- Colorado voters reject affirmative action ban (AP)
- Neb. officials reviewing affirmative action ban (AP)
- NYC raises red-carpet fees, fines in budget crunch (AP)
- Survey: Americans cutting back on gifts (AP)
- Craigslist to crack down on prostitution ads (AP)
- Obama's former pastor says media exploited him (AP)
- Calif. gay-marriage ban creates legal uncertainty (AP)
- Clinton: Obama made good choice for chief of staff (AP)
- Alum gives U. of Chicago $300M for business school (AP)
- Voters' word may not be last in Minn. Senate race (AP)
- Fierce early-season blizzard traps SD motorists (AP)
- 4 Marines charged with killing California couple (AP)
- States consider billions in cuts as deficits widen (AP)
- Illinois banks on Obama buzz to boost tourism (AP)
- Obama election shows deep racial divide in church (AP)
- Miami jury convicts ex-FBI agent in 1982 killing (AP)
- Voters' word may not be last in Minn. Senate race (AP)
- I-95 lanes closed in Mass. after tanker fuel spill (AP)
- No charges for ex-N.Y. governor Spitzer in prostitution case (AP)
- Money talk loses its taboo as economy sours (AP)
- Schwarzenegger: $4.4B in tax hikes to end deficit (AP)
- Philadelphia mayor outlines drastic budget cuts (AP)
- Rural Arkansas championed foster, adoption ban (AP)
- Lincoln re-election speech to be auctioned in NYC (AP)
- Work starts on new Pearl Harbor visitor's center (AP)
- Mass. scrambling to adapt to marijuana initiative (AP)
- Obama's victory leaves Ill. Senate seat in limbo (AP)
- Tropical Storm Paloma forms; may become hurricane (AP)
- Study links lead in blood to wild game consumption (AP)
- In state legislatures, Democrats build on majority (AP)
- Informant's credibility targeted in Fort Dix trial (AP)
- Gay activists jarred by California marriage defeat (AP)
- Baylor denounces noose in tree on Election Day (AP)
- Obama results show gains in key religious voters (AP)
- Stocks plunge anew as recession worries resurface (AP)
- Witness: Calif. ex-sheriff proposed money scheme (AP)
- Obama results show gains in key religious voters (AP)
- Gay activists jarred by California marriage defeat (AP)
- On the day after The Day, hope, relief and anger (AP)
- This time, election system worked. But why? (AP)
- Minnesota Senate race heads into automatic recount (AP)
- Calif. voters OK $10B bond for high-speed rail (AP)
- Yes They Can: Change sweeps through legislatures (AP)
- Voter turnout best in generations, maybe a century (AP)
- Some voting problems, but overall smooth election (AP)
- Obama victory sets off jubilation (AP)
- Essay: Obama's transcendence is beyond race (AP)
- Young voters lean heavily toward Obama (AP)
- Democrats take control of New York Senate (AP)
- Hawaii tourism board to pay disgraced ex-CEO $290K (AP)
- Storm drops more than foot of snow on Sierra peaks (AP)
- Dems expand control of Senate by at least 5 (AP)
- Dems win open gov seat in Mo., GOP holds Indiana (AP)
- Obama on the ballot: Elation and disbelief (AP)
- State ballots feature hot-button social issues (AP)
- A worried America chooses its course for change (AP)
- Obama tops McCain in NH (AP)
- Obama's grandmother remembered as calm, assured (AP)
- Obama's hometown giddy with prospect of victory (AP)
- NYC budget woes hit police, fire, health services (AP)
- Obama on the ballot: Elation and disbelief (AP)
- Construction industry: NYC regulations overzealous (AP)
- ND pantries to accept only archery-killed deer (AP)
- Mom gets 15 years for driving teens to kill rival (AP)
- New videos prompt delay in child sex assault trial (AP)
- DA: Sister will testify that Mass. girl was beaten (AP)
- Storm drops more than foot of snow on Sierra peaks (AP)
- Ship crew still detained one year after San Francisco Bay spill (AP)
- Police: Murder suspect's kin tried jail break-in (AP)
- Neb. safe-haven cases swell to 27 (AP)
- Close gov races in NC, Wash., among 11 contests (AP)
- State ballots feature hot-button social issues (AP)
- State legislative elections a nationwide contest (AP)
- Foster home sued over 9-year-old boy's starvation (AP)
- 3 young upstate NY boys killed in house fire (AP)
- Fla. board keeps Klan leader's name at high school (AP)
- UN in uphill struggle to protect Congo civilians (AP)
- Long Beach, Calif., police baffled by 5 slayings (AP)
- Soldier gets 10 years in slaying of fellow veteran (AP)
- DNA links bones near plane crash site to Fossett (AP)
- Northwest chapter fighting Lung Association claims (AP)
- Retired NYPD officer testifies at Spector retrial (AP)
- Dems fundraiser mourned by John Edwards, others (AP)
