Today is Wednesday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2009. There are 57 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One year ago, on Nov. 4, 2008, Democrat Bar...

A South Florida attorney who has raised millions for notable politicians nationwide and hobnobs with sports stars and celebrities was removed Tuesday as head of the law fir...

Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central California boy accused in the death of a 4-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found in a cl...

Voters have narrowly elected a Democrat to lead Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city.With most of the votes counted, Anthony Foxx was leading challenger John Las...

Democrat Bill Owens had an early lead of 51.5 percent in a special Congressional election in northern New York that grabbed national headlines in its final days as it highl...

The parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt.Police: CO man made up knife attack to miss work

Police in the Denver suburb of Edgewater say a man stabbed himself, then said he was attacked by three men dressed in black who were either Hispanic or skinheads, in a ploy...

Police said a man stabbed himself, then said he was attacked by three men dressed in black who were either Hispanic or skinheads, in a ploy to miss work. Police arrested a ...

The number of bodies found in and near a rapist's home rose to at least 10 on Tuesday when authorities unearthed four corpses from the backyard and found a skull in a bucke...

As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at least 833 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in l...

As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at least 4,357 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.<...

A California jury has acquitted a Mexican boy of murder in the drowning of six suspected illegal immigrants but convicted him of gross vehicular manslaughter for driving a ...

A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public ...

A former phone company employee has been convicted of lying to FBI agents and a federal grand jury investigating wiretapping allegations against Hollywood private investiga...

Lawyers preparing for the trial of a Colorado man whose son is charged with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction are getting more time to get ready.A federa...

Dorothy Gay Howard's family spent 55 years not knowing.Not knowing if she had been killed, and if so, how or who did it. Not knowing whether the rebellious young wom...

Four Amish leaders in southwest Missouri who chose to "shun" an accused child molester in their community rather than report him to authorities were charged Tuesday with fa...

Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records during the past year, new d...

The bodies of three missing North Dakota college softball players were found Tuesday inside a Jeep after authorities, aided by signals from the women's last desperate phone...

San Jose police say they have arrested three teens in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy and the stabbing of his 13-year-old friend while they were trick-or-treating on Hall...

An 11-year-old New Mexico boy who police say reported he fatally shot his father because the man was punishing him was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder.Belen...

Carl Drews still remembers the first time he heard the "Hallelujah" chorus. His parents had taken him to see "The Greatest Story Ever Told," the movie about the life of Jes...

Remains of four more people were unearthed from the backyard of a rapist's home Tuesday, raising to 10 the number of bodies found in and near the house, as police also sear...

Governor races in Virginia, New Jersey test Obama clout; Maine votes on same-sex marriageWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's political clout was on the line...

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife owe more than $200,000 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, property records indicate.Alameda County records show th...

Michigan's governor warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 have already dented police a...

A federal judge says three Idaho men convicted of hate crimes for beating a black man outside a Nampa Wal-Mart will serve time in prison.U.S. District Judge Edward L...

A Massachusetts town has made it illegal to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting in Dudley added language to a town bylaw on...

A veteran Milwaukee firefighter was charged with drugging his wife's tea with his anti-depressent medication because he said he wanted to calm her after an argument. A crim...

A Denver public television station is planning a nonprofit investigative news operation with a Web site and on-air program.KBDI-TV said this week it will launch the ...

Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, power...

In stories Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 about a motorized recliner in which a man was arrested in Proctor, Minn., for driving drunk, The Associated Press erroneously described the r...

Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling has agreed to pay a record $2.73 million to settle allegations by the government that he refused to rent ap...

A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday, after weeks of refusing to step down despit...

Two people suspected of stealing up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix's airport have been arrested by police who found heaps of the stolen ...

A rapist living in an Ohio home where the bodies of several women have been found was charged Tuesday with five counts of aggravated murder, along with charges of rape, fel...

A Boston parking valet armed with an umbrella is being credited for helping a woman fight off a knife-wielding purse snatcher. Police said Tuesday that 61-year-old Barbara ...

Police: 3 missing North Dakota college softball players found dead in vehicle pulled from pond...

When the New York Yankees clinched their spot in the World Series last week, the casual TV viewer might have wondered if they were about to go swim the 200-meter butterfly ...

Even in the best of times, waking up to a surprise transit strike is like a bad dream come true. When the sudden walkout comes during an economic downturn, it becomes more ...

Gay marriage was put to a vote in Maine on Tuesday in a closely watched referendum that gay-rights activists across the country hoped would prove that public opinion is tur...

The biggest name in investing is making what he calls an "all-in wager" on the U.S. economy — $34 billion to own a railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across...

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums says he owes back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.Alameda County records show the agency placed a lien on his property on Oct. 14.Man gets 2 years for flying stolen plane to US

A Turkish-Canadian man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three states before landing along a dark southern...

Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. go...

A Cleveland television station reports that two more bodies have been removed from a convicted rapist's home where police last week recovered the bodies of six women.Town makes it illegal to own more than 3 cats

A Massachusetts town has made it illegal to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting in Dudley added language to a town bylaw on...

A new law takes effect in early December making it illegal to give a shout-out to an inmate at the Van Buren County Jail. A century-old section of the jail in the heart of ...

