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Another snowy day was expected over the central part of the country Wednesday as two low pressure systems were forecast to combine over the Plains....
Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977....
In rare case, Pa. woman accused of aiding terror
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists, authorities say, and shows the evolution of the threat of terrorism....
Ohio State shooter complained bosses were unfair
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was late to work during his probation....
Dozen same-sex couple tie knot in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At least a dozen couples tied the knot in the District of Columbia on the first day same-sex ceremonies were legally allowed, and many more unions were on the way....
Ex-Edwards aide narrowly avoids jail over sex tape
PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter....
Texas ed board set to take 1st vote since primary
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide....
7-year-old calls 911, saves family from attack
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) -- A terrified 7-year-old boy begged emergency dispatchers to send police to his Southern California home where three armed robbers threatened his parents, according to a recording of the call released Tuesday....
NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100....
Calif. test-taking case shows gap in visa security
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A ring accused of helping people from the Middle East obtain student visas by taking their proficiency exams and classes has exposed vulnerability in the nation's security tracking system for foreigners who attend U.S. schools, experts said Tuesday....
Residents vote to incorporate Grand Canyon town
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Early results show residents of a small Arizona community that serves as a gateway to the Grand Canyon's popular South Rim have voted to incorporate....
Police make 3rd arrest in Calif. church shooting
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) -- Police say they've made another arrest in a shooting at a Northern California church that injured two teenage brothers....
Owners of NY club where groom was shot are charged
NEW YORK (AP) -- A mother and son who owned a New York City strip club made infamous by a 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man there on his wedding day have been charged in a mortgage fraud case....
Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling'
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."...
Partner convicted in NY execution-style slaying
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man has been convicted in the execution-style slaying of his business partner in the parking lot of a Korean restaurant....
Workers urge faster rebuilding at ground zero site
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of "Build it now!" on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex....
Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt....
Crews hike to precarious boulder after Colo. slide
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Workers hiked up the side of a Colorado canyon Tuesday to examine another boulder threatening to fall on a major interstate, days after a rock slide punched gaping holes in an elevated section of the highway....
Israel says `bad options' for Iran getting closer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The two "bad options" for Iran - letting the country develop nuclear weapons or using force to destroy its nuclear capabilities - are closer than they were a year ago, Israel's U.N. ambassador warned Tuesday....
Trucker tells Michigan jury he killed 2 gentlemen
CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) -- The man who confessed to fatally shooting an abortion protester and a businessman in a small Michigan community told jurors Tuesday he deserves to die for the killings....
NYPD: Rooftop body casts are art, not jumpers
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Police Department wants the public to know that the figures soon to be gazing down from buildings near a midtown park are an artist's body casts - not residents in distress....
Police kill Calif. man suspected of shooting wife
GARDENA, Calif. (AP) -- Police near Los Angeles say officers have fatally shot a man who chased his estranged wife down the street and fired a gun at her multiple times, riddling her with bullets....
Gov. wants sex offenders' parole records retained
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday ordered California corrections officials to keep sex offenders' parole records indefinitely after he learned the files of a man now charged with killing a 17-year-old girl had been destroyed....
Retired NY police leader's replacement now leaving
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The replacement for the New York State Police superintendent who retired amid the scandal enveloping Gov. David Paterson announced his own retirement Tuesday after just a week in the top job....
Official: Tribal children need 'healthy families'
SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) -- Making more arrests and throwing more offenders behind bars will not bring an end to the crimes against children and other violence that is plaguing many of the nation's American Indian communities, a federal official for Indian affairs said Tuesday....
Probation report cites predatory traits of suspect
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A decade-old probation report on a sex offender accused of murdering California teenager Chelsea King contained a psychiatrist's conclusion that the defendant had "significant predatory traits" toward underage girls and should be kept in prison for as long as possible....
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- California jury recommends death for serial killer in 1970s murders of 4 women and 12-year-old....
2nd ex-New Orleans cop charged in Katrina coverup
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A second ex-New Orleans officer charged in an alleged conspiracy to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina is expected to plead guilty, a person familiar with the case said Tuesday....
Opponent files ethics complaint on La. Sen. Vitter
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A challenger to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter filed an ethics complaint Tuesday, claiming a fundraising letter for the Republican incumbent's campaign makes illegal use of a government emblem....
LA cops seek man who robbed Florida sugar baron
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A well-dressed man who talked his way into a Florida sugar baron's hotel room and stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry may be the same person who pulled similar scams on a Mexican soccer team, a salsa band and an Israeli basketball team when they visited Los Angeles, police said Tuesday....
Man who caused Newark airport breach pleads guilty
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A lovesick graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to worldwide flight delays, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Tuesday and apologized publicly for the first time....
Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) -- An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday....
Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Centralians have long believed the government's demolition of their beloved town in the 1980s was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars - and not, as state and federal officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases....
Texas judge rescinds anti-death penalty ruling
HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas judge criticized for declaring the death penalty unconstitutional took back his controversial ruling Tuesday but scheduled a hearing for next month to hear evidence on the issue....
Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists
NEW YORK (AP) -- Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday....
Mass. father casts blame in daughter's drug death
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) -- The Massachusetts man accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter by overmedicating her with prescription drugs is blaming his wife and a psychiatrist for the girl's death in 2006....
After slow start, tornado season under way
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Forecasters say a wetter-than-usual winter and a jet stream ripping over the part of the country known as "Tornado Alley" could lead to an active spring - perhaps starting with the strong twister that nicked a small western Oklahoma town Monday night....
Ohio doctor gets 20-to-life in wife's poison death
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as a judge handed down a life prison term Tuesday for a doctor convicted of killing his wife by lacing her calcium supplement with cyanide so he could be with his mistress....
Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs
DENVER (AP) -- A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court....
Judge plans to unseal Yale killing search warrant
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A judge has ruled that part of a search warrant can be unsealed in the case of an animal research technician charged with killing a Yale University graduate student....
Powder in envelope sent to Mont. office no threat
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana authorities say powder released when an envelope burst while being handled by state workers in Helena posed no threat....
Calif condor couple lays egg at Pinnacles park
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Biologists at Pinnacles National Monument are celebrating the first condor egg laid by a mating pair inside the park boundaries in more than a century....
Health care activists protest in downtown DC
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Labor union members, religious leaders and other activists protested in the nation's capital against what they call an abusive health insurance industry....
Assisted suicide network members indicted in Ga.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they helped a 58-year-old man with cancer kill himself, clearing the way for a trial that could not only decide their fate but also help validate - or repudiate - their work....
Teacher backs SUV into Mich. preschool classroom
FRANKLIN, Mich. (AP) -- A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slightly injuring several preschool students, authorities said....
Mich. shootout leaves 2 dead, including officer
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A man opened fire at two police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call, killing one officer and wounding the other early Tuesday before being fatally shot, authorities said....
UN pays tribute to 101 staff killed in Haiti
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- An emotional Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Tuesday to "the 101 heroes" working for the United Nations who were killed in the Haiti earthquake, the single greatest loss for the world body in its 64-year history....
Condemned inmate who overdosed back in Ohio prison
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch....
Archbishop defends decision on lesbians' children
DENVER (AP) -- The archbishop of Denver on Tuesday defended a decision by a Catholic school not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple....
Ex-Detroit mayor arraigned on probation violation
DETROIT (AP) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been arraigned on a probation violation and released on a $10,000 personal bond pending another hearing....
Poll: Financially pinched, young adults lose faith
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Young adults are financially anxious, worried that they can't meet their educational, housing and health care needs, according to a new poll that exposes a growing pessimism about achieving the American Dream....
Police ID 2 bodies found in Albuquerque home
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Albuquerque police have identified a couple found shot to death in their home after the woman's former boyfriend told authorities where to find the bodies....
NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month....
Fire sparked by static kills gas pumper in Pa.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in Pennsylvania say a gas station patron died when static electricity ignited a fire as he filled up his tank....
Suspect in Fla. shooting rampage pleads not guilty
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A man accused of a January shooting rampage in Florida that left three people dead has pleaded not guilty to two of the murder charges....
Storied NY village Seneca Falls weighs dissolving
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- A tax squabble is forcing voters to decide next week whether to dissolve the boundaries of a central New York village known as the birthplace of women's rights and the inspiration for a classic Christmas movie....
Tenn. woman pleads guilty to faking breast cancer
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking breast cancer in a scam that netted thousands of dollars worth of sick leave donated by her City Hall co-workers and money from a church and other charities....
No damage from 5.1 quake in Aleutian Islands
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 5.1 quake has struck the Andreanof Islands region of the Aleutian chain, but there are no reports of damage and the quake did not generate a tsunami....
Future of whale that killed trainer still unknown
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- SeaWorld has not decided whether a whale that killed its trainer by dragging her into the water will keep performing, an official said Tuesday....
Odor leads police to 200 pot plants in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police say all they needed to find marijuana growing in a Van Nuys warehouse was a sense of smell....
Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students....
Superintendent accidentally fires gun during class
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The superintendent of a rural Montana school district says he was showing students his black powder muzzleloader when he accidentally fired the weapon into a classroom wall during a history lesson....
