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Freelance writer agrees to extradition
Dec 19 2005 11:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A magazine writer accused of breaking into a woman's apartment on Halloween while disguised as a firefighter and sexually abusing her for hours was returned from Tennessee on Monday night to face criminal charges in the attack.
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20 said killed in plane crash off Miami
Dec 19 2005 11:54PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A seaplane crashed just off Miami Beach within sight of the city's high-rises Monday, killing all 20 people aboard. Witnesses said the aircraft exploded in flames as it came down, and the FBI joined the investigation.
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Hopes dim for deal in NYC transit talks
Dec 19 2005 11:43PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Amid another nerve-wracking countdown to a threatened transit strike, hopes dimmed late Monday that negotiators would reach a deal to avert a crippling shutdown of the city's subway and bus system.
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Texas priest accused of groping teen
Dec 19 2005 11:11PM (CT)
MARBLE FALLS, Texas (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest accused of groping a 16-year-old boy at a movie theater during a showing of "King Kong" has been charged with indecency with a child by sexual contact.
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150 pounds of explosives missing in N.M.
Dec 19 2005 11:09PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - About 150 pounds of commercial plastic explosives has disappeared from a private storage site, along with 2,500 blasting caps and 20,000 feet of explosive detonation cord, authorities said Monday.
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Explosion in Minn. hurts seven firefighters
Dec 19 2005 11:03PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - An explosion rocked a building whose occupants had complained Monday of an odor of natural gas. One firefighter was blown off a ladder and two others were briefly buried in rubble.
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U of Calif. to audit compensation packages
Dec 19 2005 10:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facing criticism for spending millions in bonuses and stipends for highly paid employees while students faced fee hikes, officials at the University of California said Monday an outside auditor would review compensation and departure packages for senior executives.
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Group appeals NYC subway search decision
Dec 19 2005 10:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights group on Monday appealed a judge's decision allowing random police searches of riders' bags in subways to deter terrorism.
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Colo. judge resentences convicted killer
Dec 19 2005 10:26PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A man convicted in the slaying of a cocktail waitress was resentenced to life in prison Monday, nearly nine months after his death sentence was overturned because a juror consulted the Bible during deliberations.
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Calif. to end inmate racial segregation
Dec 19 2005 9:47PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Ending a long-standing practice, California prison officials have agreed to stop using race as a principal criterion in segregating inmates.
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Author of fire stories sentenced for arson
Dec 19 2005 9:24PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A former firefighter and author of books about historic Chicago blazes was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for setting a fire to a storage building at a church.
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Volunteers clear out New Orleans synagogue
Dec 19 2005 9:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Standing on moldy and debris-covered floors, college students cleaning up a Jewish temple paused Monday for a prayer service _ the first at Beth Israel Synagogue since Hurricane Katrina flooded it with more than 10 feet of water three months ago.
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Dozens of surfers witness crash off Miami
Dec 19 2005 9:17PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Vincent Dilella looked up when he heard a strange sound from the sky, knowing almost immediately that something was horribly wrong.
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Hundreds pay respects to Tookie Williams
Dec 19 2005 9:09PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hundreds of people converged Monday on the South Los Angeles neighborhood where Stanley Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips to say goodbye to a "homeboy" executed last week over the objections of supporters who said he had turned his life around.
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IBM exec testifies in Ill. corruption trial
Dec 19 2005 9:05PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - IBM's sales force could not get anyone in the Illinois secretary of state's office to return its calls until it hired a close friend of George Ryan's as a lobbyist, a sales executive for the computer giant testified Monday at the former governor's corruption trial.
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Schwarzenegger to hometown: Remove my name
Dec 19 2005 9:05PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday told officials in his hometown in Austria to remove his name from a sports stadium and stop using his identity to promote the city.
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Mayors release hunger, homelessness survey
Dec 19 2005 8:43PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Americans needed more emergency food and shelter last year than the year before, according to a 24-city survey released Monday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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Maine ballot initiative on water tax fails
Dec 19 2005 8:05PM (CT)
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - An initiative aimed at taxing spring water _ a first-in-the-nation proposal that rankled Maine bottler Poland Spring _ fell short Monday of attracting enough valid signatures to be placed on the ballot.
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Once-lost lottery ticket finally pays off
Dec 19 2005 7:50PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A man who lost a winning lottery ticket and recovered it five days later got a $25,000 check from the Texas Lottery on Monday, just in time for some last-minute Christmas shopping.
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Yates to leave prison for mental hospital
Dec 19 2005 7:49PM (CT)
RUSK, Texas (AP) - Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children in the family's bathtub, will soon move from an East Texas prison to a state mental hospital as she awaits a new capital murder trial.
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Dec 19 2005 7:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers, feigning mental illness, died Monday in prison. He was 77.
