AP - Two North Korean diplomats are in Santa Fe and will meet with Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday.

AP - An intensifying federal investigation into the sale of Native American artifacts has cloaked the market in a fog of fear and uncertainty.

AP - Sherry Schweder worried about the group of mixed-breed dogs she saw wandering near her home that authorities say mauled her and her husband to death along a rural stretch of road in northeast Georgia.

AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett plans to make his first public comments since being beat up by a man after answering a grandmother's cries for help.

AP - Sherry Schweder worried about a group of mixed-breed dogs she saw wandering near her home, a pack that authorities say mauled her and her husband to death along a rural road in northeast Georgia.

AP - He and other backbencher Democrats thrown into the front lines of the debate are caught in a crossfire between their congressional leaders to the left and conservative constituents to the right. These newcomers hold clout that could determine if health care legislation passes — and in what form.

AP - A cardboard lid is lifted and four archivists peer inside. A postal box from Paris. Who sent it? A piece of crusty wedding cake. Whose? Another box: $17,000 in cash. Yet another: An autographed picture of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

AP - An Indiana money manager who pleaded guilty in June to federal charges of intentionally crashing his plane to fake his death and flee financial ruin will be sentenced Wednesday.

AP - Four veteran New York legislators who have reached retirement age are collecting state pension payments at the same time they continue to get their regular paychecks.

AP - The doctor who was with Michael Jackson when he died and is now the center of a manslaughter probe posted a short video Tuesday thanking his supporters.

AP - Don Hewitt, the CBS Newsman who invented '60 Minutes' and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86.

AP - A former contestant on the reality TV show 'Megan Wants a Millionaire' is being sought for questioning in the death of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in an Orange County trash bin.

AP - A major Southwest dealer is surrendering a vast personal collection of ancient artifacts in another break in the federal investigation of looting and grave robbing in the Four Corners region.

AP - Virginia's attorney general is asking the state appeals court to review a panel's ruling that exonerated a former Navy SEAL trainee in the abduction and slaying of a Georgia college student.

AP - Two prominent Boston-area lawyers are under investigation after their 20-year-old son told police his parents knew he was growing and selling marijuana at home.

AP - Recently discovered records show the Virginia Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts to a school counselor nearly a year and half before the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history.

AP - The mother of a former swimsuit model found dead in a trash bin says a former reality television contestant wanted for questioning in the case was briefly married to her daughter.

AP - A Texas judge who closed her court before a death row inmate's last-minute appeal was ready says the man's lawyers had time that day to act.

AP - Comedian Bill Cosby says public schools make the difference between success and failure in life for many children.

AP - South Dakota has the legal authority to close the state's only abortion clinic within days, Planned Parenthood lawyers argued in their latest request for an order to block the state from shutting down the facility.

AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Wednesday he was doing what any good citizen should have done when he tried to help a woman screaming for help — even if it led him being beaten by a man.

AP - The blue suit and black boots were right, but mourners at a retired Philadelphia trucker's funeral were staring at the wrong body.

AP - Looking exhausted and being pushed in a wheelchair, American John Yettaw returned to the United States on Wednesday after being freed from a hard-labor prison sentence for his nighttime swim to the home of Myanmar's detained democracy leader.

AP - Hundreds of century-old trees in New York City's Central Park have been knocked down by a severe thunderstorm packing wind gusts as high as 80 mph and lightning.

AP - Recently discovered mental health records released on Wednesday contain no obvious indications that the Virginia Tech gunman was a year and a half away from committing the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history.

AP - An Indiana money manager who pleaded guilty in June to intentionally crashing his plane to fake his death and flee financial ruin has been sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has toured the Southern California prison where 175 inmates were injured in a riot earlier this month and compared the devastation to a movie set.

AP - A treasure hunter on Cape Cod brought more booty ashore from a sunken pirate ship, including two cannons first identified by John F. Kennedy Jr.

AP - Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.

AP - The images are striking: One congressman's office defaced by a swastika, other congressmen heckled at public meetings, videos and placards likening Barack Obama to Hitler, private citizens with guns joining anti-Obama protests.

AP - A white supremacist accused of beating of a 76-year-old black man has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on his stomach with the words 'He Lives' beneath it, and uses the Nazi dictator's last name as a nickname, according to police and court documents.

AP - A former Nevada casino worker who accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of rape in a civil lawsuit should drop the case because her own e-mails and text messages prove she wasn't assaulted, his attorney said.

AP - An Army program developed partly as a response to an increase in soldier suicides will test all active duty, National Guard and Reserve soldiers to determine how they handle stress, assess their resiliency and require follow-up training.

AP - American John Yettaw said Wednesday he has no regrets about taking a secret swim to the home of Myanmar's detained democracy leader — a decision that landed them both in prison — saying he would do it again 'a hundred times.'

AP - A Virginia man who spent 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit will get more than $632,000 in restitution, following a unanimous decision Wednesday by state lawmakers.

AP - An embattled Texas judge stood by her decision to close her court before a death row inmate's last-minute appeal was ready, saying at her misconduct trial Wednesday that she would do the same thing again.

AP - Leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination have moved toward a more welcoming view of homosexuality.

AP - Democratic Delegate Jon Cardin was intent on creating the perfect night to propose to his fiancee, and the evening is certainly one she won't forget. Unfortunately, a fuss over his use of a Baltimore police helicopter and a police boat is likely to dog the couple long after the wedding.

AP - An Indiana money manger who crashed his plane and parachuted to safety in an elaborate scheme to fake his death and flee financial ruin was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison.

AP - The World Trade Center site's owner says it will soon be able to stop paying a $300,000-a-day penalty for missing deadlines to turn land over to the site's developer.

AP - A military helicopter crashed Wednesday near the peak of Colorado's second-highest mountain, killing two people, injuring one and leaving the other person aboard missing, authorities said.

AP - Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a fierce Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north.

AP - Four Hurricane Katrina evacuees are charged with wrongfully obtaining federal rental assistance after buying new homes financed by Oprah Winfrey's 'Oprah's Angel Network.'