AP - Aruban prosecutors said Thursday that authorities are investigating new information in the Natalee Holloway case provided by a Dutch crime reporter.

AP - The Mormon church's famous Temple Square prepared to accommodate tens of thousands of mourners Saturday when the faith's beloved president Gordon B. Hinckley is laid to rest.

AP - The sheriff of a southern Tennessee county was arrested Saturday in an FBI sting and charged with extorting money from video gambling operators.

AP - Police searching for the gunman who killed five women at a suburban Chicago strip mall have released little information about the crime, including any detailed description of the suspect or his possible motive.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bob Knight, the all-time wins leader among men's college basketball coaches, resigned on Monday as the Texas Tech University coach, the university said on it's Web site.

AP - A massive fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station in a rural area, spreading to houses and killing an undetermined number of people, authorities said.

PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - The Miami Heat have traded center Shaquille O'Neal to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for forward Shawn Marion and guard Marcus Banks, the Heat said on Wednesday.

AP - A gunman killed three apparent relatives and a veteran SWAT officer and wounded another officer before police shot him to death Thursday in a home that erupted in flames during a long standoff. A woman escaped near the end of the siege.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. military prosecutors filed war crimes charges against two more Guantanamo prisoners on Friday, saying one was an al Qaeda videographer and the other one a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

HOUSTON (Reuters) -- Shuttle Atlantis astronauts will take a closer look at a minor tear in their ship's heat shield on Sunday after an undisclosed medical issue sidelined plans for a spacewalk to install Europe's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station, NASA officials said.

AP - Wildfires chased some residents from churches and led others to seek them out for sanctuary as flames fed by strong winds spread in the rain-starved Carolinas and Virginia.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will offer buyouts or early retirements to all 74,000 U.S. hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers in a sweeping deal with the union intended to clear the way for GM to hire lower-cost replacements.

AP - A woman beat her cousin's 4-year-old son to death while two of her own children held him down and a third watched, all because the boy soiled his pants, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police have arrested an American woman, dubbed the 'Ponytail Bandit' for her alleged role in a string of bank robberies in the United States, and will hand her over to U.S. custody on Friday, a police spokesman said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Contemporary art collectors opened their wallets on Thursday and shelled out $42.6 million at a Valentine's Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against AIDS in Africa.

AP - The city's first SWAT officer slain in the line of duty was remembered Friday as a deeply religious family man who went above and beyond the duties of a good cop, dedicating his life to protecting others as well as helping poor children escape inner-city streets.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - James Orange, a U.S. civil rights activist who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and witnessed his assassination at a Memphis motel in 1968, died on Saturday, colleagues said.

JENA, Louisiana (Reuters) - If you're young and bored at night in a small town in the United States, you can always jump in the car, switch on the radio and go 'looping.'

AP - A thunderous explosion rocked an oil refinery Monday, injuring five people and shaking buildings miles away.

AP - Motorists who came across a fatal school bus crash here quickly turned into rescuers, helping the driver pull screaming children out of the tipped-over bus and ferrying them to hospitals in their own cars.

AP - A Columbia University Teachers College professor whose colleagues found a noose hanging from her office door is now being accused of plagiarism, a charge she says is part of efforts to intimidate her because she is black.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Funding for the new Florida Marlins baseball stadium in Miami was approved by city and county commissioners on Thursday with the team declaring they are now ready to begin the move.

AP - Prosecutors argued Friday that Sen. Larry Craig's appeal misinterprets the disorderly conduct law and his guilty plea in a bathroom sex sting should stand.

AP - As flames consumed her home and prevented her parents from rescuing her and two younger siblings, a quick-thinking 12-year-old girl saved the other children Saturday by kicking out a second-story window and helping them down, firefighters said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The distressed U.S. housing market should get a lift this spring as bargain prices lure prospective buyers out of hibernation, but tighter lending means no one should expect the boom days to return any time soon.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health-care spending will devour an expanding share of the U.S. economy during the next decade, almost doubling to about $4.3 trillion in 2017, government officials forecast on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Byrd, the oldest member of the U.S. Senate and a fierce opponent of the Iraq war, was being treated in a hospital on Tuesday after falling in his home late on Monday, a spokesman for the senator said.

AP - A coalition of environmental and animal rights groups notified the Department of Interior on Wednesday that they plan to sue to stop the removal of gray wolves in the northern Rockies from the endangered species list.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Use of less-expensive generic medicines for high cholesterol and other conditions slowed growth of U.S. prescription drug costs last year to its lowest level since at least 1996, pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Inc said on Friday.