The military this week revoked the press credentials of a Norfolk newspaper writer and photographer who were reporting from Kuwait, saying they had violated ground rules by photographing battle-damaged military vehicles.
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FEMA head decries trailer park roadblocks
Dec 16 2005 6:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday decried land-use restrictions that are holding up the placement of thousands of temporary trailer homes for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in much of Louisiana.
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House calls for info on overseas detention
Dec 16 2005 6:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House called Friday for the Bush administration to give Congress details of secret detention facilities overseas, a day after President Bush agreed to a proposal to ban cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of terrorism detainees in U.S. custody.
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Ky. appeals court allows blanket pardon
Dec 16 2005 5:58PM (CT)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky appeals court ruled Friday that Gov. Ernie Fletcher had the authority to issue a blanket pardon covering all employees who might be charged during a probe of his administration's hiring practices.
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Murders reach a 10-year high in Boston
Dec 16 2005 5:38PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The execution-style slayings of four young men in a basement music studio this week cast a spotlight on a crime wave that has pushed murder in Boston to a 10-year high.
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Expatriate enthusiasm doesn't match Iraq's
Dec 16 2005 5:28PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Voter turnout among Iraqi expatriates in the United States during this week's historic parliamentary elections was estimated Friday at 12 percent _ lower than some had expected, and well short of the 70 percent participation in their homeland.
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Correction: Katrina-Levee-Probe story
Dec 16 2005 5:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In a Nov. 1 story about a levee investigation after Hurricane Katrina, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Union Pacific railway had damaged a flood gate at the Industrial Canal, removed the gate for repairs and sent employees to place sandbags in the breach.
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Sept. 11 memorial fundraising troubled
Dec 16 2005 4:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - With groundbreaking a few months away, the campaign to raise $500 million for a Sept. 11 museum and a memorial to the World Trade Center dead has been beset by vague cost estimates, battles over what to build, and, some say, poor planning.
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Florida governor signs Medicaid overhaul
Dec 16 2005 4:33PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law Friday the nation's most sweeping overhaul of Medicaid, a measure that would shift many of Florida's recipients into private managed care to help curb the rising costs of health care for the poor.
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Ohio man convicted in university slaying
Dec 16 2005 3:21PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A former graduate student who killed one person and wounded two others in a seven-hour shooting rampage at Case Western Reserve University was convicted Friday of murder and nearly 200 other charges.
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U.S. judge demands more for Ariz. students
Dec 16 2005 3:20PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge Friday ordered the Legislature to spend more money on education for students learning English and said he will impose fines starting at $500,000 a day late next month if deadlines aren't met.
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Children's art showcases Katrina's effects
Dec 16 2005 1:56PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The drawings, done mostly in crayon and marker, are full of bleak images _ bodies floating, floodwaters ripping loved ones away, children crying red tears. But often they contain glimmers of hope, too, such as a blue sky, a shining sun, a rainbow.
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College counselors find new ways to help
Dec 16 2005 1:52PM (CT)
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - Janie Cisneros was having a crisis and needed to talk to a counselor. But there would be no embarrassing or intimidating visit to the campus clinic.
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Miami mayor to get 54 percent raise
Dec 16 2005 1:10PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - City commissioners decided to raise Mayor Manny Diaz's salary by 54 percent in a last-minute vote that was not listed on the meeting agenda.
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Katrina survivors lose possessions in fire
Dec 16 2005 9:23AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Lynn Alphonso's home withstood Hurricane Katrina _ barely _ but it didn't survive a fire that reduced it and his family's Christmas presents to rubble.
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Texas gas well explodes, ignites more fires
Dec 16 2005 8:35AM (CT)
PALO PINTO, Texas (AP) - A natural gas well exploded and ignited secondary fires early Friday, shaking the area and causing a flash of light visible for 100 miles.
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Family members clash over Parks' estate
Dec 16 2005 8:07AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - When the Mays Printing Co. ran off 10,000 copies of the obituary programs from Rosa Parks' funeral, demand for them was high. At $10 apiece, they sold out in three days following the November ceremony.
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Suspended cops in video flap reinstated
Dec 16 2005 6:14AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - All 24 officers suspended for their involvement in a police video that was criticized as having sexist and racist content have been allowed to return to work.
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San Francisco renting Christmas trees
Dec 16 2005 5:25AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It might just take a Christmas miracle to deck out these spindly branches, and at $90 a tree they're anything but cheap. But like Charlie Brown's sad sapling, it's the thought behind them that shines through.
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Alaska outlines bridges' spending plan
Dec 16 2005 12:47AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska's governor outlined a plan Thursday to spend almost $200 million on two bridge projects, including one dubbed the "Bridge to Nowhere" that triggered sharp criticism across the nation.
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Schwarzenegger appointment rankles GOP
Dec 16 2005 12:05AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - State GOP leaders Thursday tried to snuff out the political firestorm that followed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's appointment of a Democratic activist, saying they are committed to his re-election next year.
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