Hurricane Dolly slams South Texas before weakening
 BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Hurricane Dolly slammed into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, peeling off roofs and knocking out power to thousands before weakening over land. Local officials' greatest fear - t... |
Authorities seek indicted polygamist sect members
 SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group's spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hund... |
Judge upholds convictions of ex-Newark mayor
 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the corruption convictions of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and his one-time mistress, but indicated that James probably will get less than the 15- to 20-year prison sentence prosecutors are seeking. U.S. D... |
Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking
 NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking. The billionaire philanthropists, who have a combined worth of more than $70 billion, said We... |
Calif. woman attacked by bear, drives self to help
CALIENTE, Calif. (AP) -- A woman walking her two dogs in a rural area of Southern California was attacked and severely injured by a bear, but managed to escape and drive herself to a nearby fire station. The woman suffered severe lacerations to her face and head in... |
Tourism travails: summer fun faces uncertain times
 MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) -- The sign outside the Aquarius motel reads: "Spend a night, Not a paycheck," but some Midwest travelers have canceled reservations and other visitors stay fewer nights. On the nation's opposite coast, vacationers in Oregon worried about $4... |
New Jersey to require organ donation decision
 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law. The names of residents who want to be organ donors will be maintained in a state regis... |
Inglewood residents demand change after shootings
 INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Friends and relatives of Kevin Wicks didn't accept the official explanation of why police fatally shot him when they were called to his apartment building. Now they question why the officer who pulled the trigger was even there in the first... |
Hurricane Dolly slams South Texas before weakening
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Hurricane Dolly slammed into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, peeling off roofs and knocking out power to thousands before weakening over land. Local officials' greatest fear - t... |
Penn. lawmakers urged to use sex-offender tracking
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's auditor general wants his state to join the estimated two dozen others that track some released sex offenders with global positioning satellite technology. Auditor General Jack Wagner on Tuesday urged state lawmakers to require... |
Prosecutor: Missing Fla. girl may have been killed
 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The mother of a missing 2-year-old is a person of interest in a case that is beginning to look like a homicide, prosecutors said Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies said they still hope to find the girl alive. Casey Anthony, 22, is charged only with ch... |
Suspect in pregnant teen death had baby obsession
 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A woman accused of slicing open a pregnant woman's belly and taking her baby was obsessed with getting an infant and even had hallucinations of hearing babies cry after a February 1990 miscarriage, according to court records. A few months later, A... |
Fla. sheriff's deputy killed during standoff
 FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A man who fatally shot a sheriff's deputy Tuesday had been ordered by a court to undergo a mental evaluation and had twice left a hospital before barricading himself in a home and triggering a shootout with police, authorities said. D... |
Workers dive into lake as bridge slips at casino
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) -- An enclosed walkway being attached to a floating casino on Lake Michigan slipped Tuesday as it was being attached, sending seven construction workers into the water, authorities said. After the workers fell, nine other workers jumped into the w... |
Man rescued from narrow gas well shaft in Texas
CRESSON, Texas (AP) -- A worker fell 40 feet into a narrow storage hole at a natural gas drilling site Tuesday and was trapped for three hours before being rescued, officials said. The man was hospitalized with scrapes and bruises and was expected to be held overnig... |
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