NEW ORLEANS - Permanent air traffic control service is set to resume for the first time since Hurricane Katrina at an airport near downtown New Orleans.
"Hopefully, everything's on track and it will open up Monday," airport aviation director Randy Taylor said Wednesday.
Noted behavior therapist Albert Ellis dies at 93
NEW YORK - He came to psychology almost by happenstance, after friends began turning to him for guidance. But Albert Ellis would become one of the most important figures in modern psychology, once ranked by his peers as more influential than Sigmund Freud.
Ellis, who helped establish cognitive behavior therapy, died Tuesday from kidney and heart failure after a long illness, said his wife, Debbie Joffe Ellis. He was 93.
San Francisco won't retire taxi medallion No. 666
SAN FRANCISCO - Some call it the number of Satan, but the city's taxi commission sees no reason to get rid of taxi medallion No. 666.
Cab driver Michael Byrne asked the agency to retire the number that was assigned to him last year, saying it has brought him nothing but bad luck.
Some other cabbies, however, brought a touch of levity to the debate Tuesday as they argued against retirement.
"How dare you take Lucifer's number away?" said Thomas George-Williams, president of the cab drivers union.
Atlanta puppetry center home of Henson museum
ATLANTA - Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are coming to town.
The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is to be the definitive Jim Henson museum with everything from original puppets to sketches from his personal collection, center officials and the Henson family announced Wednesday.
The 29-year-old center will house between 500 and 700 Henson pieces in a wing named for the puppeteer as part of a new building scheduled to open in 2012.
Ohio gay marriage ban stands with violence law
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's domestic violence laws do not conflict with the state's ban on gay marriage, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In a 6-1 decision, justices rejected an argument that the domestic violence law was unenforceable in cases involving unmarried couples because it refers to them as living together "as a spouse."
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer wrote in the opinion that lawmakers included many groups under the domestic violence law, and that describing people's living arrangements isn't the same as creating a law approximating marriage.
Ex-therapist gets 45 years for preying on patients
SAN DIEGO - A former respiratory therapist was sentenced to more than 45 years in prison Wednesday for sexually preying upon some of the most defenseless patients at the hospital where he worked: children so sick they couldn't speak out.
Wayne Albert Bleyle had pleaded guilty to molesting five disabled children and taking pornographic pictures.
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