AP - Not just Wall Street is running scared.

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

AP - Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati.

AP - A coalition of child advocates is challenging an Arkansas policy that bars unmarried couples who live together from being foster parents.

AP - The judge and lawyers for both sides in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and armed robbery case are meeting behind closed doors to work on jury instructions, and plan to present them before closing arguments later Thursday.

AP - The grandparents of nine children who were given up by their father under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law said Thursday that they wished he would have come to them for help.

AP - A top government health official rejected the idea of an immediate ban on cough and cold medicines for young children, saying it might cause unintended harm.

AP - The owners of the World Trade Center site scaled back designs for a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday and delayed other projects by several years, but said costs will still be more than $1 billion over budget.

AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he's going to ask the City Council to change the term limits law so he can run for a third term.

AP - Searchers found the wreckage of Steve Fossett's plane in California's rugged Sierra Nevada just over a year after the millionaire adventurer vanished on a solo flight, and the craft appears to have hit the mountainside head-on, authorities said Thursday.

AP - So close and yet so far. It's a frustration being felt by Americans who thought the finish line to their working life was almost in sight.

AP - In this city long associated with the peace movement, some teens are taking an unlikely stance — campaigning to keep the armed forces' Junior ROTC program in public schools.