Ohio murder trial involving eye blinks is delayed

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A long-delayed Ohio trial in which a dying man's videotaped eye blinks are to be used as testimony against the man charged with murdering him has been postponed again. (   01/07/2013 1:18 PM )

Chicago lottery winner's death ruled a homicide

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago medical examiner says a lottery winner was fatally poisoned with cyanide a day after he collected nearly $425,000. (   01/07/2013 1:18 PM )

Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term national security team. (   01/07/2013 1:17 PM )

Fewer excited gun-buyers in Colo. and Conn.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than in most other states, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data. The biggest surges in background checks for people who want to carry or buy guns occurred in states in the South and West. (   01/07/2013 1:17 PM )

Police describe Holmes as relaxed, detached

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- Police officers who arrested James Holmes after the Colorado movie theater massacre described the suspected gunman as unusually relaxed but fidgety at times. (   01/07/2013 1:16 PM )

McChrystal regrets magazine flap was career-killer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he was "completely surprised" by the uproar that followed publication of a Rolling Stone article featuring derogatory comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration. (   01/07/2013 1:16 PM )

Dallas begins tearing down Oswald apartment

DALLAS (AP) -- Dallas has begun the process of demolishing an apartment complex where Lee Harvey Oswald briefly lived before the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (   01/07/2013 1:15 PM )

Judge reconsiders redaction of Calif priest files

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge will reconsider whether the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles can black out the names of church higher-ups -- including recently retired Cardinal Roger Mahony -- when it releases thousands of pages of personnel files on priests accused of child molestation. (   01/07/2013 1:10 PM )

Belichick not impressed by team's Texans blowout

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- To hear Bill Belichick glumly address reporters on Monday, you'd think the Houston Texans blew out the Patriots in the regular season and not the other way around. (   01/07/2013 1:09 PM )

Chuck Hagel, likely nominee to lead Pentagon

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is a contrarian Republican moderate and decorated Vietnam combat veteran who is likely to support a more rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (   01/07/2013 1:07 PM )

White House, GOP draw red lines in debt debate

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Struggling for the upper hand in the next round of debt talks, Republicans and Democrats this weekend drew lines in the sand they said they'd never cross when it comes to the U.S. debt limit. (   01/07/2013 1:07 PM )