20 years added to sentence of ex-Army Ranger
SEATTLE (AP) -- A former Army Ranger originally sentenced to 24 years for leading a 2006 military-style bank robbery in Washington state has been given another 20 years for assault and trying to hire a hit man to kill a federal prosecutor....
Soldier accused in 2 murders to face court-martial
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- An Army specialist accused of killing two fellow soldiers and taking their baby in Washington state could face the death penalty if convicted in her upcoming court-martial....
5 freight train cars derail in Philly; none hurt
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Authorities say five cars on a freight train derailed in downtown Philadelphia, but none tipped over and there were no injuries or hazardous materials involved....
Mass. rights group faults Bangladesh on refugees
BOSTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Burmese refugees are being forced into makeshift camps in Bangladesh and face widespread starvation unless they receive more humanitarian aid, according to an international human rights organization's report released Tuesday....
Plane with engine trouble lands at Calif. airport
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A United Airlines spokeswoman says a plane carrying 15 passengers and three crew members has arrived safely at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in central California after experiencing mechanical trouble....
2 ex-ACORN workers face charges from '08 campaign
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Two former ACORN workers are accused of repeatedly trying to register the same voters during a Milwaukee drive to meet quotas set by the organization....
Israeli ambassador offers to return to UC Irvine
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has offered to return to the University of California, Irvine to exchange views with students who heckled him raucously on campus last month....
Tornado hits Okla.; no injuries reported
HAMMON, Okla. (AP) -- Authorities say at least five homes and a barn owned by the county government were destroyed in a tornado in western Oklahoma....
Architect of Chicago's former Sears Tower dies
CHICAGO (AP) -- Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was 84....
Conservationist Edgar Wayburn dies at 103
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103....
Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved
TAWAS CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday....
Ore. faith healers get 16 months for son's death
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) -- The judge who sentenced an Oregon couple to prison Monday for the death of their son says members of their church must quit relying on faith healing when their children's lives are at stake....
Police look for missing Texas exec in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Police are searching the French Quarter in New Orleans and checking with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking out of a Bourbon Street bar....
Remains of Chinese immigrants to be reburied in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The remains of some of the nation's earliest Chinese settlers, whose graves were discovered five years ago during construction of a light rail line, will soon be reburied in a cemetery that once denied them entry....
Gunman, 2 others wounded in Dallas shootout
DALLAS (AP) -- A gunman apparently angry over business dealings wounded a father and son at their financial services company inside an office building Monday, then shot himself as police closed in, authorities said....
Paterson seeks to show he's still in charge
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gov. David Paterson was adamant about governing Monday, taking questions from the public at a town hall meeting and trying to make clear his authority to negotiate a state budget amid two scandals that threaten his job....
Calif state senator says he's gay after DUI arrest
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn said Monday he is gay, ending days of speculation that began after his arrest last week for investigation of driving under the influence....
Hustler asks for crime scene photos of slain hiker
ATLANTA (AP) -- Authorities said Monday they will not give Hustler Magazine crime scene and autopsy photos of a woman who was slain while hiking in Georgia, with one lawmaker calling the porn publication's request "vile" and "disgusting."...
Officer: DC gunman's expression warned of trouble
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- There were no obvious signs of trouble when gunman John Patrick Bedell approached a Pentagon security checkpoint Thursday night. But Pentagon police officer Marvin Carraway had seen that facial expression before. It betrayed Bedell's intentions....
Ed chief: Agency to review equal access at schools
SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant to make sure students have equal access and opportunity to everything ranging from college prep classes to science and engineering programs....
CIA director: US efforts disrupting al-Qaida
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the country's counterterrorism operations have placed al-Qaida's top leaders under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but recent thwarted terror plots in the U.S. indicate the terror network is changing its tactics....
Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument
ATLANTA (AP) -- A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense....
Massa blames resignation on health care debate
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Rep. Eric Massa is now blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care, his third explanation for leaving office after he earlier cited health issues and an ethics investigation....
3rd NYPD officer charged in $1M NJ perfume heist
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A third New York City police officer has been charged in the robbery of $1 million worth of perfume from a northern New Jersey warehouse....
Report: Airline luggage went unscanned in Denver
DENVER (AP) -- Denver airport officials say hundreds of bags were loaded onto airplanes in late December without being run through security scanners....
NH man accused of killing landlord for motorcycle
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a New Hampshire man obsessed with getting a Harley-Davidson motorcycle beat his landlord to death, assumed his identity and stole his pickup truck so he could trade it for the bike....
Sentencing delayed for LA songbird smuggler
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man who smuggled songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them in his pants had his sentencing postponed....
Utah Air Force base dealing with rash of suicides
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's Hill Air Force Base has hired a psychologist and others to deal with a rash of suicides, mostly among civilians complaining of harsh working conditions....
