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Ex-lawyer for Detroit mayor sues over unpaid fees

Posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 9:00 am
AP - A former lawyer for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has filed a lawsuit against the mayor claiming he's owed about $80,000 in fees stemming from his work after Kilpatrick's text-message scandal surfaced.

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Engine trouble forces jetliner back to SF airport
Posted on Aug 24, 2008 - 9:02 am - AP
AP - A Chicago-bound United Airlines flight was forced to return to San Francisco International Airport early Saturday after running into engine trouble.

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Evacuations as rain breaches dam near Grand Canyon
Posted on Aug 18, 2008 - 1:56 pm - AP
AP - Authorities on Monday evacuated more tourists and residents from a remote offshoot of the Grand Canyon where weekend flooding caused by heavy rains and a breached dam nearly washed away some rafters in the rugged gorge.

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Evacuations in flash flooding near Grand Canyon
Posted on Aug 18, 2008 - 11:44 am - AP
AP - About 50 tourists and Havasupai Tribe members had to spend the night in a shelter after being rescued by helicopter from flash flooding that gushed through a gorge off the side of the Grand Canyon.

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Evacuations as rain bursts dam near Grand Canyon
Posted on Aug 18, 2008 - 8:14 am - AP
AP - Dozens of tourists and Hualapai Tribe members spent the night in shelters after being lifted out of a flood-devastated gorge off the side of the Grand Canyon by helicopters.

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Ex-Marine decries prosecution in civilian court
Posted on Aug 17, 2008 - 3:34 pm - AP
AP - A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence on charges that he killed unarmed detainees in Fallujah, Iraq.

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Ex-Ohio congressman released from halfway house
Posted on Aug 16, 2008 - 9:47 am - AP
AP - Former congressman Bob Ney of Ohio has been released from a halfway house in Cincinnati after serving a sentence in connection with a public corruption scandal.

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Ex-inmate helps make Bush nominee 'controversial'
Posted on Aug 14, 2008 - 6:31 am - AP
AP - Had this been like most nominations for federal judgeships, the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America might have been packing up his office and heading for the courthouse by now.

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Ex-sheriff to stand trial for sexual misconduct
Posted on Aug 13, 2008 - 11:03 pm - AP
AP - A former sheriff was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on felony charges that accuse him of demanding sex from female inmates in exchange for his help in getting them into a drug court rehabilitation program.

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Ex-inmates accuse former sheriff of demanding sex
Posted on Aug 13, 2008 - 12:06 pm - AP
AP - Former female inmates of the Custer County jail testified Wednesday that ex-Sheriff Mike Burgess demanded sex from them in exchange for his help in getting them into a drug court rehabilitation program.

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Edwards' 'other woman' is 42-year-old filmmaker
Posted on Aug 08, 2008 - 7:28 pm - AP
AP - The woman former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted having an affair with Friday is a sometimes Hollywood producer-director who has all but dropped from sight since dismissing word of their liaison as nothing but lies last month.

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Ex-SEAL trainee seeks freedom in woman's slaying
Posted on Aug 02, 2008 - 2:30 pm - AP
AP - For 13 years, Dustin Turner has sat in prison claiming his fellow Navy SEAL trainee strangled a vacationing college student by himself, and for the past five years, the other suspect has admitted as much.

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Exxon Mobil turns biggest US quarterly profit
Posted on Aug 01, 2008 - 4:17 am - AP
AP - Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history Thursday but took a beating anyway — from politicians railing against Big Oil, drivers bleeding cash at the pump and investors who expected more.

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EPA approves air permit for Navajo power plant
Posted on Aug 01, 2008 - 3:50 am - AP
AP - Both environmentalists who have been fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation and supporters of the project expected it: an air permit for the plant.

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Energy tsunami coming, ex-policymakers warn
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 5:40 pm - AP
AP - A bipartisan group of 27 elder statesmen is sending an open letter to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress saying the country faces "a long-term energy crisis" that threatens the security and prosperity of future generations if swift action isn't taken.

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E. coli linked to beef now reported in 5 states
Posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 4:21 pm - AP
AP - An E. coli outbreak traced to recalled beef in Michigan and Ohio has spawned cases in three other states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.

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Evacuation order ends at Oak Ridge plant site
Posted on Jul 14, 2008 - 1:11 pm - AP
AP - Emergency responders are standing down after they evacuated a commercial waste processing plant at the site of a former uranium enrichment plant in Tennessee.

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Ex-wife accused of fatally stabbing circus worker
Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 11:14 pm - AP
AP - A Florida woman followed her ex-husband across the country and fatally stabbed him inside an Iowa mall where he was working for a traveling circus set up in the parking lot, police said Thursday.

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EPA strengthens controls on 5 common pesticides
Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 9:02 pm - AP
AP - The federal Environmental Protection Agency strengthened regulations Thursday on five common pesticides and for the first time required farmers to set up sizable buffer zones around fields treated with the chemicals.

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Ex-diplomat: Sex with teens OK in foreign cultures
Posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 2:53 pm - AP
AP - An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.

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Erratic winds prompt new evacuations in California
Posted on Jul 09, 2008 - 5:32 am - AP
AP - Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been told to flee after erratic winds blew embers across wildfire containment lines, the latest setback for already strained fire crews.

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Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs
Posted on Jul 08, 2008 - 3:28 pm - AP
AP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.

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