3 rescued US hostages arrive safely in Texas
By ELIZABETH WHITE
Associated Press Writer
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AP) -- Three American hostages rescued from leftist guerillas in Colombia arrived safely in Texas late Wednesday and were taken to a hospital, where they were expected to re ...
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Police find body of missing Vt. 12-year-old
By LISA RATHKE
Associated Press Writer
BETHEL, Vt. (AP) -- The body of a missing 12-year-old Vermont girl was found Wednesday buried near her uncle's home, hours after documents surfaced that accused the man of planning to initiate her into a child ...
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Obama to expand Bush's faith based programs
By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Reaching out to religious voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called for expanding President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious gr ...
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Ex-con suspected in deaths of 8 captured in Ill.
By JIM SUHR
Associated Press Writer
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) -- An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings has ended with the man quietly arrested outside a bar known as a police hangout.
Nicholas T. ...
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Smoky air leaves Californians straining to breathe
By GARANCE BURKE
Associated Press Writer
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- California's raging wildfires have created a smoky haze so stifling that some doctors in the state's landlocked farm country say their waiting rooms have been crowding with patie ...
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Pentagon to unveil new waiver process for recruits
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has revised its policy for recruits who must get waivers for past bad behavior, but officials stopped short of eliminating waiver requirements for petty crimes, The A ...
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Fla. holds 1st execution since botched method
By RON WORD
Associated Press Writer
STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection procedure prompted the state to revamp the way it conducts capital punishment.
Mark Dean Schwab, who was ...
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Letter writer boasts of killing pregnant soldier
By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A pregnant soldier lay dead in the bathtub. Reportedly scrawled on the motel-room mirror in lipstick was a crosshair design -- the same symbol contained in a letter that arrived a ...
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Video shows woman dying on Brooklyn hospital floor
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- City hospital officials agreed in court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and ...
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New Iraq report: 15 of 18 benchmarks satisfactory
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No matter who is elected president in November, his foreign policy team will have to deal with one of the most frustrating realities in Iraq: the slow pace with which the government i ...
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R.I. high court overturns lead paint verdict
By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a first-in-the-nation jury verdict that found three former lead paint companies responsible for creating a public nuisance, rejecting ...
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Pentagon will buy satellites to do more spying
By PAMELA HESS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and pr ...
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California firefighters have to pick their battles
By SCOTT LINDLAW
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The unprecedented number and size of wildfires burning in California this year has forced firefighters to strategically choose which ones to tackle.
Their plan is this: Crews ar ...
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Canary in a tux? Penguin woes signal sea problems
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say.
Penguins may be the tuxedo-clad version of a canary in the coal mine, with g ...
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Police killing suspect's jail death ruled homicide
By STEPHEN MANNING
Associated Press Writer
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- The death of a 19-year-old found slumped in his cell a day after he was jailed on charges of running over and killing a police officer has been ruled a homicide, authoriti ...
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Search for missing girl turns to uncle's property
By DAVE GRAM
Associated Press Writer
CHELSEA, Vt. (AP) -- The investigation of the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl zeroed in on her uncle Monday, with police searching his home while he was being arraigned on sex charges in an unrelated ca ...
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Bush administration delaying Medicare fee cut
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more time to block a scheduled 10.6 percent fee cut.
The move by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
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Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides
By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun own ...
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Chrysler to close 1 plant, cut production at 2nd
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT (AP) -- The worsening U.S. auto sales slump hit Chrysler LLC again Monday as it announced plans to close one St. Louis-area factory and cut a shift from another because of declining demand for minivans and ...
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3-D mammograms, cameras may improve breast exams
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Remember peeking through a View-Master? Scientists are using the same concept behind the classic kids' toy to try to see mammograms in 3-D.
The goal: A better way to check for breast ca ...
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