AP - Police say a woman has abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital, saying she can't control the girl, in what may be the latest use of Nebraska's unique safe-haven law.

AP - The head of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops says Catholic lawmakers should follow their faith when setting public policy under a new presidential administration.

AP - Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

AP - Mourners are crowding a rural Arizona church for the funeral of a man allegedly killed by his 8-year-old son.

AP - The government's star witness in the case against five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix said two of the men 'had nothing to do' with the scheme.

AP - A former IRA militant and escaped political prisoner who has lived in immigration limbo for 25 years in California may see it all unravel from inside a South Texas federal detention center.

AP - The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, opening a national church meeting Monday, said that continued support for abortion rights will undermine any advances in social justice that come from a new president and Congress.

AP - A 17-year-old boy left by his mother at an Omaha hospital on Monday is the 30th child abandoned under Nebraska's safe-haven law, state officials said. The boy from the Omaha area was left at Creighton University Medical Center on Monday morning, said Todd Landry, director of children and family services for the Department of Health and Human Services.

AP - In World War II, Samuel Mazur was a tail gunner on a B-17 bomber that flew over Europe.

AP - Hundreds of mourners packed a funeral Monday for a man allegedly shot to death by his 8-year-old son, while friends and neighbors disputed any suggestion the boy had been abused by his father.

AP - Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show.

AP - A Cleveland woman who ended up in a feud over $182,000 in Depression-era currency found in the walls of her home has filed for bankruptcy.

AP - A former Toledo, Ohio, lawyer who made up a story about being kidnapped after a client accused her of stealing his money has admitted she took $624,000 from about two dozen people.

AP - The government's star witness in the case against five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix said two of the men 'had nothing to do' with the scheme.

AP - Seven high school students looking 'to beat up some Mexicans' attacked an immigrant from Ecuador on a Long Island street, with one of them fatally plunging a knife into the man's chest during the brawl, police said.

AP - Harvard University is considering spending cuts because the economic slowdown may reduce federal grants and the school's substantial endowment, President Drew Faust said Monday.

AP - Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird.

AP - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management needs to consider euthanizing wild horses or selling many of them to reduce spiraling costs of keeping them in long-term holding pens, said a government report Monday.

AP - A former priest accused in many of the child sex-abuse claims that bankrupted the Spokane, Wash., Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $5 million to victims, who'll likely never be paid.

AP - A spokesman for the Yellowstone Club says the exclusive resort for the super-rich has filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure financing for an expansion.

AP - An effort to rename one of two Dallas streets for Cesar Chavez failed Monday, but the city plans to find another road to name after the late labor and civil rights activist.

AP - Next month, it'll be the famous New Year's Eve ball. Next year, it could be the Great Pumpkin.

AP - A Muslim charity funneled more than $12 million to Palestinian schools and charities controlled by the militant group Hamas, prosecutors said in closing arguments Monday at the charity's second trial for allegedly financing terrorism.

AP - A former priest accused in many of the child sex-abuse claims that bankrupted the eastern Washington Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $5 million to victims, who'll likely never be paid.