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An anti-abortion opponent says he's the one who killed a Kansas abortion provider _ and did it because it was necessary to save lives. But one of his attorneys says there's no such thing as a "necessity defense" in state law, and that is not the strategy the defense team plans to present at his trial. Read More

One by one, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories as he denounced the "twisted logic" that led to their deaths. Read More

One worker was killed and another injured Tuesday when a crane tipped over at the construction site of a Kansas City, Mo., performing arts center, police said. Read More

A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit challenging the training and competence of Missouri's execution team in a decision that could move the state closer to resuming executions, but likely not for months. Read More

The only Republican in the House to vote for a Democrat-backed health care bill is already seeing some backlash: He's had two fundraisers canceled and some campaign contributors have asked for their money back. Read More

A medical examiner says an Arkansas TV anchorwoman was beaten so severely that one blow knocked a tooth out of her mouth and another shoved her jaw to the back of her head. Read More

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, the one-time candidate for Homeland Security chief who has admitted his guilt to federal crimes, has left jail after a judge said he could be released for the holidays. Read More

Attorney General Jerry Brown has relied on a stealth fundraising campaign and his near universal name recognition to wipe out the field seven months ahead of California's Democratic primary for governor. Read More

An Aurora man convicted in the disappearance and presumed death of his daughter was sentenced Tuesday to 106 years behind bars. Read More

A New Jersey man detained for months in Ethiopia on allegations of supporting Islamic militants before being allowed to come home sued the FBI agents involved in his interrogations. Read More

Oregon police say a shooting at drug-testing facility in a suburban Portland office park has left two people dead and two others wounded. Police say the apparent shooter was among those killed, apparently from a self-inflected gunshot wound. A woman who was killed was not identified. Read More

The families of three Americans accused of espionage in Iran are attempting the delicate feat of keeping a spotlight trained on the plight of their loved ones while trying to avoid the tangled politics of the tense U.S.-Iran relationship. Read More

A Connecticut businessman has been sentenced to a year in prison for conspiring with others to corrupt the oil privatization process in Azerbaijan. Read More

A former astronaut who drove 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando to mount a bizarre attack on a romantic rival pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges and was sentenced to a year on probation. Read More

Virginia's governor refused to spare the life of John Allen Muhammad and cleared the way for his execution Tuesday night for the sniper attacks in 2002 that left 10 dead and spread such fear people were afraid to go shopping, cut grass or pump gas. Read More

The federal government has agreed to pay $218,500 to settle a lawsuit over the fatal drug overdose of a young Michigan veteran who served as a U.S. Marine in Iraq. Read More

A Connecticut judge has ordered the release of thousands of documents connected to sexual abuse lawsuits involving Bridgeport's Roman Catholic Diocese. Read More

The United States accused Iran Tuesday of violating a U.N. arms embargo by secretly sending weapons to Syria in a cargo ship seized by Israel, a U.S. official said. Read More

Arizona authorities say a truck rolled over on a dirt road while trying to elude U.S. Border Patrol agents, killing two men and badly injuring three others. Read More

In a Nov. 6 story about the tactics of gay marriage opponents, The Associated Press reported erroneously that gay marriage foes had won 31 consecutive statewide ballot measures against the issue. While 31 states have indeed voted down gay marriage, it was not an unbroken string of defeats. Arizona voters in 2006 rejected a proposal to ban same-sex marriage. They reversed course and adopted a ban two years later. Read More