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This photo released Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Karthik Rajaram. The 45-year-old unemployed financial manager, despondent over extreme money problems, was found dead Monday with a gun in his hand said authorities. He had shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself at home in a gated community in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Porter Ranch in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/California Department of Motor Vehicles)

Killings put counselors on alert about money woes

2 hours, 4 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Mental health counselors were on the alert Tuesday for calls from people depressed or possibly suicidal about money woes, after an unemployed financial manager killed five family members and himself.

  • 14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law 30 minutes ago

    OMAHA, Neb. - A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law, but the person who left her could face prosecution in the girl's home state, Nebraska health officials said.

  • This undated photo, supplied by the Iowa Department of Corrections, shows Chicago police officer Michael Mette, who is serving a five-year sentence in an Iowa prison cell after being convicted of assault causing serious injuries. The charges stem from a 2005 fight in which Mette punched Dubuque student Jake Gothard, who suffered a broken nose, cheek and jaw. The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, ordered that Mette be freed from prison. In its ruling Wednesday the appeals court says there wasn't enough evidence for a Dubuque County district court judge to find that Mette could have retreated from the altercation on Oct. 9, 2005, in Dubuque. (AP Photo/ Iowa Department of Corrections, File)
    Iowa AG decision means Chicago cop will be freed 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

    DES MOINES, Iowa - A Chicago police officer could be released within days after the Iowa attorney general's office announced Tuesday it would not seek a state Supreme Court review of his case.

  • Pa. widow sues US over Iraq vet-husband's suicide 14 minutes ago

    PHILADELPHIA - The widow of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide while in outpatient care for depression at a Veterans Administration hospital has sued the federal government for negligence.

  • Ill. gov to convicted fundraiser: Tell the truth Tue Oct 7, 6:39 PM ET

    CHICAGO - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday called on Antoin "Tony" Rezko to tell the truth, a day after federal prosecutors strongly hinted that the political fundraiser, convicted in a state corruption scandal, might be cooperating in their investigation.

  • Co-defendants Clarence 'C.J.' Stewart and O. J. Simpson, second from right standing, and their defense teams listen as the two are found guilty on all 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of double murder charges. (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter, Pool)
    Simpson's future now hangs on armed robbery appeal Tue Oct 7, 5:25 PM ET

    LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson's attorneys in his armed robbery case could be fighting long odds to convince an appeals court that he was a victim of racial prejudice and payback for his murder acquittal, legal experts say, but there may be other grounds for a new trial.

  • Man accused of binding teen's hands on flight 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

    DENVER - A 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly binding the hands of a teenager sitting next to him on a Southwest Airlines flight and trying to tape her older sister's hands as well.

  • Navy blames crew, command for fire aboard carrier 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

    SAN DIEGO - A fire aboard the nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier resulted from a failure to properly store hazardous materials and other missteps that allowed the fire to burn unchecked for more than eight hours, Navy investigators found.

  • Gay candidates anticipate breakthroughs on Nov. 4 Tue Oct 7, 3:55 PM ET

    In his liberal Colorado district, it's no big deal that Jared Polis is gay. Yet his expected victory Nov. 4 in a congressional race would be a historic milestone and, he hopes, send an encouraging message to gay and lesbian young people nationwide.

  • Mom says at KC trial she waited for girl to die 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The mother of a little girl long known as "Precious Doe" testified Tuesday she knew the injured 3-year-old needed medical attention but that she feared going to jail and instead waited for the child to die.

  • New indictment in AIM slaying days after dismissal Tue Oct 7, 7:58 PM ET

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges.

  • Ohio top court mulls Planned Parenthood files Tue Oct 7, 6:24 PM ET

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that an abortion clinic's medical records on other patients are relevant to a lawsuit brought by parents of a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without their consent.

  • Yosemite visitors, workers evacuate rock fall area Tue Oct 7, 7:34 PM ET

    YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Authorities are evacuating the Staircase Falls area of Yosemite National Park after a rock slide.

  • This undated image provided by Ryan Hawks shows Tom and Jackie Hawks. The couple were allegedly bound to the anchor of their yacht and tossed overboard four years ago. Opening statements in the case of former child actor Skylar Deleon, who is accused of killing the couple, are expected to begin Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Courtesy Ryan Hawks)
    Defense: Man killed 2 by throwing them off yacht Tue Oct 7, 7:19 PM ET

    SANTA ANA, Calif. - The attorney for a man accused of throwing a couple off their yacht bound to an anchor told a jury Tuesday his client is guilty of those two murders and a third, but shouldn't be put to death.

  • Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at City Hall in New York, Thursday Oct. 2, 2008. Bloomberg announced plans for a third term in office, but is almost certain to face a legal challenge if he tries to alter the city's term-limits law and seek four more years in office. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)
    NYC mayor's try for 3rd term goes to City Council Tue Oct 7, 4:39 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to change the term-limits law so that he can campaign for another four years rests in the hands of the City Council, where two competing bills were introduced Tuesday.

  • Polygamous sect sues to regain control of trust Tue Oct 7, 5:29 PM ET

    SALT LAKE CITY - Members of a polygamous church are suing to regain control of a property trust, claiming court reforms since 2005 have stripped it of its constitutional rights.

  • U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Pete Jarzabek, left, and Sargeant Ryan Barnett meditate during Warrior Mind Training class at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. The course is catching on in military circles as a way not only to treat both post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries, but also to improve focus and better prepare soldiers and Marines for the rigors of combat. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)
    Mind training helps troops with combat, then PTSD Tue Oct 7, 6:58 AM ET

    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - The explosion of practice mortars sent Army Spc. Kade Williams into panic attacks, and nightmares plagued his sleep. The ravages of post-traumatic stress had left the veteran of the war in Afghanistan vulnerable, and he was desperate for help.

  • A close view fo the front end of the charter bus that overturned, Sunday, is seen in a wrecking yard near Williams, Calif., Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Eight people were killed and dozens were injured when the charter bus overturned on a rural road late on it's way to an American Indian casino.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
    Bus driver in fatal California crash investigated Tue Oct 7, 1:41 PM ET

    WILLIAMS, Calif. - Quintin Watts had a lengthy criminal record, a history of substance abuse and a string of motor vehicle offenses. Even his mother says he wasn't a good driver.

  • Ike windstorm costs insurers $550M in Ohio damages Tue Oct 7, 7:07 PM ET

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Winds from Hurricane Ike will cost insurance companies at least $553.1 million to cover property damage and other losses in Ohio, making it the state's most expensive natural disaster in more than three decades, a trade group said Tuesday.

  • Alum gives Harvard $125M for bioengineering center Tue Oct 7, 5:02 PM ET

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Harvard Business School alumnus has given the university its largest individual donation ever — $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday.