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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon nursing assistant spent eight days in jail after a jury found her guilty of taking disturbing photos of elderly or disabled patients and posting them to her Facebook wall....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A plot of grass sits in the middle of Seattle, feet from a busy road and on a hill that overlooks the city's skyline. But it's no ordinary patch of green. Residents hope it will become one of the country's largest "food forests."...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Tech official defends the delay in alerting students to the shootings of two students to begin the unprecedented 2007 massacre, saying officials did the best they could....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Herding sheep has been part of Carey Dobson's family tradition spanning four generations, even before Arizona was granted statehood by the federal government in 1912, but all that changed earlier this year....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy and two other people were wounded after an exchange of gunfire Wednesday afternoon outside a courthouse plaza in Tulsa, police said....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's governor has signed into law a bill requiring women to undergo abdominal ultrasound exams before having abortions, weeks after lawmakers dropped contentious language requiring that the exams be medically invasive....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man arrested after a homemade cannon blasted through his mobile home, killing his girlfriend, "liked to live life on the edge," his brother told a San Diego newspaper....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man arrested after a homemade cannon blasted through his mobile home, killing his girlfriend, "liked to live life on the edge," his brother told a San Diego newspaper....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims has damaged the public's trust in New Jersey law enforcement and jeopardized some of the relationships agents had sought to build in the community since Sept. 11, the head of the FBI in New Jersey said Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military commanders said Wednesday there are no plans to turn the Afghan war over to CIA control after 2014, with special operations answering to American intelligence officials....

DENVER (AP) -- A man who died in prison in 1996 after being convicted of murdering three women also killed four others between 1979 and 1988 and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides, authorities said....

DENVER (AP) -- A man who died in prison in 1996 after being convicted of murdering three women also killed four others between 1979 and 1988 and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides, authorities said....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the nation's top military leader delivered a sober assessment Wednesday of Syria's sophisticated air defenses and its extensive stockpile of chemical weapons in a strategic reality check to the demand for U.S. military action to end President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on his people....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans and oil industry leaders called Wednesday for more U.S. gas production to combat rising prices, fast becoming an issue in the presidential campaign. Democrats focused on conservation and the role of Wall Street speculators in driving up prices...

Patricia and Joan Miller were identical twins who pursued their dreams together. As a team, the Miller sisters met Bing Crosby, appeared on a TV show in the 1950s and purchased a house in California's picturesque South Lake Tahoe....

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- A junior high school teacher was placed on leave as a school district investigates whether she was moonlighting as a porn star, officials said....

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Tech police detective who responded to the first two killings on campus five years ago testified Wednesday she believed the slayings were isolated and other students were not at risk....