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J. Paul Getty Trust gets put on probation
Dec 21 2005 11:52PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's leading group of foundations and charitable organizations has placed the beleaguered J. Paul Getty Trust on probation for not handing over information needed for a review of the trust's financial practices.
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Court upholds fine against ex-Blake lawyer
Dec 21 2005 11:36PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An appeals court upheld an $18,950 fine against a former attorney for Robert Blake who called another lawyer a "clown" during a jailhouse deposition.
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Bodies of two Baltimore officers found
Dec 21 2005 11:24PM (CT)
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Two off-duty Baltimore police officers were shot to death at a suburban townhouse Wednesday, and another law enforcement officer turned himself in a short time later, authorities said.
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Divorced father appeals ban of girlfriend
Dec 21 2005 11:17PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A divorced father will fight a ruling that keeps his girlfriend away from their Michigan home when his children visit overnight, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
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Huge waves crash onto California coast
Dec 21 2005 11:08PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Huge waves pounded the Southern California coast Wednesday, forcing the rescue of struggling surfers, closing piers and causing minor flooding.
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NYC transit union hints at pension deal
Dec 21 2005 11:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Threatened with huge fines and possible jail time, the city's transit union suggested Wednesday that it would be willing to end a strike that has shut down bus and subway service for two days _ if a plan to change workers' pensions were dropped.
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NTSB finds beam cracked in crashed plane
Dec 21 2005 11:06PM (CT)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 1940s-era seaplane that lost a wing during takeoff and crashed within sight of the beach, killing all 20 people aboard, had undetected cracks in its airframe that apparently caused the aircraft to break up, federal investigators said Wednesday.
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Two New Orleans cops axed in taped assault
Dec 21 2005 11:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two officers were fired Wednesday for a beating in the French Quarter shortly after Hurricane Katrina that was photographed and videotaped by The Associated Press. A third officer was suspended.
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Shark attacks swimmer off Maui
Dec 21 2005 10:51PM (CT)
WAILEA, Hawaii (AP) - A man was bitten by a shark Wednesday while swimming off Maui, and lost part of his left hand, officials said.
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Charges may be dropped in Afghan case
Dec 21 2005 10:46PM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - Charges against the only officer accused in the Afghanistan prisoner abuse case should be dropped for lack of evidence and other reasons, an Army investigator wrote in a report made public Wednesday.
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Housing group alleges race discrimination
Dec 21 2005 10:43PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A fair-housing watchdog has accused five apartment complexes in Texas, Florida and Alabama of discriminating against Hurricane Katrina evacuees who are black.
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3 kids found dead in Idaho, man arrested
Dec 21 2005 10:40PM (CT)
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Police found the bodies of three young children in a home Wednesday and arrested a man who lived there with them, authorities said.
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Curfew to be lifted in New Orleans
Dec 21 2005 9:57PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the city's celebrated Bourbon Street bars and other businesses will be allowed starting this weekend to stay open all night.
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Suit says four drug companies bilked Mo.
Dec 21 2005 9:49PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The state sued four drug companies Wednesday for allegedly bilking Missouri out of $19 million over the past decade by inflating Medicaid prescription drug prices.
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Man charged with murder in jogger death
Dec 21 2005 9:48PM (CT)
DANIELSON, Conn. (AP) - A property caretaker was charged with murder Wednesday in the death of a jogger whose battered and bound body was found in a shed owned by the "Sesame Street" actor who plays Big Bird.
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Man accused in Fla. rapes escapes jail
Dec 21 2005 9:29PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A man accused of raping seven girls and women in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood escaped from jail by crawling through a ceiling vent and then climbing down from the roof using tied-together bed sheets, police said.
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Judge apologizes for court stationery use
Dec 21 2005 9:27PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A state judge who sued the Boston Herald for libel apologized Wednesday for using court stationery to demand $3.2 million from the newspaper's publisher to avoid continued court wrangling over the case.
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Annan lays out plans, lashes out at media
Dec 21 2005 8:51PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - After a tumultuous year for the world, for the United Nations and for himself, Kofi Annan said Wednesday that he wants to spend his final year as U.N. secretary-general fighting poverty and promoting peace and U.N. reform.
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Son of Miami police chief pleads guilty
Dec 21 2005 8:38PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The son of Miami's police chief on Wednesday admitted trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana from an undercover agent. The guilty plea in federal court by Sean Timoney, 25, could send him to prison for up to 40 years. His father is Miami police Chief John Timoney.
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Leaders decry Ohio mosque complex blasts
Dec 21 2005 8:35PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - The mayor, the Roman Catholic archbishop and a rabbi were among the religious and civic leaders who stood together Wednesday to denounce the bombing of an Islamic center.
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Two in Dallas accused of Katrina fraud
Dec 21 2005 8:31PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Two Dallas residents have been accused of separate schemes to impersonate hurricane evacuees and bilk the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of thousands of dollars, authorities said.
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Transit strike leaves NYC homeless in cold
Dec 21 2005 8:15PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a city crippled by a transit strike, Samuel Thenor hasn't worried about how to get to work. Instead, he wonders where he'll sleep. Thenor, 23, says he normally rides subways all night as "a stress reliever."
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Audit: $3.8M misspent by Calif. official
Dec 21 2005 8:09PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Former California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, who resigned under pressure in February, misspent or failed to document more than $3.8 million in federal election money, a federal audit released Wednesday says.
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Three federal executions planned in a week
Dec 21 2005 8:09PM (CT)
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Three men convicted of killing nine people in federal drug-related crimes in Virginia have been scheduled to be executed during the same week in May, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday.
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Mayor's 'thuggish' comment rankles some
Dec 21 2005 7:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The war of words over the transit strike took an ugly turn after Mayor Michael Bloomberg described union heads as "thuggish," a remark some said was racist in the context of a predominantly black union.
