Today is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2009. There are 54 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revoluti...

Gov. Ed Rendell says buses, subways and trolleys in Philadelphia may be rolling again soon.Rendell said late Friday night that negotiators for the city's largest tra...

A space elevator may not be rocket science but it can be just as complicated — and rewarding.After three years without a winner in a NASA-backed competition to dev...

A Seattle team has won $900,000 in a competition aimed at developing technology based on the science fiction concept of a space elevator.The team earned the money by...

Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.A new repo...

Several hundred people gathered at a base stadium where the Army's chief chaplain offered prayers for families and victims of the shooting rampage that left 13 dead and 30 ...

The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge.Patrol investigator Chris Linehan says he arrested Sam...

As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 833

As of Friday, Nov. 6, 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 la...

The Los Angeles City Council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that would ban the declawing of cats.The unanimous vote Friday follows a similar action b...

Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Fla., engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obt...

Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.A report f...

A top official in Gov. Bill Richardson's cabinet has resigned over a drunken driving arrest just days after she was appointed to a spot in President Barack Obama's administ...

Police on Friday shot and wounded a person-of-interest sought in the Halloween night killing of a Seattle police officer, just as a massive memorial service for the officer...

A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.Mansfield Neblett told T...

An 85-foot blue spruce soon will embark on a long journey from the mountains of northeastern Arizona to Washington, D.C., to stand as the Capitol Christmas tree.The ...

A Michigan man charged with killing an abortion protester and a business owner told police he had guns loaded in his truck when he took two nieces and a friend to school ju...

A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo Indian reservation in search of cash or valuable items....

An Army veteran admitted in federal court Friday to plotting with his wife to bilk the U.S. government by faking paralysis after a car wreck to get disability benefits and ...

A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.<...

A New York City woman convicted of killing her father and mutilating his body has been sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.After Friday's sentencing, Queens Dist...

Authorities in Wisconsin say a deputy shot an inmate at a hospital in suburban Milwaukee after the inmate began a scuffle.Waukesha Memorial Hospital Kathy Allen says...

Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted.A loud, popping noise. ...

Two years after the remains of a toddler who came to be known as "Baby Grace" were dumped in Galveston Bay, the child's stepfather was convicted of capital murder in her be...

A man so broke that he said he didn't have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one p...

Fort Hood suspect gave away belongings, said methodical goodbyes, before shooting rampageFORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cle...

A Texas jury has convicted a man for the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.Jur...

A Guatemalan designated as one of the world's biggest drug kingpins has been convicted of cocaine importation and distribution charges.Jorge Mario Paredes-Cordova (H...

As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship â...

As the lone survivor of a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion called for an investigation into why prison officials let a writer interview one of the defendants for a boo...

An 85-foot blue spruce soon will embark on a long journey from the mountains of northeastern Arizona to Washington, D.C., to stand as the Capitol Christmas tree.The ...

An Army medical official says the man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.Hos...

An engine tailcone fell off a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after takeoff Thursday and plummeted thousands of feet before landing harmlessly on a lawn in a Long Island reside...

In an Oct. 30 story about African-American Muslims, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a 2007 Pew survey estimated that 35 percent of the nation's Muslims were ...

As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship â...

Gay marriage opponents pulled off another victory at the ballot box this week by using a tried-and-tested argument: Approve it and children will be taught homosexuality in ...

State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organ...

A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a student at two Arizona high schools wanted to play basketball and hoped to get a college scholarship, authorities said.Yuma ...

A single hole-in-one is a big enough dream for most golfers. But two in one round? That's some luck. Reeves Barbour, the 30-year-old son of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, ...

The city's largest transit union said Friday that no progress has been made in contract negotiations, tamping down hopes of an end to a strike that has idled subways, buses...

A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics.The ...

Retired orthopedic surgeon Chris Smith thought his hunt was over when he bagged a white tail deer with a bow and arrow near Sheridan. Because the light was fading, he decid...

A wind-power company says a western Maine site it's been looking at is too windy for turbines. First Wind's Matthew Kearns told a public meeting in Rumford on Thursday that...

A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo Indian reservation in search of cash or valuable items....

A federal judge is imposing an unusual election system on a New York village after finding the existing system was unfair to Hispanics.Under the new system, resident...

Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot has pledged $6.1 million to a private foundation to pay for programs at the Army's Command and General Staf...

The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I.The setting is a comfort...

Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman.The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who'd lived in Phoenix since she was a young girl, wanted her hair ...

