NEW YORK (AP) -- After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center....
20 min ago By DAVID B. CARUSO |
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BUENA, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey official says a suspected terrorist who worked at a complex of nuclear power plants did not breach security there....
8 min ago By WAYNE PARRY and GEOFF MULVIHILL |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found....
1 hr ago By CAIN BURDEAU |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. On Thursday, a day after the Itawamba County school board did just that, the 18-year-old lesbian high school senior reluctantly returned to campus to some unfriendly looks, she said....
43 min ago By SHELIA BYRD |
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a sheriff's officer....
29 min ago By MICHAEL GRACZYK |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press....
44 min ago By DON THOMPSON |
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JACUMBA, Calif. (AP) -- A Toyota executive said Thursday the company is "mystified" by a report that a California man's Prius gas pedal became stuck and caused the car to speed out of control on a California freeway....
2 hrs ago By ELLIOT SPAGAT and TOM KRISHER |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state....
43 min ago By TERENCE CHEA |
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Wolves likely killed a teacher jogging alone along a rural Alaska village road, public safety officials said Thursday....
19 min ago By DAN JOLING |
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DENVER (AP) -- The group of Denver Broncos players arrived at the Safari nightclub to celebrate New Year's Eve and was whisked inside by bouncers. One of the dozens of people waiting in line to get in - an alleged Tre-Tre Crips gang member - took exception....
50 min ago By KRISTEN WYATT |
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