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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- The office of Chase Ritenauer, the Democratic mayor of this north-central Ohio city, overlooks peacefully moored sailboats on Lake Erie - and a sewage treatment plant. So it goes for Ohio Democrats this election year: Some things look a lot better than others....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Henry Hill spent much of his life as a "goodfella," believing his last moment would come with a bullet to the back of his head. In the end he died at a hospital after a long illness, going out like all the average nobodies he once pitied....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Police were searching for a trauma surgeon Wednesday as a "person of interest" in a fatal shooting at a Buffalo hospital, and warned the public that the former Army Special Forces weapons expert may be armed and dangerous....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed tentative progress in U.S. efforts to invest in India's civilian nuclear power industry, but said more action is needed to translate improving ties into economic benefits....

ATLANTA (AP) -- The pope's U.S. ambassador praised American bishops Wednesday for confronting the government over religious liberty issues, including resisting the mandate from President Barack Obama's administration that health insurance cover birth control....