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  • Military: Freed American hostages in good shape (AP)
    03.07.2008, 21:28:05
    In this image released by the U.S. embassy in Colombia, U.S. contractors Keith Stansell, left, Marc Gonsalves, center, and Thomas Howes sit in an aircraft in an unknown location in Colombia after being rescued by Colombia's military from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Colombia's military rescued 15 hostages from the FARC, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 Colombian police and soldiers. The three U.S. military contractors were kidnapped by the FARC more than five years ago after their plane went down while they were on a drug-monitoring flight. (AP Photo/US Embassy in Colombia) AP - Three U.S. hostages rescued from Colombian rebels after more than five years in captivity are in good condition and undergoing the transition back to normal life, military officials said Thursday.
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  • Death penalty possible in Vermont sex-kidnap case (AP)
    03.07.2008, 20:13:38
    U.S. Attorney Tom Anderson, left, answers questions as Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, right, looks on during a news conference, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Burlington, Vt., where prosecutors announced that Michael Jacques of Randolph, Vt., faces federal kidnapping charges in the death of his niece, Brooke Bennett. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett) AP - Federal prosecutors have filed kidnapping charges that carry the death penalty against a Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home.
  • Texas man freed by DNA after 15 years in prison (AP)
    03.07.2008, 21:14:02
    The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in court that his conviction of a crime that sent him to jail for more than 15 years was being overturned in Criminal Court District 2 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Dallas. Waller is the 19th man in Dallas County since 2001 shown by DNA evidence to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The Innocence Project in New York says that's a national high. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) AP - A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man.
  • Details emerge in capture of killing spree suspect (AP)
    03.07.2008, 22:09:44
    AP - As the hunt wound down for the man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in two states, a disheveled Nicholas T. Sheley walked calmly into a Subway restaurant in suburban St. Louis, asked to use the phone and called his lawyer — all but ensuring his capture.
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  • Some psych patients wait days in hospital ERs (AP)
    03.07.2008, 21:09:02
    In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green lies face down on the floor in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body, but made no visible attempt to see if she needed help. Within an hour she was dead. (AP Photo/New York Civil Liberties Union) AP - When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm.
  • Despite fire, some in Big Sur refuse to evacuate (AP)
    03.07.2008, 18:51:47
    A large wildfire burns out of control above a water treatment plant in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif. on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg) AP - An explosive wildfire ravaged the hillsides above this scenic coastal community Thursday, leaving the popular tourist region mostly deserted ahead of the holiday weekend.
  • Utah going to 4-day workweek to reduce energy costs (AP)
    03.07.2008, 18:15:33
    Mayor Glenn Barrow, 55, conducts business in the town's city hall building Tuesday, July 1, 2008, in Hooper City, Utah. Barrow's regular job is with the Utah Department of Human Services. With the governor mandating that state employees must work a four-day week to cut expenses, Barrow's part-time job as mayor may not be possible due to a conflict in work hours. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac) AP - Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday."
  • Judge in NY scolds hedge fund scammer who ran away (AP)
    03.07.2008, 21:45:48
    Fugitive investor Samuel Israel leaves U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass., after turning himself to authorities on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Israel walked into the police station in Southwick, Mass., Wednesday morning and said he was a fugitive wanted by the federal government, officials said. Israel disappeared June 9 just hours before he was to report to prison in Massachusetts to begin serving a 20-year sentence handed down in April for his role in the collapse of the Bayou hedge funds. (AP Photo/The Springfield Republican, Christopher Evans) AP - A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to do himself in than turn himself in.
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