AP - Flowers have been placed along a fence outside the Wichita clinic of slain abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and the clinic flag is flying at half staff.

AP - Republican Norm Coleman is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to toss out a lower-court ruling that gave Democrat Al Franken a victory in the state's U.S. Senate race.

AP - Michigan investigators looking for a 5-year-old girl missing for more than a week want to talk to the owner or driver of a minivan that was parked at a school playground near the spot where she was last seen.

AP - A Wisconsin man pleaded no contest Monday to charges he kidnapped and sexually assaulted two young men who were held captive in chains at his home.

AP - Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who has built a reputation as an anti-earmarks crusader, said Monday he will run for a second term next year.

AP - A new soldier helping to attract others to the military was shot and killed outside an Army recruiting office Monday and a second soldier was wounded, and a suspect was arrested, police said.

AP - The California high court has upheld the death sentence of the man convicted of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Polly Klaas in 1993.

AP - If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will be the sixth Roman Catholic of the nine justices.

AP - Alabama's Ten Commandments judge is running for governor again.

AP - A former Georgia Tech student was a budding terrorist who took choppy videos of potential targets in Washington, D.C., hoped to join the Taliban and desperately tried to prove himself to jihadist groups overseas, prosecutors said Monday.

AP - In an hour of rapid-fire questions over Minnesota's disputed Senate election, the state's highest court focused on whether vote-counting flaws alleged by Republican Norm Coleman were severe enough to deny Democrat Al Franken the win.

AP - It's been a long 13 years for Brittani McCalister — 2,340 days, to be exact.

AP - The federal judge presiding over ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption case is shooting for a trial in spring 2010.

AP - A father and his two sons have been killed in an early morning house fire that also critically injured the boys' 10-year-old sister.

AP - Space shuttle Atlantis has begun its ferry flight home from California to Florida.

AP - It's an old lie, claiming that The Black Man Did It.

AP - There's another new judge in former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson's murder case.

AP - A new soldier helping to attract others to the military was shot and killed outside an Army recruiting office Monday and a second soldier was wounded, and a suspect was arrested, police said.

AP - The footballs, jerseys and photographs that landed O.J. Simpson in prison have a new home at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

AP - Five prison guards have placed on leave after two convicted killers escaped a high-security Arkansas unit by wearing guard uniforms made at the prison and leaving in a car that had been left for them.

AP - An Alabama judge known for refusing to move a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the state's judicial building is again running for governor, with his message Monday going beyond his longstanding call for the government to acknowledge God.

AP - Scott Roeder harbored a burning, 'eye-for-an-eye' anger toward abortion doctors. He once subscribed to a magazine suggesting 'justifiable homicide' against them, and apparently likened Dr. George Tiller to the Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele.

AP - The slaying of a Kansas abortion doctor put the anti-abortion movement on the defensive Monday with prominent leaders delicately distancing themselves from the accused killer while positioning their stand as one shared by a majority of Americans.

AP - An Arkansas judge should be kicked off the bench for operating a probation program that handled thousands of dollars collected from people found guilty in his court and for an improper relationship with a defendant, a judicial ethics panel said Monday.

AP - Just two weeks before his arrest on corruption charges, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich floated a plan to nominate to the U.S. Senate the daughter of his biggest political rival in return for concessions on his pet projects, people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.

AP - Five correction officers were placed on leave Monday after two convicted killers escaped a high-security unit by wearing guard uniforms that are made at the prison and leaving in a car left for them.

AP - Before former Republican U.S. Rep. John Kasich could officially kick off his campaign for governor Monday his Democratic opponents were on the attack, criticizing his ties to Wall Street.

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AP - A man with 'political and religious motives' killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

AP - Police in Phoenix say they've arrested a woman accused of leading an armed robbery gang involving her 12- and 14-year-old sons.

AP - The 'skinny black line,' long a staple of forecasts showing a hurricane's projected path, could be a casualty of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season that began Monday.

AP - COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge dealt a major blow Monday to Gov. Mark Sanford's monthslong fight to stop South Carolina from taking $700 million in federal stimulus money, and the governor said the battle may be nearing an end.

AP - Former central Ohio congressman John Kasich has kicked off his Republican campaign for governor in 2010.

AP - Both sides have accepted the third judge in Drew Peterson's murder trial.

AP - Authorities in Southern California say a bank robber leapt off a five-story parking garage while fleeing police and was badly injured.

AP - A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.

AP - The Texas Legislature has adjourned its regular session without passing key measures to avert a shutdown of state agencies.