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Police: Shackled Calif. boy jumped fence to escape
After being held captive for about a year, an emaciated and shackled 17-year-old boy climbed out a window in the home of his captors and walked into a nearby gym in search of help, police said Wednesday.
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Rockefeller Center lights tree in annual ceremony
A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among tens of thousands who attended this year's lighting ceremony.
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Bus carrying students collides with truck in Ill.
A chartered bus carrying students collided with a semitrailer Wednesday night on icy roads in north-central Illinois, sending at least 18 people to the hospital, authorities said. None of the injuries appeared life-threatening.
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Couples staying together because of poor economy
Running into your ex is almost always awkward and stressful. David Snyder and Nancy Partridge deal with it nearly every day.
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Prosecutor: Jealousy behind Hudson family killings
The brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson killed three of her relatives - with a gun stolen from one of the victims - because he was angry his estranged wife, the star's sister, was dating another man, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
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Conservatives form rival group to Episcopal Church
Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.
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22-year sentence - again - for millennium plotter
Rejecting prosecutors' calls for a life term, a federal judge on Wednesday reimposed a 22-year prison sentence for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.
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Texas time warp? State criticized for mental care
For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge state institutions.
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Calif. ex-Assembly speaker's son a murder suspect
The 19-year-old son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is among four men accused of stabbing a college student to death after being turned away from a fraternity party in October.
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Arkansas officials seize 6 Alamo compound children
Child welfare officials have seized six children in Indiana associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, while authorities in California visited a church compound affiliated with the jailed evangelist.
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49th Annual WRAL-TV Tower LightingWRAL-TV's tower has been changed into a 300-foot Christmas tree, with 2,805 colored lights and three stars on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008.
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The week in photosA look at the top news, politics and sports stories of the week through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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Gallery: Black Friday shoppingA look at shoppers across the country on Black Friday.
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The week in entertainmentA look at the top entertainment stories this week through the lenses of Associated Press photographers.
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Apex vs. Wake Forest-Rolesville (November 28, 2008)Wake Forest-Rolesville beat Apex 35-7 in the third round of the NCHSAA 4-AA playoffs.
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