AP - On the streets of one of the nation's most violent cities, Detective Danny Danzy is known as a 'bodysnatcher.'

AP - A 22-year-old man with cerebral palsy spent a frigid New Year's night alone on a school bus after a caretaker left him there, police and his family said.

AP - The Coast Guard has called off the search for a cruise ship employee whose co-workers say fell overboard off Florida.

AP - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't have many friends these days, particularly among the lawmakers who will decide whether to throw him out of office.

AP - The FBI is questioning three men in the fatal shooting of an Ohio woman whose 4-year-old son was left unharmed by the gunman at a highway rest area.

AP - The morning after the Nov. 4 election, Norm Coleman stood before TV cameras, declared victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate election and said that if he were opponent Al Franken he'd 'step aside.'

AP - It was very windy when a Continental Airlines jet was destroyed while trying to take off in Denver last month, leading aviation safety experts to cite crosswinds as a likely factor in the accident.

AP - Robert Vassallo and Angellette Smith never meant to spend the holidays in Cuba.

AP - Thousands of evacuated residents, including former FEMA chief Michael D. Brown, began returning to their homes Thursday after firefighters gained control over a wildfire near Denver that destroyed two houses and several outbuildings.

AP - Behind the latest unemployment figures showing another 500,000-plus Americans lost their jobs is a sad truth: The deeper the recession becomes, the more it touches people whose livelihoods have never been threatened by dark financial times.

AP - A luxurious castle-like home in Johnson City, Tenn., has been badly burned by fierce flames.

AP - The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will offer a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural event for President-elect Barack Obama.

AP - Marcus Schrenker presented himself as a high-flying pilot with the nerves to pull off aerial stunts and as an investment manager with the brains to make portfolios soar.

AP - A former transit police officer who allegedly shot dead an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform on New Year's Day was arrested Tuesday in Nevada, officials said.

AP - Winter-hardened Northeasterners were socked with the same subzero temperatures and biting winds that have turned the Northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes into a teeth-chattering misery for much of the week.

AP - The city's former mayor is serving a four-month jail sentence. Its deficit could top $200 million. Hundreds of layoffs are planned. And Detroit's municipal bonds are now at junk status.

AP - The owner of the land in western Pennsylvania where Flight 93 crashed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks reached an agreement Friday to sell the parcel, clearing the way for the development of a memorial.

AP - Shots were fired near the Glasgow hospital's ambulance barn on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two, and a manhunt was under way for the shooter, police said.

AP - Federal investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to the operator of a massive hedge fund — and possibly millions of dollars managed by the missing man.

AP - General Mills Inc. and grocers Kroger Co. and Meijer Inc. joined the growing list of food companies and retailers pulling items with peanut butter amid a salmonella outbreak that has killed at least six people and sickened more than 470 others in 43 states.

AP - An Illinois school bus driver has been found guilty of intentionally slamming on the brakes to throw misbehaving children from their seats.

AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is going on the offensive against news organizations and bloggers she says are perpetuating malicious gossip about her and her children. But political observers say the former Republican vice presidential candidate can't have it both ways: trotting out the children to showcase her family values, then trying to shield them from scrutiny.

AP - The case against a Kentucky high school football coach charged with reckless homicide in the death of a player who collapsed during a broiling summer practice — the teen's temperature reaching 107 degrees — is a rare one.

AP - Two people were killed and seven injured during a shooting Friday night in a residential area in northwest Miami, authorities said.

AP - An attorney for New York Knicks player Eddy Curry says a woman found slain in Chicago is Curry's former girlfriend and the mother of his 3-year-old son.

AP - A gunman opened fire outside an under-21 nightclub in Portland, killing two girls and wounded several other people in an apparently random act, police said.

AP - A young man who formerly attended New Life Church says that then-pastor Ted Haggard performed a sex act in front of him in a hotel room in 2006 and sent him explicit text messages.

AP - Oakland's police chief, facing criticism over chronic violent crime and turmoil in the department, resigned as city leaders prepared to call for a vote of no-confidence.

AP - Each week for nearly 30 years, Bob Chimento and his college buddies have gathered around tables in a Mount Pleasant home to play the popular version of poker known as Texas Hold 'em, bringing $20 and spending an evening with pizza, sodas and beer.

AP - The Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said Thursday.

AP - New Gov. Pat Quinn is wasting no time working to prove he's nothing like his predecessor — impeached and ousted Rod Blagojevich.