Associated Press

Associated Press

• Court to hear Arizona immigration appeal Nov. 1 - 09/20/2010
  A federal appeals court says it will hear arguments Nov. 1 in Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's appeal of a ruling that put parts of the state's new immigration law on hold. Brewer asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reverse the ruling that arose out of a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department. Her lawye
  

• Murder, new assault charges in serial stabbings - 09/20/2010
  A man suspected in a series of stabbings in Michigan and two other states has been charged with murder and four new attempted murder charges, a prosecutor announced Monday. Elias Abuelazam, 33, is charged with open murder in the Aug. 2 killing of Arnold Minor in Flint, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said. If convicted, he face
  

• 'Sexting' Wisconsin DA goes on medical leave - 09/20/2010
  The Wisconsin prosecutor caught sending racy text messages to a domestic abuse victim went on medical leave Monday and hired an attorney who argues the matter should not cost him his job. The announcement that Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz is on indefinite medical leave comes after he announced Friday he would get therapy
  

• Crews battle Utah wildfire sparked at firing range - 09/20/2010
  A wind-stoked wildfire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across thousands of acres Monday as crews rushed to keep it from burning more than four homes that were destroyed overnight. The fire moved back on itself Monday as the Utah National Guard acknowledged it wasn't the first time that live-fi
  

• NASA inspector general faults space agency boss - 09/20/2010
  NASA's inspector general is criticizing the head of the space agency for his contact with an oil company. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is a former board member of Marathon Oil Corp. and remains a major stockholder. He contacted a senior Marathon official in April, seeking advice about an alternative fuel project that NASA was con
  

• Sarkozy pledges more to fight against poverty - 09/20/2010
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday pledged to boost aid to the world's poorest by 20 percent over the next three years and issued a plea for other developed nations to join him in meeting U.N. anti-poverty targets by 2015. With Millennium Development Goals, set by the U.N. 10 years ago, lagging and hard hit by the global reces
  

• Palestinans seek more aid, pledge reforms - 09/20/2010
  Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad is appealing for more international aid, pledging continued reforms and vowing that his government will be ready for statehood "at any point" if additional assistance is forthcoming. Fayyad said the Palestinian Authority is on target to meet its own contributions to its budget but fac
  

• Judge in Conn. home invasion trial is hospitalized - 09/20/2010
  The Connecticut judge presiding at the trial of a man charged in a deadly home invasion remains hospitalized, but a hospital spokesman says his condition has been upgraded to good from fair. Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman Mark D'Antonio told The Associated Press that Judge Jon Blue remained at the hospital Monday morning. D'Antonio
  

• For deaf, wireless devices a new portal to world - 09/20/2010
  Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people. Gone are the days of a deaf person driving to someone's house just to see if they are home. Wives text their deaf husbands in the basement, just as a hearing wife might yell down the stairs. Deaf teens blend in
  

• Carter sees tea party parallels to his 1976 run - 09/20/2010
  Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he sees parallels between today's tea party and his own campaign for the White House in 1976. But he doesn't think the movement will be much of a factor beyond this fall's elections. The Georgia Democrat told The Associated Press he rode a wave of voter discontent to the presidency on the heel
  

• Cops seek NY man in death of NC chief's daughter - 09/20/2010
  A police chief pleaded Monday for fellow law enforcement officers nationwide to help find a man accused of killing his 23-year-old daughter, whose body was found over the weekend in a self-storage unit. "They took my daughter, guys. Play it right, play it by the rules, but y'all get out there and find this guy for me and when it
  

• Washington state councilman attacked by bear - 09/20/2010
  Bellevue City Councilman John Chelminiak (CHEL'-min-ak) has a good excuse for missing Monday's meeting. He's in Harborview Medical Center in Seattle recovering from a bear mauling Friday night at a cabin near Lake Wenatchee. His wife, Lynn Semler, told KOMO-TV she was in the cabin when she heard yelling. When she opened the
  

• Ky. man claims caffeine insanity in wife's death - 09/20/2010
  A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn't have knowingly killed her, his lawyer has notified a court. Woody Will Smith, 33, is scheduled for trial starting Monday on a murder charge in the May 2009 death of Aman
  

• AP Interview: Ahmadinejad says future is Iran's - 09/20/2010
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said "the future belongs to Iran" and challenged the United States to accept that his country has a major role in the world. The comments came in an hourlong interview Sunday with The Associated Press on the first day of his visit to the United States to attend the annual General Assembl
  

• 13 from Calif. sect found in park after tense hunt - 09/20/2010
  Families of the missing fretted. Deputies fanned out across the high desert on horses and in helicopters. Neighbors marveled at the commotion of patrol cars and satellite trucks that appeared suddenly in their quiet streets. The only people who seemed to take the disappearance of 13 adherents of a breakaway religious sect in stride we
  

• The nation's weather - 09/20/2010
  The strong Pacific low pressure trough from the Pacific Northwest was forecast to advance eastward into the Midwest on Monday. As the system progressed, associated disturbances would trigger precipitation across the Northern Intermountain West and the Northern Rockies. Active weather was expected to reach the Northern High Plains by t
  

• North Carolina wild horses face uncertain future - 09/20/2010
  On a stretch of barrier island without paved roads, some of the last wild horses in the eastern United States are seeing their world get smaller each year. A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of N
  

• Atheist Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor - 09/20/2010
  Stricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and waits for the only question that can come first at such a time. "How's your health?" asks Larry Taunton, a friend who heads an Alabama-based group dedicated to defending Christianit
  

• Cuban minister recalls NY Malcolm X-Castro meeting - 09/20/2010
  Fifty years after Malcolm X met with Fidel Castro in New York in the midst of the Cold War the Cuban people still rely on the support of African-Americans, Cuba's foreign minister said. Bruno Rodriguez spoke Sunday at an event commemorating the black civil rights leader's September 1960 encounter with Castro in Harlem, New York's most
  

• House to vote on medal for "Go for broke" veterans - 09/20/2010
  Ronald Oba grew up saluting the U.S. flag and saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school, like millions of other American boys. But he was labeled an "enemy alien" after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, because his ancestors came from the same land as the attacking planes. To prove his loyalty, Oba joined