AP - Ruth M. Jones doesn't know what she'd do without hot meals delivered daily to her home. The 81-year-old Charleston widow can't walk or drive since a car wreck nine years ago left her stricken by arthritis.

AP - In New Orleans, cocktails are serious business. What better town for a temple to the tasty history of the American libation?

AP - Authorities on Tuesday ordered new evacuations along a strip of coast near Big Sur where firefighters were battling one of the hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires across Northern California.

AP - Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of burglarizing his next-door neighbor's home, 62-year-old Joe Horn has been both praised and vilified for his actions.

AP - Environmentalists are suing the U.S. Forest Service over what they say is an illegal dole: The agency's long-standing practice of subsidizing corn and soybean farming on a nature preserve in western Kentucky and Tennessee.

AP - The family of a 19-year-old man found strangled in his cell a day after he was jailed on charges of running over and killing a police officer is "outraged" over his death, their attorney said Tuesday.

AP - The Army's criminal investigations unit is joining the effort to catch the killer of a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier who was found dead in the bathtub of motel room, authorities said Monday.

AP - The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves.