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Wal-Mart confronted on 'happy holidays'
Dec 17 2005 11:21PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A group of religious protesters demonstrated outside a Wal-Mart superstore Saturday, hoping to turn away customers by calling attention to the retailer's decision to use "happy holidays" rather than "merry Christmas" in its seasonal advertising.
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Mom, four children die in Vt. house fire
Dec 17 2005 10:44PM (CT)
BARRE, Vt. (AP) - A family friend survived by jumping from a second-floor window as fire swept through a duplex early Saturday, killing a woman and four children and leaving her husband in critical condition.
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U.S. Muslims discuss combating extremism
Dec 17 2005 10:03PM (CT)
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Muslim leaders and activists from across the United States gathered Saturday to discuss their role in combating extremism within the Islamic community.
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Three children killed in Ark. house fire
Dec 17 2005 9:39PM (CT)
FOUNTAIN LAKE, Ark. (AP) - Fire broke out in a rural home early Saturday, killing three children while their father was out picking up their mother from work.
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Muckraking columnist Jack Anderson dies
Dec 17 2005 9:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83.
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Millionaire survives ambush, shooting
Dec 17 2005 8:59PM (CT)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A former MIT professor and multimillionaire businessman who has been praised for his riveting lectures but also known for his family disputes was ambushed outside his office and shot multiple times, authorities said Saturday.
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Architect of Holocaust museum Freed dies
Dec 17 2005 6:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Architect James Ingo Freed, a longtime partner of I.M. Pei and the lead designer of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, has died at the age of 75.
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Young Katrina survivors await Christmas
Dec 17 2005 4:53PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The first time Mary McCray's granddaughters saw snow, it was Christmas in New Orleans last year. Few of the flakes stuck but, to them, it was a miracle.
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Man to be charged in NYC sex attack
Dec 17 2005 4:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A former fashion writer wanted in connection with a vicious Halloween sex attack will be charged with kidnapping and other offenses once he can be brought back from Tennessee, where he was spotted on a college campus, prosecutors said Saturday.
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Flags from Kennedy convertible auctioned
Dec 17 2005 4:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Two flags that flew from the convertible President John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated in 1963 sold at auction Saturday for $450,000.
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NYC transit workers resume labor talks
Dec 17 2005 3:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Transit workers and the agency that runs the city's subways and buses returned to the bargaining table Saturday to try to hammer out a contract in time to avoid a strike at the height of the Christmas rush.
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Mormon leader to visit Smith's birthplace
Dec 17 2005 2:50PM (CT)
SHARON, Vt. (AP) - Television producers huddle with audiovisual technicians, a worker in the next room polishes a bronze statue and "Wet Paint" signs dangle almost everywhere.
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Florida base set to open school on IEDs
Dec 17 2005 1:31PM (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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Nickelodeon worker suspected of abuse
Dec 17 2005 10:39AM (CT)
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - A convicted sex offender who worked as a production assistant at Nickelodeon Animation Studios was arrested on suspicion of molesting a boy at the studio, police said.
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Segregation-era signs found in Arkansas
Dec 17 2005 6:29AM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Workers remodeling an old dime store uncovered a relic found most often in museums and history books: the words "WHITE" and "COLORED" painted over spots where water fountains once hung.
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Body found, bringing Katrina toll to 1,321
Dec 17 2005 6:22AM (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 17 2005 6:21AM (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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Teen accused of killing dad over grades
Dec 17 2005 6:20AM (CT)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy allegedly killed his father, then set their home on fire because he was afraid his father would find out he was failing some classes, prosecutors said.
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Calif. woman sentenced for hot oil attack
Dec 17 2005 4:47AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A woman who authorities say tried to disfigure her teenage sister by throwing boiling cooking oil on her was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
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Donated bookmobile bound for Miss. town
Dec 17 2005 4:07AM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - A 27-foot gift box on wheels filled with thousands of books is headed for a Mississippi town that lost its library during Hurricane Katrina.
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Writer suspended for taking story payments
Dec 17 2005 4:04AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Copley News Service is suspending syndicated columnist Doug Bandow while it investigates allegations he accepted payments from Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write positive stories about Abramoff's clients.
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Two WWII vets spearhead anti-Iraq campaign
Dec 17 2005 3:49AM (CT)
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) - In 1945, Jay Wenk was a shy Brooklyn boy full of patriotism fed by Life magazine and World War II movies. He signed up and was shipped off at age 18 to fight in Europe.
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Civil liberties become a casualty of war
Dec 17 2005 3:32AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Given a free hand after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush followed the uncertain footsteps of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John Adams and other past presidents who made civil liberties the first casualty of war.
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Man takes plea in transgender teen's death
Dec 17 2005 1:53AM (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. Juries had deadlocked in two previous murder trials.
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Bomb remark causes Calif. plane evacuation
Dec 17 2005 1:26AM (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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Savage convicted of witness intimidation
Dec 17 2005 1:21AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man prosecutors described as a brutal drug kingpin whose retaliation against witnesses threatened the core of the judicial system was convicted Friday of drug charges, money laundering and witness intimidation.
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