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Men charged with dumping alligator in lake
Dec 29 2005 11:56PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former police officer and another man were charged Thursday with dumping an alligator into an urban lake where it has thwarted would-be captors and gained a following.
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Teens accused of being lesbians sue school
Dec 29 2005 11:53PM (CT)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Two 16-year-olds who were expelled from a Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being lesbians have sued the school for invasion of privacy and discrimination.
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Judge: S.C. fails to fund poor schools
Dec 29 2005 11:50PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A judge ruled the state's system of funding poor schools unconstitutional Thursday, saying it fails to provide adequate education by not offering early childhood programs.
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Soldier charged in stray bullet shooting
Dec 29 2005 11:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A soldier on leave from the Army was arrested Thursday on charges he fired his gun in the air and accidentally killed a mother looking out an apartment window.
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More grass fires flare in windy Oklahoma
Dec 29 2005 10:57PM (CT)
CROSS PLAINS, Texas (AP) - As Gov. Rick Perry toured this wildfire-ravaged town Thursday and urged counties to prohibit fireworks around the New Year's holiday, more grass fires flared in windy weather in eastern Oklahoma.
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Bank robber turned in by sons gets 40 years
Dec 29 2005 10:55PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A family man once regarded as a pillar of the community was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for a string of bank robberies after being turned in by his own sons, who recognized him in a surveillance photo.
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Winter storm shuts down roads in Colorado
Dec 29 2005 10:51PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm with snow and wind gusts up to 75 mph blew across the Colorado Rockies on Thursday, knocking down trees, causing accidents and shutting down roads including heavily traveled Interstate 70 west of Denver.
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5 juveniles may be charged in mob beating
Dec 29 2005 10:15PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Three juveniles suspected in the brutal mob beating of a motorist appeared in court Thursday and were ordered held in custody while authorities investigate the attack.
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Schwarzenegger to focus on public works
Dec 29 2005 10:14PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - After a year of sounding like former Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan and calling for new powers to cut spending, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has shifted gears.
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Va. mayor pleads not guilty to fraud
Dec 29 2005 10:14PM (CT)
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - The mayor of Lynchburg pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges of stealing from a church charity to pay his debts and taking money from Social Security recipients.
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Pacific storms bring Calif. large waves
Dec 29 2005 9:54PM (CT)
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Storms in the Pacific Ocean are churning up the surf along California's coast, generating large waves that have sent surfers back to shore, closed down piers and put beachfront residents on sandbag duty.
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Winter storm shuts down roads in Colorado
Dec 29 2005 9:44PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A winter storm packing snow and wind gusts to 75 mph blew across the Colorado Rockies on Thursday, knocking down trees, causing accidents and shutting down roads including heavily traveled Interstate 70 west of Denver.
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Chief supports review of police shootings
Dec 29 2005 9:40PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The city's police chief Thursday came out in support of an independent review board to investigate police shootings, a demand made by black ministers after a black man was killed by officers earlier this week.
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Divers find body of missing N.J. officer
Dec 29 2005 9:37PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Divers recovered the body of a police officer Thursday afternoon near the drawbridge where he and another officer plunged to their deaths on Christmas night.
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Jail for gay, transgender inmates to close
Dec 29 2005 6:45PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - One of the nation's few jail dormitories specifically for gay or transgender prisoners is closing on Rikers Island, prompting complaints from some activists who say it is a needed safe haven.
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Texas jurors to get pay hike after 52 years
Dec 29 2005 5:50PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Texas will no longer be one of the stingiest states when it comes to paying people for jury duty, raising the $6-a-day rate to $40 in the first increase in more than 50 years.
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Mich. man bowls 3rd 300th game, then dies
Dec 29 2005 5:30PM (CT)
PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) - A bowler collapsed and died at a bowling alley shortly after rolling the third perfect game of his life. Ed Lorenz, 69, bowled a 300 Wednesday in his first league game of the night at Airway Lanes.
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D.C. mayor fighting to keep baseball team
Dec 29 2005 5:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The future of major league baseball is among the imponderables as the capital awaits the end of 2005 with the president resting at his ranch, congressmen scattered far afield and the government in second gear.
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Colo. man dies in wood chipper accident
Dec 29 2005 3:50PM (CT)
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - A man trimming trees was killed when he was pulled into a wood chipper by his gloved hand, authorities said.
