AP - A firefighter has been killed in a blaze at a New York City home.

AP - An experienced firefighter stretching a hose to a home's burning attic was killed early Sunday when a ceiling collapsed, throwing him to the floor and knocking off his helmet and oxygen mask.

AP - Producer Dick Wolf is receiving a special honor at the 36th International Emmy Awards for extending the long arm of his 'Law & Order' franchise into almost every corner of the globe.

AP - Only months after winning and giving away $1 million on a television game show, state Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox and her husband have filed for bankruptcy.

AP - A farm couple got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick up free vegetables left over after the harvest — 40,000 people showed up.

AP - Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.

AP - They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like 'frost' and 'spice.' And the folks who created Joe Camel are hoping Camel Snus will become a hit with tobacco lovers tired of being forced outside for a smoke.

AP - It started as a radio program discussion about a taboo subject: child molestation among members of the insular world of Orthodox Jews.

AP - It costs the state of Connecticut at least $1,600 every time multiple murder suspect Joshua Komisarjevsky appears in a courtroom.

AP - Authorities in Wisconsin say a small airplane has crashed in the backyard of a house in Marshfield, killing the three people on board the aircraft.

AP - Last-minute allegations that hurt the incumbent. A statewide vote with only a tiny fraction separating the Democrat and the Republican. Teams of lawyers mobilized around the state to challenge questionable ballots.

AP - Set up the pins, clear the lanes and try not to roll a gutter bird.

AP - Home furnishing company IKEA agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for being slow to report defective outdoor candles, the government said Sunday.

AP - A University of Pennsylvania student who organized an exhibit about Lenape Indians living quietly in the state is among this year's winners of Rhodes Scholarships.

AP - Los Angeles police say a security guard at a Scientology building shot and killed a man wielding a sword.

AP - Police sought a young gunman Sunday after a shooting the day before at a busy Seattle-area shopping mall that killed one teenager and seriously wounded another.