AP - Phil Spector is hoping to get a few comforts of home in his new prison cell, and a television, iPod and computer access are at the top of his list.

AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was expected back at work Wednesday, trading a backpack and boots for a blazer and tie, after a five-day hiking trip turned into more of a fuss than he ever expected.

AP - At age 88, John Kalymon is a man stuck in the past. He lost his U.S. citizenship two years ago after the government said he shot Jews while working in a Nazi-controlled police unit during World War II. Now, Poland is conducting a criminal investigation into what happened nearly 70 years ago in the city of Lviv.

AP - An 88-year-old man living in Michigan who is now the subject of a criminal investigation in Poland into allegations he shot Jews while working in a Nazi-controlled police unit during World War II insists he did nothing wrong.

AP - Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died, her husband said Wednesday. She was 57.

AP - A gunman shot and killed a prominent Iowa high school football coach in the school's weight room early Wednesday and was taken into custody shortly afterward, authorities said.

AP - Eastbound lanes are reopening on Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee line after a truck wreck and hazardous materials leak stopped traffic in both directions for several hours.

AP - A judge in Texas has ordered the release from jail of two suspects awaiting retrial in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in Austin.

AP - A vigil is being planned in San Francisco for the two American reporters sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea.

AP - Andres weakened from a tropical storm to a depression Wednesday as it headed out to sea after flooding homes and killing at least one person on Mexico's southwestern coast.

AP - A 24-year-old former high school football player walked into the school's weight room Wednesday morning and fatally shot his former coach, before sheriff's deputies arrested him at a nearby home a short time later, authorities said.

AP - Mysterious space blobs aren't infant galaxies as astronomers once thought. Scientists say they are galaxies going through puberty, all hot and bothered.

AP - Scientists have found new evidence that one of Saturn's moons has an ocean beneath its surface. That's important because liquid water is a key ingredient for life.

AP - A man suspected of aiding in a woman's suicide in a Mexican hotel last month has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug smuggling charges.

AP - A man who left a ruthless street gang and later helped start the Los Angeles branch of a high-profile nonprofit that rescues kids from gang life was arrested Wednesday as part of a federal crackdown.

AP - A U.S. immunization advisory group has decided that people exposed to rabies need only four vaccinations, not the five currently recommended.

AP - The video shows the 16-year-old boy lying on the floor, his body convulsing, as elders of a small Connecticut church cast a 'homosexual demon' from his body.

AP - How do you lose a hole? Ask the Westchester Golf Course, which was deprived of three of them — and now might get them back.

AP - A celebrity like Apple CEO Steve Jobs scores a rare organ transplant and the world wonders: Did he game the system? The rich have plenty of advantages that others don't. But winning the 'transplant lottery' involves more than the size of your wallet — and true medical need.

AP - As hundreds of jobs in Chicago's police department go unfilled, officers who once patrolled the streets with partners are riding alone in what some cops bitterly call 'rolling coffins.'

AP - To hear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state finance officials tell it, July 28 is California's last stand before fiscal Armageddon.

AP - Lawmakers have begun a sharp debate about a Democratic plan to close California's projected $24 billion deficit but a quick resolution seems unlikely.

AP - It was like any other bar mitzvah, complete with kosher food, singing and a reading from the Torah — except that it was in a Manhattan jailhouse.

AP - Gov. Rick Perry is ready to raise campaign cash, while Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may finally be ready to raise a ruckus as the Republican heavyweights begin combat for the governor's office next year.

AP - When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to hire a personal lifestyle coach to help her lose weight and prevent diabetes. Suppose that the coaching works for Mrs. Jones, and she is spared diabetes and all the resulting health bills.

AP - NASA's new lunar probe launched less than a week ago has already sent back some shots of the moon.

AP - After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an affair. Wiping away tears, he apologized to his wife and four sons and said he will resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.

AP - Two men awaiting retrial in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop were released from jail Wednesday while prosecutors search for a match to new DNA evidence that didn't come from either of them.

AP - Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died at age 57.

AP - NASA will conduct a fueling test next week on space shuttle Endeavour to see if a hydrogen gas leak has been plugged.

AP - Wait a minute, back up. There's the Democratic governor of New Jersey, the father of two daughters, standing next to his attractive wife, giving a televised press conference. Something must be wrong with the sound. Did he just use the word 'gay'? In the first person?

AP - How did he think he could get away with it? To visit his lover in Argentina, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford slipped his security detail, lied to his staff about his whereabouts and neglected to transfer executive power to the lieutenant governor in case of a state emergency.

AP - In a dimly lit corner of the Creation Museum stands a life-size replica of a wrecking ball labeled 'Millions of Years' demolishing the facade of a brick church.

AP - The president of the nation's largest teachers union announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her other job as head of New York's United Federation of Teachers.

AP - When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford cheated on his wife, he also betrayed his top political adviser.

AP - A white supremacist blogger was arrested at his New Jersey home Wednesday and charged with threatening to assault or murder three Chicago-based judges who refused to overturn local ordinances banning handguns.

AP - Five French tourists got a harrowing start to their New York visit: a wild police chase.

AP - Five of six black teens accused of beating a white high school classmate in a case that led to the biggest civil rights protest in decades will plead guilty in a deal expected to be finalized this week, Louisiana court officials involved with the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.