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2010-09-07 21:27

LAPD chief defends deadly shooting (AP)

AP - Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck is defending the deadly police shooting of a knife-wielding man that sparked a violent protest.

2010-09-07 21:27

Flight attendant in passenger tiff to be evaluated (AP)

Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, center, arrives at Queens criminal court for a hearing on criminal mischief charges, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, in New York. Slater, accused of cursing out a passenger and sliding down an emergency exit chute, is working on a plea deal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal.


2010-09-07 21:27

WTC steel column installed at 9/11 museum (AP)

One World Trade Center (L) rises next to 7 World Trade Center (R) on Ground Zero in New York. AP - A salvaged 50-ton steel column was hoisted onto a support structure Tuesday at the World Trade Center site, where it will eventually serve as part of the entryway to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.


2010-09-07 18:52

Baby dies as vehicle plunges into S. Calif. river (AP)

AP - The California Highway Patrol says a 1-year-old boy has drowned after his drunken father drove an off-road vehicle into a river in the San Bernardino County desert.

2010-09-07 18:52

Non-word 'refudiate' gets most online searches (AP)

AP - Maybe the language lovers who looked up "refudiate" this summer wanted to refute or repudiate its existence as a real word.

2010-09-07 18:52

CO firefighters to step up attack on Boulder blaze (AP)

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - Firefighters ramped up their fight Tuesday against a 3,500-acre wildfire that has forced about 3,000 people to evacuate and destroyed dozens of homes near Boulder, including some that belonged to firefighters.


2010-09-07 16:19

Flight attendant in passenger tiff mulls plea deal (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2010 file photo, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater leaves a correctional facility in the Bronx after posting bail in New York.  JetBlue Airways says that there will be no second exits for Slater, who captured the nation's imagination with his profanity-laced loudspeaker tirade and jump down a plane's emergency chute, beer in hand. Spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 that Slater is no longer employed by the airline.   (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)AP - A former JetBlue flight attendant accused of cursing out a passenger and sliding down an emergency exit chute is working on a plea deal.


2010-09-07 13:53

Wrigley rooftops hurting as Cubs, economy struggle (AP)

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, baseball fans are seen in one of the many rooftop venues outside Wrigley Field in Chicago and in the bleacher seats, foreground, to watch a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. Like 'America's team' itself about this time every year, the fate of the famed rooftops beyond the Waveland and Sheffield walls is slumping. With the economy bad and the Cubs once again woeful, the club and bar owners offering a unique over-the-wall viewing experience are struggling financially, despite discounted tickets. About the only thing sustaining them is that the Cubs charge the most for ballpark tickets of any team in the Majors. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The crowded rooftop bleachers overlooking Wrigley Field stand as proof that no matter how bad the Chicago Cubs played, the ballpark was simply not big enough to hold everyone who wanted to see them play.


2010-09-07 13:53

Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 months (AP)

AP - Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe — a dead woman lay on his chest. He knew he had to get her off, fast. Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman's own belt and drag her off. But his legs were still pinned.

2010-09-07 13:53

Boston Dawna, the Batman of Venice Beach, retires (AP)

Donna Chaet, better known as Boston Dawna, poses for a photo on Ocean Front Walk in Los Angeles' Venice Beach neighborhood Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010.  Hipsters, hustlers, celebrities, thieves, dope peddlers and just about everyone else in gritty, quirky Venice Beach know Boston Dawna. You can't miss the one-woman crime fighter.  For nearly 40 years, she's cruised Venice, always on the lookout for lawbreakers.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Hipsters, hustlers, celebrities, thieves, dope peddlers and just about everyone else in gritty, quirky Venice Beach know Boston Dawna. You can't miss the one-woman crime fighter.


2010-09-07 11:19

Protest over fatal shooting by LAPD turns violent (AP)

AP - A protest over the fatal police shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles at officers, set trash cans on fire and refused to disperse.

2010-09-07 11:19

Colorado wildfire destroys dozens of homes (AP)

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - A wind-whipped wildfire sent flames roaring through a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying dozens of homes — some that belonged to the firefighters themselves, authorities said early Tuesday.


2010-09-07 08:54

Tropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas (AP)

This NOAA GOES National Weather Service satellite image shows tropical storm Hermine. Hermine made landfall in far northeastern Mexico, threatening storm surges and tornadoes in the US-Mexico border area, US forecasters said.(AFP/NOAA-HO)AP - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN') has crossed into Texas.


2010-09-07 06:21

Authorities: 1,000 homes evacuated in Colo. fire (AP)

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - A wind-driven wildfire in the rugged Colorado foothills spread across 5 1/2 square miles Monday, destroying an unknown number of homes and triggering the evacuation of 1,000 others, authorities said.


2010-09-07 06:21

Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall in Mexico (AP)

Tropical storm Hermine is seen in this satellite image courtesy of the National Hurricane Center. REUTERS/National Hurricane Center/HandoutAP - Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into Mexico's northern Gulf coast near the U.S. border late Monday with winds of 60 mph (95 kph), lashing Mexico and southern Texas with heavy rains that authorities warned could cause flash flooding.


2010-09-07 06:21

Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip (AP)

VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)AP - An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday.


2010-09-07 03:54

US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore (AP)

Jocelyn Davis, 8, waits for the judges costume results during the 75th Annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival on September 4, in Morgan City, Louisiana. Jocelyn's costume was titled the AP - The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.


2010-09-07 03:54

Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage (AP)

AP - A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender.

2010-09-07 03:54

US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds (AP)

In a Wednesday, July 14, 2010 photo, attorney James Lowy holds up one of his favorite unpaid German bonds as several others cover his desk at his office, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II.


2010-09-07 01:28

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of  nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)AP - Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 67.


2010-09-07 01:28

NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, a rally attendee positions himself along the I-90 thruway on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation to protest the proposed New York state cigarette tax to non-Native American consumers in Irving, N.Y.  (AP Photo/Don Heupel, File)AP - As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.


2010-09-07 01:28

Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations (AP)

AP - A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of as many as 400 others.

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