Nation News

In a Nov. 9 story about envelopes containing suspicious powder that were mailed in Manhattan, The Associated Press, relying on information from New York City police, erroneously described the recipients. The envelopes were sent to the French, Austrian and Uzbekistan foreign missions to the United Nations, not those nations' consulates. Read More

Homicide detectives investigating the discovery of 11 bodies at a home expanded their search Wednesday to a neighbor's property as a precaution. Read More

Carl Ballantine, a comedian, magician and actor who was in the 1960s TV sitcom "McHale's Navy," has died. He was 92. Read More

The star attraction at New York's Rockefeller Center this Christmas will be a 76-foot Norway spruce from Connecticut. Read More

A New Jersey judge says a quadriplegic blocked from buying a gun to go hunting has the right to bear arms even though he will have to use a wheelchair mount to use the firearm. Read More

An Illinois man is jailed on $2 million bond after being charged in the shooting deaths of three women at a convenience store in East St. Louis. Read More

Sniper John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed, taking to the grave answers about why and how he plotted the killings of 10 people that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002. Read More

Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and one-time candidate for Homeland Security chief, was freed from jail Tuesday for the holidays to await sentencing on federal crimes. Read More

The nine black students who confronted angry white mobs as they integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 took solace each day at the home of Daisy and L.C. Bates. Read More

Dozens of American pit bull terriers netted in the largest dogfighting raid in U.S. history are finding homes despite some who predicted aggression or trauma would make them unsuitable as pets. Read More

The driver of a Boston subway train that stopped just inches short of a woman who had fallen onto the tracks says she expected the worst. Read More

Hartford police say a city officer investigating a series of burglaries was shot during an early morning foot chase with a fleeing suspect, who was caught and arrested by other officers. Read More

One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff. Zoo officials say it's the first time a gorilla has ever voluntarily had its blood pressure taken in any zoo in the world. Read More

Sanitation workers sorted through 10 tons of trash to recover a wedding ring accidentally thrown away by a New Jersey couple. Read More

Wet weather was forecast to persist in the South as Tropical Storm Ida continues tacking northeastward up the East Coast on Wednesday. Read More

Three years ago, Rose Loving got the visit every GI's family fears. Read More

Jerry Brown hasn't formally announced for his old job, but the signs show he once again has his eye on the California governor's chair. Read More

The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama and the direction of the country was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from Nov. 5-9. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults. Interviews were conducted with 806 respondents on landline telephones and 200 on cell phones. Read More

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The 37-year-old son of Washington state's lieutenant governor has been released from a Seattle hospital, while the man accused of shooting him remains in critical condition. Read More