Sep 15 - By Marcy Gordon, AP Business Writer
A judge's condemnation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in rejecting its $33 million settlement with Bank of America over bonuses at Merrill Lynch dealt a stinging rebuke to an agency seeking to mend its image after its failure to detect Bernard Madoff's fraud scheme.

Sep 15 - By David Bauder, AP Television Writer
The critics savaged Jay Leno's prime-time experiment. Viewers gave it the biggest audience for an entertainment show since the "American Idol" finale in May.
Aug 18 - By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
This week's indictment of a hacker believed responsible for the biggest retail-store data breaches in U.S. history doesn't necessarily make shoppers safer from having their credit card numbers plundered.

Jun 15 - By Daisy Nguyen, Associated Press Writer
Looting and vandalism that broke out in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Lakers' basketball championship won't keep the city from celebrating the team's victory: City officials and the Lakers are planning a victory parade they hope will overshadow unrest the police chief blames on a mob of "knuckleheads."

Feb 3 - By Barry Wilner, AP Football Writer
So the Pittsburgh Steelers are getting fitted for another Super Bowl ring, with who knows how many more to come.
Jan 31 - By Steven Gutkin, Associated Press Writer
The biggest gains in the Gaza war have gone to the hard-liners on both sides. Hamas is declaring victory, while Israel's leading hawk is the front-runner in elections just over a week away.

Jan 18 - By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press Writer
For Palestinians searching the rubble of this devastated refugee camp, the mounds of concrete and metal hid all they desperately wanted and needed: the bodies of dead relatives, belongings and — bitterly — scraps of bombs now valuable enough to sell as recycled aluminum.

Jun 23 - By Kim Gamel, Associated Press Writer
Men and women can openly study and party together for the first time in years at Basra University, free from the threat of Shiite gunmen enforcing extreme Islamic views.
May 12 - By Steve Gutterman, Associated Press Writer
Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an international rights group says in a report released Monday.

May 7 - By Deanna Bellandi, Associated Press Writer
It was midnight and the nation was still awaiting results from the Indiana primary, one of the biggest remaining prizes of the epic Democratic presidential battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

May 4 - By Richard Rosenblatt, AP Sports Writer
A day after Big Brown blazed across the finish line, the snapshot of Eight Belles down on the dirt set off a raging debate that extended far beyond the Kentucky Derby: Is horse racing now facing an image crisis?

Feb 6 - By Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer
A day after the Zulu parade rolled down his street — and more than two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded it — Eddie Handy was beginning to feel at home again.

Nov 28 - By Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer
So far so good. But can Israel and the Palestinians conclude a peace agreement mostly on their own?

Nov 19 - By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer
Afghan lawmakers' bodyguards fired indiscriminately into a crowd after a suicide bombing and children bore the brunt of the onslaught, according to an internal U.N. report obtained Monday. The report calls the shooting deliberate and criminal.

Nov 17 - By Alisa Tang Jason Straziuso , AP Writer
Up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded in a suicide bombing last week were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards, who fired on a crowd of mostly schoolchildren for up to five minutes, a preliminary U.N. report says.

Jan 6 - By Verena Dobnik, Associated Press Writer
Daniel Santos became an instant hero in 1996 when he jumped 130 feet off a bridge into the Hudson River to rescue a young woman trying to commit suicide.

Feb 7 - By Dave Goldberg, AP Football Writer
The NFL defended the officiating in the Super Bowl, and Joe Montana defended himself.