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Former President Ford dies
Dec 26 2006 11:59PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.
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Patriarch pleads no contest to incest
Dec 26 2006 11:36PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A self-styled religious patriarch known as "Papa Pilgrim" pleaded no contest Tuesday to felony charges including incest.
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Blair's plane overshoots Miami runway
Dec 26 2006 11:33PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A commercial jet carrying British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family slightly overshot a runway at the Miami International Airport on Tuesday, but the plane was not damaged and no injuries were reported, officials said.
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Blair's plane overshoots Miami runway
Dec 26 2006 11:33PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A commercial jet carrying British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family slightly overshot a runway at the Miami International Airport on Tuesday, but the plane was not damaged and no injuries were reported, officials said.
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Lost luggage found in Houston trash bin
Dec 26 2006 11:21PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Authorities were trying to figure out Tuesday how dozens of pieces of luggage belonging to air travelers ended up in a trash bin behind a Houston pet store.
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U.S. Iraq war toll passes that of 9/11
Dec 26 2006 11:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a span of a few hours, 2,973 people were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In a span of 45 months, the number of American troops killed in Iraq has exceeded that grim toll.
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Rapist preys on men in suburban Houston
Dec 26 2006 10:14PM (CT)
BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) - A rapist who has struck at least five times since April in and around Baytown has not only spread fear in this working-class community but also piqued the interest of those who study the criminal mind. The reason: He preys on other men.
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Police find 3 bodies in Ark. apartment
Dec 26 2006 10:13PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A man suspected of killing his girlfriend and her two children, and then spending the next four days in their Fort Smith apartment with their bodies was arrested Tuesday, police said.
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Cleanup begins after 4 Florida tornadoes
Dec 26 2006 10:12PM (CT)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Four Christmas Day tornadoes damaged hundreds of Florida homes, with one flipping airplanes at a flight school and tearing the roofs off three apartment buildings, officials confirmed Tuesday.
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Killer's ashes ordered out of cemetery
Dec 26 2006 8:20PM (CT)
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - The cremated remains of a convicted murderer must be removed from Arlington National Cemetery under a new federal law.
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Civil rights groups sue over rent law
Dec 26 2006 7:18PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new law in a Dallas suburb that outlaws renting apartments to illegal immigrants, alleging the ordinance violates federal law and forces landlords to act as immigration officers.
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Anti-abortion AG to argue for charges
Dec 26 2006 7:03PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A judge agreed Tuesday to let Kansas' attorney general, a vocal abortion opponent, try to persuade him to reinstate charges against a well-known abortion provider.
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Family of 13 rescued in L.A. house fire
Dec 26 2006 6:33PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Firefighters broke down the doors of a burning house Tuesday where a family of 13 was trapped by the flames and deadbolt locks.
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Convicted lawmaker wants felons to vote
Dec 26 2006 5:39PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A bill that would automatically return voting rights to felons after they complete their sentences has been introduced by a Florida legislator who is still in office even though he is a convicted felon.
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Texas city tests religion law
Dec 26 2006 5:12PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - When a pastor created a rehabilitation program for parolees near his church, the city of Sinton stepped in to stop it.
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Schwarzenegger has surgery on broken leg
Dec 26 2006 4:11PM (CT)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's broken leg was put back together with wires and screws Tuesday, and the "Terminator" star should make a full recovery, though he will probably be on crutches during his inauguration next week, officials aid.
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Idaho offers fenced-in elk hunting
Dec 26 2006 2:42PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - When John Martone spotted the huge bull elk on a forested slope, he knew he was looking at an awesome trophy.
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2 die from wounds in K.C. club shooting
Dec 26 2006 2:02PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A gunman shot eight people outside a Kansas City nightclub over the weekend, and two have since died from their injuries, police said Tuesday.
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Oil pipeline ruptures off Texas coast
Dec 26 2006 12:44PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Workers Tuesday were trying to contain an oil spill that dumped 21,000 gallons into the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured.
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Transformer malfunction rattles Colorado
Dec 26 2006 12:04PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Loud noises from a malfunctioning electrical switch rattled the foothills west of Denver early Tuesday near an old uranium mine, authorities said.
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No bail for 2 in Florida mall killing
Dec 26 2006 11:52AM (CT)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Two men charged in a deadly Christmas Eve mall shooting were ordered held without bail Tuesday as police tried to determine the motive in the killing that set off panic among holiday shoppers.
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Plane's engine catches fire in Florida
Dec 26 2006 11:44AM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Flames shot from an airliner's engine Tuesday as the plane was taxiing to a runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, officials said. None of the 138 people on the Airbus A320 was injured, said airport spokesman Steve Belleme.
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Brown's partner denied access to home
Dec 26 2006 10:18AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - James Brown's lawyer said Tuesday that the late singer and his partner were not legally married and that she was locked out of his South Carolina home for estate legal reasons.
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James Brown remembered around the world
Dec 26 2006 9:08AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - "Godfather of Soul" James Brown remained the hardest-working man in show business to the end, telling friends from his hospital bed that he'd be in Times Square on New Year's Eve, even though he had pneumonia. His heart gave out a few hours later, on Christmas morning.
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Katrina evacuee welcomes wrong numbers
Dec 26 2006 6:01AM (CT)
LUMBERTON, Texas (AP) - Wrong-number calls typically elicit a perfunctory, if mildly annoyed, correction to the caller followed quickly by a click.
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Personalized bobbleheads getting a nod
Dec 26 2006 5:08AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Ralph Trumbo is neither an athlete nor a celebrity. Nevertheless, he has a bobblehead likeness of himself sitting on his mantle.
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Parents of slain GIs travel to Iraq
Dec 26 2006 4:51AM (CT)
LYERLY, Ga. (AP) - After her son Justin was killed serving in Iraq, a grieving Jan Johnson resolved to see the place where he died and to better understand why it happened.
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Sharpton loses mentor in soul man Brown
Dec 26 2006 4:12AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton remembers spotting his mentor, James Brown, for the first time backstage just before an early 1970s concert.
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L.A. magnet school meetings have a twist
Dec 26 2006 3:56AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the cutthroat competition to get their kids into a public magnet school, some parents are turning to support groups and a stiff drink to help them through the process.
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L.A. magnet school meetings have a twist
Dec 26 2006 3:56AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the cutthroat competition to get their kids into a public magnet school, some parents are turning to support groups and a stiff drink to help them through the process.
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L.A. magnet school meetings have a twist
Dec 26 2006 3:56AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the cutthroat competition to get their kids into a public magnet school, some parents are turning to support groups and a stiff drink to help them through the process.
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L.A. magnet school meetings have a twist
Dec 26 2006 3:56AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the cutthroat competition to get their kids into a public magnet school, some parents are turning to support groups and a stiff drink to help them through the process.
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L.A. magnet school meetings have a twist
Dec 26 2006 3:56AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In the cutthroat competition to get their kids into a public magnet school, some parents are turning to support groups and a stiff drink to help them through the process.
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3 people found dead in Pennsylvania home
Dec 26 2006 1:58AM (CT)
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) - A man fatally shot his live-in girlfriend and her teenage son before he killed himself on Christmas Day, police said.
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Schwarzenegger returns for surgery
Dec 26 2006 1:41AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the state Christmas Day for surgery after breaking his leg in an Idaho skiing accident, his spokeswoman said.
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Violent storms hit Florida on Christmas
Dec 26 2006 12:16AM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Powerful storms damaged at least three dozen homes and injured some of their residents as heavy rain, strong wind and possible tornadoes swept across the Southeast on Monday.
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