Officials may evacuate New Orleans as Gustav nears
 NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles sold briskly, and one small-town mayor spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area watched as a storm marched across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third a... |
Factory had tension between union, immigrants
 LAUREL, Miss. (AP) -- Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. Friction between the union and im... |
Poll: California voters oppose ban on gay marriage
 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday. The ballot question essentially will ask voters to prohibit the pr... |
Death for man who kidnapped, murdered Idaho boy
 BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- In the end, killer pedophile Joseph Edward Duncan III couldn't - or wouldn't - offer a reason why he should live. A jury didn't find one either, deliberating just three hours Wednesday before recommending a death sentence in the 2005 kidnapping,... |
4 inmates accused of helping with NM jailbreak
CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) -- Four jail inmates who authorities say helped eight others make a brazen escape were charged Wednesday, as officials kept up the search for the five prisoners who remain on the loose, including a convicted murderer. Two people close to the fugiti... |
SoCal jury gets case of ex-Marine in Iraq deaths
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- A federal jury on Wednesday began deliberating whether a former Marine squad leader committed manslaughter in Iraq, marking the first time in which civilians will decide whether the actions of a military service member during combat were cr... |
Arrest reopens mystery of missing Calif. couple
 SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) -- Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his wife's passion for science fiction. The young newlyweds disappeare... |
One small hitch for FAA, one giant mess for fliers
CHICAGO (AP) -- When a computer system that distributes flight plans nationwide came rolling to a halt this week because of a software glitch, so did airplanes on tarmacs from Orlando to Chicago. The ensuing delays drove home just how easily an apparently isolated p... |
Border Patrol struggles to keep newly hired agents
 IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures. That message is never touted in U.S. Border Patrol recruitment... |
Obama set to woo nation with historic speech
 DENVER (AP) -- Barack Obama stands before delegates and the nation Thursday - the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech - to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize. The drama o... |
Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years. The National Snow and Ice... |
Husband gets guardianship in Schiavo-like case
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A judge on Wednesday granted temporary guardianship to the husband of a woman on a feeding tube in a case similar to the lengthy legal dispute over whether Terri Schiavo should be kept alive. Karen Weber, 57, has been in and out of a nu... |
LA park to stand as tribute to Robert F. Kennedy
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With a band of traditional Korean drummers, a Latin dance group and a martial arts exhibition, city officials broke ground Wednesday on a small urban pocket park at the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago. Few in the crowd... |
Soros behind Mass. effort to decriminalize pot
BOSTON (AP) -- A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros. Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the m... |
Cells change identity in promising breakthrough
 NEW YORK (AP) -- Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases. The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cel... |
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