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Porn actress arrested on child rape charge
Dec 29 2005 3:49PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) - A porn actress was arrested in Oklahoma on child rape charges after allegedly persuading a high school student to run away from home and have sex with her, authorities said.
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Med school gets monitor amid Medicare probe
Dec 29 2005 3:49PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Trustees of the nation's largest medical school appointed a federal monitor Thursday to oversee its finances amid an investigation of Medicare and Medicaid fraud that could amount to tens of millions of dollars, officials said.
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Natural gas well explodes in Pa.; 5 hurt
Dec 29 2005 3:42PM (CT)
BELLE VERNON, Pa. (AP) - An explosion at a natural gas well shot flames high into the air Thursday and injured five people, two seriously.
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Conn. Boy Scouts to return rock to tribe
Dec 29 2005 3:37PM (CT)
MONTVILLE, Conn. (AP) - The biggest boulder in New England _ a spot used for dirt-bike riding and Boy Scout camping trips _ may soon return to its ages-old function as the site of Indian tribal councils.
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American Kobe-style beef has staying power
Dec 29 2005 2:59PM (CT)
MABANK, Texas (AP) - For the first time in four years, a gourmet extravagance _ authentic Japanese Kobe beef _ is allowed back into the United States. The question is whether anyone will care. An American "Kobe-style" brand has taken its place on restaurant menus.
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Fla. wildlife park puts up safety fence
Dec 29 2005 2:40PM (CT)
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) - Lion Country Safari has finally erected a fence between man and beast because visitors to the drive-through wildlife park kept violating the rules by rolling down their car windows when they went past the lions.
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Mass. man found bound, beaten and robbed
Dec 29 2005 1:48PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - A 64-year-old man was tied to a bed with a telephone cord, beaten and left to die by a New Hampshire couple who then plundered his bank account, authorities said. The man was saved when his landlord found him 36 hours later.
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College student sues over mistaken drug bust
Dec 29 2005 12:14PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - When college freshman Janet Lee packed her bags for a Christmas trip home two years ago, her luggage contained three condoms filled with flour _ devices that she and some friends made as a joke.
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Winter storm prompts Calif. flood warnings
Dec 29 2005 10:46AM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A drenching winter storm swelled rivers in northern California to their highest levels in seven years, causing power outages and forcing some residents to evacuate.
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Accused Nazi loses another round in court
Dec 29 2005 10:43AM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - Losing another round in court, John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, may be running out of legal options in his decades-long deportation battle.
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Somali shot to death by deputy in Ohio
Dec 29 2005 10:15AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A deputy shot a mentally ill African immigrant to death when he allegedly lunged with a knife at officers who had come to take him to a psychiatric center, authorities said.
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Teacher denies threatening students
Dec 29 2005 9:06AM (CT)
THURMONT, Md. (AP) - Someone may be out to get students at Thurmont Middle School. But a teacher accused of threatening to blow up the school says it's not her.
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Woman's death ruled 'justifiable homicide'
Dec 29 2005 5:13AM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A woman who died after a car crash had been shot in the heart minutes earlier with a pellet gun that her 14-year-old son received as a Christmas gift, police said.
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Hawaiian group defies judge over artifacts
Dec 29 2005 4:20AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Leaders of a Hawaiian group vowed not to divulge the location of a cache of native artifacts obtained from a museum and then buried, despite the jailing of their director.
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Famous Chicago Berghoff restaurant closing
Dec 29 2005 4:05AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - It's hard not to feel a sense of Chicago's history inside the 107-year-old Berghoff Restaurant, where hand-painted murals depict the 1893 World's Fair and the city's first post-Prohibition liquor license proudly hangs.
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Younger Hmong abandoning farming careers
Dec 29 2005 3:29AM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - There was a time when Fong Tching's four children worked the fields and accompanied him to the market to help sell strawberries, eggplants, sugar cane and 60 other crop varieties. But one by one, the kids are leaving the family business, going to college to pursue more lucrative professions in pharmaceuticals and engineering.
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Judge considers extradition of Sacirbey
Dec 29 2005 12:02AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer for a former Bosnian diplomat asked a federal judge Wednesday to block his client's extradition to face allegations he stole from the Bosnian government, saying he has not been formally charged.
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