Some documents detailing the case against a former Yale University employee accused of killing a graduate student must be unsealed and made available to the public in three...

Court records identify a 19-year-old Las Vegas woman as the leader of a burglary ring suspected of a series of break-ins at celebrities' homes in Los Angeles.Search ...

A Pennsylvania appeals court says state police mishandled a prostitution investigation in which they gave a private citizen $360 so he could pay for sex at a massage parlor...

Thousands of family members, friends and colleagues said farewell Friday to seven Coast Guard members who died when their plane collided with a Marine helicopter off the Sa...

In a Nov. 4 story about the end of a publishing partnership between pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest, The Associated Press erroneously reported that subscriptions to ...

An appeals court has ruled Pennsylvania State Police botched a prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage p...

Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.That's true even fo...

A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso.Police offi...

A Nevada Democratic Party leader who pleaded guilty to hitting his teenage son and throwing him on the hood of a car has resigned, according to a letter received Friday by ...

The last time unemployment climbed past 10 percent, "The A-Team" was one of the top 10 TV shows and Michael Jackson was about to release "Thriller."Much has changed ...

Police in North Carolina delayed for more than an hour after a chilling emergency call that captured a gunshot before sending officers to the home where a real estate devel...

Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years:___Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 13 people were killed and 30 wounded in a shooting ra...

A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others...

The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors.Anthony Sowell was the guy who li...

A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been a...

Army Chief of Staff George Casey has asked Army leaders across the country to review force protection measures after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, left 13 peopl...

A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to comm...

Military, friends and families have observed a moment of silence at Fort Hood, Texas and other U.S. military bases as a show of respect for the victims of the shooting ramp...

Charges have been filed against three men accused of beating a man who sleepwalks after they found him asleep in one of the men's apartment. Iowa City Police Sgt. Troy Kels...

Police in Orlando say a gunman has been apprehended after killing one person and injuring five others at a downtown office building where he was let go two years ago.Doctor: Some Fort Hood victims may still die

A doctor at a hospital where several of the wounded from the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas were taken says some patients may still die.W. Roy Smythe (smeyeth)...

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a m...

Attorneys say a construction company that was working on the Minneapolis bridge when it collapsed in 2007 have settled lawsuits filed by victims.Progressive Contract...

Operating a motorized recliner while drunk apparently drives up the chair's value. Police in northern Minnesota listed the "DWI chair" on eBay after the owner was arrested ...

19-year-old man charged with murder in slaying of nun on New Mexico Indian reservation...

A deep-water fish that's known as much for its ugly mug as its ability to gobble up whole urchins and crabs in a few swift chomps won't be getting federal protection after ...

An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport ut...

Two 16-year-old boys have been charged as adults in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach.Los Angeles County pr...

A trucker from Northern California has been given the death sentence for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty...

An upstate New York man has been sentenced to six months in jail for hiding his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashing her Social Security checks.Rosland A...

The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad."US 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead," motorists are ...

Oregon police have charged a man with drunken driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiti...

U.S. mosques fearful of a backlash after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas are stepping up security.The man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas in a r...

Marine biologists think they've figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.The ...

Officials searched Friday for a gunman who opened fire in a downtown office building where he used to work. At least six people were hurt.People streamed out of the ...

In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip ...

Oregon police have charged a man with drunk driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting...

An apartment complex manager says the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas recently had a religious bumper sticker torn off his car.The manager, John Thom...

Officials said at least eight people were hurt in a shooting at a downtown office building Friday and a gunman was on the loose.People streamed out of the high-rise ...

People are streaming out of an office building in downtown Orlando, Fla., where officials say a shooter is on the loose.Orange County Sheriff's Spokesman Jim Solomon...

Water officials have banned septic tanks in portions of Malibu, ending years of wrangling between surfers, environmentalists and residents in the celebrity-filled community...

Jury deliberations continued Friday in the New Jersey murder trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to kill his former son-in-law.Edward Ates (AYTZ') says ...

The last time unemployment climbed past 10 percent, "The A-Team" was one of the top 10 TV shows and Michael Jackson was about to release "Thriller."Much has changed ...

Police say an Ohio man sent a letter to a business associate saying his family would soon be dead before fatally shooting his wife, son and himself.The businessman w...

Charges have been dropped against a retired coach accused of hitting a 7-year-old autistic boy who was having a "meltdown" in the Richland Public Library.A video fro...

