AP - A terrifying shooting spree that stretched from a small northwest Washington town onto the state's busiest highway left six people dead and at least two more wounded on Tuesday.
AP - Hurricane Gustav didn't barrel ashore as the devastating terror everyone feared, leaving some of the 2 million people who evacuated second-guessing their decision to flee.
AP - Wildlife officials have added some bite to their warnings against bothering a family of bottlenose dolphins hanging out in two New Jersey rivers: They say sharks have been known to frequent the area as well. -- read full article
AP - An air tanker that had been used to drop retardant on one wildfire in the Sierra Nevada crashed after taking off for a flight to a second blaze, killing all three crew members. -- read full article
AP - A judge on Tuesday refused to block a hearing that could force Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office, putting the governor in control of the mayor's political fate and adding pressure on him to settle two criminal cases.
AP - A commercial airline pilot who alleges his job was threatened because his name was on a secret terrorist watch list is being allowed to resume flying, according to a letter his lawyers released Tuesday. The pilot claims he was put on the list because he is Muslim. -- read full article
AP - Hundreds of Chicago public school students boycotted the first day of classes Tuesday to protest unequal school funding and instead rode buses more than 30 miles north to try to enroll in a wealthy suburban district. -- read full article
AP - When Travis Watkins was asked a few years ago to devise a college engineering project that would help people with disabilities, the first person who came to mind was his father, who once cherished walks along the beach.
AP - Checkpoints popped up around New Orleans on Tuesday to keep the city empty of residents so work could get under way to restore power and other critical services knocked out by Hurricane Gustav.
AP - Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.
AP - Three years ago, corpses lay rotting in the streets outside the Morial Convention Center. It was a scene so chaotic and depraved, even the police dared not venture inside.
AP - This summer could mark the end of Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park. But years of back-and-forth bickering among a developer, city officials and ride operators over the park's future leaves residents wondering — is the closure threat real this time?
AP - Environmentalists fighting the practice of oil drilling off Southern California will go before a county board next week to advocate for an oil company that wants to do just that.
AP - Officials say a Michigan man survived a hot air balloon crash in South Carolina when the balloon's basket got caught in a tree about 10 feet above the ground. -- read full article
