AP - State police issued an Amber Alert on Wednesday for four children taken with their mother from an apartment where another woman was found fatally stabbed. -- read full article
AP - The Fort Bragg sergeant charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn baby but married to someone else, police said Wednesday.
AP - Prosecutors appealed the dismissal of charges against a Marine officer accused of not investigating the killings of 24 Iraqis, a defense attorney said Tuesday.
AP - Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison on Tuesday for his role in the cut-rate sales of city land to his former mistress.
AP - Federal agents who raided the office and home of a top Cuyahoga County official as part of a corruption probe were looking for evidence on fundraising, travel and contacts with outside contractors, according to an inventory of seized items released Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - A woman charged in a bizarre bank robbery in which a pizza deliveryman wore a bomb that ultimately killed him is not mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - A white police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black woman holding her 1-year-old son thought he was being fired upon by a drug dealer when he pulled the trigger, his attorney said Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - For more than 60 years the Marine Corps has proudly told the story of Sgt. Michael Strank and the five other warriors who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
AP - Phil Spector's new defense team lost a series of pretrial motions Tuesday, but the judge promised to reconsider some of his rulings if it becomes necessary during the music producer's second murder trial.
AP - Three environmental activists were indicted on charges that they helped vandalize a U.S. Forest Service research station in northern Wisconsin, prosecutors said Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease by taking a new approach: breaking up the protein tangles that clog victims' brains. -- read full article
AP - The nation's top transportation official said the federal approach to funding is "broken" and presented a plan Tuesday that seeks to cut the time it takes to carry out new highway and transit projects. -- read full article
AP - As they started their production of "Annie," a musical about an orphan's unwavering hope, the children of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church witnessed a scene that may have rattled theirs.
