AP - After a long day battling one of Northern California's most stubborn wildfires, dozens of weary firefighters gathered in a remote wilderness clearing near the fire's front lines to get a chopper ride back to camp.

AP - A flight attendant's assault accusations against the wife of renowned evangelical pastor Joel Osteen are simply a money grab, Victoria Osteen's defense attorney said Thursday.

AP - What's captivated us are the photos — the toddler's fawnlike eyes and chubby cheeks resting in her hands.

AP - A Connecticut man says he is convinced the mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple was a German student who lived with his family decades ago.

AP - In a district where young professionals live in airy lofts and flock to trendy restaurants and clubs, historians are intent on revealing the buried remnants of Richmond's bustling slave-trading past.

AP - Fire raging through rugged, dense terrain is complicating rescue crews' efforts to recover victims and evidence from the remote part of a Northern California forest where a firefighting helicopter crashed. Nine people were presumed dead.