• Napolitano is no stranger to Washington scandals 11/20/2008, 11:31 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama's likely pick for Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, is no stranger to headline-making Washington scandals and controversies.

• Man convicted in 'Precious Doe' killing gets life 11/20/2008, 11:23 a.m. CST
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing and beheading a 3-year-old girl known as "Precious Doe" has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

• Judge orders release of 5 terror suspects at Gitmo 11/20/2008, 11:20 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the release of five Algerian terror suspects who have been held without charges almost seven years at Guantanamo Bay.

• Ark. police close probe in Ark. Democrat's slaying 11/20/2008, 11:08 a.m. CST
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — City and state police have closed their investigations into last summer's shooting of Arkansas' Democratic Party chairman without offering an explanation of why the attack occurred.

• Student dies of heart attack in Haiti school panic 11/20/2008, 10:57 a.m. CST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Emergency officials say a 19-year-old Haitian schoolgirl died of a heart attack after students panicked that their school was collapsing.

• Russian judge delays Politkovskaya murder trial 11/20/2008, 10:48 a.m. CST
MOSCOW (AP) — The trial of three men accused of murdering Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was adjourned Thursday for 10 days, adding to growing doubts about the transparency and fairness of one of Russia's highest profile cases.

• Japan stabbings seen linked to pension scandal 11/20/2008, 10:47 a.m. CST
TOKYO (AP) — Japan placed Health Ministry officials under heavy security after two stabbings targeted former elite bureaucrats and their wives, attacks that many are linking to public outrage over a scandal that has left millions without pensions.

• 3 airports opening new runways amid economic woes 11/20/2008, 10:42 a.m. CST
CHICAGO (AP) — Alarm in the aviation industry over a projected 10 percent drop in domestic flights this winter hasn't derailed plans to open multimillion-dollar runways at three U.S. airports Thursday.

• UN agrees to send 3,100 more peacekeepers to Congo 11/20/2008, 10:41 a.m. CST
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed Thursday to send 3,100 more peacekeeping troops to Congo, while rebels said they remained committed to a pullback from the front lines despite an army attack.

• Aid workers: 26 malnourished children die in Haiti 11/20/2008, 10:36 a.m. CST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 26 severely malnourished children have died in recent days in Haiti, and aid groups fear many more deaths unless more help comes quickly to this impoverished Caribbean country.

• Obama is 1st Columbia graduate to become president 11/20/2008, 10:32 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's taken two and a half centuries but Columbia College, one of the oldest in the nation, finally will have a president who will be the first Columbia graduate to occupy the Oval Office.

• 27 horses killed in blaze at western Ky. stable 11/20/2008, 10:29 a.m. CST
HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Fire swept through a barn at a former race track Thursday, killing 27 horses.

• Bail denied Pa. woman accused of killing FBI agent 11/20/2008, 10:23 a.m. CST
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A judge denied bail on Thursday for a woman accused of killing an FBI agent during a drug raid that led to her husband's arrest on cocaine-dealing charges.

• Greek archaeologists find 6,500-year-old village 11/20/2008, 10:16 a.m. CST
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 6,500-year-old farming settlement in an antiquities-rich area of central Greece.

• AP NewsBreak: Eatery in E. coli outbreak to reopen 11/20/2008, 10:15 a.m. CST
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — State health officials and a northeastern Oklahoma restaurant at the center of this summer's deadly E. coli outbreak have signed an agreement to reopen the eatery, even though officials have never pinpointed the source of the contamination.

• Bush, Olmert to hold final meeting in office 11/20/2008, 10:14 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert — two leaders with just weeks left in office — will discuss a range of issues at the White House on Monday, including Iran's nuclear program, the global financial crisis and efforts to find peace in the Middle East.

• Scientists say Copernicus' remains, grave found 11/20/2008, 10:11 a.m. CST
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.

• NY jury convicts wealthy arms dealer of conspiracy 11/20/2008, 10:07 a.m. CST
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan jury has convicted a wealthy arms dealer of conspiring to sell weapons to informants who supposedly were supplying terrorists willing to kill Americans.

• CB APNewsAlert 11/20/2008, 10:04 a.m. CST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Aid groups: Haiti food crisis worsening, malnutrition blamed for 26 child deaths in two weeks.

• States disagree greatly on Amber Alert criteria 11/20/2008, 9:38 a.m. CST
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities count hundreds of Amber Alert cases across the country as success stories when they start explaining why the media-friendly and politically popular bulletins are so important.

• EU welcomes Welsh as a minority languages 11/20/2008, 9:25 a.m. CST
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The Welsh language, which dates back to the 6th century, got a major boost Thursday when the European Union formally recognized it as a minority tongue.

• African countries ranked for 'child friendliness' 11/20/2008, 9:17 a.m. CST
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors.

• Ben Affleck tours refugee camps in eastern Congo 11/20/2008, 9:12 a.m. CST
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Ben Affleck is talking to children and aid officials in refugee camps in war-torn eastern Congo in an effort to raise awareness of the conflict that has displaced nearly 300,000 people.

• Panel: China has accelerated computer espionage 11/20/2008, 9:07 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has accelerated computer espionage attacks on the U.S. government, defense contractors and American businesses, a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.

• Young murder suspect can spend holiday with mother 11/20/2008, 8:55 a.m. CST
ST. JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) — An 8-year-old boy accused of killing his father and another man in eastern Arizona will be allowed to spend Thanksgiving with his mother, a move that drew criticism from the family of the second victim.