AP - Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of burglarizing his next-door neighbor's home, 62-year-old Joe Horn has been both praised and vilified for his actions.

LONDON (Reuters) - The manufacturing sector contracted in June at its sharpest pace since 2001 while house prices fell for an eighth straight month, according to figures on Tuesday that darkened an already bleak economic outlook.

DALLAS (Reuters) - James Waller spent 10 years behind bars and waited another 14 years -- when his movements were restricted as a sex offender -- before DNA evidence finally cleared his name.

AP - Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mariano Rivera held off a late Boston Red Sox rally to help the New York Yankees escape with a 2-1 victory on Saturday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. store closings and cutbacks turned the second quarter into the worst for strip mall owners in 30 years, as budget-conscious consumers flocked to low-cost warehouse-style grocery centers, according to a report by real estate research firm Reis.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some children as young as two should be screened for high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other heart disease risks, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The smaller of Hollywood's two performers unions ratified a new prime-time TV contract on Tuesday, undermining a last-ditch bid by the larger, more militant Screen Actors Guild to secure a richer deal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people have been sickened in an outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning and federal officials said on Wednesday they now suspected several causes, including jalapeno peppers.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Oil crisis? What oil crisis? As energy prices hit historic highs, studios have been forced to shoulder higher production costs. But the spike at the local Exxon doesn't spell bad news for everyone in Hollywood. For some, it's actually a boon.

AP - FBI agents following an electronic tracking device hidden in a bag of money stormed a Chicago building, freed a hostage who had been shot and tortured, and arrested six people on charges of extorting $40,000 in ransom from a suburban Chicago bank, authorities said Friday.

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said on Saturday he was confident 'prudent steps' by the U.S. government would stabilize mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but it was necessary to see how it played before deciding on what steps to take.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Clothing from China that fills U.S. store shelves is nothing new, but now a designer whose suits are still made on American soil is going against that trend -- by selling in China.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former White House aide Karl Rove denied on Monday that his close ties with Republican politics and John McCain's presidential campaign undermine his credibility as an election analyst for the Fox News Channel.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer spending may have slowed and U.S. retail sales are struggling, but the environment has not dampened J.C. Penney Co Inc's efforts to celebrate its latest brand launch in style.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - San Francisco, New York and Boston are the United States' most walkable cities, according to new rankings from a website that evaluates how easy it is to live in the nation's cities and neighborhoods without a car.

RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - Mattel Inc won a nearly complete victory on Thursday in its federal copyright infringement case against rival MGA Entertainment Inc over which toymaker owns the original drawings for the $1 billion-plus Bratz fashion doll franchise.

AP - Police said Friday they found the body of a woman with her hands bound in the apartment of another woman who showed up at a hospital with a newborn she falsely claimed as her own.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc presented a colorful, casual line of youthful looks for kids and teens on Saturday at a fashion show that previewed the mass-market chain's new low-cost offerings for back to school.

AP - Authorities say a slain pregnant woman may have been alive and was possibly drugged when a baby was ripped from her womb, allegedly by a woman who tried to pass the infant off as her own.

AP - The Air Force continued to hold out hope of finding survivors Tuesday in the crash of a B-52 bomber off Guam, but a brigadier general said there was no evidence that any of the airmen were alive.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday it will soon release long-awaited revised estimates of how many Americans become infected with the AIDS virus every year.

(Reuters) - Auto company Ford Motor Co plans to keep open a small-pickup plant in St. Paul, Minnesota for another two years due to consistent demand for the vehicle, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing two people briefed on the plans.

(Reuters) - U.S. department store chain Boscov's is struggling to keep itself afloat as a drop in consumer spending across the mid-Atlantic region has hammered its sales and drained its cash, The New York Post said.

AP - The mother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told family that she didn't know the whereabouts of her child in a contentious telephone call from jail released Friday.

AP - Four swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches, authorities said. At least three more had been rescued.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Inflation is a concern in the United States and headwinds to economic growth may be picking up, Minneapolis Fed President Gary Stern said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Christians and Muslims mistrust each other so much that a few terrorist attacks could trigger dramatic and violent religious tensions, a Jordanian prince told an interfaith conference on Tuesday.

AP - Sheriff's deputies say an alligator has bitten off an 11-year-old boy's arm in Louisiana.