AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech, but her lawyer says proper credit was given to the former House speaker.

AP - Eight illegal immigrants 'stacked like wood' in the back of a sports-utility vehicle were killed when the driver lost control on a remote southeastern Arizona highway, authorities said Sunday.

AP - A batch of trees that will soon be planted on a wild, overgrown patch of land near a Detroit neighborhood is expected to be a step toward bringing back a vibrant, green canopy to the Motor City.

AP - The recession's grip loosened slightly this spring as seasonal hiring picked up and helped offset rising bankruptcies and foreclosures, according to the Associated Press' monthly analysis of the economic pain in more than 3,100 U.S. counties.

AP - Doctors at a Northern California hospital have begun what they say will be months of treatment for three toddlers who were badly injured in a fire that killed 42 infants and toddlers at a Mexican day care center.

AP - Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife in a Shanghai hotel after a passenger on their flight exhibited flu-like symptoms.

AP - Doctors at a California hospital have begun what they say will be months of treatment for three toddlers who were badly injured in a fire that killed 42 infants and toddlers at a Mexican day care center.

AP - A man who kidnapped his 9-year-old son in northeastern Pennsylvania led police on a 40-mile chase that ended in a crash and an exchange of gunfire that killed him and a state trooper, state police said Monday. Another trooper was wounded, but the boy was not shot.

AP - A Michigan woman has celebrated her 100th birthday at the same eatery she's visited regularly for the past 15 years — McDonald's.

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has followed through on a promise to drop legal challenges in his fight over millions in federal stimulus dollars.

AP - Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife and a security guard in Shanghai after another traveler on their flight from New Jersey exhibited suspected swine flu symptoms.

AP - Federal agents violated the constitutional rights of four illegal immigrants in raids that critics say were retaliation for a New Haven program that provided ID cards to foreigners in the country illegally, a federal judge has ruled.

AP - A top North Carolina education official has resigned amid questions about his role in the controversial hiring of a former first lady for a university post.

AP - A utility in Illinois says routine monitoring has revealed a leak of water contaminated with radioactive tritium (TRIHT'-ee-um) gas at a nuclear power plant.

AP - Residents of a town in north-central Texas have reported hearing a clap of thunder that turned out to be an earthquake rather than stormy weather.

AP - The father of one of the two American journalists convicted and imprisoned in North Korea said Monday the family won't comment publicly while the case is developing.

AP - The chairman of the Chicago City Council's police and fire committee pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he accepted home repairs worth $40,000 plus campaign money and sports tickets in exchange for fixing a zoning case.

AP - The family of a Connecticut man who disappeared from his honeymoon cruise in 2005 says federal authorities believed he was the victim of foul play, according to records released Monday.

AP - D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty says the federal government has reimbursed the city for all costs related to President Barack Obama's inauguration, totaling nearly $43 million.

AP - A lawyer for Detroit's former mayor says his client's up to date — and even early — with monthly restitution payments in the criminal case that drove him from office.

AP - Officials are launching the nation's largest transportation project — a third tunnel into New York City that's expected to generate 6,000 construction jobs and be completed by 2017.

AP - Abortion providers say that threats of more slayings from a man accused in the shooting death of a high-profile Kansas abortion doctor proves the existence of a 'violent, terrorist movement' coalescing around the issue.

AP - A clergyman has eulogized a 23-year-old Army private killed outside an Arkansas recruiting center as a 'seeker' who needed to find himself.

AP - Police say officers in northeastern Pennsylvania rescued a 9-year-old boy who had been kidnapped by his father as a fatal gun battle erupted between the man and state troopers.

AP - Archaeologists have pulled a 400-year-old slate tablet from what they think was an original well at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, a historic preservation group announced Monday.

AP - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller descended into 'pure madness' when he kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit, defense lawyers told the jury in his kidnapping case Monday.

AP - A former Louisiana congressman's brother has asked a federal judge to dismiss the racketeering conspiracy case against him, his girlfriend and relatives, calling it a politically motivated prosecution.

AP - With much of her lower body consumed by cancer, Leslee Flasch finally faced the truth: The herbal supplements and special diet were not working.

AP - Vince Palella's brother got him started on supplements.

AP - A small plane with two people on board has made an emergency landing on a highway in the northern Atlanta suburbs.

AP - A Tennessee judge has refused to throw out government evidence against two men charged with plotting to kill President Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.

AP - The wife of former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley has been fired from her $170,000-a-year position at N.C. State University.

AP - A year after two young girls were gunned down while taking a walk outside a rural Oklahoma town, authorities are stumped — no motive and no arrests.

AP - Thieves left an 11-month-old boy on a stranger's doorstep Monday after stealing his parents' car from outside their home with him still in the back seat, police said.

AP - North Carolina State University has axed former first lady Mary Easley's $170,000-a-year job as newly released documents indicated her husband was involved in her hiring.

AP - Protesters vowed Monday to get the U.S. Department of Justice to review the dismissal of state murder charges against two white men in the dragging death of a black friend.

AP - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller descended into 'pure madness' when he kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit, defense lawyers told the jury at his trial Monday.

AP - A Philadelphia man is facing charges of murder and robbery in the slaying of a New Hartford police officer during a $1 million jewelry store heist.

AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller says his agency will continue to use informants inside American mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations.

AP - The families of two American journalists convicted of crossing into North Korean territory pleaded to that country's government to let them go.

AP - A soldier shot and killed at a military recruiting office in Arkansas last week was laid to rest Monday, though what his headstone will eventually read is still unknown.

AP - A veteran Los Angeles police detective has been charged with capital murder in the 1986 slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife.

AP - Newt Gingrich takes no issue with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for using his words in a speech she gave last week. In fact, he'd be happy if more Republicans espoused his ideas, a spokesman for the former House speaker said Monday.

AP - The Napa Valley wine auction, an annual assembly of the affluent, scaled down the glitz and raised a little more than half of last year's total for charity. But the $5.7 million take was just fine with organizers.

AP - The top federal prosecutor in Chicago is threatening to sue publisher HarperCollins, calling a book about the war on terrorism that focuses in part on cases he handled 'a deliberate lie masquerading as the truth.'

AP - Thousands of Italian artifacts — including a handwritten document by Benito Mussolini and antiquities dating to 900 B.C. — were found in the home of a late collectibles dealer, the FBI announced Monday.