AP - A Minnesota woman has been charged with starving to death her developmentally disabled 10-year-old daughter, who used a feeding tube to gain nourishment.

AP - Neighbors in a northwestern Tennessee community are questioning why a teenage girl fatally shot by the father accused of abusing her was placed with a foster family just two doors down.

AP - The woman believed to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship into frigid Alaska waters was 45-year-old Amber Malkuch of Washington state, Alaska State Troopers said late Monday.

AP - When they step off the plane, the sick and injured Afghan children shed their surnames, stripping themselves of a label that often carries tribal or religious implications and enabling them to form friendships most once thought impossible.

AP - Seven North Carolina terrorism suspects are due in federal court for a detention hearing.

AP - Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the toxic fumes at a New Bedford trash disposal facility that sent more than 100 people to the hospital.

AP - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Felicia has formed in the Pacific while Tropical Storm Enrique is strengthening not far from it.

AP - Federal authorities say the accused ringleader of a group of North Carolina terrorism suspects talked of loving jihad, fighting for Allah and despising a U.S. military presence at Mulsim holy sites.

AP - Theodore D. Nierenberg, who started Dansk International Designs in his suburban New York garage and helped popularize Scandanavian-themed tableware and cookware in American kitchens and dining rooms, has died. He was 86.

AP - A 23-year-old man charged with aiding overseas terror groups says at his trial that his online chatter about joining a jihad was 'empty talk.'

AP - Wisconsin authorities say a bus with about 20 adult Special Olympics athletes crashed while returning from Nebraska, leaving two people with serious injuries.

AP - A spokeswoman for Holland America Line says a passenger missing from its cruise ship Zaandam in Alaska appears to be a case of suicide.

AP - Heavy thunderstorms fed floods in Kentucky and Indiana on Tuesday, shutting down a university campus in Louisville, closing highways and cutting power to thousands of people.

AP - It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time.

AP - A Long Island mother was drunk and high on marijuana when she drove the wrong way for almost two miles on a highway before smashing head-on into an SUV, killing herself and seven others, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

AP - Naomi Sims, whose 1968 Ladies' Home Journal cover shot was a breakthrough for black fashion models, has died. She was 61.

AP - The punishment, renters and homeowners in this beach town say, is tantamount to a scarlet letter: A large orange sticker plastered by police on homes that host raucous parties.

AP - Three years after he knocked off a veteran House incumbent, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak will seek a bigger prize and challenge Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter for his long-held U.S. Senate seat.

AP - The family of Michael 'Scott' Speicher received the first of a series of top-secret briefings Tuesday about the discovery of his remains in Iraq, 18 years after his Navy plane was shot down on the first night of the 1991 Gulf War, their attorney said.

AP - Fun-seekers venturing out to farm fairs, art festivals and other mainstays of the American summer are finding either crowds or cancellation notices this year — and sometimes for the same reason.

AP - An ex-Navy SEAL trainee had his murder and abduction convictions overturned Tuesday after spending 13 years in prison for killing a Georgia college student who was vacationing in Virginia.

AP - The sheriff in Alabama's most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, after a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff's budget and hopes dimmed for a quick end to a budget crisis.

AP - A 23-year-old man representing himself in court on charges of aiding overseas terror groups said in his opening statement Tuesday that his online remarks about joining a jihad were 'empty talk.'

AP - Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz is mulling a run for Congress in Florida as a Republican.

AP - The World Trade Center site's developer wants arbitrators to settle a monthslong lease dispute that has threatened to stall rebuilding at ground zero.

AP - 'Cash for clunkers' could have the same effect on global warming pollution as shutting down the entire country — every automobile, every factory, every power plant — for an hour per year. That could rise to three hours if the program is extended by Congress and remains as popular as it is now.

AP - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When the 15-year-old girl accused her father of abusing her, she was placed in a foster home while the allegations were investigated. That home was just two doors down.

AP - In small towns, one more cop really does make a difference.

AP - The sheriff in Alabama's most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, as a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff's budget and lawmakers reached a compromise they hope will end the budget crisis.

AP - People who were heavily exposed to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center had elevated risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms even five years later, about four times that of the general public, according to a study released Tuesday.

AP - Veteran Hollywood Police Officer Dewey Pressley said he hated lying. But if bending the truth a little would keep a fellow officer out of trouble, well, he was all for it.

AP - Forecasters say Felicia has strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane far out in the Pacific while Tropical Storm Enrique is getting stronger not far away.

AP - Charles Gwathmey, an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients like director Steven Spielberg, has died. He was 71.

AP - His mission accomplished, former President Bill Clinton left Pyongyang early Wednesday accompanied by American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned the women from their 12-year prison sentences.

AP - Many members of a Florida middle school's flag football team were in the locker room when a 13-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by some of his teammates with a hockey stick and broomstick, according to court documents released Tuesday.

AP - A North Carolina terrorism suspect who preached the virtues of jihad and fighting for Allah had access to more than two dozen guns and more than 27,000 rounds of ammunition, federal authorities said Tuesday.

AP - A special education teacher saw signs that something was wrong with her 10-year-old student. She was skinny, and sometimes the girl's diaper stayed dry all day, suggesting she was underfed. Her wheelchair was sometimes caked in ice, as if it had been left outside in the harsh northern Minnesota winter.

AP - The World Trade Center site's developer is going to arbitrators to settle a monthslong lease dispute that has threatened to stall rebuilding at ground zero.

AP - A Pittsburgh television station says a shooting at a suburban health club has left four people dead, including the shooter.

AP - A fire at a fuel storage facility about 65 miles north of Detroit sent exploding oil barrels flying into the air Tuesday as residents were evacuated for several miles around the site, authorities said. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.

AP - A flight attendant and a passenger were injured aboard a Northwest Airlines plane when it hit turbulence during a flight from Knoxville, Tenn., to Detroit Tuesday, an airline spokesman said.

AP - Coming soon to a theater near you (if a judge agrees): a full-length motion picture filled with footage of Michael Jackson's last rehearsals.