AP - A 12-year-old boy trick-or-treating with his family in central South Carolina was shot from inside a home Friday and killed, and his father and brother were wounded by the gunfire, authorities said.

AP - Former astronaut Neil Armstrong has agreed to donate personal papers dating from the start of his flight career to his alma mater, Purdue University.

AP - Werner Lippe told authorities he was eager to help them locate his missing wife after she vanished while running errands.

AP - The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for migrants missing after their boat ran aground east of downtown Miami.

AP - The mortgage problems that have helped shape the current economic downturn have made 'subprime' an unwelcome word to investors.

AP - A federal judge in New Hampshire has limited imprisoned former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski's ability to sell his houses and other property.

AP - A judge has ordered Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter to resume documenting her mother's personal papers, which are at the center of a family feud among the civil rights icon's surviving children.

AP - The Flushing section of Queens provides a vivid display of the many languages of New York City: A church offers services in English, Chinese and Spanish. One business sign after another is written in Chinese. And on Election Day, voters will cast ballots in a Taiwanese community center.

AP - A police officer in a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., has died after being shot in the town's popular University City Loop area.

AP - With the global economy at risk of a deep recession, many battered areas of the economy stand to suffer more damage in coming months. Other industries, though, seem poised to withstand even a severe downturn.

AP - Wildlife officials in Alaska have killed a 200-pound black bear that was raiding garbage in a home driveway while children were trick-or-treating in the Anchorage neighborhood on Halloween.

AP - Since the voters of this oil-rich district first sent him to the state capitol in 1968, Tom Craddick has coasted through each re-election, swatting away Democratic opponents with relative ease.

AP - Have gun, will travel — even if the economy's shot.

AP - New York state's education commissioner says he will resign by next June after a 13-year tenure in which he carried out one of the nation's most aggressive and expensive education reform efforts.

AP - A top official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency admits that the agency was sluggish in its response to Texans affected by Hurricane Ike's devastation, according to a published report.

AP - A New York City couple has traveled halfway around the world in the name of civic duty.

AP - The American Lung Association is dissolving its Northwest affiliate and wants the rogue group to hand over ownership of its multimillion-dollar Seattle headquarters, which it sold for $10.

AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Saturday that he and Barack Obama would take a bipartisan spirit to the White House in working to revive the nation's economy and restore America's reputation in the world.

AP - The mother of a toddler who was found dead after being reported missing by his father was charged with the boy's murder.