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Yahoo! News: U.S. News Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:01:12 GMT
  • Erratic winds hinder, help S. Calif. firefighters (AP)   - 

    Firefighters engaged in structure protection keep watch as flames burn near homes at the top of Louise Avenue in Los Angeles' Granada Hills area as efforts to control wildfires in Southern California continue Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Ferocious desert winds pushed one of three major wildfires burning across Southern California to nearly double its size overnight, firefighters said Tuesday, the third day of the blazes that have destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands to flee.


  • High court turns down Ga. death row inmate (AP)   - 

    This photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Troy Davis. The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, forDavis to be put to death for killing a police officer, two weeks after it halted his execution to consider his appeal. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections, File)AP - The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for a Georgia man to be put to death for killing a police officer, despite calls from his supporters to reconsider the case because seven of nine key witnesses against him have recanted their testimony.


  • King children in court with book deal on the line (AP)   - 

    Martin Luther King in a 1964 photo. (File/Reuters)AP - The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal.


  • IRS promises fix to stimulus check problem (AP)   - AP - The Internal Revenue Service says overdue economic stimulus checks will soon be mailed to about a quarter of a million married couples who had been denied the money because a spouse's married name and Social Security number didn't match.
  • Ohio executes man who argued he was too fat to die (AP)   - 

    This undated file photo provided by Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Richard Cooey. Lawyers for an Ohio death row inmate who has unsuccessfully argued that his obesity prevents humane lethal injection have filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Tuesday's execution. (AP Photo/Department of Rehabilitation and Correction)AP - Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer Tuesday who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.


  • Ore. law requiring majority to vote could change (AP)   - AP - In three elections, three out of every four people who bothered to vote supported giving more funds to a fire district in central Oregon's high desert. That wasn't enough, because in this state, not bothering has about the same effect as voting no.
  • Girl, 14, found starving in home; parents charged (AP)   - AP - A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter's food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities said.
  • Wolves back on endangered list in Northern Rockies (AP)   - AP - A judge has put gray wolves in the Northern Rockies back on the endangered species list about seven months after the federal government took them off.
  • Former presidents Bush, Clinton tour Ike damage (AP)   - 

    Former President George Bush, right, makes a point as former President Bill Clinton listens during their tour of areas damaged last month by Hurricane Ike, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are getting a firsthand look at the damage Hurricane Ike left in Galveston.


  • Second out-of-state teen abandoned at Omaha hospital (AP)   - 

    Todd Landry with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services speaks at a news conference in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 after a Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. 'I certainly recognize and can commiserate and empathize with families across our state and across the country who are obviously struggling with parenting issues, but this is not the appropriate way of dealing with them, whether you're in Nebraska or whether you're in another state,' said Landry. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.


  • Suicides over nation's financial crisis concerning authorities (AP)   - 

    RETRANSMISSION of a graphic that moved Oct. 7, 2008; graphic shows poll results of Americans? satisfaction with the way nation is heading since 1979; three sizes;AP - An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.


  • Gay couples rush to wed ahead of Calif. election (AP)   - 

    From left, chef and co-owner Traci Des Jardins goes over a menu for a wedding reception with Chloe Harris and Frankie Frankeny at Jardiniere restaurant in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Gay couples from across California and the nation are feverishly planning to tie the knot before Election Day to avoid possible passage of a California ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage.


  • Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views (AP)   - AP - On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.
  • New law meant to improve stability for foster care (AP)   - AP - For many thousands of America's foster children, prospects for a permanent home and stronger support will be brighter under a new law that bridged Washington's partisan divide and is touted as the most significant child-welfare reform in decades.
  • Cops: Texas teacher offered better grade for sex (AP)   - AP - A teacher initially placed on leave over a book controversy has been charged with trying to have sexual contact with three students, allegedly even asking one girl what she would do for a better grade.
  • Bush critic Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel (AP)   - 

    Paul Krugman, Princeton University professor of economics and international affairs, listens to his introduction at a gathering in Princeton, after he was announced the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.


  • Wis. shooting victims sue law enforcement leaders (AP)   - AP - The parents of four young people killed by a sheriff's deputy and the lone survivor of his shooting spree last year claim in a lawsuit that the gunman's law-enforcement superiors were negligent in supervising him and giving him access to weapons.
  • Atlanta Jews remember 'bomb that healed' (AP)   - 

    In this on Oct. 13, 1958 file photo, Det. Supt. I. G. Cowan, right, and Det. W. K. Perry examine dynamited ruins at the Jewish Temple for clues in the explosion that did damage estimated at $200,000 in Atlanta. The bombing claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement. (AP Photo, File)AP - The bombing of a prominent Atlanta synagogue in 1958 claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city's nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement.


  • Fire marshals: NY blaze likely caused by fire play (AP)   - 

    Five people ? including three children ? died after a fire swept through this top floor apartment in New York early Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - A blaze that claimed the lives of a couple and their three children in a Manhattan apartment was likely caused by a child playing with a lighter or matches, authorities said Monday.


  • ATF director's confirmation blocked by GOP (AP)   - 

    In this May 12, 2008, file photo, acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Michael Sullivan gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at the ATF headquarters in Washington. Sullivan has spent the four days each week during the past two years in the role of ATF chief, but hasn't been paid yet to do it. But the U.S. Attorney job he's paid to do, he does by phone and e-mail plus one day a week in the office in Boston. Now that congress is out of session he won't be confirmed as ATF director, blocked by opponents in his own Republican party. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - For more than two years, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan has been consumed by the latest entry on his resume: acting chief of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
 
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