AP - Both sides rested in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and armed robbery case Wednesday after a last-minute dispute over testimony blurted out by a witness threatened to derail the trial.

AP - Long-delayed plans to build office towers, transportation links and cultural spaces at the World Trade Center site is again getting new deadlines and price tags.

AP - Empty pasture is all that's left on the site of one-room Amish schoolhouse where two years ago a gunman's attack left five girls dead and five others wounded, and the anniversary of the massacre was expected to pass quietly.

AP - The U.S. government has been sending fewer Iraqis to Michigan because of its struggling economy, though some expect the refugees will make their way here anyway, costing the cash-strapped state more in the long run.

AP - Don Cohorst has acres of vineyards, a stash of small-batch vintages and a barn he wants to turn into a cozy tasting room for vino-sipping visitors.

AP - A commuter train engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in Southern California last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said Wednesday.

AP - Search teams combing a rugged part of eastern California for any sign of Steve Fossett, the adventurer who vanished on a solo flight more than a year ago, have spotted what appeared to be wreckage Wednesday, authorities said.

AP - A crash reconstruction expert says a South Carolina state trooper accused of intentionally ramming a fleeing suspect with his cruiser steered into the path of the man.

AP - An appeals court Wednesday ordered a Chicago police officer freed from prison in an Iowa assault case that has top brass back home defending one of their own.