AP - Both trials had the same pro-Hamas videos, the same Israeli witness and the same allegations of how a Muslim charity in Texas funneled millions of dollars to terrorists overseas.

AP - Rains swept across Southern California on Wednesday, bringing flash flood warnings to areas already burned by wildfire and worries from thousands of residents whose homes were spared by flames that they could now face destructive mudslides instead.

AP - A Florida man's quest to find hundreds of U.S. Marines buried anonymously after one of World War II's bloodiest battles could lead to the largest identification of American war dead in history.

AP - A sport utility vehicle has struck and injured several people — including at least two children — outside a suburban Los Angeles elementary school. One is listed as critically injured.

AP - A Maryland mall says Salvation Army bell ringers are making too much noise, and that's striking a sour note with merchants.

AP - Reno police say they have arrested a suspect in the January kidnapping and killing of a 19-year-old college student who was abducted as she slept on a friend's couch.

AP - Former first lady Barbara Bush was resting and in good spirits in a Houston hospital Wednesday morning following surgery for a perforated ulcer, a family spokesman said.

AP - Police in Reno, Nev., have released the identity of a suspect in the January kidnapping and slaying of a 19-year-old college student who was abducted as she slept on a friend's couch.

AP - Scott Fuchs will spend Thanksgiving with his family in Florida like he's done for 20 years or so. But like thousands of other Americans, his brother is staying home — travel isn't possible after he was laid off from his job in Maryland.

AP - Until last year, Alan Felzer was an energetic engineering professor who took the stairs to his classes two steps at a time. Now the 64-year-old grandfather sits strapped to a wheelchair, able to move little but his left hand, his voice a near-whisper.

AP - A Thanksgiving ago, many of us were fretting over delays at the airport, our holiday season shopping lists, even things like whether to get another Botox injection or a new set of wheels.

AP - Ring-a-ling. Hear them ring?

AP - In late summer 1979 a Marine named James L. Jones arrived on Capitol Hill for a new assignment as advocate for Marine programs in the Senate. His boss was a Navy officer and fellow Vietnam vet who showed Jones the political ropes and became a lifelong friend — John McCain.

AP - With their visit winding down, the world's 10 space travelers zipped up a huge shipping crate at the international space station on Wednesday for return to Earth aboard space shuttle Endeavour.

AP - Former first lady Barbara Bush was expected to remain in a Houston hospital for the next week as she recovers from laparoscopic surgery for a perforated ulcer, her surgeon said Wednesday.

AP - Ann Marie Getz had already been twice convicted of driving under the influence when, behind the wheel of her Lincoln Continental and allegedly drunk, she ran a stop sign this month in central Illinois and smashed into another car. A mother and two kids in the Chevy Impala that Getz hit died. And yet the 43-year-old Streator woman was able to present a valid Illinois driver's license to investigators.

AP - At dusk, after all the fancy horses had been auctioned, Doug Barnes settled into a seat at the sale barn and got down to business. Three, four, five or more horses ambled into the ring at a time.