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- SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor
Published: 11/20/09
- South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching
Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chair…
- Lawyer: Ohio's legal injection a human experiment
Published: 11/20/09
- An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new
lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human
experi…
- Panel: Extending nuclear weapons life successful
Published: 11/20/09
- An independent panel says the United States can extend the life
of aging nuclear weapons for decades with existing prog…
- Atty: Hospital hearing set for Fort Hood suspect
Published: 11/20/09
- An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass
shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first cou…

- Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
Published: 11/20/09
- The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Saturday from
one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gu…

- Giuliani back in spotlight _ but what's the show?
Published: 11/20/09
- Whether he's planning another run for the White House or a bid
for senator or governor, or he just misses the spotlight…
- Diocese: Pedophile priests should get benefits
Published: 11/20/09
- The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is obligated to pay
retirement benefits to six priests who are confirmed pedophiles,…
- CA man allegedly paid teens to spit in his face
Published: 11/20/09
- A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for
misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenag…
- Wrongfully convicted NYC man freed after 17 years
Published: 11/20/09
- A prison system official says a New York City man is free after
spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder befo…
- Militia movement resurfaces across nation
Published: 11/20/09
- Norm Olson's genial tone belies his reputation as a radical
militiaman, yet here he is, at 63, an affable grandfather
e…
- U. of Neb. board votes down stem-cell rule changes
Published: 11/20/09
- The University of Nebraska's governing board has voted down a
proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryon…
- 1 dead, 3 injured in Arizona mobile home fire
Published: 11/20/09
- A 2-year-old boy dragged a 1-year-old Arizona girl Friday from a
house fire that killed her mother and injured two othe…
- NY man convicted in hot-car death of father, 85
Published: 11/20/09
- A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment
after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot…

- Atty seeks psych care for Mo. teen murder suspect
Published: 11/20/09
- A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be
sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of…
- Indy man convicted of killing 7 gets life sentence
Published: 11/20/09
- An Indianapolis man convicted of killing three children and four
adults during a home invasion robbery three years ago …
- Ethics committee: No punishment for Burris
Published: 11/20/09
- The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland
Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or in…
- FBI investigating use of stun gun on 10-year-old
Published: 11/20/09
- The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a
police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old gir…
- Emergency landing on tundra as smooth as runway
Published: 11/20/09
- An air taxi with eight people aboard made an emergency landing
on tundra when the engine failed near Alaska's Bering Se…
- Island's bison given birth control to control herd
Published: 11/20/09
- Birth control for bison?
- Arizona burglars steal box holding baby's ashes
Published: 11/20/09
- An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden
music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.

- AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies
Published: 11/20/09
- As the nation's military academies try to recruit more
minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congre…
- Small SC county reels from corruption scandal
Published: 11/20/09
- When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina
town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up …
- Former smoker to discuss $300 million Fla. verdict
Published: 11/20/09
- A former smoker in Fort Lauderdale is speaking out about her
$300 million verdict against Philip Morris.
- NYC model who married doorman sues upscale co-op
Published: 11/20/09
- A foot model in New York City is suing her upscale apartment
building, claiming the co-op board is trying to force her …
- Woman who had nearly 370 animals gets probation
Published: 11/20/09
- A woman who had been charged with child endangerment after
almost 370 animals were seized from her Missouri farm has be…

- Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency
Published: 11/20/09
- A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex
machine ever built?
- US House districts with fewest academy nominations
Published: 11/20/09
- A list of congressional districts with the fewest military
academy nominations for the classes of 2009 to 2013, the
off…

- Tiny Iowa town has the chargers, awaiting drivers
Published: 11/20/09
- Hoping to see the USA in your Chevrolet Volt or Nissan Leaf? The
tiny Iowa town of Elk Horn will have plenty of electri…

- Volunteers strive to save Santa letter service
Published: 11/20/09
- Santa's "elves" at the North Pole have been given their walking
papers _ but they're not going quietly.
- The nation's weather
Published: 11/20/09
- New England was expected to see another dreary day, while the
Pacific Northwest remains under wintry conditions on Friday.

- San Francisco's health care a model during debate
Published: 11/20/09
- This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul.
Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefi…
- Biologists save fish after landslide
Published: 11/20/09
- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and
rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range lef…
- Obituaries in the news
Published: 11/20/09
- Jeanne-Claude
- Police arrest 3 suspected of killing Vegas officer
Published: 11/20/09
- Three people were arrested on suspicion of killing an off-duty
Las Vegas police officer in a shootout in his garage, No…
- Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens in Times Square
Published: 11/20/09
- An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da
Vinci's 500-year-old inventions and machines is openin…
- Hearing begins for Maui man accused of being spy
Published: 11/20/09
- A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China
suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert…
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Published: 11/20/09
- Teenager pleads guilty to murdering Border Patrol agent shot 4
times in head in July

- NYC stamp auction raises $3.2 million for museum
Published: 11/19/09
- A New York City gallery has auctioned over 200 rare postage
stamps to raise $3.2 million for the Smithsonian National P…
- UN committee criticizes NKorea rights violations
Published: 11/19/09
- A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday
at widespread reports of torture and other grave human r…
- Man who claimed disability spotted on TV show
Published: 11/19/09
- California tax officials say an interior designer's false
disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home
…

- Bus company: Driver in Minn. crash had aneurysm
Published: 11/19/09
- A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the
bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crash…
- NJ dad to testify before human rights panel
Published: 11/19/09
- A New Jersey man who's been battling in Brazilian courts to get
custody of his 9-year-old son is scheduled to testify b…
- Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials
Published: 11/19/09
- Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United
States and abroad:
- Plea deal reached in Pa. steel town arson case
Published: 11/19/09
- A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires
in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has w…
- Al-Qaida suspect promises NY trial boycott
Published: 11/19/09
- A U.S.-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and
helping al-Qaida vowed Thursday to boycott her January t…

- Texas inmate executed after gov. rejects clemency
Published: 11/19/09
- Inmate Robert Lee Thompson was executed Thursday evening for his
part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas g…
- Couple charged in Phoenix airport luggage thefts
Published: 11/19/09
- Authorities say an Arizona couple has been indicted in the theft
of nearly 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim c…

- Jurors in Md. mayor's trial keep asking questions
Published: 11/19/09
- A judge in Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's theft trial told
jurors they must stop deliberating and asking questions afte…
- Judge: Freed ex-sailor can be retried in murder
Published: 11/19/09
- Prosecutors can retry an ex-sailor who received a conditional
pardon from Virginia's governor after spending 11 years i…
- Police officers shot, suspect killed after chase
Published: 11/19/09
- A shootout left two bank robbery suspects dead and two police
officers wounded Thursday in suburban Denver, police said.
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