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Jet with fuselage hole lands in Seattle
Dec 27 2005 11:42PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A 12-inch hole in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines jet caused the plane to lose cabin pressure, forcing the pilots to make an emergency descent and return to the airport, authorities said Tuesday.
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New York transit union OKs tentative deal
Dec 27 2005 11:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The executive board for the city's transit workers union approved a tentative new contract late Tuesday, five days after it ended a paralyzing bus and subway strike that stranded millions of commuters.
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Group: Police justified in La. shooting
Dec 27 2005 11:19PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The officers who gunned down a knife-wielding man appeared to be justified in using lethal force, but the death will be perceived as a black mark on the beleaguered police department, the head of a watchdog group said Tuesday.
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Grass fires char homes in Oklahoma, Texas
Dec 27 2005 11:18PM (CT)
MUSTANG, Okla. (AP) - Fires fueled by dry brush and driven by gusty wind damaged several homes in Oklahoma and Texas on Tuesday. Several firefighters and residents suffered minor injuries, authorities said.
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Police seek 15 in Milwaukee driver beating
Dec 27 2005 11:11PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - At least 15 young people dragged a motorist out of his car and kicked and punched him after he honked his horn to get them to move out of the street, police said.
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Tip leads to recapture of Fla. rape suspect
Dec 27 2005 10:30PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A suspected serial rapist who escaped from jail told another inmate he planned to kill a prosecutor in his case and flee to his native Honduras, authorities said Tuesday.
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Judge throws out death sentence for inmate
Dec 27 2005 10:30PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal judge Tuesday threw out the death sentence of an inmate convicted of strangling his cellmate nearly a decade ago.
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Exec. to oversee building of 9/11 memorial
Dec 27 2005 10:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An executive who played a major role in repairing the World Trade Center after it was bombed in 1993 was appointed Tuesday to oversee construction of the memorial to the Sept. 11 victims.
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Aunt charged in W.Va. child's death
Dec 27 2005 10:29PM (CT)
WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) - A woman who told police her 2-year-old autistic nephew was abducted has been accused of causing his death by failing to get him medical help and then dumping his body in the Ohio River.
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'Sausage king' dies on Calif. death row
Dec 27 2005 10:27PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Self-proclaimed "sausage king" Stuart Alexander died Tuesday at San Quentin Prison while on death row for killing three meat inspectors.
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N.Y. hospitals to get radiation devices
Dec 27 2005 10:19PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city health department plans to spend nearly $1.4 million equipping hospitals with radiation detection devices that might become essential if terrorists detonated a "dirty bomb."
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Man jailed in Hawaiian artifacts case
Dec 27 2005 10:05PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A federal judge Tuesday found four leaders of a Hawaiian group in contempt of court for refusing to disclose where they buried native Hawaiian artifacts borrowed from a museum.
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Four Iraqi children leave N.Y. hospital
Dec 27 2005 8:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Four Iraqi children with life-threatening heart defects left a Bronx hospital Tuesday after successfully undergoing open heart surgery.
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Chicago museum exhibit looks at tsunami
Dec 27 2005 7:27PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The photo depicts a crowd of new boats pulled up to shore, their brilliant blue and red paint jobs shiny in the sun. But on land, last year's tsunami's devastation is still evident _ a coastline devoid of trees, a shack in the background that is falling apart.
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Prof honored for solving old math problem
Dec 27 2005 7:22PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia is being recognized for solving a math problem that had stumped his peers for more than 40 years.
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Pa. high court to weigh government raises
Dec 27 2005 3:45PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to consider whether a pay raise for hundreds of state officials that was passed last summer _ and repealed last month after a public outcry _ was constitutional.
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Man accused of killing wife, her boyfriend
Dec 27 2005 2:57PM (CT)
JEFFERSON, Ohio (AP) - A man was accused of killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend in front of two of their children on Christmas Day, then kidnapping his 4-year-old son.
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Old Harvard Sq. faces brand-name onslaught
Dec 27 2005 1:52PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Maybe it was the last greasy burger served at the Tasty Diner, or the final copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" sold at Wordsworth books, or the last Hohner harmonica discovered amid the dusty bins of sheet music at Briggs and Briggs.
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Tenn. lawmaker in battle with newspaper
Dec 27 2005 1:36PM (CT)
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) - A state lawmaker is warning business owners not to advertise in a weekly newspaper that reported he is dating a woman while waiting for his divorce to come through.
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New Orleans hotels become new town squares
Dec 27 2005 1:29PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Before the sun rises on the hotels of New Orleans, doctors in scrubs pile into elevators, shoulder-to-shoulder with construction workers wielding their sledgehammers. The doors open and they're off to work.
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Northern Maine gets 3-plus feet of snow
Dec 27 2005 11:31AM (CT)
MADAWASKA, Maine (AP) - A storm that began on Christmas Day piled up more than 3 feet of heavy, wet snow on parts of extreme northern Maine before winding down Tuesday morning.
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Shootout at Ga. Wal-Mart injures suspect
Dec 27 2005 10:52AM (CT)
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. (AP) - An apparent robbery attempt at a busy Wal-Mart led to a shootout with police that left a suspect and a store employee wounded, authorities said.
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Coroner: trapped disabled man killed himself
Dec 27 2005 10:16AM (CT)
CAMANO ISLAND, Wash. (AP) - A disabled man who was injured when a windblown tree crushed his trailer killed himself as he lay trapped in the wreckage on Christmas Day, authorities said.
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L.A. deputy catches kids thrown from fire
Dec 27 2005 10:08AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A mother and father who were caught in a burning apartment building dropped their two children into the arms of a sheriff's deputy early Tuesday, officials said. No one was seriously injured.
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Rock slides in Vt. force 50 to evacuate
Dec 27 2005 9:35AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A series of rock slides dumped boulders the size of cars across a downtown street Monday, forcing about 50 people to evacuate as debris spilled up to their doorsteps.
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Ore. surfer who slugged shark recovering
Dec 27 2005 6:17AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A surfer who fended off a great white shark by punching it in the nose said he learned the tactic by watching television shows such as the Discovery Channel's "Shark Week."
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River search to continue for N.J. officer
Dec 27 2005 5:40AM (CT)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Police officers walked up and down the banks of the Hackensack River, combing through thick grasses and trash for the body of one of two officers believed to have died when their vehicle plunged off a foggy drawbridge.
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Robber's sons don't regret turning him in
Dec 27 2005 4:13AM (CT)
LEWISTOWN, Ill. (AP) - The Ginglen brothers grew up knowing they should always do the right thing, even under tough circumstances. It's a lesson their ex-Marine father taught them.
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Katrina victims salvage holiday spirit
Dec 27 2005 2:54AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Harold Hansford didn't make it home for Christmas. He just visited. Hansford spent part of Christmas morning wandering around the gutted house in the New Orleans suburb of Arabi that he, his wife and son called home for the past 17 years.
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Police search for motive in Va. slayings
Dec 27 2005 1:21AM (CT)
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Police said Monday that a Virginia man who killed four people, then himself, on Christmas Day had a history of mental problems.
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