AP - A former UCLA official and an associate were arrested Wednesday on charges that they illegally sold parts of bodies donated for research in a scheme that produced more than $1 million in profits.

AP - A Georgia truck driver stepped forward Wednesday to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history.

AP - A man held his editor brother at gunpoint for a time at a newspaper office in Richmond on Wednesday and was being sought in the shooting death of a woman, authorities and another editor said.

AP - A devastating fire in a three-story building in the Bronx killed eight children and seriously injured six other people in one of New York's deadliest blazes in recent memory, authorities said.

AP - A central Kentucky man accused of killing his wife and later holding his editor brother at gunpoint at a newspaper office was arrested Wednesday on murder charges, police said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire swept through a building in the Bronx section of New York City overnight, killing eight children and one adult, a Fire Department spokesman said on Thursday.

AP - After Vera Quiroga, an American Indian elder, was turned away from a clinic she helped found in Santa Barbara, she has been forced to drive to a far-off reservation to get her teeth cleaned.

CULEBRA CREEK, Colo (Reuters) - As the snow melts from the towering peaks in the distance, Culebra Creek runs fast and the trout are biting. But Van Beecham, a fourth generation fishing guide, is uneasy.

AP - Two baggage handlers carried a bag containing guns and drugs on a commercial flight from Florida to Puerto Rico, but passengers were in no danger, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said.

AP - In the months since a 14-year-old boy was found shot to death with a state senator's handgun at his side, questions have swirled about whether his death was a suicide, homicide or some sort of terrible accident.

AP - The sex offender convicted of kidnapping, raping and then killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive behind his trailer could now face the death penalty.

AP - A National Guardsman shot and killed a man who threw a piece of broken glass at a group on patrol and later pointed a BB gun that officers mistook for a rifle, police said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walgreen Co. illegally assigned thousands of African-American employees to low-performing stores and stores in black neighborhoods, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

AP - The former imam of an Albany mosque was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for his role in a money laundering scheme involving a fictional terror plot set up as an FBI sting.

AP - A law-enforcement exercise to prepare for a possible mass migration as that could occur following a Cuban leadership change coincided Thursday with the arrival of real migrants.

AP - The state's probe into sexual abuse allegations in the Texas youth prison system has resulted in the firing of a correctional officer who is a convicted sex offender.

ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced an Iraqi Kurdish imam and a Bangladeshi pizzeria owner to 15 years each in prison on Thursday for their roles in an FBI sting operation involving a fake plot to kill a Pakistani diplomat.

BOSTON (Reuters) - As he prepared to announce his campaign for the White House, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama took care of some unfinished business at Harvard University -- paying about $400 in parking fines dating back to his days as a law student.

AP - Black legislative leaders said Thursday they will propose that Georgia apologize for the state's role in slavery and segregation-era laws.

AP - A Georgia truck driver has claimed half of the $390 million Mega Millions jackpot, but somewhere there's a second winning ticket for the richest lottery prize in U.S. history, and it has yet to surface, New Jersey Lottery officials said Thursday.

AP - A teenager who was found dead with a state senator's gun by his side committed suicide, and no charges should be filed in the case, the county coroner said Thursday.

AP - A man accused of raping and killing a University of Delaware student, whose body was discovered in her burning apartment, was found guilty Thursday and could face the death penalty.

AP - A rock slide that dumped debris on a major rail corridor Thursday delayed commuter and freight trains between the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento but caused no injuries.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The cost of caring for aging Americans will add 25 percent to the nation's health care bill by 2030 unless people act now to stay healthy, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's taxi fleet has the reputation of being dominated by foreign-born drivers, and now there are numbers to prove it.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved on Thursday the first site in over 30 years that could eventually house a new nuclear power plant, but the United States is still far away from breaking ground on any new reactors.

AP - Tired of parents pulling their kids out of school for a ski trip or a visit to Disneyland, the local school system is billing them for the missed class time at $36.13 per day.

AP - Georgia's newest millionaire skipped work Thursday after claiming half the $390 million Mega Millions jackpot, while lottery officials in New Jersey waited for the second winning ticket in the richest lottery in U.S. history to surface.

AP - An attorney for Michael Devlin, the former pizzeria manager charged with abducting two Missouri boys, dismissed a plea deal Thursday that was expected to include several life sentences, saying his client could do better before a jury.

AP - Passengers on a commercial flight from Florida to Puerto Rico were in little danger despite more than a dozen guns being on board, because at least two federal air marshals were also on the plane, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said Thursday.

AP - A rock slide dumped debris on a major rail corridor Thursday, delaying several passenger and freight trains between the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento, but causing no injuries.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania town's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration will be challenged by civil rights campaigners in a landmark federal trial beginning on Monday that could signal whether such local laws across the country can stand up to legal challenge.

MIAMI (Reuters) - While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury on Thursday indicted a retired Massachusetts lawyer who held a $30 million trove of stolen paintings, including one by French postimpressionist painter Paul Cezanne, for almost 30 years.

AP - Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days.

AP - A prominent Brazilian congressman has been charged in New York with stealing $11.6 million from a public works project in his country, then transferring it to a Manhattan bank, according to an indictment announced Thursday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Fugitive Boston Irish mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger, an inspiration for the Oscar-winning film 'The Departed,' has likely blended into society and is staying clear of crime, a top federal agent said on Thursday.

AP - Even as experts played down the threat of a mass exodus from Cuba if Fidel Castro dies, law enforcement agencies staged mock exercises Thursday to be prepared just in case.

AP - Two American women hospitalized for suspected thallium poisoning were in fair condition Thursday and were undergoing tests to determine why they fell ill while vacationing in Russia.

AP - Army National Guard members on Thursday rescued three Korean backpackers stranded on an ice floe in the Bering Strait.

AP - A woman who fell into a coma after a heart attack more than six years ago awoke this week for three days and spoke with her family and a television station before slipping back into what her doctor calls a minimally conscious state.

HARTFORD (Reuters) - Connecticut lawmakers debated a bill on Thursday that would require social-networking Web sites such as MySpace to verify users' ages and force minors to obtain parental consent before posting profiles.

AP - The public cannot see the arguments American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh made in the hope of shortening his 20-year prison sentence, a federal judge has ruled.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America voted and ended contestant Antonella Barba's hopes of becoming the next 'American Idol' on Thursday, after several racy photos of the New Jersey resident surfaced on the Internet.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A prototype satellite repair robot that can refuel, upgrade and repair satellites was launched from Florida on Thursday night to begin a three-month orbital field test.

AP - A city manager facing dismissal after going public with plans to get a sex change said Thursday that he plans to fight to keep his job, because his case represents the struggle 'to deal with morality, sexuality and gender.'

AP - A tour helicopter crashed at an airport on the island of Kauai on Thursday, killing three people and critically injuring four, officials said.

AP - Gov. Deval Patrick urged federal authorities Thursday not to move any more factory workers detained in an immigration raid out of state until their children are found and arrangements are made for their care.

AP - A high school student arrested last month in a suspected school plot planned to use shrapnel pipe bombs and other explosives to target peers who had harassed him, according to documents released Thursday.