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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Among the items that remained after a barista's abduction from an Anchorage coffee stand were two partially made drinks on a messy counter, and money from the business was missing....

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas officials are rethinking a decision to house prison inmates in a county jail and have moved all of them back to a state facility after four escaped, including a convicted murderer, the state Department of Corrections said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and a top adviser to President Barack Obama expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House expressed renewed confidence Thursday in the director of the Secret Service in the midst of a sordid prostitution scandal that has threatened to become a serious political distraction in an election year. A key lawmaker who oversees the Secret Service predicted more firings there soon....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of Syria's main opposition council offered to resign Thursday after some members threatened to pull out of the umbrella group amid rampant infighting, striking a blow to efforts to present a united front against President Bashar Assad....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police and the FBI began digging up a Manhattan basement Thursday for the remains of a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance on his way to school drew helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over....

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Guinea-Bissau's military leaders said Thursday they had agreed on a candidate to lead a transitional government, though the two-year proposed timeframe for organizing new elections after last week's coup was unlikely to appease the international community....

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Guinea-Bissau's military leaders said Thursday they had agreed on a candidate to lead a transitional government, though the two-year proposed timeframe for organizing new elections after last week's coup was unlikely to appease the international community....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time Thursday, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time Thursday, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time Thursday, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The junta that seized power in a coup last month announced late Thursday that it had released 22 people whose arrests earlier this week had prompted international criticism....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The junta that seized power in a coup last month announced late Thursday that it had released 22 people whose arrests earlier this week had prompted international criticism....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The junta that seized power in a coup last month announced late Thursday that it had released 22 people whose arrests earlier this week had prompted international criticism....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A woman found with a suicide note pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the slaying of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife, as prosecutors remained quiet about a possible motive or link between the two people who lived a mile apart in a small town....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge threw out charges Thursday against a man who urged jurors in multiple East Coast cities from Florida to New Hampshire to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge threw out charges Thursday against a man who urged jurors in multiple East Coast cities from Florida to New Hampshire to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience....