SEATTLE -- The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive demanding that airlines check a mechanism that controls tail flaps on about 600 Boeing 737s.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for 450,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site.
DETROIT -- Iggy Pop says it's been a long wait, but he's happy that his groundbreaking band The Stooges is finally entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is defending Pope Benedict against what it says is an effort to drag him into the widening scandals involving pedophile priests in his native Germany.
MAPUTO, Mozambique -- Mozambique's health ministry spokesman says the country's cholera outbreak has now killed 42 people in the northern and central parts of the southern African country.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Two companies being sued by the families of three veterinary students who died after being trapped in a burning Fort Wayne apartment are responding to the claims in part by blaming the victims.
DENVER -- Irish police say an American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge.
UNION CITY, Ind. -- A key component of Indiana's efforts to create clean-coal technology is generating opposition in a county along the border with Ohio.
MACON, Ga. -- More than 40 college students from Miami University in Ohio and Boston University used their spring break to do something other than party.
SALT LAKE CITY -- The woman who recently came forward to talk about a hot tub episode involving a top Utah state lawmaker says she's glad he's decided to resign.
Former Air Force sergeant Jene Newsome says she played by the rules. She never told anyone in the military that she was a lesbian.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- An Ohio woman says her Lexus careered through a parking lot and crashed into a light pole in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after its accelerator dropped to the floor.
Residents eager to get their state tax refunds may have a long wait this year: The recession has tied up cash and caused officials in half a dozen states to consider freezing refunds, in one case for as long as five months.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Three men already accused of shooting a man with a BB gun because they thought he was gay could face additional charges for shooting at 11 others in San Francisco.
WASHINGTON -- Experts don't expect to see genetic testing become standard procedure for patients taking the blood-thinner Plavix.
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Sen. Harry Reid's wife has undergone surgery at a Virginia hospital to stabilize injuries from a broken neck she suffered in a traffic accident.
ATLANTA -- An attorney for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has hired a private investigator to look into a sexual assault allegation made by a 20-year-old Georgia college student.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Last week it appeared that an American missionary being held in Haiti on child kidnapping charges would be released.
LAKELAND, FL -- Two tornadoes ripped through central Florida, damaging 28 units at a golf resort and leaving five of the condos uninhabitable.
SEATTLE -- Seattle police arrested a man Friday morning after he alarmed people downtown by making threats and walking around with a pipe strapped to his arm.