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Toussaint no stranger to extreme tactics
Dec 21 2005 7:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - When New York's transit workers chose Roger Toussaint as their president five years ago, they knew exactly who they were getting: Toussaint had been a leader of a highly militant faction within the union.
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Pa. trooper said slain with own gun
Dec 21 2005 6:53PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A state trooper killed earlier this month after an early morning highway chase was shot twice with his own weapon, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Man pleads guilty to robbing Kansas bank
Dec 21 2005 6:41PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to pulling off a bank robbery in which he stole $144,000, forced employees to strip to their underwear and took six hostages to the airport in a bid to commandeer a plane for his getaway.
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L.A. violinist, his father and son burned
Dec 21 2005 4:49PM (CT)
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A former violinist for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra was burned on his hands in a house fire that also critically injured his son and his father and destroyed a priceless violin, officials said.
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U. of Calif. wins Los Alamos lab contract
Dec 21 2005 4:34PM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Despite a string of security lapses and allegations of fraud and mismanagement, the University of California was awarded the government contract Wednesday to continue managing the Los Alamos laboratory that built the atom bomb.
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Media: Hurricane Katrina top story of 2005
Dec 21 2005 4:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The onslaught of Gulf Coast hurricanes, notably Katrina and the deadly flooding which devastated New Orleans, was overwhelmingly picked by U.S. editors and news directors as the top story of 2005 in The Associated Press' annual vote.
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N.C. boy accidentally shoots himself, dies
Dec 21 2005 3:45PM (CT)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the head, and two people were charged with manslaughter after he died early Wednesday at a hospital, police said.
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Art of 'regifting' requires planning
Dec 21 2005 3:22PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It was a cozy dinner party at our place for three couples, a perfect occasion to bring over a nice bottle of wine.
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L.A. police start fire to destroy dynamite
Dec 21 2005 3:19PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A cache of roughly 50 pounds of old, deteriorating dynamite was found in a warehouse following a standoff, and authorities burned down the storage unit containing the explosives after determining they were too dangerous to move.
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Two accused in N.M. Wal-Mart shooting
Dec 21 2005 1:25PM (CT)
DEMING, N.M. (AP) - Two brothers who allegedly went to a Wal-Mart to steal were charged in a shooting at the crowded store that seriously wounded two bystanders.
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Columbus mayor's wife gets 3 days in jail
Dec 21 2005 1:09PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The wife of Mayor Michael Coleman pleaded guilty Wednesday to being drunk when she ran into a parked pickup truck with her car in October, and a judge sentenced her to three days in jail.
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Tourists stranded amid NYC transit strike
Dec 21 2005 11:45AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Bedecked in purple Santa hats as they trekked through the neon glow of Times Square, Lorraine Hall and her family decided they weren't going to let a transit strike stop them.
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Small jet lands safely in St. Louis
Dec 21 2005 11:37AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A corporate jet carrying at least seven people landed safely Wednesday in St. Louis after after developing a landing gear problem.
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Mercedes-Benz recalls C-Class vehicles
Dec 21 2005 11:35AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mercedes-Benz USA LLC said Wednesday it would recall 61,000 models of C-Class sport sedans because of irregularities involving the driver's side air bag discovered during government testing.
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Experts say Katrina hit as a weaker storm
Dec 21 2005 10:22AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Researchers say Hurricane Katrina was a weaker storm than first thought when it slammed the Gulf Coast, with the strength of a Category 3 storm instead of a Category 4.
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Two explosions reported at Ohio mosque
Dec 21 2005 9:59AM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Two explosions caused minor exterior damage at a mosque complex about two hours after evening prayers, and federal agents joined the investigation.
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Court overturns schizophrenic's conviction
Dec 21 2005 8:26AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state's highest court has overturned the conviction of a schizophrenic who pushed a woman into a subway train in a 1999 murder that led to a state law allowing for the court-ordered treatment of mentally ill patients.
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Court OKs payments in hepatitis case
Dec 21 2005 4:40AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Nearly 5,000 people who got inoculations to ward off hepatitis will be each mailed checks for $162.23 next month from the bankrupt restaurant chain tied to a food-poisoning outbreak two years ago.
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Smugglers selling sick puppies from Mexico
Dec 21 2005 3:26AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Smugglers are buying puppies at rock-bottom prices in Mexico and selling them in the United States for up to $1,000, often to owners who later discover the canines are too sick or too young to survive on their own, authorities said.
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Holiday cheer in short supply for refugees
Dec 21 2005 3:24AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - No lights ring the rooftop. No Christmas tree beckons holiday well-wishers through the living room window. No wreath adorns the front door.
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Reservist home for Christmas slain in N.C.
Dec 21 2005 3:21AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Home for Christmas after nearly a year in the Middle East, Navy Reservist Paul Berkley was making up for lost time with his family.
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Rep. Murtha wants troops brought home
Dec 21 2005 2:11AM (CT)
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The John Murtha who came home from Vietnam as a Marine hero deeply impressed Bob Krug, a Korean War-era vet.
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Ex-prosecutor convicted in 2004 shooting
Dec 21 2005 12:29AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A jury on Tuesday convicted a lawyer of attempted murder in a 2004 shooting that left a rival attorney in a nursing home, unable to speak.
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Two firefighters accused of dumping gas
Dec 21 2005 12:26AM (CT)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Two firefighters poured gasoline down a firehouse drain, leading to an explosion a few blocks away that badly burned two people, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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About 104,000 Aspen 3-in-1 cribs recalled
Dec 21 2005 12:11AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 104,000 Aspen 3-in-1 cribs have been recalled due to the suffocation hazard the wooden cribs' mattresses pose to young children.
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