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Report: Ford said Iraq war not justified
Dec 27 2006 11:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified, the Washington Post reported Wednesday night.
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Airman shot by SoCal deputy files suit
Dec 27 2006 11:35PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An unarmed airman who was shot by a San Bernardino County deputy earlier this year sued Wednesday, accusing the deputy of excessive force and the sheriff's department of inadequate training.
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Colorado braces for another snowstorm
Dec 27 2006 11:21PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Still recovering from last week's blizzard, Colorado cities braced Wednesday for another storm that could bring more than a foot of snow and high winds to the state and cause planes to be grounded at Denver International Airport again.
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LA police kill man after brief car chase
Dec 27 2006 11:17PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man who was videotaped running at police following a car chase was fatally shot when an officer apparently mistook an item he was holding for a gun, authorities said Wednesday.
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Small earthquake rattles SoCal desert
Dec 27 2006 11:09PM (CT)
COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) - A small earthquake rattled the desert Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage, authorities said.
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Ford's state funeral to begin Friday
Dec 27 2006 11:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gerald R. Ford will be mourned in the rare and solemn spectacle of a state funeral crafted to honor his reverence for Congress, the institution that launched him to the presidency.
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Murders up in New York, other big cities
Dec 27 2006 11:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - After many years of decline, the number of murders climbed this year in New York and many other major U.S. cities, reaching their highest levels in a decade in some places. Among the reasons given: gangs, drugs, the easy availability of illegal guns, a disturbing tendency among young people to pull guns when they do not get the respect they demand, and, in Houston at least, an influx of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
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Judge tosses $6.5M jury award to ex-cop
Dec 27 2006 11:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out a jury award of more than $6.5 million to a former policeman who claimed two FBI agents framed him for murder and kidnapping.
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Pair buying Laci Peterson home for $350K
Dec 27 2006 10:38PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The house on a quiet, tree-lined Modesto street where police believe Scott Peterson killed his pregnant wife, Laci, is being sold again for nearly $350,000, a real estate agent said Wednesday.
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Court can't force gay marriage vote
Dec 27 2006 10:08PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts' highest court said Wednesday it has no authority to force lawmakers to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But it rebuked the Legislature for its "indifference to, or defiance of, its constitutional duties."
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44M visitors to set NYC tourism record
Dec 27 2006 10:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Fight your way through the holiday hordes in Times Square this week and you will likely witness a record in the making.
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Ford chose desert life in retirement
Dec 27 2006 9:55PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Gerald R. Ford left the White House 30 years ago to retire in Southern California's celebrity desert playground.
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Mom arrested for tainting baby's tube
Dec 27 2006 9:50PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A woman was arrested after police said she injected an unknown substance into her ill 19-month-old daughter's feeding tube.
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Funeral held for dead Mt. Hood climber
Dec 27 2006 9:40PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Kelly James, the climber whose body has been the only one recovered of three friends lost on Oregon's Mount Hood, was remembered Wednesday as an adventure-craving and spiritual outdoorsman who died where he wanted.
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Ford remembered as steady, selfless
Dec 27 2006 9:30PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - President Bush hailed Gerald R. Ford for his administration's honor. Ford's former opponent, President Carter, called him "a man of highest integrity," and former President Clinton cited his strength and humility.
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Ohio Gov. Taft reprimanded over ethics
Dec 27 2006 9:28PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday publicly reprimanded Ohio Gov. Bob Taft for his ethics violations in office, a black mark that will stay on his permanent record as an attorney.
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DA won't prosecute Nevada governor-elect
Dec 27 2006 9:28PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons will not be prosecuted on allegations that he assaulted a cocktail waitress in a parking garage three weeks before the election, authorities said Wednesday.
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Ford assassination attempts recalled
Dec 27 2006 9:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the fall of 1975, Gerald Ford's presidency was rocked by two assassination attempts within less than three weeks. The first took place on Sept. 5, 1975, in Sacramento, Calif., where Ford had spent the night at the Senator Hotel. The president arose early that day to address a group of about 1,000 California businessmen gathered at the hotel.