- Idaho child-killer Duncan gets 6 life sentences (AP)
- Controversial ex-Chicago alderman pleads guilty (AP)
- Obama's grandmother dies a day before election (AP)
- Flag-waving gunman closes Calif. highway for hours (AP)
- Dad: Slain SC trick-or-treater saved him, siblings (AP)
- CEO pleads guilty in shootings of neighbor's bison (AP)
- Mourners attend private Hudson family funeral (AP)
- Feds propose much fewer snowmobiles in Yellowstone (AP)
- DNA links bones near plane crash site to Fossett (AP)
- Obama's statement on his grandmother's death (AP)
- Obama's grandmother dies a day before election (AP)
- Drumbeat for early voting pays off for Obama team (AP)
- NYC mayor takes flak, then signs term-limits bill (AP)
- 2 due in federal court in Vegas boy's abduction (AP)
- Slain trick-or-treater's dad says boy saved him (AP)
- Muslim's suit over scarves in Calif. jail settled (AP)
- NYer accused of wife's slaying denies wrongdoing (AP)
- Space junk falls harmlessly in South Pacific (AP)
- 2 more teens left under Nebraska safe-haven law (AP)
- Armed man waving flag shuts down highway (AP)
- Beaten TV anchor never regained consciousness (AP)
- Teen pregnancies tied to tastes for sexy TV shows (AP)
- Flood of wounded GIs swamps care units (AP)
- Mourners celebrate lives of slain Hudson relatives (AP)
- Gay-marriage backers make the political personal (AP)
- Attorney: Nevada Gov. Gibbons cleared in FBI probe (AP)
- Utah polygamous communities produce voter's guide (AP)
- Calif. surgeon faces trial in organ donation case (AP)
- Chicago's 'Fast Eddie' alderman headed for trial (AP)
- 5 found fatally shot in SoCal homeless encampment (AP)
- John Ripley, Vietnam War hero, dies at age 69 (AP)
- John Ripley, Vietnam War hero, dies at age 69 (AP)
- 'Tis the season for tricking voters (AP)
- Supreme Court hears case over American Indian land (AP)
- Utah polygamous communities produce voter's guide (AP)
- Chicago's 'Fast Eddie' alderman headed for trial (AP)
- Painting by Italian master turns up in Texas (AP)
- AP IMPACT: Too many soldiers in new care centers (AP)
- Amid gloom, young see vote as act of hope (AP)
- Machinists ratify Boeing pact, set to resume work (AP)
- Memorial set for slain kin of Jennifer Hudson (AP)
- Magnitude-6.1 quake shakes Aleutian Islands (AP)
- 7 injured in shooting outside Chicago club (AP)
- US Navy intercepts missile shot from Hawaii base (AP)
- Police: Ohio minister shot dead near Ky. church (AP)
- Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money (AP)
- Get ready, get set, go — to sleep for another hour (AP)
- Palin takes prank call from fake French president (AP)
- Mom of Iowa toddler found dead charged with murder (AP)
- Biden promises a bipartisan spirit in White House (AP)
- Palin takes prank call from fake French president (AP)
- NYC couple travels 9,300 miles from India to vote (AP)
- American Lung Association cuts tie with NW chapter (AP)
- FEMA official says agency response slow after Ike (AP)
- Get ready, get set, go — to sleep for another hour (AP)
- Officer dies after being shot in St. Louis suburb (AP)
- Energy-hogging Wash. prisons go green (AP)
- Texas House speaker busy campaigning on 2 fronts (AP)
- Advocates concerned about language access at polls (AP)
- Health care, defense poised to weather recession (AP)
- Have gun, will travel: economy only grazes hunting (AP)
- Bear killed out of worry for trick-or-treaters (AP)
- NY state education commissioner to resign (AP)
- Court limits ex-Tyco exec Kozlowski property sales (AP)
- AP IMPACT: Another day — hardly ordinary — at NYSE (AP)
- Judge: King family must resume documenting papers (AP)
- Author, activist Studs Terkel dies at 96 (AP)
- Rare aftershocks persist in North Texas (AP)
- Man charged with killing wife he reported missing (AP)
- Grand jury weighs sodomy claim against NYPD cops (AP)
- Boo! Revelers celebrate the spookiest of holidays (AP)
- Neil Armstrong donating his papers to Purdue (AP)
- SC boy shot, killed trick-or-treating; 2 injured (AP)
- Vigilance deters Halloween eve arsons in Detroit (AP)
- Michigan teen gets life for poisoning grandmother (AP)
- Pathologist still has copy of lost Shepard autopsy (AP)
- Judge gives red light to green cabs in NYC (AP)
- Boat runs aground near Miami Beach; 3 killed (AP)
- Civil rights group renews Va. election lawsuit (AP)
- Mass. senator charged with bribery ends campaign (AP)
- Stocks end Oct. with worst performance in 21 years (AP)
- State Department warns of possible identity theft (AP)
- 'Doonesbury' strip assumes Obama will win (AP)
- Anxious eyes on Calif. measure over gay marriage (AP)
