AP - The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that 'urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.'

AP - Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses were still without power Monday as restoration efforts continued days after a slow-moving storm battered the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and high winds.

AP - Even as authorities closed in, one of the two suspects in a string of east Texas church fires attended a Sunday service and went to a Baptist ministry on his junior college campus for a free meal.

AP - Organic farmers fear this year's spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge this week to halt the plantings nationwide.

AP - Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

AP - Rocky, a 700-pound grizzly considered one of the most gentle animals of all Hollywood's performing beasts, bites down on the neck of a veteran trainer. Illusionist Roy Horn is severely mauled by a show tiger during a Las Vegas performance. An elephant at an Indonesian tourist resort tramples its longtime handler to death.

AP - An eastern Pennsylvania man was attacked and killed by a 'temperamental' pet bull a day before his 53rd birthday, the coroner's office said Monday.

AP - It's hard enough to find a job in this economy, and now some people are facing another hurdle: Potential employers are holding their credit histories against them.

AP - Vice President Joe Biden told construction workers he knows people are frustrated with the pace of economic recovery, but said federal stimulus spending is working.

AP - A police officer who was critically wounded in a rural Fresno County shootout that left two others dead was taken off life support Monday.

AP - Four teenagers who got lost while snowboarding at the Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort spent a cold night in dense woods and deep snow, but were found alive and well Monday.

AP - Good news for beachgoers: The number of shark attacks in the United States has declined, according to a University of Florida report released Monday.

AP - A man who has his mother's name tattooed on his chest was out to avenge her when he killed an anti-abortion activist in a drive-by shooting and then gunned down her former boss in a small Michigan community, a prosecutor said Monday.

AP - A police officer in suburban Cleveland is recovering after he was struck by a vehicle spinning out of control on an icy highway ramp.

AP - In South Carolina, any group that plans to overthrow the government must register its activities.

AP - Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say four California men made more than $25 million reselling tickets to concerts and sporting events they acquired by hacking into Ticketmaster.com and other Web sites.

AP - The parents of a missing 17-year-old girl who failed to come home after a run in the park are pleading for people to come forward with information about her whereabouts. Brent King of the San Diego suburb of Poway told The Associated Press Monday that he last saw his daughter Chelsea King on Wednesday after she played French horn in a school concert.

AP - Hazardous materials crews have been called to an Internal Revenue Service building in Ogden, Utah, after a suspicious substance was found.

AP - A couple worries that burglars who tried to break in when the wife was home alone will return. A retiree fears the drug dealers and junkies just outside his window will attempt — again — to steal what he spent a lifetime earning. And a businessman wants to protect himself as he could when he was a police officer.

AP - As New York Gov. David Paterson tried to reassert his authority to govern for the remainder of his term, an investigation of his administration stormed ahead, making even the governor's long-term friends wonder whether his time in office might end much sooner.

AP - One of five New Hampshire men charged in a fatal attack on a woman at her home has pleaded guilty to robbery and other charges.

AP - A judge plans to throw out Susan Smith's request for a new trial unless the South Carolina mom convicted of leaving her two young sons in her car to drown in 1994 can come up with better arguments.

AP - A New York bankruptcy judge has rejected a legal challenge by Bernard Madoff's victims over how they should be compensated.

AP - Vice President Joe Biden told AFL-CIO leaders Monday that the government bailouts of the banking and auto industries were necessary steps the Obama administration needed to take before it could tackle causes important to organized labor.

AP - A suspicious substance found at an IRS building in Ogden, Utah, on Monday is not hazardous, an official with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said.

AP - A New York prosecutor's office says it has found no criminal wrongdoing on the part of three ACORN employees caught on video advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend.

AP - Two Air Force units responsible for the nuclear missiles warehoused in Montana failed inspections last month, military officials said Monday.

AP - Washington state plans to intervene in the federal government's decision to withdraw its license application for a Nevada nuclear waste repository.

AP - ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Monday.

AP - Like the pair of jeans it depicts, a billboard poster in downtown Newark is coming down.