AP - A strong earthquake jolted Alaska's most populous region Monday, sending residents and office workers diving under desks and huddling in doorways but causing almost no damage.

AP - The District of Columbia Fire Department has raised the death toll to nine in Monday's collision of two Metrorail trains.

AP - For sale: A bit of the Old West. The historic Eklund Hotel — complete with refurbished guest rooms, a saloon with bullet holes in the tin ceiling and a resident ghost — has closed its doors.

AP - Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away.

AP - Two journalists held over seven months by the Taliban in Pakistan endured death threats before they escaped by tricking guards and dropping down a 20-foot wall with a rope, according to one of the former captives.

AP - Shalimar Pabon didn't see the pink slip coming. She didn't expect a yearlong search for another steady, full-time job that forced her to seek welfare benefits for her five children and herself.