- Police release report on suicide of 'DC Madam' (AP)
- New England town struggles to preserve fishing (AP)
- Boat runs aground off Miami Beach; 3 killed (AP)
- NY judge gives red light to green cabs (AP)
- Iowa firm pulls 450 workers from slaughterhouse (AP)
- Poll: California gay marriage campaign tightens (AP)
- Vigilance deters Halloween eve arsons in Detroit (AP)
- 2 shot in Dallas-area bank robbery (AP)
- Gunman arrested after Maine students held hostage (AP)
- Texas floats plan to house Ike victims aboard ship (AP)
- Polygamist child custody case winds down in Texas (AP)
- Joe the Plumber hires Nashville publicity team (AP)
- 2 minor earthquakes hit Dallas-Fort Worth area (AP)
- Colombian charged with smuggling tons of cocaine (AP)
- Man charged with `Sopranos' actor guilty of murder (AP)
- Report: No mechanical failure before copter crash (AP)
- 3 cents then, $1M now: 1868 stamp auctioned in NYC (AP)
- NYC residents: Use your mouse to track rats online (AP)
- Agreement in Colo. lawsuit helps purged voters (AP)
- Police official: Hudson nephew likely died in SUV (AP)
- Air Force: Nuke missile silo fire went undetected (AP)
- Lawyer defends actions of mother in Nev. abduction (AP)
- Calif. to cut water deliveries to cities, farms (AP)
- New bone find encourages Fossett investigators (AP)
- Man sets self aflame at Seattle college and dies (AP)
- Searchers find 2 bones near Fossett crash site (AP)
- Police: Husband strangled missing NY teacher (AP)
- Air Force: Nuke missile silo fire went undetected (AP)
- Fort Dix jury hears fuel truck mentioned as weapon (AP)
- Man sets self on fire at University of Washington (AP)
- Voters in 11 states to elect governors next week (AP)
- Police: Husband strangled missing NY teacher (AP)
- Suspicion falls on dairy farmer in Ill. murders (AP)
- SoCal McCain supporter removes bloody Obama effigy (AP)
- Bill collectors get tough, and complaints surge (AP)
- Agents arrest former Agriprocessors manager (AP)
- Diabetes rate doubles over 10 years, US says (AP)
- Hubble telescope working, taking photos again (AP)
- Michigan loses federal appeal over voter rolls (AP)
- McCain worker reaches deal in made-up assault case (AP)
- Colo. DA: new DNA testing unnecessary in old cases (AP)
- AP source: Hudson suspect refused polygraph test (AP)
- Hudson deaths add to South Side Chicago's violence (AP)
- Patchwork of safe-haven laws creates confusion (AP)
- Want to vote? In Fla., line up and wait ... (AP)
- Accused skinheads to face magistrate at hearing (AP)
- Anti-gay marriage groups look for Ariz. redemption (AP)
- Thousands to douse annual Detroit arson tradition (AP)
- Witness: Ex-sheriff took illegal campaign money (AP)
- Shivering teacher tells class about climate change (AP)
- Husband held in death of NY teacher as body ID'd (AP)
- Fatalities on the rise in vehicle-animal crashes (AP)
- Texas Samaritan buys woman her house at auction (AP)
- FBI: California man arrested in anthrax hoaxes (AP)
- Calif. cop fatally shoots innocent man in his yard (AP)
- FBI investigating mailings labeled 'anthrax' (AP)
- Impressive weapons array protected NH tax evaders (AP)
- Hot-button social issues highlight state ballots (AP)
- Oil well explosion kills 2, injures 5 in Illinois (AP)
- Obama effigy found on U. of Kentucky campus (AP)
- NASA probe shows Mercury more dynamic than thought (AP)
- NASA may be able to speed up launch of moonship (AP)
- Real Halloween back for long traumatized Pa. town (AP)
- Churches are looking at hard times (AP)
- College prices up again even as economy falters (AP)
- Iowa meatpacker fined nearly $10M for violations (AP)
- Body found as police search for missing NY teacher (AP)
- Marshals arrest brother of mummified Ky. woman (AP)
- Actress' death center stage again in Spector trial (AP)
- Harlem charity adapts as drug epidemic wanes (AP)
- Jurors hear start of alleged plot in Fort Dix case (AP)
- Officials: Alleged skinhead plot not fully formed (AP)
- 'America's sheriff' faces Calif. corruption trial (AP)
- Man defending home from theft killed by police (AP)
- 22nd child abandoned at Neb. hospital under law (AP)
- Detroit's ex-Mayor Kilpatrick jailed for 4 months (AP)
- Texas executes rapist, killer of 7-year-old girl (AP)
- 'America's sheriff' faces Calif. corruption trial (AP)
- DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death (AP)
- Northeast snowstorm closes major highways, schools (AP)
- 4 charged in Ark. college shooting that killed 2 (AP)
- Texas sect elder convicted of sex assault of child (AP)
- NJ actor focus of child-porn manhunt pleads guilty (AP)