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2 arrested in deaths of 6 in rural Wash.
Dec 26 2007 11:29PM (CT)
CARNATION, Wash. (AP) - Six people, likely three generations of a family, were found dead Wednesday at a rural property east of Seattle, and a law enforcement official said police arrested the property owner's daughter and her boyfriend.
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2 arrested in deaths of 6 in rural Wash.
Dec 26 2007 11:29PM (CT)
CARNATION, Wash. (AP) - Six people, likely three generations of a family, were found dead Wednesday at a rural property east of Seattle, and a law enforcement official said police arrested the property owner's daughter and her boyfriend.
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Alaska governor shows fearlessness
Dec 26 2007 11:24PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - In her first year as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has plunged ahead with the fearlessness of a polar explorer.
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Alaska governor shows fearlessness
Dec 26 2007 11:24PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - In her first year as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has plunged ahead with the fearlessness of a polar explorer.
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Alaska governor shows fearlessness
Dec 26 2007 11:24PM (CT)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - In her first year as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has plunged ahead with the fearlessness of a polar explorer.
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Gun seized after Katrina? NRA wants you
Dec 26 2007 11:23PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National Rifle Association has hired private investigators to find hundreds of people whose firearms were seized by city police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers filed this week.
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F-15 grounding strains U.S. air defenses
Dec 26 2007 11:21PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The grounding of hundreds of F-15s because of dangerous structural defects is straining the nation's air defense network, forcing some states to rely on their neighbors' fighter jets for protection, and Alaska to depend on the Canadian military.
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F-15 grounding strains U.S. air defenses
Dec 26 2007 11:21PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The grounding of hundreds of F-15s because of dangerous structural defects is straining the nation's air defense network, forcing some states to rely on their neighbors' fighter jets for protection, and Alaska to depend on the Canadian military.
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Human role not ruled out in tiger attack
Dec 26 2007 11:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.
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Human role not ruled out in tiger attack
Dec 26 2007 11:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.
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Human role not ruled out in tiger attack
Dec 26 2007 11:08PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.
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Neb. gunman had previous suicide attempt
Dec 26 2007 10:38PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The teen gunman who fatally shot eight people in a mall earlier this month tried to kill himself by swallowing about 30 pills nearly two years earlier, according to court records released Wednesday.
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3 plead not guilty in bus stop shooting
Dec 26 2007 9:43PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Additional felony charges were filed Wednesday against three co-defendants who pleaded not guilty in a school bus stop shooting that wounded six people, authorities said.
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CHP officer charged with cocaine theft
Dec 26 2007 9:40PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A California Highway Patrol officer was charged Wednesday with stealing more than $1 million worth of cocaine that was in his agency's custody.
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United cancels flights for third day
Dec 26 2007 9:39PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - United Airlines canceled flights for a third consecutive day Wednesday as it struggled to recover from a weekend winter storm during one of the more crucial travel periods of the year.
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New Jersey targets HIV transmissions
Dec 26 2007 8:55PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - HIV testing will soon become part of routine prenatal care and be required for some newborns in New Jersey under a new law that supporters say is putting the state in the forefront of the national fight against HIV transmission to babies.
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Fire guts small Ky. county courthouse
Dec 26 2007 8:06PM (CT)
BARDWELL, Ky. (AP) - An early morning fire gutted a small courthouse in far western Kentucky on Wednesday, a county official said.
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Lawyers: Judge put pressure on NY jury
Dec 26 2007 8:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge's decision to keep a stymied jury deliberating for 12 hours just days before Christmas could be grounds to overturn a manslaughter verdict against a black man convicted of shooting a white teen, criminal defense lawyers said Wednesday.
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Divers search Chicago river for woman
Dec 26 2007 6:37PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Fire department divers searched a river Wednesday for a woman who authorities say may have fallen in while placing a Hindu religious statue in the water to ward off bad luck.
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Police in Houston search for student
Dec 26 2007 3:39PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A straight-A computer science major at Rice University has been missing for nearly two weeks, but police said Wednesday they have few clues to go on.
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School official works to stop misconduct
Dec 26 2007 2:29PM (CT)
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - Arthur Brokop, a young substitute teacher, shut the windowless door of the first-grade classroom he'd been called in to oversee.
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Strangers flood storm victim with gifts
Dec 26 2007 1:49PM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The kindness of strangers across the country saved Christmas for Beverly Smith's children after the deadly ice storm that cut off electricity for them and thousands of other people.
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Judge orders Louis Farrakhan to appear
Dec 26 2007 1:12PM (CT)
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan to appear in court to explain why payments to his son are not considered income.
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Fog at Detroit causes airline delays
Dec 26 2007 10:34AM (CT)
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - Travelers heading home on the morning after Christmas faced delays as some flights heading to Detroit were held at their originating airports because of fog.
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Feds ready census packet for farmers
Dec 26 2007 10:32AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Just as the crush of Christmas cards and holiday packages in the mail dwindles, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is gearing up to send census forms to millions of farmers and ranchers nationwide.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Midwest gets white and stormy Christmas
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Boston's $14.8B Big Dig finally complete
Dec 26 2007 10:19AM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Ohio celebrates its historical markers
Dec 26 2007 5:08AM (CT)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - They tell about the Wright brothers and the Ohio-Erie Canal _ and also about the Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society, the death of Pretty Boy Floyd and the Cholera Cemetery.
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N.J. governor hopeful for ethics reform
Dec 26 2007 4:49AM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Gov. Jon S. Corzine took office in January 2006 calling for "a historic effort to end the toxic mix of politics, money and public business at every level of New Jersey government."
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7-year-old Texas girl dies on new bike
Dec 26 2007 3:49AM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A 7-year-old girl was struck and killed by a pickup truck while riding her new bicycle in front of her home on Christmas morning, police and family members said.
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New agency tackling Puget Sound cleanup
Dec 26 2007 3:32AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Mindy Roberts watches as two scientists draw water samples into a long, clear tube while a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound.
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New agency tackling Puget Sound cleanup
Dec 26 2007 3:32AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Mindy Roberts watches as two scientists draw water samples into a long, clear tube while a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound.
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New agency tackling Puget Sound cleanup
Dec 26 2007 3:32AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Mindy Roberts watches as two scientists draw water samples into a long, clear tube while a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound.
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New agency tackling Puget Sound cleanup
Dec 26 2007 3:32AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Mindy Roberts watches as two scientists draw water samples into a long, clear tube while a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound.
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New agency tackling Puget Sound cleanup
Dec 26 2007 3:32AM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Mindy Roberts watches as two scientists draw water samples into a long, clear tube while a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound.
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