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BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man convicted of conspiring to help al-Qaida has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An engineering review has found that stage rigging that collapsed and killed seven people during last summer's Indiana State Fair wasn't built strong enough to meet state building codes....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district. He also withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Prosecutors face steep hurdles to win a second-degree murder conviction against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, experts say....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities say a novelty grenade was to blame for an evacuation at a building near New York's ground zero....

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is "a myth" and more men generally survive such disasters than women and children....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's envoys are heading for nuclear talks with confidence that the chips are falling their way....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council Thursday that despite the fragile cease-fire in Syria, the government has failed to implement the council demand that it withdraw troops and heavy weapons from cities and towns, U.N. diplomats said....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The press bus took a wrong turn Thursday. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is acknowledging the obvious: The presidential contest is now a two-man race....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is acknowledging the obvious: The presidential contest is now a two-man race....

GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss prosecutors say a painting seized in Serbia has been confirmed as a stolen masterpiece by French impressionist Paul Cezanne....

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- After years of failed attempts to repeal the death penalty, Connecticut lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have passed legislation that abolishes the punishment for all future cases....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards said Monday she insisted the former presidential candidate tell her it was legal to take money from a wealthy donor to hide Edwards' mistress....

DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he probably wouldn't accept a job in Mitt Romney's Cabinet, if Romney is elected in November and such an offer is extended....

DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he probably wouldn't accept a job in Mitt Romney's Cabinet, if Romney is elected in November and such an offer is extended....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators are proposing cars be required to have throttle override systems to prevent runaway acceleration in instances where the driver steps on the gas pedal and brake at the same time....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- An Italian tour guide freed by Maoist rebels in eastern India on Thursday joked to reassure people he was well but said he lost 10 kilograms (22 pounds) during his tough, monthlong captivity....

LONDON (AP) -- It may lack wizards and witches, but J.K. Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," will have the magic touch....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised the prospect Thursday of holding presidential elections a year early to lessen the strain that could be caused by foreign combat troops leaving Afghanistan at the same time he ends more than a decade as leader of a nation at war....