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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa car salesman strangled a pregnant prostitute in 2007 and burned her body before dumping the corpse in a rural field, a prosecutor said Tuesday at the man's trial on charges he killed the woman and her fetus....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Jon Thompson has traveled the world collecting art and artifacts for museum exhibits, seen the remains of the Titanic on the sea floor and participated in two unsuccessful missions to find Amelia Earhart....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Jon Thompson has traveled the world collecting art and artifacts for museum exhibits, seen the remains of the Titanic on the sea floor and participated in two unsuccessful missions to find Amelia Earhart....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Passengers dressed in fur coats and wide-brimmed hats strolled the decks of a memorial ship as it began its journey to Canada to visit the spot where the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean a century ago....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Within hours of shootings that terrified Tulsa's north side and left three people dead, leaders of the predominantly black community declared the spree a hate crime and warned of a possible vigilante response....

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Some lottery players might fantasize about resigning from the rat race in a spectacular way if they win. An anonymous trio of Maryland educators who will split a share of the record $656 million Mega Millions jackpot say they're staying on the job for the children....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Tensions are rising in Sanford as a special prosecutor nears a decision on whether to charge George Zimmerman with killing Trayvon Martin....

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Air race pilots should take their modified aircraft on a dry run before participating in certain types of competitions and should possibly wear flight suits to help them withstand high gravitational forces, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday....

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Bowing to the inevitable, Rick Santorum quit the presidential campaign Tuesday, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. human rights envoy for North Korea says conditions in communist country's "brutal" prison camps are worse than in the Soviet Union's gulag during the Cold War....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jessica Alba is adding her voice to National Poetry Month, helping to lure children into the art form....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. coal exports reached their highest level in two decades last year as strong demand from Asia and Europe offered an outlet for a fuel that is falling from favor at home....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The two suspects arrested in a shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead have confessed, according to police documents given to The Associated Press....

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- As a young personal injury lawyer in North Carolina, John Edwards earned a reputation for turning down multimillion-dollar settlement offers on bets that jurors would award his clients more money at the end of a trial....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Jurors in a landmark church sex-abuse trial were presented with documents Tuesday outlining the troubled clerical career of a priest who was convicted of child pornography charges yet remained in ministry for years despite similar and repeated complaints....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the law's insurance requirement is more onerous than it actually is....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Insurance experts say there may be a misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care law among members of the Supreme Court....

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is renewing his call for Congress to raise taxes on millionaires, traveling to Florida to make a populist, election-year pitch on an issue that draws a sharp contrast with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's constitutional court on Tuesday cleared the way for the country's national assembly leader to take over as interim president, a move that will return the nation to civilian rule following last month's military coup....

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- As a young personal injury lawyer in North Carolina, John Edwards earned a reputation for turning down multimillion-dollar settlement offers on bets that jurors would award his clients more money at the end of a trial....