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Famous Chicago barber shop to move
Dec 27 2006 9:20PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A historic Chicago barber shop where Muhammad Ali used to get his hair cut and Sen. Barack Obama still goes for weekly trims is moving after the building it's in was sold.
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Plane carrying Blair overshoots runway
Dec 27 2006 9:20PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - British Airways blamed poor lighting at Miami International Airport for a commercial jet overshooting a runway with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family aboard, but airport and federal officials said Wednesday that the lights were fine.
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Ford's fellow parishioners remember him
Dec 27 2006 9:11PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Staff at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church paused Wednesday to remember its most famous parishioner, former President Gerald R. Ford, as they prepared for a private family prayer service and public viewing at the church Friday.
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Ford's fellow parishioners remember him
Dec 27 2006 9:11PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Staff at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church paused Wednesday to remember its most famous parishioner, former President Gerald R. Ford, as they prepared for a private family prayer service and public viewing at the church Friday.
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Ford's fellow parishioners remember him
Dec 27 2006 9:11PM (CT)
PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Staff at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church paused Wednesday to remember its most famous parishioner, former President Gerald R. Ford, as they prepared for a private family prayer service and public viewing at the church Friday.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Mich. hometown mourns for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 8:59PM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum was closed Wednesday, but that did not stop people from streaming here upon hearing of the former president's death.
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Utah woman dies hours after her wedding
Dec 27 2006 8:36PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A 25-year-old woman who occasionally visited Utah schools to discourage children from using drugs died hours after her wedding, her husband said. Jennifer Ann Bennett Goodall and Doug Goodall were married Saturday.
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Ex-Nicaraguan president's $700K seized
Dec 27 2006 8:14PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Federal officials seized $700,000 in certificates of deposit bought for former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman with money stolen from the Central American country's government, authorities said Wednesday.
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Rapist preys on men in suburban Houston
Dec 27 2006 7:54PM (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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NYC mayor forming charity foundation
Dec 27 2006 7:40PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The private philanthropic foundation that Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he will run full time after leaving office in 2009 is starting to take shape, with its own headquarters and the beginning of a staff.
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17 accused in NY gambling, drug rings
Dec 27 2006 7:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Police investigating a lucrative bookmaking operation came across a related drug smuggling ring and busted both, arresting 17 and seizing $1 million, authorities said Wednesday.
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Judge won't reinstate abortion charges
Dec 27 2006 7:27PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A judge refused Wednesday to reinstate criminal charges against a Wichita abortion doctor, only hours after the outgoing attorney general named a special prosecutor to handle the case.
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Cleanup begins at Texas oil spill
Dec 27 2006 6:05PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A ruptured offshore pipeline that spilled 42,500 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico kept leaking Wednesday as crews began the cleanup, a Coast Guard official said.
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Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93
Dec 27 2006 5:02PM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared "Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, has died. He was 93.
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Memories of working for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 4:46PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - He ate cottage cheese with ketchup nearly every day for lunch, swam in the pool outside his White House study in all kinds of weather, and lived by the same work ethic as president that he was known for all of his life.
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Memories of working for Gerald Ford
Dec 27 2006 4:46PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - He ate cottage cheese with ketchup nearly every day for lunch, swam in the pool outside his White House study in all kinds of weather, and lived by the same work ethic as president that he was known for all of his life.
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Judge won't reinstate abortion charges
Dec 27 2006 4:20PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A judge Wednesday refused to reinstate criminal charges brought by Kansas' outgoing attorney general against a Wichita abortion doctor who has long been the target of anti-abortion politicians, protesters and extremists.
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Flags go to half-staff for 30 days
Dec 27 2006 4:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. flags were flown at half-staff Wednesday and will stay there for 30 days to mark the death of former President Gerald Ford.
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Nebraska-born, Ford left state as infant
Dec 27 2006 2:44PM (CT)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Gerald Ford was the only president born in Nebraska, but he lived in Omaha only a couple of weeks before his mother, fleeing an abusive marriage, left the state with her infant son.
