Calif. considers 30-day delay on state tax refunds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's controller said Friday he will be forced to impose a 30-day delay on tax refunds and some other payments starting Feb. 1 if lawmakers fail to agree on a plan to erase a nearly $42 billion budget deficit. (Updated 7:34 p.m. PT)
Elderly couple missing from cruise ship in SoCal
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A missing elderly couple likely fell off a Carnival Cruise ship between Long Beach and Mexico, company officials said Friday. (Updated 7:25 p.m. PT)
SF zookeeper mauled by tiger settles lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco Zoo employee who was mauled in 2006 by the same tiger that killed a 17-year-old boy a year later has settled a lawsuit against the city. (Updated 7:21 p.m. PT)
Teen gets 36 years in girl's 'Mortal Kombat' death
GREELEY, Colo. -- A Colorado teen has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for his role in the death of a 7-year-old girl during an apparent imitation of the "Mortal Kombat" video game. (Updated 7:19 p.m. PT)
Mass. priest in abuse case returns to ministry
BOSTON -- A Catholic priest who was accused of sexual abuse in a case that was settled last month by the Boston Archdiocese has returned to active ministry. (Updated 7:13 p.m. PT)
'Deep Throat' regarded at memorial as truth-teller
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who helped unlock the secrets of Watergate as the shadowy "Deep Throat," was remembered Friday by family and friends as a man who stood up for truth in deceptive times. (Updated 7:05 p.m. PT)
Thick mud hampers Hudson River plane investigation
NEW YORK -- Thick mud, menacing currents and bone-chilling temperatures stymied investigators Friday as they scoured the Hudson River for the two missing engines from a US Airways jetliner that crash-landed in the water after colliding with birds. The investigation ran into a series of obstacles one day after the pilot ditched the plane carrying 155 people. The collision apparently caused both of the engines to fail, forcing the aircraft to go down just a few hundred yards from the Manhattan skyline. All aboard survived. (Updated 6:50 p.m. PT)
EPA to regulate mercury from cement plants
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Federal regulators have settled a lawsuit with environmental activists and nine states over standards for mercury emissions from cement plants, the plaintiffs announced Friday. (Updated 6:38 p.m. PT)
Case dropped against aide accused of helping Iraq
NEW YORK -- The government has quietly dropped its case against a former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency but later ruled mentally unfit for trial. (Updated 6:35 p.m. PT)
Charged Fla. mom described herself as a victim
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Florida mother charged in the killing of her toddler daughter described herself as a victim when talking to her parents during a jailhouse visit last August. Casey Anthony, 22, told her parents she was just as much a victim as anyone else in the case during the recorded visit at the Orange County Jail in Orlando. Copies of the visit were released this week. (Updated 6:34 p.m. PT)
Additional headlines:
- Brrr, y'all: Temps startle South, blanket the East
- Mich. man accused of spying for Iraq pleads guilty
- 3 men held in Mass. election night church fire
- Former slaughterhouse CEO faces additional charges
- Blagojevich attorneys pull out of Senate trial
- Komodo dragon in Va. bites the hand that feeds it
- Man accused in Miss. of threat to president-elect
- Pilot's life had prepared him for 'miracle' flight
- Survivors offer praise, gratitude after NY crash
- Funeral held for victims of Christmas shooting
- Deliberations begin in Oklahoma sheriff's sex case
- Ex-OC sheriff acquitted of corruption conspiracy
- Guests for the Sunday TV news shows
- NJ man gets 2 years in prison for steroid ring
- Murky river will make it tough to find engines
- NYC adds man's cancer death to 9/11 victims' toll
- Wyeth's death reignites debate over his legacy
- Nevada district board seat picked by luck of draw
- Airports use cannons, dogs, guns to scare birds
- Dog dies after being doused with toxins by burglar
- NY appeals court clears 10 nurses of neglect rap
- Top Detroit lawyer out after 'ghetto court' remark
- History links King holiday, Obama inauguration
- Feds to seek death penalty in UNC student slaying
- Jakes, Caldwell, Wuerl join inaugural services
- The stars will be out for inauguration party
- Correction: Inauguration Homeless story
- Ind. teacher fired for taping shut student's mouth
- Hearing in Minnesota Senate suit set for Wednesday
- Records: Ousted Mo. school chief a heavy gambler
- Correction: Zoo economy story
- 2nd parent jailed in Tony Alamo ministries case
- Judge refuses to halt case against ex-professor
- Author behind 'Slumdog Millionaire' heads home
- NYC mayor honors those who aided plane passengers
- Wait for disability appeal process over for vets
- Last year ranked in top 10 for heat
- Ill. gov's former top fundraiser pleads guilty
- Schwarzenegger to attend Obama inauguration
- Nevada casino '08 profits shrink by two-thirds
- Source: Pilot rejected 2 airport landings
- Jet lands safely in Baltimore after emergency call
- Wind hampers effort to free endangered right whale
- Man imprisoned in upstate NY body-parts case
- Wis. Wal-Mart reopens after suspicious odor scare
- Experts: Airliner crashes more survivable recently
- Ind. pilot expected to stay in Fla. hospital
- Senate veteran, Delaware everyman faces new role
- Boy George sentenced to 15 months
- British writer John Mortimer dead at 85
- Investigation begins in plane's NYC splash landing
- UN reports 2,201 cholera deaths in Zimbabwe
- Ask AP: Hedging gasoline, home at the White House
- Planes are designed to survive water landings
- Birds, an aviation hazard, hit 1 in 10,000 flights
- Former transit cop pleads not guilty to murder
- Hudson River hero is ex-Air Force fighter pilot
- 70 dead cats found in bags outside San Antonio
- Swift response, heroics in NY river landing rescue
- Next Det mayor faces crisis, public trust issues
- List of candidates in Detroit mayoral primary
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