AP - The lawyers were paid millions of dollars. Ford Motor Co. put behind it a costly lawsuit connected to the Explorer rollover scandal of the 1990s. And the judge closed out a complex case that clogged the Sacramento County Superior Court's overburdened calendar for more than seven years.

AP - Authorities say a 3-year-old Michigan boy who drowned at a northern Ohio water park was found face down in a children's pool.

AP - Lawyers for O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy hope to persuade a Nevada Supreme Court panel to spring the two men from prison while the justices review their convictions in a gunpoint hotel room heist.

AP - A Connecticut woman whose husband disappeared from their honeymoon cruise in 2005 plans to remarry.

AP - If global warming is to be addressed without breaking people's pocketbooks, no single answer will do the job, a research group tied to the electric utility industry says in a new study that concludes the problem must be attacked from many directions.

AP - Police said Monday a northwest Tennessee man accused of abusing his teenage daughter shot her to death and killed her foster father before he turned the gun on himself.

AP - Sidney Zion, a journalist whose family tragedy helped lead to changes in how many hours medical residents work, has died. He was 75.

AP - A woman was charged with murder in the strangling of an 89-year-old man who once ran a disco-era nightclub, and police said they were searching for a man seen with her in the victim's car.

AP - Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research.

AP - Noxious fumes at a trash disposal facility sent 55 people to hospitals on Monday, including two who were listed in critical condition.

AP - Billy Lee Riley, a rambunctious performer who helped develop the Sun Records sound as a studio musician for other headliners, has died. He was 75.

AP - A 23-year-old Georgia man charged with trying to help overseas terrorists wage 'violent jihad' on the U.S. has decided to represent himself.

AP - Police in northwest Maryland say a 55-year-old man died after getting stuck in a second-floor window of his apartment.

AP - Baltimore police say a burglary suspect mistakenly declared dead by medics after he was shot by an officer lay on a convenience store floor for half an hour before anyone noticed he was still alive.

AP - The chairman of the University of Illinois' Board of Trustees resigned Monday amid an investigation into the use of political clout to get underqualified students into the school.

AP - A man who says he is the father of a baby who was cut from her slain mother's womb said Monday that he wants custody of the baby girl.

AP - A 20-year-old U.S. citizen who traveled to Pakistan in 2008 'to engage in violent jihad' has been named as the eighth suspect in a North Carolina terrorism case, according to court documents released Monday.

AP - To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists.

AP - Some passengers were snoozing while others snacked when the first turbulence rattled Continental Flight 128 over the Atlantic. Suddenly, the jetliner began to plunge and shake violently, hurling passengers over seatbacks and slamming them against luggage bins.

AP - The uncle, aunt and estranged boyfriend of a slain woman whose baby was cut from her womb announced their intentions Monday to seek custody of the infant girl.

AP - A Brazilian singer's lawsuit claims flight attendants called him racial slurs on a trip from New York to his home county and that his producer was stabbed with a sharp pen.

AP - A woman whose husband disappeared from their honeymoon cruise in 2005 plans to remarry.

AP - The Tennessee state senator said he was opposed to sex outside marriage, but his private life told a different story: He was having an affair with his 22-year-old intern.

AP - A man who often lost his keys died after climbing a fire escape and getting wedged in a window of his third-floor apartment, authorities said Monday.

AP - A former priest claims a bishop who played a leading national role in responding to the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal threatened to send him to live with nuns after he hired a private investigator to look into his pastor.

AP - Noxious fumes at a trash disposal facility sent 117 people to hospitals on Monday, including two who were listed in critical condition.

AP - Retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, who helped state and federal officials reopen long-dormant investigations of killings from Mississippi's violent civil rights era, has died. He was 77.

AP - A judge abruptly dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 19-month-old girl who died when her father used her as a human shield during a furious gun battle with police.

AP - A married eastern Wisconsin man thought he was going to a motel for a little romance with one of his handful of lovers. She allegedly played along and suggested he be tied up and blindfolded for a massage, according to court documents.

AP - It's been a wild year for members of an Ohio family, who say they've accomplished a goal of visiting 52 zoos in 52 weeks.

AP - Officials say a startled deer jumped and kicked a 4-year-old girl in the face at Southwick's Zoo in central Massachusetts.