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Assistant principal kills 2, himself
Dec 24 2006 11:48PM (CT)
BLACKMAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A school administrator shot to death his ex-wife's boyfriend and another man, and wounded a third person before turning the gun on himself, police said Sunday.
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Schwarzenegger breaks leg, needs surgery
Dec 24 2006 10:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was recuperating in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Sunday, a day after he broke his leg while skiing there.
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Schwarzenegger on mend in Sun Valley
Dec 24 2006 10:45PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was recuperating in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Sunday, a day after he broke his leg while skiing there.
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1 dead in shooting at crowded Fla. mall
Dec 24 2006 10:42PM (CT)
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A gunman fatally shot a man in a fight at a crowded mall on Sunday, then sent hundreds of Christmas shoppers running for cover as he fired at police chasing him, authorities said.
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James Brown hospitalized with pneumonia
Dec 24 2006 10:41PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - James Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia on Sunday, but he hopes to be able to perform again next weekend, his agent said.
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Flights leave Denver nearly on schedule
Dec 24 2006 10:13PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Hundreds of flights left Denver's beleaguered airport on Christmas Eve with many passengers who had been stranded when a two-day blizzard shut down the runways last week.
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Gunman wounds 2 officers, kills himself
Dec 24 2006 9:39PM (CT)
AMBOY, Minn. (AP) - A gunman wounded two police officers during a nearly 8-hour standoff at his home early Sunday, then killed himself when police tossed tear gas into the house, authorities said.
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A college builds a town from scratch
Dec 24 2006 8:42PM (CT)
STORRS, Conn. (AP) - The University of Connecticut's main campus boasts a string of new buildings, thanks to a multibillion-dollar infusion of state cash. The student body is growing. And there are two powerhouse basketball teams that bring big-time sports to a rural corner of the state.
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Man speaks out after Sept. 11 acquittal
Dec 24 2006 8:42PM (CT)
LA MESA, Calif. (AP) - Ten days after jets destroyed the World Trade Center and struck the Pentagon, Osama Awadallah was detained by FBI agents.
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Post offices catch up after snowstorm
Dec 24 2006 8:09PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - An army of 1,500 mail carriers fanned out across Colorado and Wyoming on Christmas Eve, making rare Sunday deliveries in a bid to get hundreds of thousands of blizzard-delayed packages to their destinations on time.
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Hospital clowns boost sick kids' spirits
Dec 24 2006 7:47PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Stephen Ringold is a clown facing a tough audience _ a sick child in a hospital room who needs holiday cheer. For a few minutes, Stephany Nieto sits on her mother's lap, suspiciously eyeing the tall man with the red-and-white checkered shoes half-hiding behind the curtain. Smiling doesn't come easily to the little girl, who her mother says is being examined for a serious illness called moyamoya, an rare inflammation of the brain arteries that can cause seizures and paralysis.
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Toddler stabbed, 9-year-old suspected
Dec 24 2006 5:46PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - A 2-year-old girl left with a dozen other children in a home without adult supervision was stabbed to death, and police suspect a 9-year-old boy was responsible.
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Airport delays X-ray scanner testing
Dec 24 2006 2:49PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - A test of an X-ray security scanner that can see through clothing, even taking clear pictures of the human body along with concealed weapons, has been delayed until early this coming year at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
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Tiny Texas beer haven wasting away
Dec 24 2006 2:28PM (CT)
MUSTANG, Texas (AP) - It's not much to look at: two dusty streets, a strip club, a boarded-up country western bar, one trash bin, and a dilapidated trailer park where the entire population lives.
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Report: Health care suffers at LA jails
Dec 24 2006 1:45PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The deaths of at least 14 inmates since 1999 in the nation's largest county jail system came after treatment errors and other breakdowns in their medical care, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Wiccan lawsuit's goal: Acceptance
Dec 24 2006 7:06AM (CT)
BARNEVELD, Wis. (AP) - With an estimated 400,000 members nationwide, and a high-profile fight with the federal government over veterans' grave markers, Wiccans are moving into a more prominent place in the religious landscape.
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Wiccan lawsuit's goal: Acceptance
Dec 24 2006 7:06AM (CT)
BARNEVELD, Wis. (AP) - With an estimated 400,000 members nationwide, and a high-profile fight with the federal government over veterans' grave markers, Wiccans are moving into a more prominent place in the religious landscape.
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Wiccan lawsuit's goal: Acceptance
Dec 24 2006 7:06AM (CT)
BARNEVELD, Wis. (AP) - With an estimated 400,000 members nationwide, and a high-profile fight with the federal government over veterans' grave markers, Wiccans are moving into a more prominent place in the religious landscape.
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Christmas tree stands sell out in N.O.
Dec 24 2006 6:11AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Clement's Hardware always ended the Christmas season with a few unsold tree stands. But that was before Hurricane Katrina.
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Storm cuts power to thousands in Wis.
Dec 24 2006 5:09AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A winter storm dumped 7 inches of wet, heavy snow on central Wisconsin, leaving thousands of people without electricity and disrupting holiday preparations.
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NYC disc jockey shot 13 times dies
Dec 24 2006 4:18AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A popular hip-hop disc jockey died Saturday after being shot at least 13 times earlier this month, police said.
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Phoenix slayings informant speaks out
Dec 24 2006 3:02AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - As the city shuttered itself in fear of serial killers this summer, Ron Horton found himself having an odd conversation with an old drinking buddy. "Let me ask you something," Horton remembers his friend, Samuel John Dieteman, sliding over to tell him between beers in June. "Do you know what it's like to kill a man?"
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JonBenet: 10 years, no end to mystery
Dec 24 2006 2:57AM (CT)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A decade after the Christmastime slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, two aspects of the case endure: the public's fascination with the murder of the 6-year-old beauty contestant, and a sense for some that the notorious crime may never be solved.
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Ex-paratrooper finishes AWOL sentence
Dec 24 2006 1:03AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A former paratrooper who admitted abandoning his post because he disagreed with the U.S. mission in Iraq was freed from a military prison Saturday, stopping in Raleigh to greet supporters before he headed home to Washington state.
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