AP - U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.

AP - When Jessica Stollings learned on Facebook that John McCain had named Sarah Palin as his running mate, the 26-year-old from Bristol, Tenn., took the day off and picked up some campaign yard signs. Just like that, she went from "just a voter" to a McCain evangelist.

AP - Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces on Sunday, killing five policemen. In Baghdad, the leader of a Sunni group allied with the U.S. died when his booby-trapped car exploded.

AP - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama raised $66 million in August, a record for a presidential candidate that illustrated his continuing appeal to donors and his robust outreach to new contributors.

AP - Government officials and top Wall Street bankers continued talks Sunday in a harried effort to sell Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and avoid a collapse of the beleaguered investment bank that could severely disrupt global markets.

AP - Federal investigators worked Sunday to unravel the commuter train collision with a freight locomotive that killed at least 25 people, urging caution as a transit company blamed its own engineer for the horrific accident.

AP - Rescue crews canvassing neighborhoods with dump trucks, helicopters and airboats have saved nearly 2,000 residents who ignored evacuation orders and stayed to face Hurricane Ike, authorities said Sunday.

AFP - Rescuers picked through a trail of devastation in Texas after Ike flattened hundreds of homes, flooded barrier islands and knocked out power to millions of people.

AFP - An Aeroflot Boeing-737 jet crashed near a Ural mountains city Sunday killing all 88 passengers and crew on board, after reportedly catching fire in the sky, the airline said.

Reuters - At least 25 people were killed in the head-on crash of a commuter train and a freight train near Los Angeles that officials on Saturday attributed to the failure of the passenger train engineer to stop at a red light.

Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published on Sunday he will remain in office until 2010, a decision likely to stoke tensions with Islamist Hamas rivals who oppose his peace talks with Israel.

Reuters - When General David Petraeus took over as U.S. military commander in Iraq in February 2007, the country was on the brink of all-out civil war.

Reuters - Police officers trawled slums and criminal hideouts in India's capital on Sunday rounding up suspects, after serial bombings in the city a day earlier killed at least 20 people and wounded nearly 100.

Reuters - A Russian Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed near the Ural mountains on Sunday, killing all 88 passengers and crew on board, including 21 foreign nationals.