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GREENLAND, N.H. (AP) -- A man opened fire on police as they entered a New Hampshire home during a drug bust Thursday night, killing one officer and injuring four others. Near midnight, the shooter remained holed up in the barricaded home with a woman, police said....

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Officials have released the name of sheriff's deputy who was one of two people killed while trying to serve an eviction notice at a Central California apartment complex Thursday....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance Thursday in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and prosecutors outlined their murder case in court papers, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed and confronted the black teenager after a police dispatcher told him not to....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance Thursday in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and prosecutors outlined their murder case in court papers, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed and confronted the black teenager after a police dispatcher told him not to....

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man convicted of conspiring to help al-Qaida was sentenced Thursday to 17 1/2 years in prison after giving an impassioned speech in which he declared his love for Islam and said, "This is not terrorism; it's self-defense."...

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man convicted of conspiring to help al-Qaida was sentenced Thursday to 17 1/2 years in prison after giving an impassioned speech in which he declared his love for Islam and said, "This is not terrorism; it's self-defense."...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot Thursday at a communications station on an island off Alaska in what officials said appeared to be a double homicide. They have yet to identify a suspect....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot Thursday at a communications station on an island off Alaska in what officials said appeared to be a double homicide. They have yet to identify a suspect....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot Thursday at a communications station on an island off Alaska in what officials said appeared to be a double homicide. They said they have yet to identify a suspect....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers are under no obligation to ensure that workers take legally mandated lunch breaks in a case that affects thousands of businesses and millions of workers....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers are under no obligation to ensure that workers take legally mandated lunch breaks in a case that affects thousands of businesses and millions of workers....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers are under no obligation to ensure that workers take legally mandated lunch breaks in a case that affects thousands of businesses and millions of workers....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's shooter must return to jail, a judge ordered Friday in a strongly worded ruling that said George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain bond in a case that hinges on jurors believing his account of what happened the night the teen was killed....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A gag grenade mounted on a plaque that said "Complaint department: Take a number" led to the evacuation Thursday of an office building near ground zero, and the employee responsible for it was put on administrative leave....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ming Qu was a day shy of his 24th birthday and had plans to return to China at the end of the semester to work....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ming Qu was a day shy of his 24th birthday and had plans to return to China at the end of the semester to work....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ming Qu was a day shy of his 24th birthday and had plans to return to China at the end of the semester to work....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee expressed serious concerns that the U.S.-Afghanistan deal giving Afghans authority over night raids could put Americans at greater risk and undercut intelligence gathering critical in the long war....

INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) -- The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana's capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs....

INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) -- The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana's capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs....