ST. HELENS, Ore. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a man for murder after he was released from the Oregon state mental hospital and accused of killing a woman making a routine medicine delivery to his apartment.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The judge in the John Edwards trial says she is dealing with a juror issue and she is warning the panel not to deliberate outside the jury room or in small groups.
NEW YORK (AP) — Another flare-up in Europe's debt crisis has knocked U.S. markets lower.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two female Army Reserve officers have sued the U.S. Department of Defense and the Army in a bid to reverse military policies banning women from serving in combat roles.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The commander in charge of the raid to kill Osama bin Laden is defending his proposal that would give him more authority to send special operations forces overseas to address problems like terrorists or sudden Arab Spring-style unrest.
CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) — Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia — a whole community of 1,400 simply gone.
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz was hospitalized for fear he might attempt suicide as he awaited arraignment Friday, exactly 33 years after the boy vanished without a trace in one of New York City's most traumatic missing-child cases.
HONOLULU (AP) — It's been a year since two sisters were last seen waiting for a school bus in their Saipan village, prompting a massive search involving local authorities form the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the FBI and volunteers.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Swiss chemicals maker Syngenta's agreement to pay $105 million to settle a nearly 8-year-old lawsuit over one of its popular agricultural herbicides could help reimburse nearly 2,000 community water systems that have had to filter the chemical from its drinking water, a plaintiffs' attorneys said Friday.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — State prosecutors say a defense motion asking a judge to dismiss child sexual-abuse charges against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is premature because there are no "facts" in the form of sworn testimony on which to base the request.
MADRID (AP) — The board of directors of Spain's troubled bank, Bankia, has asked the Spanish government for €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support.
VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday in a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.
BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. clampdown on visas for instructors at China's flagship cultural program overseas has incensed Beijing, with state media pouncing on it as an attempt by Washington to frustrate Chinese global ambitions.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections, saying the measures have hurt the country's poorest and most vulnerable people.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday after sailing through a practice rendezvous the day before. The unmanned SpaceX Dragon was on track most of the morning to deliver a half-ton of supplies and become the first commercial vessel to visit the space station. But as the capsule drew within 100 feet, flight controllers commanded it to retreat.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday after sailing through a practice rendezvous the day before. The unmanned SpaceX Dragon was on track most of the morning to deliver a half-ton of supplies and become the first commercial vessel to visit the space station. But as the capsule drew within 100 feet, flight controllers commanded it to retreat.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday after sailing through a practice rendezvous the day before. The unmanned SpaceX Dragon was on track most of the morning to deliver a half-ton of supplies and become the first commercial vessel to visit the space station. But as the capsule drew within 100 feet, flight controllers commanded it to retreat.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, his lawyer and U.S. officials say.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's prime minister says a group of Lebanese Shiites who were kidnapped in Syria have been released.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's investment in green energy requires too much green paper for some in Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Republican says his chamber will vote this summer on continuing the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday over his contact with a top aide to former Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada lawmaker who resigned in disgrace last year after lying about his affair with the staffer's wife.
WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is being asked to appear before a Senate panel next month to answer questions about the bank's $2 billion-plus trading loss.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A forensic scientist testified Friday that two cotton balls and a syringe needle allegedly saved after a steroids injection tested positive for Roger Clemens' DNA, a key moment as the government tries to prove the former pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The legal team that defended Sen. Ted Stevens in his corruption trial has harshly criticized as "laughable" and "pathetic" the punishment handed out to a pair of prosecutors found to have engaged in reckless professional misconduct in the case.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has passed legislation adding Israel to the list of more than 75 countries eligible for temporary visas given to foreign nationals who invest in U.S.-based businesses.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
WASHINGTON (AP) — D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry says he misspoke when he referred to the Polish community with the disparaging term "Polacks."
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) — Police say they have recovered a gun that they believe was used in a random shooting in White River Junction, Vt., last month but so far have made no arrests.
VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday — a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second time at Sunday services on Father's Day to kick off a fundraising campaign for the lead opposition group to November's ballot question asking voters to legalize same-sex marriages.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Smoke from a wildfire has closed a section of Orlando's main highway in the city's tourist district.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'-fee) and other state leaders have held a silent wreath-laying ceremony to honor military veterans in advance of Memorial Day.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio juvenile detention center considered in crisis less than a year ago due to gang violence and other problems has become a safe and well-managed facility, according to a court-appointed monitor who tempered praise for the changes with caution that an unregulated population increase could undo the progress.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Wesleyan University has announced a program that will enable students to graduate with a bachelor's degree in three years, joining a growing number of colleges offering the shorter path as a way to save students money.
AURORA, Ky. (AP) — Cars were rolling again across a western Kentucky bridge four months after it was torn apart by an errant cargo ship passing in the night.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House members who are trying to make the step up to the Senate this year are finding themselves on the defensive about Washington experience that traditionally has been a big asset.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch are calling on Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
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