| Ike survivors may wait weeks for hot meals, baths (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:41 AM CDT  AP - Tens of thousands of residents first hunkered down to wait for Hurricane Ike's brutal punch. Those survivors on the wrecked Texas coast must now wait again for food, water and ice, for the electricity to return to their homes, for that first hot meal and shower.
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| Cell-phone ban sought for Calif. train operators (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT  AP - The state's top rail safety regulator said Monday he would seek an emergency order banning train operators from using cell phones, as federal investigators sought to determine whether the engineer of a commuter train was text messaging before a crash that killed 25 people.
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| Strains mounting in shelters for Ike evacuees (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 06:40 PM CDT  AP - Evacuees streaming into hundreds of makeshift shelters set up around Texas are bringing all the belongings they can carry and at least one unanswerable question: What now?
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| Grim scenes greet rescuers in hardest-hit areas (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 10:28 PM CDT  AP - Entire subdivisions obliterated. Oil and chemical slicks in the surf where vacationers once frolicked. Longhorn cattle roaming desolate streets. But, most stunning of all, no more deaths.
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| Ike resurrects river flooding fears across Midwest (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:31 AM CDT  AP - Just a few months after near-record flooding in the Midwest, authorities in towns along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers fear a soggy repeat following heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ike.
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| Feds: Technology could have prevented train crash (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 07:03 PM CDT  AP - Federal officials blamed railroads Monday for refusing their requests to install an expensive safety feature on all U.S. tracks that many say could have prevented Southern California's deadly commuter train crash.
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| Defense says O.J. middleman may testify Tuesday (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:39 AM CDT  AP - Lawyers for O.J. Simpson were expecting to take another crack at cross-examining an alleged robbery-kidnapping victim after his first time on the stand was cut short by illness.
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| Meltdown in US finance system pummels stock market (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 11:53 PM CDT  AP - The upheaval in the American financial system sent shock waves through the stock market Monday, producing the worst day on Wall Street in seven years as investors digested the failure of one of its most venerable banks and wondered which domino would be next to fall.
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| 2 boys left at Neb. hospitals under 'haven' law (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 04:16 PM CDT AP - Two boys ages 15 and 11 were left at Nebraska hospitals over the weekend, the first youngsters surrendered under the state's new safe-haven law that allows caregivers to abandon children and teens as well as infants, officials said. |
| Even dead seemed to try to flee Ike's wrath (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:07 PM CDT  AP - Hurricane Katrina chased bluesman Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown from his adopted home in New Orleans to his hometown here on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he died in exile. Now, another hurricane has disturbed his rest.
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| 6 men, boys indicted in Newark schoolyard killings (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 04:47 PM CDT  AP - Three men and three teenagers were indicted Monday on murder and other charges for the execution-style slayings that shocked New Jersey's largest city more than a year ago.
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| Somber procession planned for new Minneapolis span (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:30 PM CDT  AP - State troopers will lead a slow, somber procession of motorists across the Mississippi River early Thursday to mark the opening of the new bridge replacing one that collapsed and killed 13 people last year.
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| L.A.'s commuters mourn those who died in crash (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 01:32 PM CDT  AP - Commuters reunited Monday for the first workday since a deadly train crash, embracing fellow riders many known only by sight and mourning those who died in the accident.
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| Bush says economy strong enough to handle turmoil (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:46 PM CDT  AP - The Bush administration signaled strongly on Monday that troubled Wall Street shouldn't expect more rescues from Washington.
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| Colleges spend billions to prep freshmen (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2008 09:03 AM CDT  AP - It's a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college.
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