A 28-year-old Portland man described as unhappy about police response time to his 911 call walked onto Interstate 5 near Woodburn in an apparent attempt to get assistance m...

Be sure to wash up, Maryland doctors and nurses. You're being watched.State officials said Tuesday they're creating teams of staff members at hospitals around the st...

Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died ...

Investigators are searching for a man who has robbed the same South Florida bank four times in the past year. The suspect has targeted a Tamarac BankAtlantic so many times ...

A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a me...

A Connecticut judge says he expects to rule later this week on whether to unseal documents detailing the case against a former Yale employee accused of murdering graduate s...

In exchange for no jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-yea...

A Texas judge ordered Tuesday that a document showing a member of a polygamist sect had at least four wives who were pregnant or nursing at the same time should be excluded...

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle accusations that he tried to keep blacks, Hispanics and families with children out of hi...

The California Supreme Court is set to hear arguments challenging a key section of a law aimed at protecting children from sexual predators.Jessica's Law prohibits r...

Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a ...

A devout Muslim woman told police she slashed her husband's neck with a kitchen knife as he slept because he forced her to eat pork, wear short skirts and drink alcohol in ...

From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would de...

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has signed legislation closing a loophole that made indoor prostitution legal and allowed more than 30 suspected brothels to operate around t...

Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest this fall to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 airplane was shot...

A respected Los Angeles Police Department veteran credited with cleaning up a devastating corruption scandal was picked by the mayor Tuesday to become the next police chief...

Police in Minnesota have had to start over again an online auction for a motorized recliner used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk.The Proctor police d...

Dive teams found no trace of three missing college softball players during a search Tuesday of a North Dakota lake where the women often went star gazing as authorities foc...

U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound con...

A former Pittsburgh man has been convicted again of killing two Ohio college students a decade ago.A western Pennsylvania jury found 29-year-old Terrell Yarbrough gu...

A seventh suspect was arrested Tuesday in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a high school homecoming dance while as many as 20 people watched without calling poli...

An aspiring California rapper has been indicted on capital murder charges in the deaths of four people found bludgeoned to death at a central Virginia home in September.Correction: Attorney General Scandal story

In an Oct. 30 story about the workers' compensation case of an aide to a former state attorney general, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Ohio Bureau of Wo...

Charlie Beck, a 33-year veteran credited with cleaning up the image of the scandal-plagued Rampart Division, has been appointed chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, ...

Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.One ...

Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1...

Maryland is starting to keep tabs on how often doctors and nurses wash their hands at hospitals.Officials said Tuesday they're creating teams of staff members at mos...

For the past few years, neighbors assumed the foul smell enveloping their street corner had been coming from a brick building where workers churned out sausage and head che...

Expert snake hunters snared 37 pythons in South Florida during a trial hunting season to eradicate the invasive species.State wildlife officials granted 15 permits i...

An attorney says friends and family of a Chicago man accused of taking part in a terrorist scheme to attack a Danish newspaper are willing to post $1 million in real estate...

A North Carolina businessman who coached basketball at the religious school where his teenagers attended classes fatally shot his family in their upscale home before turnin...

A seventh suspect has been arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance.Richmond Police Lt. Mark...

Charlie Beck has been named Los Angeles' police chief.A person in the mayor's office told The Associated Press on Tuesday the deputy chief was appointed by Mayor Ant...

Investigators say a vehicle belonging to a nun slain on the Navajo Indian reservation has been recovered in Arizona.A colleague found Sister Marguerite Bartz's body ...

Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a gover...

A scallop boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in March, killing six of the seven crew members on board, was supposed to return to port that same day, its owner said Tue...

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy.Burl...

Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making a video of the animal struggling.Joan...

I'm not a Scrooge, really. I embrace almost all of Christmas. Except for one time-honored tradition that brings so much stress and expense that eliminating it has made the ...

This gift-giving season, $25 and under is the place to be.The economy is slowly recovering, yet consumers remain nervous, leading retailers to offer more items for $...

Early morning Dec. 26, I will stumble into the cold, hair tangled, bathrobe askew and eyes half shut. I will drag in the heavy newspaper, and over a steaming cup of coffee,...

At O'Keefe Communications, employees will celebrate the holidays this year as they did last, with a potluck in the office rather than dinner at a nice restaurant."We...

The father of one of three missing college softball players said Tuesday the women often went star gazing near a lake in southwestern North Dakota where authorities continu...

Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week's execution.Muhammad is schedul...

The Philadelphia transit system's largest union went on strike early Tuesday, stalling the city's bus, subway and trolley operations a day after the World Series shifted to...

Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week's execution.Muhammad is schedul...

Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press content next week to test whether the fi...

A federal judge is reconsidering his decision that the mothers of two women allegedly slain by FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are no...

Bernerd HardingCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 yea...

The Philadelphia transit system's largest union said that contract negotiations had broken down and its workers are on strike, bringing the city's bus, subway and trolley o...

Wet conditions were forecast to persist over the Great Lakes and move into the Northeast on Tuesday.A low pressure system and associated cold front was expected to c...

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to announce his choice for the next leader of the Los Angeles Police Department.Calling it possibly the most important decisio...

A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday after video showed calves kicked, shocked and cut while conscious had its operating license suspended three times earlier thi...

Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the home of a convicted rapist are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said M...