AP - Eight police officers who raided an innocent family's house last year, trading fire with the terrified husband, have received medals — and that has outraged the family. -- read full article
AP - Delta flight attendants found the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane that landed in Atlanta early Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the company said.
AP - Vendors along one of the main roads leading to Yosemite National Park this summer were finally seeing business turn around following a rock slide that kept tour buses away for the previous two years.
AP - A crane removing steel girders from an aging bridge over a Central Texas river became overloaded and toppled Wednesday, killing one worker and injuring another, officials said. -- read full article
AP - Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared. Still, it rattled nerves, causing people to vow to step up their emergency preparations.
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.
