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A day after Ohio became the first state in the country to use a single drug in a lethal injection, the condemned killer whose botched September execution prompted the change from a three-drug method is returning to court to argue against another attempt to put him to death. Read More

Thousands of officers from across North America came to Washington state to honor four Lakewood Police officers who were gunned down in a coffee shop. Read More

A patient who made threats after being denied narcotics at a rural Kentucky clinic returned and shot his doctor to death, police said. Read More

A Chicago man accused of conspiring in the bloody November 2008 terrorist attacks that left 166 people dead in the Indian city of Mumbai is headed for federal court to answer the charges. Read More

In a scene reminiscent of other school shootings, a Northern Virginia Community College teacher spotted a weapon and ducked to avoid gunfire. Students ran from the classroom building while others barricaded themselves inside, piling desks in front of doors. Read More

A fierce winter storm hammered more than a dozen states Tuesday with dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds that threatened to create 15-foot drifts in parts of the Upper Midwest. Read More

FBI agents and police officers have arrested a motivational speaker suspected of killing a Las Vegas woman, ransacking her home and fleeing to California. Read More

An Ivy League lawyer and a county commissioner will meet in a runoff to replace ousted Birmingham mayor Larry Langford. Read More

A prominent attorney died Tuesday after he was shot in the head outside his California home. Read More

The Los Angeles City Council could vote Wednesday on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance that would greatly reduce the number of pot dispensaries in the city and push them to industrial areas. Read More

A coroner says a Wisconsin man wanted in the deaths of his two young children and their mothers likely killed himself. Read More

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden." Read More

A California man accused of gunning down two police officers 27 years ago has been found guilty of murder for a second time. Read More

As of Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at least 4,367 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read More

A California grand jury has indicted a man whose decomposed daughter was found in the freezer of his motor home. Read More

The Los Angeles school board has approved a budget plan that calls for more than 5,000 job cuts. Read More

An attorney says a former Missouri House speaker plans to withdraw from politics altogether after he was accused of assaulting a woman during a sexual encounter. Read More

Two former Cuban intelligence officers convicted of spying in the U.S. were handed reduced prison sentences Tuesday after an appeals court ruled their original terms were too severe. Read More

A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner's association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday. Read More

The man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart has a delusional disorder and exhibited deviant sexual behavior and paranoia as a teen, a forensic psychologist said Tuesday. Read More