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Police said Friday they have issued a murder arrest warrant for one of two missing Southern California teens and believe charred and fragmented human remains found in the suspect's Riverside County backyard belong to the other youth. Read More

Burglars broke into the offices occupied by two members of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's legal defense team overnight and stole eight computers and a safe, police said Friday. Read More

Chicago's police superintendent says the investigation of city Board of Education President Michael Scott's death is complete. Read More

Clergy and laypeople voting to replace two retiring assistant bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles were choosing Friday from a pool that included two openly gay candidates. Read More

Obama plans new jobs bill to 'jump-start' hiring, sees 'better days' ahead for employment Read More

An appeals court on Friday refused to delay the execution of an Ohio inmate who could become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug. Read More

A Flint woman accused of starving her adopted quadriplegic daughter to death and stashing the body in a storage unit pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter. Read More

The Virginia couple at the center of last week's White House security breach is now accused of bouncing a nearly $24,000 check for liquor purchased in Maryland. Read More

Some Virginia Tech administrators warned their families and ordered the president's office locked well before the rest of the campus was notified a gunman was on the loose, according to a revised state report on the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. Read More

A pipeline has spilled at least 210,000 gallons of crude oil in central Minnesota, state officials say. Read More

A Wisconsin man who police say is linked to the deaths of two mothers and their young daughters has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in two of the slayings. Read More

A defense attorney with a high-profile client list was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday for plotting with a Guyanese businessman to use bribes and threats to silence witnesses in the businessman's drug-trafficking case. Read More

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court raised the possibility Friday of charging Sudanese officials who cover up the government's involvement in alleged war crimes in Darfur and said President Omar al-Bashir will ultimately face international justice. Read More

An abortion doctor said Friday that he will likely perform more late-term procedures at his Nebraska practice to meet the demand left when a Kansas physician was shot and killed earlier this year. Read More

Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son says he's too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for the jury decision that he plundered his philanthropist mother's fortune. Read More

A man charged with looting the house of a Northern California family that died in a car crash insists he didn't know about the tragedy at the time. Read More

A judge in southern Illinois says the hiding of a boy for nearly two years in a crawl space in his grandmother's home during a custody fight amounts to neglect. Read More

A young giant panda who became a major attraction after his birth at Washington's National Zoo will leave for China early next year for breeding. Read More

An Indiana teen accused of strangling his 10-year-old brother to satisfy a craving to kill pleaded not guilty to murder Friday, as his parents and relatives attended a viewing of his brother's body a few blocks away. Read More

She arrived in Washington with more of a splash than any White House social secretary before her, and no wonder: Desiree Rogers had obvious style, wealth, a Harvard MBA, years of corporate experience, and friends at the top, most importantly Barack and Michelle Obama. Read More