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President Barack Obama carried out the traditional Veterans Day role Wednesday, then made a surprise visit to a part of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, walking among the grave sites and talking to mourners. Read More

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 permanent missions to the United Nations, not those nations' consulates. Read More

President Barack Obama paid fond tribute Wednesday to the determination of the U.S. military, from those who served generations ago to today's troops fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and missions around the world. Read More

Authorities in western Missouri say five family members have been arrested on sex crime charges against children. Read More

An officer who has been hailed as a hero in the Fort Hood massacre says the scene was "confusing and chaotic" but she remembers getting shot. Read More

The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment. Read More

Disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford might not have much political capital these days, but his wife does. 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

Hundreds of people are lining the streets of Terre Haute, Ind., for a Veterans Day parade serving as a funeral procession for a soldier whose return to the country was marked by a salute from President Barack Obama. 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

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

Republican leaders in a South Carolina county have censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on a climate bill and other legislation. 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 judge has ordered psychological testing for a central Illinois man charged with plotting to blow up a federal courthouse. Read More

2010 Chevrolet Equinox FWD LTZ Read More

Chevrolet's sport utility vehicle named for the first day of spring had a rebirth this year, and the resulting 2010 Equinox is the best ever. 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

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