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Speedy Tropical Storm Hanna charges for Carolinas
Tropical Storm Hanna picked up speed Friday as it cruised toward the Carolinas, promising to deliver gusty winds and heavy rain during a dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people.
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Police: Suspect in Illinois bank standoff is dead
Police say a man who wrested a gun from a police officer and took a dozen hostages in a bank in suburban Chicago has died after shooting himself in the head.
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Murder trial opens in Tenn. love triangle case
A prosecutor described a schoolteacher's husband as a jealous, calculating killer as trial opened Friday on charges he murdered his wife's teenage lover. But a defense lawyer told the jury that the defendant was a victim himself of a spouse who flaunted her infidelity.
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Charges dismissed against cyclist in YouTube shove
A judge dismissed charges Friday against the bicyclist who was body-checked and knocked to the pavement by a police officer in a widely viewed YouTube video.
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Dentist charged with dumping waste on Jersey Shore
A Pennsylvania dentist has been charged with the Jersey Shore's most serious beach-dumping case in two decades, medical waste that sullied the coast in a popular area and forced beach closures at the height of vacation season.
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Review panel criticizes Great Lakes health study
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday.
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Suspect in deaths of 3 Wis. teens pleads insanity
A Michigan man accused in a shooting rampage that killed three teenage swimmers at a river on the Wisconsin-Michigan border pleaded insanity to 10 felonies Friday, including new counts that he tried to kill six other teens.
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Voters in 11 states to choose governors this fall
Although most Americans are focused on the presidential campaign, voters in 11 states are also choosing governors this fall in races that offer an important prelude to 2010, when most of the nation's governors' offices are up for grabs.
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Last dance: Ga. town closes its only strip club
The windowless building that once housed the town's only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final party.
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Oldest gorilla in captivity dies in Dallas at 55
The oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo - her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday.
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Tracking HannaMeteorologists have been tracking Hanna, which has been a tropical storm and a hurricane.
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Raleigh Convention Center InteractiveThe Grand Opening of the new Raleigh Convention Center is Sept. 5 and 6.
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Campaign Trail Photos of the WeekView photos from the past week on the campaign trail from AP photographers around the country.
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N.C. Drought Maps Time Lapse AnimationView a time lapse animation of drought conditions since April of 2007.
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Pops in the Park concertWRAL's Pops in the Park concert was held at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre Sunday evening, Aug. 31.
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