AP - An Illinois school bus driver has been found guilty of intentionally slamming on the brakes to throw misbehaving children from their seats.

AP - Divers are expected to resume their search of the frigid, murky Hudson River on Wednesday for the most coveted piece of debris from the plane that safely splashed down in the river last week: The missing left engine.

AP - One of two Florida priests accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from their church pleaded guilty Wednesday, the same day jury selection was set to begin in the case.

AP - In the West Texas oil patch, they can see the downturn coming at them from miles away like a pickup truck kicking up a dust cloud on the horizon.

AP - Police evacuated the newsroom and executive offices of the Wall Street Journal at the Dow Jones Inc. building Wednesday after about a dozen envelopes that contained a white powder were received.

AP - Federal regulators are charging a missing hedge fund manager with fraud, saying he misled investors and overstated the value of investments in the six funds by about $300 million.

AP - Nashville could become the largest U.S. city to make English the mandatory language for all government business under a measure being put before voters Thursday, but critics say it might invite lawsuits and even cost the city millions in federal funding.

AP - The advent of the Obama administration is rousing enthusiasm among abortion-rights supporters and deep anxiety among opponents as both sides mark Thursday's anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

AP - Authorities investigating white powder found in envelopes at New York's Wall Street Journal say similar mail was received at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts.

AP - The judge who put the Northwest chapter of the American Lung Association out of business over a dispute with the national organization has changed her mind, saying it can stay in operation.

AP - A national conservative Christian group has begun a telephone lobbying campaign in Wyoming in support of a gay-marriage ban in the state Senate.

AP - Authorities have released a 27-year-old Massachusetts man suspected of driving with a bomb on the New Jersey Turnpike after learning a called-in tip was false.

AP - An Indiana investment adviser is not mentally competent to be tried on charges he deliberately crashed his plane in the Florida Panhandle in a botched plot to fake his death to escape financial ruin, his public defender said Wednesday.

AP - A woman accused with her husband in the beating death of their 2-year-old daughter has pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence but not guilty of capital murder charges.

AP - Oregon's attorney general has agreed to investigate the mayor of Portland, who has admitted to lying about an affair with a teenager in 2005.

AP - A fatal stabbing on Virginia Tech campus has triggered a crisis alert system that was revamped after a deadly mass shooting there in 2007.

AP - Two 19-year-old nursing assistants faced charges of abuse and assault Wednesday for allegedly groping, spanking and spitting on seven patients at a nursing home, authorities said.

AP - A Chicago homeless agency has fired Illinois' first lady from her $100,000-a-year job as its chief fundraiser.

AP - A fire at a major hospital sent smoke pouring through an emergency room Wednesday, injuring at least six firefighters and forcing 600 patients to be moved across the sprawling complex.

AP - A man that authorities say was a member of at least three violent street gangs was put to death Wednesday for killing two people outside a bar 15 years ago in San Antonio.

AP - The wife of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was fired from her $100,000-a-year job as a Chicago homeless agency's chief fundraiser.