AP - In the hours after a monkey on the lam fell into a woman's pool and then swiped some fruit from her backyard tree, fans of the wily primate cheered it for avoiding capture.

AP - The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides.

AP - In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an 'Aaaarrrrgggh!' and forced through a few final pushups.

AP - EDITOR'S NOTE — Still living in poverty, a young mother has done her best to bond with the baby that another family has cared for for six months, though she's still not sure she's ready to have her baby come home. The mother of the foster family has her own mixed emotions about giving the baby back. Will they make good on the promises they've made one another? The last of three installments.

AP - Police in Southern California say four city pickups have been torched in an attack that may be linked to previous booby-trap attempts to harm officers.

AP - In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an 'Aaaarrrrgggh!' and forced through a few final pushups.

AP - Two men accused of burning five teenagers to death in a dispute over stolen marijuana in 1978 face arraignment in New Jersey.

AP - A hitchhiker convicted of killing a Montana man who picked him up during a 1951 blizzard has been found running a wedding chapel in Arizona — 38 years after he skipped out on parole.

AP - Relatives of a SeaWorld trainer dragged into the water by a killer whale last month will suffer severe harm if video of her death is made public, their attorney told a judge Wednesday.

AP - Two men pleaded not guilty Wednesday to burning five New Jersey teenagers to death in 1978 in one of the state's oldest and most notorious missing-persons cases.

AP - A heavy, wet spring snowstorm forced airlines to cancel scores of flights at the Denver airport on Wednesday and left thousands of people without power.

AP - There's not a lot that's small about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He is a big man with a big personality and a big problem — namely, closing a nearly $11 billion deficit in a state whose residents carry the biggest property-tax burden in the country.

AP - A spring snowstorm that whipped though Colorado left the state a slushy mess Wednesday, with thousands stuck at Denver's airport or left without power or schools.

AP - Prosecutors can present trial evidence about women who say they survived attacks by a suspected serial killer charged in the deaths of 11 women, a judge ruled Wednesday.

AP - A Delaware pediatrician pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he molested more than 100 of his patients, many of them repeatedly, and videotaped the assaults.

AP - When relatives of five teens missing for more than 30 years came face to face Wednesday in court with a man accused of burning the boys alive, they didn't see just a glowering stranger or a fugitive captured after years on the run. They saw a man many of them knew and suspected all along.

AP - A hitchhiker originally sentenced to be executed for the 1951 killing of a Montana man who picked him up during a blizzard has been found running a wedding chapel under an assumed name in Arizona 38 years after he skipped out on parole.

AP - California's budget crisis and overcrowded prisons have led to a new reality for thousands of convicted felons: Parole is getting a lot easier — no more random drug tests, travel rules or requirements to check in with an officer.

AP - Battlefield medics will soon conduct mandatory examinations of service members who may have sustained concussions instead of waiting for them to complain of symptoms, the military's brain-injury experts said Wednesday.

AP - In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an 'Aaaarrrrgggh!' and forced through a few final pushups.

AP - The smell of pot hung heavy in the air as men with dreadlocks and gray beards contemplated a nightmarish possibility in this legendary region of outlaw marijuana growers: legal weed.

AP - As the chief crime scene investigator for Nebraska's busiest county for more than a decade, David Kofoed helped put away hundreds of criminals using cold, hard science. He developed a reputation as a man who could find things others couldn't.

AP - After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world's biggest diabetes epidemic.

AP - Abortion and illegal immigration, two of the more explosive political issues in the country, are colliding in a way that could force Nebraska lawmakers to make an unusual, emotional choice.

AP - Black lawmakers are urging black football recruits to reconsider playing for the University of South Carolina because the school could lose its lone black trustee.

AP - A federal judge pushed the limits of his legal authority when he rejected a settlement that would have paid at least $575 million to thousands of people who fell ill after working in the toxic ash of the World Trade Center, legal experts say.

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped the execution of condemned prisoner Hank Skinner about an hour before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber.

AP - Texas Tech University's medical school will soon become the first in the U.S. to offer aspiring family doctors a three-year degree at half the cost of a traditional four-year path, university officials said.

AP - News that President Barack Obama's top education official kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools is raising more questions about the city's admissions practices.

AP - Federal agents searching a convicted mobster's home near Chicago found seven loaded guns, nearly $730,000 in cash and tape recordings that may contain 'criminal conversations' hidden behind a basement wall, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

AP - A Miami federal judge has lifted a stay blocking former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega from being extradited to France.

AP - A psychologist testifying in a $14 million lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America says the organization put boys at risk by hiding information about child molesters among troop leaders.

AP - Opposition to taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants appears to have trumped anti-abortion sentiments in Nebraska, likely ending an unusual collision of the two explosive political issues.

AP - A music producer and co-founder of KC and the Sunshine Band responsible for such hits as 'Shake Your Booty' and 'Keep It Comin' Love' has acknowledged having sex with teenage boys, police said Wednesday.

AP - Authorities say a bin that loads salt collapsed onto two men near a salt mine in upstate New York, killing one and injuring the other.