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US News Archive for March 2005:
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Atlanta suspect captured
Brian Nichols, the suspect in the shootings of four people, three at Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse, has been captured after a massive manhunt...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Police: Woman's 911 call led them to suspect
A man police say killed a judge and three other people in Atlanta surrendered to SWAT officers today following a massive manhunt. An unidentified woman called 911 hours after Brian Nichols pushed his way into her apartment and threatened to kill her, authorities said...
CNN - March 12, 2005
With Mayhem at Home, They Call a Parent Coach
Parent coaching is capitalizing on the tendency to call in the super nanny depicted on reality TV instead of calling up your mother...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Leader of Hezbollah Discovers a New Fray: Lebanese Politics
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah organization, is making a bid for a statesman's role...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Police Capture Atlanta Suspect in Court Killings
The man surrendered peacefully after a SWAT team cornered him in the apartment of a woman he had taken hostage...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
News or Public Relations? For Bush It's a Blur
Prepackaged television news segments were broadcast on local stations without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Fliers Find That Mileage Points Go Only So Far
Travelers are facing the prospect that like free meals and pillows, the golden age for frequent fliers is going away...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Blind Boys singer Scott, 75, dies
George Scott, a member of the US black vocal group The Blind Boys of Alabama, dies aged 75...
BBC News - March 12, 2005
Atlanta courthouse killings suspect captured
A man suspected of killing a judge and two others at an Atlanta courthouse Friday has been arrested after a massive manhunt. Brian Nichols surrendered to police at an apartment complex in an Atlanta suburb. Police said a truck belonging to a U.S. customs officer found slain in Atlanta today was parked at the complex...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Suspect in Courthouse Killings Caught After Atlanta Manhunt
The man who law enforcement officials say killed a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy in a courthouse rampage was captured today...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Iraqi Calls Arms Looting a Tightly Run Operation
Looters dismantled and removed machinery from weapons installations after Baghdad fell, including some with equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Full Bottles, Soothing Broken Souls
A Brooklyn liquor store offers an unlikely sense of community...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
US coma case husband rejects $1m
The husband of a brain-damaged woman rejects a $1m offer to prevent him removing her feeding tube...
BBC News - March 12, 2005
Notorious BIG murder case closed
The FBI closes its investigation into the murder of rapper Notorious BIG, who was shot dead in 1997...
BBC News - March 12, 2005
Courtroom gunman evades manhunt
Police hunt an escaped prisoner after the killing of a judge and two officials in court in Atlanta...
BBC News - March 12, 2005
Cameras snap shooting suspect leaving scene
Security camera images are the latest lead in a massive manhunt for a man wanted in the Atlanta courthouse killings of Judge Rowland W. Barnes, a court reporter and a deputy. The photos show suspect Brian Nichols making his way down a staircase inside a downtown parking deck following Friday's shooting rampage...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Investigators search for shooting suspect
Investigators expect photos taken by security cameras inside a parking garage will give them their next break in the search for a man wanted for killing a judge, a court reporter and a deputy as he fled his rape trial Friday morning...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Huge Billing Fraud Is Cited by Health Plans at California Clinics
Insurers, working with the F.B.I., said they have broken up an elaborate scam in which doctors filed more than $1 billion of fraudulent insurance claims...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Drinking Game Can Be a Deadly Rite of Passage
The "power hour" tradition involves 21-year-olds going to a bar at midnight on their birthdays and trying to down 21 shots in the hour or so before the bar closes...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Suspect's car found
Police said late Friday that they had found the green Honda believed carjacked by Brian Nichols, the man accused of gunning down a popular judge, his court reporter and a deputy earlier in the day...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Police find shooting suspect's car
Hours after launching a massive manhunt, Atlanta police said late Friday night they found a car believed taken by Brian Nichols, the suspect accused of gunning down a popular judge, his court reporter and a deputy earlier in the day. The 1997 green Honda Accord was in Centennial parking garage across from CNN Center...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Iran dismisses U.S. shift
The United States drops its opposition to Iran's application for membership in the World Trade Organization in an effort to bolster European negotiations with the Tehran regime over its nuclear program. But Tehran rebukes the move, saying it "it is too ridiculous to be called an offer."...
CNN - March 12, 2005
Blood Ties: 2 Officers' Long Path to Mob Murder Indictments
The arrest of two former officers brought to light some of the most shocking allegations of police corruption in New York's history...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Dollar's Fall Silences Africa's Garment Factories
Many industries across southern Africa that relied on business from America are reeling from the effects of the falling U.S. dollar...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Rummaging for a Piece of Tim Burton
Tim Burton's ex-girlfriend held a garage sale on Friday in Los Angeles that provided a glimpse into 10 years of the filmmaker's private life...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Huge Bill Fraud Cited at Clinics
Insurers say thousands of patients from 47 states were sent to California to undergo unnecessary surgical and diagnostic procedures...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Suspect Kills 3, Including Judge, in Atlanta Court
A man on trial for rape shot and killed the judge in his case, a court stenographer and a sheriff's deputy in a courthouse rampage...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Apple Can Demand Names of Bloggers, Judge Says
Apple was given the right to subpoena the names of sources and documents relating to confidential company information that was published late last year by three Web sites...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
In White-Collar Crimes, Few Smoking Guns
The arcana of accounting, compounded by the difficulty of finding a smoking gun, is just one of the many hurdles prosecutors face in cases involving top executives...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Head of Wal-Mart Grocery Unit in Britain to Leave
The chief executive of Wal-Mart's British supermarket chain, Asda, will leave in the next few weeks, and become chief of the far smaller Dutch retailer...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Qwest Expected to Raise Its Bid to Buy MCI
Qwest is expected to raise its $8 billion bid for MCI next week in an attempt to break up MCI's deal with Verizon...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Trade Gap Widens on Record Imports
America's appetite for foreign imports broke all records in January, reaching $159.1 billion and contributing to a monthly trade deficit that is the second highest on record...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Pioneer Discounter Plays Catch-Up
Charles Schwab, who has returned as chief executive to the company he founded, is wielding some familiar weapons to fight back...
New York Times - March 12, 2005
Indicted Chile cult leader 'ill'
A former Nazi indicted for child sex abuse in Chile is taken to hospital a day after being arrested in Argentina...
BBC News - March 12, 2005
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