AP - About 700 yards from the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York officials want to build what could be the equivalent of a bird magnet: a very large garbage transfer station.

AP - A 13-year-old cancer patient and his mother, who fled Minnesota last week to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy for him, returned voluntarily Monday, and the boy was examined by a doctor.

AP - An explosion early Monday morning on Manhattan's Upper East Side, possibly caused by a small bomb made from fireworks, destroyed a sidewalk bench and shattered windows in a Starbucks coffee shop.

AP - Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody's doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.

AP - Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet.

AP - The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama's oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets.

AP - "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" claimed a box office victory over "Terminator Salvation."

AP - A freight train smashed into a minivan stuck on railroad tracks Monday as a police officer scrambled to help a man pull his wife and three children to safety. One child remained in the van but was uninjured.

AP - A Detroit city council member paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records showed her home doesn't exist.

AP - An Oregon mother was arrested Saturday in the drowning of her 4-year-old son after the boy and his 7-year-old sister ended up in the chilly Williamette River.