A memorial service will be held after seven Coast Guard members and two Marines were killed when an airplane collided with a Marine helicopter off the coast of San Diego.Wash. officer pleads not guilty to manslaughter

An Everett police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting a drunken driving suspect has pleaded not guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court.The Everett Hera...

Defense attorneys for the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart say a psychiatrist's report deeming him competent for trial is advocacy, not an objective eva...

Crowds roared and church bells rang in lower Manhattan on Friday as the Yankees' World Series championship celebration revved up with a ticker-tape parade.As the pla...

Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll.That's true even for people are at ...

A festive air is filling Wall Street as the New York Yankees' World Series celebration revs up with a ticker-tape parade.At a subway station near the parade route, f...

A fourth teen is facing murder charges in the beating death of a Chicago high school honor student last month.The 14-year-old's name isn't being released. He was cha...

An early morning garage fire forced nine people from the home of a jailed Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she had become too "westernized."...

Stocks fluctuated in a tight range Friday as investors found some positives for the market in a surprisingly weak jobs report.The Labor Department said employers cut...

The city's largest transit union on Friday was reviewing a new contract proposal that Gov. Ed Rendell hoped could end a four-day-old strike that has idled subways, trolleys...

Stocks rose early Friday as investors shrugged off news that more jobs were lost in October than expected, pushing the unemployment rate above 10 percent for the first time...

An early morning garage fire forced nine people out of the home of a jailed Iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she had become too "westernized."Neighbor: Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment, Jeff Carlton And Mike Baker

An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days bef...

Jury deliberations resumed Friday in the New Jersey murder trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to kill his former son-in-law.Edward Ates (AYTZ') says he...

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik admitted in court Thursday that he lied to the White House while being considered for chief of Homeland Security....

An engine tail cone popped off a Delta airlines jet shortly after takeoff from New York's Kennedy Airport. It plummeted thousands of feet into a Long Island neighborhood be...

The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post.Lt. Gen. Bob Cone sai...

Stock futures sank Friday after the government said more jobs were lost in October than expected, pushing the unemployment rate above 10 percent for the first time since 19...

Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, the base commander s...

A Florida thief with a peculiar penchant for Rolex watches faces up to 25 years in prison.Leonardo Perez has pleaded guilty to charges he stole eight gold Rolex Pres...

Gov. Ed Rendell said Friday a new proposal has been sent to the union in an effort to end the strike by Philadelphia transit workers, now entering its fourth day.The...

A campus religious leader is unhappy about a study at Duke University that invites female students to attend parties where they can buy sex toys.The News & Obser...

The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire...

Milwaukee police have arrested a man accused of stealing a truck carrying 900 doses of swine flu vaccine.The suspect is a 38-year-old man with a criminal record. Pol...

Instead of figuring out where to put nuclear waste, why can't we just find a way to neutralize it so it's no longer hazardous?Curiosity about what to do with nuclear...

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooti...

A military official says one more person has died after being injured during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.Post spokesman Tyler Broadway said early Friday...

A surge in medical marijuana in California has left communities trying to regulate or ban the drug. This wine country town has welcomed a dispensary as a strong source of t...

"Just get a doctor over here!" the desperate 10-year-old boy begs a 911 operator. "Please hurry up. It looks like he's dying."A recording of a six-minute 911 call ob...

A Catholic church spokesman says an arrest in connection with the slaying of a nun on the Navajo reservation should help people sleep better. But federal authorities remain...

Chris Dudley's free throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena taking aim at a governor's chair — and Oregon's Repu...

William AveryTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Former Kansas Gov. William Avery, who served one term in the Statehouse in the 1960s, has died. He was 98.Gov. Mark Parkins...

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooti...

Sheriff Bobby Haddock knew time was running out for a 7-month-old girl missing in the Florida Panhandle.For five days, searchers had scoured the dense vines and mars...

After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction in its first trial ...

Police say there's only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell...

Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earli...

Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earli...

At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence. FDA inspectors found roaches,...

No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and b...

Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer — until, she sa...

Members of a Montana-based sect whose influence expanded as it prepared for a nuclear holocaust that never came, now search for new directions after the death of Elizabeth ...

Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that ha...

The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaultin...

A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.Customs agents found the 1965 v...

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 won all five awards it was nominated for Thursday at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas, including two of the top awards of the night and honors in bo...

The former manager of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid says he never intentionally violated federal laws.But Sholom Rubas...

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in th...