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Chicago mayor's petitions challenged
Dec 27 2006 2:26PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A candidate in Chicago's mayoral race claims his backers have found problems in the election petitions filed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, including signatures of people not registered to vote.
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New Orleans neighborhood is a bellwether
Dec 27 2006 2:06PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Music spills from a bar one evening in New Orleans' Lakeview neighborhood. In many other places, that would be unremarkable. But in Lakeview, it's enough to stop traffic.
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Ford only president to be park ranger
Dec 27 2006 1:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Feeding the bears at Yellowstone National Park is a thing of the past. But in the summer of 1936, it was one of former President Gerald R. Ford's jobs as a seasonal park ranger.
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Activists want civilian review of police
Dec 27 2006 1:50PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Community activists on Wednesday called for the creation of civilian review boards to investigate police misconduct complaints, citing the fatal shooting of an elderly woman by Atlanta police and the killings of 12 other people by suburban DeKalb County officers this year.
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Ill. couple charged for teen son's party
Dec 27 2006 11:21AM (CT)
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A couple have been charged with allowing their son to have an underage drinking party in their home, after which two teenage partygoers were killed in a car crash.
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Army Reservist shot, killed in standoff
Dec 27 2006 9:35AM (CT)
LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) - An Army Reservist despondent about being sent to Iraq was killed by police during a 14-hour standoff that began Christmas night when family members told authorities he was armed and threatening to kill himself.
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James Brown's body to lie at NYC Apollo
Dec 27 2006 9:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - James Brown's music career will come full circle when his body is brought to rest on the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, where he made his explosive debut, and the world changed to his beat.
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James Brown's body to lie at NYC Apollo
Dec 27 2006 9:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - James Brown's music career will come full circle when his body is brought to rest on the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, where he made his explosive debut, and the world changed to his beat.
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James Brown's body to lie at NYC Apollo
Dec 27 2006 9:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - James Brown's music career will come full circle when his body is brought to rest on the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, where he made his explosive debut, and the world changed to his beat.
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James Brown's body to lie at NYC Apollo
Dec 27 2006 9:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - James Brown's music career will come full circle when his body is brought to rest on the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, where he made his explosive debut, and the world changed to his beat.
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James Brown's body to lie at NYC Apollo
Dec 27 2006 9:15AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - James Brown's music career will come full circle when his body is brought to rest on the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, where he made his explosive debut, and the world changed to his beat.
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Traffic-related law officer deaths jump
Dec 27 2006 7:21AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Police officers who can ticket you for not wearing a seat belt sometimes ditch their own restraints, a factor that may have contributed to a double-digit jump this year in law enforcement traffic fatalities, according to a new study.
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Ford was among most athletic presidents
Dec 27 2006 7:02AM (CT)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" helped advance the notion that Gerald R. Ford was a bit of a bumbling stumbler.
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Ford pardon sealed Watergate shut
Dec 27 2006 7:01AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - On a September Sunday in 1974, President Gerald Ford told the nation it was time to "shut and seal this book" of Watergate by pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.
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Bush, Cheney hail Ford's wisdom, ability
Dec 27 2006 5:38AM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush hailed former President Gerald Ford on Tuesday night for using common sense and "quiet integrity" to restore Americans' confidence in the presidency after the Watergate scandal.
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Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93
Dec 27 2006 4:46AM (CT)
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared "Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, has died. He was 93.
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Cyberspace sex scandal heads to trial
Dec 27 2006 3:57AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn't just get mad. He got a lawyer.
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Planes back into each other in San Diego
Dec 27 2006 12:41AM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two Southwest Airlines jets simultaneously pulling out from their gates at San Diego International Airport bumped into each other's tails Tuesday, officials said. No injuries were reported.
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Man dies in Calif. surf rescuing girl
Dec 27 2006 12:39AM (CT)
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - A man rescued his 4-year-old grandniece who was swept into the ocean by a wave, then drowned in the rough surf on Tuesday, authorities said.
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Lost luggage found in Houston trash bin
Dec 27 2006 12:35AM (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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