AP - A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school.

AP - The father of a 14-year-old girl whose bones were found more than a year after she vanished walking to school urged supporters to behave like his late daughter's favorite animal, the wolf, to hunt down child predators.

AP - Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.

AP - A shooting Tuesday morning at an Ohio State University campus maintenance building left one employee dead and two others wounded, the university said. A suspect was taken into custody.

AP - A Georgia grand jury has indicted four members of an assisted suicide group on charges they helped a 58-year-old with cancer kill himself.

AP - Federal officials are sending an investigator to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a California freeway.

AP - One bride wore a knee-length lace dress and pearls. The other bride wore a yellow shirt and white suit. And when a pastor pronounced them 'partners in life this day and for always' Tuesday, they hugged and smiled in front of wedding guests and nearly a dozen TV cameras and reporters.

AP - SeaWorld has not decided whether a whale that killed its trainer by dragging her into the water will keep performing, an official said Tuesday.

AP - A judge said Tuesday he is considering whether to send a former John Edwards aide to jail for contempt over his handling of a purported sex tape showing the former presidential candidate.

AP - Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.

AP - A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking breast cancer in a scam that netted thousands of dollars worth of sick leave donated by her City Hall co-workers and money from a church and other charities.

AP - The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a 'massive fraud' is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal.

AP - A San Diego judge has postponed the preliminary hearing for a sex offender accused of murdering 17-year-old Chelsea King.

AP - Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.

AP - A Texas judge who came under criticism for his ruling declaring the death penalty unconstitutional took back his controversial decision on Tuesday.

AP - Audio recordings apparently show that the pilots of a tugboat and tanker that collided in a Gulf of Mexico waterway in Texas were aware their vessels were close but unaware they were about to collide.

AP - A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one teen and suspected in the death of another appeared in court Tuesday as a judge issued a gag order and delayed a key hearing in the case.

AP - A graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to worldwide flight delays, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Tuesday and apologized publicly for the first time.

AP - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the scene at this year's State of the Union address by President Obama was 'very troubling,' and he wonders if justices should attend in the future.

AP - A decade-old probation report on a sex offender accused of murdering California teenager Chelsea King contained a psychiatrist's conclusion that the defendant had 'significant predatory traits' toward underage girls and should be kept in prison for as long as possible.

AP - Biologists at Pinnacles National Monument are celebrating the first condor egg laid by a mating pair inside the park boundaries in more than a century.

AP - A California jury has recommended death for convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala in the 1970s slayings of four women and a 12-year-old girl.

AP - Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?

AP - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.

AP - A ring accused of helping people from the Middle East obtain student visas by taking their proficiency exams and classes has exposed vulnerability in the nation's security tracking system for foreigners who attend U.S. schools, experts said Tuesday.

AP - A challenger to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter filed an ethics complaint Tuesday, claiming a fundraising letter for the Republican incumbent's campaign makes illegal use of a government emblem.

AP - A California jury on Tuesday recommended a death sentence for convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, only hours after the 66-year-old pleaded for his life to be spared.

AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was 'very troubling' and that the annual speech to Congress has 'degenerated into a political pep rally.'

AP - A New Hampshire woman who was known as Granny D and walked across the country a decade ago to publicize the need for campaign finance reform has died. She was 100.

AP - Authorities say all six people killed in last week's pre-dawn bus crash on an Arizona interstate were Mexican citizens.