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Sierra Nevada range gets 3 feet of snow
Dec 19 2005 7:41PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The strongest storm of the season so far in the Sierra Nevada dropped as much as 3 feet of snow, snarling travel through the mountain range but improving ski resort conditions.
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Chalk's has long, safe history of flights
Dec 19 2005 6:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Chalk's Ocean Airways has a long, colorful history of flying seaplanes from Florida to the Bahamas with passengers ranging from Ernest Hemingway to Al Capone.
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Man accused of aiming laser at news copter
Dec 19 2005 6:02PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Authorities on Monday arrested a man and accused him of shining a laser pointer into the cockpit of a hovering news helicopter, temporarily blinding the pilot.
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Small fire empties Radio City during show
Dec 19 2005 5:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A small fire broke out in Radio City Music Hall Monday during a performance of its "Christmas Spectacular," sending thousands of audience members into the street, along with the Rockettes, camels and Santa Claus.
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13 Louisiana fugitives captured in Texas
Dec 19 2005 5:16PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Thirteen fugitives wanted for violent crimes in Louisiana have been captured in Texas after applying for federal aid as refugees from Hurricane Katrina, authorities said Monday.
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Iraq expats narrowly favor Christian slate
Dec 19 2005 4:52PM (CT)
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Iraqi expatriates, some traveling hundreds of miles to participate in their war-torn homeland's national elections, cast the most ballots for a slate of Assyrian and Chaldean Christians in a second round of U.S.-based voting.
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Laci Peterson's mom to get life insurance
Dec 19 2005 2:36PM (CT)
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - Laci Peterson's mother was awarded the proceeds from her slain daughter's life insurance policy after a lengthy court dispute with son-in-law Scott Peterson, the convicted killer.
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Iraqi child undergoes heart surgery in N.Y.
Dec 19 2005 2:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An 11-year-old boy from Iraq underwent heart surgery Monday in New York, the first of four ailing children who will be treated this week after their families sought help from the U.S. military.
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Judge rules Fla. teen killer competent
Dec 19 2005 1:56PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Convicted child killer Lionel Tate is competent to face a hearing that could send him back to prison, a judge ruled Monday after experts testified the teen faked mental illness.
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Free tuition changes students' plans
Dec 19 2005 1:53PM (CT)
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Alex Plair had planned to go away to Georgia Tech and try out for the Yellow Jackets football team after graduating from Kalamazoo Central High School.
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Vigilante anti-immigration group gaining
Dec 19 2005 1:51PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Minuteman Project was launched earlier this year amid fears that racist crackpots would rough up illegal immigrants trying to slip into this country.
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FBI says Murder rate up, crime declines
Dec 19 2005 11:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's murder rate jumped 2 percent during the first six months of this year, with the highest increases in small towns and the Midwest, the FBI said Monday. Crime fell nationwide for other significant offenses, including rape, arson and assault.
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Report calls 1898 N.C. riot an insurrection
Dec 19 2005 11:01AM (CT)
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Violence in 1898 that resulted in the only known forceful overthrow of a city government in U.S. history has historically been called a race riot but actually was an insurrection that white supremacists had planned for months, a state commission concludes.
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Texas suspect confesses to 1988 killing
Dec 19 2005 10:36AM (CT)
ORCHARD, Texas (AP) - A man suspected in the death of his 12-year-old stepdaughter confessed to killing a cousin and throwing his body into the same river where the girl was found, authorities said.
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More NYC transit negotiations planned
Dec 19 2005 9:33AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Commuters who depend on two private bus lines were forced to find their own transportation after drivers walked off the job early Monday, a predicament that could soon paralyze the entire city if the transit strike widens.
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Alaskans await passing of winter solstice
Dec 19 2005 7:52AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Lloyd Leavitt shrugs off the subzero freeze that blankets the Arctic town of Barrow each winter. It's the weeks of endless night that get to him, filling him with insatiable cravings for carbohydrates and sleep and natural light.
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NYC schools use paint to engage students
Dec 19 2005 4:42AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A project to spruce up dreary hallways at inner city schools is based on a simple idea: Bright walls make for brighter students. Publicolor, a program in which students are permitted to paint over the industrial shades of their schools' interiors, is credited by school officials with lowering dropout rates, decreasing discipline problems and increasing attendance.
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Maine surfers produce wooden surfboards
Dec 19 2005 3:41AM (CT)
YORK, Maine (AP) - When the surf's up, you can find Mike LaVecchia and Rich Blundell carving the waves at York Beach, even in winter. Their surfboards, however, are nothing like the fiberglass-over-foam boards common at beaches around the country. They made wood boards for themselves that look like hand-crafted furniture with their smooth lines, wood grain and glossy finish.
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One killed, 2 missing in Fla. plane crash
Dec 19 2005 12:38AM (CT)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - A small plane crashed off the Florida coast Sunday leaving at least one person dead, and the Coast Guard was searching for two missing passengers, authorities said.
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