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• NYC Police Arrest IMF Head in Hotel Sex Assault
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say the leader of the International Monetary Fund has been arrested on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment after being accused of sexually assaulting a maid at a Manhattan hotel.Dominique Strauss-Kahn...
• Miss. River Spillway Opens, Towns Await Floodwater
  MORGANZA, La. (AP) — Over the next few days, water spewing through a Mississippi River floodgate will crawl through the swamps of Louisiana's Cajun country, chasing people and animals to higher ground while leaving much of the land under 10 to 20 feet of brown muck.The...
• Ala. Families Moving into New FEMA Trailers
  PHIL CAMPBELL, Ala. (AP) — The first Alabama families have begun moving into new white FEMA trailers set up for tornado victims, near the storm-ravaged towns of Phil Campbell and Hackleburg.Democratic state Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow of Red Bay said five families were moving...
• In Reversal, Conn. School Says Teen Can Go to Prom
  SHELTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut high school headmaster has reversed her decision to ban a student from the prom after he broke school rules by hanging his prospective date's invitation at the school entrance.The girl said yes, but Shelton High School senior James Tate...
• NASA Clears Space Shuttle for Monday Launch
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA unanimously approved a Monday morning launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour, after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the next-to-last shuttle flight two weeks ago.The flight to the International Space...
• Louisiana Floodgate Opens, Diverting Mississippi
  MORGANZA, Louisiana (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from a spillway along the rising Mississippi River in Louisiana, diverting water into the countryside in hopes of avoiding a potentially bigger disaster in heavily populated areas downstream.A gate at...
• NC Sheriff Blames Cheese for False Drug Test
  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An enzyme found in cheese triggered false drug test results that led North Carolina deputies to think a man with 91 pounds of tortilla dough was actually carrying that much cocaine, the sheriff said.Antonio Hernandez spent four days in an Asheville...
• Chihuahua Lifts Leg, Gets Blame for NY Bomb Scare
  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A dog that wasn't quite housebroken may have indirectly been responsible for a bomb scare at a New York courthouse.The trouble began Friday when 19-year-old Melvin Ruffin arrived at a court complex in Central Islip following a long bus ride from...
• 3 Fla. Men Charged with Supporting Terrorism
  MIAMI (AP) — Three South Florida men have been charged with providing about $45,000 in financial support to the Pakistani Taliban, which the State Department has designated as a terrorist organization.The U.S. Attorney's office in Miami announced Saturday the arrests of...
• NYC Terror Plot Suspect Says he Is Innocent
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of plotting to bomb a New York City synagogue says he is innocent, and blames his legal troubles on being in the wrong place at the wrong time.Terror suspect Mohamed Mamdouh told the New York Daily News in a jailhouse interview published...
• NY Beach Community Becomes Dumping Ground of Death
  CAPTREE STATE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — News this week that several killers have used a strip of highway near New York's Jones Beach as a dumping ground for bodies has ratcheted up an already intense homicide investigation.Ten sets of human remains have been found along Ocean...
• Kan. Lawmakers End Work with Anti-abortion Push
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators approved restrictions on private insurance coverage for abortions and adopted a state budget stripping funds from a Planned Parenthood affiliate, capping a string of victories Friday for abortion opponents only four months after...
• Thousands Turn out to Protest Calif. School Cuts
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of California teachers rallied in cities throughout the state Friday to demonstrate against the threat of deep education cuts and to appeal to Republican lawmakers to raise tax revenue for public schools.Major demonstrations were taking...
• Computer Error: US Reneges on Visas for 20,000
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For a few joyful days, more than 20,000 people around the world thought they had beat the odds and won a lottery that gave them a chance to come and live legally in the United States. On Friday, the State Department sent its regrets.Computer problems had...
• Blog Posts Sensitive NYPD Documents Found in Trash
  NEW YORK (AP) — A blogger has posted a set of sensitive New York Police Department documents he says he found in a trash can outside a police station near Times Square.Police officials say the documents should've been disposed of more discreetly but didn't compromise...
• Court: Chicago Must Hire 111 Black Firefighters
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago must hire 111 African American firefighter candidates passed over for jobs and pay millions of dollars in damages to thousands more.The ruling handed down Friday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals follows last year's decision by the U.S. Supreme...
• Feds: W.Va Man Posed as Army General in Job Hunt
  AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A West Virginia man charged with trying to land a six-figure job in Ohio by posing as an Army general has been indicted on 13 counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud.The government announced the federal indictment against 56-year-old Randall...
• RI Civil Union Bill to Face First Legislative Test
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A proposal to create civil unions for gay couples in Rhode Island will soon face its first legislative test.The House Judiciary Committee has set a vote on the measure for Tuesday. If the committee endorses civil unions the proposal will head to the...
• FBI No-show in NYC Terror Probe Raises Questions
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest terrorism arrests in New York were announced with the fanfare of a City Hall news conference, a dramatic photo of a broad daylight takedown by the police department and reassurance from local law enforcement officials that a serious threat had...
• Crew Finds Body of Man Stuck in Snow for Months
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon say they've found the body of a 68-year-old Oregon man who was stuck in the snow for two months and kept a log of his ordeal.The Linn County sheriff's office said Jerry McDonald's journal indicates he got stuck on Feb. 14. His...
• La. Spillway to Open, Flooding Cajun Country
  LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) — In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in Louisiana's Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in...
• Transportation Dept. to Probe Air Controller Errors
  The Transportation Department s inspector general has opened a probe into recent air traffic controllers errors and near misses.Congress prompted the review, springing partly from a reported 53 percent increase in mistakes, The Washington Post reported. Congress expressed...
• Fox Parent Company to Disclose Political Giving
  COLUMBUS, Ohio The directors of media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of Fox News Channel, have quietly put in place a policy to disclose corporate political donations publicly on its website.The decision was made April 12 and posted to the website without fanfare. A...
• Kutcher to Replace Sheen on 'Two and a Half Men'
  NEW YORK Ashton Kutcher will replace troubled star Charlie Sheen in the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men next season, the network and producers Warner Bros. Television said on Friday.The deal apparently came together quickly, following reports earlier this week that...
• Democratic Sen. Kohl of Wisconsin to Retire
  MILWAUKEE Four-term Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin said Friday he will not seek re-election next year, joining five other Democrats who plan to retire and making it tougher for their party to retain the chamber. Kohl, 76, was re-elected in 2006 with 67 percent of...

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