Polls on gay marriage not yet reflected in votes

By DAVID CRARY

Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 3…

Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks

By NICOLE WINFIELD

The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the inves…

AP Photos: Americans honor troops for Memorial Day

By The Associated Press

Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. In…

UK party chair didn't properly declare income

The chairman of Britain's Conservative Party apologized Sunday for not properly declaring rental income on a London property, but rejected all…

UK defense ministry: soldier killed in Afghanistan

Britain's Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

4 killed in plane crash from S. Utah

An official says the four people killed in a plane crash at a municipal airport in southern Utah were from the St. George area.

The nation's weather

By WEATHER UNDERGROUND

Subtropical Storm Beryl continues to trek toward the Southeast coast, threatening dangerous surf and drenching rain from northeast Florida to …

New Mexico fire grows, forces evacuation

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS

A wildfire in Gila National Forest burned through more timber and brush lands as it forced the evacuation of residents living near a privately…

Final voyage: USS Iowa on way to S. Calif. home

By ERIC RISBERG

A famed battleship that saw action during World War II and the Korean War and carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wartime summit trav…

Beryl threatens rain, winds on southeast US coast

By RUSS BYNUM

Subtropical storm Beryl crept Sunday toward the Southeast U.S. coastline, threatening to churn up dangerous surf and drenching rains for a sog…

Small plane sinks in San Diego Bay, 2 survives

The pilot and passenger of a banner-towing plane made an emergency landing on San Diego Bay and were plucked out of the water before the aircr…

Woman shot by homeowner faces trespassing charge

A 21-year-old woman who was shot in the hip by a Colorado homeowner after police said she drunkenly wandered into a house now faces a felony t…

Police search for missing college student in La.

Louisiana authorities are searching for a college student who has been missing for nearly a week after she was last seen on a bicycle in the e…

W.Va. police find 4 bodies in wooded area

West Virginia State Police said late Saturday they had found four bodies in a wooded area and believe they are those of a missing man, his gir…

Charity: Widow of pilot of United Flight 93 dies

The wife of the pilot of the United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists on 9/11 has di…

CIA remembers those lost in covert war on terror

By KIMBERLY DOZIER

The CIA is remembering those lost in the hidden, often dangerous world of espionage, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial w…

Report: Miami officer shoots, kills naked attacker

A Miami police officer on Saturday fatally shot a naked man who was chewing on the face of another man on a downtown causeway off-ramp, police…

Critics: Bird-culling plan near JFK goes too far

Critics are crying foul over a plan to control bird populations near New York City's JFK Airport.

Sweden's Loreen wins Eurovision song contest

By PETER LEONARD

Sweden's Loreen clinched the top spot at this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her dance hit "Euphoria," pushing aside competition from a s…

Plane crash near southern Utah airport kills 4

Authorities say a small plane has crashed near a municipal airport in southern Utah, killing all four people on board.

Murder charges filed in 15-year-old Colorado case

A Colorado man serving a 48-year prison sentence for the death of his 2-year-old son now faces a murder charge stemming from the disappearance…

Mich. wildfire grows to more than 21,000 acres

A wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula grew by 17 percent to more than 21,000 acres Saturday as officials warned of tough conditions and wel…

Exonerated ex-football star wants money from state

By LINDA DEUTSCH

A former high school football star whose rape conviction was thrown out this week plans to file a claim against the state but will not sue the…

Coroner: Gunman in Indiana standoff from Texas

By MICHAEL TARM and TOM COYNE

A Texas man who took hostages in a northwestern Indiana realty office and held police at bay for several hours suffered three gunshot wounds b…

Obama on the defensive on spending, debt

By KEN THOMAS and JIM KUHNHENN

Government spending and debt are emerging as a campaign tug-of-war, with Mitt Romney blaming President Barack Obama for a "prairie fire of deb…

Break in Patz brings hope, tears to other families

By ALLEN G. BREED

After 33 years, someone has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz. And people immediately start speaking of "closure."

Wash. hopes to buy historic ranch for conservation

By SHANNON DININNY

Rattlesnake Mountain offers sweeping views of the historic McWhorter Ranch, a pristine property largely unchanged since it was settled in 1903…

Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility

By MICHAEL HILL

Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election…

Funeral held for Muslim Bosniaks killed long ago

By AMEL EMRIC

Several thousand people held a mass funeral on Saturday for 66 Muslim Bosnians who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces during the country's 199…

UN: 32 children, 60 adults killed in Syria attack

The head of the U.N. observer team in Syria says at least 32 children under 10 years of age and more than 60 adults were killed in fighting in…

Crew of Va. ship in piracy drama sues for $50M

More than half the crew members of a container ship that was at the center of a piracy drama off Somalia in April 2009 are suing for nearly $5…

Warning signs for Obama on path to electoral votes

By THOMAS BEAUMONT

President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly fi…

Martial arts master's neo-Nazi past surfaces

By JEFF BARNARD

Andrew Lee Patterson still shaves his head, like he did back in his white supremacist skinhead days. Back then, he did six years in prison for…

Letters to judge about NJ webcam spying case

By The Associated Press

Following are excerpts from some of the letters Judge Glenn Berman received as he considered the sentence for Dharun Ravi, who was convicted i…

A year after rare twister, Mass. residents rebound

By BRIDGET MURPHY

Pia Rogers still goes home every day, even though all that remains of her two-story farmhouse are two granite front steps.

A year after rare twister, Mass. residents rebound

By BRIDGET MURPHY

A year after tornadoes flattened hundreds of homes and left three dead in Massachusetts, one of the worst-hit neighborhoods is still undergoin…

Letters asked judge for leniency in NJ webcam case

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

The letters came from a man who was once beaten with a baseball bat in a racially motivated attack, the widow of a Minnesota judge, a group re…

Georgia opens new parliament far from Tbilisi

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has inaugurated the country's new parliament building in the city of Kutaisi, some 220 kilometers (150 …

Gunman kills 2, wounds 7 in Finland, then arrested

By MATTI HUUHTANEN

An 18-year-old gunman killed two people and wounded seven early Saturday in a random shooting in a southern Finnish town, police said.

Dutch-born Nazi war crimes convict dies in Germany

By GEIR MOULSON

Klaas Carel Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands of Nazi war crimes and subsequently lived in fr…

Illegal immigrants find paths to college, careers

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA

Going to college seemed inconceivable when Adriana Sanchez, the 12-year-old daughter of farm workers, was brought from Mexico to Central Calif…

Quiet Revolution's old dreams fuel Quebec protests

By PHIL COUVRETTE and ROB GILLIES

Quebec's generous social services date back to sweeping reforms in the 1960s, a period of intense nationalism. Yet many Quebecers look back at…

Obama honors veterans during Memorial Day weekend

By KEN THOMAS

President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans during Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country.

Medvedev to dominant party: don't fear opposition

By LYNN BERRY

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and current premier, has been elected head of the country's dominant political party, which he urge…

Obama, Romney try to play it safe in 2012 gamble

By NANCY BENAC

In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe.

FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claim

By ANDREW TAYLOR

The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer doll…

AP Photos: 'Star Wars' celebrates 35th anniversary

It was 35 years ago Friday that moviegoers were first transported to a galaxy far, far away.

For something so simple, pasta is serious business

By NICOLE WINFIELD

They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed.

By BJOERN H. AMLAND

Vatican confirms Pope's butler arrested in leaks scandal.

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