AP - The Coast Guard has called off the search for a cruise ship employee whose co-workers say fell overboard off Florida.

AP - Killings dropped by a third here last year, making Wisconsin's largest city among the nation's most successful in tackling its 2008 murder rate.

AP - Authorities in Ohio say a fire has destroyed a four-barn complex and killed hundreds of animals raised for a natural food business.

AP - This coming week, Minnesota's Canvassing Board will declare what everyone's been waiting for in the state's prolonged U.S. Senate race: A winner.

AP - A judge in Arizona has found a 12-year-old boy guilty of premeditated murder in the shooting death of his mother.

AP - A lawyer representing the man appointed to the Senate by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich has written to Senate Democratic leaders asking them to seat his client.

AP - Investigators in Ohio say they have YouTube to thank for arrests in connection with a large disturbance.

AP - A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Reid called Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in early December to discuss the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

AP - The Los Angeles County coroner's office has identified six of the nine people killed when a man dressed as Santa Claus attacked his ex-wife's family on Christmas Eve.

AP - 'Hey baby, you OK?' Mike asks his girlfriend as she sits down next to him.

AP - This time, when the lanky young man stepped into the pool, his chest was tight. His muscles ached. He pushed off to take his first strokes, and grimaced at the pain.

AP - More than 100 inmates broke control-room windows, overturned furniture and started a small fire in a temporary housing block at a medium-security state prison.

AP - A teenage girl charged with capital murder for her role in the deaths of her mother and two young brothers agreed to a plea deal that could make her eligible for parole when she's 59, her attorney said.

AP - Edward D. Cartier, whose illustrations graced 'The Shadow' and numerous other science fiction and mystery publications in a career that spanned several decades, has died at 94.

AP - A man who initially told police gunmen kidnapped his 2 1/2-year-old son was arrested Saturday, accused of committing an 'extremely hideous' murder because he was ordered to pay child support, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said.

AP - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is heading to Israel with police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and New York Rep. Gary Ackerman.

AP - The Coast Guard says the bodies of two fishermen have been found after their trawler sank in the waters off Gloucester.

AP - Authorities say two snowmobilers and a passenger died when their vehicles crashed on a trail in northern Wisconsin.

AP - The final note of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign may very well be sung by Jon Bon Jovi.

AP - New Jersey authorities say a woman drowned trying to retrieve her grandson's dog from a frozen pond.

AP - Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe said on Saturday he intends to run for governor of Virginia.