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Feds charge Keys man with lobster poaching
A commercial fisherman is charged with poaching thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters, in a case that spotlights an ongoing problem off the Florida coast.
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Police raid Md. mayor's home and kill his dogs
Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.
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Texas executes immigrant after winning court fight
An illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed his treaty rights were violated when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas was executed Thursday evening.
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Detroit mayor thrown in jail after bond violation
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday for a bond violation in his perjury case, his pleas for leniency rejected by a judge who made it clear the mayor would get no special treatment.
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Flight attendant: Osteen's wife pushed co-worker
The wife of evangelical pastor Joel Osteen got physical when her demands that a small spill on her seat be cleaned up were not immediately met, a flight attendant testified Thursday at a civil trial over the incident.
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Former child workers describe perilous environment
Luisa Lopez says no one asked about her age when she started working at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant. She was 17, and within days she was on a fast-moving poultry production line, wielding a long, sharp pair of scissors.
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Feds investigate if Rockefeller was German student
A Connecticut family is convinced that the mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple was a German student who lived with the family decades ago.
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Katrina survivors' caretaker charged in abduction
A woman was arrested and charged with kidnapping Thursday after authorities say she was on the run for a month with five children she took in after Hurricane Katrina.
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Doctor pleads not guilty to abusing patients in LA
A physician whose father is the leader of Bermuda pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexually abusing patients.
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NYPD arrests club employee in woman's death
A bar worker at a popular Times Square karaoke club was arrested Thursday after confessing to beating a woman to death with a pipe on the club's roof during an argument, police said.
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Images of Brett FavreThe Green Bay Packers reached an agreement to trade Brett Favre to the New York Jets.
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N.C. Drought Maps Time Lapse AnimationView a time lapse animation of drought conditions since April of 2007.
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Shopping tax-free weekendShoppers took advantage of a weekend free of from state and local sales tax Aug.1-3, 2008.
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The week in photosA look at the top stories of the week through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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The week in entertainmentA look at the top entertainment stories through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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