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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Karen Capato used the frozen sperm of her deceased husband to conceive twins, but the government denied them Social Security benefits as their father's survivors. Her situation, more common as reproductive technology advances, had a mostly unsympathetic Supreme Court grappling Monday with the definition of "child,' inheritance law and artificial insemination....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Karen Capato used the frozen sperm of her deceased husband to conceive twins, but the government denied them Social Security benefits as their father's survivors. Her situation, more common as reproductive technology advances, had a mostly unsympathetic Supreme Court grappling Monday with the definition of "child,' inheritance law and artificial insemination....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lindsay Porter's kidneys were failing rapidly when a friend offered to donate one of his. Then she made an unusual request: Would he donate part of his immune system, too?...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- A Seattle lawyer who is defending an Army staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghans, including nine children, met Monday with the soldier for the first time at Fort Leavenworth, a conversation the attorney described as emotional....

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An increasingly confident Mitt Romney called President Barack Obama an "economic lightweight" Monday as the Republican presidential candidate looked beyond Tuesday's Illinois primary to a general election showdown with the incumbent Democrat....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- College students around Florida rallied Monday to demand the arrest of a white neighborhood watch captain who shot an unarmed black teen last month, though authorities may be hamstrung by a state law that allows people to defend themselves with deadly force....

CHICAGO (AP) -- A father lost his job at a medical device company that is facing a new tax. A young woman got back on her parents' insurance and was able to get surgery for an injury that could have hobbled her. A part-time sales woman stopped putting off a colonoscopy and cancer screenings and saved nearly $3,000 because health plans now must pay for preventive care without co-pays. A business owner received a tax rebate for providing health coverage to her employees....

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) -- A storm-weakened tree crashed down on a house, killing a sleeping 8-year-old girl, as an unusually fierce winter storm blew through California over the weekend, leaving thousands without power Monday after dumping much-needed rain on the parched state....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court indicated Monday that it could throw out an $18 million penalty against a natural gas company convicted of an environmental violation in Rhode Island....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now here's a tag team for the ages: Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama....

ATLANTA (AP) -- A hot-air balloon pilot found a safe spot for his skydiving passengers to bail out just before a thunderstorm sucked in his craft and sent him plummeting to his death....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Should babies conceived using the frozen sperm of their deceased father get his Social Security survivor benefits?...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- A Seattle defense attorney arrived at Fort Leavenworth on Monday to meet with an Army staff sergeant who is suspected of carrying out a deadly nighttime attack on two Afghan villages....

DENVER (AP) -- Peyton Manning is negotiating to join the Denver Broncos, ESPN reported Monday....

SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- A mother accused of slashing her children's throats and setting fire to the family's apartment had removed the unit's inside doorknob, sealed vents, covered sprinklers and disabled the smoke alarm, prosecutors said Monday at the woman's arraignment....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Sixty-four bison from Yellowstone National Park are set to arrive on northeast Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation under a long-stalled initiative to repopulate parts of the West with the iconic animals....

WRAY, Colo. (AP) -- Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley and surrounding areas have been allowed to return home after firefighters contained most of a wildfire on the state's northeastern plains that filled the skies with so much smoke that firefighters couldn't see the flames and a highway was closed....

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- An American man shot to death in Yemen went there in 2009 to learn Arabic, not to proselytize, and became passionate about teaching business skills to Yemenis as part of a deeper interest in helping people, his parents said Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Should babies conceived through artificial insemination after a father's death get his Social Security survivor benefits?...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The International Space Station should be getting its first commercial cargo shipment in early May....