AP - Authorities say all northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in South Florida are closed after a tanker truck carrying more than 8,000 gallons of gasoline exploded.

AP - A Coast Guard helicopter crew has rescued two men on board a disabled 15-foot skiff adrift in Alaska's remote western Aleutian Islands.

AP - For sale: A bit of the Old West. The historic Eklund Hotel — complete with refurbished guest rooms, a saloon with bullet holes in the tin ceiling and a resident ghost — has closed its doors.

AP - Shalimar Pabon didn't see the pink slip coming. She didn't expect a yearlong search for another steady, full-time job that forced her to seek welfare benefits for her five children and herself.

AP - Two journalists held over seven months by the Taliban in Pakistan endured death threats before they escaped by tricking guards and dropping down a 20-foot wall with a rope, according to one of the former captives.

AP - There hasn't been a desperado behind bars in more than 70 years at the old Hays County Jail in Central Texas, and now the building is crumbling and needs some help.

AP - Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca has some advice for the people who are running his old company, and those who will lead the new General Motors: Get the government out of your business as soon as possible.

AP - A new internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.

AP - An underground transformer has exploded and about 250 mostly elderly residents are evacuating their apartments in suburban Washington, D.C.

AP - Federal officials say they've reached their goal of more quickly completing FBI identity checks on people seeking to work and live in the U.S. or to become citizens.

AP - Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be published again under a new deal with Beacon Press brokered by King's youngest son.

AP - Two of the most popular and promising dietary supplements — vitamin D and fish oil — will be tested in a large, government-sponsored study to see whether either nutrient can lower a healthy person's risk of getting cancer, heart disease or having a stroke.

AP - Oregon's attorney general says there's no credible evidence that Portland Mayor Sam Adams broke the law in his 2005 relationship with a teenager.

AP - An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to abducting his two young sons at knifepoint and killing one of them just days after his wife told him she wanted a divorce.

AP - A New Jersey blogger accused of encouraging violence against Connecticut legislators told authorities he hoped nobody would 'go off the deep end and do something terrible,' but he added, 'you never can tell,' according to a police report released Monday.

AP - A federal judge has sentenced a former fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) to more than three years in prison for hiding from the Internal Revenue Service the use of company funds to pay gambling debts and other expenses.

AP - A 14-year-old Michigan boy has completed a four-day, 100-mile trip in his wheelchair as part of a fundraiser.

AP - A strong earthquake has jolted urban areas of Alaska, sending people diving under desks and huddling in doorways. The U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 struck near the town of Willow at 11:28 a.m. Monday. The epicenter was 58 miles from the state's largest city, Anchorage, where the rumbled continued for several moments.

AP - A former high-ranking Scientology official who handled the case of a mentally ill member who died under church care ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence to cover up missteps, a newspaper reported Monday.

AP - There's no credible evidence that Portland Mayor Sam Adams broke the law in his 2005 relationship with a teenager, Oregon's attorney general said Monday.

AP - Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will remain free on bail after a judge on Monday rejected a prosecutor's request to revoke the bail and send him to prison for covering up the shooting of a hired driver more than seven years ago.

AP - Where is South Carolina's governor?

AP - Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

AP - A strong earthquake jolted a swath of southern Alaska on Monday, sending people diving under desks and huddling in doorways but causing little damage.

AP - There's no credible evidence that Portland Mayor Sam Adams broke the law in his 2005 relationship with a teenager, Oregon's attorney general said Monday.

AP - A Coast Guard helicopter has rescued a pair of men adrift for more than two days in an open 15-foot skiff off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

AP - A baby sea lion has been rescued after wandering onto a busy San Francisco Bay area freeway.

AP - Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the U.S. should respond more strongly in support of political protesters in Iran.

AP - A sheriff's office says five people died after their pickup got stuck with its tailpipe submerged in a shallow pond in western Texas.

AP - An Arkansas state prison lieutenant was fired after an inmate left lying naked in his own feces for a weekend nearly died from septic shock.

AP - A woman and her son went on trial Monday on charges they had her cancer-stricken husband killed a decade ago to avoid the cost of his medical treatment.

AP - A man was being sought on a murder warrant Monday after his 12-year-old daughter told a 911 dispatcher, 'Daddy stabbed Mommy,' two days after the woman had a protection order against her estranged husband extended.

AP - Authorities say they have arrested an Indiana man accused of killing his wife and prompting a 911 call from a young girl saying 'Daddy stabbed Mommy.'