AP - Illinois does not have to issue specialty license plates bearing the slogan 'Choose Life.'

AP - Billy Graham has counseled every American president since Dwight Eisenhower. But the evangelist known for his globe-trotting crusades has no plans to mentor Barack Obama, though his son did say his father would like to meet the president-elect and pray with him.

AP - Even as voters in California banned same-sex marriage in a tight referendum, Tuesday's election opened the door for the same debate in New York.

AP - A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.

AP - Hawaii County police and federal authorities say they will continue enforcing marijuana laws on the Big Island despite the passage of a ballot initiative making it the lowest priority for law enforcement.

AP - Police in a Chicago suburb say a 90-year-old woman apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings — one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s.

AP - A third conservative diocese is splitting from the liberal Episcopal Church in a long-running dispute over the Bible, gay relationships and other issues.

AP - The convicted felon suspected in the killings of the mother, brother and nephew of singer Jennifer Hudson has a parole hearing Monday and could be released if an administrative officer finds no reason to hold him.

AP - Plenty of politicians reinvent themselves, but few do it quite like Mayor-elect Stu Rasmussen.

AP - The seat of Clinton County sits along a river at the foot of a spectacular mountain range in rural central Pennsylvania. On Election Day, what happened here was a microcosm of American duality: Just 327 votes separated John McCain, who won the county, and Barack Obama, who didn't.

AP - Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders 'kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved.'

AP - Despite Barack Obama's dominance nationally, Democrats are reeling in conservative Oklahoma, where John McCain made his strongest showing and the GOP snatched control of both houses of the Legislature for the first time since statehood.

AP - A judge has dismissed felony corruption indictments against a South Texas district attorney after a special prosecutor found no evidence to support the charges.

AP - A group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the half-dozen row houses where iconic American songs were born.

AP - Investigators say a fire that destroyed a church being constructed for a predominantly black congregation was intentionally set.

AP - One person is dead and six seriously hurt after a sport-utility vehicle carrying a high school wrestling team collided with a minivan in western Iowa.