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AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, charged with perjury and other felonies for his testimony in a civil trial, was ordered to jail Thursday because he violated his bond by taking a quick trip to Canada without notifying authorities.

AP - Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table.

AP - What's captivated us are the photos — the toddler's fawnlike eyes and chubby cheeks resting in her hands.

AP - The Air National Guardsmen who operate Predator drones over Iraq via remote control, launching deadly missile attacks from the safety of Southern California 7,000 miles away, are suffering some of the same psychological stresses as their comrades on the battlefield.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has contended that Barack Obama is willing to lose in Iraq to win the election, on Thursday said his rival would forfeit the war as part of an agenda that also promotes big government and high taxes.

AP - Fire raging through rugged, dense terrain was complicating efforts Thursday to recover victims and evidence from the remote part of a Northern California forest where a firefighting helicopter crashed. Nine people were presumed dead, but four others were rescued.

AP - The wife of renowned evangelical pastor Joel Osteen got physical when her demands that a small spill on her seat be cleaned up were not immediately met, a flight attendant testified Thursday at a civil trial over the incident.

AP - In a district where young professionals live in airy lofts and flock to trendy restaurants and clubs, historians are intent on revealing the buried remnants of Richmond's bustling slave-trading past.

AP - A Connecticut man says he is convinced the mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple was a German student who lived with his family decades ago.

AP - Scott J. Johnson hid in the woods knowing police were coming after him.

AP - An anti-President Bush museum rolled into his adopted hometown but found few willing to enter the biodiesel bus devoted to casting his legacy as a failure.

AP - Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his overdose death this year, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.

Reuters - Federal prosecutors in New York have closed an investigation into the fatal prescription drug overdose of actor Heath Ledger without bringing charges, People magazine reported on its Web site on Wednesday.

AP - Four polygamist sect members indicted on charges of sexual assault of a child were released from jail late Wednesday after posting bond.

AP - Leaders of an American Indian tribe considered creating a reservation that could protect illegal immigrants from deportation, a tribal official testified Wednesday at the trial of a group leader accused of telling immigrants that buying memberships would make them instant citizens.

Reuters - U.S. Army scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins was the only person responsible for the 2001 U.S. anthrax attacks that killed five people, and authorities will close the case, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.

AP - A military jury reached a verdict Wednesday in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.

AFP - China declared Thursday it was ready to stage one of the greatest Olympics ever, but a new terrorist threat, pollution concerns and human rights controversies hung over final preparations.

AP - A military jury gave Osama bin Laden's driver a stunningly lenient sentence on Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors' request for a sentence tough enough to frighten terrorists around the globe.

Reuters - A jury of U.S. military officers sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver to just 5 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for supporting terrorism, concluding the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War Two.

AFP - A military jury on Thursday sentenced terrorist chief Osama bin Laden's ex-driver, Salim Hamdan, to 66 months in prison, far less than the 30 years prosecutors sought.

Reuters - A little known Islamist group has threatened attacks against the Olympic Games in China and urged Muslims to keep away from any activities linked to its events, a U.S. based terrorism monitoring firm said on Thursday.

AP - A Chinese Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to avoid being on planes, trains and buses with Chinese at the games, a U.S. group that monitors militant organizations said Thursday.

AFP - A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US "war on terror" prison.

AFP - President George W. Bush on Thursday marked the tenth anniversary of the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by emphasizing the role of the Al-Qaeda terror network in the attack.

AFP - Up to 2,000 ethnic Uighurs gathered Thursday in the town of Kashgar for an official ceremony to remember 16 Chinese police officers killed in an alleged terrorist attack, witnesses said.